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An Ancient Steam Engine 34)


This transcript is taken from The Growth of Steam Engines: a A. No change.
book first published in 1877
B. civilization; the

As religion has always been, and still is, the great C. civilization, the

moral agent in civilizing the world and as science is the D. civilization the

great intellectual promoter of (34) civilization, so the 35) Which word best serves the idea of the sentence?

steam-engine is, in modern times, the most important A. No change

physical agent of our civilized world. Our civilization is B. numerous

the accumulation of works and efforts of (35) C. too many

innumerable minds (36) of which lived, live, and D. much of numbers

would live on earth. In other words, (37) as an 36)

intellectual once wrote, “Great inventions are never, and A. No change

great discoveries are seldom, the work of one mind.” B. of whom


C. of them who
D. of who
(38) Egypt, older in civilization than either
37)
Greece or Rome, fell before the assault of the younger
A. No change
states. 1. It is among the relics of the ancient Egyptian
B. an intellectual once wrote —
civilization that we find the first records in the early
C. an intellectual once wrote,
history of the steam-engine. 2. In Alexandria, a
D. while an intellectual once wrote:
prominent writer called Hero produced a manuscript
which he entitled "Spiritalia seu Pneumatica." (39) 3. It
38) To make the best transition to the next paragraph,
is most probable that the apparatus described in the
the underline sentence should be:
manuscript are principally devices which had either
A. kept ( no change)
been long known or were invented by Ctesibus, an
B. Deleted from the paragraph
inventor who was famous for the number and ingenuity
C. Replaced by “It is normally that ancient
of the hydraulic and pneumatic machines that he
Egypt held the famous inventors.”
devised. 4. It is quite uncertain whether Hero was the
D. Move this sentence to be the last one in
inventor of any of the contrivances described in his
the previous paragraph.
work. The British museum contains four manuscript
39) To keep the coherence of this paragraph, where
copies of Hero's Pneumatics, which were written in the
should sentence (3) be placed?
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (40) These manuscripts
A. No change.
have been examined with great care, and a translation
B. Before sentence 1.
from them prepared by Prof. J. G. Greenwood.
C. Before sentence 2.
D. After sentence 4.

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In the Pneumatics, Hero sketches and describes a
40) The author is planning to delete the underline
method of opening temple-doors by the action of fire on
sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?
an altar, an ingenious (41) device, and contains all the
A. Kept, because it proves the authenticity
elements of the machine of the Marquis of Worcester --
of the manuscript.
the first real steam-engine. The sketch exhibits the
B. Kept, because it shows the importance of
device very plainly. Beneath the temple-doors, in the
the manuscript.
space ABCD is placed a spherical vessel, H, containing
C. Deleted, because authentication of
water. A pipe, FG, connects the upper part of this sphere
documents should not include the
with the hollow and air-tight shell of the altar above,
translator’s name.
DE. Another pipe, KLM, leads from the bottom of the
D. Deleted, because it doesn’t add to the
vessel, H, over, in syphon-shape, to the bottom of a
topic of the paragraph.
suspended bucket, NX. The suspending cord is carried
41)
over a pulley and led around two vertical barrels, 0 P,
A. No change
turning on pivots at their feet, and carrying the doors
B. device although contains
above. Ropes led over a pulley, R, sustain a
C. device that contains
counterbalance, W. (42)
D. device while
On building a fire on the altar, the (43) heated air
42) This paragraph and Fig (1) show
within expands, passes through the pipe, F G, and drives
A. how an ancient steam apparatus works to
the water contained in the vessel, H, through the
open temple doors.
syphon, ICL M, into the bucket, NX. The weight of the
B. that this steam device was obsolete.
bucket, which then descends, turns the barrels, 0 P,
C. the components of a mechanical
raises the counter• balance, and opens the doors of the
invention.
temple. On extinguishing the fire, the air is condensed,
D. the comparison between an ancient
the water returns through the syphon from the bucket to
steam engine and that of Marquis of
the sphere, the counterbalance falls, and the doors (44)
Worcester.
were closed.
43)
A. No change
B. heated air without expands
C. heated air whether expands
D. heated air with expands
44)
A. No change
B. will be
C. are
D. delete the underline word
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Fig (1) Opening Temple-doors by Steam

B.C. 200

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