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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 90

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   The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks has been praised for deepening the
 significance of personal and social experiences so that these experiences
 become universal in their implication. She has also been praised
 for her "sense of form, which is basic and remarkable" many of her
5  poems are concerned with a Black community named Bronzeville, on
 the south side of Chicago. Her literary skill makes Bronzeville more
 than just a place on a map. This community, like all important literary
 places (Robinson's Tilbury Town and Masters' Spoon River, for example),
 becomes a testing ground of personality, a place where the raw material
10 of experience is shaped by imagination and where the joys and trials
 of being human are both sung and judged. The qualities for which
 Brooks's poetry is not are (as one critic has point out) "boldness,
 invention, a daring to experiment, and a naturalness that does not
 scorn literature but absorbs it".
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 Her love for poetry began early. At the age of seven she "began to
 put rhymes together", and when she was thirteen, on of her poems
 was published in a children' s magazine. During her teens she contributed
 more than seventy-five poems to a Chicago newspaper. In 1941 she
20 began to attend a class in writing poetry at the South Side Community
 Art Center, and several years later, her poems began to appear in
 Poetry and other magazines. Her first collection of poems, A Street
 in Bronzeville, was published in 1945. Four years later, Annie Allen,
 her second collection of poems, appeared. In 1950 Annie Allen was
25 awarded a Pulitzer prize for poetry. A novel Maud Martha, about a
 young black girl growing up in Chicago, published in 1953, was praised
 for its warmth and insights. In 1963 her Selected Poems appeared.

1. The main subject of the passage is Gwendolyn Brooks's




2. According to the passage, Brooks often wrote about a community called




3. Why does the author mention Tibury Town and Spoon River?




4. The author uses quotations in the first paragraph primarily to




5. According to the passage, Brooks' s poetry was first published when she was




6. In what year did Brooks' s novel appear?




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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 89

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   The texture of the soil depends on the relative amounts of different
 sized particles that combine to make up the soil. These particles
 can be as small as clay. A typical clay soil is composed of approximately
 60 percent actual clay, 20 percent silt, and 20 percent sand. The
5  particles in a clay soil are so fine that it tends to be compact
 and interferes with the oxygen supply for plant roots. Water has
 trouble entering this impervious soil, and runoff is very common
 during rainfalls. A typical light sandy soil is composed of approximately
 70 percent sand, 20 percent silt, and 10 percent clay. The particles
10 in a sandy soil are comparatively large, permitting water to enter
 the soil and to pass through it so quickly that it often carries
 nutrients with it and dries out very rapidly. The texture of sandy
 soils is generally very difficult to modify because huge amounts
 of organic material must be added. A typical loam soil is composed
15 of approximately 40 percent sand, 40 percent silt, and 20 percent
 clay, making it an ideal garden soil. It is easily worked and retains
 water and nutrients, which are slowly absorbed by plant roots.

 A typical adobe soil is a clay soil present in hot, dry areas of the
20 country and often very hard and cracked. It has all the disadvantages
 of a heavy clay soil and, being much drier, is more difficult to
 correct.

1. What is the author's main purpose in the passage ?




2. According to the passage, the texture of sandy soil can be improved by mixing in




3. It can be inferred from the passage that the most distinguishing characteristic of adobe soil is




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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 88

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   Watch a baby between six and nine moths old, and you will observe
 the basic concepts of geometry being learned. Once the baby has mastered
 the idea that space is three-dimensional, it reaches out and begins
 grasping various kinds of objects. It is then, from perhaps nine
5  to fifteen months, that the concepts of sets and numbers are formed.
 So far, so good. But now ominous development takes place. The nerve
 fibers in the brain insulate themselves in such a way that the baby
 begins to hear sounds very precisely. Soon it picks up language,
 and it is then brought into direct communication with adults. From
10 this point on, it is usually downhill all the way for mathematics,
 because the child now become exposed to all the nonsense words and
 beliefs of the community into which it has been so unfortunate as
 to have been born. Nature, having done very well by the child to
 this point, having permitted it the luxury of thinking for itself
15 for eighteen months, now abandons it to the arbitrary conventions
 and beliefs of society. But at least the child known something of
 geometry and numbers, and it will always retain some memory of the
 early halcyon days, no matter what vicissitudes it may suffer later
 on. The main reservoir of mathematical talent in any society is thus
20 possessed by children who are about two years old. children who have
 just learned to speak fluently.

1. What does the passage mainly discuss ?




2. According to the passage, which of the following actives would teach a baby about geometry ?




3. According to the author, at what age does a child probably begin to learn about sets and number ?




4. The use of the word "ominous" in line 6 shows that the author believes the child's




5. The passage support which of the following conclusions ?




6. The author's attitude toward early childhood education can best be described as somewhat




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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 87

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   By a bout A.D. 500 the Mound Builder culture was declining. Perhaps
 because of attacks from other tribes or perhaps because of severe
 climatic change that undermined agriculture. To the west another
 culture, based on intensive agriculture, was beneath present-day
5  St. Louis, and it radiated out to encompass most of the Mississippi
 watershed, from Wisconsin to Louisiana and from Oklahoma to Tennessee.
 Thousand of villages were included in its orbit. By about A.D. 700
 this Mississippian culture, as it is known to archaeologists. began
 to send its influence eastward to transform the file of most of the
10 less technologically advanced woodland tribes. Like the Mound Builders
 of the Ohio region, these tribes, probably influenced by Meso-American
 cultures through trade and warfare, built gigantic mounds as burial
 and ceremonial places. The largest of them, rising in four terraces
 to a height of once hundred feet, has a rectangular base of nearly
15 fifteen acres, larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Built
 between A.D. 900 and 1100, this huge earthwork faces the site of
 a palisaded Indian city which contained more than one hundred small
 artificial mounds marking burial sites. Spread among them was a visit
 settlement containing some 30,000 people by current estimations.
20 The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered at Cahokia, as this
 center of Mississippi culture is called, include elaborate ceramics,
 finely sculpted stonework, carefully embossed and engraved copper
 and mica sheets, and on funeral blanket fashioned from 12,000 shell
 beads. They indicate that Cahokia was a true urban center, with clustered
25 housing, markets, and specialists in tool- making, hide-dressing,
 potting, jewelry-making, weaving, and salt-making.

1. What is the main topic of the passage ?




2. The paragraph preceding this one most probably discussed




3. In relation to the Mississippian culture, the mound builder culture was located




4. The Mississippian influenced the culture of the




5. According to the passage, the mounds were used as




6. According to the passage, how does the mound at Cahokia compare with the Great Pyramid ?




7. The mound at Cahokia was made of




8. Which aspect of the Mississippipian culture is discussed the LEAST in passage?




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Reading-Comprehension-Lesson 86

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   Convective flow should be family to anyone who has noted the boiling
 of a heated liquid. The most elementary type of convection can be
 explained by the fact that heat rises. In the simplest cases, convective
 flow begins when a fluid is heated, it expands and thus become less
5  dense than the layers above. The warmer and lighter bottom layer
 then tends to rise and the cooler layer tends to sink in a continuous
 cycle. The same mechanism of convective flow is responsible for the
 great ocean currents and for the global circulation of the atmosphere.
 In an ocean, the water is warmed by the Sun to a depth of perhaps
10 thirty meters, and evaporation near the water's surface is responsible
 for the cooling effect.

1. The main purpose of this passage is to




2. According to the passage, what happens as a fluid is warmed ?




3. What does the passage say about ocean currents ?




4. According to the passage, which of the following is the result of convective flow ?




5. A simple example of convection could be seen in




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