According to the passage, a Stradivarius that costs a quarter million dollars is

The most traditional American food may well be cornmeal.  Cornmeal, as we know it

today, began as an Indian staple.  The American Indians grew corn of six different colors – black, red,

white, yellow, blue, and multicolored.  They ground the corn kernels into cornmeal and mixed it with

salt and water, then baked it.  This recipe was introduced to the early colonists, who experimented

with it and developed their own uses of cornmeal.  Succotash, a meat stew with cornmeal added, and

mush, leftover cornmeal porridge cut and fried, are two meals invented by early colonists.

   Visitors can travel to the South and enjoy spoonbread, a smooth puddinglike dish, or to New

England for johnnycakes, a kind of flat pancake.  But probably the most common forms of cornmeal

Nationwide are cornbread, cornmeal muffins, and the “hushpuppy,” a round ball of cornmeal batter

that is fried in oil.

According to the passage, cornmeal was originally used by

According to the passage, common forms of cornmeal are

A marine whale can recognize the source of a sound because...

 Where in the passage does the author describe the ancient whale?

Whales with eardrums...

Questions 1-5

                                               The 50-million-year-old fossils of an ancient whale found in the Himalayan foothills

                of Pakistan give strong evidence that modern whales are descended from a four-legged, land-dwelling

                animal.  The fossils consist of part of the skull, some teeth, and the well-preserved middle ear of an

                animal that was 6 to 8 feet long, weighed 350 pounds, had a wolflike  snout, and had two foot-long

                jaws with sharp, triangular teeth.  It is the middle ear which suggests that the ancient whale lived on

                land.  Analysis indicated that the animal had eardrums, which do not work in water and which modern

                whales have only in vestigial form.  Furthermore, the right and left ear bones were not isolated from

                each other.  The separation of these bones in marine whales enables them to detect the direction of

                underwater sounds.

                1. The 50-million-year-old fossils found in Pakistan

Cheddar and Gruyere are both pressed cheeses.

Some people did not believe that the tunnel was a viable idea in the 1930s.

A bird must be able to fly 100 miles because the race is 100 miles long.