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Set 1-1 The Pueblo Indians are descendants of a people known as the Anasazi, a name given to them by the Navajo Indians. The Anasazi began to build homes of many stories about AD 700. Between AD 1000 and 1300, Pueblo culture developed greatly in what is now northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, and Southern Utah. By 1300, many Pueblo had moved south to the fertile valleys of the Rio Grande and its branches. Some Pueblo Indians built villages in the valleys, and others lived in desert and mountain areas. Desert surrounded many of the valleys, and the people set up irrigation systems so they could grow crops. Pueblo women gathered berries and other foods, and the men hunted game. Pueblo villages consisted of stone or adobe structures that resembled apartment buildings. These homes had as many as four stories, and the Indians used ladders to reach the upper levels. Some families of grandparents, parents, children, aunts, and uncles lived in two or more connected dwellings. The villages were governed by religious leaders. The Pueblo held many religious ceremonies to promote harmony and order in the universe. They believed that if harmony and order in the universe were maintained, the spirits would ensure abundant game and provide sufficient rain for their crops. Pueblo men performed kachina dances, in which they represented spirits of the earth, sky, and water. The dancers wore masks that symbolized the spirits. Most pueblos had subterranean chambers called kivas that were used for ceremonies and meetings. What is the best title of the passage? The life of Pueblo Indians The author implies in paragraph 1 that the Anasazi Indians' architecture was highly developed. The word others in paragraph 2 refers to Indians. The word game in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning animals. Look at the word stories in paragraph 3. Click on the word in the Bold text which is similar in meaning to this world. According to the passage, which of the following is not represented in kachina dances performed by the Anasazi Indians? According to paragraph 3, the author implies that Pueblo Indians had a large family consisting of many generations. Look at the word they in paragraph 4. Click on the word in the BOLD text which this word refers to Pueblo men. According to the passage, what is a kiva? an underground room for religious rituals. All of the following statements can be supported by the author EXCEPT that Pueblo Indians were those who developed advanced agricultural techniques. Click on the paragraph in which the author describes the building materials of Pueblo Indians. Set 1-2 Permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, is part of the solid part of the earth's rocky crust(or lithosphere), in which a naturally occurring temperature below 0 degrees has existed for two or more years. The formation and maintenace of permafrost requires a mean annual temperature below freezing. Ground shading and insulation by ground cover such as moss is favorable to permafrost. Once the permafrost is established, it stops the infiltration of ground water and forces melt and rain water to escape by surface drainage. The mosses that form on the surface impede drainage and permafrost areas develop marsh and tundra characteristics. Permafrost is of great importance in the engineering and design of pipelines, roads, railroads, and training ranges and usages. The frozen ground forms an extremely strong and stable foundation material if it is kept in a frozen state. However, if permafrost is allowed to thaw, the soil becomes extremely weak and foundation failures are very common. As temperature is the main control on the occurrence of permafrost it can exist only in areas where the equilibrium temperature, between the amount of heat lost from the ground in winter and that gained from the atmosphere in summer, plus geothermal heat, remains continuously below 0'C-, continued global warming, with even a moderate rise a few degrees of temperature, is highly likely to have far-reaching effects on permafrost throughout the world. A general warming will probably lead to the widespread disintegration of permafrost, particularly in those regions where ground temperatures are warmer than about -2'C. In the latitudes of subarctic areas, the sporadic discontinuous permafrost will be the first to disappear. As the mean annual ground temperature rises and its thawing isotherm progress in a northerly direction, increasingly greater areas of permafrost will vanish. Such effects of global warming would create many alterations to the existing landscape, particularly in areas of abundant ground ice, lying in the zone of discontinuous permafrost. The ground would undergo subsidence and dislocation, thus leading to failure of foundations and other engineering structures. Drainage would be altered such that while some lakes emptied, others would form. Thermokarst topography would develop in areas of ice-rich permafrost because of the thawing process; also, landslide activity and erosion of riverbanks and coastal features would accompany the thaw. With increased global warming, however, the concomitant destruction of permafrost and subsequent alteration of the landscape would continue. Very large volumes of these gases are presently trapped beneath the permafrost or are stored within it. They commonly occur in frozen peatlands and other wetlands and may exist also as shallow accumulations of natural gas hydrates. In any case, they pose a hazard in the event of global warming because of their capacity to hold heat and to inhibit it from escaping the upper atmosphere. As global warming increases, so would the rate of release of these gases which, in turn, would worsen the situation. Set 1-3 During the last third of the nineteenth century, an extraordianry group of American inventors added to the world's knowledge. Some inventions gave rise to new industries; a few actually changed the quality of life. The number of patents issued to inventors reflected the trend. Between 1790 and 1860, the U.S. Patent Office issued just 36,000 patents; in the decade of the 1890s alone, it issued more than 200,000. Some of the inventions transformed communications. In 1866, Cyrus W, Field improved the transatlantic cable linking the telegraph networks of Europe and the United States. By 1900, land and submarine cables reached around the world. Diplomats and business leaders could now "talk" to their counterparts in Berlin or Hongkong. Even before the telephone, the cables quickened the pace of diplomacy, revolutionized journalism, and allowed business to expand and centralize. The typewriter(1867), stock ticker(1867), cash register(1879), and adding machine(1888) helped business transactions. High-speed looms and sewing machines transformed the clothing industry, which for the first time in history turned out ready-made clothes for the masses. There were new processes for flour, canned meat, vegetables, condensed milk, and even beer. Refrigirated railroad cars, ice-cooled, brought fresh fruit from Florida and California to all parts of the country. In the 1870s, Gustavus F, Swift, a Chicago meatpacker, hit on the idea of using the cars to distribute meat nationwide. Setting up "dissembly" factories to butcher meat Henry Ford later copied them for his famous "assembly" lines, he started what a newspaper called an "era of cheap beef". No innovation, however, rivaled in importance the telephone and the use of electricity for light and power. The telephone was the work of Alexander Graham Bell, a teacher of the deaf. Bell experimented with ways to transmit speech electrically, and he developed electrified metal disks that converted sound waves to electrical impulses and back again. On March 10, 1876, he transmitted the first sentence over a telephone: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." By 1905, there were ten million telephones in the country- one for almost every ten people. Set 1-4 An insect orients itself by making orientation responses to the stimuli it receives. Formerly, insect behavior was described as a series of forced movements in response to stimuli. That hypothesis has been supplanted by one that holds that an insect has a central nervous system with built-in patterns of behavior or instincts that can be called forth by environmental stimuli; these instincts are modified by the insect's internal state, which has been affected by preceding stimuli. Searching for food or an egg-laying site, catching prey, and mating are a few examples of complex behavior. Experimental studies of details of behavior have provided significant information about the properties of the sense organs. Patterns of behavior range from comparatively simple reflex responses such as the avoidance of adverse stimuli, the grasping of a rough surface on contact with the claws to the elaborate behavioral sequences involved in hunting, capturing, and eating prey. An interesting example of a behavioral pattern is that found in the leaf-cutter bee Megachile. The female bee first locates a site for its nest in rotten wood and shapes the nest into a long tunnel; then it seeks out preferred shrub leaves from which to build a cell and cuts first a disc for a cell cap, then a series of oval pieces for the walls. After preparing the nest, it stores a mixture of pollen and honey, lays an egg, and finally closes the cell with more cut leaves. The leaf-cutter bee repeats this sequence until the nest is filled. Each act can be performed only in this set sequence. The insect does not stop to repair any damage to the nest but proceeds undeterred to the next step in its behavioral pattern. The honeybee society is more flexible that of the leaf-cutter bee. Behavioral sequences of individuals are predictable, but the choice of acts or duties within the hive can be influenced by the needs of the colony. A capacity for learing does exist, and must exist, in any insect that has to find its nest; but learning capacity plays a relatively small part in the overall pattern of honeybee behavior. Both in complexity of behavior and learning capacity, solitary bees and wasps are the equals of social wasps or honeybees. Social insects, however, have developed a division of labor in which the members must do the work required at the proper time. If the society is to succeed, its needs must be communicated to the individual, and the individual must act. These needs may be met by a temporary change in behavior during which appropriate instinctive acts are performed or by changes in development that lead to the appearance of appropriate castes. Commonly, both behavioral and developmental change are initiated by pheromones which act as chemical messengers that convey information from one member of a colony to another. Insect societies are gigantic families, the offspring of a single female. In the honeybee the single queen in the hive secretes the pheromone known as the queen substance; it is taken up by the workers and passed throughout the colony by food sharing. So long as the queen substance circulates, all members are informed that the queen is present. If the workers are deprived fo queen substance, they proceed at once to build queen cells and feed the young larvae with a special salivary secretion known as royal jelly to produce more queens.
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