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Section Three: Reading Comprehension Questions 1-10 Potash the old name for potassium carbonate is one of the two alkalis the other being soda, sodium carbonate that were used from remot

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TWE Essay Questions

People remember special gift or presents that they have received Why? Use specific reasons

and examples to support your answer

Section One : Listening Comprehension

1 (A) Drop out of the play

(B) Switch parts with another actor

(C) Be patient about learning his part

(D) Have his lines memorized by tomorrow

2 (A) She agrees with the man

(B) The man missed the last study session.,

(C) She didn’t understand the last chemistry

(B) He can’t give the woman a ride

(C) He has already passed the engineering

(D) He'll meet the woman after his

appointment

4, (A) He'll give the quiz at a later time

{B) The quiz will be very short

{C) The quiz won’t be ready until Thursday

{D) He'll score the quiz quickly

5 (A) Take the medicine as she was directed to

do

(B) Schedule another appointment with her

doctor

(C) Stop taking the medicine

(D) Rest her back for a few days

6 (A) Decide which movie to see

(B) Order his food quickly

{C) Go to a later movie

{D) Go to a different restaurant

7 (A) She doesn’t like to watch basketbail

(B) She would like the man to accompany

her to the game

(C) She doesn’t have'a television

(D) She’ll sell the man her ticket

8 (A) She needs to find a new place to live

(B) She spends a lot of time in the library

(C) She prefers to study at home

(D) She needs to retum some books to the

library

9 (A) Spend more time outdoors

(B) Take short naps during the day

(C) Try to get to bed earlier

() Stay indoors until he feels better

10 (A) Sharpen the man’s pencil

(B) Give the man a new sheet of paper (C) Show the man a drawing technique (D) Ask the model to move his arm

11 (A) Lend the man some money

(B) Take the man to the bank

(C) Ask the man when he’ll be paid

(D) Ask the man to write her a check

12 (A) She forgot to call the man

(B) Her answering machine is broken (C) She didn’t get the man’s messages (D) She couldn’t remember the man’s phone number

13, (A) He received permission to carry on an

14, (A) Travel into the city on another day {B) Pick up her medicine before they leave

(C) Avoid driving after taking her medicine

(D) Wait to take her medicine until after their

trip

15, (A) The air will be cleaner if they go to a

16 (A) He didn’t have time to look for his jacket

{B) He misunderstood the weather report

(C) He didn’t know it would be cold

(D) He forgot to bring his jacket

17 (A) Attend a conference with her

(B) Mail her the paper after the deadline

(C) Submit a handwritten draft of the paper

(D) Complete the course without submitting

the paper

18 (A) He saw Mary earlier

(B) Someone else saw Mary

{C) He can’t help the woman

(D) Mary asked for directions to the office

19 (A) She fell asleep before the program ended

(B) She especially enjoyed the end of the

program

(C) She missed the beginning of the program

(D) She wishes she had gone to sleep earlier

20 (A} He doesn’t like to take pills

{B) He may not be able to wake up

(C) He may feel better soon

(D) He may want to take the pills without

food

21 (A) Apologize when Deborah is less angry

(B) Return Deborah’s notes in a few days

(C) Write Deborah a note of apology

(D) Let her talk to Deborah about the

situation

22 (A) Shop for new clothes

(B) Lose some weight

(C) Have his jeans altered

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(D) Wear clothes that fit more tightly

23 (A) Lisa is often late for meetings (B) Lisa has a busy schedule

(C) Lisa’s flight was delayed

(D) Lisa’s missed her flight

24 (A) The cologne has a strong smell

(B) She likes the cologne

(C) She can hardly smell the cologne (D) The cologne must be very expensive

25 (A) He hasn’t done any work yet

(B) He doesn’t know what topic to research (C) He withdrew from his computer class {D) He’s in a hurry to finish his paper

26 (A) He’s a linguistics major

(B) He wants to take “The Psychology of

(C) It doesn’t take long to get to Philadelphia

(D) She'd rather take a direct train

28 (A) She’s not usually interested in watching documentaries

{B) She doesn’t have time to help the man with his project

(C) She knew that the program was being

shown

(D) She didn’t watch the program

29 (A) Not many people know the song

{B) He doesn’t know the song well enough to play it

{C) He hasn’t been playing the piano long (D) People often ask him to play the song

30 (A) She’s annoyed with the man

(B) She wants the man to do the laundry

(C) She doesn’t know how to deal with the

problem

(D) She's not upset about the spill

3 (A) The effect of the atmosphere on rainfall

(B) How conditions on Earth support life

(C) How water originated on Earth

(D) A new estimate of the age of Earth

32 (A) The surface of the ocean is expanding

(B) Volcanic activity is increasing

(C) The surface of Earth contains tons of

cosmic dust

(D) Thousands of comets are colliding with

Earth’s atmosphere

33 (A) Disintegrating comets

(B) Gases in the atmosphere

(C) Underground water that rose to the

35 (A) They are found under the oceans

(B) They were most active when Earth was

first formed

(C) Their emissions created the Earth’s

atmosphere

(D) Their fumes are mostly water

36 (A) She felt embarrassed in class

(B) Her presentation received a poor grade

(C) She had not completed her assignment

(D) She was unable to attend her psychology

class

37 (A) She’d be able to leave quickly

(B) She'd be jess nervous

(C) She'd be able to locate where the man was

seated

{D) She'd know when her professor arrived

38 (A) They blush more readily than women do (B) They’re uncomfortable performing in front of adults

(C) They don’t respond to stress well (D) They blush less frequently than adults do

39 (A) To introduce the woman to someone who

has researched blushing

(B) To illustrate the benefits of a public-

speaking class

(C) To give an example of someone who blushes easily

(D) To explain a way to overcome blushing

40 (A) To plan ways to prevent hearing damage (B) To inform them about contagious ear infections

(C) To explain part of the physical exam entering students must have

(D) To provide background information for their course work

41 (A) Staff who specialize in hearing loss have

been hired

(B) The noise made by the traffic near the center has become worse

(C) An increase in patients with hearing

problems has been noticed

(D) A course to introduce students to medical careers has been set up

42 (A) Information on sources of infection

(B) Suggestions on how to treat hearing loss (C) A chart of sounds and decibel levels (D) A list of doctors who test hearing

43 (A) The traffic next to campus

(B) Horns at football games

(C) Low-flying airplanes

(D) Loud equipment at the health center

44 (A) To introduce an important author

(B) To compare two different forms of writing

(C) To discuss the differences between

Norther and Southern writers

(@) To explain why a particular book was

written

47 (A) A children’s geography book

@) A coliection of travel stories {C) A biographical sketch

(D) Uncle Tom’s Cabin

48 (A) A term for a type of bank

45 (A) It doesn’t include the use of dialect (B) A special place for pigs

(B) It is considered Stowe’s best written work (C) A kind of iron

(C) It was not published in the nineteenth (D) A theory about the economy of the

(D) It was Stowe’s most popular work

49 (A) Money

46 (A) To give an example of someone who was (B) Pottery

the subject of one of Stowe’s biographies (C) Bricks

(B) To give an example of another author who (D) Nests

used local dialect in his writing

(C) To suggest that his work was less popular

than Stowe’s

(D) To point out another author who wrote

Section Two: Structure and Written Expression

ay Fingerprints form an unchangeable signature,

and -~! for identification, despite changes in

the individual’s appearance or age

(A) the use of fingerprint records

(B) with the use of fingerprint records

(C) when fingerprint records are used

(D) fingerprint records can be used

2 Animais obtain their energy from -—

(A) eat their food

{B) their food to eat

(C) the food they eat

(D) they eat the food

3.Liquid water has fewer hydrogen bonds than ice,

so more molecules can occupy the same space,

making liquid water -— than ice

(A) more dense

(B) is more dense

{C) more than dense

(D) as more dense

4 It is difficult for present-day readers—— - Sister

Carrie was withdrawn from circulation at the

tum of the century

(A) to understand the novel why

(B) why to understand the novel

{C) the novel to understand why

(D) to understand why the novel

5 Historical linguists study - over time

(A) languages evolve

(B) whether language evolution

(C) how languages evolve

(D) evolution that languages

6 Tennis star Chris Evert, who retired from the

game after eighteen years, perhaps - more

than anyone to make women’s professional

tennis a widely respected career

(A) who did

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(C) and doing (D) to do

7 The daytime -— bright because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight

{A) while sky is (B) has a sky

(C) sky is

(D) for the sky

8 Edward Hopper’s paintings portray the loneliness and isolation of the individual - (A) is in an urbanized society

(B) in society is urbanized (C) who in an urbanized society (D) in an urbanized society

9 Braille, — - printing reading materials for use

by people who are blind, consists of a system of Taised points or dots that are read by touch (A) is a method of

(B) a method of (C) which a method of (D) a method is of

10 The art of landscape architecture is almost as

old - of architecture itself

(A) as that (B) than (C)as (D) than that

11 The development of synthetic fibers after 1940 led to the production of new types of fabrics -~- more durable and easier to care for (A) that they were

(B) that were

(C) were

(D) and were

12 Until the eighteenth century, charcoal was

.=- used in blast furnaces, as well as in

glassmaking, blacksmithing, and 8; 14, Rapids and waterfalls, — along virtually ail

(A) what the chief fuel colonial times for grist and saw mills and later

(C) the chief fuet was (A) common

(C) which, being common

13, Pure iron cannot be hardened by heating and (D) being common, were

cooling, as , because iron lacks the

necessary carbon 1S Airsickness is produced by a disturbance of

(C) nor

@) although

16 A large collections of materials focused on Louisiana’s history and culture is provided by the Williams

Research Center in New Orleans

17 Mary Austin’s first book, The Land of Little Rain, a description of desert life in the western United

of fluorine, chlorine, or hydroxy] ions

19 Having gained a reputation as a daring, intrepid journalist, Nellie Bly became the first female report

26 Like the giant reptiles, most lineages of organisms have eventually become extinct; still, some exist

that have changed very little in millions of year °,

27 Demonstrations public ox an effective means by which advocacy groups can bring inequalities to

the attention of local, state, and federal officials

28 Methods used in preparing articles for an encyclopedia sim, depending on the ‘engih of the article

tarnish and its ease of working

35 Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the values of life in a coherent, systematic, and

Southwest of the United States are known as the cliff dwellers

38 A fragrant plant has tiny sacs that makes and stores the substances that give it a pleasant odor

Section Three: Reading Comprehension Questions 1-10

Potash (the old name for potassium carbonate) is one of the two alkalis (the other

being soda, sodium carbonate) that were used from remote antiquity in the making of

glass, and from the early Middle Ages in the making of soap: the former being the

Line product of heating a mixture of alkali and sand, the latter a product of atkali and

(5) vegetable oil Their importance in the communities of colonial North America need

hardly be stressed

Potash and soda are not interchangeable for all purposes, but for glass- or soap-

making either would do Soda was obtained largely from the ashes of certain

Mediterranean sea plants, potash from those of inland vegetation Hence potash was

(10) more familiar to the early European settlers of the North American continent

The settlement at Jamestown in Virginia was in many ways a microcosm of the

economy of colonial North America, and potash was one of its first concerns It was

required for the glassworks, the first factory in the British colonies, and was produced

in sufficient quantity to permit the inclusion of potash in the first cargo shipped out of

(13) Jamestown The second ship to arrive in the settlement from England included among

its passengers experts in potash making

The method of making potash was simple enough Logs were piled up and burned

in the open, and the ashes collected The ashes were placed in a barrel with holes in the

bottom, and water was poured over them The solution draining from the barrel was

(20) boiled down in iron kettles The resulting mass was further heated to fuse the mass

into what was called potash

in North America, potash making quickly became an adjunct to the clearing of land for agriculture, for it was estimated that as much as half the cost of clearing land could

be recovered by the sale of potash Some potash was exported from Maine and New

(25) Hampshire in the seventeenth century, but the market tumed out to be mainly domestic, consisting mostly of shipments from the northern to the southern colonies For despite

the beginning of the trade at Jamestown and such encouragements as a series of acts

“to encourage the making of potash, ” beginning in 1707 in South Carolina, the

softwoods in the South proved to be poor sources of the substance

1, What aspect of potash does the passage mainly (D) They are used in making glass

discuss?

(A) How it was made 3 The phrase “the latter” in line 4 refers to

(B) its value as a product for export (A) alkali

(C) How it differs from other alkalis (B) glass

{D) Its importance in colonial North America (C) sand

(D) soap

2 All of the following statements are tme of both

potash and soda 4 The word “stressed” in iine 6 is closest in

(B) They are made from sea plants (B) emphasized

(C) They are used in making soap (C) adjusted

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6 It can be inferred from the passage that potash

was more common than soda in colonial North

America because

(A) the materials needed for making soda were

not readily available

(B) making potash required less time than

making soda

(C} potash was better than soda for making

glass and soap

(D) the colonial glassworks found soda more

difficult to use

7 According to paragraph 4, all of the following

were needed for making potash EXCEPT

(B) it helped finance the creation of farms

(C) it could be made with a variety of materials

{D) stimulated the development of new ways of glassmaking

10 According to paragraph 5, the softwoods in the South posed which of the following problems for southern settlers?

(A) The softwoods were not very plentiful

(B) The softwoods could not be used to build houses

({C) The softwoods were not very marketable (D) The softwoods were not very useful for making potash

The first flying vertebrates were true reptiles in which one of the fingers of the

front limbs became very elongated, providing support for a flap of stretched skin

that served as a wing These were the pterosaurs, literally the “winged lizards.” The

Line earliest pterosaurs arose near the end of the Triassic period of the Mesozoic Era, some

(5) 70 million years before the first known fossils of true birds occur, and they presumably

dominated the skies until they were eventually displaced by birds Like the dinosaurs,

some of the pterosaurs became gigantic; the largest fossil discovered is of an individual

that had a wingspan of 50 feet or more, larger than many airplanes These flying

reptiles had large, tooth-filled jaws, but their bodies were small and probably without

(10) the necessary powerful muscles for sustained wing movement They must have been

expert gliders, not skillful fliers, relying on wind power for their locomotion

Birds, despite sharing common reptilian ancestors with pterosaurs, evolved quite

separately and have been much more successful in their dominance of the air They

are an example of a common theme in evolution, the more or less parallel development

(15) of different types of body structure and function for the same reason in this case,

for flight Although the fossil record, as always, is not complete enough to determine

definitively the evolutionary lineage of the birds or in as much detail as one would