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ENGLISH TEST
30 Minutes-50 Questions
DIRECTIONS: In the four passages that follow, certain
words and phrases are underlined and numbered. In
the right-hand column, you will find alternatives for the
underlined part. In most cases, you are to choose the
one that best expresses the idea, makes the statement
appropriate for standard written English, or is worded
most consistently with the style and tone of the passage
as a whole. If you think the original version is best,
choose "NO CHANGE." In some cases, you will find in
the right-hand column a question about the underlined
part. You are to choose the best answer to the question.
You will also find questions about a section of the pas-
sage, or about the passage as a whole. These questions
do not refer to an underlined portion of the passage, but
rather are identified by a number or numbers in a box.
For each question, choose the alternative you consider
best and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer
folder. Read each passage through once before you
begin to answer the questions that accompany it. For
many of the questions, you must read several sentences
beyond the question to determine the answer. Be sure
that you have read far enough ahead each time you
choose an alternative.
PASSAGE I
The Shop of the Masterji
When my family and I return to India
to go back there and visit our relatives, my mother
and her sister always try to spend an afternoon at
the shop of their favorite tailor. I can remember
spending countless hours at the tailor's shop located
in the neighborhood bazaar. The shop stands between a
2
stationery store and a shoemaker's shop near the center
2
of the bazaar.
2
Our most recent visit was a typical one. We met
with the masterji, or master tailor. As my mother explained
3
that we were looking for, I inspected some purple muslin
4
lying on the counter. Anticipating my request, he
immediately unfolded a few yards of the cloth. My mother
reached over my shoulder, fingered the material, and asked
to see another pattern. The masterji said that the fabric
1. A. NO CHANGE
B. by going back there and visiting
C. and go back to visit
D. to visit
2. Given that all the choices are true, which one provides
the most specific description of the shop itself?
F. NO CHANGE
G. When I walk through the doors of the shop, I am
enveloped by a variety of familiar sights and
smells.
H. Bolts of brightly colored cottons, linens, silks, and
rayons line the walls of the small shop.
J. The shop occupies a central location in the bazaar,
a type of market consisting of rows of small shops
or stalls.
3. A. NO CHANGE
B. tailor, as
C. tailor as
D. tailor and as
4. F. NO CHANGE
G. what
H. which
J.
it
PLAN-31B
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READING TEST
20 Minutes-25 Questions
DIRECTIONS: There are three passages in this test.
Each passage is followed by several questions. After
reading a passage, choose the best answer to each
question and fill in the corresponding oval on your
answer folder. You may refer to the passages as often as
necessary.
Passage I
PROSE FICTION: This passage is adapted from the novel
Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood (2000 by Shay
Youngblood).
Authors James Baldwin, Langston Hughes,
Richard Wright, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Milan
Kundera all had lived in Paris as if it had been part of
their training for greatness. When artists and writers
5 spoke of Paris in their memoirs and letters home it was
with reverence. Those who have been and those who
still dream mention the quality of the light, the joie de
vivre (enjoyment of life), the pleasures of the senses, a
kind of freedom to be anonymous and also new. I
10 wanted that kind of life even though I was a woman and
did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a
mapmaker.
I remember the long, narrow room, the low slanted
ceiling, the bare whitewashed walls, the spotted, musty
15 brown carpet. I am there again. It's as if I have some-
body else's eyes. The Paris through the round window
at the foot of my bed looks as if it were painted leaf by
leaf and stone by stone with tiny brushstrokes.
Before I left home I cut my hair close to my scalp
20 so I could be a free woman with free thoughts, open to
all possibilities. I was making a map of the world. In
ancient times maps were made to help people find food,
water, and the way back home. I needed a map to help
me find love and language, and since one didn't exist,
25 I'd have to invent one, following the trails and signs
left by other travelers. I didn't know what I wanted to
be, but I knew I wanted to be the kind of woman who
was bold, took chances, and had adventures. I wanted
to travel around the world. It was my little-girl dream.
30 For once I slept without dreaming. I woke up when
the plane touched down on the runway. As we taxied
along the runway I pulled my small French-English dic-
tionary out of my bag to look up in the phrase section
how to take a cab. Across the aisle from me was a
35 young woman who had slept through most of the flight.
She wore jeans and a black sweater and held a Museum
of Modern Art gift bag in one hand. I assumed she was
American.
"It's my first time in Paris. What's the best way to
40 get to the city? Is there a bus?"
"We can share a taxi if you like. Where are you
going?" Her French accent was a surprise.
"I don't know. I was going to ask the driver for a
hotel. I don't have much money."
45 She looked at me as if I was crazy.
"You don't know anyone?"
I shook my head.
"It will be very difficult to find something not
expensive." She said that the students would be arriving
50 for classes that week.
"Many of the hotels not too dear will be . . .
complet. You understand?"
I quickly flipped through my dictionary and
learned that the hotels would be full, no vacancies.
55 "My name is . . . Je m'appelle Eden."
"Delphine. Come," she commanded. We got up
and joined the line of passengers exiting the plane.
Charles de Gaulle airport was a maze of lines, people
talking fast, signs I couldn't understand, and every-
60 where, guards. Then I began to be a little afraid of what
I had done. I didn't know anyone, my French was prac-
tically nonexistent, and I had only enough money to
last a few weeks until I found a job. But there was no
going back. I took a deep breath and followed Delphine
65 to baggage claim.
1. Based on the passage, the narrator would most likely
rate her skill in speaking French when she first arrived
in Paris as:
A. excellent; she's easily able to express her thoughts
and feelings to Delphine in French.
B. good; she's able to share most of her thoughts and
feelings with Delphine in French.
C. adequate; with some help from a dictionary, she's
able to speak to Delphine in French most of the
time.
D. poor; even with the help of a dictionary, she's
barely able to speak to Delphine in French.
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2. In the context of the passage, the main purpose of lines
1-9 is to describe:
F. some novels that use Paris as a setting.
G. a typical day in Paris for a tourist.
H. what intimidated the narrator about Paris.
J. what drew the narrator to Paris.
3. The "other travelers" mentioned in line 26 are most
likely:
A. typical tourists in Paris.
B. the narrator and Delphine.
C. the narrator's role models.
D. people on the plane with the narrator and
Delphine.
4. Which of the following best captures the idea behind
the narrator's statement that Delphine's "French accent
was a surprise" (line 42)?
F. From the way Delphine spoke and acted, the narra-
tor had assumed that Delphine was from Europe
but not from France.
G. From Delphine's clothing and bag, the narrator
had assumed that Delphine was an American visi-
tor to Paris.
H. Because Delphine seemed to know Paris so well,
the narrator had assumed that Delphine had lived
in the city for a long time.
J. Because Delphine had been silent during most of
the flight, the narrator had assumed that Delphine
wouldn't speak to her.
5. The situation the narrator describes in the last para-
graph leaves her feeling:
A. confused, anxious, and determined.
B. annoyed, tired, and bitter.
C. surprised, amused, and curious.
D. amazed, talkative, and optimistic.
6. The narrator's statement "I am there again" (line 15)
most nearly means that she:
F. has recently returned to Paris to visit Delphine and
other friends.
G. has recently returned to Paris to inspect the room
she'd lived in years before.
H. is reliving the experience of being in Paris.
J. is reliving the experience of flying to Paris.
7. According to the passage, one reason Delphine thinks
it will be difficult for the narrator to find a suitable
hotel in Paris is that:
A. the narrator's standards for hotels are much too
high.
B. returning students will have filled up many of the
affordable hotels.
C. the narrator doesn't have enough money for even a
low-quality hotel.
D. even the expensive hotels will be full this time of
year.
8. In the passage, Eden is the name of:
F. the narrator.
G. a neighborhood in Paris.
H. one of Delphine's longtime friends.
J. a hotel in Paris.
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Passage II
SOCIAL SCIENCE: This passage is adapted from the article
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Barbara Ehrenreich (2000 by
Worth Media L.L.C.).
Sports fans don't usually attract much attention,
but in a trend almost unnoticed by sports commentators
and sociologists, fans have been expressing themselves
in more colorful ways. Soccer fans worldwide were
5 generally the trendsetters, having been the first to paint
their faces and decorate themselves head to toe in
masks, ribbons, scarves, and massive headgear. Most
spectacularly, they engage in synchronized displays
during the game.
10 In the last two decades, the trend toward
participation has spread to American sports events,
especially football, baseball, and basketball. What
motivates fans to become part of the show?
One possibility is that fans are rebelling against
15 their appointed role as spectators in sports that were
once much more participatory. Medieval European
football pitted whole villages against each other and
involved "everyone . . . male and female, adult and
child, rich and poor, laity and clergy," as sports histo-
20 rian Allen Guttmann has written. He has speculated that
today, "as sports become more commercialized and
bureaucratized, fans may feel the need to say 'We're
part of this, too."
But the specific forms of display undertaken by
25 modern fans recall a tradition more ancient than sports:
the organized festivities, both secular and religious, of
preindustrial societies throughout the world. Almost
universally, these have involved masking, costuming,
dancing, and feasting, all of which are in abundance at
30 today's sports stadiums. Face painting is a form of
masking; synchronized motions like the Wave a kind of
dance. When commentators complain that today's
demonstrative fans are turning the game into a "carni-
val," they only betray their ignorance of history: Carni-
35 val was in fact the traditional setting for medieval
sports such as wrestling, bull running, and archery.
Only remnants of the European festive tradition
survived into the modern era. Beginning in the 16th
century, authorities moved to suppress popular festivi-
40 ties on the grounds that they were disorderly, indecent,
un-Christian, and, especially as the Industrial Revolu-
tion gained ground, an extravagant waste of time. Feast
days were cancelled and raucous celebrations were
transformed into prayer vigils. Sports fell under attack.
45 The result today is a culture fairly desolate of
joyous communal ritual. Sports enjoyed a revival in the
late 19th century, but only because they were seen as a
fine source of nationalistic values; later they were
encouraged largely as a tame form of "entertainment."
50 In today's multi-billion-dollar sports industry, it no
longer takes a village to score a touchdown.
Hence, perhaps, the attempts by fans to transform
sports events into an occasion for communal festivity
where else, in a culture of cubicles and malls, can you
55 lose yourself so completely in a transient community of
like-minded others?
Unfortunately, English lacks a word, or even a
graceful phrase, for the desire for ebullient self-
expression and excited merger with the crowd. What
60 today's demonstrative fans are telling us is that it
cannot be suppressed forever.
9. Details in the passage most strongly suggest that the
author considers the actions of today's sports fans:
A. inconsequential.
B. disagreeable.
C. understandable.
D. generous.
10. Which of the following questions is NOT directly
answered by the passage?
F. Why have sociologists paid little attention to fan
behavior at today's sporting events?
G. How do some fans express themselves at current
sporting events?
H. What are some sports that were typically sched-
uled during Carnival?
J. Why have authorities in the past felt the need to
suppress participation in sporting events?
11. Which of the following activities mentioned in the pas-
sage best illustrates the type of "participation" referred
to in line 11?
A. Playing a game of football
B. Doing the Wave during a game
C. Writing professional sports commentary
D. Watching a game on television
12. According to the passage, in contrast to the profes-
sional sporting events of today, the football game
played in medieval Europe:
F. included a wider variety of people.
G. resulted in more injuries.
H. lacked a set of rules.
J. rarely occurred during holiday festivities.
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13. If the fifth paragraph (lines 37-44) were deleted, the
passage would primarily lose information about:
A. authorities expelling some fans from European
sporting events in the 16th century.
B. fans preferring to attend prayer vigils instead of
sporting events.
C. European sporting traditions continuing in today's
stadiums.
D. authorities preventing people from engaging in
popular celebrations.
14. The idea presented in the seventh paragraph (lines
52-56) can best be described as:
F. a fact confirmed by the passage's quotation from
Guttmann.
G. a fact validated by the passage's claim that billions
of dollars are spent in the sports industry.
H. an opinion held by the sports commentators
referred to in the passage.
J. a theory presented by the author to explain sports
fans' behavior.
15. In the passage, the author criticizes commentators who
complain about some sports fans because she believes
these commentators:
A. spend too much time talking about fan behavior.
B. need to focus more on the game being played and
less on the athletes.
C. don't understand the history of sporting events.
D. don't realize the athletes need fans' enthusiasm to
win the game.
16. As it is used in line 33, the word demonstrative most
nearly means:
F. rowdy and flamboyant.
G. instructive and knowledgeable.
H. affectionate and warmhearted.
J. honest and brutal.
PLAN-31 B
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SCIENCE TEST
25 Minutes-30 Questions
DIRECTIONS: There are five passages in this test. Each
passage is followed by several questions. After reading a
passage, choose the best answer to each question and
fill in the corresponding oval on your answer folder. You
may refer to the passages as often as necessary.
You are NOT permitted to use a calculator on this test.
Passage I
Three common coat colors in domestic catsblack,
orange, and tortoiseshell (a mixture of black patches of
fur and orange patches of fur)are affected by Gene B.
Gene B has 2 alleles. Allele B results in orange fur, and
Allele b results in black fur. A researcher observed that
coat color is not inherited in the pattern that would be
expected if Gene B were located on an autosomal chromo-
some (any chromosome other than X or Y). To determine
how coat color is inherited in cats, the researcher con-
ducted 2 crosses.
Cross 1
An orange male cat and a black female cat were mated
multiple times to produce 29 offspring. Table 1 shows the
phenotype and gender of the resulting offspring.
Table 1
Coat color Male Female
phenotype offspring offspring
Orange 0 0
Black 14 0
Tortoiseshell 0 15
Cross 2
A tortoiseshell female offspring from Cross 1 and a
black male cat were mated multiple times to produce
60 offspring. Table 2 shows the number of male and female
offspring with each coat color, and the percent of offspring
with each coat color.
Table 2
Coat color
phenotype
Male
offspring
Female
offspring
Percent of
offspring
Orange
Black
Tortoiseshell
12
18
0
0
15
15
20
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The researcher concluded that Gene B is located on
the X chromosome (it is sex-linked) and determined the
genotype(s) responsible for each coat color (see Table 3).
Table 3
Coat color Genotype(s)
Orange
Black
Tortoiseshell
XBXB or XB Y
XbXb or XbY
XBXb
Note: X indicates the X chromosome
and Y indicates the Y chromosome.
1. Suppose a breeder wanted to produce only black cats.
Based on Table 3, which of the crosses listed below
would produce only black cats?
I. XbY
x
XBXB
II. XbY x XbXb
III. XBY
x
XBXb
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II only
D. I and III only
2. Based on Table 1, the percent of offspring produced in
Cross 1 that were black was closest to which of the
following?
F. 0%
G. 15%
H. 50%
J. 100%
PLAN-31B
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Figures adapted from Masamichi Nakajima and Nobuhiko
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8. Prior to the experiment, the researcher proposed that
on Day 180, the Strain A fish would be larger than the
Strain B fish. This proposal is an example of which of
the following?
F. A hypothesis
G. A treatment
H. A variable
J. A control
9. Which of the following best represents the experimen-
tal question investigated in the experiment?
A. How did water temperature affect growth?
B. Was body size related to food intake?
C. At what age were the females able to reproduce?
D. Did the 2 strains have different growth rates?
10. Based on Figure 2, which of the following measure-
ments was recorded for at least one of the Strain A
females on Day 180 ?
F. 15 mm
G. 21 mm
H. 27 mm
J. 33 mm
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16. Based on Table 1, an atom of 10 contains how many
protons?
F. 7
G. 8
H. 15
J. 23
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D. 80%
18. A sample is initially composed of an isotope of Ele-
ment X. As the isotope of Element X undergoes beta
decay, Element Y is produced. Once produced, Ele-
ment Y does not disappear. Based on Figures 1 and 2,
which of the following graphs best represents how the
percentages of the isotopes of Elements X and Y in the
sample will change over time?
17. Half-life is the time it takes for 50% of the atoms in a
sample of a radioactive isotope to decay. According to
Figure 1, the half-life of 10 is closest to which of the
following?
A. 0.5 sec
B. 1.0 sec
C. 120 sec
D. 280 sec
19. Each time an atom undergoes the particular type of
beta decay that is undergone by the isotopes listed in
Table 1, the number of protons in the atom will:
A. increase by 1.
B. decrease by 1.
C. decrease by 2.
D. remain the same.
PLAN-31B
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