Year 9 - Reading - NAPLAN Test - Set 3 - Literacy Preparation

Chinese calligraphy is

• a language

• a handwriting style

• an invention by Xu Bing

• a brush used for writing

In which language is the square words text written?

• Japanese

• Chinese

• English

• Arabic

A quick glance and you think: “I can’t read it!”

What makes English readers think at first that they can’t read square words?

• They think the letters are in the wrong order.

• They think the words are in the wrong order.

• They expect brush strokes to make paintings, not texts.

• They expect brush strokes to make texts in a foreign language.

Which of these is the second word of the square words text?

Figures are marked A, B, C, D from left to right.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Here are two other square words written by Xu Bing. These words are

• our home

• red phone

• one world

• men women

The final paragraph explains Xu Bing’s purpose for creating square words.

Which of the following reactions by viewers to his work is closest to what he intended?

• “This should replace the usual way we write English words.”

• “For a moment, I stopped thinking of writing as ordinary.”

• “The patterns were very pretty. I’d like one on a T shirt.”

• “It would make a great code for spies to use.”

What does Xu Bing mean by a person’s cultural condition?

• how clever they are

• how well-educated they are

• how they learn to think and feel

• how often they go to art galleries

In the word chronometer, the root word chrono means

• ship.

• time.

• clock.

• gauge.

In lines 2 and 3, the word by means

• named by.

• owned by.

• made by.

• close by.

Line 6 and line 12 suggest that Cook

• looked forward to the time he would return to Greenwich.

• wanted to arrive at the Sandwich Isles at a special time.

• recorded times and places visited in his log books.

• located his position in relation to time in England.