【正文】 in the same section of the farm. Right Answer:1 8. The word they in the passage refers to merchants hectares windmill drainage pump 滿分網(wǎng)（ ） Right Answer:2 9. According to paragraph 5, which of the following was an important reason why landreclamation projects in the first half of the seventeenth century proceeded rapidly? Windmills became powerful enough to run drainage pumps efficiently. Merchants invested large amounts of money in reclamation. High interest rates discouraged people from buying land already available Reclaimed land was much more Suitable for agriculture than the existing land. Right Answer:3 10. The word legendary in the passage is closest in meaning to continuous well documented famous expensive Right Answer:1 11. The word astonishing in the passage is closest meaning to incredible unfortunate predicted evident Right Answer:2 12. Which of the following best describes the anization of the passage? A presentation of a theory and the evidence in favor of it A general statement followed by examples and relevant details A series of statements leading to a conclusion The effects of tall buildings on airflow Right Answers,4 13. Look at the four squares [█ ] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage. i Some villages specialized in growing cabbages and carrots。 others grew onions, mustard, and coriander。 and still others produced fruit and cultivated trees in nurseries. /i Where would the sentence best fit? Click on a square to add the sentence to the passage. █ █ █ 滿分網(wǎng)（ ） █ Right Answers:4,5,6 14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THERR answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points. Agriculture formed one of the primary sectors of the economy in seventeenthcentury Netherlands. The Baltic region produces large quantities of grain for export to other regions, including the Netherlands. The richest people grew enough fruits and vegetables to Supply the entire country with fresh produce An agricultural crisis that began in Europe did not affect Dutch landreclamation projects. Specialization in dairy farming, industrial crops, and horticulture allowed the Dutch to be more productive than some other regions in Europe. Land reclamation and improvement allowed the Dutch to meet demands for their agricultural products Because the Dutch had specialized their agricultural output they were less susceptible to the crisis that Europe experienced from the beginning of the century 滿分網(wǎng)（ ） Rock Art of the Australian Aborigines(TPO233) Ever since Europeans first explored Australia, people have been trying to understand the ancient rock drawings and carvings created by the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the continent. Early in the nieenth century, encounters with Aboriginal rock art tended to be infrequent and open to speculative interpretation, but since the late nieenth century, awareness of the extent and variety of Australian rock art has been growing. In the latter decades of the twentieth century there were intensified efforts to understand and record the abundance of Australian rack art. The systematic study of this art is a relatively new discipline in Australia. Over the past four decades new discoveries have steadily added to the body of knowledge. The most significant data have e from a concentration on three major questions. First, what is the age of Australian rock art? Second, what is its stylistic anization and is it possible to discern a sequence or a pattern of development between styles? Third, is it possible to interpret accurately the subject matter of ancient rock art, bringing to bear all available archaeological techniques and the knowledge of presentday Aboriginal information. {27}█ {/27} The age of Australia39。s rock art is constantly being revised, and earlier datings have been proposed as the result of new discoveries. {27} █{/27}Currently, eliable scientific evidence dates the earliest creation of art on rock surfaces in Australia to somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago. {27}█ {/27}This in itself is an almost inprehensible span of generations, and one that makes Australia39。s rock art the oldest continuous art tradition in the world. {27}█ {/27} Although the remarkable antiquity of Australia39。s rock art is now established, the sequences and meanings of its images have been widely debated. Since the mid1970s a reasonably stable picture has formed of the anization of Australian rock art. In order to create a sense of structure to this picture, researchers have relied on a distinction that still underlies the forms of much indigenous visual culture a distinction between geometric and figurative elements. Simple geometric repeated patternscircles, concentric circles, and linesconstitute the iconography (characteristic images) of the earliest rockart 滿分網(wǎng)（ ） sites found across Australia. [20]The frequency with which certain, simple motifs appear in these oldest sites has led rockart researchers to adopt descriptive termthe Panaramitee stylea label which takes its name from the extensive rock pavements at Panaramitee North in desert South Australia, which are covered with motifs pecked into the surface[/20]. Certain features of these engravings lead to the conclusion that they are of great agegeological changes had clearly happened af