Given 9 points, NO 3 of which lie on the same straight line, what is the maximum number of straight lines that can be drawn through pairs of those 9 points? END OF TEST 2 STOP! DO NOT TURN THE PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO. DO NOT RETURN TO THE PREVIOUS TEST. ACT-52C 33 畸一 35 3 l二/—-．一 /-——一－ 3 . . ` 、 ． ． ． ． . . . · ` READING TEST 、 35 Minutes-40 Questions DIRECTIONS: There are four passages in this test. Each passage is followed by several questions.After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer document. Youmay referto the passages as often as necessary. ＾ Passage I PROSE FICTION: This passageis adapted fromthe novel Rich in Love by Josephine Humphreys (©1987 by Josephine Humphreys).In this selection, after finding an old Halloween costume, the narratoris confronted with past memories. Rummagingin my mother's closet on Halloween, I found what I was looking for, in a plastic clothes bag jam-packed with folded woolens we would never wear again: there was the tell-:tale striped fur,sticking out 5 fromunder a mohair scarf.Memories hit me;I grabbed a corner of the fur and pulled. Mothballs scattered across the floor like beads of poisoned white ice, releasi.ng their sad futile smell.I had carefully packed these things away—cardigans and pullovers of bygone 10 cold seasons,out-of-fashion Scottish kilts held in place by giant safety pins, feebly small gloves一and moth balled them in case the day came when they might be needed. Mother had scoffedat theeffort; butnowI had been proved right.Ineededher old Halloweencostume. 15 I sat there on the floor trying to locate the tail, finally spotting it under Rae's old green crew neck.I bent the kinks out and gave it a smooth arc.The head wasa problem. Icouldn'tfindit anywhere,anddoubted it had survived.It had been made from a paper bag; it 20 had probably been thrown away.ButIrecalleditsevery feature,the large mad eyes,the smile,whiskers,ears; andI knewIcould replicate it. "Look here," I said to Rae."Can you give me a hand?" 25 She was on the sofa in the riext room,watching television....She didn't answer. "All the materials have been assembled," I said, standing by the dining table with my hands onmy hips, fingertips towards my back in the posture of a kinder- 30 garten teacher."Glue,scissors,paper,Magic Markers. First we have to locate the eye-holes.Can you come here for a sec and draw a spot whereI put my finger?" I put the bag over my head and pointed to where the eyes should be."Right here,see?Just make two 35 marks_,here and here."Iwait_ed about a minute._A lo_ng time.It was hard to breathe in the bag,but the interior of it was a beautiful golden-red, and it smelled good.... "The grin goes like a crescent moon flopped onto 40 its back,wide,with lots and lots of teeth," I said, drawing the face in.I actually whistled briefly,a made up tune that she, as a singer, would automatically recognize as a sham."Gee," I said,shaking my head、 "nobody enjoyed Halloweenlike Mother did.Sheloved 45 it,didn't she?" Rae turned her eyes in my direction,but her face was stone-cold,the skin above her cheekbones puffy. "It's her cat costume,"I said,holding up the suit and the tail."I'm remaking the head. Ihave a good idea 50 of what it looked like,butI'm a little worried aboutthe ears.You wouldn't happen to remember how they were done,I don't guess." Shc looked through me, and l was shamed by my own voice,that teacher's fake conviviality,the ruse of 55 arts-and-crafts.Rae's eyes said, You don't know anything.She was sick.I knew that,I knew that.I ought to have called her doctor,but at the same timeI was thinking everything would be okay soon. A few more weeks....She would get her chemistry back and 60 be her old self again. For the last week,we had been literally tiptoeing through our rooms,afraid that anylittle creak or scrape would disturb her....We brought her soft drinks,tea, magazines.I tried to think up activities besides tele- 65 vision,anything that might pique her interest. "This is how the whiskers went,I think.Cut long strips of paper-I'm just using a second paper bag here一and run the flat edge of the scissors down the strip to make it curl'. Voila.Then glue each whisker,like 70 so,next to the nose,four on a side." She was watching. Iglued quickly soIwouldn'tlose her.MaybeI oughtto be a kindergarten teacher.They have to be sneaky. "For ears,let's try a small triangle cut from a double thickness and cupped,earlike.A flap bent at the 75 bottom can be glued down to hold it on, for a perfectly adequateear.Rabbity,maybe,butfinefor atemporary cat,in my opinion." "Excuse me," she said,getting up with difficulty. "Oh,don、 t go,Rae." I dropped the bag onto the 80 table."I didn't me;in to annoy you." ACT-5元 或c `儿, ，内I, . 34 36 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 3 厂＿ ＿＿ ＿＿＿厂＿＿＿ ＿＿＿ ＿ ．＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ － －．皇·•· --·一、 ．一一' . i 匕—- ，�----� ，凡 I __＿_＿_＿ . __～-－---－·_＿＿＿_-~·_＿_`-·~｀.＿ __ _．-—--.--·~- －·-｀ ＿＿_~ － 3 ,•·..、 飞 ． 、 ＼＇ "Nothing annoys me,"she said. "I feel bad."· "Do you want me to cati Dr. Ellis?" "What for?It's nothing serious.I must have eaten something that didn't agree with me."
