PTE: *Reorder Paragraph*
A. A chance meeting with Eugene Smith, the photojournalist, turned into a friendship, and Stanley credited Smith with
encouraging him to take up photography.
B. Stanley Green, one of the most eminent war photographers of the twentieth century, was born and reared in
Brooklyn, to parents who were actors.
C. A few years ago, his work chronicling that period was published in a book, called “Western Front.”
D. They encouraged him to act, and as a boy he did their bidding in a number of television commercials.
E. After stints at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, and the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanley spent nearly a decade
on the West Coast, documenting its underground punk-music scene.
F. As he grew up, in the nineteen-sixties, as he often told it later, he discovered sex, drugs, and rock and roll,
participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and joined the Black Panthers for a while.
*Answer*
B D F A E C
[27/6/2017, 9:04 AM] PTE: i)
A. Baring the teeth in a hostile way, as noted by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, may be a universal sign of
anger.
B. Joy and sadness are experienced by people in all cultures around the world, but how can we tell when other people
are happy or despondent?
C. As the originator of the theory of evolution, Darwin believed that the universal recognition of facial expressions would
have survival value.
D. Smiling is apparently a universal sign of friendliness and approval.
E. It turns out that the expression of many emotions may be universal.
F. For example, facial expressions could signal the approach of enemies (or friends) in the absence of language.
ii)
A. The applied arts are thus bound by the laws of physics, which pertain to both the materials used in their making and
the substances and things to be contained, supported, and sheltered.
B. Approaching crafts from the point of view of function, we can divide them into simple categories: containers, shelters
and supports.
C. These laws are universal in their application, regardless of cultural beliefs, geography, or climate.
D. Although we now tend to refer to the various crafts according to the materials used to construct them-clay, glass,
wood, fiber, and metal-it was once common to think of crafts in terms of function, which led to their being known as the
"applied arts."
E. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional.
iii)
A. It has been estimated that one-fourth of the Earth's land surface is threatened by this process.
B. In other cases, the finer particles may be removed, while the sand-sized particles are accumulated to form mobile hills
or ridges of sand.
C. The expansion of desertlike conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.
D. In some cases the loose soil is blown completely away, leaving a stony surface.
E. Desertification is accomplished primarily through the loss of stabilizing natural vegetation and the subsequent
accelerated erosion of the soil by wind and water.
i) B E D A C F
ii) D B E A C
iii) C A E D B
A. A chance meeting with Eugene Smith, the photojournalist, turned into a friendship, and Stanley credited Smith with
encouraging him to take up photography.
B. Stanley Green, one of the most eminent war photographers of the twentieth century, was born and reared in
Brooklyn, to parents who were actors.
C. A few years ago, his work chronicling that period was published in a book, called “Western Front.”
D. They encouraged him to act, and as a boy he did their bidding in a number of television commercials.
E. After stints at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, and the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanley spent nearly a decade
on the West Coast, documenting its underground punk-music scene.
F. As he grew up, in the nineteen-sixties, as he often told it later, he discovered sex, drugs, and rock and roll,
participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and joined the Black Panthers for a while.
*Answer*
B D F A E C
[27/6/2017, 9:04 AM] PTE: i)
A. Baring the teeth in a hostile way, as noted by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, may be a universal sign of
anger.
B. Joy and sadness are experienced by people in all cultures around the world, but how can we tell when other people
are happy or despondent?
C. As the originator of the theory of evolution, Darwin believed that the universal recognition of facial expressions would
have survival value.
D. Smiling is apparently a universal sign of friendliness and approval.
E. It turns out that the expression of many emotions may be universal.
F. For example, facial expressions could signal the approach of enemies (or friends) in the absence of language.
ii)
A. The applied arts are thus bound by the laws of physics, which pertain to both the materials used in their making and
the substances and things to be contained, supported, and sheltered.
B. Approaching crafts from the point of view of function, we can divide them into simple categories: containers, shelters
and supports.
C. These laws are universal in their application, regardless of cultural beliefs, geography, or climate.
D. Although we now tend to refer to the various crafts according to the materials used to construct them-clay, glass,
wood, fiber, and metal-it was once common to think of crafts in terms of function, which led to their being known as the
"applied arts."
E. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional.
iii)
A. It has been estimated that one-fourth of the Earth's land surface is threatened by this process.
B. In other cases, the finer particles may be removed, while the sand-sized particles are accumulated to form mobile hills
or ridges of sand.
C. The expansion of desertlike conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.
D. In some cases the loose soil is blown completely away, leaving a stony surface.
E. Desertification is accomplished primarily through the loss of stabilizing natural vegetation and the subsequent
accelerated erosion of the soil by wind and water.
i) B E D A C F
ii) D B E A C
iii) C A E D B
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