Written documentation of the history of New York City began with the first European visit to the area by Giovanni da Verrazzano, in command of the French ship, La Dauphine, when he visited the region in 1524. It is believed he sailed in Upper New York Bay where he encountered nativeLenape, returned through The Narrows where he anchored the night of April 17, and then left to continue his voyage. He named the area of present-day New York City Nouvelle-Angoulême (New Angoulême) in honor of Francis I of France, King of France and Count of Angoulême.[1] Continue reading
Category English for IT II
Diary 1 Meeting
I entered my first class taught by a mother in Solaria, but this is the first time in semester 2 in English for the II, the first meeting is on bilingual photosynthesis.Miss sloria asking me to download and open the first meeting for the keynote and then he ordered I was to find the main idea of the first paragraph of photosynthesis. I worked with my friend qodar to find the main idea of the best and I finally succeeded. His next after making my ideas and my friends were told to make a diary of meetings 1 to 14. Continue reading
Always attend the class and come on time, have >50% battery ipad
Do all quizzes given
Quiz Meeting 14 and Problem
1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Metropolitan Statistical Areas
B. Types of Population Centers
C. The Bureau of the Census
D. Megapolises
2.According to the passage, where do most Americans live?
A. In the center of cities
B. In the suburbs surrounding large cities
C. In rural areas
D. In small towns
3.According to the Bureau of the Census, what is an urban area?
A. An area with 2500 people or more
B. An area with at least 50,000 people
C. The eighteen largest cities
D. A chain of adjacent cities
4.Which of the following are NOT considered important in defining an urban area?
A. Political boundaries
B. Transportation networks
C. Social relationships
D. Economic systems
5.The word integrate in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to?
A. benefit
B. define
C. unite
D. restrict
6.The word its in paragraph 2 refers to?
A. the MSA’s
B. the area’s
C. the city’s
D. the population’s
7.The word adjacent in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to?
A. beside each other
B. growing very fast
C. the same size
D. densely populated
8.According to the passage, what is a megapolis?
A. One of the ten largest cities in the United States
B. One of the eighteen largest cities in the United states
C. One of the one hundred cities between Boston and Washington
D. Any number of continuous adjacent cities and suburbs
9.Why does the author mention the Eastern Corridor and the California coast in paragraph 3?
A. As examples of megapolises
B. Because 75 percent of the population lives there
C. To conclude the passage
D. The Bureau of the Census is located there
Quiz Meeting 13 and Problem
1.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A.Earthquakes
B.The Richter scale
C.Charles F. Richter
D.Seismography
2.According to information in the passage, what does the Richter scale record?
A. The distance from the epicenter
B. The amplitude of the largest trace
C. The degree of damage
D.The location of the epicenter
3.The word standard in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by?
A. reliable
B. complex
C. conventional
D. abandoned
4.What is the value of the tables?
A. They allow us to interpret the magnitude of earthquakes
B. They help us to calculate our distance from earthquakes
C. They record all earthquakes
D. They release the energy of earthquakes
5.How does each number on the Richter scale compare?
A. Each number is one hundred times as strong as the previous number
B. Each magnitude is ten times stronger than the previous magnitude
C. The strength of each magnitude is one less than the previous magnitude
D. The scale decreases by five or six for each number
6.What does the author means by the statement :
Because the effects of such shaking dissipate with distance from the epicenter of the earthquake, the Mercalli rating depends on the site of the measurement?
A. The Mercalli rating will vary depending on the location of the measurement
B. The results of the Mercalli rating are less accurate at greater distances from the epicenter
C. The stronger shaking of the earthquake at the center is not detected by the Mercalli rating
D. The Mercalli rating is useful because it is taken farther away from the center of the earthquake
7.The word undetected in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to?
A. with no damage
B. with no notice
C. with no name
D. with no problem
8.With which of the following statements would the author most probably agree?
A. Only the Richter scale describes earthquakes in quantitative terms
B. Both the Richter scale and the Mercalli Scale measure earthquakes in the same way
C. Most earthquakes are measurable on either the Richter or the Mercalli scale
D. The Mercalli and the Richter scales are different but they can be compared
9.The passage discusses all of the following in the explanation of the Richter scale EXCEPT?
A. It was introduced in 1935
B. It was developed by an American seismologist
C. It has a scale of 1 to 12
D. It measures the magnitude of earthquakes
Quiz Meeting 12 and Problem
1. Which of the following is the author’s main point?
A. Noise may pose a serious threat to our physical and psychological health
B. Loud noises signal danger
C. Hearing loss is America’s number one nonfatal health problem
D. The ear is not like the eye
2.According to the passage, what is noise?
A. Unwanted sound
B. A byproduct of technology
C. Physical and psychological harm
D. Congestion
3.Why is noise difficult to measure?
A. It causes hearing loss
B. All people do not respond to it in the same way
C.It is unwanted
D. People become accustomed to it
4. The word congested in paragraph 1 could best be replaced by?
A. hazardous
B. polluted
C. crowded
D. rushed
5. According to the passage, people respond to loud noise in the same way that they respond to?
A. annoyance
B. danger
C. damage
D. disease
6. The phrase as wellin paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
A. after all
B. also
C. instead
D. regardless
7.It can be inferred from this passage that the eye?
A. responds to fear
B. enjoys greater protection than the ear
C. increases functions
D. is damaged by noise
8.With which of the following statements would the author most probably agree?
A. Noise is not a serious problem today
B. Noise is America’s number one problem
C. Noise is an unavoidable problem in an industrial society
D. Noise is a complex problem
Quiz Meeting 11 and Problem
1. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
C. The current American family
D. The ideal family
C. The current American family
D. The ideal family
2.The word current in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by which of the following?
A. Typical
B. Present
C. perfect
D. Traditional
3.The word none in paragraph 2 refers to?
A. parents
B. children
C. couples
D. Families
4.How many single people were identified in the survey?
A. One third of the total surveyed
B. One fourth of the total surveyed
C. One fifth of the total surveyed
D. Less than one tenth of the total surveyed
5.Who generally constitutes a one-person household?
A. A single man in his twenties
B. An elderly man
C. A single woman in her late sixties
D. A divorced woman
6.The word undervalues in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to?
A. does not appreciate
B. does not know about
C. does not include
D. does not understand
7.The passage discusses all of the following reasons for an increase in single-parent householdsEXCEPT?
A. a rising divorce rate
B. death of one of the parents
C. increased interest in parenting by fathers
D. babies born to single women
8.With which of the following statements would the author most probably agree?
A.There have always been a wide variety of family arrangements in
the United States
B. Racial, ethnic, and religious groups have preserved the traditional family structure
C.The ideal American family is the best structure
D. Fewer married couples are having children
Quiz Meeting 10 and Problem
1. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. The influenza virus
B. Immunity to disease
C. Bacteria
D. Chemical molecules
2. According to this passage, bacteria are?
A. poisons
B. very small
C. larger than viruses
D. Plants
3. The word strictlyin paragraph 1 could best be replaced by?
A. Unusually
B. Completely
C. broadly
D. Exactly
4. The atomic structure of viruses?
A. is variable
B. is strictly defined
C. cannot be analyzed chemically
D. is more complex than that of bacteria
5.Why does the author say that viruses are alive?
A. The have a complex atomic structure
B. They move
C. They multiply
D. They need warmth and light
6.The word unlimitedin paragraph 1 could best be replaced by which of the following?
A. very small
B. very large
C. very similar
D. very different
7.According to the passage, how does the body react to the influenza virus?
A. It prevents further infection to other types and strains of the virus
B. It produces immunity to the type and strain of virus that invaded it
C. It becomes immune to types A, B, and C viruses, but not to various strains within the types
D. After a temporary immunity, it becomes even more susceptible to the type and strain that caused the influenza
8.The passage discusses all of the following as characteristics of pandemics EXCEPT
A. they spread very quickly
B. they are caused by type-A virus
C. they are regional outbreaks
D. they occur once every ten years
Quiz Meeting 9 and Problem
1.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?
A. The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park
B. The nature of geysers
C. The ratio of temperature to pressure in underground water
D. Regions of geologically recent volcanic activity
2.In order for a geyser to erupt?
A. hot rocks must rise to the surface of the Earth
B. water must flow underground
C. it must be a warm day
D. the earth must not be rugged or broken
3.The word it in paragraph 1 refers to?
A. Water
B. Depth
C. pressure
D. Surface
4.As depth increases?
A. pressure increases but temperature does not
B. temperature increases but pressure does not
C. both pressure and temperature increase
D. neither pressure nor temperature increases
5.Why does the author mention and Ice in?
A. To compare areas of high volcanic activity
B. To describe the Yellowstone National Park
C. To provide examples of areas where geysers are located
D. To name the two regions where all geysers are found
6.Hoe often does Old Faithful erupt?
A. Every 10 minutes
B. Every 60 minutes
C. Every 125 minutes
D. Every 170 minutes
7.The word expelling in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. Heating
B. Discharging
C. supplying
D. Wasting
8.What does the author mean by the statement :
Old Faithful earned its name because, unlike most geysers, it has never failed to erupt on schedule even once in eighty years of observation?
A. Old faithful always erupts on schedule
B. Old Faithful is usually predictable
C. Old Faithful erupts predictably like other geysers
D. Old Faithful received its name because it has been observed for many years
9.According to the passage, what is required for a geyser to function?
A. A source of heat, a place for water to collect,an opening, and underground channels
B. An active volcano nearby and a water reservoir
C. Channels in the Earth and heavy rainfall
D. Volcanic activity, underground channels, andsteam
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