Reading Comprehension- Key 005

TEST 5
Question 1-8
A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had
taken
to heart the admonition that form shouldfollow function, and who thought of buildings
not as separate architecturalentities but as parts of an organic whole that included the
Lineland, the community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New
(5)England and some of the southern plantationshad been functional, but Wright was the
first architect to make functionalism the authoritative principle for public as well as for
domestic buildings.
As early as 1906 he built the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the first of those
churches that did so much to revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United
(10)States. Thereafter he turned his genius tosuch miscellaneous structures as houses,
schools, office buildings, and factories, among them the famous Larkin Building
in Buffalo, New York, and the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The architecture of public buildings
(B) An architectural pioneer
(C) New England architecture
(D) principles of architecture
2. The phrase “taken to heart” in lines 1-2 is closest in meaning to which
of the following?
(A) Taken seriously
(B) Criticized
(C) Memorized
(D) Taken offence
3. The word “admonition” in line 2 is closest in meaning to
(A) monition
(B) support
(C) discussion
(D) consideration
4. The word “entities” in line 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) principles
(B) existences
(C) subtractions
(D) properties
5. In what way did Wright`s public buildings differ from most of those
built by earlier architects?
(A) They were built on a larger scale.
(B) Their materials came from the southern United States.
(C) They looked more like private homes.
(D) Their designs were based on how they would be used.
6. The author mentions the Unity Temple because it
(A) was Wright`s first building
(B) influenced the architecture of subsequent churches
(C) demonstrated traditional ecclesiastical architecture
(D) was the largest church Wright ever designed
7. Which of the following statements bestreflects one of Frank Lloyd Wright`s
architectural principles?
(A) Beautiful design is more important than utility.
(B) Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional designs.
(C) A building should fit into its surroundings.
(D) The architecture of public buildings does not need to be revolutionary.
8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a type of structure Frank Lloyd
Wright made ?
(A) houses
(B) factories
(C) southern plantations
(D) churches
Question 9-15
There are two basic types of glaciers, those that flow outward in all directions with
little regard for any underlying terrain and those that are confined by terrain to a
particular path.
LineThe first category of glaciers includesthose massive blankets that cover whole
(5)continents, appropriatelycalled ice sheets. There must be over 50,000 square
kilometers
of land covered with ice for the glacier to qualify as an ice sheet. When portions of an
ice sheet spread out over the ocean, they form ice shelves.
About 20,000 years ago the Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered nearly all the mountains
in southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States. It was about
(10)3 kilometers deep at its thickest point in northern Alberta. Now there are only two
sheets left on Earth, those covering Greenland and Antarctica.
Any domelike body of ice that also flows out in all directions but covers less than
50,000 square kilometers is called an ice cap. Although ice caps are rare nowadays,
there are a number in northeastern Canada, on Baffin Island, and on the Queen
(15)Elizabeth Islands.
The second category of glaciers includes those of a variety of shapes and sizes
generally called mountain or alpine glaciers.Mountain glaciers are typically identified
by the landform that controls their flow. One form of mountain glacier that resembles
an ice cap in that it flows outward in several directions is called an ice field. The
(20)difference between an ice field and an ice cap is subtle. Essentially, the flow of an ice
field is somewhat controlled by surrounding terrain and thus does not have the
domelike
shape of a cap. There are several ice fieldsin the Wrangell, St. Elias, and Chugach
mountains of Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Less spectacular thanlarge ice fields are the most common types of mountain
(25)glaciers : the cirque and valley glaciers. Cirque glaciers are found in depressions in the
surface of the land and have a characteristic circular shape. The ice of valley glaciers,