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-+ Perhaps the use 01 archeological evidence in theatre history is vase paintings, thousands 01 which have survived from ancient Greeoe.. Most 0I1hose used by theatre scholars are repmd

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READING SECTION , 55 -+ Western selllement and the opening oIlhe northern resource frontier

stim-ulated industrial expansion, particularty in C811tral Canada As the National

Pol-icy had intended , a growing agricultural population in the West increased the

demand lor eastern manufactured goods, thereby g iving rise to agricultu r al

i mplements worM, iron and steelloundries , machine shops, railway yards,

tex-tile mi lls , boot and shoe factOries , and numerous smaller manufacturing ef1ter

prises that supplied consumer goods ~ - ~ ~ "

-;:'':':1 L _ To climb the tariff wall , large American industrial firms opened

branches in Canada, and the governments 01 Ontario and Quebec aggreSSively

urged by offering bonuses, subsidies, and guarantees to locate new

plants with in their borders canadian industrial en terprises became

increas-ingly attractive to foreign Investors, especially from the United States and Great

Britain Much 01 the o ver $600 million of American capital that flowed into

Canada from 19CN) t o 1913 was earmamKI for mining and the pulp and paper

industry, wh ile British investors conlributed near $1.8 billion, mostly in railway

building , business developmen t , and the construction 01 ulban infrastructure

As a result , the gross value of Canadian manufactured prcx:lUCIS quadrupled

from 189110 1916

<D Because miners were travel ing 10 camps in the west

<D Because minerai deposits were discover-ed when the railroads were bu ilt

<D Because the western frontier was being sellied by families

<D Because traders used the railroads to transport their goods

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2 In paragraph I, the author identifies Sudbury as

<D an important stop on the new ra ilroad line

<D e large mar1tetlor the metals produced in Ontario

<D a major industrial C811ter lor the production 01 nickel

CD a mining town in the Klond ike region

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3 The word eobaoce in !he passage i s closest in mean i og to

<D dis rupt

<D restore

<D identify

<D improve

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1 50 MODEL T ES T 2 PROGRESS TEST

4 , According t o paragraph 2 , why wa s the Yukon T erritory Cl'eated?

G> To encourage people t o settle the region

<D To prevent Alaska fr om acquiring it

<D To establis h law and order in the area

G> To legalize the m i ning claims

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G> frequently

<D routinely

a> formerly

6 How did the poetry by RODert Service contribute to the development of Cana<la?

CD It made the Klondike gold rush famous

<D It encouraged families to settle in the Klondike

<D It captured the beauty of the western Klondike

G> It ~evented the Klond ike's annexation to Alaska

7 According to paragraph 3, the f ore st industry suppo rted the developmen t f Canada in all

G> by supplying wood for the construction of homes and buildings

<D by ~oduc i ng the power for the hydroelectric plants

$ by exporting wood and newsprin t t o fo r eign marltets

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8 The word Furthermore in the passage is closest in meaning to

<D Because

<D Therefore

(Jtl M oreover

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READING SECTION 151

9 Which 0 1 the sentences below best exp!"&Sses the Information in the highlighted statement

in the passage? The other choices change the meaning or leave out important information

<D New businesses and Industries were created by the federal government to keep the

«> The lower price 01 manufacturing attracted many foreign businesses and new Ind us -tries to the area

<D Federal was on cheaper impo rt ed goods were responsible for protecting domestic industries and supporting new businesses

~ The fedefal tax l aws made it difficult for manufacturers to sell their goods to foreign mattets

1 The word 1bmn in the passage refers to

<D govemments

<J) plants

<D firms

G) policies

11 According t o paragraph 4, British and American bUSinesses opened affilia t es in Canada

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a:> the Canadian government offered Incentives

<J) the raw materials were a vailable In Canada

<D the consumers in Canada were eager to buy their goods

en> the i nfrastructure was attractive to inves l OfS

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the passage

Railway construction through the Kootenay region of southeastern British Colum -bia also led to significant discoveries of gold, Illver, cOP9Qr, lead, snd zinc

Where could the sentence bes l be added ?

Click on a square ( 1 to insert the sentence in the passage

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1 58 MODEL TE S T 2 PROGRESS TE S T

points In the passage Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express Ideas that are nol included in the passage or are minor points from the passage

Th i s que s tion is worth 2 points

!!I The Yukon Territory was created in 1898

during the gold rush In the Klondike and

Yukon River valleys

!SJ The frontier was documented in the

p0p-ular press, which published tales of

heroes and gold strikes

deposits encouraged prospectors and

senters 10 move into the territories

PART II

1INd1", 2 "1MIr/",.t 1lIutJ JI&ttKJ "

IDl Wheat and other agricultural crops were planted after the forests were cleared,

lEI Powered by hydroelectricity lumbef and paper mills exploited the forests for both domestic and foreign markets

lEI Incentives encouraged American and

British Investors to help expand manu

-facturing plants in Canada

excavations began in Greece around 1870, but W DOrpfeld did not begin the

more than 167 other Greek theatres have been identified and many 01 them

have been excavated ICl Nevertheless, they still do not permit us 10 describe

bas tlet mat na

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READING SECTION 151

",pe'~"" of the skene (illustrations printed in books are

conjec-reconstructions), since many pieces are irrevocably lost because the

buildings in later periods became sources 01 stone lor other projects and what

remains is usually broken and scattered [DJ That most 01 the buildings were

remodeled many limes has created great problemS lor those seeking to date

both the paris and the sll"X'm'sive versions Despite these drawbacks,

archeol-ogy provides the most concrete evidence we !\ave about the theatre structures

01 ancient Greece But if they heve told us much, archeologists !\ave not

com-pleted their worX, and many sites !\ave scarcely been touched

-+ Perhaps the use 01 archeological evidence in theatre

history is vase paintings, thousands 01 which have survived from ancient

Greeoe (Most 0I1hose used by theatre scholars are repmduced in Margarete

Bieber's The Histoty of ItJe Greek and Roman Theatre.) Depicting scenes Irom

mythology and daily life, the vases are the most graphic pictorial evidence we

have But they are also easy to misinterpret Some scholars have considered

any vase that depicts a subject treated In a surviving drama or any scene

show-ing masks, flute players, or ceremonials to be valid evidence 01 theatrical

prac-tice This Is a highly questionable assumption, since the Greeks made

widespread use 01 masks, dances, and music outside the theatre and since the

myths on which dramatists drew were known to everyone, including vase

pairlters, who might well depict the same subjects as dramatists without being

indebted to them Those vases showing scenes unquestionably theatrical are

lew in number

-+ Written eviclenoe about ancient Greek theatre is often treated as less

reli-able than archeological evidence because most written accounts are separated

so lar in lime from the events they describe and because they provide no

irllor-mation about their own sources Of the written evidellCe, the surviving plays are

usually treated as the most reliable But the oldest surviving manuscripts of

Greek plays date from around the tenth century, C.E., some 1500 years after

they were lirst perlormed Since printing did not exist during this lime span,

copies 01 plays had to be made by hand, and therefore the possibility 01 textual

errors aeeping in was magnified Nevertheless, the scripts offer us our readiest

access to the cultural and theatrical conditions out 01 which they came But

these scripts, like other kinds 01 evidence, are subject to varying Interpretations

Certainly perlormances embodied a male perspective, lor example, since the

plays were written, selected, staged, and acted by men yet the exiSting plays

leature numerous choruses 01 women and many leature strong lemale

charac-ters Because these characters often seem victims 01 their own powerlessness

and appear to be governed, especially in the comedies, by se:cuat desire, some

critics have seen these plays as ralionalizatiorls by the maIe-Oominated culture

lor keeping women segregated and cloistered Other critics, howeV9f, have

seen in these same plays an attempt by male authors to lorce their male

audi-ences to e:camine and call into question this segregation and cloistering 01

Athenian women

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160 MODEL TEST 2: PA OO AESS TEST

~ By far Ihe majOrity of written ref&rences 10 Greek theatre date from several

hundred years after the events they report The writers seldom mention their

sources of evidence , and thus we do no t know what credence to give MW In

the absence of material nearer in time 10 the events, however, historians have

used the accounts and have bee n grateful to have them Overall , historical

treatment of the Greek theatre Is something like assembling a Jigsaw puzzle

from which many pieces are missing : historians arrange what they have and

imagine (with the aid of the remaining evidence and logic) what has been Iosl

As a result, though the broad oullines of Greek th eatra history are reasooably

clear , many of the details remain open 10 doubt

Glossary

skene : a stage building where actors store the i r ma sks and change their

costumes

14 According to paragraph 1 why is it impossible to identify the time periOO f()( theatres in

Greece?

<D There are too few sites that have been excavated and very little data collected about

them

<1> The archeolog i sts from eariier periods were not careful, and many artifacts were

broken

¢) It i s confus i ng because stones from early sites were used 10 build later structures

<D Because it is very difficult to date the concrete that was used in construction during

earty periOOs

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15 What can be i nferred from paragraph 1 aboutlhe fJk_ln Iheatre hi s t o ry?

<D Drawings in books are the only accurate visual records

<D Not enough evidence i s available to make a precise model

¢) A1chaeologists have excavated a large number o l lhem

(I) It was not identified or studied unlilthe early lBOOs

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16 The word orima()l in the passage is closest i n meaning t o

® reliable

<I> important

«> unusual

<D accepted

17 The word prec i se in the passage is closest in meaning to

<D attractive

<I> s i mple

¢) dilliCuh

(I) exact

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READING SECTION 1 1

18 In paragraph 2 the authOr explains that all vases with paintings of masks or musicians

may not be evidence of theatrical subjects by

<I> arguing that the subjects could nave been us ed by artists without reference to a drama

CD Iden t ifying some of the vases as reproductio ns that were painted years afte r the originals

CD casting doubt on the qualifications o f the scholars who produced the vases as

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$ pointing out that there are very few vases that have survived from the time of earty de""""

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<I> accepted

CD limited

20 In paragraph 3, the author states that lemale characters in Greek theatre

<I> had no featured parts in plays

CD were mostly ignored by critics

CD did not partiCipate in the chorus

G) f requently played the part of victims

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21 According to paragraph 3, scripts o f plays may not be accurate because

(l) the sources cited are not welt known

CD they are written in very old language

G) the printing is dilflCUtt to fead

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"" - ,

CD writers

<lD reference s

23 Why does the author mentiOn a jigsaw puzzle In paragraph 4 ?

<I> To demonstrate the dilflCUlty in drawing conc l usions from partial evidence

CD To oompare the written feler ences lor plays to the paintings on vases

CD To justify using acoounts and f'9(X)fds that historians have located

<lD To introduce the topic for the next reading passage in the textbook

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