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1. In 1879, _____, Alice Freeman Palmer became head of the history department at Wellesley College.
- (A) twenty-four years
- (B) at the age of twenty-four
- (C) age twenty-four
- (D) of twenty-four years
Correct Answer: B
2. United States spends more money on advertising _____ country in the world.
- (A) other
- (B) other than
- (C) than any other
- (D) while other
Correct Answer: C
3. Penicillin, probably _____, came into widespread use after the Second World War.
- (A) an antibiotic of known
- (B) was known the antibiotic
- (C) the best-known antibiotic
- (D) known best antibiotic
Correct Answer: C
4. Although Emily Dickinson is now a well-known American poet, only seven of her poems _____ while she was alive.
- (A) publishing
- (B) to publish
- (C) have published
- (D) were published
Correct Answer: D
5. Thomas Jefferson served as president of the American Philosophical Society, an organization that encouraged of scientific and intellectual research.
- (A) ranging wide
- (B) a wide range
- (C) which ranged widely
- (D) a widely ranging
Correct Answer: B
6. Part of the Great Plains, Kansas is famous for ____ fields of wheat.
- (A) its seemingly endless
- (B) it seems endless
- (C) it is seemingly endless
- (D) it is endless it seems
Correct Answer: A
7. Skimming along the surface of the ocean or rising from its depths like delicate balloons, _____ to their aquatic habitat.
- (A) the perfect adaptation of jellyfish
- (B) jellyfish are perfectly adapted
- (C) jellyfish are adapted to perfectly
- (D) and the adaption is perfect for jellyfish
Correct Answer: B
8. The sidereal day is the period _____ the Earth completes one rotation on its axis.
- (A) when does it
- (B) while it
- (C) during which
- (D) in that
Correct Answer: C
9. _____ rainfall in the desert is low, it is one of the most important climatic factors in the formation of desert erosion features.
- (A) Although
- (B) Why
- (C) Despite
- (D) Due to
Correct Answer: A
10. A strong swimmer, _____.
- (A) that fish and seal are eaten chiefly by the polar bear
- (B) the polar bear eats chiefly fish and seal
- (C) the polar bear eating chiefly fish and seal
- (D) eating fish and seal chiefly by the polar bear
Correct Answer: B
11. Helicopters can rise or descend vertically, hover, and move forward, backward, ____.
- (A) they move laterally
- (B) and are lateral
- (C) or lateral motion
- (D) or laterally
Correct Answer: D
12. The Dallas Theater Center presents plays in two buildings,_____ was designed by the internationally renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
- (A) which
- (B) which one
- (C) that which
- (D) one of which
Correct Answer: D
13. _____ stem from the everyday life of common people, the most popular themes are love, jealousy, revenge, disaster, and adventure.
- (A) Because folk ballads
- (B) There are folk ballads
- (C) With folk ballads
- (D) Folk ballads to
Correct Answer: A
14. _____ around us gives us vital information about our environment.
- (A) The sounds are heard
- (B) That the hearing of sounds
- (C) Hearing the sounds
- (D) Whatever the sounds are heard
Correct Answer: C
15. Located in Boston, _____ in the United States was founded in 1852.
- (A) the first public library was free
- (B) the first free public library
- (C) was the first free public library
- (D) where the first free public library was
Correct Answer: B
Written Expression
16. A goose's neck is a little longer that than of a duck, and not so gracefully curved as a swan's.
Answer - B
17. The introduction of new species of plants into the Hawaiian islands offers an opportunity to study the responsively of a natural system to stress.
Answer - C
18. At 1939, television programs were being broadcast in the United States, and the World's Fair of that year featured demonstrations of this advance in technology.
Answer - A
19. Nathaniel Hawthorne often complained of how few material his life provided for his fiction.
Answer - B
20. The United States capital in Washington, D.C., developed slow, assuming its present gracious aspect, with wide avenues and many parks, only in the twentieth century.
Answer - A
21. Soapberry trees and shrubs thrive in tropical regions, and being ornamental plants in California and Florida.
Answer - C
22. Throughout her length career, Grace Paley has been known for her ability to capture the distinct rhythms of New York speech in her short stories.
Answer - A
23. Scientists usually character the disease leukemia as an overabundance of white blood cells in the bloodstream.
Answer - A
24. Energy research, medicinal, tourism, and copper and molybdenum mining are important to the economy of Butte, Montana.
Answer - A
25. The New Deal was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program to pull the United States out the Great Depression in the 1930's.
Answer - D
26. Anyone rowing a boat in a strong wind knows it is much easy to go with the wind than against it.
Answer - C
27. From the monitoring of earthquake waves it is evidence that the Earth's outer core is liquid, whereas the inner core is solid.
Answer - B
28. Dictionaries frequently explain the origin of the defined word, state its part of speech, and indication its correct use.
Answer - D
29. The Caldecott Medal, awarded annual to the best illustrated children's book, is one award that identifies excellent books.
Answer - A
30. In the spring the woodcock builds a simple nest of leaves and grass in a dry, quiet spots and lays four multicolored eggs.
Answer - D
31. For centuries the aromatic spices of the Far East has been in demand by the people of the East and West.
Answer - C
32. Linseed oil is used as a drying oil in paints and varnishes and as making linoleum, oilcloth, and certain inks.
Answer - C
33. Phoenix, Arizona, stands where the Hohokam Indians built a canal system and carried on irrigated farming before long the time of Columbus.
Answer - D
34. Knowledge of the rate at which a ship is traveling through the water is important if the navigator need to estimate the time of arrival.
Answer - D
35. The wood of the tulip tree, sometimes referred to as American whitewood, is one of the most valuable timber product in the United States.
Answer - D
36. The foot is used primary for locomotion, but some primates, notably the apes, also use their feet for grasping and picking up objects.
Answer - A
37. Although best known for her prose works, Maya Angelou was also published several collections of poetry.
Answer - C
38. Founded by the Spanish as Yerba Buena in 1835, what is now San Francisco was taken over by the United States in 1846 and later renamed it.
Answer - D
39. Human hair grows at rate of about one-half to one inch a month.
Answer - A
40. Composed of heavy-textured clay soil, adobe has great elasticity when moist, but when dry is able of holding its shape.
Answer - D