Chapter 4 Exercise 3-A Indians spoke of hibernation as the Long Sleep, but it is rather more than that. It is a profound oblivion halfway between sleep and death. It is an unknowing and unfeeling more deep and lasting than can be induced in man by the most powerful drugs, a suspension of life processes more thorough and protracted than even the "frozen slumber" which doctors have lately devised as a palliative of cancer. It is a phenomenon unique in nature, and though we are wiser about it than we were in those cradle-days of biology when Dr. Johnson thought that swallows [a kind of bird] passed the winter asleep in the mud at the bottom of the Thames, it remains a riddle still.--Alan Devoe, "The Animals Sleep"

Chapter 4 Exercise 3-A
Indians spoke of hibernation as the Long Sleep, but it is rather more than that. It is a profound oblivion halfway between sleep and death. It is an unknowing and unfeeling more deep and lasting than can be induced in man by the most powerful drugs, a suspension of life processes more thorough and protracted than even the "frozen slumber" which doctors have lately devised as a palliative of cancer. It is a phenomenon unique in nature, and though we are wiser about it than we were in those cradle-days of biology when Dr. Johnson thought that swallows [a kind of bird] passed the winter asleep in the mud at the bottom of the Thames, it remains a riddle still.
--Alan Devoe, "The Animals Sleep"

1. Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea? A. Hibernation has long fascinated scientists
B. Hibernation cannot be clearly explained
C. Hibernation is a unique and puzzling phenomenon of nature
D. the Indians spoke of hibernation as the Long Sleep

2. The mode of discourse is A. narration
B. description
C. exposition
D. persuasion

3. The predominant method of development is A. cause-effect
B. classification
C. analysis
D. definition
E. analogy

4. Samuel Johnson, always called Dr. Johnson, was an eighteenth-century English critic and writer. The reference to him in the last sentence is meant to show that A. Johnson knew nothing about science
B. Johnson was only joking when he said that swallows spent the winter at the bottom of the Thames
C. Johnson had done extensive research on hibernation, and his observations were accurate
D. although our knowledge of hibernation is imperfect, we still know more about it today than was known in Johnson's time

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