Apart from the Browns, all of the other families have moved to the oceanfront, which is a safe area.




A.The Browns were the only family who refused to leave their home, since they didn’t think the oceanfront was safe.
B.Though the oceanfront us a safe place to live, the Browns refused to leave their family home when their neighbors suggested it.
C.Their neighbors were unable to persuade the Browns that the oceanfront would be more secure than their home.
D.Unlike the rest of the families, who move to the oceanfront, where it is more secure, the Browns have chosen to stay in their home.

Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?




A.The vibrations produced by insects.
B.The sound made by trees.
C.The mission of the us Forest Service.
D.The effect of insects on trees.

“Would you like another coffee?" "________"




A.I'd love one.
B.Willingly.
C.Very kind of your part.
D.its a pleasure.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It would have been a much more serious accidents ______ fast at that time.




A.she drove
B.she had driven
C.had she been driving
D.was she driving

According to the passage, all of the following are true of the five-string banjo EXCEPT___




A.it was used by Earl Scruggs
B.it was famous in the production of bluegrass music
C.it had an unfretted string
D.it was a tenor banjo

Which of the following most reflects the author‘s tone in this passage?




A.light and encouraging
B.informative and scientific
C.humorous and sceptical
D.regretful and reminiscent

What is the author’s main purpose in this passage?




A.to promote the Catskills as a vacation destination
B.to introduce visitors to famous Catskills entertainers
C.to describe the history of the Catskills region
D.to compare the Catskills to New England

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions.
“Could you read this essay and give me your opinion on it?”




A.He asked his classmate whether she could read his essay and gave him her opinion on it
B.He made a request to his classmate that she read his essay and give him her opinion on it
C.He asked his classmate to read the essay and give him opinion on it
D.He invited his classmate to read his essay and give her opinion on it

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Taking a trip to the foreign country is a good way to practice a second language, but it is too expensive for many people.




A.good
B.the
C.too
D.a

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her subjects were varied: animals, laborers, artists, and the craft of poetry. From her general reading came quotations that she found striking or insightful. She included these in her poems, scrupulously enclosed in quotation marks, and sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote, "Why many quotation marks?" I am asked ... When a thing has been so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence, my writing is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber." Close observation and concentration on detail and the methods of her poetry.
Marianne Moore grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Lois. After graduation from Bryn Mawr College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Later she became a librarian in New York City. During the 1920’s she was editor of The Dial, an important literary magazine of the period. She lived quietly all her life, mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a lot of time at the Bronx Zoo, fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers-before the team moved to Los Angeles-was widely known.
Her first book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends associated with the Imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read with interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She wrote that she did not write poetry for money or fame. To earn a living is needful, but it can be done in routine ways. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
What does Moore refer to as "flies in amber" (paragraph 1)?




A.Concentration on detail.
B.Poetry in the twentieth-century.
C.A common image in her poetry.
D.Quotations within her poetry.