Saturday, April 11, 2015
READING COMPREHENSION
Question 1-10
Sometimes mail
arrives at the post office, and it is impossible to deliver the mail. Perhaps
there is inadequate or illegible and no return address. The post office cannot
just throw this mail away, so this becomes “dead mail”. This dead mail is sent
to one of the U.S Postal Service’s dead-mail offices in Atlanta, New York,
Philadelphia, St. Paul, or San Francisco. Seventy-five million pieces of mail
can end up in the dead-mail office in one year.
The staff of
the dead-mail offices have a variety of ways to deal with all of these pieces
of dead mail. First of all, they look for clues that can help them to deliver
the mail; they open the packages in the hope that something inside will show
where the package came from or is going to. Dead mail will also be listed on a
computer so that people can call in and check to see if a missing item is
there.
However, all
of this mail cannot simply be stored forever; there is just too much of it.
When a lot of dead mail has piled up, the dead-mail offices hold public
auctions. Every three months, the public is invited in and bins containing
items found in dead-mail packages are sold to the highest bidder.
1.
The best title for the passage is
(A)
The U.S Portal Service
(B)
Staff Responsibilities at the U.S Postal
Service
(C)
Why Mail Is Undeliverable
(D)
Dead-Mail Offices
2.
Dead mail is mail that
(A)
Has no use
(B)
Has been read and thrown away
(C)
Is unwanted
(D)
Is undeliverable
3.
The word “illegible” in line 2 is
closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A)
Incomplete
(B)
Missing
(C)
Unreadable
(D)
Incorrect
4.
According to the passage, how many
dead-mail offices does the U.S Postal Service have?
(A)
3
(B)
5
(C)
15
(D)
75
5.
The word “Staff” in line 6 is
closest in meaning to
(A)
Workers
(B)
Machines
(C)
Rules
(D)
Pieces of furniture
6.
Which of the following in NOT
mentioned as a way that post office staff members deal with dead mail?
(A)
They search for clues
(B)
They throw dead mail away
(C)
They open dead mail
(D)
They list dead mail on a computer
7.
It is implied in the passage that
the dead-mail staff would be happy if they opened a package and found
(A)
Money
(B)
Jewelry
(C)
A computer
(D)
An address
8.
In ine 9, the expression “call in”
could best be replaced by
(A)
Visit
(B)
Phone
(C)
Shout
(D)
Talk
9.
The word “auctions” in line 11 is
closest in meaning to
(A)
Sales
(B)
Deliveres
(C)
Meetings
(D)
Demonstrations
10. The passage
indicates that dead-mail auctions are held
(A)
Once a year
(B)
Twice a year
(C)
Three times a year
(D)
Four times a year
