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Question 1
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45%
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42%
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Question 2
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A comprehensive survey of the United States, at the end of the Civil War, would reveal a state of society that bears little resemblance to the country 50 years later. Almost all those commonplace fundamentals of existence, the things that contribute to our bodily comfort while they vex us with economic and political problems, had not yet made their appearance. The America of Civil War days was a country without transcontinental railroads, without telephones, without European cables, or wireless stations, or automobiles, or electric lights, or sky-scrapers, or milliondollar hotels, or trolley cars, or a thousand other contrivances that supply the conveniences and comforts of what we call our American civilization. The cities of that period, with their unsewered and unpaved streets; their dingy, flickering gaslights; their ambling horse-cars; and their hideous slums, seemed appropriate settings for the unformed social life and the rough-and-ready political methods of American democracy. The railroads, with their fragile iron rails, their little wheezy locomotives, their wooden bridges, their unheated coaches, and their kerosene lamps, fairly typified the prevailing frontier business and economic organization.
But only by talking with the business leaders of that time could we have understood the changes that have taken place in 50 years. For the most part, we speak a business language that our fathers and grandfathers would not have comprehended. The word trust had not become a part of their vocabulary; restraint of trade was a phrase that only the antiquarian lawyer could have interpreted; interlocking directorates, holding companies, subsidiaries, underwriting syndicates, and community of interest—all this jargon of modern business would have signified nothing to our immediate ancestors. Our nation of 1865 was a nation of farmers, city artisans, and industrious, independent businessmen, and smallscale manufacturers. Millionaires, though they were not unknown, did not swarm all over the land. Luxury, though it had made great progress in the latter years of the war, had not become the American standard of well-being. The industrial story of the United States in the 50 years after the Civil War is the story of the most amazing economic transformation that the world has ever known.
But only by talking with the business leaders of that time could we have understood the changes that have taken place in 50 years. For the most part, we speak a business language that our fathers and grandfathers would not have comprehended. The word trust had not become a part of their vocabulary; restraint of trade was a phrase that only the antiquarian lawyer could have interpreted; interlocking directorates, holding companies, subsidiaries, underwriting syndicates, and community of interest—all this jargon of modern business would have signified nothing to our immediate ancestors. Our nation of 1865 was a nation of farmers, city artisans, and industrious, independent businessmen, and smallscale manufacturers. Millionaires, though they were not unknown, did not swarm all over the land. Luxury, though it had made great progress in the latter years of the war, had not become the American standard of well-being. The industrial story of the United States in the 50 years after the Civil War is the story of the most amazing economic transformation that the world has ever known.
1. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to
A. suggest that the Civil War was the lowest point in the history of the United States.
B. summarize the events leading up to and continuing after the Civil War.
C. indicate a watershed period in the development of the American economy.
D. bemoan the change from the frontier spirit that characterized the early history of the United States to the impersonal, egocentric modern attitudes.
E. introduce the tycoons who initiated the growth of the huge conglomerates that built this nation.
A. suggest that the Civil War was the lowest point in the history of the United States.
B. summarize the events leading up to and continuing after the Civil War.
C. indicate a watershed period in the development of the American economy.
D. bemoan the change from the frontier spirit that characterized the early history of the United States to the impersonal, egocentric modern attitudes.
E. introduce the tycoons who initiated the growth of the huge conglomerates that built this nation.
2. Which of the following is most likely the title of a longer article in which the passage might have appeared?
A. The History of the American Reconstruction
B. Twentieth-Century Millionaires
C. Transformation from Agricultural Society to an Industrial Nation
D. An American Military Chronicle
E. Learning the Language of Business
A. The History of the American Reconstruction
B. Twentieth-Century Millionaires
C. Transformation from Agricultural Society to an Industrial Nation
D. An American Military Chronicle
E. Learning the Language of Business
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1. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to
Imo B
A. suggest that the Civil War was the lowest point in the history of the United States.
Cannot be inferred from the passage that Civil War was the lowest point in the history.
B. summarize the events leading up to and continuing after the Civil War.
Correct ! Can keep this one.
C. indicate a watershed period in the development of the American economy.
There is no indication any period that marks the beginning of the development of American economy.
D. bemoan the change from the frontier spirit that characterized the early history of the United States to the impersonal, egocentric modern attitudes.
egocentric, Impersonal are strong words to assume.
E. introduce the tycoons who initiated the growth of the huge conglomerates that built this nation.
Introducing the Tycoons is not the main purpose of the passage.
2. Which of the following is most likely the title of a longer article in which the passage might have appeared?
Imo A
A. The History of the American Reconstruction
Correct.
Related to American history and its reconstruction.
B. Twentieth-Century Millionaires
No focus on the millionaires.
C. Transformation from Agricultural Society to an Industrial Nation
The passage do talks about the transformation on the American economic transformation not the transformation in general from Agricultural society to an Industrial Nation.
D. An American Military Chronicle
Too specific.
E. Learning the Language of Business
Again too specific
Imo B
A. suggest that the Civil War was the lowest point in the history of the United States.
Cannot be inferred from the passage that Civil War was the lowest point in the history.
B. summarize the events leading up to and continuing after the Civil War.
Correct ! Can keep this one.
C. indicate a watershed period in the development of the American economy.
There is no indication any period that marks the beginning of the development of American economy.
D. bemoan the change from the frontier spirit that characterized the early history of the United States to the impersonal, egocentric modern attitudes.
egocentric, Impersonal are strong words to assume.
E. introduce the tycoons who initiated the growth of the huge conglomerates that built this nation.
Introducing the Tycoons is not the main purpose of the passage.
2. Which of the following is most likely the title of a longer article in which the passage might have appeared?
Imo A
A. The History of the American Reconstruction
Correct.
Related to American history and its reconstruction.
B. Twentieth-Century Millionaires
No focus on the millionaires.
C. Transformation from Agricultural Society to an Industrial Nation
The passage do talks about the transformation on the American economic transformation not the transformation in general from Agricultural society to an Industrial Nation.
D. An American Military Chronicle
Too specific.
E. Learning the Language of Business
Again too specific
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