1. You
have to answer the question in the reading test only on the basis of what you
understand from the given reading passages. Hence, read the given test passages
carefully with full concentration.
2. When
reading each text passage, first give a qiuck glance through the complete
passage and then read it again slowly.
3. Understand
and note down the main idea and the important points when reading the passages,
and use your notes for answering the questions.
4. Avoid
the spending too much of time on question for which you do know sure answer.
However, remember that you have to answer for all the qustions in the
information privided in the given text passages. Try to answer these questions
using what you have understood from the read passages.
The
passage bout reading toefl :
PASSAGE I
People
leaving today in the north western state of washington who have many sources of
news in addition to newspapers must stretch their imaginations to understand
the importance of the press during much of the state’s history. Beginning in
1852 with the Columbian, the first paper in Washington Territory, newspaper
served to connect settler in fontier communities with each other and with the
major events of their times. Unlike Saturday in Olympia, one of washington’s
laerger towns, was “neutral in politics”, meaning that it was not the organ of
a particular political party or religius group. For it’s first few years, it
was the only newspaper in the territory, but during the following decades,
enterprising washingtonians founded many other papers. Few of these papers
lasted long. Until the turn of the century, most were the production of an
individual editor, who might begin with insufficient capital or fail to attract
a steady readership. Often working with no staff at all, these editors wrote
copy, set type, delivered papers, oversaw billing, and sold advertising. Their
highly personal journals reflected their own tastes, politics, torrid, and
potentially libelous.
Early
newspaper were thick with print, carrying no illustrations or cartoons.
Advertising was generally confined to the back pages and simply listed
commodities received by local stores. Toward the end of the century, newspapers
in washington began to carry companies, which bought space from agencies that
brokered ads in papers all over the country. By 1900, washington boasted 19
daily and 176 weekly papers. Especially in the larger cities, they reflected
less the personal opinions of the editor than the interest of the large
businesses they had become. They subcribed to the associated press and united
press news services, and new technology permitted illustrations. Concentrating
on features, crimw reporting, and sensationalism, they imitated the new
mass-circulation papers that William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were
making popular throughout the Uniteted States.
1. What
does the passage mainly discuss?
a. Ways
in which various newspapers were advertised in washington.
b. The
history of newspaper in washington.
c. Editors
of the first washington newspapers.
d. The
illustrations in eraly washington newspapers,
2. Whaat
does the passage imply about early washington newspapers?
a. People
relied on them as their primary source of news.
b. They
contained important historical articles.
c. They
were not as informative as today’s newspapers.
d. They
rarely reflected the views of any particular religion.
3. In
line 7. The word “it” refers to....
a. The
Columbian
b. Olympia
c. Religious
group
d. Political
party
4. In
line 13. The word “oversaw” is closest in meaning to ....
a. Estimated
b. Supervised
c. Collected
d. Provided
5. In
line 15. The word “delivered” is closest in meaning to ....
a. Confirmed
b. Compared
c. Questioned
d. Presented
PASSAGE
II :
Europe
is the smallest of planet Jupiter’s four largest moons and the second moon out
from Jupiter. Until 1979, it was just another astronomy textbook statistic.
Then came the close-up images obtained by the exploratory spacecraft Voyager 2,
and within days, europe was transformed-in our perception, at least-into one of
the solar system’s most intriguing worlds. The biggest initial surprise was the
almost total lack of detail, especially from far away. Even at close ranges,
the only visible features are thin, kinked brown line resembling cracks in an
eggshell. And this analogy is not far off the mark. The surface of europe is
almost pure water ice, but a nearly complete absence of craters indicates that
europe’s surface ice resembles Earth’s Antartic ice cap.
The
eggshell analogy may be quite accurate since the ice could be as little as a
few kilometers thick-a tree shell around what is likely a subsurface liquid
ocean that, in turn, encases a rocky core. The interior of europe has been kept
warm over the cons by tidal forces generated by the varying gravitational tugs
of the other big moons as they wheel around Jupiter. The tides on europe pull
and relax in an endless cycle. The resulting internal heat keeps what would
otherwise be ice melted almost to the surface. The crack-like marks on europe’s
icy face appear to the fractures where water or slush oozes from below. Soon
aftter Voyager 2’s encounter with Jupiter in 1979, when the best images of
europe were obtained, researchers advanced the startling idea that europe’s
subsurface ocean might harbour life. Life processes could have begun when
jupiter was realising a vast store of internal
heat. Jupiter’s early heat was produced by the compression of the
material forming the giant planet. Just as the sun is far less radiant today
than the primal sun, so the internal heat generated by jupiter is minor
compared to its former intensity. During this warm phase, some 4.6 billion
years ago, europe’s ocean may have been liquid right to the surface, making it
a crucible for life.
1. What
does the passage mainly discuss?
a. The
effect of the tides on europe’s interior.
b. Temperature
variations on jupiter’s moons.
c. Discoveries
leading to a theory about one of jupiter’s moons.
d. Techniques
used bye Voyager 2 to obtain close-up images.
2. The word “intriguing” in line 5 is closest in
meaning to...
a. Changing
b. Perfect
c. Visible
d. Fascinating
3. In
line 7. The author mentions “crack in an eggshell” in order to help readers...
a. Visualize
europe as scientists saw it in the voyager 2 images.
b. Appreciate
the extensive and detailed information available by viewing europe from far
away.
c. Understand
the relationship of europe to the solar system.
d. Recognize
the similarity of europe to jupiter’s other moons.
4. What
does the author mean by stating in line 7 that “this analogy is not far off the
mark”?
a. The
definition is not precise.
b. The
discussion lacks necessary information.
c. The
differences are probably significant.
d. The
comparison is quite approciate.
5. The
word “endless” in line 14 is colsest in meaning to ..
a. New
b. Final
c. Temporary
d. Continious
The
answered of passage I :
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. D
The
anwered of passage II :
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. D
5. D
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