PROJECT REACH – ENGLISH PRE-TEST b.

Arrested
c. Blamed
1. I come __________ Italy d. Accused
a. To 9. I went to the bookshop _________
b. From ‘Harry Potter’
c. At a. For buying
d. In b. To buy
2. Choose which sentence is constructed c. To buying
best? d. For to buy
a. I is a cold 10. He is interested ________ learning
b. I am cold Romanian
c. I has cold a. In
d. I have cold b. On
3. Whose key is that? c. To
a. It’s of Cate d. For
b. It’s Cate’s 11. The doctor gave me a ______ for some
c. It’s Cate medicine last week.
d. It’s to Cate a. Note
4. I am fed up ____________ this exercise b. Recipe
a. To do c. Prescription
b. To doing d. Receipt
c. With doing 12. What _____________ next weekend?
d. For doing a. Do you do
5. By this time next year, I _________ all b. Are you doing
my exams c. Will you do
a. Will take d. Did you do
b. Will have taken 13. Why are you so hungry?
c. Have taken Oh, I _________ breakfast this morning
d. Take a. Didn’t have
6. They have put speed bumps on the b. Don’t have
road to _________ accidents c. Hadn’t
a. Prohibit d. Haven’t
b. Prevent 14. My mother _________ the carpet when
c. Avoid I got home yesterday afternoon
d. Forbid a. Is hoovering
7. You ____________________ to use b. Was hoovering
your mobile so theres no point in c. Were hoovering
leaving it on d. Has been hoovering
a. Are allowed 15. Drive ________ otherwise you’ll have
b. Have an accident
c. Aren’t allowed a. More careful
d. Can’t b. Less carefully
8. She has been ________ of murdering c. More carefully
her husband d. Much more careful
a. Charged
READING COMPREHENSION for eleven hundred dollars . . .

Maud Martha and New York

The name “New York” glittered in front of
her like the silver in the shops on Michigan
1. What does the author suggest about Maud
Boulevard. It Martha in this paragraph?

was silver, and it was solid, and it was remote: A. She works on Michigan Boulevard.
B. She enjoys shopping for silver.
it was behind glass, it was behind bright glass C. She is accustomed to the New York
lifestyle.
like the silver in shops. It was not for her. Yet.!
D. She is fascinated by the idea of New York.
When she was out walking, and with
grating iron swish a train whipped by, off, 2. The word “swish” (underlined portion)
above, its passengers is an example of what literary device?
2
A. Alliteration
were always, for her comfort, New York-bound. B. Hyperbole
C. Onomatopoeia
D. Simile
She sat inside with them. She leaned back in
3
3. Which term best describes the underlined
the plush. She sped, past farms, through tiny portion?
3
A. Literal
towns, where people slept, kissed,
B. Figurative
quarreled, ate midnight snacks; C. Practical
D. Sarcastic
unfortunate people who were not New
York-bound and never would be.
Maud Martha loved it when her
magazines said “New York,” described
“good” objects there,
wonderful people there, recalled fine talk, the
bristling or the creamy or the tactfully
shimmering ways of life. They showed pictures
of rooms with wood paneling, softly glowing,
touched up by the compliment of a spot of
auburn here, the low burn of a rare binding
Her whole body became a hunger, she would
there. There were ferns in these rooms, and
pore over these pages. The clothes interested
Chinese boxes; bits of dreamlike crystal; a 4

taste of leather. In the advertisement pages, her, too; especially did she care for the pictures

you saw where you could buy six Italian plates of women wearing carelessly, as if they
were rags, dresses that were plain but sharpened, had fur at the base. The people
drank
whose prices were not. And the foolish 6

food (her mother’s description) enjoyed by and nibbled, while they discussed issues of the
day.
New Yorkers fascinated her. They paid
ten dollars for an eight-ounce jar of Russian
caviar; they ate things called anchovies, and 4. Which word or phrase is closest in
meaning to “pore over” (underlined
capers. . .. portion) as used in the passage?
She bought the New York papers A. Skim
B. Consider
downtown, read of the concerts and plays,
C. Write on
studied the book reviews, was intent over the D. Concentrate on

announcements of auctions. She was on Fifth

Avenue whenever she wanted to be, and she it 5. What aspect of Maud Martha does this
paragraph emphasize?
was who rolled up, silky or furry, in the taxi,
A. Her distaste for life in the city
was assisted out, and stood, her next step
B. Her interest in cultural events
nebulous, before the theaters of the thousand C. Her fantasies about New York
D. Her memories of New York
lights, before velvet-lined impossible shops;
she it was. %
New York, for Maud Martha, was a 6. What literary device does the author use
in the underlined portion?
symbol. Her idea of it stood for what she
A. Metaphor
felt life ought to be. B. Personification
C. Simile
Jeweled. Polished. Smiling. Poised. Calmly D. Synecdoche
rushing! Straight up and down, yet graceful
enough.
She thought of them drinking coffee
there— or tea, as in England. Lustrous
people glided over
perfect floors, correctly smiling. Their host or
hostess poured, smiling too, nodding quickly Then they went home, quietly, elegantly. They
retired
to this one and that one, inquiring gently
to homes not one whit less solid or
whether it should be sugar, or cream, or both, embroidered than the home of their host or
hostess. (8)
or neither. All was very gentle.
The voices, no matter how they rose, or even
6 What she wanted to dream, and
dreamed, was her affair.
She was eighteen years old, and the
7. Which word would be the best replacement
world waited. To caress her.
for “embroidered” (underlined portion) as
used in the passage?
Adapted from Gwendolyn Brooks, “Maud Martha and New York.” ©1953
by Gwendolyn Brooks. A. Decorated
B. Dismal
C. Simple
D. Small

8. What is true of all the people mentioned

in this paragraph?
A. They are well educated.
B. They speak very softly.
C. They attend cultural events.
D. They have good manners.

9. In the passage, what do Maud Martha’s

feelings about New York reveal?
A. Her desire for higher social status
B. Her desire for political power
C. Her preference for rural life
D. Her preference for traveling by train
Cruising with the Beach Boys 10. What is most surprising to the speaker
in this stanza?
So strange to hear that song again
A. That he is away on a business trip
tonight Travelling on business in a rented B. That he is somewhere he has never
car Miles from anywhere I’ve been been before
C. That he remembers the words to the song
before. D. That the song left the charts in 1969
And now a tune I haven’t heard for years
11. What is the speaker doing in the
Probably not since it last left the charts
underlined portion?
Back in L.A. in 1969.
A. Making fun of himself
I can’t believe I know the words by heart B. Criticizing the Beach Boys’ performance
C. Remembering how happy he used to be
And can’t think of a girl to blame them on.
D. Explaining how much he dislikes the song

Every lovesick summer has its 12. What aspect of the speaker’s youth
song, And this one I pretended to does this stanza reveal?

despise, But if I was alone when it A. He always felt happy after visiting the
beach.
came on, B. He enjoyed walking more than he enjoyed
I turned it up full-blast to sing along— driving.
C. He often spent time alone feeling
A primal scream in croaky baritone,
11 sorry for himself.
The notes all flat, the lyrics mostly slurred D. He worked hard to meet new friends.
11

No wonder I spent so much time alone

11

Making the rounds in Dad’s old Thunderbird.

11

Some nights I drove down to the beach to park

And walk along the railings of the pier.
The water down below was cold and dark,
The waves monotonous against the shore.
The darkness and the mist, the midnight sea
The flickering lights reflected from the city—
A perfect setting for a boy like me,
The Cecil B. DeMille of my self-pity. ,

I thought by now I’d left those nights behind,

Lost like the girls that I could never get,
Gone with the years, junked with the old T- C. The rhyme pattern reverses itself
in each stanza.
Bird. But one old song, a stretch of empty
D. The rhyming in each stanza is inconsistent.
road,
Can open up a door and let them fall
13

Tumbling like boxes from a dusty shelf,

14

Tightening my throat for no reason at all

15

Bringing on tears shed only for myself.

15

Dana Gioia, “Cruising with the Beach Boys.” © 1986 by Dana Gioia.
Ads Everywhere
13. To what does “them” (underlined portion) Add this to the endangered list: blank
refer in the poem? spaces.
A. those nights Advertisers seem
B. the girls determined to fill every last
one of them.
C. the years 18
D. old songs

14. What literary device does the poet use

in the underlined portion? Supermarket eggs have been stamped
19
A. Hyperbole
B. Metonymy with the names of television shows. Subway
19
C. Simile
D. Synecdoche turnstiles bear messages from auto insurance
19

15. As suggested by the underlined portion, companies. Chinese food cartons promote
what effect does the song have on the 19

speaker? commercial airlines. And airlines are selling

19
A. It makes him feel sorry for himself.
B. It helps him to forget the past. ads on motion sickness bags.
C. It causes him to remember a high
school girlfriend.
D. It makes him miss his old friends. Marketers used to try their hardest to
reach people at home, when they were
watching TV or reading newspapers or
16. What is the main point of this stanza?
magazines. But consumers’ viewing and
A. Remembering the past is often pleasant. reading habits are so scattershot now
20
B. It is not important to think about the past.
C. Some memories stay hidden forever. that many advertisers say the best way to
D. Old memories can bring up strong
emotions. reach time-pressed consumers is to try to
catch their eye at literally every turn.
17. Which statement best describes the
rhyme scheme in the poem? “We never know where the consumer is

A. Every other line rhymes. going to be at any point in time, so we have to

B. The first four lines in each stanza rhyme.
find a way to be everywhere,” said Linda
Kaplan Thaler, chief executive at the Kaplan
18. What does the word “them” refer
Thaler Group, a New York ad agency.
to in the underlined portion?
“Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.” A. Advertisers
B. Endangered species
C. Blank spaces
D. Advertisements

19. What is the correct way to

punctuate the underlined
sentences?
A. Supermarket eggs have been stamped
with the names of television shows:
subway turnstiles bear messages from
auto insurance companies: and Chinese
food cartons promote commercial
airlines.
B. Supermarket eggs have been stamped
with the names of television shows . . .
subway turnstiles bear messages from
auto insurance companies . . . Chinese
food cartons promote commercial
airlines.
C. Supermarket eggs have been stamped
with the names of television shows and
subway turnstiles bear messages from
auto insurance companies and Chinese
food cartons promote commercial
airlines.
D. Supermarket eggs have been stamped
with the names of television shows;
subway turnstiles bear messages from
auto insurance companies; and Chinese
food cartons promote commercial
airlines.

20. What is the meaning of “scattershot”

(underlined portion) as used in the
passage?
A. Convenient
B. Established
C. Predictable
D. Unfocused
 21. A. NO CHANGE
B. calligraphy, and more recently
C. calligraphy and more recently,
D. calligraphy and more, recently
21
21 22. A. NO CHANGE
22 B. comic’s publishing houses
C. comics publishing houses
22 D. comics publishing house’s

23. A. NO CHANGE
B. Similarly,
23 C. On the other hand,
D. DELETE the underlined phrase.

24. A. NO CHANGE
B. However, American
C. Therefore, American
D. Because American

25. A. NO CHANGE
24 B. preserving the artists’
C. preserving the artist’s
D. preserving, the artist’s
25
26. A. NO CHANGE
B. who, “developed
C. who, “having developed
26 D. who developed

27. A. NO CHANGE
B. 1980s sophisticated and mature
C. 1980s sophisticated mature
D. 1980s, sophisticated, mature

27 28. If the underlined portion were deleted,

the paragraph would primarily lose:

A. a specific example of an
28 exported Japanese comic.
B. an indication that translated
Japanese comics are no longer
produced.
C. essential information that the
reader needs to understand the
development of graphic novels in
Japan.
D. contextual information that is
required to under- stand the
remainder of the essay.
69 [9] Similar to American graphic novels, which 29. Which of the following, if inserted at
range in topics from superheroes to the highlighted point, best introduces the main
politics. Manga tell
30 idea of the last para- graph?
many different kinds of stories and have art
A. There are manga graphic novels that
to match.
appeal to adults, young children, and
teenagers.
There were funny manga, action-packed
manga, fantastic B. Manga graphic novels in America,
31
however, do not read from the back
manga, and manga that tell realistic stories cover to the front cover.
about believ-
C. Manhwa, the Korean term for comics,
able characters. Manga style has also
influenced, eventually spread into the Americas as
32 well.
manhwa, Chinese, and Korean comics, and
its rhetoric is even D. The evolution of comics in America has
32
followed a similar path as in Japan.
used today in original American graphic
novels, which
33

reveals that Japanese graphic novels have

30. A. NO CHANGE
taken a strong
33 B. politics; manga
hold in the Western world. C. politics, manga
33

D. politics, and manga

31. A. NO CHANGE

B. is

C. are

D. has been

32. A. NO CHANGE

B. Manga style has also influenced:

manhwa, Chinese and Korean comics,
and

C. Manga style has also influenced

manhwa--Chinese and Korean comics--
and

D. Manga style has also influenced

manhwa--Chinese and Korean comics
and
33. Given that all the choices are true,
which one most effectively concludes the essay
by connecting to the topics presented in the
first paragraph?

A. NO CHANGE

B. covering a wide variety of

adventures, both real and fictional.

C. indicating the impact of Japanese

culture on American society.

D. reflecting the far-reaching influence

of Japan’s skilfull comic artists.

ANSWER KEY

1. b. From

2. b. I am cold

3. b. It’s Cate’s
4. c. With doing 25. B
26. A
5. b. Will have taken
27. D
6. b. Prevent 28. A
29. A
7. c. Aren’t allowed 30. C
8. d. Accused 31. C
32. C
9. b. To buy 33. D
10. a. In

11. c. Prescription

12. b. Are you doing

13. a. Didn’t have

14. b. Was hoovering

15. c. More carefully

READING COMPREHENSION

1. D
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. A
8. D
9. A
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. A
14. C
15. A
16. D
17. D
18. C
19. D
20. D
21. A
22. C
23. D
24. B