Reading passage 1

A. Sunday afternoon in Santa Fe, maybe 1976, or '78, or heck, any given Sunday into the early '80s: In a little adobe house on Caliente Road, a boy sits glued to his television set. He's captivated by a portly, soft-spoken movie detective, whose politely delivered barbs carry a whiff of fortunecookie wisdom. "In future, remember," says Charlie Chan, tapping his No. 1 son on the shoulder. "Tongue often hang man quicker than rope." (Chan was forever carping at his son for too much talk: "You are like business end of waterspout -- always running off at mouth.") B. Chan was sort of Confucian, kind of koany. He found the answer to everything. And he was Asian -- at least enough to satisfy Dana Tai Soon Burgess, a Korean American child growing up in a Latino neighbourhood. No matter that Chan, in his decades as a celluloid solver of glamorous murders, was most popularly played by white actors. For Burgess, the Hollywood version of a Chinese sage offered an escape from the confusion of life. Chan was an avuncular guide for a kid who felt different in many ways: a new arrival in a deep-rooted community, not a Spanish speaker, not a Catholic and, as he was beginning to realize, not interested in girls. C. On Friday, Burgess -- chair of George Washington University's department of theatre and dance, and director of one of Washington's foremost dance troupes -- will unveil a work dedicated to Chan and the power of fantasy. Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company will perform "Charlie Chan and the Mystery of Love" at Dance Place, Friday through Sunday, along with Burgess's "Island," a piece created last year that delves into the internment of Chinese immigrants at Angel Island off the coast of California. D. Asian themes have long been fruitful territory for Burgess, 42. He moved here in 1988 to dance with various local troupes and founded his own company in 1992. In recent years, his works on the immigrant experience and cultural divides have propelled him around the world on State Department-sponsored tours. There's a distinctly Asian look and feel to his work, with its languid pacing, every move precisely sculpted and detailed. His pieces tend to be serious; "Island" is dark and violent. But "Charlie Chan and the Mystery of Love" is sophisticated and funny, just this side of camp -- rather like the movies that inspired it. At a recent rehearsal at Georgetown Day High School in Northwest Washington, the studio is littered with quintessential Chan props: a crystal ball, a notebook, a martini glass. Scenes from Chan movies flicker on a vintage TV. At one point in the 30-minute piece, there's a sance and a hypnotism. There's even a murder. E. It's Burgess's most autobiographical work, a treatment of how he became engrossed in Chan's world of clues and mystery, and how Chan's corny philosophy offered unexpected comfort. Often, the Burgess character, danced by Ricardo Alvarez, finds himself surrounded by glamour pusses in satiny 1930s-style gowns, like refugees from the set of "Charlie Chan in Paris" or "Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise." But in the midst of a swoony waltz, as Fred Astaire croons "Let's Face the Music and Dance" in the background, Alvarez locks eyes with another woman's partner and dances off with him. Cue the moon glow. F. Dream or reality? Burgess intermingles both in his new piece, but despite the affectionate spoofing of his boyhood hero and the pseudo-enlightened voiceover ("Man is clouded by mystery of love; Charlie Chan is guide"), he's making a point beyond being an outsider, beyond coming out. It's about something exquisitely simple: belonging. "So much of my work is about

finding a place where . . . people can find a place of love and safety," Burgess says in an interview after the rehearsal. "And so much of that has to do with how I grew up." G. Burgess's parents are artists. His Korean American mother is a textile designer; his father, of Scots-Irish descent, a painter. They moved from California to New Mexico to pursue their art. But it wasn't an easy change for their son. "Santa Fe was such a different place than it is today," Burgess says. He's self-possessed, tall, with enviable posture, though he retired from dancing a few years ago with a back injury. With his fine features, dimpled smile and deferential manners, he could charm a repo man. But not his peers in school. Source: The New York Times Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 to 14 which are based on Reading Passage 1 Questions 1 to 7 Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs A G. From the list of headings below, choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers I ix in boxes 1 7 on your answer sheet.

i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix.

The power of fantasy. The low-arched way. Sunday afternoon in Santa Fe. Chan an avuncular guide. Dream or reality. Burgess's most autobiographical work. The dream and reality. Asian themes. Burgess's parents.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Paragraph A Paragraph B Paragraph C Paragraph D Paragraph E Paragraph F Paragraph G

Questions 8 10

Choose the correct letters, A, B, C or D Write your answers in boxes 8 10 on your answer sheet. 8 There's a distinctly Asian look and feel to his work, with its A. B. C. D. 9 A. B. C. D. 10 A. B. C. D. Hectic pacing. Languid pacing. Restless mood. Passionate sailing. Dana Tai Soon Burgess is a Korean American Dancer. Singer. Drummer. Flute player. Burgess's parents are Government servants. Artists. Doctors. Social activists.

Questions 11 14 Complete each of the following statements (questions 11 14) with the best endings A G from the box below Write the appropriate letters A G in boxes 11 14 on your answer sheet. 11 Santa Fe was such a different place when 12 Burgess intermingles both Dream and reality in 13 Chan, in his decades as a celluloid solver of glamorous murders, was 14 Asian themes have long been

A B C D E F G

His movies. Fruitful territory for Burgess. Burgesss parents came here. Most popularly played by white actors. Most favourite subjects. His new piece. Idea would dart you through.

Reading passage 2 A. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built a canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. In 190607, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped vainly would be reimbursed by the Federal Government, after a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. B. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapseincluding an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. C. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation, known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site of a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money. D. In 1922, the Reclamation Service presented a report calling for the development of a dam on the Colorado for flood control and electric power generation. The report was principally authored by Davis, and was called the Fall-Davis report after Interior Secretary Albert Fall. The Fall-Davis report cited use of the Colorado River as a federal concern, because the river's basin covered several states, and the river itself eventually entered Mexico. Though the Fall-Davis report called for a dam "at or near Boulder Canyon", the Reclamation Service (which was renamed the Bureau of Reclamation the following year) found that canyon unsuitable. E. One potential site at Boulder Canyon was bisected by a geologic fault; two others were so narrow there was no space for a construction camp at the bottom of the canyon or for a spillway. The Service investigated Black Canyon and found it ideal; a railway could even be laid from the railhead in Las Vegas to the top of the dam site. Despite the site change, the dam project was referred to as the "Boulder Canyon Project". F. With little guidance on water allocation from the Supreme Court, proponents of the dam feared endless litigation. A Colorado attorney proposed that the seven states (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming) which fell within the river's basin form an

interstate compact, with the approval of Congress. Such compacts were authorized by Article I of the United States Constitution but had never been concluded among more than two states. In 1922, representatives of seven states met with then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Initial talks produced no result, but when the Supreme Court handed down a decision which undermined the claims of the upstream states, they became anxious to reach an agreement, and the resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. G. It was not until December 21, 1928 however, that President Coolidge signed the bill authorizing the dam. The Boulder Canyon Project Act appropriated $165 million for the Hoover Dam along with the downstream Imperial Dam and All-American Canal, a replacement for Beatty's canal entirely on the US side of the border. It also permitted the compact to go into effect when at least six of the seven states approved it. This occurred on March 6, 1929 with Utah's ratificationArizona did not approve it until 1944. Source: The Washington Post Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15 27 which are based on Reading Passage 2 Questions 15 19 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? In boxes 15 -19 in your answer sheet write TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN if the statement agrees with the information if the statement contradicts the information if there is no information on this

15. The Secretary of Commerce had a discussion with Herbert Hoover about the progress of the Dam. 16. The Reclamation Service finally accepted the proposal. 17. The dam project was referred to as the "Boulder Canyon Project". 18. The dam has been named after Herbert Hoover. 19. The Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water.

Question 20 23 Look at the following topics (questions 20 23) and the list of statements below. Match each topic to the correct statement. Write the correct letter A G in boxes 1 4 on your answer sheet. 20. The Boulder Canyon Project Act 21. The Reclamation Service 22. The Edison Electric Company 23. The Lower Colorado

A B C D E F G

Cited doubts about the unproven technique. Is situated in LA. Was chosen for the dam. Was a potential site for generating electricity. Could generate 10,000 horsepower. Appropriated $165 million for the Hoover Dam. There are many projects proposed for the site.

Questions 24 27 Complete the following statements with the correct alternative from the box. Write the correct letter A F in boxes 24 27 on your answer sheet. 24. 25. 26. 27. One potential site at Boulder Canyon was Such compacts authorized by Article I of the United States Constitution had The Fall-Davis report cited use of The Bureau of Reclamation was known as

A The lower Colorado. B The river for dam. C The Colorado River as a federal concern. D Never been concluded among more than two states. E Bisected by a geologic fault. F The Reclamation Service at the time.

Reading Passage 3 A. The principal component of the Solar System is the Sun, a main sequence G2 star that contains 99.86 per cent of the system's known mass and dominates it gravitationally. The Sun's four largest orbiting bodies, the gas giants, account for 99 per cent of the remaining mass, with Jupiter and Saturn together comprising more than 90 per cent. B. Most large objects in orbit around the Sun lie near the plane of Earth's orbit, known as the ecliptic. The planets are very close to the ecliptic while comets and Kuiper belt objects are frequently at significantly greater angles to it. All the planets and most other objects also orbit with the Sun's rotation (counter-clockwise, as viewed from above the Sun's North Pole). There are exceptions, such as Halley's Comet. C. The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun, four relatively small inner planets surrounded by a belt of rocky asteroids, and four gas giants

D.

E.

F.

G.

surrounded by the outer Kuiper belt of icy objects. Astronomers sometimes informally divide this structure into separate regions. The inner Solar System includes the four terrestrial planets and the main asteroid belt. The outer Solar System is beyond the asteroids, including the four gas giant planets. Since the discovery of the Kuiper belt, the outermost parts of the Solar System are considered a distinct region consisting of the objects beyond Neptune. Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the orbits of objects about the Sun. According to Kepler's laws, each object travels along an ellipse with the Sun at one focus. Objects closer to the Sun (with smaller semi-major axes) travel more quickly, as they are more affected by the Sun's gravity. On an elliptical orbit, a body's distance from the Sun varies over the course of its year. A body's closest approach to the Sun is called its perihelion, while its most distant point from the Sun is called its aphelion. The orbits of the planets are nearly circular, but many comets, asteroids and Kuiper belt objects follow highly elliptical orbits. Due to the vast distances involved, many representations of the Solar System show orbits the same distance apart. In reality, with a few exceptions, the farther a planet or belt is from the Sun, the larger the distance between it and the previous orbit. For example, Venus is approximately 0.33 astronomical units (AU) farther out from the Sun than Mercury, while Saturn is 4.3 AU out from Jupiter, and Neptune lies 10.5 AU out from Uranus. Attempts have been made to determine a correlation between these orbital distances (for example, the Titius-Bode law), but no such theory has been accepted. Most of the planets in the Solar System possess secondary systems of their own, being orbited by planetary objects called natural satellites, or moons (two of which are larger than the planet Mercury), or, in the case of the four gas giants, by planetary rings; thin bands of tiny particles that orbit them in unison. Most of the largest natural satellites are in synchronous rotation, with one face permanently turned toward their parent. The objects of the inner Solar System are composed mostly of rock, the collective name for compounds with high melting points, such as silicates, iron or nickel that remained solid under almost all conditions in the protoplanetary nebula. Jupiter and Saturn are composed mainly of gases, the astronomical term for materials with extremely low melting points and high vapour pressure such as molecular hydrogen, helium, and neon, which were always in the gaseous phase in the nebula. Ices, like water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide, have melting points up to a few hundred kelvins, while their phase depends on the ambient pressure and temperature. They can be found as ices, liquids, or gases in various places in the Solar System, while in the nebula they were either in the solid or gaseous phase. Icy substances comprise the majority of the satellites of the giant planets, as well as most of Uranus and Neptune (the so-called "ice giants") and the numerous small objects that lie beyond Neptune's orbit. Together, gases and ices are referred to as volatiles.

Source: Readers Digest Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28 40 which are based on Reading Passage 3.

Questions 28 32 The passage has seven paragraphs labelled AG. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 28-32 on your answer sheet. NB: You may use any letter more than once. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Most large objects in orbit around the Sun lie near the plane of Earth's orbit. Venus is approximately 0.33 astronomical units (AU) farther out from the Sun than Mercury. The outermost parts of the Solar System are considered a distinct region consisting of the objects beyond Neptune. Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the orbits of objects about the Sun. All the planets and most other objects also orbit with the Sun's rotation.

Questions 33 36 Complete the sentences below with words taken from Reading Passage 3. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 33-36 on your answer sheet.

33. 34. 35. 36.

Many representations of the Solar System show orbits the same . Jupiter and Saturn are composed . Icy substances comprise the majority of the satellites of . Attempts have been made to determine a correlation between these .

Questions 37 40 Complete the summary of the paragraphs A C below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet. The principal component of the 37 .. The Sun's four largest orbiting bodies, the gas giants, account for 99 per cent 38 Most large objects in orbit around the Sun lie near the plane of Earth's orbit, 39 . The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun, four relatively small inner planets and 40 .