MID TEST OF ADVANCE 3
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Day and date : Thursday, 23th March 2024
Listening Section
Part A
1. What does the woman mean?
a. She agrees with the man. 6. What does the man mean?
b. She would like to see the movie a a. He is very busy now.
second time. b. He has to check his schedule.
c. She has not seen the movie. c. He can meet the woman at six
d. She does not understand the man’s o’clock.
point. d. He prefers to meet the woman some
2. What does the man imply about his other time.
sister? 7. What does the man imply?
a. She delayed submitting her a. The course is too difficult.
application. b. The professor changed his mind.
b. She does not know if her application c. The final exam was cancelled.
will be accepted. d. The woman misunderstood the
c. She was glad to finally receive the professor.
letter. 8. What does the man mean?
d. She started her classes several a. The woman deserves the
weeks ago. recognition.
3. What does the woman imply? b. The woman should tell her friends
a. She was also late for the meeting. how she feels.
b. She is waiting for Mark to fix her car. c. The woman’s friends do not know
c. The meeting has not started yet. about the scholarship.
d. The bus did not arrive on time. d. The woman should apply for a
4. What does the man mean? scholarship.
a. He does not like to wake up early in 9. What will the woman probably do next?
the morning. a. Ask the man to help her figure out
b. The woman seems unusually sad. how to use her new computer
c. There is no special reason for his b. Let the man use her computer
good mood. c. Take her computer to a repair shop
d. He was not in a good mood when he d. Help the man fix his computer
woke up. 10. What does the man mean?
5. What does the woman mean? a. He was at the health center earlier
a. She took a history class last year. today.
b. She does not trust the man’s opinion. b. He intends to get his blood pressure
c. She probably will not take any checked.
history classes. c. He does not have time to wait in line
d. She did not like her sociology today.
professor.
d. He is not concerned about his blood
press
Reading Section
Questions 1-10
In the later part of the nineteenth century, the direction of expansion in the
United States shifted from the countryside to the city. During the crises of the
1870s and the 1890s, tens of thousands of families abandoned their farms and
ranches and headed for urban areas. Even prosperity produced migration from
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the countryside to the city. As pioneers settled rural districts, eventually the
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number of farms or ranches approached the maximum number the land would
support. Landowners sought to increase their productivity through
mechanization, and those who were successful invested their returns in the
purchase of additional land and equipment, expanding their holdings by buying
the farms of less fortunate neighbors, who moved on.
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Compare this pattern of economic development with that of the city,
where innovations in manufacturing led to the creation of new
opportunities and new jobs. But in the countryside, economic
development inevitably meant depopulation. Rural areas in the central
part of the country had begun to lose population by the 1880s, and over
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the next half century most of the rural West was overtaken by this trend.
For every industrial worker who became a farmer, 20 young men from
farms rushed to the city to compete for his job.
Less well-known is the fact that for every 20 young farm men, as
many as 25 or 30 young farm women moved from the rural West to the
20 cities. As a government report noted in 1920, young farm women were
more likely to leave the farm and move to a western city than were
young farm men. This amounted to a stunning reversal of the traditional
pattern of western urban settlement, which featured the presence of
many young, unattached men among the migrants but almost no single
women.
What explains the greater rates of female migration to the cities? In
the opinion of many contemporaries, young women were pushed out of
1. What aspect of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries does
the passage mainly discuss?
a. Why young women chose to move from farms to cities
b. The number and types of manufacturing jobs created in cities
c. Changes in settlement patterns between farms and cities
d. The effects of mechanization on western migration
2. The word “expansion” in line 1 is closest in meaning to
a. change
b. growth
c. population
d. labor
3. The word “abandoned” in line 3 is closest in meaning to
a. left behind
b. sold
c. gave away
d. gradually reduced the size of
4. Why does the author discuss “prosperity” in line 4 ?
a. To indicate that more than one factor contributed to the movement from rural to
urban settlement
b. To support the idea that many families were able to stop farming and migrate to the
cities
c. To suggest that the migration would have happened despite the economic situation
d. To argue against economics as the primary factor in migration
5. According to the first paragraph, in the late 1800s, farmland was most likely to be
purchased by
a. city businessmen seeking new investments
b. successful landowners who had mechanized farms
c. young farm men starting to work
d. people who had few opportunities in cities
