Question 1- 15
1. ______ is helping to break new ground in drug research.
- (A) Computers are being used more if
- (B) The increasing use of the computer
- (C) If an increase in the use of the computer
- (D) Computers are being used more
Correct Answer: B
2. An elephant ______ vigorously when it is overheated.
- (A) flapping its ears
- (B) its ears flap
- (C) flaps its ears
- (D) ears flap it
Correct Answer: C
3. Broadway musical comedy has been called ______ of the United States to modern theater.
- (A) the major contribution that
- (B) what is the major contribution
- (C) the major contribution
- (D) to the major contribution
Correct Answer: C
4. ______ in 1968 as a nonprofit agency to finance the growth of noncommercial radio and television in the United States.
- (A) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting established
- (B) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established
- (C) When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established
- (D) Even though the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established
Correct Answer: B
5. Cold temperatures; short growing seasons, and heavy snows prevent ______ at high elevations.
- (A) grow trees
- (B) the growth of trees
- (C) trees are growing
- (D) and growth of trees
Correct Answer: B
6. Usually, the more skilled an athlete ______ the more effortless the athlete's movements appear to be.
- (A) what is
- (B) that is
- (C) that it is
- (D) is
Correct Answer: D
7. Trilobites, a group of spineless animals, flourished in the oceans for several hundred million years ______ some 200 million years ago.
- (A) until they became extinct
- (B) and their extinction
- (C) that were extinct
- (D) because their extinction
Correct Answer: A
8. Recent engineering developments have made ______ to recycle plastic soda bottles into polyester fabric.
- (A) possible, and
- (B) it is possible
- (C) the possible
- (D) it possible
Correct Answer: D
9. ______, bottle-nosed dolphins become talented performers at many aquariums.
- (A) When to train
- (B) Are training
- (C) When trained
- (D) To train them
Correct Answer: C
10. The art of the 1970's was characterized by diversity and by the independence of artists ______ main affinities were more often sociopolitical than stylistic.
- (A) whose
- (B) that
- (C) they have
- (D) of which
Correct Answer: A
11. Flower oils are ______ of the ingredients used in making perfume.
- (A) among expensive
- (B) among the most expensive
- (C) being most expensive
- (D) expensive
Correct Answer: B
12. A quilt that looks ordinary ______ may become a work of abstract art when it is hung on a white wall.
- (A) lying on a bed
- (B) lies on a bed
- (C) to be lying on a bed
- (D) to lie on a bed
Correct Answer: A
13. ______, the hummingbird gets its name from the sound that its wings make during flight.
- (A) Has a brilliant color
- (B) The brilliant color
- (C) Which is brilliantly colored
- (D) Brilliantly colored
Correct Answer: D
14. Except for the Sun, all stars are too far from the Earth for their distances ______ in miles or kilometers.
- (A) to be conveniently measured
- (B) which conveniently measured
- (C) to measure conveniently
- (D) conveniently measured
Correct Answer: A
15. Many technological innovations, such as the telephone, ______ the result of sudden bursts of inspiration in fact were preceded by many inconclusive efforts.
- (A) whose appearance
- (B) that appear to be
- (C) and appear to be
- (D) are appearing
Correct Answer: B
Written Expression
16. Corporations, companies owned by much stockholders rather than by a single proprietor, began to play an important economic role in the late nineteenth century.
Answer - B
17. Diamonds have the unique ability to allow the passage of neither infrared and visible light.
Answer - C
18. Gilbert Newton Lewis, a chemist, helped to develop the modern electron theory of valence, a theory what explains the forces holding atoms together in molecules.
Answer - C
19. The first women governor in United States history was Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was elected governor of Wyoming in 1925.
Answer - A
20. Because of a high birthrate and considerable immigration, the United States population in the late nineteenth century increased tremendously into 31 million in 1860 to 76 million in 1900.
Answer - D
21. In laboratory experiments, an investigator often begins by work out different conditions for two groups of subjects.
Answer - B
22. In Florida, when the temperature drops below freezing, citrus growers keep young tree warm by constantly showering them with water.
Answer - C
23. The pitch of a musical instrument is defined as the relative highness or low of the sound it produces.
Answer - C
24. The delicious of chocolate depends not only on the quality of the cacao but also on a complex process of grinding, heating, and blending.
Answer - A
25. Scientists have found that occasional exposure to bright light can be help a person get used to working the night shift.
Answer - B
26. Rocks have forming, wearing away and re-forming ever since the Earth took shape.
Answer - A
27. For most of their history, especially since the 1860's, New York City has been undergoing major ethnic population changes.
Answer - A
28. The dramatic first-floor gallery of the New Britain Museum of American Art is devoted to Thomas Benton's series of five oversized mural.
Answer - D
29. Although color is a minor factor in soil composition, it is excellent characteristic by which to distinguish different soil layers.
Answer - C
30. Eagles are predatory birds that have large, heavy, hooked bills and strong, sharp claws called as "talons."
Answer - D
31. Cotton is one of the most popular fiber used to make clothes.
Answer - C
32. Turreted mansions decorated with elaborate wooden ornamentation became a mark of wealthy and elegance in the United States in the late nineteenth century.
Answer - D
33. Most of our ideas of what ancient people looked and dressed come from the works of Renaissance artists.
Answer - A
34. Plants require much less moist in cold weather than in warm weather.
Answer - C
35. All nations may have to make fundamental changes in their economic, political, and the technological institutions if they are to preserve the environment.
Answer - C
36. Massachusetts was first explored in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the first permanent settlement at Plymouth in 1620.
Answer - D
37. Sarah Vaughan had a voice like a perfect instrument, and it was an instrument that she knew how to use it with the utmost skill.
Answer - C
38. During early nineteenth century, the building of canals and railroads strengthened the state of Indiana's links with the eastern United States.
Answer - A
39. Maryland, even though a southern state, remained loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.
Answer - C
40. A monsoon is an enormous cycle of air set in motion by differences temperature over land and sea.
Answer - C