Vocabulary & Reference

The colonists may have headed north toward the Chesapeake Bay area and there established a settlement inland of the Bay. The native Americans of this area, the Chesapeakes, were a small group of no more than 1,000 people. If assimilation occurred, the settlers would have adopted Indian ways of living to a considerable extent, perhaps transforming their village into an Indian-style one or even amalgamating with Skicoac or another community. With the opportunities for hunting, fishing, and agriculture that the area afforded, such a village, no doubt separately organized at first, could enjoy a good living, given the absence of war, internal dissension, and epidemic disease, none of which can be eliminated.

The phrase "amalgamating with" could best be replaced by which of the following words?

• (A) changing

• (B) joining with

• (C) competing with

• (D) supervising

The colonists may have headed north toward the Chesapeake Bay area and there established a settlement inland of the Bay. The native Americans of this area, the Chesapeakes, were a small group of no more than 1,000 people. If assimilation occurred, the settlers would have adopted Indian ways of living to a considerable extent, perhaps transforming their village into an Indian-style one or even amalgamating with Skicoac or another community. With the opportunities for hunting, fishing, and agriculture that the area afforded, such a village, no doubt separately organized at first, could enjoy a good living, given the absence of war, internal dissension, and epidemic disease, none of which can be eliminated.

The word "afforded" could best be replaced by the word

• (A) offered

• (B) charged

• (C) engaged

• (D) entertained

Though classed with the carnivores, the grizzly bear is largely vegetarian and rarely eats flesh. During the summer these bears are avid fishers and comb the waters of mountain streams and rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream.

As used in line 1, a "carnivore" is most probably

• (A) a vegetable eater

• (B) a flesh eater

• (C) a fisherman

• (D) a type of bear

Though classed with the carnivores, the grizzly bear is largely vegetarian and rarely eats flesh. During the summer these bears are avid fishers and comb the waters of mountain streams and rivers to catch salmon swimming upstream.

As used in line 2, the phrase "comb the waters" means that grizzlies

• (A) search thoroughly

• (B) enjoy fishing

• (C) a fisherman

• (D) enter the water

The word "their" in line 6 refers to

• (A) the termites'

• (B) the tunnels'

• (C) the chimpanzees'

• (D) Suzuki's and van Lawick-Goodall's

The pronoun "they" in line 7 refers to

• (A) Suzuki and van Lawick-Goodall

• (B) termites

• (C) tools

• (D) chimpanzees