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Section I Reading
Practice Test 4
C. chords
D. variety
E. notes
5. The outline indicates that the unique
tonal sound created by the woodwind
family would be called which of the
following?
A. Timbre
B. Pitch
C. Harmony
D. Tempo
E. Rhythm
Read the passage below and answer the
question that follows.
The Celtic story of Queen Maeve tells of a
powerful goddess warrior. It is possible that
the aggressive goddess, a surprising figure in
a patriarchal culture, may reflect a preceding
matriarchal age when women were the dominant
sex.
6. The author of the preceding quotation
makes all the following assumptions
except:
A. The culture of an age will be
reflected in its myth.
B. Celtic myths are different from the
myths of other cultures.
C. A culture may be either matriarchal
or patriarchal.
D. A myth may reflect the culture of
an earlier age.
E. A patriarchal culture is likely to
create myths of powerful men.
Read the passage below and answer the
six questions that follow.
According to a recent set of calculations by
Frank D. Drake, a UC Santa Cruz astronomer,
there are between 10,000 and
100,000 “advanced” civilizations (this, dubiously,
includes us) in our own Milky Way
galaxy alone. It’s a simple matter of estimating
the rate of formation of stars, then multiplying
by the fraction with planets around
them, and the average number of planets per
star suitable for life to evolve. This figure is
then adjusted downward on the assumption
that only some will actually evolve life, that
only some of those will end up with intelligent
life, and that only a fraction of those
will develop advanced civilizations. They
even take into account the fact that such civilizations
will only be temporary.
So the question is not, “Are there more advanced
creatures out there?” but “What will
they do to us when they find us?” To answer,
consider what we have done to chimpanzees
and gorillas, creatures that stand in a relation
to us that parallels the one we would have to
the extraterrestrials. We steal their habitats,
we experiment on them, we cage them in
zoos to satisfy our curiosity, we train them to
do tricks in circuses, we kill them to display
their body parts, some of us even eat them,
and attempts have been made to get them to
do useful work — slave labor. Shklovskii
and Sagan’s 500-page book devotes only
four sentences to the possibility that anything
bad might result from letting extraterrestrial
civilizations know of our existence
and location, and astronomers today are
equally optimistic.
This is naïve both philosophically and scientifically.
Contrary to the fantasy of advanced
extraterrestrials who help us in our own
progress, the likely result of contact is the
most grotesque disaster that has ever befallen
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