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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