According to the passage, Leonard asserts that women's activities during the Civil War had
A. They were lauded as aiding the war cause.
B. They improved women's economic situation.
C. They were considered proof of women's abilities to organize themselves.
D. They created new occupational opportunities for women.
E. They improved women's images of themselves.
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No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he grunted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. (78)Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him—water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful book.
From this passage, we know that ______.
A. man never made sounds
B. man made animal sounds
C. man used to be like animals to make sounds
D. man learned from the animals to make sounds
The Court had made clear that the Federal Government is one of______and enumerated powers,
A. limited… abrogate
B. special … contain
C. judicial… question
D. essential … challenge
E. expansive … rescind
SECTION 3
Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Many microorganisms survive such environmental stresses as heat, cold
and desiccation not by rapid rates of mitosis, but by producing specialized cells
designed to persist in a dormant state in hostile environments. Most fungi, for
Line example, yield single-celled spores, which, through wind distribution, can
(5) survive for long periods of time before germinating and sprouting fungal
filaments of their own. Other types of bacteria produce a special type of spore
called an endospore, capable of withstanding such extremes as boiling and
freezing temperatures, and even ultraviolet radiation.
Though research results remain tentative, several factors may protect
(10) endospores from environmental stress: they have a low water content, unusual
proteins and a tough spore coat absent in mature bacterial cells. When garden
fruits and vegetables, which may contain botulism endospores, are preserved by
canning at boiling temperatures, we know that these spores survive the heat
and sprout in the food, and as a result, the bacteria generate the botulism toxin
(15) that can lead to food poisoning-proof of their magnificent resilience.
The author's primary purpose in the passage is to
A. describe the limits of biologists' understanding of the phenomenon of cellular dormancy
B. explain how certain organisms have adapted to withstand environmental adversity
C. contrast the survival techniques of two organisms which use dormancy to survive hostile environments
D. explain why endospores are so adept at surviving the traditional canning process
E. suggest which methods are effective for killing endospores at which are not
A gulf remains between negotiators from the rich world, who are so skeptical they hope to
A. explicated… ignored
B. diluted … strengthened
C. absconded… delivered
D. reinforced… removed
E. relaxed… loosened