English reading passages (for dtm test takers)

33. According to the passage, what can you infer from the description of the Great Wall of China?
A) Nobody died at the construction.
B) Workers liked to build the wall.
C) It was used as a cemetery.
D) The wall was very long.
34. From the context of the passage, what is the best meaning of “ citizens” ?
A) kingdoms
B) people
C) books
D) projects
35. From the context of the passage, we can conclude that Qin Shi Huang ....
A) began the construction of the long wall
B) trusted everyone who served him in his court
C) ordered all the books to be published
D) made more than eight hundred clay figures
36. Which word refers to a kind of clay?
A) terracotta
B) tomb
C) underground
D) figures


Read the text and answer the questions according to it.

Avicenna was born in 980 and died sometime in June 1037. He was one o f the outstanding philosophers and thinkers o f the Islamic Golden Age, and a leader in understanding early medicine. By age 14 he had mastered many subjects and had already memorized the Quran. From the age of 14 to 18 he taught himself because he could not find a tutor to provide more information than he already knew. He began to practice and learn about medicine at 16. He was good at all o f the subjects but he had a talent for medicine. Sometime before he turned 18 years old, he cured a Samanid chief. Because o f what he did he was allowed into the libraries that were taken care of by the Samanid dynasty princes. Avicenna wrote almost 450 treatises, on a wide range o f subjects. Of these, around 240 works were on medicine. He wrote a book called The Canon o f Medicine. This

was used as medical book for over 600 years. His major work in philosophy was a book called The Book of Healing. It included his interpretation of the work of Aristotle.


37. According to the passage, Avicenna has been described as a leader of ... .
A) philosophy
B) early medicine
C) tradition
D) method