Scribd Feed for category: LanguageThis is a feed for documents in the category LanguagePractice Reading A- August 26, 2008 Practice Test A Reading Question 1- 10 The conservatism of the early English colonists in North America, their strong attachment to the English way of doing things, would play a major part in the furniture that was made in New England. The very tools that the first New England furniture makers used were, after all, not much different from those used for centuries even millennia: basic hammers, saws, chisels, planes, augers, compasses, and measures. These were the tools used more or less by...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064217/Practice-Reading-A Practice Reading H- August 26, 2008 Practice Test H - Reading Questions 1 - 10 The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of excess energy by themselves, without any outside intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light. Albert Einstein was the first to...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064227/Practice-Reading-H Practice Reading E- August 26, 2008 Practice Test E Reading Question 1- 7 Hotels were among the earliest facilities that bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communities, as well symptoms of the frenetic quest for community. Even in the first part of the nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the habit of gathering from all corners of the nation for both public and private, business and pleasure, purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064223/Practice-Reading-E Practice Reading B- August 26, 2008 Practice Test B Reading Question 1- 10 With Robert Laurent and William Zorach, direct carving enters into the story of modem sculpture in the United States. Direct carving in which the sculptors themselves carve stone or wood with mallet and chisel must be recognized as something more than just a technique. Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well: that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring their own aesthetic sensibilities into.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064219/Practice-Reading-B Practice Reading I- August 26, 2008 Practice Test I - Reading Questions 1 - 8 It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen.http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064228/Practice-Reading-I Practice Reading D- August 26, 2008 Practice Test D Reading Question 1- 9 In the 1500's when the Spanish moved into what later was to become the southwestern United States, they encountered the ancestors of the modern-day Pueblo, Hopi, and Zuni peoples. These ancestors, known variously as the Basket Makers, the Anasazi, or the Ancient Ones, had lived in the area for at least 2,000 years. They were an advanced agricultural people who used irrigation to help grow their crops. The Anasazi lived in houses constructed of adobe and...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064222/Practice-Reading-D Practice Reading F- August 26, 2008 Practice Test F Reading Questions 1 10 The growth of cities, the construction of hundreds of new factories, and the spread of railroads in the United States before 1850 had increased the need for better illumination. But the lighting in American homes had improved very little over that of ancient times. Through the colonial period, homes were lit with tallow candles or with a lamp of the kind used in ancient Rome a dish of fish oil or other animal or vegetable oil in which a twisted rag...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064225/Practice-Reading-F Practice Reading C- August 26, 2008 Practice Test C Reading Question 1- 9 Around the year 1500, hunting people occupied the entire northern third of North America. They lived well from the animals with whom they shared these lands. Hunters of sea mammals had colonized the Arctic coasts of Canada and Greenland between four and five thousand years before. Land-hunting people had lived throughout much of the northern interior for at least 12,000 years. Northern North America is part of a larger circumpolar ecological domain that...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064220/Practice-Reading-C Practice Reading G- August 26, 2008 Practice Test G - Reading Questions 1 11 The United States Constitution makes no provision for the nomination of candidates for the presidency. As the framers of the Constitution set up the system, the electors would, out of their own knowledge, select the "wisest and best" as President. But the rise of political parties altered that system drastically and with the change came the need for nominations. The first method that the parties developed to nominate presidential candidates was the...http://www.scribd.com/doc/5064226/Practice-Reading-G The Seed- August 26, 2008 A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO," he said. "I have decided to choose one of you." The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one of you a seed today - a very special..http://www.scribd.com/doc/5063149/The-Seed |