21. (A) It had many more pages than newspapers.
    (B) It was given away for free.
    (C) It dealt with issues rather than events.
    (D) It was more widely available than newspapers.

22. (A) He wrote articles of the Church of England.
    (B) He refused to stop publishing the Review.
    (C) He refused to pay publishing taxes.
    (D) He refused to join the Church of England.

23. (A) It was not really a magazine.
    (B) It featured a variety of articles and stories.
    (C) It was praised by readers of poetry.
    (D) It was unpopular with politicians.

24. (A) How artists gained fame.
    (B) A schedule of art exhibits.
    (C) One form of folk art.
    (D) The preservation of old paintings.

25. (A) Very few were produced.
    (B) Most were kept only a short time.
    (C) Most were printed on delicate paper.
    (D) Many have been acquired by collectors.

Section B Compound Dictation

The Library of Congress is America’s national library.

 It has more than one-hundred-twenty-million books and other

objects. It has newspapers,  S1    publications and letters of 

  S2    interest. It also has maps,photographs, art   S3    , movies, sound recordings and musical      S4   .The Library of  Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for government holidays. Anyone may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is    S5    to take books out of the building. The Library of Congress was   S6      in eighteen-hundred. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol  Building. By eighteen-fourteen, the collection had increased to  about three-thousand books. They were   S7       that year when the Capitol was burned duringAmerica’s war with Britain.

To help re-build the library, Congress bought the books of President ThomasJefferson. Mister Jefferson’s collection included seven-thousand books in seven languages.S8. Today, three buildings hold the library’s collection.S9 . It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. It also gets materials through its copyright office.S10. This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything published in the United States.

Part II   Reading Comprehension (35 points, 25minutes)

Section I  Careful reading (25points, 20minutes)

There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some

questions or unfinished statements.

For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).

You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter