15 - Minute Test (No. 03) - Class: 11

The 15-Minute Test (No. 03)
Grade: 11 
 LEVELS 
THEMES
KNOWLEDGE
COMPREHENSION
APPLICATION
 LOW LEVEL
HIGH LEVEL
 Reading 
- Read a passage about Post office ( 150 words) and choose the best answer 
- Read sentences about Source of energy and fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the box.
No. of Questions: 10
Total Points: 10
Percentage: 100%
50% = 5 points
5 questions
50% = 5 points
5 questions
15-Minute Test (No. 03)
Full name: ...................................................... 	 
Class: 11 ....... 
 Mark 	 Teacher's remark	
I. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question.
 	Between the Revolutionary period and the World War I, the United States post office was set out to improve transportation of the post office mails. From those early days to the present, the post office has helped develop and subsidize every new mode of transportation in the United States. Transportation has been the most important element in mail delivery. Even when the general public had still suspected of the security of a new means of transportation, the post office experimented with inventions that offered potential for moving the mail faster, occasionally I suffering embarrassment, ridicule, or even abuse in the process.
As mail delivery evolved from foot to horseback, stagecoach, steamboat, railroad, automobile, and airplane, with intermediate and overlapping use of balloons, and helicopters, post office mail contracts ensured the income necessary to build the great highways, rail lines, and airways 'that eventually spanned the continent.
By the turn of the 19th century, the U.S. Post Office had purchased a number of stagecoaches for operation on the nation's better post roads - a post road being any road on which the mail travels - and continued to encourage new designs to improve passenger comfort and carry mail more safely.
1.	The passage is about	.
A.	transportation of the Post Office in the US	 
B. the Post Office in the Revolutionary period
C. 	the Post Office in the World War I 
D.	transportation and public ideas
2.	According to the passage, the main purpose of the Post Office is	.
A.	to develop transportation 	 
B.	to apply new means of transportation
C.	to deliver mail as safely and fast as possible 
D.	to subsidize every new mode of transportation
3.	Which means of transportation used in the Post Office is NOT referred in the passage?
A. train	B. car	C. plane	D. motorcycle
4.	The Post Office	.
A.	has never used helicopters in delivery 
B.	contributes income to build highways, railroads, and airways
C. 	has never been the first to use a new means of transportation 
D. makes no contribution to build roads
5. Any road on which the mail travels is called.	.
A. motorway	B. highway	C. national road D. post road
II. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
About twenty percent of the world’s present energy already comes from the sun in one form or another. Special devices have already been made available to  (1) on the roofs of houses and flats to (2) the sun X-rays and thus heat water. Thousands ..(3) these devices are now being used to provide (4) in homes throughout the United States while more ..(5) a million solar water-heating units have already been built in homes in Japan.	
1 A. put	B. locate	C. fit	D. fix
2 A. greet	B. catch	C. contain	D. manufacture
3.A in	B. with	C. on	D of
4.A. light	B. energy	C. life	D existence
5.A. than	B. of	C. through	D over
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Keys to 15-Minute Test
Total mark: 10 points
One point for each correct answer.
I. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each question. (5 pts, each correct answer gets 1 pt)
1. A 	 	2. C	3. D	4. B	5. D
II. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. (5 pts)
(5 pts, each correct answer gets 1 pt)
1. A 	 	2. B	3. D	4. B	5. A
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