Question 1- 15
1. A microscope can reveal vastly _____ detail than is visible to the naked eye.
- (A) than
- (B) than more
- (C) more than
- (D) more
Correct Answer: D
2. Narcissus bulbs _____ at least three inches apart and covered with about four inches of well-drained soil.
- (A) should be planted
- (B) to plant
- (C) must planting
- (D) should plant
Correct Answer: A
3. Industrialization has been responsible for _____ most radical of the environmental changes caused by humans.
- (A) a
- (B) the
- (C) some of which
- (D) which are the
Correct Answer: B
4. In many areas the slope and topography of the land _____ excess rainfall to run off into a natural outlet.
- (A) neither permit
- (B) without permitting
- (C) nor permitting
- (D) do not permit
Correct Answer: D
5. Color and light, taken together, ______ the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.
- (A) very powerfully influence
- (B) very influence powerfully
- (C) powerfully very influence
- (D) influence powerfully very
Correct Answer: A
6. _____ that Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring was one of the chief sources of inspiration for the development of nontoxic pesticides.
- (A) There is likely
- (B) Likely to be
- (C) It is likely
- (D) Likely
Correct Answer: C
7. Total color blindness, _____, is the result of a defect in the retina.
- (A) a rare condition that
- (B) a rare condition
- (C) that a rare condition
- (D) is a rare condition
Correct Answer: B
8. _____ no conclusive evidence exists, many experts believe that the wheel was invented only once and then diffused to the rest of the world.
- (A) Even
- (B) But
- (C) Although
- (D) So
Correct Answer: C
9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing season, life is _____ in various forms.
- (A) abundant
- (B) the abundance
- (C) an abundant
- (D) it abundant
Correct Answer: A
10. Most of _____ archaeologists know about prehistoric cultures is based on studies of material remains.
- (A) these
- (B) what
- (C) which
- (D) their
Correct Answer: B
11. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____ today a liberated woman.
- (A) calling what we would
- (B) who would be calling
- (C) what we would call
- (D) she would call it
Correct Answer: C
12. _____ around stones that are sun warmed, even the smallest of stones creates tiny currents of warm air.
- (A) The cool air
- (B) If the air is cool
- (C) That the air cools
- (D) The cooler the air
Correct Answer: B
13. According to some critics, the novels of William Burroughs demonstrate the major hazard of absurd literature, _____ tendency toward overembellishment and incoherence.
- (A) notwithstanding
- (B) besides
- (C) is a
- (D) its
Correct Answer: D
14. Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation, country music has certain common features _____ its own special character.
- (A) give it that
- (B) that give it
- (C) give that
- (D) that gives it to
Correct Answer: B
15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in New Orleans in the 1920's _____ in blues music.
- (A) was one of the greatest periods
- (B) one of the greatest periods
- (C) was of the greatest periods
- (D) the greatest periods
Correct Answer: A
Written Expression
16. Gone With the Wind, the epic novel about life in the South during the CiviI War period, took ten years write.
Answer - D
17. None two butterflies have exactly the same design on their wings.
Answer - A
18. To save the California condor from extinction, a group of federal, local, and privately organizations initiated a rescue program.
Answer - C
19. A coral reef, a intricate aquatic community of plants and animals, is found only in warm, shallow, sunlit seas.
Answer - A
20. Carnegie Hall was the first building in New Y ark designed special for orchestral music.
Answer - C
21. Since it lives in the desert, the collared lizard depends from insects for water as well as for food.
Answer - C
22. The Texas Panhandle region, in the northwestern part of the state, produces more wheat, cotton, and grain sorghum than any of other area of Texas.
Answer - D
23. Light rays what enter the eye must be focused onto a point on the retina In order for a clear visual image to form.
Answer - A
24. The orangutan's hands and feet are designed for holding and grasping branches, and its powerful immensely arms enable it to climb and swing in trees without difficulty.
Answer - C
25. The extraordinary beautiful of orchids makes them the basis of a multimillion dollar floral industry.
Answer - A
26. The Vermont Elementary Science Project, according to its founders, are designed to challenge some of the most widely held beliefs about teaching.
Answer - B
27. The number 8½ is an example of a "mixed number" because it is composing of an integer and a fraction.
Answer - B
28. If it is kept dry, a seed can still sprout up to forty years after their formation.
Answer - D
29. In The Sociology of Science, now considered a classic, Robert Merton discusses cultural, economy, and social forces that contributed to the development of modem science.
Answer - B
30. Bacteria lived in the soil play a vital role in recycling the carbon and nitrogen needed by plants.
Answer - A
31. Some snakes have hollow teeth are called fangs that they use to poison their victims.
Answer - B
32. Stars derive their energy from thermonuclear reactions that take place in their heat interiors.
Answer - D
33. Carrie Chapman Catt organized the League of Women Voters after successfully campaign for the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
Answer - C
34. Any group that conducting its meetings using parliamentary rules will encounter situations where prescribed procedures cannot be applied.
Answer - B
35. The strongly patriotic character of Charles Sangster's poetry is credited about greatly furthering the cause of confederation in Canada.
Answer - C
36. Jessamyn West's first and most famous novel, The Friendly Persuasion, describes the life of a Quaker farmed family in the mid-1800's.
Answer - D
37. One inventor that Thomas Edison can take credit for is the light bulb.
Answer - A
38. Electric motors range in size from the tiny mechanisms that operate sewing machine to the great engines in heavy locomotives.
Answer - C
39. The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, the gaseous mass surrounding the planet.
Answer - A
40. The Mississippi, the longest river in the United States, begins as small, clear stream in northwestern Minnesota.
Answer - B