The filled of education covering ethics, religions, skills, and general knowledge is a
  very broad and vital one. The importance of learning in enabling the individual to put his
  potentials to optimal use is self-evident. Without education, the training of the human
  mind is incomplete. No individual is a human being in the proper sense until he has been
  educated. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision maker. It achieves
  this by bringing him knowledge from the external world, teaching him the reason, and
  making him familiar with past history, so that he may be a better judge of the present.
  Without education man, as it were, is shut up in a windowless room. With education he finds himself in a
  room with all its windows open to the outside world.
  
  1. What's the main idea of the passage?
   A) windows or education
   B) general knowledge
   C) the significance of education
   D) incompletion of man
  2. What is the meaning of the word "broad"?
   A) educated
   B) wide
   C) decisive
   D) painful
  3. Which one isn't true about education?
   A) The field of which covers religion is vital.
   B) One can reach the outside world with education.
   C) Education makes a right thinker correct.
   D) One's potentials are changed to optimal use with the power of education.
  4. What would human be with education?
   A) He would be shut up as he was.
   B) He would be in a room full of windows as it was.
   C) He would be as he was.
   D) He would be in a room with windows.
  5. What does the word "this" refer to?
   A) being a right thinker and a correct decision maker
   B) man
   C) correct decision maker
   D) right thinker

  Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. He became a sailor at the
  age of 14. In 1476, he was shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal. Portugal was Europe's
  top seafaring nation at that time. Columbus settled there. Columbus studied geography
  and navigation, the science of figuring out where things are on Earth's surface. He
  became a master sailor. He met explorers who had sailed along the coast of Africa
  seeking an eastward sea route to the rich lands of Asia. Europeans called these lands "the
  Indies". Europeans wanted to bring gold and other treasures from the Indies back to
  Europe. Columbus began to think about a wonderful adventure, which he called the
  "Enterprise of the Indies". He dreamed of reaching the Indies by sailing west! This was not a new idea, but
  no one had ever managed to make the voyage. Columbus thought the trip to the Indies west across the ocean
  would be much shorter than sailing around Africa. Columbus had high hopes, but no money. Who would pay
  for his expedition? He asked the king of Portugal, but the king refused Columbus didn't gave up. He went to
  the rulers of Portugal's neighbor, Spain. At first they also refused Eventually, however, the Spanish king and
  queen agreed to provide three small ships - the Pinta, the Nina, and Santa Maria. They also paid for crews
  and supplies for the voyage.
  
  1. The passage is mainly about _____ .
   A) Christopher Columbus, biography
   B) Christopher Columbus, expedition
   C) Christopher Columbus in Africa
   D) Christopher Columbus in Europe
  2. The science of figuring out where things are on the Earth's surface is _____ .
   A) navigation
   B) geography
   C) geography and navigation
   D) seafaring
  3. Columbus couldn't first take the trip to the Indies because _____ .
   A) he didn't know how to get there.
   B) his crews were very tired
   C) he didn't have enough money.
   D) it was a very long voyage.
  4. "They" refers to _____ .
   A) sailors
   B) neighbors
   C) rulers
   D) king and queen
  5. The word "settle" is closest in meaning to _____ .
   A) sit
   B) locate
   C) leave
   D) travel