Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 24 to 30.

Duncan Phyfe made some of the most beautiful furniture found in America. His family name was originally Fife, and he was born in Scotland in 1768. In 1784, the Fife family immigrated to Albany, New York where Duncan’s father opened a cabinetmaking shop. Duncan followed his father’s footsteps and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. After completing his training, Duncan moved to New York City.

 Duncan Fife was first mentioned in the 1792 NYC Directory as a furniture “joiner” in business at 2 Broad Street. Two years later, he moved, expanded his business, and changed his name to Phyfe. He was a quiet-living, God-fearing young man who felt his new name would probably appeal to potential customers who were definitely anti-British in this post-Revolutionary War period.

 Duncan Phyfe’s name distinguished him from his contemporaries. Although the new spelling helped him better compete with French emigrant craftsmen, his new name had more to do with hanging it on a sign over his door stoop.

The artisans and merchants who came to America discovered a unique kind of freedom. They were no longer restricted by class and guild traditions of Europe. For the first time in history, a man learned that by working hard, he could build his business based on his own name and reputation and quality of work.

 Phyfe’s workshop apparently took off immediately. At the peak of his success, Phyfe employed 100 craftsmen. Some economic historians point to Phyfe as having employed division of labor and an assembly line. What his workshop produced shows Phyfe’s absolute dedication to quality in workmanship. Each piece of furniture was made of the best available materials. He was reported to have paid $1,000 for a single Santo Domingo mahogany log.

 Phyfe did not create new designs. Rather, he borrowed from a broad range of the period’s classical styles, Empire, Sheraton, Regency, and French Classical among them. Nevertheless, Phyfe’s high quality craftsmanship established him as America’s patriotic interpreter of European design in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

 Although the number of pieces produced by Duncan Phyfe’s workshop is enormous, comparatively few marked or labeled pieces have been found extant. In antiques shops and auctions, collectors have paid $11,000 for a card table, $24,200 for a tea table, and $93,500 for a sewing table.

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The business of cabinetmaking. 

B. The significance of Duncan Phyfe’s name.

C. Duncan Phyfe’s life and career

D. Duncan Phyfe’s cabinetmaking designs.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Charles would have won the essay contest if he had typed his paper.

A. Charles won the essay contest in spite of not typing his paper.

B. Charles did not win the essay contest because he did not type his paper.

C. Typing his paper made Charles win the essay contest.

D. Charles did not win the essay contest even though he typed his paper.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

There will be _______ jobs for people because some robots will do the same jobs as people.

A. fewer

B. less

C. much

D. many

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

They could have taken the car to the garage today.

A. The car have been taken to the garage today.

B. The car could have been taken to the garage today.

C. The car could have been took to the garage today.

D. The car could be have taken to the garage today.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

“We’ll go camping as long as the weather is good."

A. If the weather is fine, we will go camping.

B. The weather is good when we will go camping.

C. If the weather is better, we will go camping.

D. We’ll go camping immediately the weather is good.