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Intermediate
PASSAGE 1
Questions 1–4 ask about Passage A. 1. It can reasonably be inferred that Passage A is narrated from the point of view of someone who:
A
A. once worked in the newspaper business.
B
B. recently started a career in the newspaper business.
C
C. is outside the newspaper business and is evaluating the inner workings of various news offices.
D
D. is outside the newspaper business and longs to be a reporter.
2
Intermediate
PASSAGE 2
11. According to the passage, the Babylonian and Indian civilizations were similar in that they both:
A
A. wrote zero using tacklike symbols.
B
B. referred to their rulers’ first year in power as the accession year.
C
C. derived their names for zero from their respective religions.
D
D. used a symbol for zero in the middle of numbers.
3
Intermediate
PASSAGE 3
21. The main purpose of the passage is to:
A
A. introduce Bell as an important figure in the career of the Staples Singers.
B
B. compare Mavis Staples to other famous female singers like Ross and Franklin.
C
C. present a theory that Pops Staples was the driving force behind Mavis Staples’s success as a singer.
D
D. describe Mavis Staples’s transition from a quartet singer to a solo artist.
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Intermediate
PASSAGE 4
31. The main purpose of the passage is to:
A
A. contrast mutualist relationships with commensal relationships and contend that mycorrhizal fungi have a commensal relationship with plants.
B
B. describe mycorrhizal fungi’s relationship with plants and explain how this relationship plays an integral role in ecosystems.
C
C. summarize how the Internet was inspired by net- works of mycorrhizal fungi and clarify how the Internet and mycorrhizal networks are similar.
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D. establish that mycorrhizal fungi pose a threat to forests and suggest a way of curbing their influence on ecosystems.