Reading passages

82- According to the passage, the pyramids were built .......... .
A) after their owners died
B) to provide places for people to rest
C) before the owners passed away
D) when the owners reached a ripe old age
E) to show future generations how the Egyptians lived
83- It is stated in the passage that the owners were buried in the pyramids ........ .
A) after being treated with special substances
B) after a long funeral
C) together with people important to them
D) along with their belongings
E) because they were thought to be gods
84- The author states that the magnificence of the tombs .......... .
A) was due to the owners’ many possessions
B) caused the owners to be worshipped during their lives
C) was due to the fact that they were owned by gods
D) was increased after the owners’ deaths
E) increased an owner’s prominence while he was alive
Though he was a fearless explorer and is often recognised today as the discoverer of the Americas, Christopher Columbus turned out to be a poor geographer. He ended up in a debtor’s prison. He never realised that he had discovered unknown western continents, and to his dying day in 1506 he never admitted to locating any place but the Indies. Geographers overlooked his contribution and named the Western continents after another mariner, Amerigo Vespucci, a merchant from Florence who participated in a Portuguese expedition to South Americas in 1501. In a widely reprinted letter, Vespucci contended that a “new world” had been found, and it was his name that caught on.
85- It is clear from the passage that ......... .
A) the New World was named after the sailor having claimed to have found it
B) Columbus never wanted to believe that he had discovered the New World
C) Amerigo Vespucci had financed the exhibition himself
D) the majority of geographers have disdained Columbus’s contribution
E) Columbus was afraid to declare the newly-found land to be a new continent