1995-2000 Reading Full Test phần 8 ppsx

... remarkably after 184 0, increasing from 11 percent that year to 28 percent by 188 0 and to 46 percent by 1900. A country with only 6 cities boasting a population of more than 8, 000 in 180 0 had become ... minds at 186 the golden days of the American landscape movement, which began around 185 0 and lasted until the late 186 0's, the Hudson River school seems to have emerged in t...

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... goods and condensed milk became more common during the 186 0's, but supplies remained low because cans had to be made by hand. By 188 0, however, inventors had fashioned 95 several birds ... in line 18 refers to (A) bills (B) species (C) seeds (D) cones 27. The word "deft" in line 19 is closest in meaning to (A) hungry (B) skilled (C) tired (D) pleasant 28. The...

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... as 50,000 inhabitants, but by 182 0 it had a city of more than 100,000 people, and by 188 0 it had recorded a city of over one million. It was not until after 182 3, after the mechanization of ... CCDDB BDACA BACDA BACCD 19 98 - 01 BCCAB CCABB AADCC ACBDA ACDBB BCABC BDCCA DBBCA BDADC ADBAA 19 98- 05 ACBDC CBBDD ACACA CBDBD BDDCC DACAA DCBBD ABDAA DACCB BDDBA 19 98- 08 BDDCC ABABD D...

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... stove". By the time the last fires burned out at Hopewell ironworks in 188 3, the community had produced some 80 ,000 cast-iron stoves. 43. The word "implications" in line 2 is ... 185 6-the book was a considerable improvement over the only other manual of instruction existing at the time, Elements of Graphic Art, by Archibald Roberson, published in 180 2 and by the 185...

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... building lot of the 187 0's and 188 0's looked MOST like which of the following? 37. It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 187 0's and 188 0's had all of ... Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the late 187 0's and early 188 0's, was that they were confined 164 to the typical New York building l...

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... Between 188 2 and 188 6 alone, the price of daily newspapers dropped from four cents a copy to one cent, made possible in part by a great increase in demand. Furthermore, the introduction in 189 0 ... increase in the number of people reading newspapers (D) a reduction in the cost of advertising 4. Why was there a drop in the price of daily newspapers between 188 2 and 188 6 ? (A) There...

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... developments in the Earth's history (D) the latest innovations in geological measurement Questions 19- 28 In the United States in the early 180 0's, individual state governments had more ... hands-on, personal execution of art and an interaction with the medium. Even as early as the 188 0's and 189 0's, nonconformist European artists were attempting direct carving....

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... -every thousand women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 1 18 live children in 1920, 89 .2 in 1930, 75 .8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With the growing prosperity brought on by the Second World ... a wilderness of woods and swamps to penetrate. The Erie Canal begun in 181 7 and completed in 182 5, was by far the greatest construction job that Americans had ever undertaken. It...

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... fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War ( 186 0- 186 5), as ice used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 188 0, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, ... job that might distract). In 1 983 , the first Strauss Livings of $35,000 a year went to short-story writer Raymond Carver and novelist-essayist Cynthia Ozick. By 1 988 , the fund had gro...

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