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Text 1

Basketball
Although he created the game of basketball at the YMCA in
Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr. James A. Naismith was a Canadian.
Working as a physical education instructor at the International
Line YMCA, now Springfield College, Dr. Naismith noticed a lack of
5 interest in exercise among students during the wintertime. The New
England winters were fierce, and the students balked at participating
in outdoor activities. Naismith determined that a fast-moving game
that could be played indoors would fill a void after the baseball and
football seasons had ended.
10 First he attempted to adapt outdoor games such as soccer and
rugby to indoor play, but he soon found them unsuitable for confined
areas. Finally, he determined that he would have to invent a game.
In December of 1891, Dr. Naismith hung two old peach baskets
at either end of the gymnasium at the school, and, using a soccer ball
I5 and nine players on each side, organized the first basketball game.
The early rules allowed three points for each basket and made
running with the ball a violation. Every time a goal was made,
someone had to climb a ladder to retrieve the ball.
Nevertheless, the game became popular. In less than a year,
20 basketball was being played in both the United States and Canada.
Five years later, a championship tournament was staged in New York
City, which was won by the Brooklyn Central YMCA.
The teams had already been reduced to seven players, and five
became standard in the 1897 season. When basketball was introduced
25 as a demonstration sport in the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, it
quickly spread throughout the world. ln 1906, a metal hoop was used
for the first time to replace the basket, but the name basketball has
remained.
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1. What does this passage mainly discuss? 7. What does the author mean by the
A. The Olympic Games in St. Louis in statement in lines 24-26: "When basketball
1904 was introduced as a demonstration sport in
B. The development of basketball the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, it
C. The YMCA athletic program quickly spread throughout the world"?
D. Dr. James Naismith A. Basketball was not considered an
Olympic sport at the St. Louis games.
2. When was the first demonstration game of B. Basketball became popular worldwide
basketball held during the Olympics? after its introduction at the Olympic
A. 1891 Games in St. Louis.
B. 1892 C. Basketball players from many
C. 1897 countries competed in the Olympic
D. 1904 Games in St. Louis.
D. Basketball was one of the most
3. The phrase "balked at" in line 6 could best popular sports at the Olympic Games
be replaced by in St. Louis.
A. resisted
B. enjoyed 8. Why did Naismith decide to invent
C. excelled at basketball?
D. were exhausted by A. He did not like soccer or rugby.
B. He was tired of baseball and football.
4. The word "fierce" in line 6 is closest in C. He wanted his students to exercise
meaning to during the winter.
A. long D. He could not convince his students to
B. boring play indoors.
C. extreme
D. dark 9. The author mentions all of the following as
typical of the early game of basketball
5. The word "them" in line 11 refers to EXCEPT
A. indoors A. three points were scored for every
B. seasons basket
C. games B. running with the ball was not a foul
D. areas C. nine players were on a team
D. the ball had to be retrieved from the
6. Where in the passage does the author basket after each core
discuss the first basketball championship
tournament? 10. It can be inferred from the passage that the
A. Lines 10-12 original baskets
B. Lines 13- 15 A. were not placed very high
C. Lines 21- 22 B. had a metal rim
D. Lines 24-26 C. did not have a hole in the bottom
D. were hung on the same side
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Text 2

Federal Policies for Native Peoples

Federal policy toward the Native Americans has a long history of
inconsistency, reversal, and failure. In the late 1700s, the United
States government owned and operated factories, exchanging
Line manufactured goods for furs and horses with the hope that mutual
5 satisfaction with trade would result in peace between Native
Americans and the rush of settlers who were moving west. At the
same time, the government supported missionary groups in their
efforts to build churches, schools, and model farms for those tribes
that permitted them to Live in their midst.
10 By the 1800s, federal negotiators were trying to convince many
tribes to sell their land and move out of the line of frontier
expansion, a policy that culminated in the forced expulsion of the
major Southeastern tribes to the west. Over protests by Congress and
the Supreme Court, President Andrew Jackson ordered the Native
15 Americans to be removed to what is now Oklahoma. On the forced
march, which the Cherokee Nation refers to as the ''Trail of Tears,"
many Native Americans died of disease, exposure, and hunger.
By the end of the 1800s, the government had discovered that
some of the land allocated as permanent reservations for the Native
20 Americans contained valuable resources. Congress passed the Dawes
Severalty Act, and for the next forty years Indian agents and
missionaries attempted to destroy the tribal system by separating the
members. It was during this time that the government boarding
schools were established to educate Native American youth outside
25 of the home environment.
Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, scattered tribes
were encouraged to reorganize their tribal governments. Anti-Indian
sentiment resurfaced only ten years later, and by the 1950s relocation
centers to move Native Americans from the reservations to urban
30 areas were established.
Today, government policies are unclear. Many officials want to
remove the federal government completely from Native American
governance. Others believe that the government should support
Native American efforts to maintain their culture. Not surprisingly,
35 the Native Americans themselves are ambivalent about the role of the
federal government in their affairs.
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1. What is the author's main point? 7. What does the author mean by the statement
A. Government policies for Native in lines 13-15: "Over protests by Congress
Americans have not changed many and the Supreme Court, President Andrew
times during the past three hundred Jackson ordered the Native Americans to be
years. removed to what is now Oklahoma?"
B. Today government officials are in A. Oklahoma objected to the president's
agreement about their role in order to move Native Americans to
Native-American affairs. their state.
C. The federal government has been B. The Native Americans had to move to
inconsistent and unclear in its policies Oklahoma because Congress and the
for Native Americans. Supreme Court objected to the
D. The Indian Reorganization Act was a president's order.
failure. C. The president ordered the Native
Americans in Oklahoma to move despite
2. What was involved in the ''Trail of Tears"? opposition by Congress and the Supreme
A. Native-American children were Court.
separated from their families and sent D. Despite objections by Congress and
to boarding schools. the Supreme Court, Native Americans
B. Native-American families living in the were forced to move to Oklahoma by
Southeast were forced to move to the president.
Oklahoma.
C. Native-American families were 8. Why did Congress pass the Dawes
resettled on reservations. Severalty Act?
D. Native Americans were moved from A. Because the government agencies
reservations to cities. wanted to exploit the resources on
reservations
3. The word "ambivalent" in line 35 refers to B. Because missionaries wanted to
A. exhibiting suspicion convert the Native Americans to
B. experiencing contradictory feelings Christianity
C. expressing concern C. Because teachers wanted to set up
D. demonstrating opposition schools for Native Americans in urban
areas
4. The word "culminated" in line 12 is closest D. Because officials on the reservations
in meaning to wanted to preserve Native-American
A. ended culture
B. failed
C. belonged 9. Native American policies are described as
D. caused all of the following EXCEPT
A. inconsistent
5. The word "them" in line 9 refers to B. destructive
A. missionary groups C. permanent
B. efforts D. unclear
C. model farms
D. tribes 10. The paragraph following the passage most
probably discusses
6. Where in the passage does the author refer A. the Native-American point of view
to the congressional act that allowed regarding government policies today
Native-American students to be sent to B. the efforts by Native Americans to
boarding schools? maintain their culture
A. Lines 6-9 C. the results of the reservation system
B. Lines 13-15 D. the intertribal councils that Native
C. Lines 20-25 Americans have established
D. Lines 26-30
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Text 3
Eugene O'Neill
Universally acclaimed as America's greatest playwright, Eugene
O'Neill was born in 1888 in the heart of the theater district in New
York City. As the son of an actor he had early exposure to the world
Line of the theater. He attended Princeton University briefly in 1906, but
5 returned to New York to work in a variety of jobs before joining the
crew of a freighter as a seaman. Upon returning from voyages to
South Africa and South America, he was hospitalized for six months
to recuperate from tuberculosis. While he was recovering, he
determined to write a play about his adventures on the sea.
10 He went to Harvard, where he wrote the one-act Bound East for
Cardiff It was produced in 1916 on Cape Cod by the Provincetown
Players, an experimental theater group that was later to settle in the
famous Greenwich Village theater district in New York City. The
Players produced several more of his one-acts in the years between
15 1916-1920. With the full-length play Beyond the Horizon, produced
on Broadway in 1920, O'Neill's success was assured. The play won
the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of the year. O'Neill was to be
awarded the prize again in 1922, 1928, and 1957 for Anna Christie,
Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although he
20 did not receive the Pulitzer Prize for it, Mourning Becomes Electra,
produced in 1931, is arguably his most lasting contribution to the
American theater. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature.
O'Neill's plays, forty-five in all, cover a wide range of dramatic
25 subjects, but several themes emerge, including the ambivalence of
family relationships, the struggle between the sexes, the conflict
between spiritual and material desires, and the vision of modem man
as a victim of uncontrollable circumstances. Most of O' Neill's
characters are seeking meaning in their lives. According to his
30 biographers, most of the characters were portraits of himself and his
family. In a sense, his work chronicled his life.
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I. This passage is a summary of O' Neill's 7. What does the author mean by the
A. work statement in lines 29-3 1: "According to his
B. life biographers, most of the characters were
C. work and life portraits of himself and his family"?
D. family A. He used his family and his own
experiences in his plays.
2. How many times was O' Neill awarded the Pulitzer B. His biography contained stories about
Prize? him and his family.
A. One C. He had paintings of himself and
B. Three members of his family.
C. Four D. His biographers took pictures of him
D. Five with his family.

3. The word "briefly" in line 4 is closest in 8. According to the passage, which of O' Neill's plays
meaning to was most important to the American theater?
A. seriously A. Anna Christie
B. for a short time B. Beyond the Horizon
C. on scholarship C. Long Day's Journey Into Night
D. without enthusiasm D. Mourning Becomes Electra

4. The word "struggle" in line 26 is closest in 9. The author mentions all of the following as
meaning to themes for O' Neill's plays EXCEPT
A. influence A. life in college
B. conflict B. adventures at sea
C. appreciation C. family life
D. denial D. relationships between men and women

5. The word "it" in line 20 refers to 10. We can infer from information in the passage that
A. Harvard O' Neill's plays were not
B. one-act play A. controversial
C. theater group B. autobiographical
D. theater district C. optimistic
D. popular
6. Where in the passage does the author
indicate the reason for O' Neill's hospitalization?
A. Lines 3--4
B. Lines 6-8
C. Lines 10-13
D. Lines 16-19
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1. Almost everyone fails __ the driver's test on the 7. North American Indian tribes used sign language
first try. ____ with tribes that spoke a different language or
A. passing dialect.
B. to have passed A. to communicating
C. to pass B. for communicate
D. in passing C. to communicate
D. for communicated
2. When the silkworm gets through to lay its
A B C 8. Art tends to be ___ more after the death of the
eggs, it dies. artist, but most literary works tend to decrease in
D value when the writer dies.
A. price
3. If endangered species ___ saved, rain forests must B. worthy
be protected. C. worth
A. are to be D. value
B. be
C. can be 9. Adult eagles let their offspring __nests near their
D. will be original nesting area.
A. build
4. The average spoken sentence in conversational B. builds
English takes 2.5 seconds ______ C. building
D. to build
A. for to complete
B. completing 10. A barometer is a device with a sealed metal
C. to complete A B
D. by completing chamber designed to reading the changes
C
5. Only twenty years ago, most doctors agreed _____ in the pressure of air in the atmosphere.
truthful with their terminally ill patients, a trend that D
has reversed itself in modem medical practice.
A. don't to be
B. not to be
C. we shouldn't been
D. not to been

6. William Torrey Harris was one of the first

educators interested _______ a logical progression of
topics in the school curriculum.
A. in establishing
B. for establishing
C. establishing
D. to establish