1. Once so ?uid, the political situation had, two years after the declaration of the Republic, _____ so much that further change seemed inconceivable.
A. revitalized B. warmed C. intensi?ed D. clotted
E. destabilized
2. Paul Robeson. Jr. wrote that his father was a ?esh-and-blood artist whose accomplishments made him susceptible to hagiographic treatment by potential biographers. Robeson’s achievements were real, and there was no need for _____.
A. disclosure B. hyperbole C. retraction D. muckraking E. reticence
3. The scientists who ?rst proposed that Moon’s craters had resulted from impacts (i)_____: almost all of these craters were circular, and yet most impactors in heliocentric orbit would have an oblique path and hence would be expected to form (ii)_____ craters.
4. When the United States government created the Post Of?ce at the founding of the republic, it didn’t invite rival postal ?rms to compete; in fact, it created a monopoly. That monopoly, however, was (i)_____ free expression because of policies Congress adopted, which (ii)_____ the circulation of newspapers irrespective of their viewpoint and spread postal service throughout the country.
5. The cowbird can seem a rather comical creature with a slow, awkward walk and often upraised tail. Less (i)_____ is the cowbirds’ habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. The (ii)_____ nesters will usually accept the cowbird egg and raise the baby cowbird as their own. Unfortunately, cowbird eggs hatch sooner than the eggs of other species and the young cowbirds (iii)_____, using their size to their advantage in getting more food from the parents.
6. The scientist (i)_____ that the now familiar term “global warming” is (ii)_____, arguing that the atmospheric buildup of long-lived greenhouse gases is setting in motion centuries of shifts in climate patterns, coastlines, water resources, and ecosystems—hardly (iii)_____ one would describe with a gentle word like “warming”.
The physicist Wallace Sabine pioneered the scientific study of architectural acoustics when he was asked in 1895 to fix a university lecture hall in which the echo of a speaker’s words rendered them unintelligible. He found that the length of time it takes a sound’s echo to decay is determined by the absorption of the sound’s original energy by surrounding material. By hanging panels of sound-absorbing felt on the walls, Sabine reduced the echo enough to make the hall usable. And the data he compiled yielded a mathematical formula for the relationship between a room’s echo duration, its quantity and quality of sound-absorbing materials, and its spatial volume.
7. Which of the following can be inferred about the ‘university lecture hall’ mentioned in the passage? A. It was not originally designed to be used for lecture.
B. It was more suitable for listening to music than for listening to the spoken word. C. Its walls had surfaces made of material with very poor sound-absorbing properties. D. Its poor acoustics resulted from its being designed to accommodate a large audience.
E. It was constructed at a time when sound-absorbing building materials were not readily available.
8. The passage suggests that Sabine’s work made which of the following possible for the first time? A. to make a room soundproof
B. to build an auditorium out of sound-absorbing materials
C. to construct an enclosed space in which sound would not echo
D. to design a building to meet predetermined specifications with regard to echo duration E. to render any large room usable for public lectures and performances
Received feminist wisdom has conceived of history as a male enclave devoid of woman subjects and practitioners, particularly before the twentieth century. As Ann For Freedom put it in 1972, from Herodout’s to Will Durant’s histories, the main characters, the main viewpoints and interests, have all been male. Feminist accounts of the 1970s and 1980s viewed historiography (the writing of history) as overwhelmingly his, coining the term herstory and presenting it as a compensatory feminist practice. Herstory designated women’s place at the center of an alternative narrative of past events. Rosalind Miles’s description restates the popular view: Women’s history by contrast has only just begun to invent itself. Males gained entry to the business of recording, defining and interpreting events in the third millennium B.C.; for women, this process did not even begin until the nineteenth century. The herstorical method provided a means for feminist historians to explore materials by and about women that had previously been neglected or ignored. Herstory promoted curricular transformation in schools and was used as a slogan on T-shirts, pencils, and buttons. Exposing historians tacit and intentional sexism, herstorians set out to correct the record–to show that women had held up half the historical sky.
Despite the great scholarly gains made behind the rallying cry, herstory’s popular myth–particularly about the lack of women who have recorded history–require revision. Herstory may accurately describe feminists efforts to construct female- centered accounts of the past, but the term inadvertently blinds us to women’s important contributions to historical discourse before the nineteenth century. Historiography has not been an entirely male preserve, though feminists are justified in faulting its long-standing masculine contours. In fact, criticism of historiography’s sexism is not of recent origin. Early eighteenth-century feminist Mary Astell protested that the Men being the Historians, they seldom condescend to record the great and good actions of Women. Astell, like those who echoed her sentiments two and a half centuries later, must be credited for admirable zeal in setting out to right scholarly wrongs, but her supposition that historians were only male is inaccurate. Her perception is especially strange because she herself wrote a historical work, An Impartial Enquiry into the Cause of Rebellion and Civil War (1704). Astell’s judgment is at the same time understandable, given that much historical writing by women of the late seventeenth century was not published until the nineteenth century. Despite their courage and their rightful anger, Astell and her descendants overlooked early modern woman writer’s contributions to historiography.
9. It can be inferred that Rosalind Miles refers to the third millennium B.C. primarily in order to A. present an overview of what the practice of history once entailed
B. suggest that the origins of historical study are much earlier than had been previously though C. suggest why the third millennium B.C. has received so much attention from historians
D. establish a contrast between men and women in terms of how long they have been recording history
10 It can be inferred from the passage that the term herstory
11. Mary Astell is discussed by the author as an example of an eighteenth-century feminist historian\A. who was representative of the intellectual interests of the woman historians of her time
C. who shared with modern herstorian’s a mistaken assumption regarding the writing of history D. whose major work aroused much controversy at the time of its publication
E. whose major work still has not received the attention from scholars that it deserves
12. The author implies which of the following about Astell’s supposition?
A. It is likely to have arisen because of Astell’s unawareness of much of the historical work written by women.\
B. It was one that Astell reconsidered after she wrote her own historical work. C. It was one that was not shared by other feminist historians of Astell’s time. D. It was one that inspired Astell to write her own historical work. E. It directly contradicts one of the basic claims of herstory.
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