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WEEKLY TEST READING Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________________ Teacher: Millicent Grace M. Lopez Score: _____________________ PART I READING COMPREHENSION An oil conglomerate has allegedly spent nearly $25 million on campaigns to discredit climate change and clean energy policies, according to a new report. Koch Industries, which is owned and run by two Kansas-based brothers and has substantial oil and chemicals interests, spent the sum between 2005 and 2008 to finance "organizations of the 'climate denial machine'", claims the environmental campaign group Greenpeace. Despite the relatively small size of the conglomerate, the sum is three times that spent by ExxonMobil, the western world's biggest oil company, in the same period. According to Greenpeace, Koch foundations had provided substantial funding to at least 20 organizations involved in highlighting "Climategate", the controversy surrounding climate scientists that was prompted by emails hacked from the University of East Anglia. A recent survey found that 73 percent of Americans believe global warming is happening, but only 18 per cent believed strongly it was man-made and harmful. The brothers share 24th place in Forbes magazine's latest list of the world's richest people, controlling America's second-biggest private company from their base in Wichita. In all, their more than 20 companies employ 70,000 people in 60 countries and earn $100 billion in annual sales. Answer these questions (choose the best answer):

1. How many Americans believe that climate change is "man-made" or "harmful"? 73% 27% Less than 20% 2. According to the article, how much did ExxonMobil spend on campaigns to discredit climate change and clean energy policies, compared to Koch Industries? About three times more About three times less

About two times more 3. Koch Industries is based out of _________________. Wichita, Kansas The University of East Anglia 60 countries 4. Which of the following is NOT true of Koch Industries? It has substantial oil and chemicals interests. It is run by three brothers. It employs about 70,000 people worldwide. 5. Who is making these allegations against Koch Industries? The University of East Anglia Forbes magazine Greenpeace While airports across the nation including in Oakland and San Jose are losing passengers by the planeful, San Francisco International is gaining business by taking advantage of cheaper flights. SFO had 18.4 million passengers in 2009, 330,000 more than in 2008. It was the sixth straight year more people went through the airport, according to federal statistics released Monday. SFO's traffic rose 2 percent from 18.1 million travelers in 2008, and has grown by 31 percent since 2003, when it had 14.1 million passengers. By contrast, air travel has dipped each of the past two years across the nation, from 838 million passengers in 2007 to 770 million in 2009. SFO maintained its rank as the 10th-most-used airport in the United States and was the only airport in the top 10 that did not lose traffic. SFO has climbed from No. 13 in 2007 and was on pace to surpass Nos. 7-9, Houston, Las Vegas and Phoenix, respectively, by year's end. Still, SFO has lost international fliers each of the past two years and has yet to reach levels from before air travel plummeted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. SFO spokesman Mike McCarron said officials expect another small increase in traffic this year, likely about 3 percent to 4 percent. Such a gain would put the airport at its highest passenger count since its record year in 1999. He credited the addition of Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Virgin American, all lowcost carriers that began flying out of SFO in 2007 as the economy was teetering on the edge.

Fliers have been flocking to the cheaper airlines as they expand service, and Southwest has become SFO's third most-popular carrier. Answer these questions (choose the best answer):

1. How many more passengers does San Francisco International airport (SFO) have now than in 2003? 18.4 million 330,000 About one third more 2. How many other of the "top 10" airports in the United States didn't lose traffic in 2009? None Only one other airport Oakland and San Jose 3. Across the United States, close to ________________ fewer passengers flew in 2009 than in 2008. 770 million 840 million 70 million 4. According to this article, what's the main reason for SFO's success? bad decisions made by nearby airports it is a hub for several low-cost airlines increasing number of international fliers 5. What's expected to happen in 2010, in terms of passengers at SFO? The airport is expecting a slight decrease in 2010. The airport is expecting another increase. The airport expect its highest passenger count ever. I have yet to meet a poetry-lover under thirty who was not an introvert, or an introvert who was not unhappy in adolescence. At school, particularly, maybe, if, as in my own case, it is a boarding school, he sees the extrovert successful, 5 happy, and good and himself unpopular or neglected; and what is

hardest to bear is not unpopularity, but the consciousness that it is deserved, that he is grubby and inferior and frightened and dull. Knowing no other kind of society than the contingent, he imagines that this arrangement is part of the eternal scheme of 10 things, that he is doomed to a life of failure and envy. It is not till he grows up, till years later he runs across the heroes of his school days and finds them grown commonplace and sterile, that he realizes that the introvert is the lucky one, the best adapted to an industrial civilization the collective values of which are so 15 infantile that he alone can grow, who has educated his fantasies and learned how to draw upon the resources of his inner life. At the time, however, his adolescence is unpleasant enough. Unable to imagine a society in which he would feel at home, he turns away from the human to the nonhuman: homesick he will seek, 20 not his mother, but mountains or autumn woods, and the growing life within him will express itself in a devotion to music and thoughts upon mutability and death. Art for him will be something infinitely precious, pessimistic, and hostile to life. If it speaks of love it must be love frustrated, for all success seems to 25 him noisy and vulgar; if it moralizes, it must counsel a stoic resignation, for the world he knows is well content with itself and will not change. Deep as first love and wild with all regret, O death in life, the days that are no more. Now more than ever seems it sweet to die To cease upon the midnight with no pain. 35 That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson, Keats, Swinburne, Housman or another, awakens a passion of imitation and an affectation which no subsequent refinement or sophistication of his taste can entirely destroy. In my own case it 40 was Hardy in the summer of 1923; for more than a year I read no one else and I do not think that I was ever without one volume or another or the beautifully produced Wessex edition in my hands: I smuggled them into class, carried them about on Sunday walks, and took them up to the dormitory to read in the early morning, 45 though they were far too unwieldy to be read in bed with comfort. In the autumn of 1924 there was a palace revolution after which he had to share his kingdom with Edward Thomas, until finally they were both defeated by Elliot at the battle of Oxford in 1926. 50 Besides serving as the archetype of the Poetic, Hardy was also an expression of the contemporary scene. He was both my

Keats and my Sandburg. To begin with, he looked like my father: that broad unpampered moustache, bald forehead, and deeply lined 55 sympathetic face belonged to that other world of feeling and sensation. Here was a writer whose emotions, if sometimes monotonous and sentimental in expression, would be deeper and more faithful than my own, and whose attachment to the earth would be more secure and observant. 1. According to the author, poetry lovers under thirty generally A. have a strong sense of their own inferiority during school years B. are always products of boarding schools C. have an unhappy home life D. are outgoing as adolescents E. long to return to early childhood 2. The authors main purpose is apparently to A. describe what lead to his being an introvert B. explore the reasons for his early taste in poetry C. explain what lead to his becoming a poet D. account for the unhappy adolescents aesthetic sense E. criticize a system that makes young people feel unhappy and neglected 3. The word contingent (line 8) most nearly means A. juvenile B. scholarly C. competitive D. immediate E. intelligent 4. The author regards the introverted adolescent as ultimately lucky because he has A. become financially successful in an industrialized society B. ceased to envy others C. cultivated inner resources that he will need in modern society D. a better general education than those who were envied in school E. learned to appreciate nature

5. To the adolescent the authentic poetic note is one of A. pain and affirmation B. hostility and vulgarity C. contentment and peace D. purity and love E. melancholy and acceptance 6. It can be inferred that, for the author, the poetry of Hardy is A. something with which he is not entirely comfortable B. a temporary interest soon supplanted by other poetry C. a secret obsession that he is reluctant to confess D. his first poetic love that time has not entirely erased E. a childlike passion 7. The author uses all of the following to make his point except A. metaphor B. personal experience C. generalization D. classical allusions E. comparison 8. The poetry quoted (lines 28-34) is most likely included as A. extracts from the authors own poetry B. extracts from Hardys poetry C. examples of poetry that appeals to the unhappy adolescent D. the type of poetry much admired by all poetry lovers E. examples of schoolboy poetry 9. It can be inferred that Edward Thomas A. was once held in high esteem by the author B. was a better poet than Hardy C. was writing in 1924 D. had views opposed to Eliot E. wrote poetry similar to that of Hardy

10. The author mentions Carl Sandburg (line 52) as A. an example of a modern poet B. an example of a traditional figure C. having a poetic appearance D. a poet to appeal to young people E. resembling his father 11. The author qualifies his appreciation of Hardy by pointing out that Hardys poetic techniques were A. sometimes unmoving B. not always deeply felt C. occasionally lacking in variety D. always emotional E. irrelevant to certain readers 12. The author feels that Hardys physical appearance suggested A. deep and lasting feelings B. paternal values C. careworn old age D. a contemporary writer E. fatherly concern