Question 1- 15
1. After quartz, calcite is the _____ in the crust of the Earth.
- (A) mineral is most abundant
- (B) mineral that most abundant
- (C) most abundant mineral that
- (D) most abundant mineral
Correct Answer: D
2. Regarded as the world’s foremost linguistic theorist, Noam Chomsky continues _____ new theories about language and language learning.
- (A) for creating
- (B) by creation
- (C) to create
- (D) create
Correct Answer: C
3. _____ any area receives more water than the ground can absorb, the excess water flows to the lowest level, carrying loose mineral.
- (A) Being
- (B) Whenever
- (C) When might
- (D) Is
Correct Answer: B
4. In 1935 seismologist Charles F. Richter devised _____ for rating the strength of earthquakes.
- (A) for the numerical scale
- (B) the scale is numerical
- (C) a numerical scale
- (D) a scale of numerical
Correct Answer: C
5. After the Second World War the woman wage earner _____ a standard part of middle-class life in the United States.
- (A) who became
- (B) becoming that which
- (C) became
- (D) to become
Correct Answer: C
6. Celluloid and plastics have largely replaced genuine ivory in the manufacture _____ buttons, billiard balls, and piano keys.
- (A) of such things as
- (B) as of such things
- (C) such things as of
- (D) things as of such
Correct Answer: A
7. One of the tenets of New Criticism is that a critic need not tell readers _____ about a story.
- (A) which thinking
- (B) what to think
- (C) that thinking
- (D) to think what
Correct Answer: B
8. The outer ear, _____ the fleshy pinna and the auditory canal, picks up and funnels sound waves toward the eardrum.
- (A) includes
- (B) which it includes
- (C) which includes
- (D) of which includes
Correct Answer: C
9. The chair may be the oldest type of furniture, _____ its importance has varied from time to time and from country to country.
- (A) but when
- (B) until then
- (C) in spite of
- (D) although
Correct Answer: D
10. When wood, natural gas, oil, or any other fuel burns, _____ with oxygen in the air to produce heat.
- (A) combining substances in the fuel
- (B) substances in the fuel that combine
- (C) substances in the fuel combine
- (D) a combination of substances in the fuel
Correct Answer: C
11. Deserts are arid land areas where _____ through evaporation than is gained through precipitation.
- (A) the loss of more water
- (B) loses more water
- (C) is more water lost
- (D) more water is lost
Correct Answer: D
12. When goshawk chicks are young, _____ parents share in the hunting duties and in guarding the nest.
- (A) the both
- (B) both
- (C) both of
- (D) and both
Correct Answer: B
13. Not only _____ among the largest animals that ever lived, but they are also among the most intelligent.
- (A) are whales
- (B) whales
- (C) some whales
- (D) they are whales
Correct Answer: A
14. Fish are the most ancient form of vertebrate life, and _____ all other vertebrates.
- (A) from them evolved
- (B) evolved them
- (C) to evolve
- (D) they are evolved
Correct Answer: A
15. _____ 350 species of sharks, and although they are all carnivorous, only a few species will attack people.
- (A) About
- (B) Where about
- (C) There are about
- (D) About the
Correct Answer: C
Written Expression
16. The dandelion plant has a straight, smoothly, and hollow stem that contains a white, milky juice.
Answer - B
17. Of the much factors that contributed to the growth of international tourism in the 1950’s, one of the most important was the advent of jet travel in 1958.
Answer - A
18. The Canadian province of Alberta it is believed to have some of the richest oil deposits in the world.
Answer - B
19. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are frequently long and carefully constructed, uses elaborate rhyme or half-rhymes.
Answer - C
20. California has more land under irrigation than any another state.
Answer - D
21. Thomas Moran’s magnificent, colorful paintings onto Wyoming landscapes captured the spirit of the western wilderness in the late nineteenth century.
Answer - B
22. Emily Dickinson, among the greatest women poets in the English language, died with all of hers poems unpublished, except for seven that appeared in publications of limited circulation.
Answer - C
23. Protecting Florida’s coral reefs in difficult because some of the corals are very fragile: even the touch of a diver’s hand can kill it.
Answer - D
24. Martin Luther King, Jr., is well known for organize the huge human rights march that took place in Washington in 1963.
Answer - B
25. A lightning flash produces electromagnetic waves that may travels along the Earth’s magnetic field for long distances.
Answer - C
26. One of the earliest plants domesticated in the Western Hemisphere, manioc was introduced to Europe by Spaniards returning from the New World.
Answer - B
27. Besides the age of nine and fifteen, almost all young people undergo a rapid series of physiological changes.
Answer - A
28. The frequency of meteors in the Earth’s atmosphere increases when the Earth passes through a swarm of particle generated by the breakup of a comet.
Answer - C
29. Ponds are noted for their rich and varied types of plant and animal life, all maintain in a delicate ecological balance.
Answer - C
30. In the 1920’s cinema became an important art form and one of the ten largest industry in the United States.
Answer - D
31. To improvise effectively, a musician must thorough understand the conventions of a given musical style.
Answer - B
32. During the Jurassic period plant life was abundance, providing herbivores in particular with a plentiful supply of food.
Answer - A
33. Some maple trees are raised for their sap, which has a high sugar content for yields sugar and syrup.
Answer - D
34. Long before boats became important in recreation, they were valuable to people for many essential tasks, included transportation and fishing.
Answer - C
35. Asteroids may be fragments of a planet shattered long ago or from material the nuclei of old comets.
Answer - D
36. The first Native Americans to occupy what is now the southwestern United States were the Big-Game Hunters, which appeared about 10,000 B.C.
Answer - D
37. Some hangers, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are very tall that rain occasionally falls from clouds that form along the ceilings.
Answer - B
38. Most sand dunes are always in motion as wind pushes sand upward one side of each dune, over the top, and down the other side.
Answer - B
39. Farms of maize, beans, and tobacco, the Wendat, Native American tribes that inhabited present-day Michigan, lived a sedentary life in densely populated villages.
Answer - A
40. Recently scientists have apply new tools of biochemistry and molecular biology to investigate the structure of human hair.
Answer - A