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  farm to start his own business

  (D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the

  roof of his apartment building

  (E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill

  under dangerous conditions

  20. It can be inferred from examples given in the last

  paragraph of the passage that which of the following

  was part of "the new and crushing experience of

  industrialism" (lines 46-47) for many members of

  the English working class in the nineteenth century?

  (A) Extortionate food prices

  (B) Geographical displacement

  (C) Hazardous working conditions

  (D) Alienation from fellow workers

  (E) Dissolution of family ties

  21. It can be inferred that the author of the passage

  believes that Mary Barton might have been an

  even better novel if Gaskell had

  (A) concentrated on the emotions of a single

  character

  (B) made no attempt to re-create experiences of

  which she had no firsthand knowledge

  (C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class

  dialects

  (D) grown up in an industrial city

  (E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider

  22. Which of the following phrases could best be

  substituted for the phrase "this aspect of Mary

  Barton" in line 29 without changing the meaning

  of the passage as a whole?

  (A) the material details in an urban working-class

  environment

  (B) the influence of Mary Barton on lawrence’s

  early work

  (C) the place of Mary Barton in the development

  of the English novel

  (D) the extent of the poverty and physical

  suffering among England’s industrial

  workers in the 1840’s.

  (E) the portrayal of the particular feelings and

  responses of working-class characters

  23. The author of the passage describes Mary Barton

  as each of the following EXCEPT

  (A) insightful

  (B) meticulous

  (C) vivid

  (D) poignant

  (E) lyrical

  As of the late 1980’s. neither theorists nor large-

  scale computer climate models could accurately predict

  whether cloud systems would help or hurt a warming

  globe. Some studies suggested that a four percent

  (5)increase in stratocumulus clouds over the ocean could

  compensate for a doubling in atmospheric carbon diox-

  ide, preventing a potentially disastrous planetwide temp-

  erature increase. On the other hand, an increase in cirrus

  clouds could increase global warming.

  (10) That clouds represented the weakest element in cli-

  mate models was illustrated by a study of fourteen such

  models. Comparing climate forecasts for a world with

  double the current amount of carbon dioxide, researchers

  found that the models agreed quite well if clouds were

  (15)not included. But when clouds were incorporated, a wide

  range of forecasts was produced. With such discrepancies

  plaguing the models, scientists could not easily predict

  how quickly the world’s climate would change, nor could

  they tell which regions would face dustier droughts or

  deadlier monsoons.

  24.The author of the passage is primarily concerned

  with

  (A) confirming a theory

  (B) supporting a statement

  (C) presenting new information

  (D) predicting future discoveries

  (E) reconciling discrepant findings

  25. It can be inferred that one reason the fourteen models

  described in the passage failed to agree was that

  (A) they failed to incorporate the most up-to-date

  information about the effect of clouds on

  climate

  (B) they were based on faulty information about

  factors other than clouds that affect climate.

  (C) they were based on different assumptions about

  the overall effects of clouds on climate

  (D) their originators disagreed about the kinds of

  forecasts the models should provide

  (E) their originators disagreed about the factors