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SECTION 6
6.
The (i)
policy only incensed
communities, who (ii)
over limited
resources and (iii)
any further
ameliorative political action.
Blank i
Blank ii
A prodigal
D equivocated
B stolid
E squabbled
C deprecatory
F malingered
Blank iii
G dilated
H scotched
I remonstrated
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SECTION 6
Questions 7 to 9 are based on the following 17th-century
before my time, which have their orbits round a certain
passage written by a working astronomer. Select one
bright star, one of those previously known, like Venus
answer unless otherwise indicated.
45 and Mercury round the Sun, and are sometimes in front 45
of it, sometimes behind it, though they never depart
In the present small treatise I set forth some matters of
from it beyond certain limits. All of which facts were
great interest for all observers of natural phenomena
discovered and observed a few days ago by the help
to look at and consider. They are of great interest, I
o a telescope de ised b e through God s grace first
thin first ro their intrinsic e cellence secondl
50 enlightening my mind.
50
5 from their absolute novelty; and lastly, also on account 5
of the instrument by the aid of which they have been
presented to my apprehension.
The number of the Fixed Stars which observers have
7.
he author uses nebulous Line
in order to
been able to see ithout artificial po ers o sight up
10 to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a 10
A show how all astronomers think alike
great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly
B refer to the stars’ locations in a nebula
before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never
C give the technical term for stars
been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously
D describe astronomers’ hazy, incomplete
known, stars in number more than ten times.
knowledge of the nature of stars
E both B and D
15 Again, it is a most beautiful and delightful sight to 15
behold the body of the Moon, which is distant from us
nearly sixty
semi
-diameters of the Earth, as near as if
it was at a distance of only two of the same measures;
8.
The primary purpose of the passage is to:
so that the diameter of this same Moon appears about
20 thirty times larger, its surface about nine hundred times, 20
A wax poetic on all things astronomy
and its solid mass nearly 27,000 times larger than when
B persuade philosophers and astronomers to
it is viewed only with the naked eye; and consequently
pursue new discoveries
any one may know with the certainty that is due to the
C present new knowledge on the moon
use of our senses, that the Moon certainly does not
D prove which planets revolve around the sun
25 possess a smooth and polished surface, but one rough 25
E describe the author’s discoveries using a
and uneven, and, just like the face of the Earth itself,
telescope
is everywhere full of vast protuberances, deep chasms,
and sinuosities.
Then to have got rid of disputes about the Galaxy or
9.
The passage mentions all of the following EXCEPT:
30 Milky Way, and to have made its nature clear to the very 30
senses, not to say to the understanding, seems by no
A the discovery of four planets
means a matter which ought to be considered of slight
B the viewing of a comet
importance. In addition to this, to point out, as with
C current disputes regarding the Milky Way
ones finger the nature o those stars hich e er one o
D the distance to the moon
35 the astronomers up to this time has called
nebulous
, and 35
E the stars identifiable to the na ed e e
to demonstrate that it is very different from what has
hitherto been belie ed ill be pleasant and er fine.
But that which will excite the greatest astonishment by
far, and which indeed especially moved me to call the
40 attention o all astrono ers and philosophers is this 40
namely, that I have discovered four planets, neither
known nor observed by any one of the astronomers
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