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B) Today, there are more masked theatres in Cambodia than there were before the Cambodian civil war. 
C) Advancement in the masked theatres is based on skill and experience. 
D) The texts for masked theatre productions have never been written down.
E) After the Cambodian civil war, there was little interest in restoring Cambodian cultural traditions. 
Your eyes are about three inches apart. That's more than trivia -it's the reason you see the world in three 
dimensions. The separation gives your eyes two slightly different views of every scene you encounter. In 
the brain's visual cortex, these views are compared, and the overlap is translated into a stereopticon 
picture. To estimate relative distances, your brain takes a reading of the tension in your eye muscles. But 
you only see in 3-D up to about 200 feet. Beyond that, you might as well be one-eyed - your eyes aren't far 
enough apart to give two very different views over long distances. Instead, you rely on experience to judge 
where things are; the brain looks for clues and makes its best guess. For example, it knows that near 
objects overlap far ones; that bright objects are closer than dim ones; and that large objects are nearer than 
small ones. These "monocular cues" are what painters use to trick us into thinking a flat canvas is three-
dimensional and miles deep. That's why paintings are much more convincing if you close one eye: Your 
brain hunts down all the clues the painter has dropped. But when both of your eyes are open, the brain gets 
more information and mixed signals. The paint may say miles, but the muscles in your eyes say inches. All 
of this fancy eye work is second nature to us, but it is learned. "Other cultures don't perceive pictures the 
same way we do," says J. Anthony, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology. "For example, primitive 
people don't always think bigger means nearer. It's our Western way of seeing things, and it's a way of 
seeing that we've learned." 
10. The primary purpose of the passage is to explain 
A) how we see in three dimensions 
B) the difference between Western and primitive cultures 
C) the use of 3-D paintings 
D) why your eyes are three inches apart.
E) The concept of three dimensions. 
11. 3-D vision would be most useful in looking at which of the following? a distant mountain range 
A) a flower arrangement 
B) clouds 
C) paintings 
D) people's eye
E) a flat surface 
12. The author mentions cultural differences in perception to support his point that bigger means nearer and 
A) fancy eye work is second nature 
B) we get mixed signals from paintings 
C) perception is learned 
D) it's a way of thinking
E) fancy eye work is natural 
A wool sock, a toilet seat, Oriental silk - out of a millennium of mud comes proof that the globe-travelling 
Vikings weren't the ravaging rovers historians made them to be. "The old English image of the Vikings as 
simply blood-thirsty bands of pillagers vanished with these finds," says Richard Hall, an archaeologist. "We 
dug down and found a cocoon of water-logging, a time capsule of everyday life," said Hall, who led a tour 
Wednesday through a muddy concrete hall fashioned out of the hole left from the excavation. Hall was one 
of some 400 people who, for five years, dug up the leftovers of the lives of an estimated 30,000 Vikings. 
Workers discovered the sophisticated settlement when a central district of York was levelled for rebuilding. 
Starting April 14, 1984, electric cars will carry tourists through a tunnel of time that goes back to 866 A.D., 
when the Vikings came to York, 188 miles northwest of London. Archaeologists are eager to display what 
they found in a $5.9 million reconstruction of Jorvik, the Anglo-Saxon name for the settlement. "We have 
skeletons, 15,000 objects, a quarter-of-a-million pieces of pottery, some of the best preserved Viking-age 
buildings ever discovered and five tons of animal bones," Hall said. The digs revealed intimate details of 
Viking life. There is a toilet seat, keys, tools, games counters, the seeds in the blackberries they picked and 
a knitted woollen sock. "They were a great trading nation with a sophisticated monetary system," Hall said. 
"We will show the range of products in which they traded - silk from the Far East, amber from the Baltic, 
pottery from the Rhineland, cowrie shells from the Indian Ocean." 
13. The primary purpose of the passage is to describe 
A) a new archaeological discovery about the Vikings. 

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