AFFLUENT FAMILIES FIND IT EASIER TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILDREN FINANCI...

2. Affluent families find it easier to support their children financially.

A. Wealthy

B. Well-off

C. Privileged

D. Impoverished

III. READING:

Part 1: Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to

each of the questions. (16pts)

Both in what is now the eastern and the southwestern United States, the peoples of

the Archaic era

(8,000-1,000 B.C) were, in a way, already adapted to beginnings of

cultivation through their intensive

gathering and processing of wild plant foods. In both

areas, there was a well-established ground stone tool

technology, a method of pounding

and grinding nuts and other plant foods that could be adapted to newly

cultivated foods.

By the end of the Archaic era, people in eastern North America had domesticated certain

native plants, including sunflowers; weeds called goosefoot, sumpweed, or marsh elder;

and squash or

gourds of some kind. These provided seeds that were important sources of

carbohydrates and fat in the diet.

The earliest cultivation seems to have taken place along the river valleys of the

Midwest and the

Southeast, with experimentation beginning as early as 7,000 years ago

and domestication beginning 4,000 to