Reading passages

251 -We learn from the passage that the Globe theatre was ---- .
A) built by Shakespeare himself with the help of Richard Burbage
B) built in Shoreditch, a London district on the River Thames
C) on the other side of the Thames from London's first theatre
D) the first theatre ever built in London
E) next to London's first ever theatre


252 -It is implied in the passage that all modern theatres --- .
A) have semi -circular rows of seats
B) have a familiar plan
C) closely resemble the Classical Greek theatre
D) are built on flat ground
E) employ a large orchestra

A team of mountaineers is to search Everest to try to settle once and for all a claim that the world's highest peak was conquered 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 triumph. British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared about 700 feet from the top of Everest in 1924, inspiring one of mountaineering's most enduring legends. Their bodies have never been discovered-and neither has the Vest -Pocket Kodak camera Mallory was carrying in his knapsack. According to Kodak, the cold conditions may well have preserved the film. If the film featured a photograph of either of the two men at the mountain peak, the discovery would turn their story of glorious failure into one of sweet success.

253 -A team of mountaineers is going to climb Everest in order to ---- .

A) prove that Hilary and Norgay actually climbed to the highest peak

B) try to found a settlement there on the world's highest mountain
C) find the bodies of Mallory and Irvine so that they can be buried
D) attempt to solve a seventy -five -year old unsolved mystery
E) try to stake a claim for Britain on the world's highest peak


254 -What is not known from the passage is whether -- .
A) Mallory and Irvine actually disappeared in 1924
B) Hillary and Norgay really climbed the peak when they said they did
C) Mallory and Irvine had a camera with them when they were climbing Everest
D) Mallory and Irvine were ascending or descending when they disappeared
E) Mallory and Irvine were real people or merely legendary figures