| 1 |
Boisterous:
|
A. Calm
B. Roaring
C. Toady
D. Airy
|
| 2 |
Church : Spire
|
A. Temple : Shrine
B. Opera : Stage
C. Courtroom : Bench
D. Mosque : Minaret
|
| 3 |
Anecdote : Short Story
|
A. Snack : Banquet
B. Famine : Feast
C. Muddy : River
D. Sentence : Fragment
|
| 4 |
If it ________ more humid in the deserts the hot temperature would be unbearable.
|
A. has been
B. is
C. was
D. were
|
| 5 |
When the chairman became very ill, his wife began to take a more active role in business activities, and many people believed that ______ and the chairman shared his responsibilities
|
A. Her
B. She
C. Herself
D. Hers
|
| 6 |
Choose Relative Pair Of Word Putter: Golf
|
A. Puck: hockey
B. Soccer: ball
C. Paddle: table
D. Pins: bowling
|
| 7 |
Likely : Probability
|
A. Sailor : Mutineer
B. Bright : Radiance
C. Funereal : Eulogy
D. Defying : Enemy
|
| 8 |
Where does chocolate come from? Believe it or not, it grows on trees. Not as a sweet chocolate candy bar wrapped in foil, but as a cocoa bean. These cocoa beans grow on a cacao tree, which is found in tropical areas such as Central and South America. The fruit of these are called pods, and they are long and hard. Inside the pods is a soft, white pulp that surrounds the thirty or so seeds. These seeds are what we call cocoa beans. They are very hard and bitter to the taste.To make chocolate, people start by carefully taking the beans out of the pods, still covered in the white pulp,and leaving them in a bucket. The bucket is often covered with banana leaves and left for anywhere form a few days to a few weeks. This process is called fermenting. Then he beans are left to dry in the sun. Fermenting and drying the beans makes them less bitter. Then the beans are shipped to a factory to be turned into chocolate.At the factory, beans are roasted in ovens to bring out their flavor. After roasting, the outer covering of the bean is removed. The inner bean is then crushed to form a paste known as chocolate liquor.From this paste,people can either make cocoa powder or the chocolate we buy in stores. To make cocoa powder,the paste is crushed and pressed repeatedly to remove the fat, leaving behind only a dry, ground powder. To make chocolate, people need to add other ingredients to the paste such as milk, sugar, and cocoa butter. They then mix and heat the concoction several times to create a substance we would recognize as chocolate. It may even have fruit, nuts, or candy added to it before it is molded into a shape.Considering all that must happen t turn a bitter cocoa bean into a chocolate bar,a dollar seems like a small price to pay for such a delicious sweet treat. Question: Based on information in the passage, it can be understood that the chocolate cold in stores is different from cocoa beans because chocolate is
|
A. sweet and cocoa beans are bitter
B. cheap and cocoa beans are expensive
C. a dry powder and cocoa beans are not
D. uncooked and cocoa beans are cooked
|
| 9 |
Novice
|
A. Deletion
B. Beatitude
C. Volley
D. Veteran
|
| 10 |
Philadelphia is a city known for
many things. It is where the Declaration of independence was signed in 1776,
and it was also the first capital of the United States. But one fact about Philadelphia
is not so well-known: it is home to nearly 3,000 murals painted on the sides of
homes and buildings around the city. In fact, it is said that Philadelphia has
more murals than any other city in the world, with the exception of Rome. How
did this come to be?
More than 20 years ago, a New
Jersey artist named Jane Golden started a program pairing troubled youth with
artists to paint murals on a few buildings around the city. Form this small
project, something magical happened. The young people involved helped to create
magnificent pieces of art, but there were other, perhaps more important
benefits. The young people learned to collaborate and get along with many
different kinds of people during the various steps required to paint and design
a mural. They learned to be responsible, because they needed to follow a
schedule to make sure the murals were completed. They also learned to take pride
in their community. It is hard for any resident to see the spectacular designs
and not feel proud to be a part of Philadelphia.
Take a walk around some of the
poorest neighborhoods I Philadelphia, neighborhoods full of broken windows and
littered front steps, and you will find beautiful works of art on the sides and
fronts of buildings. Of course they murals are not just in poor neighborhoods,
but more affluent ones as well. Special buses take tourists to different parts
of the city to see the various murals, which range from huge portraits of
historical heroes, to cityscapes, to scenes depicting the diverse ethnic groups
that call Philadelphia home.
As a result of its success, the
mural program created by Jane Golden has now become the nation’s largest public
art program and a model for to troubled youth.
Based on information in the
passage, the author most likely believes that
|
A. There are too many murals in Philadelphia
B. The mural program was an inspirational idean
C. All troubled youth should learn how to paint
D. Every city in the country should adopt the mural program
|
Share your comments & questions here
No comments yet. Be the first to comment!