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第一课时
1. An underlying assumption of most market research is that people are continually _____ financial decisions based
on their desire for goods that give them the most satisfaction.
(A) making
(B) and make
(C) being made
(D) having made
2. _____ tempera paint, the artist mixes dry pigments with water until the mixture resembles a stiff paste.
(A) In preparation
(B) The preparing of
(C) To prepare
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(D) Prepared
3. When two straight lines meet, _____ an angle.
(A) it is formed
(B) formed
(C) they form
(D) to form
4. Madge Macklin promoted the expansion of medical training to include genetics _____ supported the founding of
genetics departments in North American medical schools.
(A) nor
(B) and
(C) while
(D) if
5. _____ mammals have hair at some time in their lives, though in certain whales it is present only before birth.
(A) Most
(B) The most
(C) Most of which
(D) In most of the
6. The digestive enzyme pepsin breaks down proteins into components _____ readily absorbed by the human body.
(A) that can be
(B) and are
(C) which they
(D) are to be
7. _____ the precise qualities of the hero in literary works may vary over time, the basic exemplary function of the
hero seems to remain constant.
(A) Whatever
(B) Even though
(C) In spite of
(D) Regardless
8. Not until the dedication of Yellowstone Park in the late nineteenth century _____ a national park.
(A) the United States had
(B) did the United States have
(C) when the United States had
(D) the United States having
9. Daniel Ken Inouye, Hawaii's first Congressman, was elected to the United States Senate in 1963, where _____
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known for his unbiased views on civil issues.
(A) being
(B) it is he
(C) he became
(D) having become
10. Because caricature tends to emphasize the peculiarities of a subject, _____ an effective vehicle for pictorial satire.
(A) which is often
(B) and often seen as
(C) it is often
(D) many of which are
11. In the nineteenth century, Samuel Gridley Howe founded the Pekins School for the Blind, _____ for children in
Boston, Massachusetts.
(A) that institutes
(B) while instituted
(C) was an institution
(D) an institute
12. Early forms of life on Earth, _____ in the absence of oxygen, required elements such as sulfur instead.
(A) which lived
(B) whose life
(C) lived
(D) were living
13. People in prehistoric times created paints by grinding materials such as plants and clay into powder _____.
(A) water to be added
(B) for adding water then
(C) and water added
(D) and then adding water
14. Often very annoying weeds, _____ and act as hosts to many insect pests.
(A) that crowd out less hardy plants than goldenrods
(B) crowding out less hardy plants by goldenrods
(C) the goldenrod's crowding out of less hardy plants
(D) goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants
15. Starting around 7000 B. C., and for the next four thousand years, much of the Northern Hemisphere _____
temperatures warmer than at present.
(A) with experience of
(B) experienced
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(C) experiencing
(D) experience
16. The chief goal of biochemistry is for to understand the structure and behavior of the carbonA
B
containing compounds that make up various components of a living cell.
C
D
17. According to entomologists, pollinating insects are attracted to flowers by scent else by
A
B
C
color.
D
18. The American writer Alex Haley traveled more than a half million mile to authenticate his
A
B
C
D
novel Roots.
19. Research by physician Alice Hamilton on industrially ailments and poisons led to greatly
A
B
C
D
improved health conditions for workers in the early 1900's.
20. It was in the late 1930's where Dixieland jazz was appreciated by the general public for the
A
B
C
D
first time.
21. Since 1920 women have been able to participate actively in the government the United
A
B
C
D
States.
22. The architectural floor plan for a building is primarily a diagram of the location and function
A
B
C
of area each of the building.
D
23. Clocks not only measure and tell time but also serve as decorated in homes and other
A
B
C
buildings.
D
24. Commercial prices for gems are based in several factors including beauty, durability, rarity,
A
B
C
and the current fashion.
D
25. Candle are made by dipping a wick into wax, to pour wax into a mold containing a
A
B
C
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suspended Wick, or rolling wax around a wick.
D
26. Avalanches occur why particles of sand, rock, or snow are dragged down a slope by gravity.
A B
C
D
27. The average annual solar radiation received by the atmosphere varies strongly with latitude it
A
B
C
is four times great at the equator than at the poles.
D
28. Peggy Guggenheim was none so much attracted to contemporary art itself as she was to the
A
B
C D
bohemian art world.
29. Radon-invisible, tasteless, and has no odor-is released into the atmosphere from soil and
A
B
C
D
rocks.
30. Sparrows, small birds of the finch family, have stout beaks adapted seed eating and are useful
A
B
C
D
to farmers in destroying weed seeds.
31. The poems of Sara Teasdale are noting for their simplicity and purity of form.
A
B
C
D
32. Charlotte Pekins Gilman was a leading intellectual in the women's movement while its early
A
B
C
D
decades in the United States.
33. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has a rocky coast, a moisture climate, and probably
A
B
C
the best cod-fishing areas in the world.
D
34. Among the favorite attractions at the National Air and Space Museum in Wahington D. C.
A
B
C
Are the film presented on the five-story-tall screen.
D
35. Alchemists had the idea which by applying chemical vapors to base metals they could create
A B
C
D
gold.
36. The most often flour is made from wheat, but it may also be made from the seeds of other
A
B
C
D
cereal plants.
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37. Lacrosse, the oldest organized sport in North America, originally played by the Iroquois
A
B
C
Indians throughout upper New York and lower Ontario.
D
38. Although most house plants are acquired already potted, they also can be grown from seeds
A
B
or leaf cuttings from mature plant.
C
D
39. The unique ability of the horseshoe crab detected bacterial endotoxins was a chance
A
B
C
discovery in the 1970's at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
D
40. Although experimental television had been available since the 1920's, many people in
A
B
C
United States did not see a broadcast until was the New York World's Fair of 1939.
D
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第二课时
改错题做题要点: （题目参看第一课时的 16－40 题）
(1) 语法与句意并重
(2) 先找句子主干，看句子结构，然后一边看句意，一边看语法知识点正确与否
(3) 熟悉各种错误类型，对特殊词形成特殊反应
正确取决你对题目的敏感程度和熟练程度
(4) 选项 A、B、C、D 一定要看全，避免落入考题的陷阱或犯不必要的错误，在
四个选项中选一个最明显的错误，最好有明确的理由
24.Mahalia Jackson ,______combined powerful vitality and great dignity ,was one of the best-known gospel singers
in the United States.
(A)it was her singing
(B)which songs
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(C) who sang
(D)whose singing
25.The best known books of Ross Macdonald, ______writer of detectives novels, feature the character Lew Archer, a
privatedetective.
(A) is the
(B)is an
(C) they are by
(D)the
26.The columbine flower ,______to nearly all
(A) native
(B)how native is
(C) how native is it
(D)is native
of the United States ,can be raised from seed in almost any garden .
27.The letters of Abigail Adams to her husband
Revolution , conveyed a vivid picture of the times .
(A) were written
(B)which written
(C) written
(D)written when
and future President , John , ______during the American
28. ______, work songs often exhibit the song culture of a people in a fundamental form.
(A) They occur where they are
(B) Occuring where
(C) Where they occur
(D) Where do they occur
29. ______Indiana, is in a rich farming and dairy area, it is primarily a diversified industrial center.
(A) Fort Wayne ,
(B) Although Fort Wayne,
(B)Fort Wayne is in
(D) Fort Wayne, in
30. William Walker's mural, "Wall of Respect,"______an outdoor wall in Chicago, deals with social issues.
(A) covers
(B) covers it
(C) which covers
(D) which it covers
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31. In copper engravings and etchings, ______caused by the edges of the plate is clearly visible on the paper.
(A) the impression is
(B) if the impression is
(C) impressions
(D) the impression
32. The technique of recording, classifying, and______ is known as accounting.
(A) an enterprise's transactions summary
(B) the summarizing of an enterprise's transactions
(C) transactions of an enterprise are summarized
(D) summarizing the transactions of an enterprise
33. Louis T. Wright, a surgeon, developed ingenious orthopedic braces, ______, and supervised the first use of
Aureomycin on human patients.
(A) treating skull fractures that he pioneered in
(B) pioneered in treating skull fractures
(C) which pioneered in treating skull fractures
(D) he was a pioneer in the treatment of skull fractures
34. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a common element of theater and ritual?
(A) Dance
(B) Costumes
(C) Music
(D) Magic
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第三课时
语法填空固定结构
1. The quantum theory states ______, such as light, is given off and absorbed in tiny definite units called quanta or
photons.
(A) energy that
(B) that it is energy
(C) it is energy
(D) that energy
2. Studies of the gravity field of the Earth indicate______yield when unusual weight is placed on them.
(A) although its crust and mantle
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(B) its crust and mantle to
(C) that its crust and mantle
(D) for its crust and mantle to
3. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on ______ best in its climate and soil.
(A) it grows
(B) what grows
(C) does it grow
(D) what does it grow
4. During the eighteenth century, Little Turtle was chief of the Miami tribewhose territory became______is now
Indiana and Ohio.
(A) there
(B) where
(C) that
(D) what
5. In the United States, a primary election is a method ______ voters select the nominees for public office.
(A) that
(B)by which
(C)is that
(D)by those
6. Croquet is a popular lawn game ______ players hit wooden balls through wire arches called wickers.
(A) when
(B) which
(C) is when
(D) in which
7. Mercury differs from other industrial metals ______ it is a liquid.
(A) whereas
(B) in that
(C) because of
(D) consequently
8. Hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles, are unusual ______ travel over land and water on a layer of air.
(A)they
(B)in they
(C)that they
(D)in that they
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9. A prolific writer of prose and verse, ______of Native Americans in her novel, Century of Dishonor.
(A) Helen Hunt Jackson took up the cause
(B) the cause taken up by Helen Hunt Jackson
(C) was Helen Hunt Jacksons cause
(D) the cause that Helen Hunt Jackson took up.
10. Often very annoying weeds ,______and act as hosts to many insect pests.
(A) that crowd out less hardy plants than goldenrods
(B) crowding out less hardy plants by goldenrods
(C) the goldenrods crowding out of less hardy plants
(D) goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants
11. The tongue ,______,is an important aid in chewing and swallowing .
(A) is the chief organ of taste
(B) tasting the organ chiefly
(C) the chief organ of taste
(D) the organ chiefly tastes
12. An Olympic marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards, approximately ______ from Marathon to Athens.
(A) the distance is
(B) that the distance is
(C) is that the distance
(D) the distance
13. In 1727 Benjamin Franklin founded one of the first adult-education organizations, ______the Junto.
(A) has been called
(B) which group called
(C) to call
(D) a group called
14. The grape is the ______, juicy fruit of a woody vine.
(A) smooth-skinned
(B) skinned is smooth
(C) skin which is smooth
(D) smooth skin
15. ______ a short-handled , long-bladed weapon, similar to a dagger but larger.
(A) Like a sword
(B) A sword is
(C) A sword is what
(D) Before a sword
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16. Western Nebraska generally receives less snow than ______eastern Nebraska.
(A) does
(B) in
(C) it does in
(D) in it does
17. Hot objects emit______ do cold objects.
(A) rays more than infrared
(B) rays are more infrared than
(C) more than infrared rays
(D) more infrared rays than
18. The activities of the international marketing researcher are frequently much broader than ______.
(A)the domestic marketer has
(B)the domestic marketer does
(C)those of the domestic marketer
(D)that which has the domestic marketer
19. The annual worth of Utahs manufacturing is greater than ______.
(A) that of its mining and farming combined
(B) mining and farming combination
(C) that mining and farming combined
(D) of its combination mining and farming
20. Most crocodiles will eat anything______capture and overpower.
(A) can
(B) they can
(C) which can
(D) and
21. A majority of people in the United States can get all the calcium their bodies______from the food they eat.
(A) require
(B) requires
(C) requiring
(D)to require
22.Indigo is a vat color , ______ called because it does not dissolve in water .
(A)which it
(B) it is
(C) but
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(D) so
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第四课时
1. Commercial expansion from city to suburb has affected the way people in the United states______.
(A) living and working
(B) they live and work
(C) live and work
(D) to live and to work
2. Most crocodiles will eat anything______capture and overpower.
(A) can
(B) they can
(C) which can
(D) and
3. A majority of people in the United States can get all the calcium their bodies______from the food they eat.
(A) require
(B) requires
(C) requiring
(D)to require
4. Although afflicted by serious eyesight problems, Alicia Alonso was one the principle stars of the
A
B
C
American Ballet Theater and later formed her own dance company.
D
5. ______relatively costly , the diesel engine is highly efficient and needs servicing infrequently .
(A) Even
(B) It is
(C) Even though
(D) There is
6. All marble is composed of crystals of the minerals calcite or dolomite, ______, are perfectly white.
(A) when, pure which
(B) when, which pure
(C) which, pure when
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(D) which, when pure
7. Although______rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to withstand considerable
impact.
(A) apparently
(B) are apparently
(C) apparently their
(D) are they apparently
8. ______by transferring the blame to others is often called scapegoating.
(A) Eliminate problems
(B) The eliminated problems
(C) Eliminating problems
(D) Problems are eliminated
9. ______wooden buildings helps to protect them from damage due to weather.
(A) Painting
(B) Painted
(C) The paint
(D) By painting
10. X-rays are able to pass through objects and thus make______details that are otherwise impossible to observe .
(A) it visible
(B) visibly
(C) visible
(D) they are visible
11. Using many symbols makes______to put a large amount of information on a single map.
(A) possible
(B) it possible
(C) it is possible
(D) that possible
12. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, ______to the body.
(A) the stress it is greater
(B) greater is the stress
(C) greater stress is
(D) the greater the stress
13.The lower ______ in a room , the more slowly our eyes focus .
(A) the level of lighting
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(B) light level
(C) leveling of light
(D)lighting is level
14. The stronger______magnet, the greater the number of lines of magnetic force.
(A) of
(B) the
(C) is the
(D) is of the
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第五课时
1. The Smithsonian Institution preserves more than sixty-five million items of scientific, historical, or artistic
interest,______ winning the popular title, "attic of the nation."
(A) however
(B) thus
(C) and
(D) moreover
2. Snow aids farmers by keeping heat in the
(A) to save the seeds
(B) saving the seeds
(C)which saves the seeds
(D) the seeds saved
lower ground levels, thereby______from freezing.
3. To produce one pound of honey , a colony of
A
the world.
bees must fly a distance equals to twice around
B
C
D
4. A neutron star forms when a star much more massive than the Sun dies and exploded.
A
B
C
D
5. The crane is______of the wading birds.
(A) the tallest
(B) the tallest that is
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(C) which is the tallest
(D) which the tallest is
6. Cows (are said) (to be) the least (intelligently) of (domestic) animals.
A
B
C
D
7. (On) December 2, 1927, (the) Model A Ford, which (cost) 5385, (is) introduced.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
8. The Rodeo Association of America (set up) a (system) of points for (determining) the (nation) rodeo
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
champions in 1936.
9. Automatons programmed to perform a given task ______the flexibility and adaptability of human beings.
(A) without
(B) lack
(C) minus
(D) not having
10. Antibodies ______by small, round cells called lymphocytes and plasma cells.
(A) to be made
(B) making
(C) made
(D) are made
11. ______Wupatki National Monument in Arizona features structures built of red sandstone by ancestors of the
Hopi people.
(A) That the
(B)
In the
(C) Around the
(D)
The
12. Having been served lunch, ______.
(A) the problem was discussed by the members of the committee
(B) the committee members discussed the problem
(C) it was discussed by the committee members the problem
(D) a discussion of the problem was made by the members of the committee
13. ______was not incorporated as a city until almost two centuries later, in 1834.
(A) Settling Brooklyn, the Dutch
(B) The Dutch settled Brooklyn
(C) Brooklyn was settled by the Dutch
(D) Settled by the Dutch, Brooklyn
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14. At thirteen ______ at a district school near her home, and
print.
(A) the first teaching position that Mary Jane Hawes had
(B) the teaching position was Mary Jane Hawe's first
(C) when Mary Jane Hawes had her first teaching position
(D) Mary Jane Hawes had her first teaching position
when
she was fifteen , she saw her first article in
15. Even at low levels, ______.
(A) the nervous system has produced detrimental effects by lead
(B) lead's detrimental effects are producing the nervous system
(C) lead produces detrimental effects on the nervous system
(D) the detrimental effects produced by lead on the nervous system
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第六课时
1. The United States Congress made Washington , D. C. , ______ in 1800.
(A) after the government center
(B) of the government center(C) the center of government
(D) then the center of government
2. Poodles were once used as retrievers in duck hunting , but the American Kennel Club does not
consider them ______ because they are now primarily kept as pets.
(A) where sporting dogs
(B) sporting dogs
(C) when sporting dogs
(D) they are sporting dogs
3. A microphone
enables a
soft tone (to be) (amplified) ,thus (making it possible) the gentle
A
B
C
renditions of (romantic) love songs in a large hall.
D
4. (It is) the interaction between people , (rather than) the events that occur in their lives ,
A
B
that (are) the main focus of (social psychology).
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C
D
5. ______who was the first Black woman to run for the office of President of the United States in
1972.
(A) Shirley S. Chisholm
(B) It was Shirley S. Chisholm
(C) Shirley S. Chisholm was
(D) When Shirley S. Chisholm
6. ______an increasing international exchange of educational films.
(A) It is
(C) Though there is
(B) There is
(D) Although it is
7. The spiral threads of spider's web have a sticky substance on them ______ insects.
(A) traps
(C) which traps
(B) trap its
(D) which it traps
8. In blank verse______of ten syllables, five of which are accented.
(A) line consists of each
(B) consists of each line
(C) each line consists
(D) it consists of each line
9. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known as
Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both ______her novels and short stories.
(A) in which the influence
(C) to have influence
(B) of which influenced
(D) its influence in
10. ______1895 did Cornell University begin to offer a degree in ornithology.
(A) Not until
(B) Not since
(C) Until
(D) In
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11. Only in recent years______begun to realize that wild dogs, kept within bounds, often do more good
than harm.
(A) people have
(B) since people have
(C) have people
(D) people who have
12. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent______, or pronghorn.
(A) it is the American antelope
(B) the American antelope is
(C) is the American antelope
(D) the American antelope
13. ______at conveying her underlying message through topical plots and contemporary characters that by
1940 her book had sold some three million copies
(A) So successful, Grace L. Hill
(B) So successful was Grace L. Hill
(C) Grace L. Hill, so successful
(D) Because Grace L. Hill was so successful
14. In the eastern part of New Jersey______, a major shipping and manufacturing center.
(A) lies the city of Elizabeth
(B) the city of Elizabeth lies there
(C) around the city of Elizabeth lies
(D) there lies the city of Elizabeth around
15. At the far end of a kaleidoscope______, one made of clear glass and the other of ground glass.
(A) two plates are
(B) two plates are there
(C) are two plates there
(D) are two plates
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第七课时
1. ______astrology and alchemy may be regarded as fundamental aspects of thought is indicated by their apparent
universality.
(A) Both are
(B) What both
(C) Both
(D) That both
2. ______sea turtles find their way back to nesting areas is still a mystery.
(A) How
(B) Although
(C) Since
(D) While
3. ______would be a fairly long speech in a play is often presented as a recitative in opera.
(A) That
(B) There
(C) It
(D) What
4. ______theories approximate the truth is the day- to- day business of science.
(A) Determining how closely
(B) How closely to determine
(C) How one determines close
(D) One is close to determining
5. Most of ______archaeologists know about prehistoric cultures is based on studies of material remains .
(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their
6.By the1950's, Mahalia Jackon's powerful, joyous gospel music style
had gained her______.
(A) and she had an international reputation
(B) with an international reputation
(C) which was her international reputation
(D)an international reputation
7. Any critic ,teacher ,librarian ,or poet who hopes to broaden poetry's audience faces the difficult
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challenge of persuading skeptical readers ____________ .
(A)that the poetry is important today
(B)for poetry to be important today
(C)to be important poetry today
(D)poetry that is important today
8.____________bacteria in foods are killed , as they are during baking or
stewing , decay is slow down .
(A)what
(B) The
(C) If
(D) So
9.Sturgeons are prized for their blackish roe , ______-- when salted and served as an appetizer is called caviar .
(A) which
(B) such
(C) therefore
(D) while
10. Precious metals ,gems, and ivory have been used to make buttons ,but most buttons are
______--wood ,glass ,or plastic .
(A)such materials as such
(B) materials as such
(C) such materials as
(D) such materials
11. Prehistoric people made paints by grinding colored materials ______--into powder and
(A)if vegetation and clay
(B)that vegetation and clay
(C)how vegetation and clay are
(D)such as vegetation and clay
made of
adding water .
12. Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation , country music has certain common feature ______--its own
special character .
(A)give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
(D) that gives it to
13. Many birds have feathers ______-with their surroundings .
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(A)colors blend
(B)that colors to blend
(C)whose colors blend
(D)of which the colors that blend
14. Acrylic (paint) (enables) artists (to experiment) with (many) colors effects.
A
B
C
D
15. Sarah and Angelina Grimke (were among) the first (woman doctors) (to lecture) in (public) in the
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
United States.
16.The general sales tax (has been) a major source of income for state governments, (much) of which
(A)
(B)
derive more than (half) of their budgets (from) it.
(C)
(D)
17. For thousands of years, people (have used) (some kind) of refrigeration (cooling) beverages and
A
B
C
preserve (edibles) .
D
18. Because they are (generally) taken simply to obtain (a recognizable) and relatively (clear) image , most
A
B
C
non-professional photographs demand (few) equipment.
D
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第八课时
1. John Dewey is generally (considered) one of the (greatest) modern (educational) (philosopher).
A
B
C
D
2. Sarah and Angelina Grimke (were among) the first (woman doctors) (to lecture) in (public) in the United
A
B
C
D
States.
3.The Millicent Rogers Museum houses (five thousands) pieces of Hispanic and American Indian jewelry,
A
textiles, and (other) objects (documenting) the vibrancy of (these two cultures).
B
C
D
4. Lizards (lack) the built-in body temperature (control) many (another) creatures (possess).
A
B
C
D
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5. (At) birth, an infant (exhibits) a (remarkable) number of motor (response).
A
B
C
D
6. (A number of) those (who) (study) engineering is increasing (steadily).
A
B
C
D
7. Historians (believe that) some (forms) of (an advertising) must be as old (as barter) and trade.
A
B
C
D
8. In the (early) years of the Republic, George Washington (proposed) the (establishment) of (an) university
A
B
C
D
in the nations capital.
9. Jim Thorpe, (a football), track, and baseball (stars) from Pennsylvania, is considered (by many to) be the
A
B
C
(greatest) all-around athlete of modern times.
D
10.A march is (highly) rhythmic piece of music (first) used (by military) bands (to accompany) marching.
A
B
C
D
key: D B A A D
AC D BA
第九课时
1. Pewter, (a metal) with an (ancient heritage), is still (practical medium) for the (nonprofessional)
A
B
C
D
metalworker.
2. (The hardness) (of mineral) often (gives) a clue to (its) identity.
A
B
C
D
3. Canadian scarlet-clad (guards) and mounties (with) horseback are (part) of
A
B
C
Ottawa.
the (summer scene) in
D
4. Allan Pinkerton, (founder) of (the famous) detective agency that bears (him) name, directed a Civil
A
B
C
War espionage system (behind) Confederate lines.
D
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5. Proteins form (the most) of the (structure of) the (body) and also (act as) enzymes.
A
B
C
D
6. (Since beginning) of photography, inventors have (tried) (to make) photographs that duplicate (natural)
A
B
C
D
colors .
7. The Yukon River, which (flows) into the Bering Sea, gives (its) name to a region of Alaska (and a)
A
B
C
territory
(of the) Canada.
D
8. The diamond (is) the (hardest) (substance) (in the nature).
A
B
C
D
9.(The nitrogen) makes up (over) 78 (percent of) the Earth atmosphere,the gaseous mass (surrounding) the
A
B
C
D
planet.
10.(Researchers) at the University of Colorado (are investigating) a series of indicators that (could) help
A
B
C
(themselves) to predict earthquakes.
D
11. The continental divide refers to an imaginary line in the North American Rockies that (divides) (the
A
waters) flowing (into) the Atlantic Ocean from (it) flowing into the Pacific.
B
C
D
12. In 1920 the presidential candidate Warren Harding (coined) the word normalcy to (express) social and
A
B
(economic) conditions (they) promised the nation.
C
D
13. Many critics (believe) that Amy Lwell's most important (work) is not poetry, but (his) biography, John
A
B
B
Keats, (published) the year of her death.
D
14. The (sounds) of jazz are not (similar to) (them) of (traditional orchestra).
A
B
C
D
15. Although (he is) employed in the scientific and (technical) fields, the metric (system) is not generally
A
B
C
(utilized) in the United states .
D
key: CBBCA ADDAD
DDCCA
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第十课时
1. The human body contains (more than) six hundred muscles (who) (account) for approximately
A
B
C
forty percent of the (body weight).
D
2. Charleston, West Virginia, was named (for) Charles Clendenin, (who) son George (acquired) land at the
A
B
C
junction of the Elk and Kanawha (rivers) in 1787.
D
3.When television was first (introduced), the extent to (that) it would (affect) society could not have been
A
B
C
(foreseen).
D
4.Tom was elected (president) last semester, (but) he (has since devoted) (few) of his spare time
A
B
C
D
to his job.
5.(Serving) as chief of the United States Children's Bureau from 1921 to 1934, Grace AbBott (fought) for
A
B
the (rights) of women and children (through) the world.
C
D
6.Mosquitoes usually (lay) eggs, singly (or) in (batches), on (top stagnant) water.
A
B
C
D
7.Christopher Plummer is a Canadian (actor) (who) has starred (in stage), television, and film productions
A
B
C
on both (sides the) Atlantic Ocean.
D
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8.When she was (forty years of old), Mary Morris Vaux (became) the first woman (to climb) Mount
A
B
C
Stephen (in British Columbia).
D
9.(The) Allegheny (Mountain) range (is) rich (of) coal.
A
B
C
D
10.(The ceremony) of marriage (in the) United States (can be) (performed from) a justice of the peace.
A
B
C
D
11.Algebra is the (branch) of mathematics concerned with operations on (sets) of numbers or other
A
B
(elements) that are often represented (at symbols).
C
D
12.(Along the) east coast, American Indian women's councils (could veto) (a declaration) of war at refusing
A
B
C
to supply moccasins (at refusing) to supply moccasins and field rations.
D
13.The (teeth) in the upper jaw (function) (together) those in the lower jaw to cut, tear, and (grind) food.
A
B
C
D
14.(The rotation) of the Earth (on its axis) is (responsible to the) alternation of periods (of light and
A
B
C
D
darkness).
15.The Hopi,the westernmost (tribe of) Puerblo Indians, have (traditionally) (lived large) multilevel
A
B
C
(structures) clustered in towns.
D
16.A rocket (burns) propellant rapidly and most rockets (carry) a (supply) that (last) just a few seconds.
A
B
C
D
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17.The (athlete), together (with) (his coach) and several relatives, (are) traveling to the Olympic Games.
A
B
C
D
KEY:BBBDD DDADD DDCCC DD
第十一课时
1．The （structure） or behavior （of many） protozoans are（ amazingly ）complex for single-celled A
B
C
（animals）.
D
2. （Nearly）half of the（ancient）meteor craters（has been）found in central and（eastern）Canada.
A
B
C
D
3. Approximately fifty percent of the（ package） （utilized ）in the United States are for （foods） and
A
B
C
（beverages）.
D
4. （There are） no （known） society （in which） （left-handed ）people predominate.
A
B
C
D
5. Between the foothills of （the） Andes and （the ）Pacific Ocean （are） a dry coastal strip averaging
A
B
C
about 30 miles （in width）.
D
6. （Among ）the （favorite） attractions （at the） National Air and Space Museum in
A
B
C
Washington D.C. are the （film ）presented on the five-story-tall screen.
D
7.（The metal） aluminum （has been） （first） isolated （early） in the nineteenth century.
A
B
C
D
8.. （Since ）1921 the （budget） of the United States became the （primary ）（responsibility
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A
）of the president.
B
C
D
9. Adella Prentiss Hrghes（ served ）（as）（ manager） of the Cleveland Orchestra（ since） fifteen years.
A
B
C
D
10.. （In general）, prawns （lived in ）（shallow ）coastal waters or in （streams）.
A
B
C
D
11. The Tennessee Valley Authority （has chartered）by the United States Congress in 1933 to （construct）
A
B
dams, power structures, and flood-control works （along）the Tennessee River and its（tributary streams）.
C
D
12. Booker T.Washington （viewed） as one of the （ablest） public （speakers） of （his） time.
A
B
C
D
13. A majority of the reports received from people （claiming） to（ have seen） the legendary
A
B
Loch Ness Monster （have proven to be） mistakes, misconceptions, or （they were being tricked）.
C
D
14. The center of gravity of the human body ______ behind the hip joint.
(A) locates (B) locating (C) to locate (D) is located
15.Surveys show that the majority of Shakespeare (are pleasing ）that an agreement has been
A
reached (to forbid） smoking on (commercial ）flights (within） the continental United states.
B
C
D
16.. In the (nineteenth） century the Mohave Indians (lived in）the Northern Hemisphere grew ( their）
A
B
C
crops on river (bottom lands）.
D
17. In 1968 Amy Lwell became (one of ）the American (women） (received） the Nobel Price
A
B
C
(for） Literature.
D
18.. Clementine Hunter's (primitive）paintings have been (exhibited） at (various）
A
B
C
galleries,( included） one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
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D
19. (Using） only for wall surfaces (that are）exposed to view or require a (decorative ）
A
B
C
effect, (face brick）must be exact in shape, size, and color.
D
20.. (Long） before (the dawn） of (recorded） history, humans celebrated (to harvest） their crops.
A
B
C
D
21.. A good exercise program (helps teach） people (to avoid） the habits that (might） shorten
A
B
C
(the） lives.
D
22.. (Besides providing）clues to the nature of atoms,( mineral） analysis allows (to speculate geologists）
A
B
C
about the (ancient） Earth.
D
23.. The (purposeful） of the elementary school is to (introduce） children to the skills,
A
B
(information ）and attitude necessary for a (smooth ）adjustment to society.
C
D
24.. The chief goal of biochemistry is (for understanding ）the structure and( behavior） of
A
B
the carbon-containing compounds( that make up ）(various ）components of a living cell.
C
D
25..( For ）ancient people, myths were often attempts (explanation） catastrophic events (such as）
A
B
C
volcanic( eruptions）.
D
26. ( In ）the early 1960's the Civil Rights movement ( made ）great efforts ( for registering)
A
B
C
members of minorities( to）vote.
D
27. ( The benefit） of goat's milk ( lies）( in the fact） that it is more easily ( to digest)
A
B
C
D
by infants and invalids than is cow's milk.
Key:ACAAC,DBADB,AADDA，BCDAD，DCAAB，CD
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第十二课时
1.The (public ceremonies) of the Plains Idians are (lesser) elaborate (than those) of (the)
A
B
C
D
Navajo in the southwest
2. The (greenest) and (plentifulest) leaves (are) (the leaves) of grasses.
A
B
C
D
3. The (more) fearsome of (all the) animals (in) the (Western) Hemisphere is the grizzly bear.
A
B
C
D
4. (Film) directors can take far (great) liberties in dealing with (concepts) of time and space
A
B
C
than stage Directors (can).
D
5. Alaska, (the largest) state of the United states (in area) , is (more than) twice the size
A
B
C
(than) Texas.
D
6. (Of) all (the) Native Americans (in the) United States, the Navajos (form largest) group.
A
B
C
D
7. The belief in fairies (have existed) from (earliest) times, and the (literature) of many
A
B
C
countries includes (tales of fairies) and their relationship to humans.
D
8. Salt Lake City, Utah's (capital) and (largest) city, (is industrial) and banking (center).
A
B
C
D
9. John lived (in) New York (since) 1960 to 1975, but he (is now living) (in) Detroit.
A
B
C
D
10. Even as he (wrote) copiously on (so diverse) topics as education, politics, and religion,
A
B
Lewis Mumford remained active in (city) and (regional) planning.
C
D
11. The Canadian province of Newfoundland (has) a rocky coast, a (moisture) climate, and
A
B
(probably the best) cod-fishing (areas) in the world.
C
D
12. (The) main (advertising) media include (direct mail), radio, television, magazines, and (newspaper).
A
B
C
D
13. The poet Marianne Moore was (initially) associated with the imagist movement, but later
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A
(develops) her own thyme (patterns) and (verse) forms.
B
C
D
14. Because the papaya grows readily from seed , ______spread from its home in Central America and now grows
throughout the tropics.
(A) to be
(B) it
(C) the
(D) its
15.
Photoperiodism
is
the
(functional)or behavioral (response)
A
B
duration of daily, (seasonally), or yearly periods of light and darkness.
D
of
an
organism
16. ______the surface of metal, but also weakens it.
(A) Not only does rust corrode
(B) Not only rust corrodes
(C) Rust, which not only corrodes
(D) Rust not only corrodes
KEYS:
BBABD DACBB
BDBBD D
第十三课时
1.Giant pandas,（which inhabit） restricted （areas） of high mountain bamboo forests,
A
B
（are rarely） today and when they are （in captivity） they breed poorly.
C
D
2.(Few )(theories) are (originality) enough to be called (unique).
A
B
C
D
3.Alaska is (fame) for (tall) mountains (and) beautiful (scenery).
A
B
C
D
4.Arthur Miller's stage works are (typical)( more )(concerned) with individuals than
A
B
C
(with systems).
D
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to
C
(changes)
in
5.Pathologists use (their) (knowing) of body tissues and body (fluids)(to aid)other physicians.
A
B
C
D
6.Tilling means (preparation) the soil (to plant) the seeds and keeping the soil (in) the
A
B
C
best condition to help the crop grow until (it is) ready3 for harvesting.
D
7. Langston Hughes, (a prolific writer) of the 1920's, (was concerned with )
A
B
(the depicting )the experience of (urban) Black people in the United States.
C
D
8.(Some) of the (most celebrated) publicity stunts (while) the history of radio
A
B
C
(were associated) with Gracie Allen.
D
9.Balloon (observations) for (military) intelligence( were) made (while) the American Civil War.
A
B
C
D
10.Solar eclipses （occur）
（ during） the Moon's shadow sweeps （across ）the （face of ）the Earth.
A
B
C
D
11. Salmons (spend) most of their (adult lives) in salt water, (despite) they (return )to
A
B
C
D
their freshwater birthplaces to spawn and die.
12.(Even) many early leaders of the United States have (provided )names (for towns), only
A
B
C
George Washington is remembered (in the name) of a state.
D
13. Mary McDowell shared Jane Addam's （interest） in social work （also） was （a） loyal
A
B
C
（supporter） of the League of Nations.
D
14. （According） to entomologists, （pollinating ）insects are attracted to flowers by
A
B
scent （else） by （color）.
C
D
15. （Paper ）is strong under （tension）（instead） crumples （easily） under the stress of compression.
A
B
C
D
16. An （editor） is customarily a （brief） newspaper or magazine article that gives
A
B
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（ personal） comments on current（ events）.
C
D
17. Edwin Franko Goldman was the first bandmaster（ to encourage ）leading contemporary
A
（Compositions） to write （original） works for a （band） .
B
C
D
18. The human （body ）
（relies） on（certainty） nutrients for its（survival）.
A
B
C
D
19.The early use of（ a complete steel） frame for towering （buildings appeared ）in the
A
B
first （skyscraper ）（built on） Chicago in 1883.
C
D
20. Because their properties （differ from）those of their constituents, proper （alloys）
A
B
can （great） increase the （corrosion resistance） of a metal.
C
D
21. Laminated （safety） glass is produced （with） combining （alternate） layers of
A
B
C
（ flat） glass and plastic.
D
22. The （elbows） are （joints ）that （connect） people' s（ up） arms with their
A
B
C
D
forearms.
23. （Numerous） insects, （special） the butterfly, have （weak ）powers of （flight）.
A
B
C
D
24. Mexican （jumping beans） are （actually） seeds （in which ）contain moth larvae
A
B
C
（whose） activity causes the seeds to"jump".
D
25.（ Not only） do artificial （reefs provide）（fish） with food and shelter, they also
A
B
C
serve as （ importantly ）underwater landmarks.
D
26. The General Sherman tree, a （giant）sequoia in California, （has grown） to be the
A
B
world' s （largest） plant at （ approximate） 272 feet tall.
C
D
27. The Medal of Honor is the （highest ）
（award military） for courage that
A
B
（can be given） to any （individual ） in the United States.
C
D
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28.（ The eruptions of） Mt. St. Helens were（ enough severe） to cause（ numerous）
A
B
C
（deaths）.
D
29.Certain types of （computers） work （properly ）only （in environments） with
A
B
C
（ controlled precisely ） temperatures.
D
30. During the 1600's （skilled ）（shoemakers）（ scarce were） in （what） is now the
A
B
C
D
United States.
key:CCAAB ACCDB
CABCC
ABCDC
BDBCD DBBDC
第十四课时
1. Woodrow Wilson (he was) an idealist (who) refused to make any compromises (concerning) the
A
B
C
(establishment of) the League of Nations.
D
2.The adrenal glands, (also called) the suprarenal glands ,(there are) organs of the body that (lie)
A
B
C
(just) above the kidneys .
D
3.Rice, (which it still) forms the staple diet of (much) of the world's population, grows (best) in (hot),
A
B
C
D
wet lands.
4. (A paragraph) is a portion of a text (consists of) one or more (sentences) (related) to the same idea.
A
B
C
D
5.Douglas fir trees (towering) above (most other) (evergreens) in the western forests (of the) United
A
B
C
D
states.
6.Most mammals (to maintain) a (relatively) constant body temperature, (regardless) of what the air
A
B
C
temperature (might be).
D
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7.Salmons (spend) most of their (adult lives) in salt water, (despite) they (return) to their freshwater
A
B
C
D
birthplaces to spawn and die.
8.Solar eclipses (occur) (during) the Moon's shadow sweeps (across) the (face of) the Earth.
A
B
C
D
9.(Even) many early leaders of the United States have (provided) names (for towns), only George
A
B
C
Washington is remembered (in the name) of a state.
D
10.When a pearl (is cut) in half and examined under (a microscope), (but) its layers can (be seen).
A
B
C
D
key:
ABABA ACBAC
PART ONE
1. According to the third law of thermodynamics, ______ possible is—273. 16 degrees centigrade.
(A) that temperature is lowest
(B) the temperature is lowest
(C) lowest temperature
(D) the lowest temperature
2. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known
as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both ______ her novels and short stories.
(A) in which the influence
(B) of which influenced
(C) to have influence
(D) its influence in
3. Muskrats generally ______ close to the edge of a bog, where their favorite plant foods grow plentifully.
(A) staying
(B) they are staying
(C) stay
(D) to stay there
4. Oliver Ellsworth, ______ of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the bill that established the federal
court system.
(A) he was the third chief justice
(B) the third chief justice was
(C) who the third chief justice
(D) the third chief justice
5. ______ Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut’s settlers came from England.
(A) Since
(B) The time
(C) During the
(D) It was
6. A politician can make a legislative proposal more ______ by giving specific examples of what its effect will be.
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(A) to understanding
(B) understandably
(C) understandable
(D) when understood
7. Playing the trumpet with dazzling originality, ______ dominated jazz for 20 years.
(A) Louis Armstrong
(B) the influence of Louis Armstrong
(C) the music of Louis Armstrong
(D) Louis Armstrong’s talent
8. Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the proportion of the population
that ______ for each candidate.
(A) are voted
(B) voting
(C) to be voted
(D) will vote
9. ______ at a river ford on the Donner Pass route to California, the city of Reno grew as bridges and railroads were
built.
(A) Settle
(B) To settle
(C) It was settling
(D) Having been settled
10. The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of contaminants ______ heavily polluted
outside air.
(A) than does
(B) more
(C) as some that are
(D) like of
11. The decimal numeral system is one of the ______ ways of expressing numbers.
(A) useful most world’s
(B) world’s most useful
(C) useful world’s most
(D) most world’s useful
12. Emily Dickinson’s garden was a place ______ great inspiration for her poems.
(A) that she drew
(B) by drawing her
(C) from which she drew
(D) drawn from which
13. The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry winds of the Mojave Desert,
______ the circulation of air.
(A) but they also prevent
(B) also prevented by them
(C) and also to prevent
(D) and also preventing
14. Not only ______ to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.
(A) to use seismology
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(B) is seismology used
(C) seismology is used
(D) using seismology
15. Nebraska has floods in some years, ______.
(A) in others drought
(B) droughts are others
(C) while other droughts
(D) others in drought
16. Pop Art was a movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s whom imagery was based on readily recognized
A
B
C
American products and people.
D
17. Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported into the United
A
B
C
States to combat insect pests.
D
18. All almost the electricity for industrial use comes from large generators driven by steam turbines.
A
B
C
D
19. The Egyptians first discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and improvement its flavor.
A
B
C
D
20. During his twelve year there, Ellis Marsalis turned the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts into a
A
B
rich training place for future jazz stars.
C
D
21. Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that
A
B
C
are often represented at symbols.
D
22. As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St. Vincent Millay produced in the 1920’s increasing
A
B
C
D
gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.
23. When a pearl is cut in half and examined under a microscope, but its layers can be seen.
A
B
C
D
24. A conductor used signals and gestures to let the musicians to know when to play various parts of a
A
B
C
D
composition.
25. If a glass lizard loses its tails, a new one grows to replace it.
A
B
C
D
26. Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs.
A
B
C
D
27. It was near end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared.
A
B
C
D
28. Martin Luther King. Jr.’s magnificent speaking ability enabling him to effectively express the demands
A
B
C
for social justice for Black Americans.
D
29. Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its particularly activity by studying
A
B
C
D
human motion and physiology.
30. Gothic Revival architecture has several basis characteristics that distinguish it from other nineteenthA
B
C
D
century architectural styles.
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31. Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
A
B
C
D
32. In the United States among 60 percent of the space on the pages of newspapers is reserved for
A
B
C
advertising.
D
33. Recently in the automobile industry, multinational companies have developed to the point where such
A
B
few cars can be described as having been made entirely in one country.
C
D
34. Scientists believe that by altering the genetic composition of plants it is possible to develop specimens
A
that are resisting to disease and have increased food value.
B
C
D
35. the purpose of traveler’s checks is to protect travelers from theft and accidental lost of money.
A
B
C
D
36. The early periods of aviation in the United States was marked by exhibition flights made by individual
A
B
C
fliers or by teams of performers at country fairs.
D
37. The American anarchist Emma Goldman infused her spirited lectures publishes. and demonstrations
A
with a passionate belief in the freedom of the individual.
B
C
D
38. Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special interesting to
A
B
C
D
scientists.
39. The main advertising media include direct mail, radio, television, magazines, and newspaper.
A
B
C
D
40. While studying the chemistry of human body, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the research
A
B
she conducted on the rote of hormones.
C
D
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PART TWO
1. ______ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture, engineers are creating exotic new metallic substances.
(A) Meet
(B) Being met are
(C) To meet
(D) They are meeting
2. ______ James A. Bland, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was adopted as the state song of Virginia in 1940.
(A) Was written by
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(B) His writing was
(C) He wrote the
(D) Written by
3. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900’s was considered one of the best singing actresses of her time.
(A) a soprano was popular
(B) in a popular soprano
(C) was a popular soprano
(D) a popular soprano in
4. In the realm of psychological theory, Margaret F. Washburn was a dualist ______ that motor phenomena
have an essential role in psychology.
(A) who she believed
(B) who believed
(C) believed
(D) who did she believe
5. ______ no real boundary to the part of the ocean referred to as a “deep” because of changing water levels and
movement in the sea floor.
(A) It is
(B) To be
(C) Being
(D) There is
6. Unlike moderate antislavery advocates, abolitionists ______ an immediate slavery.
(A) demanded
(B) they demand
(C) that they demanded
(D) in that they demand
7. A few animals sometimes fool their enemies ______to be dead.
(A) appear
(B) to appear
(C) by appearing
(D) to be appearing
8. ______ of the mourning dove is made only by the male.
(A) That the sad cooing call
(B) The sad cooing call
(C) Is the sad cooing call
(D) The cooing call is sad
9. The work of painters in the United States during the early twentieth century is noted for ______ as well as telling
stories.
(A) it is representing of images
(B) which images representing
(C) the images representing
(D) representing images
10. Abraham Lincoln insisted that ______ not just on mere opinion but on moral purpose.
(A) to base democracy
(B) for democracy to be based
(C) democracy be based
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(D) whenever democracy is based
11. World trade patterns are indicative of the important economic issues ______ confront the world today.
(A) what
(B) that
(C) who
(D) they
12. In the symphony orchestra, bass drums are not ______ kettle drums.
(A) as prevalent
(B) that prevalent
(C) so prevalent as
(D) prevalent than
13. Most natural ports are located where the shoreline is irregular and ______.
(A) deep water
(B) is the water deep
(C) the water is deep
(D) there is the deep water
14. ______ to the reproductive rates of other small mammals, that of the bat is very low indeed.
(A) Compared
(B) It is compared
(C) To be comparing
(D) Have compared
15. ______ native to Europe, the daisy has now spread throughout most of North America.
(A) Although
(B) If it were
(C) In spite of
(D) That it is
16. On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consists of a nearly hundred large stumps scattered
A
B
C
on an exposed coal bed.
D
17. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earth’s than are those of any other
A
B
C
D
planet in the solar system.
18. The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky for twenty-four hours
A
B
or longer.
C
D
19. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting, and farmer region
A
B
C
D
in western Newfoundland, Canada.
20. Among the parameters that determine whether an environment is suitably for life as we know it are
A
B
temperature, water availability, and oxygen content.
C
D
21. When eggs of some species of insects hatch, the newly born insects look almost like its adult
A
B
C
D
counterparts.
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22. Although there are more than 2,000 different variety of candy, many of them are made from a basic
A
B
C
boiled mixture of sugar, water, and corn syrup.
D
23. The capital of the United States, originally New York City, was moved to Philadelphia where stayed
A
B
C
D
until 1800.
24. Migration of animals may be initiated by physiological stimuli such as reproductive changes, external
A
B
pressures such as weather changes, or a combination of either types of changes.
C
D
25. Lawrence Robert Klein received the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering the useful of
A
B
C
computers to forecast economic activity.
D
26. The strength, size, and surefootedness of the llama make it as excellent beast of burden in
A
B
C
mountainous regions today as it was in the past.
D
27. Nuclear energy, despite its early promise as a source of electrical power, is still insignificant in
A
B
C
compared with older and safer energy sources.
D
28. Hawaii’s eight major islands and numerous islets form the only state in the United States that is not lie
A
B
C
D
on the mainland of North America.
29. Established about 1300, the Acoma pueblo in New Mexico is believed to be oldest continuously
A
B
C
occupied settlement in the United States.
D
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Part Three
30. Nocturnal creatures, raccoons forage primarily at night and spend their days rest in their dens.
A
B
C
D
31. Marian Anderson, in addition to gaining fame as a concert soloist, also served as a United States delegates
A
B
C
D
to the United Nations.
32. Good dental hygiene and a proper diet are necessary for the maintain of sound teeth.
A
B
C
D
33. Rice adapt better than other grain crops to areas with unfavorable saline, alkaline, or acid sulfate soils.
A
B
C
D
34. Jeanette Rankin, pacifist and lifetime crusader for social and electoral reform, was the first woman to
A
B
C
be a membership of the United States Congress.
D
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35. In the United States, Maryland ranks second only to Virginia as a oyster-producing state.
A
B
C
D
36. The social games of children help to prepare themselves for their adult roles.
A
B
C
D
37. Algae have been an extremely important link in the food chain after the beginning of life on Earth as
A
B
C
D
we know it.
38. the chorus plays a large part in any oratorio, linking areas were sung by soloists with segments of
A
B
C
D
choral music.
39. Butte, Montana, had built above large deposits of silver, gold, and copper and became known as “the
A
B
C
richest hill on Earth. ”
D
40. Realistic novels, in trying to present life as it actually is, have written many works that are notable for
A
B
C
D
their artistry of style.
Key: 30-40 D
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Part Four
1. The fertile catkins of the willow tree are the green, caterpillar-like ones, commonly ______ in length.
(A) or an inch more
(B) or an inch as
(C) at least the inches
(D) an inch or more
2. ______ a short-handled, long-bladed weapon, similar to a dagger but larger.
(A) Like a sword
(B) A sword is
(C) A sword is what
(D) Before a sword
3. In 1948 the United States Secretary of States Dean Acheson ______ the Marshall Plan to aid the economic recovery
of Europe after the Second World War.
(A) begin to carry out
(B) began carrying out
(C) beginning and carrying out
(D) to have begun carrying out
4. The protection of technologies and technological information has become ______ of many nations.
(A) the importance of a concern
(B) a concern of important
(C) the importance concerning
(D) an important concern
5. ______ several years for bamboo seeds to grow into plants that can be used for commercial purposes.
(A) To be taken
(B) It takes
(C) By taking
(D) Although taking
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6. Arthur Miller’s Play Death of A Salesman is the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own hollow values and those
of the society ______.
(A) he lives in which
(B) in which he lives
(C) which in he lives
(D) lives he which in
7. During courtship, ______ displays his green-and-gold upper tail feathers before the peahen.
(A) in which the crested peacock
(B) which the crested peacock
(C) the crested peacock that
(D) the crested peacock
8. ______ theories approximate the truth is the day-to-day business of science.
(A) Determining how closely
(B) How closely to determine
(C) How one determines close
(D) One is close to determining
9. The earthworm is a worm ______ in moist, warm soil in many geographical areas.
(B) where is it found
(C) is found
(D) and found it
(A) found
10. ______ advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the surface of the sea itself is never at rest.
(A) Not only when the tides do
(B) As the tides not only do
(C) Not only do the tides
(D) Do the tides not only
11. The monarch butterfly’s migration of 1,800 miles or more makes ______ among insects.
(A) uniquely
(B) is uniquely
(C) it unique
(D) it is unique
12. A reagent is any chemical that reacts in a predictable way ______with other chemicals.
(A) when mixed
(B) when is mixed
(C) it mixed
(D) mixed is
13. By the 1950’s, Mahalia Jackson’s powerful, joyous gospel music style had gained her ______.
(A) and she had an international reputation
(B)with an international reputation
(C) which was her international reputation
(D) an international reputation
14. Hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles, are unusual ______ travel over land and water on a layer of air .
(A) they
(B) in they
(C) that they
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(D) in that they
15. In the United States, a primary election is a method ______ voters select the nominees for public office.
(A) that
(B) is that
(C) by which
(D) by those
16. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous detective agency that bears him name, directed a Civil War
A
B
C
espionage system behind Confederate lines.
D
17. Until the 1910 formation of the National Hockey Association in eastern Canada, professional and
A
B
amateur teams were allowed to playfully together.
C
D
18. Contralto Marian Anderson became a member permanent of the Metropolitan Opera Company in
A
B
C
D
1955.
19. Widely acknowledged as a great and important playwright, Eugene O’Neill brought to the United States
A
stage it was probably its first really serious drama.
B
C
D
20. Because some critics considered it decadent, subversive, and incomprehensibly, abstract art
A
B
encountered much opposition in its early years.
C
D
21. To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weigh in food every day.
A
B
C
D
22. The glass tube in a fluorescent lamp contains mercury vapor under small pressure.
A
B
C
D
23. In 1977, Marilyn Yadlowski, a undergraduate at Cornell University, found that pigeons had excellent
A
B
lowfrequency hearing, far surpassing that of humans.
C
D
24. The General Accounting Office reviews the accounting systems used by federal agencies to
A
determination whether expenditures conform to laws, and it also settles claims.
B
C
D
25. Australian koalas are furry, gray animal that live in trees and feed on leaves.
A
B
C
D
26. Won its war for independence in 1783, the United States then struggled to establish its own economic
A
B
C
and financial system.
D
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27. The first known radio program among the United States was broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1906, by
A
B
C
Reginald Fessenden from his experimental station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
D
28. A typical feature-length film costs millions of dollars to make and requires the skillful of hundreds of
A
B
C
D
workers.
29. After his trips to the West between 1869 and 1872, Ralph Albert Blakelock would often painted
A
B
C
American Indian encampments on brown-and-yellow-toned canvases.
D
30. Artist Helen Frankenthaler returned home from college in 1949 to her native New York, the city
A
B
producing the most art revolutionary of the day.
C
D
31. The giraffe’s long neck and legs are the most obvious features that make different from all other
A
B
C
D
animals.
32. Tilling means preparation the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help
A
B
C
crop grow until it is ready for harvesting.
D
33. The city of Boston was settled in 1630 on a hilly, wooded peninsula where the Charles River flows
A
B
C
into a natural harbors.
D
34. Critical thinkers are able to identify main issues, recognize underlying assumptions, and evaluating
A
B
C
D
evidence.
35. Because of its maneuverability and ability to land and take off in small areas, the helicopter is used in
A
B
C
wide range of services.
D
36. Melting glaciers may account the rise in sea level that has taken place during this century.
A
B
C
D
37. Farce is a dramatic form that derives much of its humorous from improbable characters and situations.
A
B
C
D
38. Anthropologist Jane Goodall has contributed a wealth information concerning primate behavior
A
B
through her studies of chimpanzees.
C
D
39. The discovery of gold in 1848 transformed San Francisco suddenly from a quiet port into one of the
A
B
C
world’s richest and most famous city.
D
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40. The outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere is very hot that its gases continually expand away from
A
B
C
D
the Sun.
key: 27-40 BDCC
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Part Three
1. Amber comes______from the resins of pine trees that grew in Northern Europe millions of years ago.
(A) chiefly
(B) and chiefly
(C) it is chiefly
(D) since it is chiefly
2. An adult human must take eight steps to go______as a giraffe does in one stride.
(A) as far
(B) the farther
(C) how far
(D) farther
3. When the focus of a pair of binoculars is adjusted, ______into view.
(A) bringing distant objects
(B) distant objects can be brought
(C) and bring distant objects
(D) to bring distant objects
4. From the Iroquois tradition of behind-the-scenes political participation by women, Alice Jemison acquired a
self-confidence that______in her later crusades.
(A) her served well
(B) served well her
(C) served her well
(D) her well served
5. Because of its importance in modern living, ______in all parts of the world.
(A) algebra is studies in schools and colleges
(B) studying algebra in schools and colleges
(C) and the study of algebra in schools and colleges
(D) in schools and colleges are algebra studies
6. ______in the diet is especially important for vegetarians.
(A) Enough protein is obtained
(B) Obtaining enough protein
(C) They obtain enough protein
(D) By obtaining enough protein
7. The early work of Edith Wharton______the relationship between the individual and the community.
(A) focuses attention on
(B) focusing the attention on
(C) the attention is focused on
(D) is the attention and focus
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8. Archaeologists know______35,000 years ago, but it is still unclear for precisely what purpose.
(A) drawing being practiced
(B) when the practice of drawing
(C) that drawing was practiced
(D) practicing of drawing
9. Coral reefs owe their brilliant colors to algae______in symbiosis with coral polyps.
(A) that live
(B) do they live
(C) why they live
(D) live
10. The specialized nature of anthropological research makes______that various groups of people be studied to
determine their similarities and differences.
(A) imperative is
(B) it imperative
(C) it is imperative
(D) it is an imperative
11. Watercolor provides a brilliant transparency and freshness, ______it allows extraordinarily free brushwork.
(A) that
(B) during
(C) which
(D) and
12. The common cold, normally______illness, can seriously threaten the health of postoperative patients.
(A) can be minor
(B) as minor
(C) minor an
(D) a minor
13. Commercial expansion from city to suburb has affected the way people in the United States______.
(A) living and working
(B) they live and work
(C) live and work
(D) to live and to work
14. Only recently______possible to separate the components of fragrant substances and to determine their chemical
composition.
(A) it becomes
(B) having become
(C) has it become
(D) which becomes
15. Charles Lindbergh told reporters______never been deterred from attempting to cross the Atlantic alone even
though others had failed.
(A) that he had
(B) that he had it
(C) had it
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(D) his having
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Part One
16. Sculptor Duane Hanson is noted for his many life-sized and realistic figure.
A
B
C
D
17. A liquid does not have reach its boiling point to evaporate completely.
A
B
C
D
18. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought more than 40,000 prospectors there by two years.
A
B
C
D
19. Some psychologists believe what even when a person suffers from amnesia, some memory remains in
A
B
C
D
the unconscious.
20. The Aeneid was the greatest achievement in the golden age of Latin literature, and it does continued to
A
B
influence poets through the centuries.
C
D
21. The Appalachian Range of North America is made up of a broken chain of ridges, plateaus, and
A
B
C
mountainous.
D
22. Bacteria are either plants nor animals, but are single-celled organisms that reproduce most commonly
A
B
C
through binary fission.
D
23. W. A. Burpee was one of the first merchants to establish a successfully mail order business.
A
B
C
D
24. Fine handmade lace is traditionally making of linen thread.
A
B
C
D
25. The Van de Graaff generator, an electrostatic machine used of nuclear physics to study transformations
A
B
C
in subatomic particles, produces powerful electric currents.
D
26. New uses for plastics were found during the 1950’s and 1960’s in medicine, space, research,
A
B
C
industrial, and architecture.
D
27. To form a silicate glass, the liquid from which it is made must be cooled rapidly enough to prevent it
A
B
C
D
crystallization.
28. Nearly 75 percent of the land of the Canadian province of British Columbia are covered by forests.
A
B
C
D
29. By distinguishing himself as a judge in Arizona, Sandra Day O’Connor caught President Reagan’s
A
B
C
attention and was appointed the first woman justice on the Supreme Court.
D
30. The cotton mills of a hundred years ago were hot, dust, noisy, dangerous places and the life of the
A
B
C
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millworkers was hard.
D
31. Doris Humphrey, a pioneer of modern dance in the United States, was an innovative in the technique,
A
B
C
choreography, and theory of dance movement.
D
32. The primary aim of science horticultural is to develop plants of the highest quality that offer the
A
B
C
promise of high yields.
33. The engineering in charge of the design of a scientific tool works in close partnership with the scientist
A
B
C
and the technician.
D
34. Hammers are made in many different shapes and sizes to do a various of jobs.
A
B
C
D
35. Red clover, the state flower of Vermont, was the leading leguminous hay crop of the northeastern
A
B
region of the United States until it surpassed by alfalfa.
C
D
36. Afterward a heavy rain, a rainbow may spread all the way across the sky, its two ends seeming to rest
A
B
C
D
on the Earth.
37. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most celebrating examples of repousse work, a process of
A
B
hammering metal inside a mold.
C
D
38. Observation of the Sun, Moon, and stars has enabled humans to determine both the seasons and the
A
B
C
time from day.
D
39. The oriental fruit fly causes extensive damage to grapefruit, lemons, and oranges but does not harm to
A
B
the trees on which the fruit grows.
C
D
40. The hardness of mineral often gives a clue to its identity.
A
B
C
D
Part Two
1. Sociologists have long recognized that social tension______
(A) elements from group living
(B) elements of a normal group life
(C) living are a group of elements
(D) are normal elements of group life
2. ______have a very keen sense of hearing, although most do not hear sounds audible to the human ear
(A) While some insects do
(B) Some insects which
(C) Some insects
(D) That some insects
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3. Although both political parties wanted Dwight D. Eisenhower as their presidential nominee in 1952, he became a
Republican candidate and______.
(A) President was electing
(B) was elected President
(C) to elect the President
(D) being elected President
4. If an act is rewarded many times, immediately and with strong reinforces, it will rapidly become______
(A) a habit
(B) into a habit
(C) that which a habit
(D) a habit can be
5. Giant pandas resemble bears in shape and in______
(A) it is a slow, clumsy way to walk
(B) the slow, clumsy way they walk
(C) they walk in a slow, clumsy way
(D) their slow walk is clumsy
6. ______ temperature at which air holds as much water vapor as it can is called the dew point.
(A) It is the
(B) Is the
(C) As the
(D) The
7. The earring is one of the oldest known ornaments and______pieces of stone, bone, or shell.
(A) was from made originally
(B) was made originally from
(C) originally made was from
(D) from originally made was
8. No one knows exactly______
(A) how did speech begin
(B) how speech began
(C) how the beginning of speech
(D) of how beginning speech
9. ______mechanical device has ever been invented that can satisfactorily replace teasel flower heads for raising the
nap on cloth..
(A) No
(B) Not the
(C) Never has a
(D) There is no
10. Even as a girl, ______to be her life, and theater audiences were to be her best teachers.
(A) performances by Fanny Brice were
(B) it was known that Fanny Brice’s performances were
(C) audiences knew that Fanny Brice’s performances were
(D) Fanny Brice knew that performing was
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11. ______ the diffusion of heat upward to the Earth’s surface, the temperature within the Earth remains constant.
(A) That
(B) Despite
(C) If
(D) When
12. Noise in a room may be reduced by carpeting,
(A) which they all
(B) of them all
(C) all of which
(D) of all which
draperies, and upholstered furniture, ______absorb sound.
13. ______devised to lessen the drudgery of washing clothes that the origin of the washing machine is unclear
(A) Were the inventions so numerous
(B) The inventions so numerous
(C) So numerous were the inventions
(D) The inventions that were so numerous
14. Of the thousands of varieties of bird species in North America, ______ bright red plumage, like the cardinal, are
most often designated as state bird.
(A) those that have
(B) who have
(C) which have
(D) to have their
15. ______ as a territory in 1854 and admitted as a state in 1861, Kansas is at the geographical center of the United
States.
(A) By organizing
(B) Because organized
(C) Organized
(D) He had organized
16. Before pioneers cleared the land for farms, cities, and road, forests covered about 40 percent of what is
A
B
C
D
now the state of Illinois.
17. The sea chantey, a type of folk music, not only described the pleasures of stations’ lives ashore, also
A
B
C
but the harsh conditions, of life aboard ship.
D
18. Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota has a heads of four presidents of the United
A
B
C
States carved into its face.
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D
19. Nest building is much less commonly among mammals than among birds.
A
B
C
D
20. The Awakening, a novel by Kate Chopin, shocked readers and cause a storm of criticism.
A
B
C
D
21. The Alaskan Highway was officially opened November 20, 1942, although much more work needed
A
B
C
D
be done to complete it.
22. Sagebrush flourishes in the dry soil of the western plains, where other many plants cannot grow.
A
B
C
D
23. Modern directions of Shakespeare are not longer inhibited by earlier traditions of realistic settings.
A
B
C
D
24. Surveys show that the majority of passengers are pleasing that an agreement has been reached
A
to forbidsmoking on commercial flights within the continental United States.
B
C
D
25. Snakes are capable of graceful motion throughout the entire long of their rubbery bodies.
A
B
C
D
26. Tariffs preventing the most efficient use of the world’s resources by restricting division of labor to
A
B
C
national boundaries.
D
27. The Aleuts in western Alaska have always depended of the sea for food.
A
B
C
D
28. Atoms that having different atomic numbers generally behave differently.
A
B
C
D
29. Over the past few year, many towns in the United States have been joining with neighboring
A
B
C
communities to share the costs of government.
D
30. What makes for human skeleton hard and strong is the presence of the metallic element calcium.
A
B
C
D
31. Many of Robert Bly’s poems explore solitude, natural vigor, and silent in an immediate and modern
A
B
C
D
idiom.
32. To convert an angle measured in radians for an equivalent angle measured in degrees, multiply
A
B
the number of radians by 57.296.
C
D
33. Serving as chief of the United States Children’s Bureau from 1921 to 1934, Grace Abbott fought for
A
B
the rights of women and children through the world.
C
D
34. To people from temperate climates, tropical butterflies may seem incredible big.
A
B
C
D
35. The first railroad in the United States were shot wooden tramways connecting mines also quarries with
A
B
C
D
nearby streams.
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36. The League of Women Voters of the United States identifies certain local, state, and nation issues for
A
B
study and action.
C
D
37. Fibers can come from plants, animals, or mineral ores, or they may be made from a variety chemical
A
B
C
D
substances.
38. Edwin Franko Goldman was the first bandmaster to encourage leading contemporary compositions to
A
B
write original works for a band.
C
D
39. The tapir, an odd-toed, hoofed mammal, feed on plants, eating such things as grass, leaves, fallen fruit,
A
B
C
and moss in large quantities.
D
40. For thousands of years, people have used some kind of refrigeration cooling beverages and preserve
A
B
C
edibles.
D
Key:
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Part Two: DCBAB DBBAD BCCAC BCBBC DCBAB ACAAA BBDDC BDBAC
Part1
1. Wind motion can be observed in the mesosphere by______the trails of meteors passing through it.
(A) to watch
(B) watching
(C) watched
(D) watch
2. Thomas Edison’s first patented invention was a device______in Congress.
(A) votes counted for
(B) had been counting votes
(C) for counting votes
(D) be a counted vote
3. Clara Bow, a popular actress in the 1920’s, retired______she was unable to make the transition from silent films to
sound films.
(A) nevertheless
(B) in spite of
(C) because
(D) and for
4. Built in 1882, the Kinzua Viaduct in McKean County, Pennsylvania, is open only to those visitors______are able to
walk its 2,058-foot length.
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(A) who
(B) to whom
(C) which they
(D) that which
5. A bridge must be strong enough to support its own weight______the weight of the people and vehicles that use it.
(A) as well
(B) so well
(C) as well as
(D) so well as
6. The swallows of Capistrano are famous______to the same nests in California each spring.
(A) to return
(B) who returned
(C) they returned
(D) for returning
7. In the fourteenth century, ______that glass coated with silver nitrate would turn yellow when fired in an oven.
(A) the discovery
(B) it was discovered
(C) with the discovery
(D) if it was discovered
8. ______recurring fear is out of proportion to any real danger, it is called a phobia.
(A) When
(B) Whereas
(C) Which
(D) Whether
9. Many modern photographers attempt to manipulate elements of photography other______in their photographs.
(A) than light is
(B) than light
(C) being light
(D) light
10. For any adhesive to make a really strong bond, ______to be glued must be absolutely clean and free from moisture
or grease.
(A) and surfaces
(B) when surfaces
(C) the surfaces
(D) surfaces that
11. Although still underwater, Loihi Seamount, the newest Hawaiian island, ______closer to the surface by frequent
volcanic eruptions that add layers of lava to the island.
(A) brought
(B) to be brought
(C) being brought
(D) is being brought
12. ______ unstable and explodes as a supernova is not known.
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(A) For a star to become
(B) How a star becomes
(C) A star becomes
(D) That a star is becoming
13. Not until linoleum was invented in 1860 ______ hard-wearing, easy-to-clean flooring.
(A) any house did have
(B) did any house have
(C) house had any
(D) any house had
14. Hiram Revels, the first Black member of the United States Senate, served as senator from Mississippi, an
office______he was elected in1870.
(A) which
(B) to which
(C) and which
(D) being which
15. Oceans continually lose by evaporation much of the river water______.
(A) to constantly flow into them
(B) is constantly flowing into them
(C) constantly flows into them
(D) constantly flowing into them
16. Because of it consists only of a relatively short strand of DNA protected by a shell of protein, a
A
B
C
Virus cannot eat or reproduce by itself.
D
17. The oxygen in the air we breathe has no tasted, smell, or color.
A
B
C
D
18. In 1977 Kathleen Battle was hired by the New York Metropolitan Opera, where her became the star
A
B
C
D
soprano.
19. The aardvark is a mammal that burrows into the ground to catches ants and termites.
A
B
C
D
20. Because of the availability of trucks and easy access to modern highways, the locate of farms has
A
become relatively unimportant with respect to their distance from markets.
B
C
D
21. The homes created by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright are still viewed as uniquely,
A
B
C
innovative, and valuable.
D
22. Geologists find it useful to identification fossils in a rock sample because certain assemblages of
A
B
C
species are characteristic of specific geologic time periods.
D
23. Many poets enhance their work by creating a contrast among realism and symbolism in a given
A
B
C
D
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poem.
24. Most countries depend to few extent on cereal imports to augment their own crops.
A
B
C
D
25. The fragrant leaves of the laurel plant to sell commercially as bay leaves and are used for seasoning
A
B
C
foods.
D
26. When contented, and occasionally when hunger, cats frequently make a purring sound.
A
B
C
D
27. The evolution of fishes is a history of constant adaptation to new possibilities, and a refined of these
A
B
C
D
adaptations.
28. In 1991 Antonia Novello, the United States Surgeon General, launched several programs to address
A
B
C
particular problem that young people have.
D
29. Some psychologists believe that those who are encouraged to be independent, responsible, and
A
B
competent in childhood are likely more than others to become motivated to achieve.
C
D
30. The central purpose of management is for making every action or decision help achieve a carefully
A
B
C
D
chosen goal.
31. As a poetry Nikki Giovanni makes effective use of jazz and blues rhythms.
A
B
C
D
32. Unlike wood, paper, and fabric, which tendency to disintegrate after being buried for many years,
A
B
C
ceramics and glassware, although easily broken, survive well in the ground.
D
33. Margaret Mead achieved world famous through her studies of child-rearing, personality, and
A
B
C
culture.
D
34. The discovery of the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 has not produced antibiotics useful for the
A
B
C
treatment of infectious diseases until 1940.
D
35. In the United States, the Cabinet consist of a group of advisers, each of whom is chosen by the
A
B
C
D
President to head an executive department of the government.
36. Colleges in the newly formed United States, in recovering from the adverse effects of the American
A
B
Revolution, inaugurated a broad curriculum in response of social demands.
C
D
37. Humus is formed during soil microorganisms decompose animal and plant material into elements
A
B
C
usable by plants.
D
38. Ozone is an unstable, faintly bluish gas that is the most chemical active form of oxygen.
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A
B
C
D
39. The development of professional sports in the United States dates back to nineteenth century.
A
B
C
D
40. Long before his death, John Dewey saw his philosophy have a profound influences on education
A
B
C
and thought in the United States and elsewhere.
D
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1. A microscope can reveal vastly______detail than is visible to the naked eye.
(A) than
(B) than more
(C) more than
(D) more
2. Narcissus bulbs______at least three inches apart and covered with about four inches of well drained soil.
(A) should be planted
(B) to plant
(C) must planting
(D) should plant
3. Industrialization has been responsible for______most radical of the environmental changes caused by humans.
(A) a
(B) the
(C) some of which
(D) which are the
4. In many areas the slope and topography of the land______excess rainfall to run off into a natural outlet.
(A) neither permit
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting
(D) do not permit
5. Color and light, taken together,______the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.
(A) very powerfully influence
(B) very influence powerfully
(C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very
6. ______that Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring was one of the chief sources of inspiration for the
development of nontoxic pesticides.
(A) There is likely
(B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely
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7. Total color blindness, ______, is the result of a defect in the retina.
(A) a rare condition that
(B) a rare condition
(C) that a rare condition
(D) is a rare condition
8. ______no conclusive evidence exists, many experts believe that the wheel was invented only once and then
diffused to the rest of the world.
(A) Even
(B) But
(C) Although
(D) So
9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing season, life is ______in various forms.
(A) abundant
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant
(D) it abundant
10. In her time, Isadora Duncan was______today a liberated woman.
(A) calling what we would
(B) who would be calling
(C) what we would call
(D) she would call it
11. ______around stones that are sun-warmed, even the smallest of stones creates tiny currents of warm air.
(A) The cool air
(B) If the air is cool
(C) That the air cools
(D) The cooler the air
12. Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation, country music has certain common features______its own
special character.
(A) give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
(D) that gives it to
13. Most of______archaeologists know about prehistoric cultures is based on studies of material remains.
(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their
14. According to some critics, the novels of William Burroughs demonstrate the major hazard of absurd literature,
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______tendency toward overembellishment and incoherence.
(A) notwithstanding
(B) besides
(C) us a
(D) is
15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in New Orleans in the 1920’s ______in blues music.
(A) was one of the greatest periods
(B) one of the greatest periods
(C) was of the greatest periods
(D) the greatest periods
16. Gone With the Wind, the epic novel about life in South during the Civil War period, took ten years
A
B
C
write.
D
17. None two butterflies have exactly the same design on their wings.
A
B
C
D
18. To save the California condor from extinction, a group of federal, local, and privately organizations
A
B
C
initiated a rescue program.
D
19. A coral reef, a intricate aquatic community of plants and animals, is found only in warm, shallow,
A
B
C
D
sunlit seas.
20. Carnegie hall was the first building in New York designed special for orchestral music.
A
B
C
D
21. Since it lives in the desert, the collared lizard depends from insects for water as well as for food.
A
B
C
D
22. The Texas Panhandle region, in the northwestern part of the state, produces more wheat, cotton, and
A
B
C
grain sorghum than any of other area of Texas.
D
23. Light rays what enter the eve must be focused onto a point on the retina in order for a clear visual
A
B
C
image to form.
D
24. The orangutan’s hands and feet are designed for holding and grasping branches, and its powerful
A
B
C
immensely arms enable it to climb and swing in trees without difficulty.
D
25. The extraordinary beautiful of orchids makes them the basis of a multimillion-dollar floral industry.
A
B
C
D
26. The Vermont Elementary Science Project, according to its founders, are designed to challenge some
A
B
most widely held beliefs about teaching.
C
D
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27. The number 8 2 is an example of a “mixed number” because it is composing of an integer and a
A
B
C
D
fraction.
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28. If it is kept dry, a seed can still sprout up to forty years after their formation.
A
B
C
D
29. In The Sociology of Science, now considered a classic, Robert Merton discusses cultural, economy,
A
B
and social forces that contributed to the development of modern science.
C
D
30. Bacteria lived in the soil play a vital role in recycling the carbon and nitrogen needed by plants.
A
B
C
D
31. Some snakes have hollow teeth are called fangs that they use to poison their victims.
A
B
C
D
32. Stars derive their energy from thermonuclear reactions that take place in their heat interiors.
A
B
C
D
33. Carrie Chapman Call organized the League of Women Voters after successfully campaign for the
A
B
C
constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
D
34. Any group that conducting its meetings using parliamentary rules will encounter situations where
A
B
C
prescribed procedures cannot be applied.
D
35. The strongly patriotic character of Charles Sangster’s poetry is credited about greatly furthering the
A
B
C
D
cause of confederation in Canada.
36. Jessamyn West’s first and most famous novel, The Friendly Persuasion, describes the life of a
A
B
C
Quaker farmed family in the mid-1800’s.
D
37. One inventor that Thomas Edison can take credit for is the light bulb.
A
B
C
D
38. Electric motors range in size from the tiny mechanisms that operate sewing machine to the great
A
B
C
engines in heavy locomotives.
D
39. The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, the gaseous mass surrounding
A
B
C
D
the planet.
40. The Mississippi, the longest river in the United States, begins as small, clear stream in northwestern
A
B
C
D
Minnesota.
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1. Charlie Parker, ______, was one of the creators of the music style called “bop”.
(A) a great jazz improviser who
(B) to improvise great jazz
(C) a great jazz improviser
(D) improvised great jazz
2. The world’s deepest cave, Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees mountains, is almost three times as deep______.
(A) as the Empire State Building is high
(B) that the Empire State Building is higher
(C) is higher than the Empire State Building
(D) and the Empire State Building’s height
3. When Columbus reached the New World, com was the______in the Americas.
(A) widely most grown plant
(B) most widely grown plant
(C) most grown widely plant
(D) plant widely grown most
4. Because kaolin shrinks in firing at a different rate than ordinary clay, ______when creating pottery using both types
of clay.
(A) special handling is required
(B) special handing required
(C) a requirement of special handing
(D) the required special handling
5. The ceremonial Chilcat blanket of the Northwest Tlingit Indians was generally______from cedar bark, wool, and
goats’ hair.
(A) wove
(B) to weave
(C) weaving
(D) woven
6. ______composed traditionally has been a subject of debate among scholars.
(A) Were ballads how
(B) Ballads were how they
(C) How ballads that were
(D) How ballads were
7. Jupiter, the closest of the giant planets to Earth, has______solid surface and is surrounded by zones of intense
radiation.
(A) not
(B) nor
(C) no
(D) neither
8. The black-billed cuckoo has been known to steal eggs______to other birds.
(A) belong
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(B) which belonging
(C) which they belong
(D) that belong
9. The purpose of phonetics is______an inventory and a description of the sounds found in speech.
(A) to provide
(B) provided
(C) which provided
(D) providing that
10. Earthquakes can damage a tree ______violently, and it can take several years for the tree to heal.
(A) to cause shaking
(B) when shaking it causes
(C) by causing it to shake
(D) to cause to shake it
11. ______bacteria in foods are killed, as they are during baking or stewing, decay is slowed down.
(A) What
(B) The
(C) If
(D) So
12. The colors and patterns of the wings of butterflies and moths help______the organism against predators.
(A) protect
(B) being protected
(C) protecting
(D) protection of
13. In 1993 the Library of Congress appointed author Rita Dove______of the United States.
(A) as was poet laureate
(B) was poet laureate
(C) poet laureate
(D) and poet laureate
14. At the South Pole______, the coldest and most desolate region on Earth.
(A) Antarctica lies where
(B) where Antarctica lies
(C) Antarctica lies and
(D) lies Antarctica
15. Tornadoes, powerful, destructive wind storms, occur most often in the spring when hot winds______over flat land
encounter heavy, cold air.
(A) which to rise
(B) that rising
(C) are rising
(D) rising
16. Many exercises such as calisthenics, running, or to swim involve producing muscle tension through a
A
B
C
range of movements that are called isotonics.
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D
17. Intelligence, education, and experience all helps shape management style.
A
B
C
D
18. The basic elements of public-opinion research are interviewers, questionnaires, tabulating equipment,
A
B
C
and to sample population.
D
19. Conservation organizations help for to preserve the ecology of an area by keeping track of endangered
A
B
C
D
20. Gwendolyn Brooks, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, had 75 poems published by the
A
B
C
time she was twenty.
D
21. Halifax is largest city and chief port of Nova Scotia and is the eastern terminus of Canada’s two great
A
B
C
railway systems.
D
22. T.S. Eliot received wide recognition after publishes The WASTE Land, which fused poetic traditions
A
B
with elements of modern music and language.
C
D
23. Numerous type of cells, such as skin cells and white blood cells, have the power reproduce asexually.
A
B
C
D
24. The knee is more likely to be damage than most other joints because it is subject to tremendous forces
A
B
C
during vigorous activity.
D
25. Although ferns lack flowers, they do have leaves, stems, and root.
A
B
C
D
26. Crazy Horse is generally recognized for his courageous and skill, and he was revered by the Sioux as
A
B
C
their greatest leader.
D
27. In medicine, certain plastics have important uses because they do not affected by chemicals in the
A
B
C
body, and they do not harm the body.
D
28. Since a hospital is organized to protect and treat people who are ill, its goals, structures, and functions
A
B
depend on the currently state of medical science.
C
D
29. A change in direction of the monsoon winds result from the differences between the heating or cooling
A
B
C
of landmasses and that of oceans.
D
30. Small distinctions among stamps, unimportant to the person average, would mean a great deal to the
A
B
C
D
stamp collector.
31. Members of a nation’s foreign service represent that country’s interests abroad and report on the
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species.
A
B
C
conditions, trends, and policies of the country which they are stationed.
D
32. Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home resembled those of many others midwestern pioneers, with its dirt
A
B
C D
floor, sleeping loft, and crude fireplace.
33. Dwelling primarily in the ice northern polar seas, beluga whales are characteristically small, white,
A
B
C
D
agile, and elusive.
34. There is evidence that the caribou originated into North America and crossed over a land bridge into
A
B
C
Asia and evolved into the Old World’s reindeer.
D
35. The bold way in which Margaret Mead defined the terms “family”—based as much on choice as on
A
B
C
biological relationship—is possibly the most enduring of her legacies.
D
36. The planet Mars is a freezing, barren, deserts with huge, dry canyons and towering volcanoes.
A
B
C
D
37. Of the many machines invented in the late nineteenth century, none had a great impact on the United
A
B
C
States economy than the automobile.
D
38. A number of the Pacific Islands are volcanoes that have pushed up from the ocean floor, others are the
A
B
tops sunken mountain ranges.
C
D
39. It has been reported that during any twenty-four hour period, a minimal of three hundred North
A
B
C
American women start their own businesses.
D
40. Archeological studies have provided evidence that the use of plants for decoration as well as for food
A
B
C
developed early in the history.
D
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1. The province of Newfoundland has______than any other region of North America in which the first language is
English.
(A) its longer history
(B) a longer history
(C) the longer the history
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(D) the history is longer
2. Clinical psychologist Dr. Carl Rogers found that 80 percent______verbal communication involved five types of
responses: evaluative, interpretive, supportive, probing, and understanding.
(A) all
(B) is the
(C) with
(D) of all
3. The early feminist leader Susan B. Anthony became increasingly aware through her work in the temperance
movement______the same rights as men.
(A) women were not granted that
(B) that women were not granted
(C) not granted women that were
(D) that were not granted women
4. DNA,______, is found in the cell nucleus in the form of very long and thin molecules consisting of two spiral
strands.
(A) inherits material
(B) is inheritance material
(C) material is inherited
(D) the material of inheritance
5. ______plants, which manufacture their own food, animals obtain nourishment by acquiring and ingesting their
food.
(A) Unlike
(B) Different
(C) Whereas
(D) As much
6. The Hawaiian alphabet, introduced by missionaries in the 1820’s, ______and only seven consonants.
(A) the five vowels consist of
(B) consisting of five vowels
(C) that consists of five vowels
(D) consists of five vowels
7. Working like a telescope, ______the size of objects at great distances.
(A) which magnifies a telephoto lens
(B) a telephoto lens magnifies
(C) a telephoto lens which magnifies
(D) and magnifying a telephoto lens
8. Volcanoes are divided into three main groups, based on their shape and the type of material they______.
(A) are made
(B) made of
(C) are made of
(D) made for
9. ______to inanimate objects, such as machines, is a form of animism.
(A) When attributing emotion
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(B) Attributing emotion
(C) Emotion is attributed
(D) If emotion is attributed
10. ______, dolphins have no sense of smell.
(A) As known as far
(B) Known thus far as
(C) It is known as far
(D) As far as is known
11. The growth of psychobiology owes______to major conceptual advances in the way people think about the brain.
(A) much
(B) as much as
(C) much which
(D) there is so much
12. In 1938 Pearl S. Buck became the first American woman______the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(A) receive
(B) received
(C) to receive
(D) she received
13. Now considered an art form, quilt-making originated as a means of fashioning bed covers from bits of fabric that
otherwise______.
(A) not use
(B) were no use
(C) had no use
(D) it was not used
14. The early years of the United States government were characterized by a debate concerning______or individual
states should have more power.
(A) whether the federal government
(B) either the federal government
(C) that the federal government
(D) the federal government
15. Beneath the streets of a modern city______of walls, columns, cables, pipes, and tunnels required to satisfy the
needs of its inhabitants.
(A) where exists the network
(B) the existing network
(C) the network’s existence
(D) exists the network
16. The antique collector must be able to distinguish real antiques from later imitations, which can be
A
B
C
either reproductions nor fakes.
D
17. Paint must be stirred and sometimes dilution before it is applied.
A
B
C
D
18. A great aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart was already famous when she sets out on her ill-fated attempt
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A
B
C
to circle the globe in 1937.
D
19. Although apples do not grow during the cold season, apple trees must have a such season in order to
A
B
C
flourish.
D
20. Two unique features of the Arctic they are lack of precipitation and permanently frozen ground.
A
B
C
D
21. Faced with petroleum shortages in the 1970’s, scientists and engineers in the United States stepped up
A
itsefforts to develop more efficient heating systems and better insulation.
B
C
D
22. Rabbits have large front tooth, short tails, and hind legs and feet adapted for running and jumping.
A
B
C
D
23. Dentistry is a branch of medicine that has developed very dramatic in the last twenty years.
A
B
C
D
24. The ease of solving a jigsaw puzzle depends the number of pieces, their shapes and shadings, and
A
B
C
the design of the picture.
D
25. Plants range in size to tiny, single-celled, blue-green algae, invisible to the naked eye, to giant
A
B
C
sequoias, the largest living plants.
D
26. During the 1940’s science and engineering had an impact on the way music reach its audience and
A
B
even influenced the way in which it was compose
C
D
27. By 1860 the railroads of the United States had 3,000 miles of track, three-quarters of which it was east
A
B
C
D
of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.
28. Ballads were early types of poetry and may have been among a first kinds of music.
A
B
C
D
29. The thin outer layer of the skin is called the epidermis, while the layer inner, which is slightly thicker,
A
B
C
D
iscalled the dermis.
30. With the incorporation of jazz history into current academic curricula, leading jazz musicians are now
A
B
C
founding on the faculties of several universities.
D
31. Humus, a substance found in soil, is soft and spongy and enables plant roots to send out tiny hairs
A
B
C
through that they absorb water and food.
D
32. Although flies live longest in cool temperatures, it breed prolifically when temperatures are warm,
A
B
food is abundant, and humidity is moderate.
C
D
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33. Alaska’s vast areas of untamed wilderness attracts many people who enjoy the outdoors.
A
B
C
D
34. The giant panda closely resembles the bear, but account of certain anatomical features it is placed in
A
B
C
D
the raccoon family.
35. The ode was original a ceremonial poem written to celebrate public occasions or exalted subjects.
A
B
C
D
36. Even as he wrote copiously on such diverse topic as education, politics, and religion, Lewis Mumford
A
B
remained active in city and regional planning.
C
D
37. Oscillation is a electronic function that changes direct current to the signal of desired frequency.
A
B
C
D
38. Papier-mache figures by Stephen Hensen, which they cheerfully depicted life in the Information Age,
A
B
were the focus of an exhibit at the Museum of American History.
C
D
39. Pharmacist fill drug prescriptions, keeping records of the drugs their patients are taking to make sure
A
B
C
that harmful combinations are not prescribed.
D
40. Great technical advances in aerial and satellite photography have been made since end of the Second
A
B
C
D
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1. ______a necessary dimension for measuring astronomical space and the distance of heavenly bodies from the
Earth.
(A) Once in time
(B) Time is
(C) The time
(D) It is time
2. Jackie Joyner-Kersce, ______the world record in the heptathlon in the 1988 Olympics, also won the long jump in
that year.
(A) whose setting
(B) which she set
(C) whoever set
(D) who set
3. The fossilized remains of a type of camel______a dog have been found in the Bad Lands of South Dakota.
(A) no more large
(B) no larger than
(C) not larger
(D) which no larger
4. Gorillas are quiet animals, ______they are capable of making about 20 different sounds.
(A) whether
(B) which
(C) even though
(D) as well as
5. Although the Earth’s chemical composition had been studied for years, only toward the end of the nineteenth
century ______as a discipline in its own right.
(A) when geochemistry was recognized
(B) was geochemistry recognized
(C) then recognized as geochemistry
(D) as geochemistry was recognized
6. Because the wood of the dogwood tree is very hard,______is used for objects, such as roller skate wheels, in
which hardness is desired.
(A) and
(B) it
(C) what
(D) thus
7. In hot, dry regions, the Sun’s heat causes the outer layer of rocks______, a process called exfoliation.
(A) are expanded and peeled away
(B) to expand and peel away
(C) expands and peels away
(D) they expand and peel away
8. The lower______in a room, the more slowly our eyes focus.
(A) the level of lighting
(B) light level
(C) leveling of light
(D) lighting is level
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9. ______Sarah Orne Jeweft, a nineteenth-century writer, read widely in her family’s extensive library.
(A) That she received little education formally.
(B) The little formal education that she received.
(C) Little formal education that was received by.
(D) Although she received little formal education.
10. In the early twentieth century, the “Model T” automobile was mass-produced and sold at a price______ could
afford.
(A) the average person who
(B) that the average person who
(C) and the average person
(D) the average person
11. Not only______all the positive charge of an atom, it is also the site of the weight of every atom.
(A) does the nucleus hold
(B) the nucleus holding
(C) the nucleus does hold
(D) holds the nucleus
12. The wind-rippled sand at California’s Kelso Dunes resembles______.
(A) to be an ocean floor
(B) as an ocean floor
(C) an ocean floor
(D) being an ocean floor
13. Fossil records indicate______existing in the past have become extinct.
(A) that many species of organisms
(B) many species of organisms that
(C) many species of organisms are
(D) there are many organisms
14. Experiments related to the sense of smell are more easily______than those related to perception of color.
(A) setting them up
(B) to set up
(C) set up
(D) sets up those
15. The Pulitzer Prize has been______in American literature for more than seventy years.
(A) the award most prestigious that
(B) the most prestigious award
(C) a prestigious award that most
(D) most prestigious award
16. Those interested in covered bridges can find six of they between Keene and Winchester, New
A
B
C
D
Hampshire.
17. The Sun’s energy is generated deep in the solar core by the synthesis of helium from hydrogen
A
B
C
through a sequences of thermonuclear fusion reactions.
D
18. Using carbon-dating techniques, archaeologists can determine the age of many ancient objects by
A
B
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measurement the amount of radioactive carbon they contain.
C
D
19. The evolutionary adaptation of a particular species of animal over time occurs in response to
A
B
environmental conditions, including others animals.
C
D
20. Saturn is the second largest planet after Jupiter, with a diameter nearly ten times those of Earth.
A
B
C
D
21. Ogden Nash often extended sentences over several lines produce surprising and comical rhymes.
A
B
C
D
22. By the second month of life, most infant can turn their heads and move their eyes to follow the
A
B
C
movements of people and large objects around them.
D
23. Early movies had appeal immediate and became a means to present contemporary attitudes,
A
B
C
D
fashions, and events.
24. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr, clergyman and civil rights leader, won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for
A
B
C
his work toward racially equality in the United States.
D
25. Leontyne Price ranks among the most celebration sopranos of her time.
A
B
C
D
26. Carrie Chapman Catt was instrumental in passing the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States
A
B
Constitution gives women the right to vote.
C
D
27. Discovery in 1789 and isolated from other elements in 1841, uranium is valued as a source of
A
B
C
D
atomic energy.
28. Ulysses S. Kay was among the United States composers visited the Soviet Union in 1958 to
A
B
participate in a cultural exchange program.
C
D
29. Alaska is fame for tall mountains and beautiful scenery.
A
B
C
D
30. True ferns have undergone remarkably little change during its long geological history, which
A
B
C
extends back to the Devonian period.
D
31. Diplomatic negotiations generally take place in embassies or in the foreign offices of the countries
A
B
C
which in ambassadors are accredited.
D
32. The novelist Shirley Hazzard is noted for the insight, poetic style, and sensitive she demonstrates in
A
B
C
D
her works.
33. Compare with the jagged estuaries of the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast seems almost uniformly
A
B
C
D
straight.
34. Because of its low cholesterol content, margarine is a widely used substitute from butter.
A
B
C
D
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35. After the Boston Tea party in 1773, coffeehouses in the North American colonies became centers
A
B
for gossip, gamble, and political criticism.
C
D
36. Studies by B.E. Skinner indicate that reward positively reinforces behavior and males that behavior
A
B
C
likely more to recur.
D
37. Mathematical puzzles are common into history because they have been used as intelligence tests
A
B
C
D
and amusements.
38. Most authorities consider both dreaming while sleep and daydreaming to be forms of fantasy.
A
B
C
D
39. Genetic engineering is helping researchers unravel the mysteries of previously incurable diseases so
A
B
that they can get to its root causes and find cures.
C
D
40. The Montessori method of education stresses initiative and self-reliance to permitting pupils to
A
B
pursue independently whatever interests them, but within disciplined limits.
C
D
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1. The ponderosa ponderosa pine is______of most of the timber used by forest-product firms in the Black
Hills of South Dakata.
(A) the source
(B) as source
(C) the source which
(D) because the source
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2. Computers that once took up entire rooms are now______to put on desktops and into wristwatches.
(A) small enough
(B) smaller than
(C) so small
(D) as small as
3. According to some educators, the goal of teaching is to help students learn what______to know to live a
well-adjusted and successful life.
(A) do they need
(B) they need
(C) they are needed
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(D) as they may need
4. The sapphire’s transparency to ultraviolet and infrared radiation makes______in optical instruments.
(A) it is of use
(B) it uses
(C) it a useful
(D) it useful
5. ______initial recognition while still quite young.
(A) Most famous scientists achieved
(B) That most famous scientists achieved
(C) Most famous scientists who achieved
(D) For most famous scientists to achieve
6. Mango trees, ______densely covered with glossy leaves and bear small fragrant flowers, grow rapidly and can
attain heights of up to 90 feet.
(A) whose
(B) which are
(C) are when
(D) which
7. ______, the Canadian composer Barbara Pentland wrote four symphonies, three concertos, and an opera, among
other works.
(A) An artist who, prolific
(B) Is a prolific artist
(C) Prolific an artist
(D) A prolific artist
8. The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park in Texas were created by volcanic eruptions that
occurred______.
(A) the area in which dinosaurs roamed
(B) when dinosaurs roamed the area
(C) did dinosaurs roam the area
(D) dinosaurs roaming the area
9. In bas-relief sculpture, a design projects very slightly from its background, ______some coins.
(A) as on
(B) because
(C) the way that
(D) similarly
10. Alaska found the first years of its statehood costly because it had to take over the expense of
services______previously by the federal government.
(A) to provide
(B) be provided
(C) providing
(D) provided
11. With age, the mineral content of human bones decreases, ______them more fragile.
(A) make
(B) and to make
(C) thereby making
(D) which it makes
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12. Not until Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave had been completely explored in 1972______.
(A) when was its full extent realized
(B) that its full extent was realized
(C) was its full extent realized
(D) the realization of its full extent
13. The first explorer______California by land was Jedediah Strong Smith, a trapper who crossed the southwestern
deserts of the United States in 1826.
(A) that he reached
(B) reached
(C) to reach
(D) reaching it
14. Written to be performed on a ______, Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town depicts life in a small New England
community.
(A) stage scenery of bare
(B) bare of stage scenery
(C) scenery bare of stage
(D) stage bare of scenery
15. ______many copper mines in the state of Arizona, a fact which contributes significantly to the state’s economy.
(A) They are
(B) There are
(C) Of the
(D) The
16. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers intentional add to their products.
A
B
C
D
17. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures, and she was one of the first anthropologists to
A
B
C
photograph hers subjects.
D
18. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form.
A
B
C
D
19. During the 1870’s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by burning iron ore
A
B
C
with coke, instead than with charcoal.
D
20. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments to studying the
A
B
C
D
volcanoes in Hawaii.
21. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the laws of motion
A
B
C
who were developed in the seventeenth century.
D
22. Was opened in 1918, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., was the first museum in the
A
B
United States devoted to modern art.
C
D
23. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus more people are
A
B
C
able to enjoy to own a house.
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D
24. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systematic observations, but they also gather data from
A
B
C
documentary and oral sources.
D
25. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy individual during waking
A
B
C
D
hours.
26. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief and anesthesia.
A
B
C
D
27. The Moon’s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space.
A
B
C
D
28. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for flooring,
A
B
C
D
furniture, boxes, and crates.
29. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short stories before
A
B
C
Publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962.
D
30. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among the functions of hair
A
B
C
D
for animals.
31. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason for the
A
B
recently surge of support for undergraduate research.
C
D
32. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help the bankrupt
A
B
railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial problems.
C
D
33. Faults in the Earth’s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where they interrupt
A
B
C
D
previously continuous layers.
34. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths.
A
B
C
D
35. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New
A
B
C
World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
D
36. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the sounds of jazz with
A
B
C
them of traditional orchestration.
D
37. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920’s until the
A
B
present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of production.
C
D
38. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are associated with the
A
B
boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the lithosphere.
C
D
39. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants native to treat
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A
B
C
colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria.
D
40. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long, slenderness, wingless, and x
A
B
C
brownish in color.
D
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Part II
1. Associated with the Denis Hawn company from 1916 until 1923, Martha Graham developed a powerful,
______that was integral to the foundations of modern dance.
(A) expressively stylish
(B) a style expressive
(C) stylishly expressive
(D) expressive style
2. Some snakes lay eggs, but others______birth to live offspring.
(A) give
(B) giving
(C) they give
(D) to have given
3. Because it was so closely related to communication, ______art form to develop.
(A) drawing was probably the earliest
(B) to draw early was probably
(C) early drawing probably
(D) the earliest draw
4. Halley's Comet had its first documented sighting in 240 B. C. in China and ______it has been seen from the Earth
29 times.
(A) after
(B) because of
(C) since then
(D) that is
5. ______that managers commit in problem solving is jumping to a conclusion about the cause of a given problem.
(A) Major errors
(B) Since the major error
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(C) The major error
(D) Of the major errors
6. Algonkian-speaking Native Americans greeted the Pilgrims ______settled on the eastern shores of what is now
New England.
(A) to whom
(B) of which
(C) who
(D) which
7. The best known books of Ross Macdonald, ______writer of detective novels, feature the character Lew Archer, a
private detective.
(A) is the
(B) is an
(C) they are by
(D) the
8. The first building to employ steel skeleton construction, ______.
(A) Chicago, Illinois, the home of the Home
Insurance Company Building completed in
1885
(B) The Home Insurance Company Building in
Chicago, Illinois, was completed in 1885
(C) because the Home Insurance Company
Building in Chicago, Illinois, was completed
in 1885
(D) the Home Insurance Company Building in
Chicago, Illinois, in 1885
9. During the course of its growth, a frog undergoes a true metamorphosis______with a fishlike larval stage.
(A) begin
(B) began
(C) beginning
(D) is begun
10. Outside the bright primary rainbow, ______much fainter secondary rainbow may be visible.
(A) so
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(B) a
(C) since
(D) still
11. Following the guidelines for speaking and voting established by the book Robert's Rules of Order, ______ during
meetings.
(A) and avoid large decision-making
organizations' procedural confusion
(B) large decision-making organizations avoid
procedural confusion
(C) is procedural confusion avoided by large
decision making organizations
(D) are avoiding procedural confusion in large
decision making organizations
12. According to most psychological studies, body language expresses a speaker's emotions and attitudes, and
A
B
C
it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen.
D
13. The dachshund is a hardy, alert dog with a well sense of smell.
A
B
C
D
14. Quasars, faint celestial objects resembling stars, are perhaps the most distant objects know.
A
B
C
D
15. The importance of environmental stimuli in the development of coordination between sensory input and
A
B
C
motor response varies to species to species.
D
16. A smile can be observed, described, and reliably identify; it can also be elicited and manipulated under
A
B
C
experimental conditions.
D
17. A musical genius, John Cage is noted for his highly unconventional ideas, and he respected for his unusual
A
B
C
compositions and performances.
D
18. Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans, which must
A
B
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be ground and mixed with sugar.
C
D
19. Several million points on the human body registers either cold, heat, pain, or touch.
A
B
C
D
20. In the 1800's store owners sold everything from a needle to a plow, trust everyone, and never took
A
B
C
D
inventory.
21. Although they reflect a strong social conscience, Arthur Miller's stage works are typical more concerned
A
B
C
with individuals than with systems.
D
22. While highly prized for symbolizing good luck, the four-leaf clover is rarity found in nature.
A
B
C
D
23. An involuntary reflex, an yawn is almost impossible to stop once the mouth muscles begin the stretching
A
B
C
D
action.
24. Elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives in 1968, Shirley Chisholm was known for
A
B
advocacy the interests of the urban poor.
C
D
25. A mirage is an atmospheric optical illusion in what an observer sees a nonexistent body of water or an
A
B
C
image of some object.
D
26. Turquoise, which found in microscopic crystals, is opaque with a waxy luster, varying in color from
A
B
C
D
greenish gray to sky blue.
27. Homo erectus is the name commonly given into the primate species from which humans are believed to
A
B
C
D
have evolved.
28. Today, modern textile mills can manufacture as much fabrics in a few seconds as it once took workers
A
B
C
weeks to produce by hand.
D
29. The Hopi, the westernmost tribe of Pueblo Indians, have traditionally lived large multilevel structures
A
B
clustered in towns.
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C
D
30. Exploration of the Solar System is continuing, and at the present rate of progress all the planets will have
A
B
been contacted within the near 50 years.
C
D
31. Since their appearance on farms in the United States between 1913 and 1920, trucks have changed patterns
A
B
C
of production and market of farm products.
D
32. Antique collecting became a significant pastime in the 1800's when old object began to be appreciated for
A
B
C
D
their beauty as well as for their historical importance.
33. American painter Georgia O'Keeffe is well known as her large paintings of flowers in which single
A
B
blossoms are presented as if in close-up.
C
D
34. Despite television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison Keillor's
A
Saturday night radio show of folk songs and stories is heard by millions of people.
B
C
D
35. The work which the poet Emma Lazarus is best known is "The New Colossus," which is inscribed on the
A
B
C
pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
D
36. In the New England colonies, Chippendale designs were adapted to locally tastes, and beautiful furniture
A
B
C
resulted.
D
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36. In the New England colonies, Chippendale designs were adapted to locally tastes, and beautiful furniture
A
B
C
resulted.
D
Part 2
1. Portland, Maine, is ______ the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his early years.
(A) where
(B) it where
(C) where is
(D) which is where
2. As consumers' response to traditional advertising techniques declines, businesses are beginning ______ new
methods of reaching customers.
(A) the development that
(B) it developing
(C) develop
(D) to develop
3. The knee is ______ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.
(A) more likely to be damaged than
(B) likely to be more than damaged
(C) more than likely to be damaged
(D) to be damaged more than likely
4. The quince is an attractive shrub or small tree ______ closely related to the apple and pear trees.
(A) is
(B) that is
(C) that it is
(D) is that which
5. Many gases, including the nitrogen and oxygen in air, ______ color or odor.
(A) have no
(B) which have no
(C) not having
(D) they do not have
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6. The American Academy of Poets, ______ the 1930's, provides financial assistance to support working poets.
(A) when it was founded
(B) was founded
(C) which was founded in
(D) was founded in
7. During the Pleistocene glacial periods ______ portions of the Earth where plant and animal life flourished, making
it possible for people to subsist.
(A) the
(B) it was
(C) there were
(D) have there been
8. The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, in which she often makes her family members ______, are an affectionate
and incisive representation of the African American experience.
(A) are her subjects
(B) her subjects
(C) are subjects
(D) which her subjects
9. Hubble's law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies, ______ is their relative speed of
separation.
(A) the greatest
(B) the greater
(C) greater than
(D) as great as
10. The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil, ______ the
vegetable's strong taste.
(A) which the source of
(B) that the source is
(C) the source of
(D) of the source is
11. A regional writer with a gift for dialect, ______ her fiction with the eccentric, comic, but vital inhabitants of rural
Mississippi.
(A) and Eudora Welty is peopling
(B) Eudora Welty peoples
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(C) because Eudora Welty peoples
(D) Eudora Welty, to people
12. Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor the air contains at a certain temperature ______ with the amount
it could hold at that temperature.
(A) to compare
(B) compared
(C) comparing
(D) compares
13. Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americas arrived by crossing the land bridge that connected Siberia
and ______ more than 10,000 years ago ______.
(A) this is Alaska now
(B) Alaska is now
(C) is now Alaska
(D) what is now Alaska
14. Fibers of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun into thread ______ woven into textile
fabrics.
(A) us are they
(B) when to be
(C) that they are
(D) if they are to be
15. Margaret Brent, because of her skill in managing estates, became ______ largest landholders in colonial
Maryland.
(A) what the
(B) one of the
(C) who the
(D) the one that
16. Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard against which the wives of all United States Presidents
A
B
C
since have evaluated.
D
17. The Armory, Show held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of modern European
A
B
art.
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C
D
18. Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not
A
B
C
decay too rapidly.
D
19. In 1852 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen years of old to
A
B
C
D
attend school.
20. The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable evolutionary
A
B
relationship of the different species to each another.
C
D
21. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander gained fame not in war and through
A
B
C
diplomacy.
D
22. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings in the Unites
A
B
States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
C
D
23. There of every four migrating water birds in North American visits the Gulf of Mexico's
A
B
C
winter wetlands.
D
24. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the National
A
B
C
Gallery of Art, where it is now locating.
D
25. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border have been known to
A
B
C
reach 90 of degrees Celsins.
D
26. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's orbital plane,
A
B
C
a solar eclipse occurs.
D
27. Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear rhythm, simple
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A
B
C
modelings, and harmonies of clear color.
D
28. Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of energy is derived
A
B
C
from sunlight.
D
29. The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with tenderness,
A
B
C
grace, and wit.
D
30. In the nineteenth century, women used quilts to inscribe their responses to social, economic,
A
B
C
and politics issues.
D
31. Fossils in 500-million-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the Cambrian period were
A
B
C
mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to form shells.
D
32. Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes because they are
A
B
not cutting off by the horizon.
C
D
33. Hot at the equator causes the air to expand, rise, and flow toward the poles.
A
B
C
D
34. Although research has been ongoing since 1930, the existence of ESP-perception and
A
B
communication without the use of sight, hear, taste, touch, or smell-is still disputed.
C
D
35. As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the United States
A
B
comes from marketing the films abroad.
C
D
36. Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing rhythms.
A
B
C
D
37. The walls around the city of Quebec, which was originally a fort military, still stand, making
A
B
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C
Quebec the only walled city in North America.
D
38. The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line techniques made
A
B
C
D
them cheaper to produce.
39. The ballad is characterized by informal diction, by a narrative largely dependent on action and
A
B
dialogue, by thematic intense, and by stress on repetition.
C
D
Part 3
1. The acting of Mary Ann Duff was characterized by subdued dramatic force, fidelity to ______, and a marked unity
of effect.
(A) of each play the structure
(B) the structure of each play
(C) the play each structure of
(D) each play the structure of
2. The coherent light of a laser ______ entirely of synchronized waves of a single frequency that travel in the same
direction.
(A) it composes.
(B) to compose it
(C) is composed
(D) is composing it
3. ______ that ornithischians, plant-eating dinosaurs, lived about 225 million years ago.
(A) Scientists believe
(B) Scientists believing
(C) Scientists believe in
(D) Scientists' belief
4. ______ that look American art out of the romanticism of the mid-1800's and carried it to the most powerful
heights of realism.
(A) Winslow Homer's paintings
(B) It was Winslow Homer's paintings
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(C) When Winslow Homer's paintings
(D) Paintings of Winslow Homer
5. Settlers of the western United States had a sense of equality in the face of hardship, ______ democratic political
practices.
(A) led to
(B) they had led
(C) which led to
(D) was leading them to
6. The National Medal of Science is the ______ given by the United States government.
(A) highest science award
(B) highest award for scientific
(C) ward that is the highest scientific
(D) highest, and awarding scientists.
7. The concept of television, ______ images over distances, had intrigued scientists even before the invention of
moving pictures or radio.
(A) the transmission of
(B) transmits to
(C) for transmission
(D) the transmitting
8. Recent technology gives computers ______, making them multimedia machines with interactive potential.
(A) both audio and video capability
(B) its capability is both audio and video
(C) both audio and video are capable
(D) capable of both audio and video
9. ______ at a music store was one of Lil Armstrong's first professional jobs as a young pianist when she came to
Chicago in 1917.
(A) Demonstration tunes
(B) Demonstrating tunes
(C) Demonstrate tunes
(D) Tunes that demonstrated
10. The first people to live in ______ Hawaii were the Polynesians, who sailed there in large canoes from other
Pacific Islands about 2,000 years ago.
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(A) now where is
(B) what is now
(C) it is now
(D) now this is
11. The Alaskan blackfish exhibits ______ to both extreme cold and low concentrations of oxygen under the ice.
(A) remarkable, and resistance
(B) remarkable, resistant
(C) remarkably resistant
(D) remarkable resistance
12. Penicillin acts both ______.
(A) killing bacteria and their growth being inhibited
(B) and to kill bacteria and to inhibit their growth
(C) by killing bacteria and by inhibiting their growth
(D) kills bacteria and inhibits their growth
13. Not until the 1850's ______ in New York seek to rescue historic buildings from destruction alteration.
(A) some concerned citizens
(B) did some concerned citizens
(C) some citizens concerned
(D) when some concerned citizens did
14. If a diamond is heated without oxygen, it will turn to graphite, a form of ______ that it is used as a lubricant.
(A) carbon is so soft
(B) is carbon so soft
(C) carbon so soft
(D) so soft the carbon
15. Gold or silver bullion serve into commerce as mediums of exchange all over the world.
A
B
C
D
16. Today's farmers have increased milk production greatly through improved methods of
A
B
C
breeding, feeding, and manage dairy cattle.
D
17. Hypoglycemia is a condition in which a rapidly drop in blood sugar most often results from an
A
B
C
oversecretion of insulin from the pancreas.
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D
18. Newborn infants show a distinct preference for human voices over other sounds and also
A
B
prefer her own mothers' voices to the voices of strangers.
C
D
19. The Chippewa and Santee Sioux of the Upper Mississippi River regional have used catlinite to
A
B
produce carvings for almost 150 years.
C
D
20. Absolutely nothing that floats, neither a corked bottle nor a 50,000-ton ships, can escape the
A
B
C
D
effects of water currents.
21. The Wright Brother were owner of a bicycle shop, and they used a number of bicycle parts to
A
B
make the original motorized airplane.
C
D
22. Gemstones are usually bright, color, opaque or transparent minerals found in the rocks of the
A
B
C
D
Earth.
23. The modern detective story, in which a detective solves a crime by discovering and
A
B
interpretation evidence, is considered to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders
C
D
in the Rue Morgue" in 1841.
24. The superintendent of women nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War was Dorothea
A
B
C
D
Dix.
25. Slow growth in the early 1900's, linked with rising unemployment, less spend, and meager
A
B
C
business investments, led many experts to declare a recession.
D
26. Orchestrating musical works requires a understanding of the range and characteristics of each
A
B
instrument.
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C
D
27. The Canadian province of British Columbia is rich of minerals and, because over 50 percent of
A
the land is covered with forests, lumbering is its major industry.
B
C
D
28. Each major styles of architecture emerged because new problems in building or challenges in
A
B
design appeared for architects to resolve.
C
D
29. Much of the significant research related for the theory of numbers concerns the distribution of
A
B
C
D
prime numbers.
30. Lauren Bacall made her film debut in To Have and Have Not, starring together Humphrey
A
B
C
Bogart, who later became her husband.
D
31. The black leopard is very dark that its spots are difficult to see.
A
B
C
D
32. On steep hillsides, tree roots bind to soil that might otherwise be washed away it heavy rains.
A
B
C
D
33. Carson McCullers was only 23 when she published her first novel, The Heurt is a Lonely
A
B
Hunter, for what she received much acclaim.
C
D
34. Through the process of imprinting, the young of a species rapidly learn to recognize and
A
B
follow other members of own species.
C
D
35. The invention of fresh metaphors today continues to make it possible the vivid expression of
A
B
C
D
emotions.
36. Proteins are made up of long, folded irregularly chains, the links of which are amino acids.
A
B
C
D
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37. Although most species of small birds gather in groups at feeders provided by bird-watchers,
A
the bright red ardinals usually appears alone or with its mate.
B
C
D
38. The astronomy is the oldest science, but it continues to be at the forefront of scientific
A
B
C
D
thought.
39. Henry David Thoreau was an American writer who is remembered for his faith in the religious
A
B
C
significance of the nature.
D
Part II
1. Between 1870 and 1890 the total population of the United States ______ .
(A) that doubled
(B) doubled
(C) it doubled
(D) when doubled
2. Intended to display the work of twentieth century artists, ______ in 1929.
(A) the opening of the Museum of Modern Art
(B) so the Museum of Modern Art opened
(C) why the Museum of Modern Art opened
(D) the Museum of Modern Art opened
3. The Earth has a tremendous amount of water, but ______ in the oceans.
(A) almost all of it is
(B) it is almost all of
(C) is of it almost all
(D) all is of it almost
4. ______ have sense organs in a canal known as the lateral line, which allows them to response to changes in water
pressure caused by nearby motion.
(A) That the fish
(B) Fish
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(C) When fish
(D) If the fish
5. Direct information on the chemical composition of the Moon became available in 1969 ______ of the first Apollo
mission to land on the Moon.
(A) with the return’
(B) returning
(C) when returned
(D) and the return
6. ______ completely harmless to the environment is very difficult and usually economically unsound.
(A) Cleaning products that
(B) Cleaning products are
(C) Cleaning products are made
(D) Making a cleaning product
7. One of Ulysses S. Crant’s first acts as President of the United States was to name the Seneca chief Donchogawa
______ of Indian Affairs.
(A) as was Commissioner
(B) Commissioner
(C) was Commissioner
(D) him commissioner
8. One of the most ancient arts, ______ in different parts of the world.
(A) for weaving to the develop independently
(B) the independent development of weaving
(C) weaving, to develop independently
(D) weaving developed independently
9. ______ classified as a carnivore, the North American Grizzly bear cats berried and even grass.
(A) Just as
(B) Because of
(C) Although
(D) Either
10. Not only ______ much bigger than any planet, but unlike the planets, it consists completely of gaseous material.
(A) the Sun is
(B) the Sun, which is
(C) is the Sun
(D) that the Sun
11. Colloquialisms, ______ of informal spoken language, are often considered inappropriate for more formal written
language.
(A) expressions which are characteristic
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(B) which characteristic expressions
(C) are expressions characteristic
(D) expressions can be characteristic
12. Her work in genetics won United States scientist Barbara McClinton ______ in 1983.
(A) was the Nobel Prize
(B) the Nobel Prize was
(C) the Nobel Prize
(D) for the Nobel Prize
13. ______ usually thought to end in northern New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains really extend southward to the
frontier of Mexico.
(A) Despite
(B) To be
(C) While
(D) However
14. The novelist Edith Wharton considered the writer Henry James______.
(A) that a strong influence on her work
(B) as strong influences on her work
(C) a strong influence on her work
(D) was a strong influence on her work
15. Ironically, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow claimed he never liked teaching, although______ a professor
at Harvard University and taught for many years.
(A) becoming
(B) he became
(C) had he became
(D) for him to become
16. The hind leg of the gerbil are particularly well adapted to leaping across its desert
A
B
C
D
habit.
17. Educator Helen Magil white was the first American woman to have earn the Ph.
A
B
C
D. degree.
D
18. The changes that occur in the life cycle of a butterfly or moth are probable the
A
B
C
most striking examples of metamorphosis.
D
19. In the nineteenth century, North American locomotives ran on hardwood fuel,
A
B
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which was inexpensive and plentiful in the time.
C
D
20. Much theories have been developed concerning how people learn about cultures
A
B
C
from the myths and legends passed down from one generation to another.
D
21. Several comet are discovered each year, but very few of them are bright enough
A
B
C
to be seen without the aid of magnification.
D
22. Charles Monroe Schulz’s comic strip “Peanuts” is translated into 26 languages
A
B
also has appeared in over 2,300 daily newspaper.
C
D
23. In human beings the liver is the biggest glandular organ of his digestive system.
A
B
C
D
24. Many scientists contributed to the development of television, whether no one
A
B
C
D
person can be said to have invented it.
25. Northern Canada contains vast areas treeless of low vegetation known as tundra.
A
B
C
D
26. Gordon Parks composed, wrote, and directed Martin, the classical ballet who
A
B
C
examines the meaning of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
D
27. In 1965 Rodolfo Gonzales has establish an organization called the Crusade for
A
B
C
Justice in Denver, Colorado.
D
28. Large, heavy draft horses were commonly used for labor farm in the United States
A
B
C
before the introduction of tractors.
D
29. Herds of migrating caribou, members of the deer family, are an important
A
B
economically resource to Inuits and other Native Americans.
C
D
30. Some nineteenth-century advocates for the emancipation of women in the United
A
B
States were also activity in the Underground Railroad, helping slaves to escape.
C
D
31. Feathers not only protect birds from injury and conserve body heat but also function in flight,
A
B
C
courtship, camouflage, and sensory perceptive.
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D
32. The radio telescope, invented in 1932, has capabilities beyond far those of optical
A
B
C
telescopes in tracking signals from galaxies.
D
33. Rafting was an essential mean of transportation from prehistoric times to the
A
B
C
D
nineteenth century.
34. Many fortification rank among the most functional and beautiful works of
A
B
C
architecture constructed in North America before the twentieth century.
D
35. Because her work was popular with European royalty, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
A
B
became financial successful as a sculptor in the mid-eighteen hundreds.
C
D
36. The actor James Earl Jones gained Broadway stardom in “The Great White Hope”
A
B
for his powerful portrayal of prizefighter.
C
D
37. Despite fats and oil are nutritionally important as energy sources, medical research
A
B
C
indicates that saturated fats may contribute to hardening of the arteries.
D
38. Large, multicolored insects with four wings, dragonflies play a very important
A
B
role in the ecosystem of humid area by controlling the population of mosquitoes.
C
D
39. During early nineteenth-century Boston , the architect Charles Bulfinch, eager to
A
B
make the city beautiful, sometimes provided free plans for people building homes.
C
D
40. In 1889 Jane Adams, a social worker in Chicago, founded Hull house, an
institution devoted to the improvement of community life in poor neighborhood.
A
B
C
D
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1. ______ a major role in future planetary exploration.
(A) Robots will surely play
(B) Robots, which will surely play
(C) Because robots will surely be playing
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(D) Surely robots, which will be playing
2. Unlike the owl, bats cannot see very well, but they do have ______.
(A) It hears very well
(B) very good to hear
(C) hearing very well
(D) very good hearing
3. Comparatively few cities in the United States have competing newspapers today, a major change from 1900
______ more than two newspapers.
(A) because then most large cities having
(B) when did most large cities have
(C) then most large cities that had
(D) when most large cities had
4. Witch hazel extract, ______ distilled from the bark and twigs of the witch hazel shrub, has been
medicine.
(A) is
(B) when to be
(C) which is
(D) has been
utilized in
5. ______ touching in O. Hery’s stories is the gallantry with which ordinary people struggle to maintain
their dignity
(A) Most is
(B) It mostly is
(C) Is it most
(D) What is most
6. The face of the Moon is changed by collisions with meteoroids, ______ new craters to appear.
(A) cause
(B) causing
(C) caused
(D) have cause
7. Social scientists believe that ______ from sounds
beings.
(A) the very slow development of language
(B) language developed very slowly
(C) language, which was very slow to develop
(D) language, very slowly developing
such as grunts and barks made by early ancestors of human
8. ______ substances include various forms of silica, pumice, and emery.
(A) Natural abrasives occur
(B) Abrasion occurs in natural
(C) Naturally occurring abrasive
(D) A natural occurrence of abrasion
9. ______ in the upper part of their long, thin legs allow deer to run swiftly and jump far.
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(A) Muscles are powerful
(B) There are powerful muscles
(C) The powerful muscles that
(D) Powerful muscles
10. Geophysicists have collaborated with archaeologists and anthropologists to study the magnetic properties of
pottery and fireplaces at sites ______ by early humans.
(A) occupied
(B) occupying
(C) which occupy
(D) were occupied
11. ______ technically proficient; it also explores psychological questions.
(A) Not only is Barbara Astman’s artwork
(B) Not only Barbara Astman’s artwork
(C) Barbara Astman’s artwork, which is not only
(D) Barbara Astman’s artwork not only
12. Although Canada’s Parliament can neither administer or enforce laws ______ initiate policy, it does have the
power to make laws and vote the allocation of funds.
(A) not
(B) nor
(C) and
(D) either
13. Willa Cather considered her novel of life in nineteenth-century Nebraska, My Antonia, ______.
(A) was her best work
(B) her best work
(C) her best work it was
(D) being her best work
14. First designated in 1970, Earth Day has become an annual international event ______ concerns about
environmental issues such as pollution.
(A) dedicated to raising
(B) dedicated raising
(C) dedicates to raise
(D) that dedicates to raising
15. In 1992 Albert Gore, Jr., the son of a former United States senator, became ______ Vice President of the United
States.
(A) who was the forty-fifth
(B) and the forty-fifth
(C) the forty-fifth
(D) he was the forty-fifth
16. Although Christopher Columbus failed in his original goal, the discoveries he did make were
A
B
as important than the route to Asia he expected to find.
C
D
17. Martha Graham, a leading figure in modern dance, made she debut in 1920 with the
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A
Denishawn School.
B
C
D
18. In the United States, the federal government is responsible to regulating the working
A
B
conditions in factories.
C
D
19. Jupiter is a gaseous planet with an atmosphere composed most of hydrogen and helium.
A
B
C
D
20.Throughout the career, Georigia O’Keeffe paid meticulous attention to her craft; her brushes
A
B
were always clean, her colors fresh and brightness.
C
D
21. Hydrogen, the nine most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, is an odorless colorless, and
A
B
C
tasteless gas.
D
22. Salamanders are frequently to be find in moist, wooded areas.
A
B
C
D
23. Steam engines have been replaced in most cases by more economical and efficiency devices,
A
B
C
D
such us the electric motor.
24. Traditionally, the Fourth of July is celebrated in the Unites States with political speeches,
A
B
picnics, and most important of all, a displayed of fireworks at night.
C
D
25. The styles of used in cartoon animation range from relatively realistic representations of
A
B
C
everyday life to the most romantic and impossible fantasy.
D
26. Ordinary beaver dams vary in length from a few feet to a hundred feet or more than
A
B
C
D
27. In the United States, presidential elections are held once every four year.
A
B
C
D
28. Except of the freehand toe. the feet of the gull are fully webbed.
A
B
C
D
29. Teaching machines are devices that can store instructionally information, present displays,
A
receive responses from a learner, and act on those responses.
B
C
D
30. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is known primarily as an author of short stories, but she also wrote
A
B
an influential book argued for equal economic opportunities for women.
C
D
31. In some areas of the United States, unfavorable climate or soil make farming an impossible
A
B
C
D
task.
32. Naturalists have identified at least four hundred of species of mammals and six hundred types
A
B
of birds in the states of California.
C
D
33. Instead of tooth, the blue whale has a row of bony plates in its mouth that functions as a foodA
B
C
D
collecting device.
34. Murres are black-and-white diving birds that mate every five or six years and lay only a
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A
B
single egg at time.
C
D
35. A bar code consists a pattern of lines and bars that a computer can translate into information.
A
B
C
D
36. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly to backwards.
A
B
C
D
37. Fluorine, a greenish-yellow gas that is slightly heavy than air, is poisonous and corrosive and
A
B
C
has a penetrating and disagreeable odor.
D
38. The Everglades, a large swamp area, is an unique wilderness extending over much of
A
B
C
D
southern Florida.
39. Each year millions of tons of fertile topsoil that could produce good crops washed away by
A
B
C
D
rains.
40. Since the 1950’s, folk music has had a significant influence on many popular vocal and
A
B
C
D
instrumental music.
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1. Because air is highly compressible, ____ to define a clear upper boundary of the atmosphere.
(A) it is impossible
(B) impossible is
(C) so the impossible
(D) is the impossibility
2. BASIC, the acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a high-level computer
programming language___.
(A) learning relatively simple
(B) related it simply to learning
(C) simple and relative to learn
(D) that is relatively simple to learn
3. ___ Frances Perkins held the post of labor secretary for twelve years.
(A) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was
(B) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position
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(C) Appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was the first woman who
(D) The first woman was appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position who
4. ___ at the turn of the century, the Minnesota State Capitol building is made of white granite and marble.
(A) Erected
(B) Was
(C) To erect it
(D) Erecting it
5. A stream of volcanic lava flows differently, ___ on the sort of ground it flows over.
(A) to depend
(B) depending
(C) that dependent
(D) when it depended
6.
___ large amounts of vitamin E found in green leaves, such as lettuce, and in cereals, especially in wheat germ.
(A)The
(B)They have
(C)There are
(D)Because of
7.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
A popular belief ___ radio and television have homogenized the language of the United States.
states that
that is stated
that states
stating that
8. The astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun ___ is the standard of distances in the
Solar System.
(A) and
(B) also
(C) in addition
(D) because
9.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ___.
won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
and the Noble Prize for Literature won in 1954
in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work
a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
10.
(A)
(B)
(C)
Mosaic is the art of closely setting small, colored pieces, such as stone or glass, into a surface ___.
and create a decorative design
and a decorative design creates
to create a decorative design
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(D) that a decorative design is created
11. ___ that distinguish human beings from other primates are related to the ability of people to stand upright and
walk on two legs.
(A) Many of the physical characteristics
(B) Of the many physical characteristics
(C) The physical characteristics are many
(D) There are many physical characteristics
12. The lenses in an optical microscope bend the light passing through a specimen to form an image of that
specimen that is much larger ___ actually viewed.
(A) than it
(B) than the one
(C) one than
(D) than one which
13. Not only ___ as a cooked dish the world over, but it is also used as the base of many other foods, condiments,
and even beverages.
(A) eating rice
(B) rice is eaten
(C) people eat rice
(D) is rice eaten
14.According to modern astronomers, the space between the planets and stars is not
A
B
empty; rather he is filled with something called dark matter.
C
D
15.In the late nineteenth century, journalist and publisher William Randolph Hearst
established a vast publishing empire that included eighteen newspapers in twelve city.
A
B
C
D
16.Because the diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, it is used in industry for to
A
B
C
cut, grinding, and boring other hard materials.
D
17.An electromagnet will remain magnetized only as longer as electricity flows through it.
A
B
C
D
18.Being chemical compounds, minerals have characteristic shapes and colors, whereas do rocks
A
B
C
D
not.
19.Some of the first aerial photographs were taken from a balloon while the Civil War in the
A
B
C
D
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United States.
20.Beyond their importance as a source of food for both people and animals, corn is also used to
A
B
C
D
produce alcohol-based fuels.
21.The Bollingen Prize in poetry, established of the Bollingen Foundation, is a $1,000 award for
A
B
C
the year’s highest achievement in poetry in United States.
D
22.For more eighty years, scientists have argued over whether life exists on the planet Mars.
A
B C
D
23.Ludmilla Turkevich, known as a translator and scholar in the field of Russian literature, she
A
B
C
became a member of the Princeton University during the Second World War.
D
24.The Architectural History Foundation was established in 1977 to support the publication of
A
B
C
important book on architecture.
D
25.Wildlife photographers are involved of a new government project to docum the 50 most
A
B
endangered species in the United States.
C
D
26.Most bats roost in crevices, caves, or building by day and are active at night or twilight.
A
B
C
D
27.Changes within the chemist structure of single genes may be induced by exposure to radiation
A
B
C
and extreme temperature.
D
28.A landmark famous, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York was one of the first woven wire cable
A
B
C
suspension bridges ever constructed.
D
29.Industry’s need for more and minerals is a constant challenge to the mining industry to make
A
B
C
new discoveries.
D
30.The waters of Hanauma Bay in Oahu, Hawaii, are known for the color, diversity, and abundant
A
B
C
of their tropical fish.
D
31.The United States government program Head Start prepares children for school encourages the
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A
B
C
involvement of local communities in the children’s development.
D
32.Brown rice has great nutritional value than white rice because the nutrient-rice outer layers of
A
B
the rice kernel are not removed from brown rice.
C
D
33.After 1845, pestilence spread in Boston, but before then, Boston was a city in which the span
A
B
C
of its citizens was long and disease was rarely.
D
34.Entomoligists, scientists who study insects, are often concerned with the fungus, poisonous, or
A
B
C
virus carried by a particular insect.
C
35.The eight stripes of red, white, and blue on state flag of Hawaii represent Hawaii’s eight major
A
B
C
C
islands.
36.Cool temperatures, shade, moist, and the presence of dead organic material provide the ideal
A
B
C
living conditions for mushrooms.
D
37.Metalworkers use the term “machine tool” to refer to a piece of an equipment used for shaping
A
B
C
D
metal.
38.In pools, goldfish are not just ornamental: since they feed on mosquito larva they are also
A
B
C
benefit.
D
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1. Dairy farming is ______leading agricultural activity in the United States.
(A) a
(B) at
(C) then
(D) none
2. Although thunder and lightning are produced at the same time, light waves travel faster______,so we see the
lightning before we hear the thunder.
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(A) than sound waves do
(B) than sound waves are
(C) do sound waves
(D)sound waves
3. Beef cattle ______ of all livestock for economic growth in certain geographic regions.
(A) the most are important
(B) are the most important
(C) the most important are
(D) that are the most important
4. The discovery of the halftone process in photography in 1881 made it ______ photographs in books and
newspapers.
(A) the possible reproduction
(B) possible to reproduce
(C) the possibility of reproducing
(D) possibly reproduced
5. Flag Day is a legal holiday only in the state of Pennsylvania, ______ Betsy Ross sewed the first
American flag.
(A) which
(B) where
(C) that
(D) has
6. ______ vastness of the Grand Canyon, it is difficult to capture it in a single photograph.
(A) While the
(B) The
(C) For the
(D) Because of the
7. Speciation, ______ , results when an animal population becomes isolated by some factor, usually geographic.
(A) form biological species
(B) biological species are formed
(C) which forming biological species
(D) the formation of biological species
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8. In this pure state antimony has no important uses, but ______ with other substances, it is an extremely useful
metal.
(A) when combined physically or chemically
(B) combined when physically or chemically
(C) the physical and chemical combination
(D) it is combined physically and chemically
9. The dawn redwood appears ______ some 100 million years ago in northern forests around the world.
(A) was flourished
(B) having to flourish
(C) to have flourished
(D) have flourished
10. Beginning in the Middle Ages, composers of Western music used a system of notating their compositions
______ be performed by musicians,
(A) will
(B) that
(C) and when to
(D) so they could
11. Civil Rights are the freedoms and rights ______ as a member of a community, state or nation.
(A) may have a person
(B) may have a person who
(C) a person may have
(D) and a person may have
12. Richard Wright enjoyed success and influence ______ among Black American writers of his era.
(A) were unparalleled
(B) are unparalleled
(C) unparalleled
(D) the unparalleled
13. ______ of large mammals once dominated the North American prairies the American bison and the pronghorn
antelope.
(A) There are two species
(B) With two species
(C) Two species are
(D) Two species
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14. Franklin D. Roosewelt was ______ the great force of radio and the opportunity it provided for taking government
policies directly to the people.
(A) as the first President he understood fully
(B) the first president that to fully understand
(C) the first President fully understood
(D) the first President to understand fully
15. During the late fifteenth century ______ of the native societies of America had professions in the fields of arts
and crafts.
(A) only a few
(B) a few but
(C) few, but only
(D) a few only
16. The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of Machias, Maine
A
B
C
in June 1775.
D
17. The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in the
A
B
C
D
Southwest
18. In some species of fish. such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female, performs
A
B
C
the task of caring for the young.
D
19. When she retires in September 1989. tennis champion Christine Evert was the most famous
A
B
C
woman athlete in the United States.
D
20. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their
A
B
C
D
armies.
21. Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence based on
A
B
eating habits. posture and skeletal structural suggests some may have been warm-blooded.
C
D
22. Since the Great Depression of the 1930's, social programs such as Social Security have been
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A
B
built into the economy to help avert severity business declines.
C
D
23. In the 1970's consumer activities succeeded in promoting laws that set safety standards for
A
B
C
automobiles, children's clothing and a widely range of household products.
D
24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological parks where
A
B
animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.
C
D
25. In human beings as in other mammal, hairs around the eyes and ears and in the nose prevent
A
B
C
dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.
D
26. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800's, in a decades
A
B
C
preceding the United States Civil War.
D
27. The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order, blending fact,
A
B
C
fiction, adventure, and subtle symbolic.
D
28. Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of that element
A
B
C
contains, called its atomic number.
D
29. The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed for flight,
A
B
C
being both lightly in weight and remarkably strong.
D
30. From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her writing career,
A
B
publishing of her three most famous novels.
C
D
31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the fact
A
B
in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles.
C
D
32. Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, when contaminated with other material it
A
B
C
may appear in various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black
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D
33. Comparative anatomy is concerned to the structural differences among animal forms.
A
B
C
D
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves, vibrations that
A
travel from its point of origin through the Earth or along its surface.
B
C
D
35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900's and have replaced other type
A
B
of fat, gas, or oil lamps for almost every purpose.
C
D
36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Icefield covers area of 120 square miles and is 3,30 feet
A
B
thick in some places.
C
D
37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the musical
A
Oklahoma! extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as familiar with the traditional
B
C
D
forms of operetta and musical comedy.
38. Because of its vast tracts of virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has one of the lowest
A
B
C
population density in the world.
D
39. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930's made possible hundreds of murals and
A
B
statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States.
C
D
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39. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930's made possible hundreds of murals and
A
B
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statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States.
C
D
Part II
1. The socialization process explains _____ of societies through successive generations but also the ability of a
society's members to have meaningful interactions.
(A) that continuity, only not
(B) continuity, only not that
(C) the only continuity not
(D) not only the continuity
2. Heat transfer takes place when _____ with a warmer substance.
(A) is there a colder substance
(B) a colder substance comes into contact
(C) does the colder substance contact
(D) contacts a colder substance
3. Formerly called natural philosophy, physics has retained _____ of understanding the structure of the natural world
and explaining natural phenomena.
(A) its original aim
(B) it aimed original
(C) its original aim was
(D) aiming originally
4. Some bird species have a song that is totally uninfluenced _____ environment during their development, whereas
other species learn from other birds while young.
(A) the
(B) yet the
(C) since the
(D) by the
5. Prior to the eighteenth century, _____ storms formed and died out at the same location.
(A) a common belief that
(B) that a common belief
(C) it was commonly believed that
(D) because it was commonly believed
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6. Grown widely in Iowa and Illinois, the soybean provides one of the world's _____ sources of protein.
(A) useful and cheaper mostly
(B) cheapest and most useful
(C) cheapest and useful mostly
(D) most cheaply and useful
7. Copper _____ used by humans and is second only to iron in its utility through the ages.
(A) the first metal
(B) was the first metal
(C) the first metal that
(D) being
(E) the first metal
8. _____ are inert outside living cells, but within the appropriate cells they can replicate, causing viral diseases in
host organism.
(A) Viruses
(B) That viruses
(C) Viruses, which
(D) Despite viruses
9. The United States Constitution provides for a count of the population _____ a census, every ten years.
(A) that it is called
(B) when called
(C) called
(D) as called
10. Digital recording has made _____ a significantly wider dynamic range, in recorded music.
(A) for the possibility
(B) the possibility is
(C) it is possible
(D) possible
11. Not only _____ people to send words, music, and codes to any part of the world, it can also be used to
communicate far into space.
(A) enable by radio
(B) radio enable
(C) does radio enable
(D) radio has enable
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12. Allegory is a literary device _____ another level of meaning is concealed within what is usually a story.
(A) which
(B) by which
(C) which is
(D) which it is
13. The fact that _____ was discovered in 1923 by the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
(A) the expansion of the universe
(B) the universe id expanding
(C) the universe, which is expanding
(D) when the universe expands
14. Today _____ little fossil ivory remains comes from Alaska.
(A) what
(B) which
(C) there is
(D) where
15. Although most famous for her paintings of the Southwest desert, ______ as well.
(A) Georgia O'keeffe painted many urban scenes
(B) the painting of many urban scenes by Georgia O'keeffe
(C) were many urban scenes painted by Georgia O'keeffe
(D) Georgia O'keeffe painting of many urban scenes
16. It was in the 1920's that the arches-top guitar was first developed commercially in the United
A
B
C
States and use in dance bands.
D
17.The intensity of political struggles in the United States after 1824 led to the revival of the
A
B
two-party system, which had been inactive when 1817.
C
D
18. Fluids exert equal pressure in all directions, have identical properties throughout their volume,
A
B
C
and theoretically offering no resistance to flow in any direction.
D
19. Reading has come to be regarded as an integrated part of language study than rather an
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A
B
C
isolated skill to be practiced out of context.
D
20. It has been estimated that during every second of our life, 10,000,000 red blood cells died and
A
B
C
are replaced by new ones.
D
21. Periodic fires commonly spread across grasslands and plays an important role in the
A
B
maintenance and character of these ecosystems.
C
D
22. The plots of William Gaddis's novels allow ample opportunity for philosophical, theological,
A
B
C
and society digression.
D
23. In additionally to being Mississippi's capital and largest city, Jackson is also the state's
A
B
C
financial and medical center.
D
24. Feasts and festivals among many Native American tribes in the United States celebration
A
B
C
agricultural and lunar events.
D
25. Neuropsychologist Marilyn Albert is looking beyond brain functions for answer the question
A
B
" How do you emotions and attitudes affect the process of aging ?"
C
D
26.Incorporated in 1828,Louisville, Kentucky, was named from King Louis XVI of France in
A
B
recognition of his during the Revolutionary War.
C
D
27.Rainbows are formed by the refraction of sunlight through falling raindrop.
A
B
C
D
28.Meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude form grid that can be used to locate the position
A
B
of any point on the Earth's surfaces.
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C
D
29.Mercury and Venus are the only planets in the solar system where do not have moons.
A
B
C
D
30.Carbohydrates, which include cellulose, sugary, and starches, are the most abundant class of
A
B
C
organic substances found in nature.
D
31.During the Pre-Revolutionary period, the press in Britain's North American colonies was
A
subject to licensing laws similar to them of Great Britain itself.
B
C
D
32.In its pure state aluminum is a weak metal, but when combined with elements such as copper
A
B
or magnesium, it is formed alloys of great strength.
C
D
33.Specially bred varieties of lettuce can be grown in water containing dissolved nutritious rather
A
B
C
D
than in soil.
34.Throughout the 1930's, United States government's patronage the arts was concentrated in the
A
B
C
section of the Works Progress Administration Known as Federal One.
D
35. Essential a nineteenth-century instrument, the calliope was usually played outdoors and was
A
a part of fairs, holiday gatherings, and other such activities.
B
C
D
36.Winter broccoli has large, white heads similar to those of cauliflower, whereas sprouting
A
B
C
broccoli products numerous small purplish, green, or white clump.
D
37. Greenpeace, an international organization of environmental activists founded by Canadians,
A
uses nonviolent means to protest and block activities it consider environmentally harm.
B
C
D
38.Beverly Sills was a child radio star who became one of the world's most dramatically gifted
A
B
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opera singer, making her debut at seventeen.
C
D
39.In the practice of Gestalt therapy, many attention is given to nonverbal aspects of behavior.
A
B
C
D
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全真试题－Test1
1. Among the last groups of people to accept the new model______, who still clung to the idea that the earth
was the centre of the universe.
(A) were religious groups
(B) religious groups were
(C) religious groups
(D) and religious groups
2. Altruism is characterized by a deep sympathy for those less fortunate,______that the aim of life should be
to contribute more to society than you take.
(A) belief rooted in
(B) in the belief rooted
(C) rooted in the belief
(D) the rooted belief in
3. Geologists discovered that S waves______only through solid matter, while P waves can be bound traveling
through solids or liquids.
(A) traveling
(B) to travel
(C) that travel
(D) travel
4. Carbon Dioxide may be absorbed by trees or water bodies, or it may stay in the atmosphere when______,
while it is only in the atmosphere that chlorofluorocarbons find their home.
(A) by releasing emissions from cars
(B) emissions are released by cars
(C) cars that release emissions
(D) releasing from car emissions
5. Issues of price, place, promotion, and product are______of marketing strategic planning, despite growing
calls to expand the range of issues in today’s more complex world.
(A) these that are among the most conventional concerns
(B) among the most conventional concerns
(C) they are among the most conventional concerns
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(D) those are among the most conventional concerns
6. ______ they sometimes hunt alone, wolves usually hunt in small packs, usually numbering from 3- 4, but
sometimes larger.
(A) Even
(B) Since
(C) Nevertheless
(D) Although
7. ______ plays an important role in defining the cultural values, trends and stereotypes of American popular
culture.
(A) Because Hollywood
(B) Hollywood and
(C) Hollywood
(D) Hollywood which
8. Taconite, a ______ rock most common in the northern forests of Minnesota, has a wide variety of
commercial uses.
(A) shaped like a flint
(B) flint-shapes
(C) shape of a flint
(D) flint-shaped
9. “Letters from the Earth” is actually ______ of essays, written from 1910 until his death in 1937.
(A) a collection unpublished
(B) an unpublished collection
(C) unpublished collection
(D) in which an unpublished collection
10. ______ inventions such as videos CD Rom and the Internet, it has been difficult for movie theatres to turn a
profit since the early 1970s.
(A) Since recent
(B) Because of recent
(C) Recent
(D) The result of recent
11. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles included ______ that would effectively force Germany to compensate
for the loss inflicted on Allied powers during World War 1.
(A) terms were punitive
(B) punitive terms
(C) punitive and terms
(D) in punitive terms
12. The Kyoto Protocol has strongly sought reductions______.
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(A) of fuels high of pollutants.
(B) in fuel high of pollutants.
(C) in fuel highly of pollutants.
(D) of pollutants high in fuel.
13. ______ the amount of advertising dollars they are willing to spend on print media by looking at their
market reach and the print number.
(A) Advertisers estimating
(B) Advertiser estimate
(C) Advertiser estimating how much
(D) Whenever advertisers estimate
14. Although Wild Aid has been trying to stop the slaughter of sharks for their fins, current regulations rarely
curtail ______ to the degree needed to restore shark populations.
(A) sharks are hunted
(B) to hunt sharks
(C) the hunting of sharks
(D) sharks
15. The ability to communicate ideas and instructions was ______ for the incredible development of the frontal
brain lobe in human beings
(A) necessary all that
(B) all that was necessary
(C) all the necessities that
(E) such that all the necessities
16. The Pulitzer Prize has became the most cherished and sought after annual award for quality
(A)
(B)
works in the field of journalism and literature.
(C)
(D)
17. Doctors now recommend that a balance in various activities, such as sleeping, working, eat,
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
and socializing.
18. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her own specially but controversial column from 1935 until shortly
(A)
(B)
(C)
before her death in 1962.
(D)
19. The Otis Elevator company is now the largest elevator company on earth, with its 66000
(A)
(B)
(C)
employees in 1700 difference offices.
(D)
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20. One of the earliest form of a jigsaw puzzle was created in 1762 by a London mapmaker
(A)
(B)
named John Spilsbury, who glued a few of his maps onto thin wooden panels.
(C)
(D)
21. The deregulation of the Savings and Loans banks in 1982 gave their powers they needed to
(A)
(B)
give loans to almost anyone they wanted.
(C)
(D)
22. An environment favorable for the growth and preservation of organisms allows for the
(A)
(B)
(C)
occurring of fossils.
(D)
23. By the time Spanish explorers arrived, they found that Aztec irrigation canals, as well as
(A)
(B)
apartment structures, had already been created, like found those existing in Europe.
(C)
(D)
24. The 1940 discover of magnetron led to the later development of microwaves, as did the
(A)
(B)
(C)
ingenuity of an innovative engineer by the name of Percy Spenser.
(D)
25. The use of the torch lighting ceremony at the Olympics is new relatively to the history of the
(A)
(B)
games, and it was surprisingly invented by the Nazis in the 1936 Olympic games.
(C)
(D)
26. With the ability destroy the earth with a stone no bigger than a shopping centre, asteroids
(A)
(B)
(C)
pose a serious threat to our future.
(D)
27. Only the inner core of many tropical rainforest trees is hauled away by loggers, which
(A)
(B)
(C)
they use it to make planks and chopsticks in Japan.
(D)
28. Compared with another spiders, tarantulas actually have very little poison, and some have no
(A)
(B)
(C)
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poison at all.
(D)
29. Fruit and vegetable juices are high in concentrated nutrients, which they are ideal for keeping
(A)
(B)
(C)
your immunity high and fighting off colds.
(D)
30. In many cities, unless you travel late at night, or in the wee early hours of the morning, there
(A)
(B)
are not means of avoiding a traffic jam.
(C)
(D)
31. Some companies provide other organisations with core list of their clients whose
(A)
(B)
may be of interest to them.
(C)
(D)
products
32. Many silversmiths flocked to the bigger cities in America during the 1800s, which they
(A)
(B)
found a growing merchant class ready to buy their wares.
(C)
(D)
33. While the term originates to mean “a woman spinner”, any older woman that devoted herself
(A)
(B)
(C)
th
to work by not choosing to get married was given this term in the 17 century.
(D)
34. In the engineering field, few companies hired woman, but that all changed during
(A)
(B)
(C)
World War 2, when such shortages of labor began to appear.
(D)
35. Too much exposure to UV radiation can cause a various of skin cancers and destroy
(A)
(B)
tiny plants at the beginning of the food chain.
(C)
(D)
36. The reason automobiles travel on left side in Japan has little to do with Britain and a
(A)
(B)
lot to do with the way ancient soldiers used to carry their swords.
(C)
(D)
37. Most 911 ambulances can arrive at the scene of an accident within minutes of their
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(A)
(B)
occurrence, depending on the precision of the address description given to them by phone.
(C)
(D)
38. After a 1980 recommendation for preventing heart attacks, aspirin used for a number of
(A)
(B)
(C)
other illnesses such as cataracts, diabetes and numerous other forms of cancers.
(D)
39. Eli Whitney, born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765, was always interested in
(A)
machines , working in his father’s shop, taking apart a watch and putting them back together.
(B)
(C)
(D)
40. To reach a target of spending a billion dollars in a lifetime, a human being would have to
(A)
(B)
(C)
spend money at rate of more than 50,000 dollars per day.
(D)
Answer Keys
1.A
2.A
3.D
4.D
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. D
9. B
10.B
11. B
12.B
13.B
14.C
15.B
16.A
17.D
18.A
19.D
20. A
21.A
22.A
23.D
24.A
25.B
26.B
27.D
28.B
29. B
30.C
31.A
32.B
33.D
34.C
35.A
36.A
37.B
38. C
39.B
40.D
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Test2
1.Spain and Portugal’s competition for economic domination in the Americas ___ after Columbus’ return to Europe,
when they both realized that the New land could increase their gold reserves.
(A) began
(B) begin
(C) begun
(D) was beginning
2.A snake’s heat seeking system for finding prey resembles ___, except that a missile heat seeing system is huge and
clumsy compared to the snake’s.
(A) how a missile heat seeker is
(B) a missile heat seeker
(C) a missile heat seeker is
(D) as a missile heat seeker
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3.Thomas Henry, ___, spoke and wrote frequently on the values of scientific education.
(A) a populist writer
(B) writer of populist
(C) whose populist writing
(D) writing populist
4.Although bats avoid entangled areas, they can dart about in the room filled with criss-crossing wires without ever
hitting one ___ they use the navigation functions in their ear.
(A) as long
(B) so long
(C) as long that
(D) as long as
5.Slavery began Jamestown in 1619 ___ spread to colonies in the south when it became apparent that it would begin
an integral part of the economy by the 1770s.
(A) while
(B) and
(C) how
(D) at last
6.When two words are joined to make a new special meaning, its ___ and the result is called a compound.
（A）
（B）
（C）
（D）
joining up of the meaning
meaning joins up
joined up by
joined up meaning
7. ___ electric eels send a series of blips of electricity into the water around them and they can detect the pattern of
electricity of the water changes.
(A) All of
(B) Every
(C) all
(D) Of each
8.Some machines produced large numbers of interchangeable parts that ___ efficiently with the “interchangeable
parts system” of the great inventor Eli Whitney.
(A) could be used
(B) used
(C) used to
(D) could have used
9.The US attempted 3 invasions of Lower Canada in the late 1800’s, ___, but showing the British that they had a
formidable army.
(A) of none winning them
(B) none winning of them
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(C) winning none of them
(D) of them non winning
10.Syllogism is a form of reasoning ___ conclusion is reached from two statements called premises.
(A) which a
(B) in which a
(C) that a
(D) to which
11. ___ an ownership of nearly 60 to 62 percent of corporate equities, this means 1-2 percent of American society
possesses about 43 percent of the total wealth of the nation.
(A) The range of
(B) Ranging
(C) Ranging from
(D) The range
12.Those global resources ___ already stretched to the breaking point in some areas of the world, are still probably
weakening under the pressures of human exploitation.
(A) are
(B) that is
(C) that are not
(D) are not
13.The Greenhouse effect is a phenomenon that is caused when carbon dioxide ___ and is trapped in the atmosphere.
(A) is released
(B) releases
(C) has released
(D) had released
14. ___ helped form the principles which were to later affect the American constitution.
(A) While the characteristics of colonial values
(B) Both colonial characteristics and their values
(C) That the values of the colonies
(D) The values of colonial characteristics
15.speech is like a piece of cloth ___ many threads, including a voice box, lips, tongue, and a good brain.
(A) made of
(B) made
(C) making
(D) has made
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41. As the US border pushed further west, the Mid-west territories developed economically and
(A)
(B)
(C)
industrially and big cities-such as Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati-appeared.
(D)
17. Colonial merchants, became extremely angrily, and adamantly refused to accept legislation
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
passed by the British Parliament in the 1760s.
18. The use of tools was one of the driving force towards the evolution of a better brain because
(A)
(B)
the characteristics of good memory, foresight and innovativeness were needed.
(C)
(D)
19. The number of seats in the Senate has always equal to twice the number of states, thus there
(A)
(B)
(C)
are two senators for every state.
(D)
20. Because basic, English words often lack a variety of forms for different grammatical uses of
(A)
(B)
function, it allows this basic words to shift from one part of the speech to another.
(C)
(D)
21. The Nobel Prize for Physics is one of the six prizes awarded annually by the Nobel
(A)
(B)
foundation for outstanding achievement in the field for Physics.
(C)
(D)
22. England and the United States is having no legally authorized group like the French
(A)
(B)
Academy in France, cannot dictate to the people what words can be accepted in
(C)
(D)
the language.
23. After the civil war, a wave of new immigrants in the United States arrived, included Italy,
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Spain, Greece, Poland, Russia, and China.
24. Indian populations diminished rapidly in the ;late 1900s, through the spread of foreign
(A)
diseases, losing resources and wars inflicted upon them by ambitious white settlers.
(B)
(C)
(D)
25. When we consume the earth’s resources, we need to realize there is a level of consumption
(A)
(B)
which sustainability can be achieved.
(C)
(D)
26. Studies have shown that violence on prime-time network TV stunts the analytical, emotion
(A)
(B)
and imaginative cultivation of active learning in a child.
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(C)
(D)
27. American families have long be known for differing greatly in their expectations about what
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
going to college will mean in their children’s lives.
28. Despite the rhetorical towards reducing fossil fuel consumption in the world, the only
(A)
(B)
slackening of demand occurred briefly during the 1974 energy crisis.
(C)
(D)
29. A great myth has arisen over the years that Columbus was unaware the earth was a circular,
(A)
(B)
when in fact all navigators of the time knew it was.
(C)
(D)
30. In 1860 the US was fourth in world industrial output, only rivaling by traditional European
(A)
(B)
(C)
superpowers like England.
(D)
31. More than most languages, English lends itself to compounding in that because most of the
(A)
(B)
words have only one form regardless of how they are used in the sentence.
(C)
(D)
32. Male silk moths, before finding his mate, use antennas that are so sensitive to the chemical
(A)
(B)
odor of female moths that they only need to pick up one molecule of the chemical to detect a
(C)
(D)
female.
33. A laser is the only device which aim coherent light at an object in a safe and reliable way.
(A) (B)
(C)
(D)
34. Despite the rich experience that many writers have, many remain heavily dependence on
(A)
(B)
(C)
pictures to stimulate their powers of expression.
(D)
35. A group of scientists in Germany found that beetles can accurately measure with its eyes the
(A)
(B)
speed of a moving background.
(D)
36. In electronical, echo is a reflective wave received by a radar or radio.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
37. It took just under a hundred years before US finally had compulsory public school
(A)
(B)
(C)
education.
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(D)
38. The human brain expanded at first at a rate of one cubic inch every one hundred thousand of
(A)
(B)
(C)
years, and then began to double.
(D)
39. Centuries ago, people believed that every time a person was born, a new stars appeared in the
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
sky.
40. Darwin stated that individual with characteristics best adapted to existing condition survive
(A)
(B)
(C)
and make up an increasing larger proportion of their species.
(D)
Answer keys
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. B
11. C 12. C 13. A 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. B 19. B 20. C
21. D 22. A 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. B 29. B 30. C
31. B 32. A 33. B 34. C 35. C 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. D 40. C
Test3
1. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is a thought provoking account of the author’s attempt to remove himself
from______.
(A) the society he despised.
(B) despised society.
(C) the society despised.
(D) despising of a society.
2. A hockey player rushing up the ice, traveling at more than twenty five miles per hour and slapping a puck at
more than 125 miles per hour, makes the sport______than many other sports.
(E)
(F)
(G)
(H)
is more dangerous
more than dangerous
more dangerous
as more dangerous
3. It is difficult for readers______the last page of Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway could have been
rewritten thirty-nine times.
(A) the novel to imagine how the
(B) why to imagine the
(C) how to imagine the
(D) to imagine how the
4.
Architects involved in big projects must study______about the outside world before conceiving of an idea.
(F) clients think
(G) whether clients thoughts
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(H) how their clients think
(I) thoughts that clients
5.
Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 and set new speed records for long-distance flying in the
1930s,______perhaps more than anyone to prove that women could match men in bravery.
(A) done
(B) did
(C) who did
(D) to do
6.
The invention in the 1920s of the Corning ribbon______important, because from that time on the price of a light bulb
plunged.
(A) machine was
(B) while a machine was
(C) had a machine
(D) for the machine
7.
Etymology______finding out where a word came form by studying the roots of words, has been greatly
assisted by modern inventions like the Internet.
(A) is a technique of
(B) which a technique of
(C) a technique is
(D) a technique of
8.
Black Boy is an autobiographical account of the childhood of Richard Wright and portrays the suffering of
an African American______bigotry.
(A) in a society full of
(B) society in full of
(C) who in a society full of
(D) in society full
9.
The Mona Lisa, painted in Florence in 1504 by Leonardo da Vinci, is a name which is perhaps more recognizable to
people throughout the world______of da Vinci himself
(A) as that
(B) than
(C) than that
(D) as
10. At the beginning of the ice age, the areas human beings lived in______milder and more pleasant places to
live, since they were generally located near the equator.
(A) that they were
(B) were
(C) and
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(D) and were
11. Until the late eighteenth century, craftsmen were______made toys, mastering their trade and hours to carefully
shaping each product by hand.
(A) what the main people
(B) who the main people
(C) the main people were
(D) the main people who
12. Sunlight during dawn or dusk comes in at a lower angle, and since it cannot escape the dust and pollution of the
atmosphere______, the sky turns orange and then red.
(A) as can the daytime sunlight
(B) can the daytime sunlight
(C) so can daytime sunlight
(D) as with daytime sunlight can
13. White phosphorus, a substance______in matches, is so flammable it burst into flame upon contact with the
air.
(A) is common
(B) common
(C) which being common
(D) being common, is
14. More than anything, what saved Jamestown was the highly successful cultivation of tobacco,______Indian
assistance with farming undoubtedly played a major part as well.
(A) although
(B) in spite of
(C) nor
(D) neither
15. The 3000 calories you might eat______energy to about 6 pounds of TNT.
(A) are equal in
(B) equal
(C) have equality in
(D) have
42. A large numbers of women are not being paid their fair share of child support and, in fact, in
(A)
(B)
(C)
1985 only half of all divorced women received any payments at all.
(D)
17. In the mid-1930s, Aaron T-bone Walker’s strutting across the stage, doing the splits and
(A)
(B)
playing the guitar behind his back, brought he instant recognition in the blues world.
(C)
(D)
18. Today the most popular method of pasteurization, called ‘flash pasteurization’, involves
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(A)
several step, which include heating milk for 15 seconds and then immediately cooling it.
(B)
(C)
(D)
19. Entropy is the degradation of energy from order to disorder, and describes the
(A)
(B)
tendency of anything to degeneration.
(C)
(D)
20. Conduction means, basically, that molecules are running into each other like dominoes,
(A)
(B)
allows energy to be sent down the line.
(C)
(D)
21. In contact with the proper food on leaving the egg, the caterpillar begins to eat immediately
(A)
(B)
and continues until it has increased its weight hundred times.
(C)
(D)
22. When the Ford Motor Company began manufacturing Model T cars for a first
(A)
(B)
time, it made a profit of only $2 on each Model T that was manufactured.
(C)
(D)
23. Because Moles have such speedy diligent, they are able to tunnel through 300 feat of earth in
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
24. The human eye retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the image is present,
(A)
(B)
so a motion picture gives a rapid succession after still picture to still picture.
(C)
(D)
25. Camera film has many layers each coated with silver bromide and the film is designed so that
(A)
(B)
the top layers work best by react to blue light while the next to yellow and then finally to red.
.
(C)
(D)
26. The Lincoln Memorial, which was dedicated in 1922, attracts millions of visitor from all
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
over the world.
27. The chip silicon is a fingernail sized slab which can be mass-produced and, upon which, tens
(A)
(B)
(C)
of thousands of tiny discreet circuits can be wedged.
(D)
28. Heat is transferred in any of three ways, either of conduction, convection or radiation.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
29. Psychologists who work for NASA have been studying the mental effects of prolonged
(A)
(B)
weightlessness, and methods used in determining them differs.
(C)
(D)
30. The Chrysler building, considered by many to be the most beautiful skyscraper ever built,
(A)
is the pinnacle of art deco architectural design and it attracts visitors from around world.
(B)
(C)
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(D)
31. One country whose people migrated to America in greater numbers than another countries
(A)
(B)
(C)
was Sweden, with about a third of their entire population emigrating in the 1800s.
(D)
32. On the coast of Maine is the small town of Pirates Cove, which is similar the old New
(A)
(B)
England seaports depicted in paintings hanging in country Inns or seafood restaurants.
(C)
(D)
33. Medical Interferon, a large hormone-like protein produced by the cells of all vertebrae
(A)
(B)
animals, came into useful when it was discovered that it interfered with the infection process.
(C)
(D)
34. Almost every parents in the 1950s knew of Dr B. Spock, a New York Pediatrician,
(A)
(B)
whose ‘Baby and Child Care’ book became the second best selling book in American history.
(C)
(D)
35. The sun has yellow-gold rays because we are viewing it through the earth’s atmosphere but
(A)
(B)
judging from its surface temperature, the sun’s rays are probably closer to white.
(C)
(D)
36. The novel Gone with the Wind had a variety of titles until it was finally decided to be called
(A)
(B)
(C)
with its current title “Gone with the Wind”.
(D)
37. The worlds oceans have risen, on average of 6 inches over the past 100 years, which has been
(A)
(B)
(C)
considered as evidence that global warming has had an effect.
(D)
38. The sun is producing more energy in one second than human beings have produced all of
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
history.
39. Texas has many roses that florists grows and exports to a wide variety of countries
(A)
(B)
(C)
throughout the world.
(D)
40. The North Star was once called Cynosure by many of Greeks, a word that has found its way
(A)
(B)
(C)
into our dictionary, meaning the centre of attraction or interest.
(D)
Answer keys
1. A
2. C
11. D
12. A
21. D
22. B
31. C
32. B
3. D
13. B
23. B
33. D
4. C
14. A
24. D
34. A
5. B
15. A
25. C
35. B
6. A
16. A
26. C
36. D
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7. D
17. D
27. A
37. A
8. A
18. B
28. D
38. D
9. C
19. D
29. D
39. C
10. B
20. C
30. D
40. A
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Test4
1.During World War I, echo-sounding devices were used to ___ the time it took for a sound signal from the ship to
bounce off the ocean floor and return.
(A) record ocean depth by measure
(B) measuring the depth of ocean and recording
(C) measure the ocean depth by recording
(D) recording the depth of ocean and measuring
2.daily brushing and flossing are the most important weapons ___ of plaque, the primary cause of cavities.
(A) against the formation
(B) for forming
(C) about the formation
(D) on the formation
3.smoking slows healing because the carbon monoxide in cigarette greatly reduces the blood’s ability to carry
oxygen, ___.
(A) essentially for wound healing
(B) which is essential for wound healing
(C) wound healing is essential
(D) that is essentially for wound healing
4.In German cities with a population of more than 100,000, 77% of the inhabitants are harassed by traffic noise, and
this figure ___ over the years.
(A) unchanged remained
(B) that remained unchanged
(C) has remained unchanged
(D) roughly unchanging throughout
5.It is now acknowledged that an expanding human population ___ behind desertification, since more people
inevitably exert a greater pressure on that area’s resources.
(A) is ultimately drives the force
(B) is driving the force ultimately
(C) ultimately the driving force is
(D) is the ultimate driving force
6.During the 20th century, improvements in seismographs worldwide ___ earthquakes tend to be concentrated in
certain areas.
(A) enabled scientists to learn that
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(B) scientists enable to learn that
(C) enabling learning for scientists
(D) scientists learn to enable
7.Norman Bethune, know as Bai Quien to the Chinese, ___ during the Sino-Japanese War and trained thousands of
inexperienced Chinese to become medics and doctors.
(A) worked as a medic
(B) work as medic
(C) has been working
(D) after working as a medic
8.Mt. Pinatubo had been dormant for 600 years before the 1991 eruptino, which ___ in this century.
(A) eruption can’t be compared
(B) has an eruption so large
(C) ranks to be the largest eruptions
(D) ranks as one of the largest eruptions
9.Of the two great Greek philosophers, namely Plato and Aristotle, ___ who relied on observation.
(A) the one in the latter
(B) the latter was the one
(C) the one of the latter
(D) the latter in the one
10.In December 1997, more than 160 other countries met in Kyoto, Japan, and ___ GHG emissions, know as the
Kyoto Protocol.
(A) agreement to reduce targeted
(B) agreeing to reduce target
(C) agrees to reduce the target
(D) agreed to targets to reduce
11.The Malaspina Glacier in Alaska is the world’s largest piedmont glacier, ___ over 8,000 square kilometers and
measuring over 193 kilometers across at its widest point.
(A) covering
(B) covers
(C) covered
(D) has been covered
12.Nine of the world’s 10 most poisonous snakes are Australian and the world’s deadliest spider, the funnel web, ___
in homes in Sydney.
(A) sometimes shaken out of shoes
(B) shoes sometime shaken out of
(C) being shaken out of shoes sometimes
(D)shaken from shoes sometimes
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13.Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest sculptor-architect of the 17th century, ___ his baroque style was a
powerful influence on the architecture of his period.
(A) and whom
(B) and
(C) and which
(D) and that
14.Ocean thermal energy conversion uses ___ in temperature between warm surface water and cold deep ocean
water to make electricity.
(A) differing
(B) the difference
(C) the differing
(D) the different
15.folktales are a way to study the history of a nation ___, since they provide an insight as to the values people finds
to be important.
(A) so the eyes of native people
(B) through the eyes of its natives
(C) in which the eyes of its natives
(D) of which the native eyes
16.In the 1910’s, Irene Parby, an Alberta MLA, pushed for nurses and midwives to assist in childbirth in
A
rural districts because rural women, in particular, were isolated and relied with each other for medical
B
C
D
information.
17.Tradition, Halloween is on October 31st regardless of the day of the week, and many communities
A
B
choose to celebrate Halloween in other ways and on other days.
C
D
18.Vancouver Island, the largest North American island in the Pacific, is also the point departure for
A
B
nautical exploration of British Columbia’s rugged fjords.
C
D
19.during the early nineteenth century, the beaver pelt was the single most value commodity used for
A
B
C
D
robes, coats, clothing trims, and top hats.
20.Glass, a material developed in the eastern Mediterranean region, was brought to Rome with its
A
B
makers primary from Syrian and Judean craftsmen, many of whom were slaves.
B
C
D
21.ancient Egyptians preparation for death in every way they could think of, and one of their first
A
B
C
priorities was to save money to buy tomb for their bodies to rest for the afterlife.
D
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22.The presence of the ozone layer in the stratosphere is vital to life at the surface, since the ozone layer
A
B
absorbs UV light that would otherwise reach the surface and causing damage.
C
D
23.In 1953, the Kutiah Glacier in Pakistan broke recording for the fastest glacial surge, averaging about
A
B
C
D
112 meters per day for three months.
24.The blood is more than a pipeline for a nutrients and information; it is also responsible for the
A
activities of immune system, helping fend off infection and fight disease.
B
C
D
25.Newborn babies are immune to many diseases because they have antibodies they receive from their
A
B
mothers, although this immune only lasts about a year.
C
D
26.During the warm weather months, pollen from trees, weeds, and grasses fills the air and finds its way
A
B
C
into the noses and throats of just onto everyone.
D
27.Pathology, branch of medicine, is concerned with determining the nature and course of diseases by
A
B
C
D
analyzing body tissues and fluids.
28.America’s new class of young, high-tech millionaires have an insatiability thirst for philanthropy,
A
B
C
D
according to a study by the Association of fundraising Professionals.
29.With the popular of internet and the amount of information available, more and more people are
A
B
C
obtaining first-hand news from the internet.
D
30.In 1978, Mary Leaky discovered three trail of 3.6 million years old fossilized hominid footprints in
A
Tanzania that showed man’s ancestry were already walking upright at a much earlier period than most
B
C
D
anthropologists had believed.
31.Bacteria were first observed by the Dutch naturalist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in 1683, with the aid of
A
simple microscope of his own construction.
B
C
D
32.About 55 percent of blood is composed of a liquid known as plasma and the rest of the blood is made
A
B
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up of three major types of cells, name red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
C
D
33.Before the mumps vaccine was introduced, mumps was a major cause of deafness in children,
A
B
occurring in approximately 1/20,000 report of cases.
c
D
34.While volcanism played a major role in the early history of Mars, the Moon, and probably Mercury,
the small sizes of these bodies, relatively to Earth, resulted in the loss of internal heat at a much faster
A
B
C
D
rate.
35.In northern Australia, saltwater crocodiles that reported grow up to 8 m in length, lurk in creeks and
A
B
pools and have been know to attack humans.
C
D
th
36.on October 14 , 1947, Chuck Yeager flew an airplane at a speed faster than sound and when the plane
A
breaks the sound barrier, a loud explosion occurs.
B
C
D
37.fungi are not able to ingest their food nor can they manufacture their own food, but instead, they feed
A
B
C
by absorbing of nutrients from the environment around them.
D
38.Anxiety disorder is one of the primary mental health problems affect children and adolescents today.
A
B
C
D
39.White blood cells only make up about 1 percent of blood, but their small number belies their
A
B
immense important in playing a vital role in the body’s immune system.
C
D
40.In order for fertilization to take place and seeds to form, pollen must be transferred from the flower of
A
B
one plant to that of another plant of same species.
C
D
Test5
1.___ is much more expensive because of the added weight of vehicle and equipment required to provide a habitable
atmosphere and controls.
(A) Since manned space flight
(B) Manned space flight, which
(C) Once manned space flight
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(D) Manned space flight
2.The great majority of hawks are more useful to humans than they are harmful, but there is till ___.
(A) widespread prejudice against them
(B) widespread prejudge against them
(C) prejudicing which is widespread for them
(D) a widespread of prejudice against them
3.The New York Times, ___ as a penny paper that would avoid sensationalism and report the news in a restrained
and objective fashion, enjoyed early success as its editors set a pattern for the future by appealing to a cultured,
intellectual readership instead of a mass audience.
(A) which was established in 1851
(B) when was establishment in 1851
(C) as which was established in 1851
(D) that was establishing in 1851
4.The discovery of the pigment phytochrome, which constitutes a previously unknown light-detecting system in
plants, ___ greatly increased knowledge of the influence of both internal and external environment on the
germination of seeds and the time of flowering.
(A) which
(B) has
(C) is
(D) that
5.After his return from service in the U>S> army, J.D. Salinger’s name and writing style became ___ associated with
The New Yorker magazine, which published almost all of his later stories.
(A) increasingly
(B) it increased
(C) increase
(D) an increase
6.Although the individual particles that make up Saturn’s rings cannot be seen directly, ___ size distribution can be
deduced from their effect on the scattering of signals propagated through the rings from spacecraft and stars.
(A) his
(B) they’re
(C) their
(D) for there
7.Generally, systems of vocal communication are recognized as different languages if they cannot be understood
without specific learning by both parties, though the ___.
(A) precise limits of mutual intelligibility, which are hard to draw
(B) Hard drawing of precise limits of mutual intelligibility
(C) precise limits of mutual intelligibility are hard to draw
(D) drawing of precise limits, is hard to be mutually intelligible
8.A mineral is any ___ solid that has a definite chemical composition and a distinctive internal crystal structure.
(A) natural occurring homogeneous
(B) naturally occurring homogeneous
(C) occurring naturally homogenous
(D) homogenously naturally occurred
9.___ even-toed, hoofed mammals that typically are swift, slender, and graceful plains dwellers.
(A) Antelopes are
(B) Antelopes’
(C) The antelope is
(D) an antelope is an
10.The abandonment of the cliff houses and large community buildings ___ the close of the great Pueblo period may
have in part resulted from the incursion into the northern part of the territory by nomadic Athabascans.
(A) is marking
(B) that markers
(C) marks
(D) that marked
11.___ provide new insights into the problem of consciousness, it also does so in a way that ordinary people can
understand.
(A) Not only Stephen Pinker’s work
(B) Stephen Pinker’s work, which does not only
(C) It is not only Stephen Pinker’s work to
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(D) Not only does Stephen Pinker’s work
12.While they both have substantial powers, neither the President of the United States ___ the United States
Congress has the power to disband a state legislature.
(A) not
(B) but
(C) nor
(D) and
13.Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Pigs in Heaven is generally considered by critics ___ best literary achievements.
(A) as one of her
(B) that is her
(C) to be one of her
(D) was one of her
14.First published in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book silent Spring ___ a prophetic warning of the dangers of
environmental pollution.
(A) proves to be
(B) proven has been
(C) being proven that
(D) has proven to be
15.Following in his father’s footstep’s, George W. Bush became ___ president of the United States in January 2001.
(A) he was the forty-third
(B) the forty-third
(C) who was the forty-third
(D) the number forty-three
16.Though Cristopher Columbus is better know as Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, it was Vespucci who lent his
name to the Americas.
17.Ted Shawn taught and promoted many different ethnic and theatrical styles of dance, and, along with he wife,
choreographed the Denishawn company’s entire repertoire.
18.The more industrialized states of the United States began to enact labor laws toward the end of the 19th century,
but the bulk of the present labor legislation of the United States was not adopted until after the depression for the
1930s.
19.Venus is the second planet from the Sun and the planet whose orbit is closely to that of the Earth.
20.While still a student in Berlin, where many of his friends were painters, Alfred Stieglitz decided to fight for the
recognition of photograph as a creative art medium equal to that of painting.
21.Elemental carbon exists in third forms, each of which has its own physical characteristics.
22.Its food consists largely of tender leaves and fruits, but the iguana will also to be eaten small birds and mammals.
23.The airplane may have been used agriculturally in the United States as early as 1918 to distribution poison dust
over cotton fields that were afflicted with the pink bollworm.
24.By the end of the 19th century, Thanksgiving Day had become an institutional throughout New England and was
officially proclaimed as a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
25.In 1933 Walt Disney produced a short animated film, The Three Little Pigs, which had arrived in the midst of the
Great Depression and took the country by storm.
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26.After their birth in the spring, young woodchucks may stay with their mother for two months or more than.
27.Each state elects two senators for six-year terms, with the terms of about one-third of the United States Senate
membership expiring every two year.
28.The platypus’ sensitive snout has been shown by researchers to contain electroreceptors, which enable it to detect
the electrical field produced by the moving muscles for its prey.
29.To prevent a “generation gap” in reading skills and education while an effectively school system is being created
for the young, some governments attempt to provide parallel facilities for adults.
30.The Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s inspired women to try to obtain better
conditions for themselves similar campaigns of mass agitation and social criticism.
31.Extensive agriculture is distinguished from intensive agriculture in that the latter, employing large amounts of
labor and capital, enables one to plant, cultivate, but often harvest mechanically.
32.Idaho is one of the few of states in which grizzly bears and timber wolves roam free, although in very small
numbers.
33.The life cycle of lungworms can be directed and involve intermediate host, such as snails and slugs.
34.Most storks are found in flock except during the breeding season, when they pair off.
35.The importance the binary system to information theory and computer technology derives mainly from the
compact and reliable manner in which data can be represented in electromechanical devices with two states.
36.Once a major nuisance and hazard to public health in cities, houseflies are still a problem wherever decomposing
organic waste and garbage are allowed accumulate.
37.Helium was discovered in the gaseous atmosphere surrounding the Sun by the French astronomer Pierre Janssen,
who detected a bright yellower line in the spectrum of the solar chromosphere during an eclipse in 1868.
38.Aside from its rugged mountains and spectacular deep valleys, Yellowstone National Park has unusual geologic
features, including fossil forest, eroded basaltic lava flows, an black obsidian (volcanic-glass) mountain, and odd
erosional forms.
39.When a tornado forms and passes over a water surface, it called a waterspout.
40.Leaving Harvard after two years in 1938, Pete Seeger hitchhiked and rode freight trains around the country,
gathering country ballads, work songs, and hymns and developing a remarkably virtuosity on the five-string banjo.
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Test6
1.Charlottetown P.E.I. ___ the character Ann, in the famous Canadian novel Ann of Green Gables, grows up.
(A) where (B) whom (C) is where (D) from where
2.Many companies are beginning ___ facilities in the workplace that give working people the option to bring their
children work.
(A) the inclusion that
(B) them developing
(C) develop
(D) to develop
3.According to insurance experts, the front seat passenger in a bead on collision ___ any other passenger.
(A) is more likely to be killed than
(B) is likely to be killed than
(C) is more than likely to be killed than
(D) to be killed more than likely is
4.The photoreceptor is a special type of cell ___ located in the retina, and it picks up photons and signals them to the
brain.
(A) is
(B) which is
(C) which it is
(D) is that which
5.Many cultures in the world ___ direct expressions for the word ‘time’, including many native aboriginal tribes in
America and Africa.
(A) have no
(B) which have no
(C) they do not have
(D) have not
6.Basketball, ___ 1891 by Canadian James Naismith, was never intended to be anything more than an interesting
style of hand soccer for University students.
(A) when it was invented in
(B) which invented
(C) was invented in
(D) which it was invented in
7.Even in the 1700s, during the early US settlements, ___ religious groups who opposed slavery, and later formed the
backbone of the Abolitionist movement.
(A) there have
(B) there are
(C) there were
(D) have there been
8.The spontaneous movement of water across a membrane, ___ gradient of water concentration, is called osmosis.
(A) drives a
(B) driven by a
(C) has driven
(D) drove a
9.Darwin stated that the more survival characteristics a creature has, ___ the chance that new species will adopt these
characteristics.
(A) the best
(B) the better
(C) better than
(D) as good as
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10.With more than 150 miles of virtually no waterfalls or rapids, the Hudson River extends inland from ___, the
Atlantic Ocean.
(A) the source of
(B) where its source
(C) its source
(D) from which the source is
11.The usual statue of Apollo represents him as the ideal Greek: handsome, tall and perfectly ___.
(A) proportion
(B) proportional
(C) has proportion
(D) is proportioned
12.In finance, opportunity cost analysis refers to the amount that could have been made in other investments ___ the
expected investment return.
(A) compared in
(B) as comparing
(C) compared
(D) compared with
13.When a liquid or gas is heated from below, the fluid tends ___ into cylindrical rolls.
(A) its organization
(B) to organize itself
(C) and is organized
(D) organizing
14.A scientist named Chardonnetif, by watching silkworms, realized that liquid leaves must forced through many
tiny holes ___ form fine, silk-like threads.
(A) when to
(B) that they
(C) if they are to
(D) as are they to
15.It is hard to imagine how Manhattan, bought from a Native American tribe for so little, ___ vibrant financial
community in America.
(A) could become the most
(B) becomes the most
(C) to become
(D) one of the most
16.Ralph Nadar, in early 1970s, helped set standards, with which automobile companies have ever since had to
comply.
17.A important precept for understanding non-linear systems is that they must be understood in their totality.
18.Insects can tolerate places who the temperature is lower than 50℃, but, if hotter, they will die after 15 minutes.
19.In United States school, there is no law that prevents children from 5 years of old and above being
home-schooled.
20.Comets primarily composed of ice and dust, while the solar system is made mostly of hydrogen, and so they
rarely come into contact with each other.
21.People who grow vegetable must be awareness of an invisible enemy in the soil and that is lead.
22.One o the most prolific collections of writing by any woman of the day can be found to the works of Abigail
Adams, in the late 1700s.
23.Eight of every ten large parks in America comes from Alaska.
24.The Lutheran denomination was named after Martin Luther, who philosophy led to the split of Catholics and
Protestants.
25.The smallest post office in the US is located in a small town in the western Everglades, and has an area of no
more then a typical bedroom.
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26.Temperatures, even in the summer, have been known to drop down as low as a few of degrees in some desert
areas of the US at night.
27.When a yet unidentified chromophone is existence in Neptune’s atmosphere, Neptune’s clouds have a rich blue
tint.
28.Ted Harrison’s paintings of Arctic landscapes are known for its vivid and swirling colors, and yet the texture is
typically absent.
29.Most planktons have transparency tissues that make them practically invisible to predators.
30.Bob Dylan used his songs to make a powerful commentaries on American social injustices.
31.America is a federalist systems as defined in the Tenth Amendment of her constitution, meaning central power is
limited in many areas.
32.Scientists know that the world’s oceans have risen an average of 6 inches on the past 100 years.
33.Percussion methods fire lighting date back to Paleohrthic times, when some Stone Age tool-makers had the
capability to chip flints to produce sparks.
34.When Aristotle looked at a pendulum, he saw a weight trying to head earthward but swinging because it
constrained by a rope.
35.Dictionaries are using computers now to include vernacular language that is used more often as than written
English, and such dictionaries are available to whoever can afford them.
36.At the turn of the century, most light bulbs were hand blown, costing a half a day pay for an average worker.
37.As many as 80% of all paper products contain some virgin fibers, as well as recycled fibers, and unlike glass,
paper cannot be recycle indefinitely.
38.F.W.Woolworth built a record world high skyscraper in 1889 to commemorate his rags-to-riches story.
39.The term bionics means that the application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering
systems.
40.Repetion and hyperbole are two poetic techniques which gives a poem rhythmic and thematic coherence.
Test7
1.___ a major role in helping doctors repair bone fractures.
(A) Ocean coral will surely play
(B) Ocean coral, which will surely play
(C) Because ocean coral will surely be playing
(D) Surely ocean coral, which will be playing
2.Human beings may not have a very good sense of smell or hearing by mammal standards, but do have ___.
(A) sight very well
(B) seeing very well
(C) very good seeing
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(D) very good sight
3.By 1900, five hundred and forty five American cities had over a thousand people, a major change from 1800 ___
populations of over a thousand.
(A) when only six cities had
(B) because only six cities having
(C) then only six cities that had
(D) when did only six cities
4.Alloy, ___ made from a homogeneous mixture of elements, has been very useful industrially because of its
durability.
(A) is
(B) which is
(C) has been
(D) can be
5.___ amazing about scorpions is that they can survive a whole year without food.
(A) Most is
(B) IT mostly is
(C) It is most
(D) What is most
6.American Abstract Expressionism gained influence after the Second World War, ___ many European artists to
flock to new York.
(A) cause
(B) causing
(C) caused
(D) are caused by
7.Historians believe that that ___ during the California gold Rush, primarily due to a lack of established law and
order system.
(A) the explosion of crime
(B) crime exploded
(C) crime, which exploded
(D) crime, exploding
8.Even though DNA is a strong molecule, ___ breaks and inadvertent changes which cannot be detected.
(A) it is susceptible to
(B) its susceptibility to
(C) the susceptibility of
(D) it is susceptible for
9.___ for compulsory public schooling by Horace Mann in the mid 1800s allowed the US president to push for the
changes he wanted.
(A) Arguments were powerful
(B) There were powerful
(C) Powerful arguments
(D) The powerful arguments that
10.Levi Strauss popularized blue jeans in America but refused to call them jeans, ___ “waist overalls” instead.
(A) to refer to them as
(B) refer to them as
(C) referring to them as
(D) he referred
11.In the 1980s, ___ prevalent in the developing world; it was also becoming apparent in many American inner cities
as well.
(A) only malnutrition
(B) not only was malnutrition
(C) the malnutrition that was
(D) malnutrition not only
12.Although Mark Twain could neither find gold or his way as a river pilot very well, ___ was he much of a soldier,
he did prove he could write about such experiences very well.
(A) Nor
(B) or
(C) and
(D) either
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13.Carbon dioxide is always composed of molecules with two atoms of oxygen ___ atom of carbon.
(A) so every
(B) since every
(C) for every each
(D) for every one
14.Pluto, ___, is located 3.7 billion miles from the sun has a diameter of 1430 miles.
(A) is the last planet discovered
(B) the lat planet discovered
(C) a planet last discovered
(D) lastly planet discovered
15.In the 1800s, William Waldo set up a relief committee ___ save the lives of gold prospectors caught in the
mountains by early snowstorms.
(A) dedicated helping
(B) dedicated to help
(C) dedicates to help
(D) that dedicated help
16.Although Britain technically succeeded in its goal of destroying the US navy in 1812, the fierce resistance of
Americans was as important than the battle victories themselves.
17.Michael Ritchie, whose best films dealt with the costs of successful achievement, made he debut in Downhill
Racer, with Robert Redford.
18.In the 1770s, many colonial merchants resented the fact that Britain was still responsible to regulating their trade
with other nations.
19.Many people are surprised to learn that air is composed most of nitrogen, with oxygen coming a close second.
20.Legen has it that General George Washington took command of the continental army in 1775 under the
Washington Elm, but whether the tree was cut down the legend was proven false.
21.Uranus, the six furthest planet from the sun, has composition of various ices, rocks, about 15% hydrogen and a
little helium.
22.Animals of Northwestern Canada, like polar bears, seals and caribou, are frequently to be find in Inuit sculptures.
23.In one Paul Bunyan tale, Paul is beaten in a contest by a more efficiency electric, chainsaw logger, signaling the
death of traditional logging.
24.Traditionally, Irish Americans celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by wearing green, a displayed of loyalty for
Catholicism.
25.For many Jazz musicians, the music must come naturally, flowing spontaneously with no plan for the notes of
used to create the songs.
26.Ordinarily, a killer whale’s heartbeat varies from 30 times in the sea a minute, to 60 times a minute or more than
on the surface.
27.Easter, held once every third Sundays in April, has Pagan, Hebrew and Christian roots.
28.Psychologist, have found that the most common fears people have are of social situations.
29.Electronic dictionaries have expanded their function to include games and encyclopedia knowledge, and many
dictionaries can store instructionally information.
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30.Escaped slave, Harriet Brown, is primarily know as the author of an autobiography, but she also wrote many
essays called for an end to slavery.
31.In the Arctic regions, there are below 30 degree temperatures or dangerous ice crevices, which make long
traveling very difficult.
32.There are hundred of varieties of asteroids, ranging from a few feet to several hundreds of miles across.
33.a chemical called triclorarbon is in many soaps, since it is said to kill many types of bacteria in a very small
amounts.
34.consumer researchers have found that the average shopper looks around for one item at time, and generally for
about 15 minutes before buying something.
35.If an object doesn’t move to forward, sideways or backwards, a frog will not see it.
36.The Blue Whale’s mouth consisting of a tongue that weighs as much as an adult elephant.
37.The very first female aeronautical engineer in the world, Canadian Elizabeth McGill, was also the first woman
has designed an airplane.
38.john Wheeler of the University of Texas came up with an unique theory that the holistic nature of reality extends
not just through space but through time as well.
39.In the world, just over half of the world’s scientists, who could be working in areas like health and the
environment, instead used for military purposes.
40.There is a fear that the current increase in world temperatures mean that many more plants and animals are driven
to extinct.
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Test8
1.As the fighting ___, the Lincoln government concluded that emancipation of the slaves was necessary in order to
secure military victory.
(A) that progressed
(B) It progressed
(C) Progressed
(D) as progressed
2.Born in England in 1898, ___ one of the most famous sculptors of his generation.
(A) Henry Moore went on to become
(B) as Henry Moore was to become
(C) because Henry Moore was
(D) so Henry Moore became
3.The development of the mass spectrometer has provided researchers with a means of calculating quantitative ages
for rocks throughout ___ of the geologic record.
(A) the entire
(B) the wholeness
(C) nearly whole
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(D) the whole
4.___ is especially adapted to small-scale production of milk for the family table, as one or two goats supply
sufficient milk for a family throughout the year and can be maintained economically in quarters where it would not
be practical to keep a cow.
(A) Goat
(B) When a goat
(C) The goat
(D) Many a goat
5.___ its construction in 1977, the Hubble Space Telescope was built under the supervision of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, and was named after Edwin Hubble, the foremost American astronomer of
the 20th century.
(A) After the United States Congress once authorized
(B) Following the United States Congress authorized
(C) In addition to the United States Congress authorization
(D) After the United States Congress authorized
6.The older theories of simple environmentalism, ___ that even styles of myths and tales were determined by
topography, climate, flora, and other factors, are no longer in vogue.
(A) some of which maintained
(B) that some maintained
(C) which maintained
(D) maintaining some
7.___ is reputed to have taught agriculture, navigation, medicine, and the arts, conquering by his magic all the
powers of nature that wage war against man.
(A) The legend that Hiawatha
(B) Once a legend of Hiawatha
(C) The legendary Hiawatha
(D) Hiawathian legendary
8.Contemporary anthropologists generally prefer to avoid the assumption that primitive cultures are at an earlier
stage of development than literate civilizations, ___.
(A) regarding it as overly simplistic
(B) for regarding it overly simplisticly
(C) simply regarding it
(D) regarding it overly simple
9.___ its sharp spikes give the hedgehog a reputation for being fierce, it can actually be a quite friendly pet.
(A) In addition to
(B) (B) Although
(C) (C) Despite
(D) (D) Sometimes
10.Not only ___ the smallest planet in solar system, it is also almost always the furthest planet from the Sun.
(A) Pluto is
(B) is Pluto
(C) it is Pluto
(D) Pluto, which is
11.Many critics regard the making of metaphors, ___ between two unlike entities, as a system of thought antedating
or bypassing logic.
(A)figuring in speech that compares
(B)comparing figures of speech
(C)that figure in speech comparisons
(D)figures of speech that imply comparison
12.While playing for the American League’s New York Yankees, baseball player Mickey Mantle ___ in 1956.
(A) was named the Most Valuable Player Award
(B) was named Most Valuable Player
(C) awarded by Most Valuable Player
(D) the Most Valuable Player was
13.___ drains a vast arid and semiarid sector of the North American continent, and because of its intensive
development it is often referred to as the “Lifeline of the Southwest.”
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(A) While the Colorado River
(B) The Colorado River
(C) Since the Colorado River
(D) When the Colorado River
14.Richard Wright was among the first black American writers ___ by whites, notably in his 1940 novel Native Son.
(A) who protest treatment of blacks
(B) as a protestor of treatment of blacks
(C) to protest the treatment of blacks
(D) in protesting the treatment of blacks
15.While at Columbia University, where his anarchical proclivities pained the authorities, poet Alan Ginsberg ___
close friends with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, who were later to be numbered among the Beats.
(A) was become
(B) had becoming
(C) became
(D) become
16.Rabbits form the bulk of the diet of many animal predator, and they are humans’ most widely hunted small game.
17.In 1865 Lucy Hobbs was admitted to the senior class of the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, and she graduate as
the world’s first woman doctor of dental surgery four months later.
18.There is a directly relationship between the rate of cricket chirps and temperature: the rate tends to increase with
increasing temperature.
19.Over all the industrial activity of the late 1800’s there presided a colorful and energetic group of entrepreneurs,
who appeared to symbolize at the public the new class of leadership in the United States.
20.The predominant emphasis, perhaps, in studies of culture and personality has been the inquiry into the much
factors that affect the process by which the individual personality is formed as it develops under the influence of its
cultural milieu.
21.For astronomy 1994 was a particularly exciting year as astronomers and the general public were able to observe
the crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into the atmosphere of the giant planets Jupiter.
22.Jules Feiffer collected many of his comic strips from the 1960’s into a play also called it Feiffer’s People.
23.Parasitic wasps that lay their eggs on wood-boring insects locate his target in logs through olfactory signals.
24.The hertz is named after the German pioneer Heinrich Hertz, because carried out some of the early radio
experiments.
25.Although they are not assigned usually to the physiographic Great Basin, the Red Desert of southern Wyoming
and the Painted Desert of northern Arizona are sometimes considered as extensions of the Great Basin Desert.
26.Playwright Arthur Miller was shaped by the Depression, who spelled financial ruin for his father, a small
manufacturer, and demonstrated to the young Miller the insecurity of modern existence.
27.Cesar Chavez captured national attention in 1965, when he has become the driving force in what became a
five-year California grape pickers strike.
28.Agriculture still drafts into its serving more of the world’s aggregate manpower than all other occupations
combined.
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29.The potato is one of the world’s mainly food crops, differing from others in that the edible part of the plant is a
tuber.
30.harriet Tubman maintained military discipline among her followers, often forcing the weary or the fainthearted
ahead by threat them with a loaded revolver.
31.Birds have a four-chambered heart, forelimbs modified into wings, a calcareous-shelled egg, and keen vision, the
major sense they rely on for informing about the environment.
32.Radar operates by transmitting electromagnetic energy toward objects, commonly referred to as targets, and the
observing echoes returned from them.
33.Of ancient origin, the dugout is still used in many piece of the world.
34.The expansion of education and health facilities beginning in the 19th century created a widespread and
consistently growing need for specialized architectural solution.
35.The foundation of Royal Academy of the Arts in 1768 provided a focal point for the currents of Neoclassicism in
England architecture, sculpture, and painting.
36.Tom Hank’s sensitive portrayal of helpless young man in Forest Gump earned him critical acclaim and an
Academy Award.
37.Though there has been controversy as to the relative nutritional merits of white bread and bread made from
whole-wheat flour of much longer extraction, which is darker in color.
38.Like those of moths, the wings, bodies, and legs of butterflies are covered with dust-like scale that come off when
they are handled.
39.Bostonians in the 1810’s began to establish textile mills, first at Waltham in 1813 and then until new towns along
the Merrimack River, where waterpower was plentiful.
40.In North America, community needs for informal informations are often met by the public library’s community
awareness service.
Test9
1.Because the oceans appear to have been present for at least 3,000,000 years, ___ that water must have been able to
exist in its liquid state during the early evolution of the atmosphere.
(A) is believable
(B) we believing
(C) a belief
(D) it is believed
2.Computer programs, the software ___ an ever-large part of the computer system, are growing more and more
complicated, requiring teams of programmers and years of effort to develop.
(A) that is becoming
(B) becomes
(C) that which became
(D) is
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3.___ Madeline Albright was born is Czechoslovakia.
(A) The first woman to hold the post of United States Secretary of State was
(B) Holding the post of United States Secretary of Stae was the first woman
(C) The first woman to hold the post of United States Secretary of State,
(D) The first woman holds the post of United States Secretary of State,
4.___ in 1751 by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, the Liberty Bell, a traditional symbol of freedom, now
hangs in Philadelphia ‘s Independence Hall.
(A) commissioning it
(B) Was commissioned
(C) to commission it
(D) Commissioned
5.All tropical storms develop over water for the development of tropical storms.
(A) as it limited
(B) to limits
(C) limiting
(D) was a limit to
6.___ epidemiological data suggest the possibility that generous intakes of salads and citrus fruits may reduce the
cancer of developing cancer of the stomach.
(A) There are indirect
(B) Indirect
(C) There is indirect
(D) Indirectly some
7.Noam Chomasky challenged the post-Bloomfieldian concept of the phoneme, which many scholars regarded as the
most solid and enduring result ___ previous generation’s work in the field of linguistics.
(A) on the
(B) for the
(C) with the
(D) of the
8.The power of science to provide the basis for accurate predictions of such phenomena as eclipses ___ the passing
of comets has generated an attitude toward science that remains an important social force today.
(A) also
(B) plus
(C) in addition
(D)and
9.Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night, published in 1968, ___.
(A) was based on the Washington peace demonstrations of October 1967
(B) a book based on the Washington peace demonstrations of October 1967
(C) and the Washington peace demonstrations of October 1967 was based on
(D) in October 1967 were based on the Washington peace demonstrations
10.In some insects, notably crickets and cockroaches, two feelers at the hind end of the abdomen ___.
(A) who bear sense organs
(B) bear sense organs
(C) whom bear sense organs
(D) bearing sense organs
11.The dividing line between lace and embroidery, which is an ornamentation ___ is not easy to draw.
(A) added with an already completed fabric,
(B) added to an already completed fabric,
(C) to add an already completed fabric,
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(D) already completing an added fabric that
12.___ with obtaining evidence to support the fact of evolution, but rather with what sorts of knowledge can be
obtained from different sources of evidence.
(A) Evolutionists concerned no longer
(B) No concerned evolutionists are longer
(C) Longer evolutionists are concerned with
(D) Evolutionists are no longer concerned.
13.Paul revere was a folk hero of the American Revolution whose dramatic horseback ride on the night of April
18,1775, ___ Boston-area residents that the British were coming, was immortalized in a ballad by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
(A) which warning
(B) warning
(C) warning when
(D) a warning
14.The magnifying power of a microscope is an expression of the number of times the object being examined
appears ___ enlarged.
(A) to been
(B) being
(C) to be
(D) it to be
15.___ in the United States began with the Italian community in New York City, where the first pizzeria appeared in
1905.
(A) The popularity of pizza
(B) Pizza is popular
(C) since Pizza’s popularity
(D) When pizza became popular
16.White dwarf stars, so called because of the white color of the first few that were discovered, are characterized by his low
luminosity, a mass on the order of that of the Sun, and a radius comparable to that of the Earth.
17.William Randolph Hearst remade the San Francisco Examiner into a blend of reformists’ investigative reporting and lurid
sensationalism, and within two years it showed a profits.
18.Because gold is visually to please and workable and does not tarnish or corrode, it was one of the first metals to attract
human attention.
19.A simple form of the solar compass seems to have been devised by the Syrian Arabs of Aleppo as earlier as the 14th
century.
20.About 20 percent of the known chemical elements do not exist in nature, or are present only in trace amounts, and are
known only because have they been synthetically prepared in the laboratory.
21.For the mapping of terrestrial features, aerial photographs usually are taken in overlapping series since an aircraft
following a systematic flight pattern at a fixed altitude.
22.Potatoes is frequently served whole or mashed as a cooked vegetable and are also ground into potato flour, used in baking
and as a thickener for sauces.
23.Pulitzer Prizes are awarded of Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American
journalism, letters, and music.
24.mars moves around the Sun at a mean distance approximately 1.52 times that than the Earth from the Sun.
25.English translator Constance Garnett, who was born in 1861, she made the great works of Russian literature available to
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English and American readers in the first half of the 20the century.
26.The last half of the 18th century saw the unfolding of a series of events, primarily in England, that later historians would
call the first Industrial Revolution, which would have a profound influences on society as a whole as well as on building
technology.
27.Endangered species are often kept of reserves, away from the hunters who brought them close to extinction.
28.Owls often attain higher population densities than hawks, and have survived better in area of human activity.
29.Before a cell can divider, it must accurately and completely duplicate the genetic information encoded in its DNA in order
for its progeny cells to function and survive.
30.In times modern, the suspension bridge provided an economical solution to the problem of long spans over navigable
streams.
31.A mineral, with a few exceptions, is an inorganic and substance occurring in nature that has a definite chemical
composition and distinctive physical properties or molecular structure.
32.The island of Hawaii is rough triangular in shape, with topographic features that include the peak of Mauna Kea, misty
plateaus, craggy ocean cliffs, tropical coastal areas, lava deserts, and fern forests.
33.A major contribution to the development of preschool education has been the developmental psychology of jean Piaget his
followers, who are convinced that children advance through rather regular stages of intellectual development.
34.The techniques used in breeding hybrid corn have been successfully applied to grain sorghum and more other crops.
35.Before the polio vaccine was known, more than 20,000 cases of paralytic disease occurred in the United States every
years.
36.The honeybee is remarkable for the dancing movements it performs in the hive to communicate information to its fellow
bees about the location, distance, size, and quality of a particular food source in the surround area.
37.despite the prevalence of many stories, there is no official assignment of the meaning or symbolism of the colors of United
States Flag.
38.Historically, fungi were inclusion in the plant kingdom, but because they lack chlorophyll and the organized plant structure
of stems, roots, and leaves, they are now considered to constitute a separate kingdom.
39.It is generally agreed that a first known metals were gold, silver, and copper, which occurred in the native or metallic state,
of which the earliest were in all probability nuggets of gold found in the sands and gravels of riverbeds.
40.While a pet is generally kept for the pleasure that it can give to its owner, often, especially with animals such as dogs, this
pleasure appears to be mutually.
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Test10
1.Petro-chemical production is ___ leading industry in Ontario, especially in the city of Sarnia.
(A) at
(B) a
(C) still
(D) perhaps
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2.although we think of the floor as being dirtier, normal beds have up to 6 million dust mites, a figure higher than
what any floor ___, by far.
(A) have
(B) has
(C) do
(D) is
3.Antarctica ice fields ___ of all areas to spot fallen meteors, since the meteors are relatively untouched by erosion in
the ice fields.
(A) are the easiest
(B) the easiest
(C) the easiest for
(D) that are the easiest
4.There were more than 300,000 Chinese nationals living in the U.S. west coast before Congress made it ___, in
1882.
(A) the impossible immigration
(B) the impossibility of immigrating
(C) impossibly immigrated
(D) impossible to immigrate
5.Mark Twain was actually born in a strange Missouri town called Florida, ___ he stayed until he was four years old.
(A) which
(B) where
(C) that
(D) has
6.___ relatively small size of Brown Dwarfs, they were difficult to pinpoint, especially for 27-year-old astronomy
student, Clare Briadger, the first discoverer.
(A) While the
(B) The
(C) For the
(D) Because of the
7.Earthshine, ___ of the earth’s sunlight, results when the position of the earth allows the moon to act as a giant light
mirror.
(A) is reflected by the moon
(B) which reflecting
(C) the moon’s reflection
(D) reflected by the moon
8.Black powder, by itself, burns dull, yellow and orange flames, but ___ potassium chloride, more diverse colors can
be created.
(A) when combined with
(B) combined with
(C) the combination of
(D) it is combined with
9.Symbolic words seem ___ about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East for keeping records.
(A) was begun
(B) to begin
(C) they began
(D) to have begun
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10.Beginning with E. W. Griffith, filmmakers used the ‘close up’ ___ pay special attention to an actor’s expressions.
(A) will
(B) so they could
(C) and
(D) and when to
11.Post-consumer anxiety is the type of psychological tension ___ after making a major buying decision.
(A) may feel a person
(B) a person may feel
(C) and a person may feel
(D) a person who may feel
12.The recession of the early 1980s saw unemployment rates rise to levels ___ since the great depression.
(A) was unmatched
(B) is unmatched
(C) the unmatched
(D) unmatched
13.It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1000 years ___ the world.
(A) circling
(B) to have circled
(C) can circle
(D) to circle
14.A kind of shortening that occurs ___ word is compressed into a short word is referred to, by linguists, as
back-formation
(A) to a long
(B) so a long
(C) when a long
(D) that a long
15.Edith Hamilton was an American educator ___ helping modern reders understand Greek, Roman and Hebrew life.
(A) devoted many books to
(B) who devoted many books to
(C) devoting many books
(D) was devoted for
16.The firstly forms of glass used in the Bronze Age were made from a mixture of silica, lime and alkaline.
17.Although Helium is a lesser abundant element in Universe, especially when you compare it to hydrogen, it still makes up
about 25% of the Universe.
18.When Lily Armstrong came to Chicago in 1917, despite her being a talented pianist, the only job she could only find made
her responsible to demonstrating tunes at a music store.
19.Before the arrival of Europeans, the mid-western areas of North America were dominated by Native American farmers,
such the Mandaras, and they grew many crops, including sunflower, corn and and tobacco.
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20.One key development to stimulating the process of urbanization was the refining of crude oil into kerosene.
21.Salamanders have built-in body mechanisms that help them locate to security of a moist forest.
22.The amount of sleep one gets depends on the transfer of signals from one part of the brain to another, which ensures
sufficiency time for energy to recoup be stored.
23.Hull house, founded by Jane Adams in 1884, became one of the most efficiency organizations for collecting urban renewal
funds.
24.Type of paths down which volcanic lava flows best really depends on the terrain, since some areas facilitate better
movement than others.
25.In salmon, as with others fish, sense organs allow individual salmons to detect motion in the water by signaling changes in
water pressure.
26.Despite the many speculations in a decades preceding 1969, the landing of the Apollo mission on the moon gave scientists
their first direct proof of the moon’s chemistry.
27.Ralph Ellison combined riveting symbolic with stark realism to drive home the experience of African Americans in US
inner cities.
28.Jupiter is characterized to a stable combination of hydrogen and helium, which will not change for a long time, since,
chemical, converting helium to hydrogen is very difficult.
29.Helen White proved she was no lightly weight scholar, earning the first PhD granted to an American woman.
30.Louis Armstrong wrote of his many famous songs using the idea of a multi-chorus solo.
31.After the first celebration of Earth day in 1970, considerable interesting developed among young people, who used the
event to show outrage at the way we were treating it.
32.While we think of rainbows as just light of various color, in fact they are really just the refraction of sunlight through
raindrop.
33.Named after its inventor, the Ishihara test is concerned to the ability of people to see colors.
34.Even though Robert Moon invented the zip code in 1958, it still did not replace any of the other type of systems until
1963.
35.An electric car’s battery can allow a car to cover distance of 250 km before needing to recharge.
36.The lavish musical films of the 1940s were meant to create pleasure and bring familiar to a special American brand of
entertainment.
37.Surprising to many, England has one of the highest population density in the world.
38. Michael de Nortradame, who still command considerable interest among scholars, was actually a physician during the
Black Plague.
39.Dichloride selective dissolves caffeine without carrying off sugars, peptides and flavor ingredients, so it doesn’t change the
taste.
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40.In a cave one hundred and forty feet above the Colorado river, archeologists have found drift wood that dates back as far as
3700 years, prove that the river was once much higher.
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