Listening Set 1

Time: 10 minutes
Listen to a short conversation between two people. Choose the best answer to each question.
1. Why does the man go to see the registrar?
(A) To find out why he is not on the list of graduating students
(B) To explain why he has not fulfilled his graduation requirements
(C) To find out the exact requirements for graduation
(D) To submit a document required for graduation
2. According to the registrar, what step is currently taken to ensure that students fulfill their graduation
requirements?
(A) Academic records are regularly checked by the registrars office.
(B) Students meet with a department chairperson to plan their course work.
(C) Students receive letters listing the courses that they still need to take.
(D) Warning letters are sent to students who have fallen behind in their course work.
3. Why does the man mention his classmates?
(A) To explain how he obtained information about field research
(B) To point out that many students like to do field research
(C) To show that it is difficult to get intermediate-level credits
(D) To emphasize his motivation to do field research in two of his courses
4. Why does the registrar tell the man to contact his chairperson immediately?
(A) A deadline has already passed.
(B) The man has a limited time to resolve his problem.
(C) The man first needs to find out if the chairperson will help him.
(D) Issuing a new grade may take longer than expected.

Listening Set 2
Time: 10 minutes
Listen to part of a lecture in a history class. Choose the best answer to each question.
5. What is the lecture mainly about?
(A) Political events that led to the invention of eyeglasses
(B) A comparison of attitudes toward vision correction in Europe and China
(C) The relationship between the printing press and literacy
(D) An overview of vision correction over time

6. According to the professor, what was an advantage of using clear glass instead of quartz to make
reading stones?
(A) Clear glass was easier to find than quartz.
(B) Clear glass was easier to cut to the appropriate size.
(C) Clear glass magnified the letters more than quartz did.
(D) Clear glass was less expensive than quartz.
7. What does the professor imply about the invention of eyeglasses?
(A) Its historical records are more detailed than those of other inventions.
(B) It had little impact on social attitudes toward vision correction.
(C) Its occurrence in different places at approximately the same time is not unusual.
(D) It contributed to a substantial increase in the number of literate people.
8. Which sentence best describes eyeglasses before the invention of the printing press?
(A) They were available to everyone.
(B) They were a symbol of wealth and wisdom.
(C) They could not correct vision accurately.
(D) They could be bought only from traveling peddlers.

Listening Set 3
Time: 10 minutes
Listen to part of a lecture in an animal behavior class. Choose the best answer to each question.
9. What is the main purpose of the lecture?
(A) To compare active habitat selection with passive habitat selection
(B) To show that most habitat preferences in animals are learned
(C) To compare the habitat requirements of several bird species
(D) To examine the consequences of habitat selection by animals
10. What element of the plovers habitat in California was threatened?
(A) The availability of food
(B) The availability of water
(C) The safety of nests from human activity
(D) The protection of nests from predatory birds
11. What does the professor illustrate with the example of the blue warbler?
(A) The relationship between human activity and habitat loss
(B) The relationship between habitat and reproductive success
(C) The advantages of habitats with low vegetation density
(D) The reproductive advantage that young warblers have over older warblers
12. Why does the professor mention the population density of blackcaps in two different habitats?
(A) To explain the similar reproductive rates in the two habitats
(B) To explain the relation between a species population density and its nesting behavior
(C) To illustrate the advantages of a preferred habitat over a secondary habitat
(D) To illustrate the possible impact of making a poor habitat selection

13. According to the professor, why did some blackcaps choose a secondary habitat?
(A) They were following a moving food supply.
(B) Their preferred habitat was taken over by another bird species.
(C) Their nesting sites were disturbed by human activity.
(D) Their preferred habitat became too competitive.

Reading Set 1
Time: 30 minutes
Read the passage. Then answer the questions.

14. The word objective in the passage is closest in meaning to

(A) achievement
(B) requirement
(C) purpose
(D) feature
15. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as a change that occurred in the fauna of the
Mediterranean?
(A) Most invertebrate species disappeared during a wave of extinctions.
(B) A few hardy species wiped out many of the Mediterraneans invertebrates.
(C) Some invertebrates migrated to the Atlantic Ocean.
(D) New species of fauna populated the Mediterranean when the old migrants returned.
16. What does the author imply by saying Not a single pebble was found that might have indicated that
the pebbles came from the nearby continent?
(A) The most obvious explanation for the origin of the pebbles was not supported by the evidence.
(B) The geologists did not find as many pebbles as they expected.
(C) The geologists were looking for a particular kind of pebble.
(D) The different pebbles could not have come from only one source.
17. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the solid gypsum layer?
(A) It did not contain any marine fossils.
(B) It had formed in open-ocean conditions.
(C) It had once been soft, deep-sea mud.
(D) It contained sediment from nearby deserts.

18. What is the main purpose of paragraph 3?

(A) To describe the physical evidence collected by Hsu and Ryan
(B) To explain why some of the questions posed earlier in the passage could not be answered by the
findings of the Glomar Challenger
(C) To evaluate techniques used by Hsu and Ryan to explore the sea floor
(D) To describe the most difficult problems faced by the Glomar Challenger expedition
19. According to paragraph 4, which of the following was responsible for the evaporation of the
Mediterraneans waters?
(A) The movements of Earths crust
(B) The accumulation of sediment layers
(C) Changes in the water level of the Atlantic Ocean
(D) Changes in Earths temperature
20. The word scores in the passage is closest in meaning to
(A) members
(B) large numbers
(C) populations
(D) different types
21. According to paragraph 4, what caused most invertebrate species in the Mediterranean to become
extinct?
(A) The evaporation of chemicals necessary for their survival
(B) Crustal movements that connected the Mediterranean to the saltier Atlantic
(C) The migration of new species through the narrow straits
(D) Their inability to tolerate the increasing salt content of the Mediterranean
22. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in
paragraph 4? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
(A) The Strait of Gibraltar reopened when the Mediterranean and the Atlantic became connected and the
cascades of water from one sea to the other caused crustal adjustments and faulting.
(B) The Mediterranean was dramatically refilled by water from the Atlantic when crustal adjustments and
faulting opened the Strait of Gibraltar, the place where the two seas are joined.
(C) The cascades of water from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean were not as spectacular as the crustal
adjustments and faulting that occurred when the Strait of Gibraltar was connected to those seas.
(D) As a result of crustal adjustments and faulting and the creation of the Strait of Gibraltar, the
Atlantic and Mediterranean were connected and became a single sea with spectacular cascades of water
between them.
23. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 4 about the salt domes in the Mediterranean?
(A) They began as layers of oceanic ooze.
(B) They contain large quantities of calcium sulfate.
(C) They were destroyed when the basin refilled with water.
(D) They formed after the Mediterranean basin refilled with water.

24. The word Turbulent in the passage is closest in meaning to

(A) fresh
(B) deep
(C) violent
(D) temperate
25. In paragraph 2 of the passage, there is a missing sentence. The paragraph is repeated below and
shows four letters (A, B, C, and D) that indicate where the following sentence could be added.
Thus, scientists had information about the shape of the domes but not about their chemical
composition and origin.
Where would the sentence best fit?
(A) Another task for the Glomar Challengers scientists was to try to determine the origin of the domelike
masses buried deep beneath the Mediterranean seafloor. (B) These structures had been detected years
earlier by echo-sounding instruments, but they had never been penetrated in the course of drilling. (C)
Were they salt domes such as are common along the United States Gulf Coast, and if so, why should
there have been so much solid crystalline salt beneath the floor of the Mediterranean? (D)
(A) Option A
(B) Option B
(C) Option C
(D) Option D

Reading Set 2
Time: 30 minutes

26. The word massive in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to

(A) ancient
(B) carefully planned
(C) very large
(D) carefully protected

27. In paragraph 1, each of the following is mentioned as a feature of the city of Teotihuacn between
A.D. 150 and 700 EXCEPT
(A) regularly arranged streets
(B) several administrative centers spread across the city
(C) many manufacturing workshops
(D) apartment complexes
28. The word pinpoint in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
(A) identify precisely
(B) make an argument for
(C) describe
(D) understand
29. The word ingenuity in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
(A) ambition
(B) sincerity
(C) faith
(D) cleverness
30. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 2 as a main factor in the development of
Teotihuacn?
(A) The presence of obsidian in the Teotihuacn Valley
(B) The potential for extensive irrigation of Teotihuacn Valley lands
(C) A long period of volcanic inactivity in the Teotihuacn Valley
(D) Teotihuacns location on a natural trade route
31. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraphs 2 and 3 about the volcanic eruptions of the
late first millennium B.C.?
(A) They were more frequent than historians once thought.
(B) They may have done more damage to Teotihuacn than to neighboring centers.
(C) They may have played a major role in the rise of Teotihuacn.
(D) They increased the need for extensive irrigation in the Teotihuacn Valley.
32. What can be inferred from paragraph 3 about Cuicuilco prior to 200 B.C.?
(A) It was a fairly small city until that date.
(B) It was located outside the Valley of Mexico.
(C) It emerged rapidly as an economical and political center.
(D) Its economy relied heavily on agriculture.
33. The word predominant in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) most aggressive
(B) most productive
(C) principal
(D) earliest
34. Which of the following allowed Teotihuacn to have a competitive edge over its neighbors?
(A) A well-exploited and readily available commodity
(B) The presence of a highly stable elite class
(C) Knowledge derived directly from the Olmecs about the art of toolmaking

(D) Scarce natural resources in nearby areas such as those located in what are now the Guatemalan and
Mexican highlands
35. According to paragraph 4, what has recent research on obsidian tools found at Olmec sites shown?
(A) Obsidians value was understood only when Teotihuacn became an important city.
(B) The residents of Teotihuacn were sophisticated toolmakers.
(C) The residents of Teotihuacn traded obsidian with the Olmecs as early as 400 B.C.
(D) Some of the obsidian used by the Olmecs came from the area around Teotihuacn.

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