Section Bª¤
Passage Oneª¥
Joe Smith had been brought up in an orphanage. He envied people who were rich and decided that when he grew up he could make a lot of money.ª¥
Unfortunately, Jee was not clever and he failed all his school exams. ¡°I will either have to find a good job or I will have to become a thief.¡± Jue said to himself. He know he would never find on wellª²paid job.ª¥
For several months Jue watched a bank out of town. He noticed when it had the fewest customers. He watched, waited and planned. ª¥
One afternoon he found that only two tellers were on duty there. ¡°I will either suceed and be very rich or fail and go to prison.¡± said Joe. He was willing to take the risk.ª¥
Then he watched in and pushed a demand note over the counter. The teller read it, turned pale and quietly opened a small safe behind him. He took out $50,000 and placed the bank notes in Joe¡¯s open bag. Then Joe ran as fast as he could.ª¥
That night Joe had to bury money in case the police caught him. He chose a deser
ted piece of land near the house, he was glad when the money was safely hidden i
n the round.ª¥
The next day he was woken by bangs or his door. He answered and there came two policeman. ¡°Joseph Smith, you are under arrest for robbing a bank!¡±ª¥
Joe protested in vain. The bank had hidden cameras and the whole raid had been photographed. Joe was caught and into prison.ª¥
Ten years later Joe was set free. He made sure no one was following him and quickly make his way to the spot where he had buried the money.ª¥
Neither happiness nor money waited for him, however. A big building had been built on the site.ª¤

11. By what means did Joe think he could become rich?ª¤
12. Why do you think the teller gave Joe the money?ª¤
13. How were the police able to prove that Joe had robbed the bank?ª¤
14. Which of the following adjectives can be used to descibe Joe?ª¤

Passage Twoª¥
When John Wilton, writer of Paradise Lostª«, entered Cambridge University in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul¡¯s school, London, like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar school, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it fluently and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.ª¥
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin the hard way. They memorized rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a wordª²forª²word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English. As they increased their skill, they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and ther compared their translation with the original. The school master was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.ª¥
After several years of study, the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they bagan to read Latin poems, they began to write poems in Latin. Because Milton was already a poet at ten, his poems were much better than those painfully put together by other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at the university, he made constant use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.ª¤

15. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?ª¤
16. Which of the following is true of John Milton¡¯s pronunciation of Latin?ª¤
17. What kind of man would you say John Mitton was?ª¤

Passage Threeª¥
Up to about 1915, movies were short and pragrams were made up of several works. Then, D.U. Griffith and others began to make longer films which provided the same powerful emotional appeal as did melodrama and presented spectacles far beyond what the theater could after. Consequently, after world war ¢ñ increasing numbers of spectators deserted the theater for the movies. This trend was accelerated in the late 1920¡¯s as a result of two new elements. In 1927 sound was added to the previously silent film, and thus one of the theater¡¯s principal claims to superiority vanished. In 1929 a serious economic depression began. Since audiences could go to the movies for a fraction of what it cost to see a play, theater going became a luxury which few could afford, especially as the depression deepened.ª¥
By the end of world war ¢ò, the American theater had been reduced to about thirty theaters in New York city and a small number of touring companies originating there.ª¤

18. Why did movies do better than theater?ª¤
19. Up to the 1920¡¯s, what was one objection to the films?ª¤
20. What made people choose the movie over the theater?