READING TEST

1. What is the author's main purpose in the passage?

• A. Pointing out the importance of recent advances in archaeology

• B. Describing an archaeologist’s education.

• C. Explaining how archaeology is a source of history.

• D. Encouraging more people to become archaeologists.

2. The word "discipline" in line 1 can be best replaced by.....

• A. student

• B. course

• C. order

• D. method

3. The word "it" in line 7 refers to ......

• A. the record

• B. the sum

• C. human behavior

• D. constitute

4. According to the passage, what does the archaeological record consists of?

• A. spoken words of great historical significance

• B. the fossilize results of human activity

• C. organic materials

• D. ephemeral ideas

5. The word "they" in line 12 refers to ......

• A. scraps

• B. words

• C. troops

• D. humans

6. In line 13, the phrase “change the course of

history” can be considered as .......

• A. a cause of different story in the past

• B. a reference of certain history

• C. a change in related history

• D. a matter of history course

7. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an

example of an organic material?

• A. stone

• B. wool

• C. grass

• D. hair

8. The author mentions all the following

archaeological discovery sites EXCEPT

• A. urban areas

• B. peat bogs

• C. very hot and dry lands

• D. earth that has been frozen

9. The word "mere" in line 17 can be bestreplaced by.....

• A. simple

• B. unimportant

• C. pure

• D. little

10. The paragraph following the passage most

probably discusses

• A. techniques for recording oralhistories

• B. certain battlefield excavationmethods

• C. some specific archaeological discoveries

• D. building materials of the nineteenth and

  twentieth centuries