forever 21 Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 READING COMPREHENSION SECTION: Hi Erin! I'm having a hard time answering this section. Could you please help me to find the answers. My exam will be next week. Thank you in advance.... All of your answers will be highly appreciated. ----> There was no known public national census anywhere before the 18th century. Any figures indicating a nation's military and economic power were guarded as state secret, like the maps of newly discovered passages through dangerous water to distant ports. The ancient population counts among the egypyian, greeks, hebrews, persians, romans and japanese were apparently aimed toward taxable people and properly, and men of military age. A different kind of accounting was the goal in the earliest recorded comprehensive census of a population and it's food supply, which was taken in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1449, when the town was threatened by a siege. The town council ordered a full count of all the mouths to be fed and an inventory of the food supply, but the results were kept secret and did not become public until two centuries later. ----> Public members are a modern by-product of new ways of thinking about government, wealth, and security. Representative government have required periodic public censuses of population in order to determine representation. The framers of the constitution of the United states pionered in this area by providing from a national census every ten years. Established in 1790, the united states census is the oldest continuous periodic census done by a nation and has served as a model for the institution elsewhere. The proposal for a ten year census was not the first census proposal made in the United states. In 1776 during the american revolution, the committee working on a preliminary body of laws for the new nation proposed the requirement of a census every 3 years. These early lawmakers understood the importance of the census even then. Today, the periodic United states census is used to determine the number of members of each state in the house of representatives, one of the two houses of US Congress. 1. The author mentions maps of newly discovered passages in the passage as example of a. information sources contributing to the 1st census b. early evidence of careful record keeping c. information kept secret by some nation d. the only surviving records of early civilization 2. The word it's in the passage refers to a. property b. age c. census d. population 3. The Nuremberg census mentioned in 1st paragraph was conducted in order to a. asses the town's ability to survive the siege b. make plans for future building projects c. assess the amount of damage caused to the town by the siege d. make plans for attacking another yowns 4. Click on the sentence in the passage that implies that early censuses did not include the entire population 5. What is the 2nd paragraph mainly about? a. the census in world history b. the beginnings of the US census c. the establishment of the US constitution d. the measurement of economic power through the ages 6. The word periodic in the passage is closest in meaning to a. regular b. final c. limited d. necessary 7. The word elsewhere in the passage is closest in meaning to a. in other places b. otherwise c. as well d. immediately 8. It can be inferred from the passage that the US census is taken a. every year b. every 3 years c. every 10 years d. at inconsistent intervals 9. Which sentence in the passage that states the 1st year in which the US census was taken 10. Which sentence in paragraph 2 that mention the specific way in which the census influences representation in the US government 11. The ff sentence can be added to the passage: Although the purposes for which these early censuses were used can only be surmised, a later example was associated with a known historical incident. Where would it best fit in the passage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol.T Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 Hi forever 21! Why don't you post your answers so that we can all discuss the questions rather than provide you with answers that can be wrong? Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever 21 Posted November 16, 2003 Author Share Posted November 16, 2003 Hi Carol! Here is my try... 1. a 2. d 3. a 4. the ancient population counts among Egyptian....... 5. b 6. a 7. a 8. c 9. established in 1790....... 10. representative government have required periodic public censuses..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol.T Posted November 16, 2003 Share Posted November 16, 2003 Hi forever 21! I agree with all your answers except Qn1. I think the answer is C The author mentions maps of newly discovered passages in the passage as example of a. information sources contributing to the 1st census b. early evidence of careful record keeping c. information kept secret by some nation d. the only surviving records of early civilization Any figures indicating a nation's military and economic power were guarded as state secret, like the maps of newly discovered passages through dangerous water to distant ports. For Qn 11, I think the sentence should come between "The ancient population counts among the egypyian, greeks, hebrews....." and "A different kind of accounting was the goal in the earliest recorded....." What do you think? Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever 21 Posted November 16, 2003 Author Share Posted November 16, 2003 Hi Carol! Thanks for you reply. Anyway, I agree with your answer on q#11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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