DIRECTIONS: Read and answer each of the following questions. You will be
asked to find the best possible answer to the questions given in the passage .

5 Sample Questions

Which one do you like?Nancy Langhorne was born in the United States in 1879. She moved to England, married discount Astor, and became the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons, a position she held from 1919 to 1945.
As Lady Astor, her politics were often questionable—she was among those who sought to appease the
Fascists in the 1930s—but her door-opening role for women in politics made her an
important figure. The following comments are excerpted from a 1922 address at Town Hall in
New York City.
My entrance into the House of Commonswas  not, as some thought, in the nature of
a revolution. It was an evolution. My husband was the one who started me off on
this downward path—from the fireside to public life. If I have helped the cause of
women, he is the one to thank, not me.
A woman in the House of Commons! It was almost enough to have broken up the
House. I don’t blame them—it was equally hard on the woman as it was on them. Pioneers
may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. I must say
for the House of Commons, they bore theirshock with dauntless decency. No body
of men could have been kinder and fairer to a “pirate” than they were. When you
hear people over here trying to run down England, please remember that England
was the first large country to give the vote to women and that the men of England
welcomed an American-born woman in the House with a fairness and a justice
which, at least, this woman never will
forget....
Now, why are we in politics? What is it all about? Something much bigger than
ourselves. Schopenhauer was wrong in Directions: Each reading passage below is followed by a set of questions.nearly everything he wrote about women—and he wrote a lot—but he was
right in one thing. He said, in speaking of women, “the race is to her more than the
individual,” and I believe that it is true.
I feel somehow we do care about the race as a whole, our very nature makes us take
a forward vision; there is no reason why women should look back—mercifully we
have no political past; we have all the mistakes of sex legislation with its appalling
failures to guide us.
We should know what to avoid, it is no use blaming the men—we made them
what they are—and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves—the makers of
men—a little more responsible in the future.
We realize that no one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had a one-sided government.
Don’t let us make the mistake of ever allowing that to happen again.I can conceive of nothing worse than a
man-governed world except a woman governed world—but I can see the combination of the two going forward and making civilization more worthy of the name of civilization based on Christianity,
not force.
A civilization based on justice and mercy. I feel men have a greater sense of justice and we of mercy.
They must borrow our mercy and we must use their justice. We are new brooms; let us
see that we sweep the right rooms.
Read the passage and answer the accompanying questions, basing your answers on what is stated or implied in the passage.
He said, in speaking of women, “the race is to her more than the individual,” and I believe that it is true.
I feel somehow we do care about the race as a whole, our very nature makes us take a forward vision; there is no reason why women should look back—mercifully we have no political past; we have all the mistakes
of sex legislation with its appalling failures to guide us.
We should know what to avoid, it is no use blaming the men—we made them what they are—and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves—the makers of men—a little more responsible in the future.
We realize that no one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had a one-sided government.
Don’t let us make the mistake of ever allowing that to happen again.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world except a womangoverned
world—but I can see the combination of the two going forward and making civilization more worthy of the
name of civilization based on Christianity,not force.
A civilization based on justice and mercy. I feel men have a greater sense of justice and we of mercy.
They must borrow our mercy and we must use their justice. We are new brooms; let us see that we sweep the right rooms.

 According to Lady Astor, the reaction of the men in the House of Commons to her
being seated was one of 
 

  • A. surprise and horror
  • B. polite consternation
  • C. resigned distaste
  • D. witticisms and good humor

The following excerpt, from Mark Twain’s 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, details Tom’s first encounter with a new neighbour.

                                               
                               
                                   
                         

 How can the perspective of the narrator best be described? 

  • A. from Tom Sawyer’s point of view
  • B. from an all-knowing perspective
  • C. from the girl’s point of view
  • D. from the perspective of the townspeople who witness Tom’s adventures



                     
                          



Which of the following best tells what this passage is about?
 

  • A. the contrast between chemistry and physics
  • B. the contributions of Amedeo Avogadro to chemistry
  • C. the importance of the interdependence of chemistry and physics
  • D. a summary of some key innovations in chemistry in the late 1700s

This excerpt from “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” written in 1856, describes the poet Walt Whitman’s experience of riding the ferry from Manhattan to Brooklyn in the half hour before sunset.




What is the effect of mentioning “the men and women generations after me” (lines 6–7)?

  • A. Whitman imagines how different it will be for his descendants to look at the sun as they cross the river.
  • B. Whitman fathoms himself as just one small person among millions more who will experience the crossing.
  • C. Whitman invites the modern-day reader to think of a time he or she rode on a ferry.
  • D. Whitman offers a thought on the ever-growing population of New York City.

Which one do you like?Nancy Langhorne was born in the United States in 1879. She moved to England, married discount Astor, and became the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons, a position she held from 1919 to 1945.
As Lady Astor, her politics were often questionable—she was among those who sought to appease the
Fascists in the 1930s—but her door-opening role for women in politics made her an
important figure. The following comments are excerpted from a 1922 address at Town Hall in
New York City.
My entrance into the House of Commonswas  not, as some thought, in the nature of
a revolution. It was an evolution. My husband was the one who started me off on
this downward path—from the fireside to public life. If I have helped the cause of
women, he is the one to thank, not me.
A woman in the House of Commons! It was almost enough to have broken up the
House. I don’t blame them—it was equally hard on the woman as it was on them. Pioneers
may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. I must say
for the House of Commons, they bore theirshock with dauntless decency. No body
of men could have been kinder and fairer to a “pirate” than they were. When you
hear people over here trying to run down England, please remember that England
was the first large country to give the vote to women and that the men of England
welcomed an American-born woman in the House with a fairness and a justice
which, at least, this woman never will
forget....
Now, why are we in politics? What is it all about? Something much bigger than
ourselves. Schopenhauer was wrong in Directions: Each reading passage below is followed by a set of questions.nearly everything he wrote about women—and he wrote a lot—but he was
right in one thing. He said, in speaking of women, “the race is to her more than the
individual,” and I believe that it is true.
I feel somehow we do care about the race as a whole, our very nature makes us take
a forward vision; there is no reason why women should look back—mercifully we
have no political past; we have all the mistakes of sex legislation with its appalling
failures to guide us.
We should know what to avoid, it is no use blaming the men—we made them
what they are—and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves—the makers of
men—a little more responsible in the future.
We realize that no one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had a one-sided government.
Don’t let us make the mistake of ever allowing that to happen again.I can conceive of nothing worse than a
man-governed world except a woman governed world—but I can see the combination of the two going forward and making civilization more worthy of the name of civilization based on Christianity,
not force.
A civilization based on justice and mercy. I feel men have a greater sense of justice and we of mercy.
They must borrow our mercy and we must use their justice. We are new brooms; let us
see that we sweep the right rooms.
Read the passage and answer the accompanying questions, basing your answers on what is stated or implied in the passage.
He said, in speaking of women, “the race is to her more than the individual,” and I believe that it is true.
I feel somehow we do care about the race as a whole, our very nature makes us take a forward vision; there is no reason why women should look back—mercifully we have no political past; we have all the mistakes
of sex legislation with its appalling failures to guide us.
We should know what to avoid, it is no use blaming the men—we made them what they are—and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves—the makers of men—a little more responsible in the future.
We realize that no one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had a one-sided government.
Don’t let us make the mistake of ever allowing that to happen again.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world except a womangoverned
world—but I can see the combination of the two going forward and making civilization more worthy of the
name of civilization based on Christianity,not force.
A civilization based on justice and mercy. I feel men have a greater sense of justice and we of mercy.
They must borrow our mercy and we must use their justice. We are new brooms; let us see that we sweep the right rooms.


Lady Astor urges Americans to give
England its due for

  • A. having a bicameral legislature
  • B. its tolerance toward women in politics
  • C. allowing an American into their Parliament
  • D. both B and C

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