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continued to the end of the nineteenth century. 8. According to the passage, the economy of the
Accompanying that growth that was a structural United States between 1820 and 1900 was ...
change that featured increasing economic (A) Expanding
diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s (B) In sharp decline
labor force from agriculture to manufacturing (C) Stagnate
and other nonagricultural pursuits. (D) Disorganized
Although the birth rate continued to (E) Unimproved
decline from its high level of the eighteenth and
early nineteenth century. The population roughly 9. Which of the following best describes the
doubled every generation during the rest of the society about which David Donald wrote?
nineteenth centuries. As the population grew, (A) A highly conservative society that was
itsmakeup also changed. Massive waves of resistant to new ideas.
immigration brought new ethnic groups into the (B) A society that was undergoing
country. Geographic and social mobility – fundamental change.
downward of the population – in the North and (C) A society that had been gradually
South, in the emerging cities of the Northeast, and changing since the early 1700’s.
in the restless rural countries of the west – (D) A nomadic society that was starting
changed their residence each decade. As a permanent settlements.
consequence, historian David Donald has written, (E) People start to group themselves
“Social atomization affectedevery segment of according to their job.
society,” and it seemed to many people that “all
the recognized values of orderly civilization were 10. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as
gradually being eroded.” Rapid industrialization an example of the social changes occuring in
and increased geographic mobility in the the United States after 1820?
nineteenth century had special implications for (A) Increased social mobility
woman because these tended magnify social (B) Increased immigration
distincions. As the roles men and women played (C) Significant movement of population
in society became more rigidly defined, so did the (D) Household’s function change.
roles they played in the home. In the context of (E) Strong emphasis on traditional social
extreme competitiveness and dizzying social values
change, the household lost many of its earlier TEXT 3
function and the home came to serve as a heaven Scientists have discovered that for the
of clearly differentiated that ever before. In the last 160,000 years, at least, there has been a
middle class especially, men participated in the consistent relationship between the amount of
productive economy while women ruled the carbon dioxide in the air and the average
home and served as the custodians of civility and temperature of the planet. The importance of
culture. The intimacy of marriage that was carbon dioxide in regulating the Earth's
common in earlier periods was rent, and a gulf temperature was confirmed by scientists
that at times seemed unbridgeable was created working in eastern Antarctica. Drilling down into
bertween husbands and wives. a glacier, they extracted a mile-long cylinder of
ice from the hole. The glacier had formed as layer
6. What does the passage mainly discuss? upon layer of snow accumulated year after year.
(A) The economic development of the United Thus drilling into the ice was tantamount to
States in the eighteenth century. drilling back through time.
(B) Ways in which economic development led The deepest sections of the core are
to social changes in the United States. composed of water that fell as snow 160,000
(C) Population growth in the western United years ago. Scientists in Grenoble, France,
States. fractured portions of the core and measured the
(D) The intimacy of marriage in earlier composition of ancient air released from bubbles
periods in the ice. Instruments were used to measure the
(E) The increasing availability of Industrial ratio of certain isotopes in the frozen water to get
jobs for woman in the United States. an idea of the prevailing atmospheric
temperature at the time when that particular bit
7. The word “prospect” in paragraph 1 is closest of water became locked in the glacier.
in meaning to .... The result is a remarkable unbroken
(A) Regret (D) Theory record of temperature and of atmospheric levels
(B) Value of carbon dioxide. Almost every time the chill of
(C) Possibility (E) Circumstance an ice age descended on the planet, carbon
dioxide levels dropped. When the global

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