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Dimitris Sclias

Michigan lower-ecce Reading passages exam practice.
Time allowed 15 minutes, You must finish the test within 15 minutes.
To pass the test successfully you must finish the test within the time limit and get at least 80% correct answers,
otherwise repeat the test until you get 80% or over.
Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.


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question 1

passage 3b
Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.

It had been known for centuries that there were mammoths in the Siberian ice. Hunters of the tundra came upon the huge corpses of these frozen animals again and again. They would usually wait for the blocks of ice to thaw in order to obtain the tusks, and would then feed the meat to their dogs, if it were not first taken by hungry bears, wolves and foxes. Gradually a flourishing business developed out of the trade in tusks. Many thousands of pounds of mammoth ivory were collected year after year, especially in northeastern Siberia. A third of the ivory that has entered commerce up to modern times came from mammoths. The ivory dealers gradually realized that the mammoth was no relation to unicorns or other fabulous beasts. They had only to examine the tusks closely to see that they were elephant teeth. But how could elephants ever have lived in cold Siberia?
The subject was hotly discussed at the Petersburg Academy; Russian naturalists toyed with the idea that the Pole might have shifted. Siberian elephants, they concluded, were identical with the present day elephants of southern Asia. Hence, where the Arctic tundra with its frozen soil now stretched for endless miles, there had been in the past a warm, in fact tropical, climate. The shift of the Pole changed the climate of Siberia and thus condemned the elephants to death by freezing.

5 The mammoths discovered in the Siberian ice were valued

A as food for the hunters.
B as food for the hunters' dogs.
C for their great size.
D for their tusks.

6 The ivory dealers came to understand that the mammoth

A was a kind of unicorn.
B was a kind of elephant.
C was a fabulous beast.
D had tusks.

7 Russian naturalists

A asserted that the Pole had shifted.
B discussed the possibility that the Pole might have shifted.
C ridiculed the idea that the Pole might have shifted.
D found the idea that the Pole might have shifted amusing.

8 Russian scientists maintained that Siberian elephants

A were unlike the elephants of southern Asia.
B were descended from the elephants of southern Asia.
C remotely resembled the elephants of southern Asia.
D were exactly like the elephants of southern Asia.

9 The Siberian mammoth became extinct

A through the action of hunters.
B because of the cold.
C because ivory was no longer in demand.
D because the climate of Siberia became like that of southern Asia.

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