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Intermediate
PASSAGE I
Questions 1-3 ask about Passage A. 1. In Passage A, the narrator directly compares her mother to a:
A
A. Picasso painting.
B
B. shadow and witness.
C
C. story behind someone’s eyes.
D
D. skyscraper against the sun.
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Intermediate
PASSAGE II
11. Which of the following events referred to in the passage occurred last chronologically?
A
A. The first comprehensive report on the ice industry of the United States was commissioned.
B
B. Divers emerged from lakes and rivers clutching ice industry implements.
C
Two thousand cargoes of ice were sold for around $1.5 million.
D
J. The price of ice rose from $4 to $5 a ton.
3
Intermediate
PASSAGE III
21. The last sentence of the passage primarily serves to illustrate the passage author’s central claim that:
A
A. a dubber wants others in the film industry to respect the actor he or she usually dubs.
B
B. the work of Ryan’s dubber is as effective as that of Jackson’s dubber.
C
C. a dubber begins to seem almost like a hybrid of him- or herself and the actor he or she dubs.
D
D. Ward is unlike most dubbers in that he prefers to dub many different actors.
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Intermediate
PASSAGE IV
31. The main purpose of the passage is to:
A
A. explain in detail the various experiments Bessemer conducted in order to develop a better steel.
B
B. provide an overview of some of the scientific principles that apply to the creation and behavior of steel.
C
C. describe some of the philosophical questions concerning metallurgy.
D
D. illustrate the differences between pig iron and cast iron.