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