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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

10. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of this passage?
_____ (A) If a major earthquake strikes Los Angeles, it will probably damage San Francisco as
well.
_____ (B) The New Madrid earthquake of 1811 was felt in Boston and Toronto.
_____ (C) The geology of the western United States is much more complex than that of the
East.
_____ (D). Earthquakes travel farther in the East than in the West.

There has never been an adult scientist who has been half as curious as any child between the
ages of four months and four years. Adults sometimes mistake this superb curiosity about everything
as a lack of ability to concentrate. The truth is that children begin to learn at birth, and by the time
they begin formal schooling at the age of 5 or 6, they have already absorbed a fantastic amount of
information, perhaps more, fact for fact, than they will learn for rest of their lives. Adults can
multiply by many times the knowledge children absorb if they appreciate this curiosity while
simultaneously encouraging the children to learn.
11. With which of the following statements would the author probably agree?
_____ (A) Children lack the ability to concentrate.
_____ (B) Young children have a much greater curiosity than adult scientists do.
_____ (C) The first few years of school are the most important ones for most children.
_____ (D) Adults can utilize children’s intense curiosity to help children learn more.
12. The paragraph following this one most likely deals with
_____ (A) Way in which adults can help children learn by stimulating their curiosity.
_____ (B) The learning habits of children over the age of four.
_____ (C) The methods adult scientists use to study the curiosity of young children.
_____ (D) Way in which adults’ can become as curious as children about their environment.

Settlement houses were institutions established to improve living conditions in poor city
neighborhoods in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They offered health, educational, recreational, and
cultural activities. The first to open in the United States was University Settlement in New York City.
It was established by the social reformer Stanton Coin in 1886. The most famous example was Hull
House, established by the famous reformer young college graduates who were eager to improve the
condition of the poor.
13. The passage mainly discusses
_____ (A) U.S. cities in the late nineteenth century
_____ (B) The idealism of college graduates
_____ (C) Settlement houses in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
_____ (D) The life of several American social reformers

The dancer Isadora Duncan was a daring, dynamic innovator in dance. While she was very
successful in teaching her highly personal style of dance to others, she taught a generation of
dancers to trust their own forms of expression. She rebelled against the rigid, formal style of classical
ballet. Inspired by the art of Greece, she usually danced barefoot in a loose, flowing Greek tunic. She
found further inspiration in nature and used dance movements to mirror the waves of the sea and
passing clouds.

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