TOEFL Reading No. 2

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 ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION EXAMINATION
 
 Form G 
 
V. Read the following poem and answer the questions.
 
 THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES
 
 I
 Sometimes, riding in a car, in Wisconsin
 Or Illinois, you notice those dark telephone poles
 One day one lift themselves out of the fence line
 And slowly leap on the gray sky--
 5 And past "them", the snowy fields.
 
 II
 The darkness drifts down like snow on the picked cornfields
 In Wisconsin, and on these black trees
 Scattered, "one by one", 
 Through the winter fields--
10 We see stiff weeds and brownish stubble,
 And white snow left now only in the wheeltracks of the
 combine
 
 III
 It is a pleasure, also, to be driving
 Toward Chicago, near dark,
15 And see the lights in the barns.
 The bare trees more dignified than ever,
 Like a fierce man on his deathbed,
 And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow.
 
 
 
 

Reading Questions (5)

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1.

In line 5, to what does the word "them" refer to?
1) the grey sky
2) leaping
3) telephone poles
4) the fence line
Answer 3

2.

In Section II, what time of day is it?
1) night
2) evening
3) darkness
4) morning
Answer 2

3.

In line 8, to what does "one by one" refer?
1) darkness
2) snow
3) cornfields
4) black trees
Answer 4

4.

In section II, where is the snow? *
1) in the wheeltracks of combine
2) in the cornfield
3) in Wisconsin
4) on the road
Answer 1

5.

In section III, what time of year is it?
1) late spring
2) early spring
3) fall
4) winter
Answer 4

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