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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 25: The word “expand” is OPPOSITE in meaning with ....................

  A. Enlarge

• Question 25: The word “expand” is OPPOSITE in meaning with ....................

  B. limit

• Question 25: The word “expand” is OPPOSITE in meaning with ....................

  C. enhance

• Question 25: The word “expand” is OPPOSITE in meaning with ....................

  D. release

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 26: What is the main topic of the passage?

  A. History of lifts.

• Question 26: What is the main topic of the passage?

  B. Disapproval of stairs.

• Question 26: What is the main topic of the passage?

  stairs.

  C. Elevators’ brands.

• Question 26: What is the main topic of the passage?

  D. Expansion of businesses.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 27: In Otis's time, which of the following methods was commonly used for delivery of

  goods between floors?

  A. ‘flying chair’

• Question 27: In Otis's time, which of the following methods was commonly used for delivery of

  goods between floors?

  B. ‘spring system’

• Question 27: In Otis's time, which of the following methods was commonly used for delivery of

  goods between floors?

  C. ‘moving platforms’

• Question 27: In Otis's time, which of the following methods was commonly used for delivery of

  goods between floors?

  D. 'lift shaft'

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 28: What does the word “trigger” in paragraph 2 mean?

  A. transact

• Question 28: What does the word “trigger” in paragraph 2 mean?

  B. attack

• Question 28: What does the word “trigger” in paragraph 2 mean?

  C. impede

• Question 28: What does the word “trigger” in paragraph 2 mean?

  D. activate

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 29: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

  A. In the system devised by Otis, springs were made out of steel.

• Question 29: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

  B. The technique involved in constructing the US Assay Office was similar to that used in present-day

  skyscrapers.

• Question 29: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

  C. Otis’s invention addressed a concern involved in conveying beds upstairs.

• Question 29: All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

  D. The bed manufacturer Otis worked for needed to carry beds to a higher floor for delivery.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 30: According to the passage, which of the following resulted from the invention of lifts?

  A. The transfer of support structures from inside to outside buildings.

• Question 30: According to the passage, which of the following resulted from the invention of lifts?

  B. The emergence of high-rise landmarks.

• Question 30: According to the passage, which of the following resulted from the invention of lifts?

  C. An insatiable demand for solid materials.

• Question 30: According to the passage, which of the following resulted from the invention of lifts?

  D. The abandonment of moving platforms.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 31: What can be implied from the last paragraph?

  A. Otis’s invention met with disapproval and ended in failure.

• Question 31: What can be implied from the last paragraph?

  B. Otis’s efforts went doomed.

• Question 31: What can be implied from the last paragraph?

  C. Otis’s innovation commenced to be in demand.

• Question 31: What can be implied from the last paragraph?

  D. Otis’s determination was deflated.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Next time you are in a lift, look for the name of the people who made it. Chances are it will be the Otis Elevator

Company. It was Elisha Otis who invented the gadget that made the modern passenger lift possible. The concept

of elevation was already well established. Louis XV of France disliked stairs so much that he was regularly hoisted

skywards in a ‘flying chair’ by several strong men hauling on ropes. In Otis’ time, warehouses commonly used

moving platforms to transport goods between floors. However, elevating anything further than one floor or

weighting more than 70 kilograms would have been considered far too dangerous.

Otis worked for a bed manufacturer who was keen to expand his business but needed to find a way to move

his beds to an upper floor for storage. The inventive Otis soon had a solution to the safety problem: a tough steel

spring system that meshed with ratchets on either side of the lift shaft so that if the rope gave way the sudden loss

of tension would trigger the device, stopping the lift from falling.

At the 1854 World Trade fair in New York, Otis unveiled his invention and orders began to pour in,

including one from the United States Assay Office which at that time was constructing one of the first buildings

with an internal steel frame to support the exterior walls. This was the same construction method that skyscrapers

would use. If not for lifts, the towering landmarks which feature so prominently in today’s architecture would

have been impossible and the character of our cities would be entirely different.

• Question 32: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

  A. Louis XV of France's dislike for stairs led to the invention of the modern passenger lift.

• Question 32: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

  B. The Otis Elevator Company was founded in 1854 at the World Trade Fair in New York.

• Question 32: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

  C. The steel spring system invented by Elisha Otis made it possible to safely elevate goods beyond one floor.

• Question 32: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

  D. Skyscrapers' construction methods were primarily influenced by Elisha Otis' invention.