Question 1- 15
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
Correct Answer: A
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
Correct Answer: D
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
Correct Answer: A
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
Correct Answer: B
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
Correct Answer: A
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
Correct Answer: C
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
Correct Answer: C
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
Correct Answer: B
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
Correct Answer: B
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
Correct Answer: C
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
- (C) because Eudora Welty peoples
- (D) Eudora Welty, to people
Correct Answer: B
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
Correct Answer: B
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
Correct Answer: D
14. Fibers of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun into thread _____ woven into textile fabrics.
- (A) as are they
- (B) when to be
- (C) that they are
- (D) If they are to be
Correct Answer: D
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
Correct Answer: B
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16. The Armory Show, held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of modern European art.
Answer - B
17. Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly.
Answer - C
18. In 1852 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen years of old to attend school.
Answer - D
19. The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable evolutionary relationship of the different species to each another.
Answer - D
20. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war and through diplomacy.
Answer - C
21. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings in the United States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Answer - D
22. Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of Mexico's winter wetlands.
Answer - C
23. Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin who son George acquired land at the junction of tile Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.
Answer - B
24. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the National Gallery of Art, where it is now locating.
Answer - D
25. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border, have been known to reach 90 of degrees Celsius.
Answer - D
26. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's orbital plane, a solar eclipse occurs.
Answer - B
27. Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear rhythm, simple modelings, and harmonies of clear color.
Answer - B
28. Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of energy is derived from sunlight.
Answer - C
29. The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with tenderness, grace, and wit.
Answer - B
30. In the nineteenth century, women used quilts to inscribe their responses to social, economic, and politics issues.
Answer - D
31. Fossils in 500-inillion-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the Cambrian period were mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to form shells.
Answer - D
32. Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes because they are not cutting off by the horizon.
Answer - C
33. Hot at the equator causes the air to expand, rise, and flow toward the poles.
Answer - A
34. Although research has been ongoing since 1930, the existence of ESP – perception and communication without the use of sight, hear, taste, touch, or smell – is still disputed.
Answer - D
35. As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the United States comes from marketing the films abroad.
Answer - A
36. Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing rhythms.
Answer - C
37. The walls around the city of Quebec, which was originally a fort military, still stand, making Quebec the only walled city in North America.
Answer - B
38. The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line techniques made them cheaper to produce.
Answer - A
39. The ballad is characterized by informal diction, by a narrative largely dependent on action and dialogue, by thematic intense, and by stress on repetition.
Answer - C
40. Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard against which the wives of all United States Presidents since have evaluated.
Answer - D