Reading comprehension test

Submitted by: Vorapol Leelarit

While artists work from the real to the abstract, architects must work from the
abstract to the real. While art may legitimize itself as an object or an event,
architecture dissolves into a blur of buildings. Architecture, under all of its
constraints of engineering safety, function, climate responsibility and economy,
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sometimes transcends to inspire us with ideas in space and lightqualities
achieved in the abstract.

Some artists qualify the difference between architecture and art as use versus
lack of use. This characterization truncates use. What is the use of music if not
to stir the spirit? Equally a function of architecture is to inspire with a construction
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of luminous

Encountered by the body moving through space; architectures volumes, connected

in a path of overlapping perspectives, surround us like music. Space is listened to
with a step forward, a twist of the body, a tilt of the head. A wash of light dissolving
in perspective propels the body forward, from foreground to middle ground and
onward,
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exterior converge. Drawing us from one location to the next, architecture is the art
of space.

A work of architecture has an ideaan organic link between concept and form. This
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a hidden thread connecting disparate parts with exact intention. Pieces
cannot be subtracted or added without upsetting fundamental properties. The
phenomena of space, light, material/detailas understood by othersconvey the
art, whether or not the organizing idea is fully grasped.

source: http://brooklynrail.org/2013/09/criticspage/what-is-architecture-art

1) The word transcends in line 5 is closest in meaning to

1. victory
2. go beyond
3. leave behind
4. conquer

2) The word foregrounds in line 15 is closest in meaning to

a. front
b. beginning
c. focus
d. on the line

3) The word us in line 5 refers to

a. engineers
b. artists

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 c. inventors
d. architectures

4) According to the passage, why is it important to understand art and architecture?

a. To know what is useful and lack of use
b. To understand the function of art
c. To make the abstract come real
d. To organize the construction better

5) Which of the following mentioned in the third paragraph?

a. drawing art is like drawing in spaces
b. drawing a pecipective is all about a view of space
c. every architect's needed to contain foregrounds
d. art and architecture is an abstract

6) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

a. artists is needed before become an architecture
b. art is comparing to the lack of use
c. the architecture against with the space on the paper
d. inspiration of the architecture

7) Why does architecture need to draw people movement?

a. make the environment better
b. make it cool
c. show the dimension of the picture
d. attract the viewer

8) According to the passage, what does it mean to link between concept and form?
a. combine the idea with structure of building
b. combine the function with the space
c. combine the material with detail
d. combine the organizing idea with dimension

9) What is the passage mainly talk about?

a. The important of an architecture
b. The structure of an architecture
c. The inspire of an architecture
d. The difficulty of an architecture

10) What is the main topic of the first paragraph?

a. what architecture needed in their work
b. how inspiration important to architecture
c. How architecture works
d. The different between art and architects

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Sparta, also known as Lacedaemon, was an ancient Greek city-state located primarily
in the present-day region of southern Greece called Laconia. The population of Sparta
consisted of three main groups: the Spartans, or Spartiates, who were full citizens; the
Helots, or serfs; and the Perioeci, who were neither slaves nor citizens. The Perioeci,
whoseLine (5) means dwellers-around, worked as craftsmen and traders, and built
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weapons for the Spartans.

All healthy male Spartan citizens participated in the compulsory state-sponsored

education system, the Agoge, which emphasized obedience, endurance, courage and
self-control. Spartan men devoted their lives to military service, and lived communally
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well into (10) A Spartan was taught that loyalty to the state came before
everything else, including ones family.

The Helots, whose name means captives, were fellow Greeks, originally from Laconia
and Messenia, who had been conquered by the Spartans and turned into slaves. The
Spartans way of life would not have been possible without the Helots, who handled all
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the day-to-day
farmers, domestic servants, nurses and military attendants.

Spartans, who were outnumbered by the Helots, often treated them brutally and
oppressively in an effort to prevent uprisings. Spartans would humiliate the Helots by
doing such things as forcing them to get debilitating drunk on wine and then make fools
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of themselves
how an adult Spartan should never act, as self-control was a prized trait. Methods of
mistreatment could be far more extreme: Spartans were allowed to kill Helots for being
too smart or too fit, among other reasons.

source: http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/sparta

1) The word serfs in line 4 is closest in meaning to

a. slaves
b. followers
c. captive
d. prisoner

2) The word endurance in line 8 is closest in meaning to

a. ability
b. calmness
c. patience
d. experience

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3) The word themselves in line 20 refers to
a. Spartans
b. Helots
c. Athens
d. Perioeci

4) According to the passage, every Spartan male should be

a. farmer and nurse
b. attend in military
c. soldier and nurse
d. educated

5) Which of the following refers to the Perioeci?

a. the inhabitants of ancient Laconia
b. Spartan workers
c. servants
d. Spartan citizen that works as a farmer

6) According to the passage what happen to the smart helots?

a. they will get send to the war
b. they will get slaughter
c. they will get fire from the city
d. they will get treat like a slaves

7) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

a. citizens and non-citizens in Sparta
b. treatment of Helots
c. achievement of Sparta
d. group of Sparta

8) According to the passage, what should Spartan devote to the most?

a. their owns state
b. family
c. friends
d. leader

9) What is the main topic of the last paragraph?

a. the Spartans party and drunk on wine
b. what Spartan shouldnt done
c. what humiliated the Helots
d. how important of Helots

10) What is the passage mainly talk about?

a. The civilization of Sparta
b. The revenge between Sparta and Helots
c. The deal between Perioeci and Sparta
d. The workers in Sparta