Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D  to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Native Americans of northern California were very good at basketry, using the reeds, grasses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes - not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.

Of all these experts, none excelled the Pomo - a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800's, and whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of their baskets were completely covered with shell pendants; others with feathers that made the baskets' surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their neighbors. Most groups made all their basketwork by twining - the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp, others depended primarily on coiling - a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape with tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article.

Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color, the Pomo people used the bark of redbud for their twined work and dyed bulrush root for black in coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest basketry.

If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every Pomo basketmaker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a number of different ways.

Question 1. The word "fashion" in line 2 is closest in meaning to____________.

A. maintain                          B. organize                        C. trade                             D. create

Question 2. The Pomo people used each of the following materials to decorate baskets EXCEPT_________.

A. shells                               B. feathers                         C. leaves                           D. bark

Question 3. What is the author's main point in the second paragraph?

A. The neighbors of the Pomo people tried to improve on the Pomo basket weaving techniques.

B. The Pomo people were the most skilled basket weavers in their region.

C. The Pomo people learned their basket weaving techniques from other Native Americans.

D. The Pomo baskets have been handed down for generations.

Question 4. According to the passage, a weft is a____________.

A. tool for separating sedge root                                   B. process used for coloring baskets

C. pliable material woven around the warp                   D. pattern used to decorate baskets

Question 5. According to the passage, what did the Pomo people use as the warp in their baskets?

A. bulrush                            B. willow                          C. sedge                            D. redbud

Question 6. The word "staples" in line 21 is closest in meaning to____________.

A. combinations                   B. limitations                     C. accessories                    D. basic elements

Question 7. Which of the following statements about Pomo baskets can be best inferred from the passage?

A. Baskets produced by other Native Americans were less varied in design than those of the Pomo people.

B. Baskets produced by Pomo weavers were primarily for ceremonial purposes.

C. There were a very limited number of basket-making materials available to the Pomo people.

D. The basket-making production of the Pomo people has increased over the years.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The best definition for the word “dominant" in paragraph 1 is ____.

A. having the most important position

B. covering the majority of the area

C. providing food for others

D. making up the whole community

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Emest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Heming way that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Floria.

In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ,and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

1.  Where was Emest Hemingway from?

A. Bahamas               B. Cuba                C. America                     D. Spain

2.  When was The Old Man and the Sea published?

A. 1951                     B. 1952                C. 1953                          D. 1954

3.  What genre does The Old Man and the Sea belong to?

A. fiction                   B. comedy            C. literature                    D. romance

4.  What does “it” refer?

A. the Pulitzer Prize

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. the Nobel Committee

D. the coast of Floria

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The word "They" in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

A. human-related effects

B. some species

C. low birthrates

D. natural obstacles

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The word “organism" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____.

A. plants

B. animals

C. herbivores

D. living things

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The word “harness" in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to

A. block

B. steal

C. utilize

D. disguise

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The word "analogue" in paragraph 5 most nearly means_____.

A. solution

B. alternative

C. similarity

D. use

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

The word “they” in the last paragraph refers to _______.

A. today’s musicians

B. Scott Joplin and Bessie Smith

C. the musicians’ music

D. the names of the earliest African-American singers