LISTENING COMPREHENSION

PART B
31.
A) Attend a football game alone.
B) Go to a sporting event.
C) Eat in the cafeteria and study.
D) See a play.

32.
A) It's the final game of the season.
B) It's better than the drama department's play.
C) It's a very important game.
D) It's close to the cafeteria.

33.
A) A play.
B) A game.
C) A study group meeting.
D) Dinner in the cafeteria.

34.
A) Saturday night.
B) After dinner in the cafeteria.
C) Sunday afternoon.
D) Maybe next weekend.

PART C
39.
A) On the first day of class 46.
B) In the middle of the semester
C) At the end of class
D) In the final week of the semester

40.
A) Later today 47.
B) By Friday of this week
C) In two weeks
D) In three weeks

41.
A) Journal and magazine articles
B) Books from outside the library 48.
C) Books listed in student journals
D) Both books and journals

42.
A) Two
B) Three 49.
C) Five
D) Seven

READING COMPREHENSION

Passage 1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was perhaps the best-known American poet of
the nineteenth century. His clear writing style and emphasis on the prevalent values of the
period made him popular with the general public if not always with the critics. He was
particularly recognized for Line his longer narrative poems Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha,
and The Courtship of Miles Standish, in which he told stories from American history in terms of
the values of the time.
Evangeline was set during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), when the British forced
French settlers from Nova Scotia; two lovers, Gabriel and Evangeline, were separated by the
British, and Evangeline devoted her lifetime to the search for Gabriel. With its emphasis on
sentimental, undying love, Evangeline was immensely popular with the public.
In The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow depicted the noble life of the American Indian
through the story of the brave Hiawatha and his beloved wife Minehaha. The tear-inspiring
poem follows Hiawatha through the tragedies and triumphs of life, ending with the death of
Minehaha and Hiawatha’s departure into the sunset in his canoe. The Courtship of Miles
Standish takes place during the early period of the settlement of New (15) England, a period
which was viewed as a time of honor and romance. In this poem centered around a love
triangle, Miles Standish asks his friend John Alden to propose to Priscilla Mullins for him; John
Alden ends up marrying Priscilla Mullins himself, and it takes time for his friendship with
Miles Standish to recover. As with Longfellow’s other narrative poems, the emphasis on high
ideals and romance made the poem extremely popular.

1. Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?
A. American history is often depicted in poetry.
B. Longfellow described American history even though people really did not enjoy it.
C. The popularity of Longfellow’s poems results from his stress on the values of the
people.
D. Longfellow wrote long narrative poems that were not always popular with the critics.

2. The best title of the passage is …

A. Longfellow’s Popular Appeal
B. Historical Narrative Poems
C. The Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative Poems of Longfellow
D. Longfellow and the Critics

3. The subject of the fourth paragraph is …

A. Nobility and honor in the poems of Longfellow
B. The love triangle involving Miles Standish
C. The popular appeal of The Courtship of Miles Standish
D. The period of the early settlement of New England
Passage 2
Bees, classified into over 10,000 species, are insects found in almost every part of the
world except the northernmost and southernmost regions. One commonly known species is the
honeybee, the only bee that produces honey and wax. Humans use the wax in making candles,
lipsticks, and other products, and they use the honey as a food. While gathering the nectar and
pollen with which they make honey, bees are simultaneously helping to fertilize the flowers on
which they land. Many fruits and vegetables would not survive if bees did not carry the pollen
from blossom to blossom.
Bees live in a structured environment and social structure within a hive, which is a nest
with storage space for the honey. The different types of bees each perform a unique function.
The worker bee carries nectar to the hive in a special stomach called a honey stomach. Other
workers make beeswax and shape it into a honeycomb, which is a waterproof mass of six-sided
compartments, or cells. The queen lays eggs in completed cells. As the workers build more cells,
the queen lays more eggs.
All workers, like the queen, are female, but the workers are smaller than the queen. The
male honeybees are called drones; they do not work and cannot sting. They are developed from
unfertilized eggs, and their only job is to impregnate a queen. The queen must be fertilized in
order to lay worker eggs. During the season when less honey is available and the drone is of no
further use, the workers block the drones from eating the honey so that they will starve to
death.

4. Which of the following is the best title for this reading?

A. The Many Species of Bees
B. The Useless Drone
C. The Honeybee — Its Characteristics and Usefulness
D. Making Honey

5. The word species in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to…

A. Mates
B. Varieties
C. Killers
D. Enemies

6. The word which in the first paragraph refers to…

A. Fertilizer
B. Flowers
C. Honey
D. Bees

7. The word simultaneously in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to…

A. Stubbornly
B. Concurrently
C. Skillfully
D. Diligently

8. According to the passage, the drone…

 A. Collects less honey than workers
B. Mates with the queen and has no other purpose
C. Comes from eggs fertilized by other drones
D. Can be male or female

9. The author implies that…

A. Bees are unnecessary in the food chain
B. Drones are completely dispensable
C. The queen can be a worker
D. Drones are never females

10. According to the passage, honey is carried to the hive in a honey stomach by the
A. Queens
B. Drones
C. Males
D. Workers

11. In what way does the reading imply that bees are useful in nature?
A. They pollinate fruit and vegetable plants
B. They make marvelous creations from wax
C. They kill the dangerous drones
D. They create storage spaces

12. All of the following are characteristic of a honeycomb except …

A. Contains hexagonal sections
B. It is made of honey
C. It is made of wax
D. It is impermeable

13. The passage implies that bees can be found in each of the following parts of the world
except…
A. Africa
B. China
C. Europe
D. Antarctica