It was clear from the start that this was a doomed voyage, but Jasper could not perceive this truth. He forged onward despite protests from his mother and all his acquaintances. In a great hurry, he made arrangements with ship captains, secured goods for the trip, and generally worked himself into a breathless mess by noon. He was a comical sight on the docks, his cap nearly blown off his head, his trousers half held up by ratty suspenders. But he was oblivious to the figure he cut.
He had awoken on this unlucky Tuesday with an idea in his mind so bright it was is if the stars themselves had lodged it there: he must sail to Ecuador and join his older brother Thomas on his quest for the lost city. That he had not heard from Thomas in over six months and had absolutely no idea where in Ecuador Thomas might be found did little to dissuade Jasper. "How big could Ecuador possibly be?" he speculated to himself. "It couldn't be much larger than New York! I will surely ask around and find him promptly." Jasper was, if nothing else, a positive thinker.
Question
Which ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, expresses the narrator's viewpoint towards Jasper?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
The narrator thinks Jasper is foolish.
2.
The narrator sees Jasper as loyal to his family.
3.
The narrator views Jasper as unlucky and uneducated.
4.
The narrator admires Jasper's ability to see the good in things.
4. The narrator admires Jasper's ability to see the good in things.
The Painted Bunting is a brightly colored bird that would look more at home in the tropics. The bright blue head, red chest, and green feathers are difficult to miss for any bird-watcher. Painted Buntings are migratory songbirds. Found in two distinct regions of the United States during the spring and summer, they typically migrate to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America for the winter. A few birds remain in Florida year-round. Scientists have observed a significant decrease in Painted Buntings and attribute the decline primarily to habitat loss, parasitism, and trapping. The songbirds usually breed and nest in areas with "shrub-scrub" habitat, low-lying vegetation found in coastal regions and forests. In 1966, volunteer citizens began working with scientists to observe and count breeding birds in a wide-scale effort known as the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). This research has enabled wildlife biologists to determine long-term population trends. Scientists have also used the data to develop new management strategies for helping the Painted Bunting recover in areas with the sharpest decline. From 1966 to 1995, the survey documented a 3.2 percent annual decline in Painted Buntings. This means that there has been a population decline of approximately 60 percent. Current conservation priorities include stabilizing Painted Bunting communities on the coastal islands of Georgia and South Carolina as well as preserving critical habitat in Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
Question
How does the author show that the declining population of Painted Buntings is linked to habitat loss?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
by stating that "preserving critical habitat" is a conservation priority
2.
by indicating that the population has decreased by "approximately 60 percent"
3.
by identifying specific habitats in different parts of the world to which the birds migrate
4.
by explaining that the birds usually breed and nest in a habitat with low-lying vegetation
4. By explaining that the birds usually breed and nest in a habitat with low-lying vegetation
At school . . . I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer. He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan aera: and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction. At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons: and they were the lessons too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his ,begin underline,censure,end underline,. I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
(from ,begin underline,Biographia Literaria,end underline, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Question
Which meaning of the word ,begin emphasis,censure,end emphasis, is used in the passage?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
accusation
3.
fault
2.
blame
4.
reprimand
4. Reprimand
Across the dunes, in the waning light,
The rising moon pours her amber rays,
Through the slumbrous air of the dim, brown night
The pungent smell of the seaweed strays—
From vast and trackless spaces
Where wind and water meet,
White flowers, that rise from the sleepless deep,
Come drifting to my feet.
They flutter the shore in a drowsy tune,
Unfurl their bloom to the lightlorn sky,
Allow a caress to the rising moon,
Then fall to slumber, and fade, and die.
(from "Drifting Flowers of the Sea" by Sadakichi Hartmann)
Question 1
This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
,begin emphasis,Part A,end emphasis,
Which phrase ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, describes the mood of the poem?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
1.
sad and despairing
2.
calm and dreamlike
3.
eager and expectant
4.
nervous and uneasy
Question 2
,begin emphasis,Part B,end emphasis,
Select ,begin emphasis,two,end emphasis, lines from the poem that ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, support the correct answer from Part A.
Question 2 Answer options with 5 options
1.
"The rising moon pours her amber rays," (Line 2)
2.
"Through the slumbrous air of the dim, brown night" (Line 3)
3.
"The pungent smell of the seaweed strays—" (Line 4)
4.
"They flutter the shore in a drowsy tune," (Line 9)
5.
"Unfurl their bloom to the lightlorn sky," (Line 10)
Part A Answer: 2. calm and dreamlike
Part B Answer: 4. "They flutter the shore in a drowsy tune," (Line 9) and 5. "Unfurl their bloom to the lightlorn sky," (Line 10)