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1 1 Reading Test 65 MINUTES,52 QUESTIONS Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions.After reading each passage or pair,choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or implied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table or graph).Questions 1-10 are based on the following passage.This passage is adapted from Anita Desai,Clear Light of Day.1980 by Anita Desai.Raja,Bim,and Tara are siblings living in Old Delhi,India.As they grew into adolescence it seemed Raja,Bim and Tara that they were suffocating in some grey mass through which they tried to thrust as Raja had thrust through the thorny hedge,and emerge into a different atmosphere.How was it to be different?Oh,they thought,it should have colour and event and company,be rich and vibrant with possibilities.Only they could notthe greyness was so massed as to baffle them and defeat their attempts to fight through.Only Raja sometimes did.On his bicycle,cycling off to the cinema in Kashmere Gate,or in the wrestling pit with Hamid,or rattling down the drive in the soda-mans cart,or flying kites on the terrace in the evenings,he seemed to come alive and glow,even if briefly,to be followed by a long trough of brooding sullenness and irritability.Raja also had the faculty of coming alive to ideas,to images picked up in the books he read.The usual boyhood adventure stories,Robin Hood and Beau Geste,set him on fire till he almost blazed with enthusiasm as he showed Hamid how to fashion swords out of bamboo poles and battle with him,or pictured himself in the desert,in the Foreign Legion,playing some outsize,heroic role in a splendid battle.He cycled to Connaught Place and bought cheap paperbacks printed specially for the American Army and sold on the pavements,and took them home to share with his sisters.“Book worms,book worms,”Aunt Mira called them,rather proudly and indulgently,as they lay stretched on their beds under the stickily revolving fans,reading with almost audible concentration.The sisters,however,read themselves not into a blaze but a stupor,sinking lower and lower under the dreadful weight of Gone with the Wind and Lorna Doone,their eyes growing glazed so that characters never quite emerged into the bright light of day and onlu vague,blurred impressions on their drowsy drugged minds,rather than vivid and clear-cut ones.They hadnt the vitality that Raja had,to participate in what they readthey were passive receivers,bulging with they read,sinking with its weight like water-logged rafts.While Tara would be dragged helplessly into 1 1 1 1 DIRECTIONS CONTINUE Line 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 2 2 the underworld of semi-consciousness by the romances she read.Bim was often irritated and would toss them aside with dissatisfaction.She began to realize they were not what she wanted.What did she want?Oh,she jerked he shoulders in irritation,something differentfacts,history,chronology,preferably.She was bored by the books Raja brought her and tried not to disappoint him by showing her boredom but of course Raja saw and was hurt.Bim began to read,laboriously,sitting up at a table with her elbow placed on either side of the book,Gibbons Decline and Fall1 that she had found on the drawing-room bookshelf.Raja secretly admired her for it as he could not have tackled a study of such length himself,but would not show it and said on that she did not know what she was missing,that had no imagination;to him,the saddest sin.That hurt and puzzled Bim;what need of imagination when one could have knowledge instead?That created a gap between them,a trough or a channel that the books they shared did not bridge.1 The passage is told from the point of view of an A)Omniscient observer B)Unbiased parent C)Elderly relative D)Envious sibling 2 The main purpose of the passage is to A)Reveal how the adult personalities of the main characters were shaped during their youth B)Summarize how the main characters were influenced by their families C)Account for the different career aspirations of the main characters 1 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by eighteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon D)Describe an important transitional period in lives of the main characters 3 The narrator suggests that Raja sometimes overcomes the“great grey mass”(line 3)by A)Engaging in playful activities B)Fleeing the company of his sisters C)Focusing on school D)Constructing a false identity 4 Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?A)Lines 6-10(“Oh,theythrough”)B)Lines 17-18(“Raja.read”)C)Lines 19-25(“The usual battle”)D)Lines 25-29(“He cycledsisters”)5 As used in line 7,“event”most nearly means A)Predicament B)Competition C)Outcome D)Spectacle 6 The third paragraph(lines 33-43)mainly serves to A)Point out the types of books that Bim and Tara are accustomed to reading B)Explain the negative attitudes of Bim and Tara toward the novels Raja brings them C)Contrast the effect reading has on Bim and Tara with the effect it has on Raja D)Imply that Bim and Raja read literature that is less interesting than the literature Raja reads 7 The narrator implies that Bim differs from her siblings in that she A)Appreciates books that stimulate her imagination B)Values learning about history more than reading words of fiction C)Does not consider an appealing pastime D)Enjoys that solitude that reading books 1 1 1 CONTINUE 50 55 60 65 3 3 provided 8 Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?A)Lines 41-43(“They hadntread”)B)Lines 46-49(“Whiledissatisfaction”)C)Lines 51-53(“Whatpreferably”)D)Lines 67-69(“That createdbridge”)9 As used in line 61,“tackled”most nearly means A)Undertaken B)Obstructed C)Secured D)Seized 10 According to the passage,Raja reacts to Bims choice of reading material by A)Praising the ideas in her books while faulting their lack of literary style B)Resenting Bims contempt for the books he gave her C)Sharing in Bims academic interests despite finding the texts very difficult to follow D)Criticizing Bims actions aloud while privately respecting her Questions 11-20 are based on the following passages Passage 1 is adapted from a speech delivered in 1850,Senator Daniel Webster,“The constitution and the Union,”passage 2 is adapted from a speech delivered in 184 by Henry David Thoreau,“Slavery in Massachusetts.”Passage 1 It is in the nature of man,manifested by his whole history,that religious disputes are apt to become warm,and mens strength of conviction is proportionate to their views of the magnitude of the questions.In all such disputes,there will sometimes be men found with whom everything is absoluteabsolutely wrong,or absolutely right.They see the right clearly;they think others ought so to see it,and they are disposed to establish a broad line of distinction between what is right,and what is wrong.And they are not seldom willing to establish that line upon their own convictions of truth and justices of their opinions and are ready to mark and guard that line,by placing along it a series of dogmas,as lines of boundary are marked by posts and stones.There are men,who,with clear perceptions,as they think,of their own duty,do not see how too hot a pursuit of one duty may involve them in the violation of another,or how too warm an embracement of one truth may lead to a disregard of other truths equally important.As I heard it stated strongly,not many days ago,these persons are disposed to mount upon some particular duty as upon a warhorse,and to drive furiously on,and upon,and over all other duties,that may stand in the way.There are men,who,in times of that sort,and disputes of that sort,are of opinion,that human duties may be ascertained with the exactness of mathematics.They deal with morals as with mathematics;and they think what is right,may be distinguished from what is wrong,with the precision of an algebraic equation.They have,therefore,none too much charity toward others who differ with them.They are apt,too,to 1 1 1 CONTINUE Line 5 10 15 20 25 30 4 4 think that nothing is good but what is perfect,and that there are no compromises or modifications to be made in submission to difference of opinion,or in deference to other mens judgment Now,sir,in this state of sentiment,upon the general nature of slavery,lies the cause of a great portion of those unhappy divisions,exasperations,and reproached which find vent and support in different parts of the Union.Passage 2 Will mankind never learn that policy is not moralitythat it never secures any moral right,but considers merely what is expedient?Chooses the available candidatewho is invariably the Deviland what right have his constituents to be surprised,because the Devil does not behave like an angel of light?What is wanted is men,not of policy,but of probitywho recognize a higher law than the Constitution,or the decision of the majority.The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the pollsthe worst man is as strong as the best at that game;It does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year,but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill,not the Fugitive Slave Bill,but her own slaveholding and servility.Let the State dissolve her union with slaveholder.She may wriggle and hesitate,and ask leave to read the Constitution once more,but she can find no respectable law or precedent which sanctions the continuance of such a union for an instant.Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her,as long as she delays to do her duty Covered with disgrace,the State has sat down coolly to try for their lives and liberties the men who attempted to do its duty for it.2 And this is 2 A reference to the abolitionists who were arrested after storming the Boston Courthouse on May 26,1854,in an called justice!They who have shown that they can behave particularly well may perchance be put under bonds for their good behavior.They whom truth requires at present to plead guilty are,of all the inhabitants of the State,preeminently innocent.While the Governor,and the Mayor,and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large,the champions of liberty are imprisoned.Only they are guiltless who commit the crime of contempt of such a court.It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice,and let the courts make their own characters.My sympathies in this case are wholly with the accused,and wholly against their accusers and judges.11 In Passage 1,Webster makes which claim about the nature of peoples moral beliefs?A)Peoples moral beliefs about an issue tend to revoke over the course of a lifetime B)Peoples beliefs about what is morally right are more firmly hold than their beliefs about what is morally wrong C)The intensity of peoples beliefs about a moral issue reflects their views of the importance of the issue.D)People often have strong moral beliefs about issues that their society regards as relatively insignificant.12 As used in lines 3 and 19,“warm”most nearly means A)Moderate B)Passionate C)Cordial D)Comfortable 13 Websters reference to the warhorse in lines 21-26(“As I.way”)primarily serves to emphasize the A)Noble aspects of a performance B)Resourceful approach to a situation attempt to free the imprisoned runaway slave Anthony Burns 1 1 1 CONTINUE 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 5 5 C)Headstrong quality of a behavior D)Brutal nature of an outcome 14 As used in line 45,“secures”most nearly means A)Confines B)Guarantees C)Adjusts D)Fastens 15 It can reasonably be inferred from Passage 2 that Thoreau equates true citizenship with A)Subscribing to the values of the Constitution B)Being a virtuous and principle person C)Obeying federal laws even when they contradict state laws D)Functioning independently of all moral ideals 16 Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?A)Lines 44-46(“Willexpedient”)B)Lines 48-50(“what rightlight”)C)Lines 50-53(“what is wantedmajority”)D)Lines 75-77(“they whominnocent”)17 In passage 2,Thoreau suggests that with respect to slavery,the role of the state of Massachusetts should be to A)Work forward a national solution to the problem B)Find justification in the Constitution for ending it C)Cease being complicit in supporting it D)Put the question of its future to a popular vote 18 Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?A)Lines 61-62(“letslaveholder”)B)Lines 62-64(“she maymore”)C)Lines 70-72(“coveredit”)D)Lines 72-73(“and thisjustice”)19 What is the major theme explored by both passages?A)The allegiance of politicians to slaveholding interests B)The tendency to allow sympathy to alter ones moral beliefs C)The constitutional indefensibility of slavery D)The role of individual morality in politics 20 Webster would most likely say that the Massachusetts abolitionists discussed by Thoreau in Passage 2 A)Have admirable reasons for wanting to free Anthony Burns despite their questionable methods B)Are oblivious to other moral truths in their single-minded focus on opposing slavery C)Comprise only a small portion of the citizenry and have views unrepresentative of those of the citizenry as a whole D)Have unwittingly turned other people against the very cause for which they are struggling 1 1 1 CONTINUE 6 6 Question 21-30 are based on the following passage.This passage is from Elizabeth Preston,“Evolution Made Ridiculous Flightless Birds Over and Over.”2014 by Kalmbach publishing Co,Watching an ostrich sprint across the plain like a mean two-legged dust mop,you might think a mistake has been made.Surely this isnt one of evolutions prouder moments?But new genetic evidence says that the group of birds including ostriches,emus,and other ungainly birds all came from flying ancestors.They lost the ability to fly not once,but over and over again.Something must have been working.The ratites are a group of birds that includes the ostrich and emu,as well as the kiwi,rhea like a smaller,South American ostrich,and cassowary with a bright blue face and what looks like a toenail on its head.There were also the moa of New Zealand and the elephant bird of Madagascargigantic Big Bird types that went extinct within the past several hundred years,likely due to humans.The birds themselves are pretty obvious,but the story of ratite evolution“has always been a contentious issue,”says Oliver Haddrath,an ornithology research technician and PhD student at the Royal Ontario Museum.Scientists have never been certain how ratites arose,or how theyre related to each other and to more normal birds.In the 1960s and 1970s,Haddrath says,molecular evidence showed that the flightless ratites were closely related to birds called tinamous.Unlike the ratites,these small ground dwellers in Centr