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9. Which of the following would best describe Professor Wanberg’s attitude towards finding a job after 50? C: optimistic 10. What is the purpose of this passage? D: to raise awareness on the importance of maintaining social connection and learning new skills at early stages 1.3: Mary’s First job 1. The word “it” in line 2 refers to A: an old hostel 2. What did the people working at the hotel have in common? C: they lacked experience 3. Mary’s working day was organize in order to give her A: time for her school work 4. In the second paragraph, what best paraphrases the sentence “my school report predictably had not lived up to my friend’s high expectations” B: my father has not satisfied with my results at school. 5. What does the writer mean by “daunting” in line 16? D: frightening 6. What did Mary do while she walked from the kitchen to the dining room? D: she started to look more friendly 7. Why did Mary enjoy serving breakfast more than dinners? B: she has a better- relationship with the guests. 8. How did Mary’s father improve her position in the hotel? C: he made her responsible for part of dinner. 9. What was special about the food on Mary’s Sweet Trolley? D: Mary made most of it without following recipes 11. What impression does Mary give for her job throughout the passage? B: it was sometimes uncomfortable. 1.4. Potash (the old name for potassium carbonate) 1. What aspect of potash does the passage mainly discuss? D: its importance in colonial North America 2. All of the following statement are true of both potash and soda EXCEPT: B: they are made from sea plants 3. They phrase “the latter” in paragraph 1 refers two D: soap
4. The word “streesed” in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by B: emphasized 5. The work “ interchangeable” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to C: Eqivalent 6. It can be inferred from the passage that potash was more common than soda in colonial North America because A: the materials needed for making soda were not readily available 7. According to paragraph 4, all of the following were needed for making potash EXPECT C: sand 8. The word “adjunct” in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to A: addition 9. According to the passage, a major benefit of making potash was that B: it helped finance the creation of farms 10. According to paragraph 5, the softwoods in the South posed which of the following problems for southern settles? D: the softwoods were not every useful for making potash 2.1. Jonas Salk is the American physician and medical 1. What is the main idea of the passage? B: how the medical research of Jonas of Jonas led to the development of the polio vaccine 2. Paragraph 1 of the passage? D: medicine that creates immunity against a disease 3. In the first paragraph, what was Thomas Francis Jr Study? C: how to develop vaccines from killed viruses 4. Which sentence on the paragraph describes Salk’s first work at the University of Pittsburg? B: the second sentence 5. Which word is closest in meaning to the underlined word “corroborated” as used in paragraph 2 of the passage? D. confirmed 6. All of the following statements about the killed virus vaccine are true EXPECT: A: it did not induce antibody formation in monkeys 7. The underlined word “findings” in paragraph 3 refers to A: Results 8. From the passage, it can be inferred that the experimental polio vaccine was given to people by B: injection 9. In the passage, it is implied that the Salk Institute was A: originally called the Institute for Biological Studies