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20. Those who favored the new university would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements?
A. Learning is best achieved through discipline and drill.
B. Shaping the moral character of students should be the primary goal.
C. Higher education should prepare students to contribute to society.
D. Teachers should select their students’ courses.
Section B: Skimming and ScanningIn this part there are 2 reading passages followed by 10 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 options marked A,B,C and D.
Skim or scan them and decide on the best answer and write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (10%)
Passage 1
Taking natural objects such as rocks, bones, clouds and flowers for subject matter, Georgia O’Keeffe reduced them to their simplest form, often by employing a close-up view or some other unusual vantage point. With such techniques, including the use of thin paint and clear colors to emphasize a feeling of mystical silence and space, she achieved an abstract simplicity in her paintings. O’Keeffe spent a summer in New Mexico in 1929 and the bleak landscape and broad skies of the desert so appealed to her that she later settled there permanently. Cows’ skulls and other bare bones found in the desert were frequent motifs in her paintings. Other common subjects included flowers, the sky, and the horizon lines of the desert. After O’Keeffe’s three-month trip around the world by plane in 1959, the sky
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paved with clouds
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as seen from an airplane also became one of her favorite motifs and the subject of her largest work, a 24-foot mural that she began in 1966.
21. With what subject is the passage mainly concerned?
A. Georgia O’Keeffe’s trip around the world
B. The private life of Georgia O’Keeffe
C. The paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe
D. Georgia O’Keeffe’s greatest work of art
22. Which of the following is an example of something often painted by O’Keeffe?
A. An airport
B. A deserted street
C. An astronaut in outer space
D. A cloud formation
23. With which of the following statements concerning Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?
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