1. Its peoples became great traders, bartering jewellery, pottery, animal pelts, tools, and other goods along extensive trading networks that stretched up and down eastern North America and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

　　The word "bartering" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) producing

　　(B) exchanging

　　(C) transporting

　　(D) loading

　　2. Over the next centuries, it was supplanted by another culture, the Mississippian, named after the river along which many of its earliest villages were located.

　　The word "supplanted" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) conquered

　　(B) preceded

　　(C) replaced

　　(D) imitated

　　3. Most of these towns boasted at least one major flat-topped mound on which stood a temple that contained a sacred flame. Only priests and those charged with guarding the flame could enter the temples.

　　The phrase "charged with" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) passed on

　　(B) experienced at

　　(C) interested in

　　(D) assigned to

　　4. Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, of which woodcut and engraving are two prime examples.

　　The word "prime" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) principal

　　(B) complex

　　(C) general

　　(D) recent

　　5. Engraving, which grew out of the goldsmith's art, originated in Germany and northern Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. It is an intaglio process (from Italian intagliare, "to carve") . The image is incised into a highly polished metal plate, usually copper, with a cutting instrument, or burin.

　　The word "incised" is closest in meaning to which of following?

　　(A) burned

　　(B) cut

　　(C) framed

　　(D) baked

　　1 B

　　2 C

　　3 D

　　4 A

　　5 B