- The conservatism of the early English colonists in North America, their strong attachment to the English way of doing things, would play a major part in the furniture that was made in New England. - At most the furniture makers might have had planes with special edges or more delicate chisels, but there could not have been much specialization in the early years of the colonies.. - The furniture makers in those early decades of the 1600’s were known as “joiners,”. - The cruder varieties were made by blacksmiths in the colonies, but the finer metal elements were imported. - Locks and escutcheon plates – the latter to shield the wood from the metal key – would often be imported.. - Above all, what the early English colonists imported was their knowledge of, familiarity with, and dedication to the traditional types and designs of furniture they knew in England.. - The phrase “attachment to” in line 2 is closest in meaning to. - The word “protruding” in line 13 is closest in meaning to. - Which of the following were NOT used in the construction of colonial. - The word “shield” in line 23 is closest in meaning to. - The word “they” in line 25 refers to. - Which of the following terms does the author explain in the passage?. - In addition to their military role, the forts of the nineteenth century provided numerous other benefits for the American West. - Forts also served as bases where enterprising entrepreneurs could bring commerce to the West, providing supplies and refreshments to soldiers as well as to pioneers. - All of these functions, of course, suggest that the contributions of the forts to the civilization and development of the West extended beyond patrol duty.. - Through the establishment of military posts, yet other contributions were made to the development of western culture. - During the last part of the nineteenth century, to reduce expenses, gardening was encouraged at the forts, thus making experimental agriculture another activity of the military. - Certainly, among other significant contributions the army made to the improvement of the conditions of life was the investigation of the relationships among health, climate, and architecture. - In response to the problems, detailed observations of architecture and climate and their relationships to the frequency of the occurrence of various diseases were recorded at various posts across the nation by military surgeons.. - Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the. - (A) By the nineteenth century, forts were no longer used by the military.. - (C) Forts were important to the development of the American West. - The word “daring” in line 3 is closest in meaning to. - Which of the following would a traveler be likely be LEAST likely to obtain at Fort Laramie?. - The word “others” in line 8 refers to. - The word “boosted” in line 15 is closest in meaning to. - Which of the following is the most likely inference about the decision to promote gardening at forts?. - According to the passage, which of the following posed the biggest obstacle to the development of military forts?. - The word “inhibited” in line 24 is closest in meaning to. - How did the military assists in the investigation of health problems?. - (C) explaining their damage to the environment. - Fossils often have the quality of stone rather than of organic materials, and this has led to the use of the term “petrifaction” (to bring about rock). - fossils are frequently so dense because the pores and other spaces in the bone have become filled with minerals taken up from the surrounding sediments. - Probably all of the minerals deposited within the bone have been recrystallized from solution by the action of water percolating thru them. - The degree of mineralization appears to be determined by the nature of the environment in which the bone was deposited and not by the antiquity of the bone. - For example, the black fossil bones that are so common in many parts of Florida are heavily mineralized, but they are only about 20,000 years old, whereas many of the dinosaur bones from western Canada, which are about 75 million years old, are only partially filled in. - microscopic structures of the bone, including such fine details as the lacunae where the living bone cells once resided. - The natural bone mineral, the hydroxyapatite, is virtually unaltered too – it has the same crystal structure as that of modern bone.. - Although nothing remains of the original collagen, some of its component amino acids are usually still detectable, together with amino acids of the noncollagen proteins of bone.. - The word “counterpart” in line 2 is closest in meaning to. - The word “pores” in line 7 is closest in meaning to:. - (B) Mineralization was complete within one year of the animal’s death.. - Which of the following factors is most important in determining the extent of mineralization in fossil bones?. - (B) Environmental conditions (C) The location of the bone in the. - The word “it” in line 24 refers to. - The word “detectable” in line 26 is closest in meaning to. - Which of the following does NOT survive in fossils?. - In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. - Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to young married couples and bachelors.. - The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the 1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. - But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. - In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening. - decades of the twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row house building lots. - From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.. - The new housing form discussed in the passage refers to. - The word “inviting” in line 7 is closest in meaning to. - (A) The arrangement of the rooms was not convenient.. - The word “sumptuous” in line 9 is closest in meaning to. - It can be inferred that the typical New York building lot of the 1870’s and 1880’s looked MOST like which of the following?. - It can be inferred that a New York apartment building in the 1870’s and 1880’s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:. - The word “yield” in line 15 is closest in meaning to. - Why did the idea of living in an apartment become popular in the late 1800’s?. - The author mentions the Dakota and the Ansonia in line 24 because. - A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation. - The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. - Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. - This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. - The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture for most snowfalls west of the Rocky Mountains, while the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean feed water vapor into the air currents over the central and eastern sections of the United States. - For example, areas adjacent to the Great Lakes experience their own unique lake-effect storms, employing a variation of the process on a local scale. - Which of the following questions does the author answer in the first. - The word “minute” in line 1 is closest in meaning to. - The word “adhere” in line 10 is closest in meaning to. - What is the main topic of the second paragraph?. - (A) How ice crystals form. - (B) How moisture affects temperature (C) What happens when ice crystals. - The word “it” in line 15 refers to. - (A) A decrease in the number of snowflakes. - (B) Lowered vapor pressure in ice crystals. - (C) A continuous infusion of moisture (D) A change in the direction of the. - (D) Millions of ice crystals form on the surface of a large lake.. - The word “initiate” in line 24 is closest in meaning to. - Which of the following could account for the lack of snowfall in a
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