TOEFL Structure Excercise

ARCOS PREPARATION FOR TOEFL
PRACTICE TEST 1
SECTION 1
PART A
1. (A) She enjoys summer the most.
(B) She's too busy to go traveling.
(C) She gets bored staying home too long.
(D) She doesn't like to travel.
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18. (A) He is the best student in the class.

(B) He'll have to take the exam again.
(C) He passed the exam with the grade he expected.
(D) His grade was not as high as he had hoped.
35. (A) The car needs to be fixed.

(B) They need to work the next day.
(C) Their flight doesn't leave until the next day.
(D) The weather is very bad that night.
19. (A) They are studying hard for their finals.

PART C
(B) The school year seemed to go by very quickly.
(A) Building houses is very complicated.
(C) They've been in school a few weeks.
36. (A) a magazine
(B) He lent his other book to a friend.
(D) Even though finals are over, they still have to
(B) a neighborhood
(C) This book doesn't have enough details.
study for a few weeks.
(C) a period of time
(D) He needs the information in this book.
20. (A) His shoulder hurts.
(D) a political issue
(A) He left his lab and went on vacation.
(B) His eyes are dim.
37. (A) before World War I
(B) He locked his lab.
(C) He likes the ice in the lake.
(B) in the 1950s
(C) He came back to work early.
(D) He wants another cold drink.
(C) in the 1970s
(D) He went to give a lecture.
(D) after 1985
PART B
(A) Connie and David have changed.
38. (A) new viral discoveries
(B) David wants to talk to Connie.
21. (A) finding books in the library
(B) a brief history of 19th-century France
(C) Connie and David are planning a trip together.
(B) an exam in a class
(C) a movement toward world peace
(D) Connie and David have many friends.
(C) a student's research project
(D) the life and times of Shakespeare
(A) She used to work for the city.
(D) asking directions to a class
39. (A) American Revolutionary period
(B) She enjoys sightseeing in the city.
22. (A) in the mountains
(B) world history
(C) She thinks there are two buildings.
(B) in the Southwest desert
(C) journalism
(D) She has visited the museum more than once.
(C) in New York
(D) economics
(A) She is unhappy with her work.
(D) on the Atlantic coast
40. (A) to inform people of the zoo show times
(B) She wonders what job the man does.
23. (A) the southwestern desert
(B) to announce the zoo will close soon
(C) She doesn't know what the man means.
(B) the end of the Anasazi civilization
(C) to advertise goods sold at the gift shop
(D) She agrees to work on another day.
(C) native American history
(D) to promote a restaurant serving lunch at the zoo
(A) He thinks Greg is too young.
(D) desert climates
41. (A) lions and tigers
(B) He thinks it's a good decision.
24. (A) There is another person studying a similar topic.
(B) elephants and giraffes
(C) He is surprised.
(B) There are no books in the library about this
(C) sharks and rays
(D) He is angry.
particular topic.
(D) apes and monkeys
(A) Sandy wants to room with the woman.
(C) She thinks the student should change his focus.
42. (A) the giant bird cage
(B) Sandy is a very interesting person.
(D) She has a lot of books on this topic for the
(B) the tiger house
(C) Sandy doesn't want to bother anyone.
student.
(C) the monkey and ape habitat
(D) Sandy is the woman's roommate.
25. (A) Boston
(D) the tropical rainforest exhibit
(B) San Francisco
(A) The complete movie was not shown.
43. (A) at the main entrance
(C) New York
(B) She went to sleep during the movie.
(B) in the gift shop
(D) Milwaukee
(C) The end surprised everyone.
(C) from Dr. Smith
(D) She wants to see the movie again tonight.
26. (A) It is going to the wrong destination.
(D) at the primate center
(B) The departure times are not appropriate.
44. (A) American history
(A) She already has tickets for both of them.
(C) The train will arrive too late.
(B) twentieth-century poets
(B) She's trying to fool him.
(D) The ticket is too expensive.
(C) Shakespeare
(C) She thinks it's going to be hard to get tickets.
27. (A) because it goes on to Boston
(D) Abraham Lincoln
(D) She doesn't want to get tickets, because they
(B) because it is slower
might have to stay home.
45. (A) the date when the Civil War ended
(C) because there is no place to sleep
(B) the date when the first exam will take place
(A) Come back again to apply for the job.
(D) because it arrives in the middle of the night
(C) the date when the paper is due
(B) Think about whether he really wants to resign.
28. (A) friends
(D) the date when Abraham Lincoln died
(C) Get some training before he quits his job.
(B) sea birds
(D) Apply for an additional part-time job.
46. (A) the end of the Civil War
(C) a trip
(B) the speech by Abraham Lincoln
(A) Alex wants to change his major.
(D) Fridays
(C) the conditions in the southern states
(B) Alex is still too young to make his own decision.
29. (A) They are friends.
(D) the beginning of the war between the states
(C) Alex should not change his major without
(B) They have just met.
consent from his parents.
47. (A) music
(C) They are brother and sister.
(D) Alex is capable of making his own decision.
(B) literature
(D) They have a class together.
(C) dance
(A) He'll make an effort to go tonight.
30. (A) to sit in the sun
(D) painting
(B) He doesn't like commitments.
(B) to watch the waves
(C) He remembered he had to go to the group
48. (A) Handel
(C) to observe sea birds
meeting.
(B) the Messiah
(D) to have picnics
(D) He has to go somewhere else.
(C) the London Philharmonic
31. (A) Saturday
(D) the symphony
(A) There is nothing that worries him.
(B) one year later
(B) He didn't do any studying.
49. (A) the educational level of artists has increased.
(C) Friday
(C) He studied very hard.
(B) the size of the audience has grown.
(D) after the summer
(D) He was bored.
(C) the number of voices and instruments has
32. (A) taking a vacation
changed.
(A) Laura doesn't understand the proposal.
(B) going to sleep
(D) the types of visitors have changed.
(B) Laura will not like the proposal.
(C) seeing a movie
(C) Laura accepted this proposal.
50. (A) Christmas
(D) traveling to New York City
(D) Laura's proposal is excellent.
(B) New Year's Day
33. (A) in a restaurant
(C) Easter
(A) She doesn't want a long drive to the airport.
(B) in an office
(D) the summer solstice
(B) She will hang her luggage in the closet.
(C) in a classroom
(C) She won't use the same airline again this time.
(D) in a house
(D) She isn't used to traveling very much.
34. (A) She enjoys hiking.
(A) You can't eat the fruit whole.
(B) Her cousin has a cabin in Canada.
(B) You can't eat the pit.
(C) She wants to get away from the city.
(C) You can't eat the fruit raw.
(D) She can't afford to stay in a hotel.
(D) You can't eat the skin of the fruit.
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PRACTICE TEST 2
SECTION 1
PART A
1. (A) The salesperson says they will fit.
(B) His nephew already has a pair of gloves.
(C) Only one size will fit.
(D) The gloves are all the same size.
2. (A) Test the new computer.
(B) Start writing another section of the paper.
(C) Go to another lab.
(D) Change his project.
3. (A) She needs to buckle her safety belt.
(B) The safety belt is in the back seat.
(C) He is waiting for somebody to arrive.
(D) The car has no seat belts.
4. (A) Change lines.
(B) Go to another theater.
(C) Follow the map.
(D) Go back home.
5. (A) A good presentation needs a lot of preparation.
(B) The presentation was very good.
(C) He can always turn to her for help.
(D) He should get some sleep.
6. (A) Cook an egg for Dan.
(B) Go buy some eggs.
(C) Plan food for Dan's dinner.
(D) Eat eggs.
7.
8.
(A) She is on a plane.

(B) She needs to be picked up at school.
(C) She is often late.
(D) She has been delayed at work.
(A) His cousin's name is Jack.
(B) Jack is coming to see him.
(C) His cousin knows Jack very well.
(D) Jack doesn't know the woman.
9. (A) Stand still.

(B) Get some exercise.
(C) Sit down.
(D) Change his residence.
10. (A) He doesn't want the woman to go away on a trip.
(B) He is cautioning the woman to be careful.
(C) He is guiding the woman step by step.
(D) He wants to borrow the woman's watch.
11. (A) School begins later this year.
(B) School will be easy this year.
(C) She'd better start her work early.
(D) He wants her to relax.
12. (A) Since the weather is nice, she wants to go
boating.
(B) She thinks the park is too far away.
(C) She suggests they go to the park.
(D) She's not a very fast walker.
13. (A) How much will the book cost?
(B) Which book store did she go to?
(C) Whom did she talk to?
(D) What library has the book he needs?
14. (A) It has been a good day.
(B) That's the place we're going.
(C) We've finished our day's work.
(D) The store is closed for the day.
15. (A) She owes money to the landlord.
(B) She is checking out Bill's telephone number.
(C) She wants to take a rest.
(D) She will pay her portion of the telephone bill.
16. (A) These bananas are on sale and ready to eat.
(B) These are the best bananas in the state.
(C) These bananas are already overripe.
(D) These bananas are not ripe.
17. (A) She did not like all the rain.
(B) The rain is good for the crops.
(C) Part of each day was clear.
(D) She hopes the drought is over.
18. (A) She began to like it more after learning more.

(B) She will major in organic chemistry.
(C) It was hard to learn everything.
(D) She got better grades at the end of the class.
19. (A) She canceled the room.
(B) She enjoyed their trip to the reservoir.
(C) She is sure that he made the right decision.
(D) She reserved a table in a restaurant.
20. (A) Penny goes to Smith College.
(B) Penny stopped going to Smith College.
(C) Penny has just begun school at Smith College.
(D) Penny likes Smith College the best.
PART B
21. (A) teaching English classes
(B) summer vacation
(C) other teachers
(D) students in history classes
22. (A) two
(B) three
(C) four
(D) five
23. (A) English
(B) economics
(C) history
(D) computer science
24. (A) morning
(B) afternoon
(C) evening
(D) late night
25. (A) Carolina Tradition
(B) Carolina Bakery
(C) Carolina Coffee Shop
(D) Carolina Basketball
26. (A) eggs and bacon
(B) cereal
(C) fresh fruit
(D) French toast
27. (A) 6 days
(B) 10 years
(C) 60 years
(D) 100 years
28. (A) by car
(B) by train
(C) by plane
(D) by boat
29. (A) Los Angeles
(B) San Jose
(C) Sacramento
(D) San Francisco
30. (A) that they may have taken a wrong road
(B) that they cannot find a gas station
(C) that it is getting dark
(D) that there is no service attendant
31. (A) to use the bathroom
(B) to rest
(C) to ask directions
(D) to get fuel
32. (A) in a classroom
(B) in a bedroom
(C) in a pool
(D) on a baseball field
33. (A) 6
(B) 10
(C) 50
(D) 60
34. (A) to eat breakfast
(B) to eat dinner
(C) to go to class
(D) to see a movie
35. (A) morning

(B) evening
(C) midnight
(D) noon
PART C
36. (A) to advertise a new film To Be or Not to Be?
(B) to inform people that a film will not be shown
(C) to critique the characters in To Be or Not to Be?
(D) to discuss William Shakespeare's life
37. (A) Shakespeare may not have been the actual
writer.
(B) The ceiling of the theater is leaking.
(C) The comedy is not very funny.
(D) The film has been misplaced.
38. (A) John F. Kennedy
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Queen Victoria
(D) Madonna
39. (A) humorous
(B) tragic
(C) sad
(D) dark
40. (A) a class in stilt walking
(B) a stilt walking performance
(C) a formal dance
(D) a trip to Kenya
41. (A) a dance club
(B) a student arts committee
(C) a group of professors
(D) a sports team
42. (A) Sunday
(B) Tuesday
(C) Friday
(D) Saturday
43. (A) tax reform
(B) judges' pensions
(C) electing a political candidate
(D) electing a judge
44. (A) The program needs to be changed.
(B) The laws are working well.
(C) There should be a new governor.
(D) There should be less spending in education.
45. (A) 20 percent of his or her salary
(B) 30 percent of his or her salary
(C) 50 percent of his or her salary
(D) 60 percent of his or her salary
46. (A) vote for her candidate
(B) call their state representatives
(C) march in protest of the governor
(D) not listen to other opinions
47. (A) economics of South America
(B) Latin American history
(C) United States history
(D) political science
48. (A) the Oscar Award
(B) the Pulitzer Prize
(C) the Medal of Honor
(D) the Nobel Peace Prize
49. (A) 1400s
(B) 1700s
(C) 1800s
(D) 1900s
50. (A) Spanish and French
(B) English and German
(C) French and German
(D) Spanish and English


PRACTICE TEST 3
SECTION 1
PART A
1. (A) He is not interested in the news.
(B) He is surprised that the Woman knows.
(C) He was also going to look for a job.
(D) He thinks that the Woman made a mistake.
2. (A) Victor is a good student.
(B) Victor is shy.
(C) Victor is intelligent.
(D) Victor is a good friend.
3. (A) He'd rather live on a farm.
(B) He's going on a trip to the country.
(C) He'll go to the farmers market.
(D) He'll try to eat more vegetables.
4. (A) They cannot go to the beach today.
(B) They are expecting a plumber soon.
(C) They have some guests coming to visit.
(D) They should stay only a short time at the beach.
5. (A) He expected the movie would be good.
(B) He liked the movie.
(C) He missed the movie.
(D) He wanted to go too.
6. (A) She doesn't like the man's idea.
(B) She wants to keep warm.
(C) She agrees with the man.
(D) She will open the window.
7. (A) The afternoon will be less crowded.
(B) The doctors are not well trained.
(C) It's a busy year for the clinic.
(D) A lot of people are sick during this season.
8. (A) He was sick, but he is getting better.
(B) Only two classes were available to him.
(C) He doesn't have enough time to study.
(D) He has just returned from vacation.
9. (A) She has one more thing to do.
(B) She is not scheduled to talk today.
(C) She is busy working on the talk.
(D) She's wondering how to prepare for it.
10. (A) Who is Sylvia?
(B) What did Sylvia learn?
(C) How did Sylvia find out?
(D) What are some things Sylvia likes?
11. (A) Ask the Woman to teach him to drive.
(B) Learn to drive.
(C) Leave the Woman alone.
(D) Teach the Woman how to drive.
12. (A) He didn't stay up late last night.
(B) He didn't sleep at all last night.
(C) He was apologizing for disturbing her last night.
(D) He slept comfortably all night.
13. (A) Dr. Byron has a new position.
(B) The course has been cut this semester.
(C) There are not enough students signed up for the
class.
(D) The department is hiring a new art history
professor.
14. (A) He did poorly on the first exam.
(B) He got more than eighty percent right.
(C) Eighty percent of the students did well.
(D) He did much better than he thought.
15. (A) that the Woman hasn't learned anything yet
(B) that the Woman learned not to waste time
(C) that the Woman will become a manager after
graduation
(D) that the Woman has done the right thing
16. (A) The coupon can be used only today.
(B) The coupon will expire next week.
(C) The coupon is not good.
(D) He doesn't need this coupon.
17. (A) He cannot park here today.
(B) Today is a normal day.
(C) The street is very clean.
(D) He needs to get a parking permit.
18. (A) He is going to stay home.

(B) The meeting is mandatory.
(C) He is interested in attending the meeting.
(D) He'd like to invite more people to the meeting.
19. (A) The interviews are all written.
(B) The interviews were difficult.
(C) The man has more work to do.
(D) The man is lazy.
20. (A) She wants the man to wait.
(B) She is ready now.
(C) She has decided not to go.
(D) She thinks the man should change his clothes.
PART B
21. (A) Saturday's game
(B) Michigan's defense
(C) pulled ligaments
(D) getting into the coach's office
22. (A) soccer
(B) baseball
(C) football
(D) basketball
23. (A) in the coach's office
(B) on the playing field
(C) at the doctor's office
(D) in the auditorium
24. (A) to the hospital
(B) to his home
(C) to her office
(D) to the library
25. (A) a lunch
(B) an exam
(C) a class
(D) a trip
26. (A) rainforest tribes in Brazil
(B) mountain tribes in Chile
(C) Incas in Peru
(D) cities of Colombia
27. (A) her paper due the next week
(B) her most recent exam grade
(C) the material on the exam
(D) not being able to get lunch
28. (A) to take a nap
(B) to study
(C) to play football
(D) to eat lunch
PART C
36. (A) types of bicycle frames
(B) the diamond bicycle frame
(C) an analysis of steel alloys
(D) rigidity in bicycle frames
37. (A) lighter weight
(B) more rigid structure
(C) more visually appealing
(D) easier to mount
38. (A) Mixte frames are better than diamond frames.
(B) Bicycles haven't changed much in the last one
hundred years.
(C) Bicycles are difficult to build.
(D) Diamond frames are better than mixte frames.
39. (A) new colors and paints
(B) stronger plastic materials
(C) lighter-weight metals
(D) new popularity for cycling
40. (A) because the skin is good for boat-making
(B) because the bones are used for traditional
carvings
(C) because the tusks are valuable
(D) because the fur can be used in making coats
41. (A) Alaskans
(B) coastal natives
(C) park rangers
(D) Fish and Wildlife workers
42. (A) money
(B) weapons
(C) drugs
(D) food
43. (A) that the Fish and Wildlife Service will kill the
animals
(B) that they will not have enough walruses for food
(C) that they will be blamed for illegal killings
(D) that they will be attacked by walruses
44. (A) to discuss the university childcare programs
(B) to advertise the merits of the kindergarten
(C) to discuss eligibility requirements for the nursery
(D) to argue for private schools as a better form of
education
45. (A) two
(B) three
(C) four
(D) five
29. (A) a sandwich and a guest lecturer

(B) a guest lecturer and ancient Egypt
(C) anthropology and history
(D) a sandwich and dessert
46. (A) The parents must both be university students.

(B) The parents must live in university housing.
(C) The children must be at least six years old.
(D) At least one parent must be studying for a
doctorate degree.
30. (A) anthropologist

(B) doctor
(C) teacher
(D) student
47. (A) $100

(B) $250
(C) $500
(D) $1,000
31. (A) crafts of ancient Rome

(B) ancient medicine
(C) types of food in Egypt
(D) job opportunities in anthropology
48. (A) He was the speaker's father.

(B) He influenced the speaker's music.
(C) He was the greatest jazz musician ever.
(D) He helped the speaker produce his first record.
32. (A) in a classroom

(B) in a doctor's office
(C) in a cafeteria
(D) in an apartment
49. (A) the Ritz Carlton

(B) the Poodle Dog Cafe
(C) the Washingtonian
(D) the Cotton Club
33. (A) on a beach

(B) on a dock
(C) in a boat
(D) in a swimming pool
50. (A) piano

(B) saxophone
(C) guitar
(D) trumpet
34. (A) looking for his watch

(B) listening to the radio
(C) looking for his tanks
(D) writing a letter
35. (A) summer break
(B) Christmas break
(C) fall break
(D) Easter break


PRACTICE TEST 5
SECTION 1
PART A
1. (A) The shirt is old-fashioned.
(B) The shirt is the wrong color.
(C) The shirt is too dirty.
(D) The shirt doesn't fit.
2. (A) There are fewer people than usual.
(B) There will be more people in the restaurant at
dinner time.
(C) They don't have any lunch specials today.
(D) It's very busy.
3. (A) He wants to pay with cash.
(B) He wants to get money.
(C) He wants to charge something.
(D) He wants to check something.
4. (A) She has finished eating dinner.
(B) She is going to make some dessert.
(C) She did the cooking.
(D) She is happy dining with him.
35. (A) in Section C

(B) in Section D
18. (A) John has his hair cut every month.
(C) behind the benches
(B) John has his hair cut twice as often as Peter does.
(D) behind the goals
(C) John had a haircut two weeks ago.
(D) This month Peter didn't have his hair cut.
PART C
19. (A) She is financially independent now.
(B) She needs a financial advisor.
36. (A) one to two pages
(C) She applied for a job this year.
(B) 10 to 12 pages
(D) She's happy with her financial plan.
(C) 19 to 20 pages
(D) no limit was mentioned
20. (A) She should turn right on Second Street.
(B) She is supposed to turn right at this stop sign.
37. (A) during the first week of school
(C) She should turn left at the stop sign after this
(B) by the middle of the term
one.
(C) sometime before the last week of school
(D) She should turn left after she turns right.
(D) at anytime during the term
PART B
21. (A) because she failed her last exam
(B) in order to complete her homework
(C) in order to prepare for her exams
(D) because she has fallen behind in her work
5. (A) He thinks she will do a good job.

(B) He will impress everybody with the presentation.
(C) She has good reason to worry.
22. (A) to her room
(D) She will be fine if she practices more.
(B) to the dining hall
(C) to the pool
6. (A) bus driver
(D) to the gymnasium
(B) airline ticket agent
(C) post office clerk
23. (A) eating dinner
(D) department store salesperson
(B) swimming
(C) studying for an exam
7. (A) The school offers more classes now.
(D) taking a nap
(B) This is a small section.
(C) It's difficult to get into this class.
24. (A) The man will have an exam.
(D) Last fall the class was better.
(B) The man and the woman will have lunch
together.
8. (A) She has had enough chicken.
(C) The man will be in a swim meet at 1 P.M.
(B) She doesn't eat vegetables.
(D) The man and the woman will study together.
(C) She doesn't eat meat.
(D) She is not hungry.
25. (A) advanced economics
(B) biology 110
9. (A) He goes fishing sometimes.
(C) introductory economics
(B) He went fishing once.
(D) advanced biology
(C) He had to quit fishing.
(D) He has other hobbies now.
26. (A) walking on campus
(B) waiting in a dormitory lounge
10. (A) She is surprised.
(C) eating at a dining hall
(B) She can't help him.
(D) sitting on a campus bench
(C) She doesn't understand him.
(D) She is angry.
27. (A) 40
(B) 100
11. (A) sit down and rest
(C) 200
(B) pay the money
(D) 400
(C) take the boat tour
(D) visit the exihibit
28. (A) She took the class last semester.
(B) She read about it in the school newspaper.
12. (A) He drinks a lot of water during the day.
(C) She heard about it on the school radio station.
(B) He doesn't usually drink this much water.
(D) Her roommate took the course last semester.
(C) He has never been so thirsty.
(D) He likes soft drinks more than water.
29. (A) He wanted to ask her to do something for him.
(B) They both live in the same dorm.
13. (A) They will go eat with their friends.
(C) They both had the same exam the next day.
(B) The Johnsons are coming over.
(D) He wanted to borrow her car.
(C) She will take a dish to the Johnson's house.
(D) She is tired of cooking.
30. (A) 6:00 A.M.
(B) 7:00 A.M.
14. (A) He is tired of standing up all day.
(C) 7:30 A.M.
(B) He is finishing his homework.
(D) 8:00 A.M.
(C) He has a lot of school work.
(D) He has been working at home.
31. (A) in Katrina's room
(B) in front of the dormitory
15. (A) The car didn't get washed.
(C) next to the dean's office
(B) Don and Mary washed the car together.
(D) inside the parking garage
(C) Mary washed the car.
(D) Don washed the car for Mary.
32. (A) He has been expelled from school.
(B) He has to go to a relative's funeral.
16. (A) This grocery store doesn't accept checks.
(C) He is going to his sister's wedding.
(B) Check your shopping list while you are
(D) He has finished his exams.
shopping.
(C) This store doesn't have what she wants.
33. (A) watching a football game on television
(D) Check to see if the grocery store is next to the
(B) going out to dinner tonight
gas station.
(C) arranging to meet at a championship game
(D) getting ready to play a game.
17. (A) He used the wrong bus schedule.
(B) He's going to get a bus schedule.
34. (A) car trouble
(C) He likes to ride the bus.
(B) studying for an exam
(D) He missed the bus.
(C) choir practice
(D) a late dinner
38. (A) because they are more likely to have problems

writing the paper
(B) because the teaching assistant prefers to work
with first-year students
(C) because it is the policy of the university
(D) because the professor wants them to have more
work
39. (A) April 6
(B) April 13
(C) April 20
(D) April 27
40. (A) arriving passengers
(B) departing passengers
(C) people boarding a boat
(D) people departing from a train
41. (A) Walk straight ahead.
(B) Turn to the left to Terminal B.
(C) Wait for transportation to bring their luggage.
(D) Walk to their right to get their baggage.
42. (A) at Carousel B
(B) at the blue area
(C) near the green sign
(D) next to the white buses
43. (A) at the departure gate
(B) at Carousel B
(C) under the green sign
(D) in the yellow loading zone
44. (A) American natural history
(B) English children's literature
(C) zoos in the western world
(D) bears of North America
45. (A) a child
(B) a bear
(C) an author
(D) a pig
46. (A) in the woods
(B) at a zoo
(C) at a school
(D) in a garden
47. (A) the invention of the elevator
(B) modern elevators
(C) the Crystal Palace Exhibition
(D) inventions of the nineteenth century
48. (A) London
(B) Chicago
(C) San Francisco
(D) New York
49. (A) steel cables
(B) guide rails
(C) strong ropes
(D) an open carriage
50. (A) other inventions at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
(B) the first tall buildings
(C) further developments in elevators
(D) the life of Elisha Otis


PRACTICE TEST 6
SECTION 1
PART A
1. (A)Adam will repair the car.
(B)Adam helped to pull the car to the repair shop.
(C)Fred and Adam both fixed the car.
(D)The car cannot be fixed any more.
2. (A)Jeff agreed to take the oral exam again.
(B)Jeff passed the oral exam and went on a vacation.
(C)It took Jeff a long time to pass his exam.
(D)Jeff didn't take the oral exam.
3. (A)He has been waiting for Ron for a long time.
(B)Ron is not a new librarian.
(C)Ron did a lot of work for the man.
(D)He needs to collect some information from Ron.
4. (A)He would like to help the woman typing.
(B)He wonders how much he should pay her.
(C)He wants the woman to help him.
(D)He prefers to type the paper by himself.
5. (A)Why the man needs to return.
(B)What makes the man happy.
(C)Which classroom the man is going to.
(D)What book the man needs to get.
17. (A)It's expensive to get a 10-speed bicycle.

(B)He commutes to school by bike.
(C)He would really like a fast bicycle.
(D)He can borrow his friend's bicycle whenever he
wants.
18. (A)She doesn't like cheap things.
(B)It was two dollars cheaper than usual.
(C)It was too expensive.
(D)She bought something cheaper.
19. (A)She was expecting someone to visit.
(B)She didn't like to get up early.
(C)She got up early and went out.
(D)Someone called her early in the morning.
20. (A)Jim washed his friend's car.
(B)Jim's car was not very well cleaned.
(C)Jim didn't wash his car this time.
(D)Jim once had a job washing cars.
PART B
6. (A)Mary is going to the airport.

(B)Mary is not going to the party.
(C)Mary is not very kind.
(D)Mary should not be driving.
21. (A)to a park downtown

(B)to the Ocean Palace
(C)to the cinema
(D)to a bookstore
7. (A)She doesn't need an escort.

(B)She will call the night escort by herself.
(C)She would like the man to get a night escort for
her.
(D)She's afraid the man won't help her.
22. (A)two free dinners

(B)$50 worth of books
(C)a $30 gift certificate
(D)four movie passes
8. (A)The fee for charging is more than $15.

(B)He cannot use a credit card if he spends less than
$15.
(C)The store does not accept credit cards.
(D)She cannot accept cash.
9. (A)The woman has to wait in line to register.
(B)It may be too late for the woman to get into the
speech class.
(C)The woman needs to take another class before
registering for this class.
(D)The woman should go by herself to sign up for
the class.
10. (A)Students can bring their books to the exam.
(B)Dr.Jones will be the next department chair.
(C)Dr.Jones will probably not give an open-book
exam.
(D)It's up to the students.
11. (A)He doesn't know how to take care of the phone.
(B)He's going to leave too.
(C)He will answer the telephone for the woman.
(D)He is coming back soon.
12. (A)She can manage much more.
(B)She will take one.
(C)She doesn't care how many she gets.
(D)She will not take any.
13. (A)He needs a roommate to share the expenses.
(B)He lives alone without anybody to bother him.
(C)Things are all right at this point.
(D)His apartment is far away from school.
14. (A)The university policy has not changed enough.
(B)He agrees with the woman's opinion.
(C)He doesn't know what the old policy was.
(D)The university needs to change their policy more.
15. (A)She was very frightened.
(B)She had a heart problem.
(C)She lost the race.
(D)Overall, she was happy.
16. (A)It's not a good time or place to talk.
(B)I'm thinking about making this place better.
(C)This is a good place for a conversation.
(D)You'd better leave this place now.
23. (A)by going to the bookstore

(B)by sending a letter in the mail
(C)by calling on the phone
(D)by going to the ticket office
24. (A)go with the man
(B)make a phone call
(C)buy a ticket
(D)go to the library
25. (A)a fight
(B)cooking
(C)manners
(D)a problem
26. (A)student
(B)bartender
(C)waiter
(D)cook
27. (A)because something was wrong
(B)because she wanted to pay her bill
(C)because she needed to order her meal
(D)because she needed to be seated
28. (A)angry
(B)concerned
(C)pleased
(D)disappointed
29. (A)in a restaurant
(B)in a classroom
(C)in a library
(D)at a park
30. (A)study
(B)eat dinner
(C)see a movie
(D)work
31. (A)working
(B)studying
(C)dancing
(D)eating
32. (A)to set a time to meet again
(B)to complain about school
(C)to explain working hours
(D)to request help in finding books
33. (A)Canada
(B)Alaska
(C)Alabama
(D)Washington
34. (A)that he was a president

(B)that he was a scientist
(C)that he liked peanuts
(D)that he was a Native American
35. (A)dedicated
(B)angry
(C)excited
(D)uninformed
PART C
36. (A)history of the Smithsonian
(B)introduction to archeology
(C)Native Americans in the Western States
(D)hiking and backpacking techniques
37. (A)to the university
(B)to a lecture
(C)to Wyoming
(D)to the Smithsonian Institute
38. (A)searching for plant and animal fossils
(B)building homes for the poor
(C)rock climbing
(D)white water rafting
39. (A)1250
(B)1500
(C)2000
(D)2500
40. (A)an animation festival
(B)a drama festival
(C)an exhibit featuring the \4Mona Lisa\4
(D)\4Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase\4
41. (A)Italian history
(B)art history
(C)sociology
(D)architecture
42. (A)\4The Prince and the Princess\4
(B)Francis Bacon
(C)the Louvre
(D)KKED radio
43. (A)at the KKED radio station
(B)at the Art Exhibition Hall
(C)at the Palace of Fine Arts
(D)at the Historical Museum
44. (A)European expeditions in the 1700s
(B)the growth of Los Angeles
(C)famous sites in Los Angeles
(D)the entertainment industry
45. (A)the oceans and the gold rush
(B)tourism and the entertainment industry
(C)the railroads and the discovery of oil
(D)sea trade and the airplane industry
46. (A)50 years
(B)100 years
(C)200 years
(D)300 years
47. (A)Washington, D.C.
(B)New York City
(C)Chicago
(D)Denver
48. (A)to prevent diseases among military personnel
(B)to investigate serious crimes in the military
(C)to find ways of identifying bodies of soldiers
(D)to store old military journals and diaries
49. (A)working with DNA
(B)wearing a necklace
(C)taking blood samples
(D)making identification tags
50. (A)biology
(B)geology
(C)history
(D)political sciencec


PRACTICE TEST 1
SECTION 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
America's first globe maker was James Wilson, who __________ and
blacksmith in his earlier life.
(A) a farmer had been
(B) had been a farmer
(C) farming
(D) being a farmer
Napoleon __________ the West Indian island of Santo Domingo in 1801.
(A) attacked
(B) is attacking
(C) has attacted
(D) attacking
Modern industrial methods have supplanted individual crafts, __________
stonecarvers, coopers, and cobblers virtually extinct.
(A) make blacksmiths,
(B) made blacksmiths,
(C) making them blacksmiths,
(D) making blacksmiths,
Not only knowledge and skills, but also attitudes __________ in school for
students' future adjustment to society.
(A) when cultivated
(B) cultivated
(C) which need to be cultivated
(D) need to be cultivated
On Mercator's maps, the far northern and southern polar regions are
__________.
(A) greatly exaggerated in area.
(B) exaggerating greatly in area.
(C) greatly exaggerate in area.
(D) great exaggeration in area.
On the slope of Long's Peak in Colorado __________ the ruin of a gigantic
tree.
(A) that lies
(B) lies
(C) where lies
(D) lie
__________ in Shanghai than in any other city in China.
(A) More people live
(B) More people living
(C) It has more people
(D) More living people
The earth spins on its axis and __________ 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09
seconds for one complete rotation.
(A) need
(B) needed
(C) needing
(D) needs
__________ on the environment for the gratification of its needs.
(A) Each organism to depend
(B) Every organism depends
(C) All organisms depending
(D) Many organisms can depend
10. Of Charles Dickens' many novels, Great Expectations is perhaps

__________ to many readers.
(A) the most satisfying one

(B) most satisfying one
(C) more than satisfying one
(D) the more satisfying than
of the families of workers.

D
25. There are many different ways of comparing the economy of one nation
A
11. __________, the nation's capital remained in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(A) While designing Washington, D.C.
(B) Washington, D.C., was designed
(C) While Washington, D.C., was being designed
(D) Washington, D.C., designed
12. Children learn primarily by __________ the world around them.
(A) experiencing directly of
(B) experience direct
(C) directly physical experience
(D) direct physical experience of
32. The most visible remind of the close relationship between the United States
A
and France is the famous Statue of Liberty, which stands in New York
D
35. Laser technology is the heart of a new generation of high-speed copiers and
A
States.
22. Because of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the United States begin to
B
realize the true value of the Louisiana territory.

C
23. Americans annually import more than $3 billion worthy of Italian clothing,
A
reporter because of an ankle injury.
39. With a policy of eminent domain, the state has control ultimate of all real
property.
40. Hay fever symptoms, ranged from mild to severe, differ in degree
jewelry, and shoes.
notice them.
38. Gone with the Wind written after Margaret Mitchell quit her job as a
D
37. The symptoms of diabetes in the early stages are too slight that people don't
36. Fertilize farmland is one of the biggest natural resources in the Central
21. Drug addiction has resulted of many destroyed careers, and expulsions
A
black American to play baseball in the major leagues.
20. With its strong claws and its many protruding tooth a gopher is an excellent
from school or college.
34. Jackie Robinson, whose joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, was the first
digger.
groundwork for modern global life styles.
stones.
33. Until diamonds are cut and polished, they just like look small blue-grey
31. International trade, going traveling, and television have lain the
harbor.
19. Fountain pens first became commercial available about a hundred years
printer.
18. To building their nests, tailorbirds use their bills as needles.

A
ago.
30. A jellyfish, which isn't really a fish, it has no brain, no bones, and no face.
29. In the stock market, the fluctuations in Standard and Poor's 500 Index does
17. Salmon lay their eggs and die in freshwater, although they live in salt water
not always conform to Dow Jones Averages.
fraction of the agricultural production now.
16. Cotton used to rank first between Alabama's crops, but it represents only a
27. When rhinos take mud baths, the mud create a barrier to biting insects.
A
15. A dolphin six __________ length can move as fast as most ships.
(A) foot in
(B) feet in
(C) foot of
(D) feet of
when most of their adult lives.
skills, persistence, and a practical view of life.
14. Generally speaking, people should have __________ as their desires will
allow.
(A) much education
(B) as much education
(C) education
(D) for education
26. Male guppies, like many other male fish, are more color than females.
28. Benjamin Franklin, as an inventor, he had broad interests, mechanical
13. It is earth's gravity that __________ people their weight.

(A) gives
(B) give
(C) giving
(D) given
with those of another.
according to the individual.
24. Akuce Ganuktibm, she spent her life working with the health and welfare
A


PRACTICE TEST 2
SECTION 2
1.
With new technology, cameras can take pictures of

underwater valleys _________ color.
(A) within
(B) for
(C) in
(D) by
2.
_________ the fifth largest among the nine planets

that make up our solar system.
(A) The Earth is
(B) The Earth being
(C) That the Earth is
(D) Being the Earth
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
In mathematics, a variable is a symbol _________

some element of a set.
(A) and representing
(B) represents
(C) that represents
(D) represents that
8.
_________ actress's life is in many ways unlike

that of other women.
(A) An
(B) A
(C) As the
(D) That the
9.
About 20 miles from Boston, _________ a little

town named Concord that has a rich history.
(A) has
(B) there is
(C) there are
(D) where is
An advisor to both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and

Harry Truman, _________ of Bethune-Cookman
College.
(A) Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune was the founder
(B) Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune, who was the
founder
(C) the founder was Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune
(D) did the founder Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune
swallowed, and speaking.
35. Drug abuse have become one of America's most serious social problems.
A
Trading Commission on eleventh day of each month.
23. If one is invited out to a dinner, it is perfectly proper to go either with or

C
without no a gift.
36. The Commitments of Traders Report is released by the Commodity Futures
22. Some tree frogs can alter their colors in order to blend to their environment.
B
32. Kiwi birds search the ground with the bills for insects, worms, and snails to
21. The human ear cannot hear a sound that vibrates less than 16 times the
37. Heartburn can best be understood as a symptom causing by acid reflux due
A
to a weak lower esophageal sphincter.
38. In 1903, when the Wright brothers announced they had invented a flying
24. Some birds, such as quails, can move instant from a resting position to full
A
flight.
26. Geochemistry includes the study of the movement of elements from one
A
place to another as a result of processes chemical.

C
25. In 1961 America's first manned spacecraft launched.

B
machine, his news was generally ignored.

39. Lasers are indispensable tools for delicate eyes surgery.
areas during the Industrial Revolution.
election by the citizens of the United States
34. The growth rate of the Pacific Rim countries is five times fast as comparable
in the United States.
20. The members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate are
second.
33. If protect,a solar cell lasts for a long time and is a good source of energy.
19. The tongue is the principle organ of taste, and is crucial for chewing,
A
31. The Columbine flower can survive in almost any type of gardens condition
eat.
the United States.

18. A future system of solid waste managements should begin with reduction in
30. Oceans of the world exerts strong influences on the weather over the Earth's
surface.
15. Elephants scratch themselves with sticks

_________.
(A) holding in their trunks
(B) in their trunks holding
(C) hold in their trunks
(D) held in their trunks
10. Before _________, they used horse-drawn wooden

carts.
(A) farmers have had tractors
(B) tractors owned by farmers
(C) having tractors farmers
(D) farmers had tractors
the amount of waste.
14. _________ for overall health.

(A) Extra fiber in one's diet is helpful
(B) Extra fiber is one's helpful diet
(C) Helpful one's diet is extra fiber
(D) One's diet is helpful in extra fiber
A well-known large natural lake is Lake Tahoe,

_________ straddles the California-Nevada border.
(A) and
(B) which
(C) since
(D) for
17. The purchased of Louisiana was one of the biggest events in the history of
A
13. Total weight of all the ants in the world is much

greater than _________.
(A) to all human beings
(B) all human beings is that
(C) that of all human beings
(D) is of all human beings
In the west the birth of a girl is welcomed with an

enthusiam _________ to that of a boy.
(A) equally
(B) equal
(C) they are equal
(D) and equal
as well as the seasonal distribution of the rain.

C
12. Physical fitness exercises can cause injuries

_________ the participants are not careful.
(A) that
(B) to
(C) if
(D) with
Warmth, moisture, and oxygen are three necessary

requirements _________ most seedlings.
(A) for cultivating
(B) for cultivate
(C) as cultivating
(D) can cultivate
16. In order to survive, trees rely to the amount of annual rainfall they receive,
A
11. Tuna, _________, may weigh up to 1,000 pounds.

(A) is the sea giant
(B) can be giants of the sea
(C) one of the sea giants
(D) the sea of the giant
40. Alexander Calder, who was originally interested in mechanical engineering,

later became a sculpture.
C
27. Fireflies product light through a complex chemical reaction that takes place
A
within their abdominal cells.
28. Wind is the motion that occurs when lighter air rises and cools heavier air
replaces it.
29. Under the crust of the Earth are bubbling hot liquids that sometime rise to
the surface.


PRACTICE TEST 3
SECTION 2
1.
Van Gogh's Sunflowers __________ $39.9

million, three times the previous record.
(A) once sold for
(B) for sale once
(C) selling for once
(D) for once sold
6.
__________ their territories but rather than fight,

they howl.
(A) Wolves protectively jealous
(B) Jealous of wolves
(C) Protection of wolves
(D) Wolves jealously protect
11. Most accidents in the home can be prevented by

__________ elimination of hazards.
(A) that
(B) that the
(C) there is a
(D) the
2.
Some monkeys, __________, use their tails in a

way similar to a hand.
(A) like the spider monkey
(B) spider monkey likes
(C) to the spider monkey
(D) the monkey likes the spider
7.
__________ strength of 70 horses, a forklift toils

all day long in a warehouse lifting great weights.
(A) Because the
(B) With the
(C) Some
(D) The
12. __________ problems in sailing in tropical seas is

the coral reefs.
(A) One of the biggest
(B) The biggest one
(C) Of the biggest one
(D) There are the biggest
3.
Black, red, and even bright pink diamonds

__________.
(A) occasionally to find
(B) occasionally found
(C) have occasionally been found
(D) have occasionally found
8.
13. The strongest dump trucks work in rock quarries,

__________ tons of rocks and soil at one time.
(A) that they move
(B) they move
(C) where they move
(D) which they move
4.
Between the California Coast Range and the

Sierra Nevada __________.
(A) great Central Valley
(B) the great Central Valley
(C) being the great Central Valley
(D) lies the great Central Valley
The growth of two-income families in the United

States __________ of people moving to a new
social class.
(A) has resulted in millions
(B) results of millions
(C) millions of results
(D) resulting in millions
9.
5.
It is gravity __________ objects toward the earth.

(A) pulling
(B) that pulls
(C) to pull
(D) what pulls
Using a globe can be __________ it is

educational.
(A) enjoyable
(B) to enjoy as
(C) as enjoyable
(D) as enjoyable as
10. Each mediocre book we read means one less great 15. Helen Keller lost both her sight and hearing after
book that we would otherwise have a chance
a severe illness __________.
__________.
(A) of her age in 19 months
(A) to read them
(B) she was 19 months old
(B) read
(C) when she was 19 months old
(C) reading
(D) when 19 months old she was
(D) to read
30. Industrial lasers are most often used for cutting, welding, drilling, and
16. One of history's most spectacular executions were that of Damiens, the
A
unsuccessful assassin of Louis XV of France.
18. Since vitamins are contained in a wide variety of foods, people seldom lack of
most of them.
19. Psychological experiment indicate that people remember more math problems
A
21. Before becoming successful, Charles Kettering, former vice president of

General Motors, was so poor that he has to use the hayloft of a barn as a
laboratory.
35. Computers have made access to information instantly available just by push a
A
39. A farmer's tractor is like a powerful horse, as it plows field, pulls trailers, and
moves heavy loads.
40. During wedding ceremonies in the United States guests are usually silence.
25. Studying the science of logic is one way to cultivate one's reason skills.
C
34. Certain pollens are more likely to cause an allergic reaction than another.
human beings no longer fear the dreaded disease of yellow fever.

A
38. A sore throat interferes with daily life by making swallow difficult.
24. Because Walter Reed's efforts and those of the people who worked with him,
A
modern life and the isolation of the individual.
23. Some gorillas beat their chests as an express of high spirits.

B
33. Montaigne, the illustrious French philosophy, was elected mayor of
37. Many of the early work of T.S. Eliot expresses the anguish and barrenness of
commonly used in the United States.
of a room on people's behavior.
36. Mined over 2,000 years ago, copper is one of the earliest know metals.
22. Despite the metric system is used throughout the world, it is still not
A
32. Psychologists at the University of Kansas has studied the effects of the color
few buttons.
20. The sun is a huge fiery globe at a average distance of 93,000,000 miles from
the Earth.
owned companies to about half.
Bordeaux, which was his home town.
that they cannot solve than those they are able to solve.
B
31. In the last 10 years, Mexican government has reduced the number of its stateD
17. Globes and maps have been important throughout history, but never many so
measure.
than today.
14. Alice Freeman, __________ to head Wellesley

College at age 27, is one of the youngest college
presidents in history.
(A) who was appointed
(B) has been appointed
(C) that is appointed
(D) is appointed
26. The continental shelves is the shallow area of the ocean floor that is closest to
the continents.
27. The average adult get two to five colds each year.
A
28. Fishing have been found to contain a particular type of fat that may help
A
lower blood cholesterol levels.

D
29. Benjamin Franklin's ability to learn from observation and experience

A
contributed greatly to him success in public life.

B


PRACTICE TEST 5
SECTION 2
1.
Birds all over the world _____________ in 6.

distances up to thousands of miles.
(A) migrating
(B) migrated
(C) migrate
(D) are migrated
2.
Cellulose, which _____________ for making

paper, can be foundin all plants.
(A) is used
7.
(B) uses
(C) are used
(D) is using
3.
_____________ , human beings have relatively

constant body temperature.
(A) Alike all mammal
(B) Alike all mammals
8.
(C) Like all mammals
(D) Like all mammal
Despite claims that filters and low-tar tobacco 11. _____________ of commodities by air began in the
make smoking somewhat safer, in fact they only
1920s at the same time as airmail service.
marginally reduce, _____________ eliminate, the
(A) The shipping
hazards.
(B) A ship
(A) none
(C) The shipped
(B) no
(D) To ship
(C) not
12. Jan Malzeliger's invention, the "shoe-lasting"
(D) nor
machine, _____________ production but it also cut
_____________ many of the designs for the new
the cost of shoe production by half.
capital were considered lost forever, Benjamin
(A) not only increased
Banneker helped reproduce the original plans.
(B) not increased only
(A) When
(C) increased only
(B) During
(D) only have increased
(C) If as
13. It can sometimes _____________ a home.
(D) How
(A) to take months to sell
A few natural elements exist in _____________
(B) take several months to sell
that they are rarely seen in their natural
(C) selling takes several months
environments.
(D) to sell taking several months
(A) such small quantities
14. Jellyfish are probably _____________ on Earth.
(B) so small quantities
(A) most numerous predators
(C) very small quantities
(B) the most numerous predators
(D) small quantity
(C) most numerous of predators
Generally speaking, every person_____________
(D) the most predators
the potential to be a teacher, to some extent.
15. In the United States _____________ is the most
(A) has
concentrated is New Orleans.
(B) to have
(A) French influence the city
(C) having
(B) the city where French influence
(D) have
(C) where the city influences French
4.
So far there is no vaccine _____________ in sight

for the common cold.
(A) or curing
(B) has cured
(C) or cure
9.
(D) having cured
5.
The Louisiana Territory, an area _____________

the size of France, was bought by the United States
from France for $15,000,000 in 1803.
(A) than more four times
(B) more than four times
10. _____________ business, a merger is a
(C) four times than more
combination of two or more corporations under one
(D) is four times more than
management.
(A) The
(B) At
(C) On
(D) In
16. In 1931 Jane Addams was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient for she
A
humanitarian achievements.
29. As Ingrid Bergman lived a life of courage, she also approached die with
develop.
30. Residents in some cities can call an electrical inspector to have the
A
wiring in their house is checked.
18. Many people say that California is a state of geographic remarkable

A
diversity.
31. The best way to eliminate a pest is to controlling the food accessible to it.
32.
19. An uncultivated tea plant might grow about 30 feet height.

A
gravitational attraction.
A
in Massachusetts.
too much cholesterol can cause heart problems.

C
fully mature plants.

C
36. With its compound eyes, dragonflies can see moving insects approximately
23. Some fish use their sense of smell as a guide when return to a spawning
B
24. In Quebec, Canada, the flowing of the maple sap is one of the first sign
A
of spring.
because increasing public awareness of the value of investing in antiques.

C
26. Archaeological evidence reveals that Native Americans lived on the East
A
Coast of the United States 13 centuries before.

C
metal and bone.
38. The United States has a younger population as most other major industrial
countries.
39. Before the invention of the printing press, books have been all printed by
A
hand.
27. Diamond itself is the only material hard enough to cut and polishes
B
18 feet away.
37. An X-ray microscope enables a person to see on solid materials such as
25. Antique auctions are getting more and more popular in the United States
diamonds.
35. Luther Burbank was a pioneer in the process of graft immature plants onto
34. Cholesterol help the body by making hormones and building cell walls, but
22. Alexander Graham Bell was once a teacher who run a school for the deaf
research.
21. Rocks can be broken apart by water that seeps into the cracks and freeze
in low temperatures.
The Earth depends the sun for its heating.
33. The famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was a early supporter of rocket
20. A galaxy, where may include billions of stars, is held together by
site.
courage.
17. Even on the most careful prepared trip , problems will sometimes
A
(D) where the French influence the city
40. As the Asian economic miracle spreads throughout the Pacific, wage
A
increases everywhere is affecting millions of consumers.

C
28. The change from day to night results the rotation of the Earth.
A


PRACTICE TEST 6
SECTION 2
1.
A log grabber has a long arm __________, which 6.

stretches out to pick up logs.
(A) calls a jib
(B) calling a jib
(C) a jib called
(D) called a jib
Sometimes __________ wears people out and is 11.

worse than the lack of sleep itself.
(A) to sleep the desire
(B) the desire to sleep
(C) to desire sleep is
(D) the desire to sleep who
12.
Although dissimilar in almost every other respect,
birds and insects have both evolved efficient
__________ capabilities.
(A) fly
(B) flying
(C) to fly
13.
(D) is flying
2.
A home computer __________ an opportunity for 7.

convenient and efficient work at home.
(A) provides
(B) to be providing
(C) which provides
(D) providing it
3.
Eli Whitney's milling machine remained

unchanged for a century and a half because 8.
__________ was so efficient.
(A) it
(B) he
(C) of
(D) its
4.
Some of the rainwater from clouds evaporates

before __________.
9.
(A) reaching the ground
(B) to reach the ground
(C) reach the ground
(D) the ground reaches
5.
Once an offending allergen has been identified

__________ tests, it is possible for the doctor to 10. __________ there is a close correlation between
give specific desensitizing injections.
stress and illness.
(A) means of
(A) Some psychologists believe
(B) by means of
(B) Believed some psychologists
(C) of the means by
(C) Some psychologists to believe
(D) by means
(D) Some psychologists believing
__________
vigorous
Goddard developed the first rocket to fly faster

__________.
(A) than sound is
(B) does sound
(C) sound
(D) than sound
(B) more people that are

(C) that there are more people
(D) people there are more
32. George Gershwin not only composed popular songs for musicals, also wrote
more serious concerts.
17. Cosmic distance is measured on light-years.

A
Perspiration increases
exercise or hot weather.
(A) during
(B) when
(C) at the time
(D) for
The wheel, __________ has remained important

for 4,000 years, is one of mankind's first
inventions.
(A) how
(B) when
14. Even if the unemployment rate __________
(C) which
sharply, the drop may still be temporary.
(D) about
(A) to drop
__________ children master the basics, advanced
(B) dropping
development becomes easier.
(C) have dropped
(A) The
(D) drops
(B) Once
15. Studies indicate __________ collecting art today
(C) That
than ever before.
(D) Even
(A) there are that more people
16. The surface of the tongue covered with tiny taste buds.
A
__________ is often used in soups and sauces.

(A) Parsley, an inexpensive herb,
(B) Parsley is an inexpensive herb
(C) Inexpensive parsley, herb
(D) An herb is inexpensive parsley,
18. A million of tourists from all over the world visit New York every year.
33. Among the world's 44 richest countries, there has been not war since 1945.
19. Whereas Earth has one moon, the planet call Mars has two small ones.
34. Caricature, a type of comic exaggeration, is common used in political
testing results.
25. A largely percentage of Canadian export business is with the United States.
C
26. The famous Jim Thorpe won both the pentathlon or decathlon in the 1912
B
Olympic Games.
39. Some studies show that young babies prefer the smell of milk to those of
A
40. Plants absorb water and nutrients and anchoring themselves in the soil with
their roots.
27. Acute pharyngitis pain is most often caused by a viral infection, for who
antibiotics are ineffective.
other liquids.
comedy films in four years.
24. The basic law of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are taught
to all elementary school students.
38. In his early days as a direct, Charlie Chaplin produced 62 short, silent
23. All data in computer are changed into electronic pulses by an input unit.
A
treasures.
37. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are one of America's national
22. The scientific method consists of forming hypotheses, collect data, and
A
36. Mirrors done of shiny metal were used by the Egyptians in ancient times.
35. One and more sentences related to the same topic form a paragraph.
21. No longer is scientific discovery a matter of one person alone working.

A
cartoons.
20. An ardent feminist, Margaret Fuller, through her literature, asked that
women be given a fairly chance.
28. Knowledges about cultures provides insights into the learned behaviors of
A
groups.
29. A fiber-optic cable across the Pacific went into service in April 1989, link
A
the United States and Japan.
30. Dislike the gorilla, the male adult chimpanzee weighs under 200 pounds.
A
31. Before lumberjacks had mechanical equipments, they used horses and ropes
A
to drag logs.

Practice Test I (Heinemann 1997)

Listening Comprehension
Section I
PART A
1. (A) She'll stay for a little while.
(B) She'll talk to him about his raise.
(C) She prefers to continue working.
(D) She'd like a short vacation.
20. (A) John will get a good price for Ms bike when he
sells it.
(B) The man who sold John his bike was easy to deal
with.
(C) John paid a good price for his bicycle.
(D) John is always happy when he's riding his bike.
2. (A) The food doesn't have enough seasonings in it.

(B) The man isn't very funny.
(C) She agrees with the man.
(D) She isn't sure about the rice.
21. (A) He'll get a sandwich with them.

(B) He'll join them after he finishes.
(C) He wants something different this time.
(D) He isn't hungry right now.
3. (A) He's feeling better.

(B) The film wasn't very good.
(C) He didn't enjoy the talk very much.
(D) He will see the woman later.
22. (A) One faculty member has published far more than
the rest.
(B) Several English faculty have published their
writing.
(C) The number of faculty in the English department
is far from ideal.
(D) One English faculty member has done a lot for the
department.
4. (A) It cost more than he thought it would.

(B) He would like to sell it.
(C) It isn't a very good one.
(D) He got it for a good price.
5. (A) She felt different last week.
(B) Someone cut her hair for her.
(C) She hasn't been the same all week.
(D) She cut her own hair.
6. (A) He'll bring the food quickly.
(B) He needs to write down the woman's order.
(C) He'll send a waiter to the woman's table.
(D) He'll take the food away now.
7. (A) She'll work part-time at the banquet.
(B) She'll try to find a blanket for her guest.
(C) She is still looking for a guest speaker.
(D) She lives too far away to come to the dinner.
8. (A) Who is waiting to see her.
(B) How many people can hear her.
(C) When she can see someone.
(D) What the man said.
9. (A) Give the woman instructions about the phone.
(B) Read the instructions next to the phone.
(C) Pay for his telephone.
(D) Call the woman on the phone.
10. (A) The scholar will arrive shortly.
(B) They didn't get as much money as they needed.
(C) They collected two hundred dollars.
(D) He doesn't know how to do the calculation.
11. (A) He doesn't like to walk late at night.
(B) He has two jobs.
(C) He can't go to the game.
(D) He'll come to the game late.
12. (A) Tony put it together.
(B) He is going to pick it up now.
(C) He will bring it to the picnic.
(D) Tony got it for them.
13. (A) He doesn't know when he'll take a vacation.
(B) He doesn't want to move right away.
(C) He's waiting for the woman to move out of the
dorm.
(D) He needs to move before summer vacation.
14. (A) It isn't ready to use yet.
(B) It can't be fixed.
(C) It needs new legs.
(D) He'll put it in the stable to dry.
15. (A) Work on the assignment a little bit at a time.
(B) Finish the assignment on time.
(C) Take the assignment to someone else this time.
(D) Stop working on the assignment.
16. (A) Continue on in spite of the wind.
(B) Stay home and get some rest.
(C) Wait for a few seconds before deciding.
(D) Go out with the man tonight.
17. (A) Read the directions.
(B) Take back the coffee machine.
(C) Copy the instructions.
(D) Write her a check for the coffee.
18. (A) Report her problem to the police.
(B) Express her opinion to the athletic department.
(C) Go with him to complain about the high fee.
(D) Prepare a speech for students using the gym.
19. (A) His drapes are not attractive, but they keep out the
heat.
(B) It wouldn't be practical for him to buy new drapes.
(C) His new drapes help keep his house warm.
(D) He did not pay a lot of money for the drapes.
23. (A) They don't have enough storage space.

(B) They can't afford to buy any bookcases.
(C) This store does not sell books.
(D) All of their books are in storage.
24. (A) Ask someone to take George to the airport.
(B) Take two people to the airport.
(C) Take George to the airport early.
(D) Take someone else to the airport instead.
25. (A) He isn't really serious about taking it.
(B) He is going to have to pay for it himself.
(C) He hasn't mentioned it yet to his roommate.
(D) Someone else is paying for his room and board.
26. (A) She's worried about the rain.
(B) The picnic wasn't a good idea anyway.
(C) Rain won't be a problem.
(D) Since it has started to rain, they should move
indoors.
(D) He thinks that the equipment for tree climbing is

less expensive and more comfortable.
37. (A) Because Sam was heading toward the mountains.
(B) Because Sam was carrying equipment often used
by mountain climbers.
(C) Because Sam was well-known as a mountain
climber.
(D) Because they both were interested in mountain
climbing.
38. (A) That he climbed a redwood that was leaning.
(B) That he went all the way to California to climb the
tree.
(C) That he spent the night sleeping in the tree top.
(D) That he climbed in the rain.
PART C
39. (A) She had never taught Social Studies 101 before.
(B) She was used to hearing about expectations in her
senior seminar.
(C) She wanted to wait and go over the syllabus at a
later time.
(D) She didn't think the students would like the new
requirement.
40. (A) She preferred teaching twentieth century history.
(B) She had been teaching at Johnsville so shewanted
to return there.
(C) She hadn't yet finished her advanced degrees.
(D) She decided that she preferred teaching.
41. (A) Teaching at the Social Science Research Center.
(B) Studying at Burke College.
(C) Teaching the seminar that Professor Barrett
normally teaches.
(D) Teaching Social Studies 102.
42. .42. (A) A community service requirement.

(B) A senior seminar.
(C) A two-year course on civilization.
27. (A) He can't help the woman revise her research paper.
(D) A second course covering modem American
(B) His research paper is due tomorrow.
history.
(C) The woman probably won't be able to finish her
paper on time.
43. .43. (A) Its own eggs.
(D) He doesn't know what to do with the woman's
(B) Grass from neighborhood lawns.
paper.
(C) Worms and insects.
(D) Mud and sticks.
28. (A) He already belongs to the student association.
(B) He had heard about the nomination earlier.
44. .44. (A) To locate better nesting sites.
(C) He is not going to vote for the woman.
(B) To gather materials for nest-building.
(D) He doesn't want to be the class president.
(C) To incubate their eggs.
(D) To find warmer temperatures.
29. (A) She wonders whether Paul has completed his
work.
45. (A) To look for food.
(B) She promised to help Paul finish his report.
(B) To find a place to build a nest.
(C) She'll show Paul how to get his work done on
(C) To spend twelve to fifteen days incubating eggs.
time.
(D) To acquire a mate.
(D) She knows that Paul will do what he promised.
46. (A) So she can lay a second set of eggs.
30. (A) He can't wait for Jane any longer.
(B) So she can collect grass and sticks to build a nest.
(B) He'll try to catch them at the gate.
(C) So she can find something to eat.
(C) He doesn't want to go to the theater.
(D) So she can begin her migration south.
(D) He will join them as soon as he can.
47. (A) A clerk in the college book store.
(B) A professor from the Business and Administration
PART B
Department.
31. (A) A student.
(C) Mrs. Stake's assistant.
(B) A psychology professor.
(D) Mrs. Stake's friend.
(C) Professor Densmore.
48. (A) To talk about the Business and Administration
(D) A geologist.
Department.
32. (A) He overslept.
(B) To introduce herself and to help orientate the new
(B) His alarm clock didn't work.
students.
(C) He needed to stay at home and finish his paper.
(C) To familiarize the students with their teachers.
(D) He had some alarming news.
(D) To introduce the students to Mrs. Stoke.
33. (A) Sleeping.
(B) Studying computer science.
(C) Finishing a lab.
(D) Writing a paper.
34. (A) He studies too much.
(B) He is to be admired.
(C) He doesn't budget his time well.
(D) He writes very well.
35. (A) The life of a tree surgeon.
(B) A new sport.
(C) Using a throwball.
(D) Trees and their uses.
36. (A) He lost his job as a tree surgeon.
(B) He thinks trees are very easy to climb.
(C) He believes climbing trees is less dangerous and
more accessible than mountain climbing.
49. (A) Memorize the names of the teachers and always

do the homework.
(B) Call Mrs. Stoke at home for emergencies and
always leave a message.
(C) Know the hours for the bookstore and always be
on time for classes.
(D) Call home monthly and write letters often.
50. (A) Suzanne will go to class.
(B) Mrs. Stoke will speak to the students.
(C) The students will go to their classes.
(D) Suzanne will show the students around the
college.

Practice test II. (Heinemann 1997)

Listening comprehension.
Section 1.
PART A
1. (A) They are enjoying a visit after a long separation.
(B) They don't see each other unless they have to.
(C) They will not see each other again for a long time.
(D) They aren't speaking to each other.
2. (A) Let's go to a movie.
(B) Let's stay home.
(C) Why should we go to a movie?
(D) Why don't we go home?
3. (A) She could not afford to fly to Chicago.
(B) She has taken the bus to Chicago only twice.
(C) Taking a plane costs more but saves time.
(D) It is better to go to Chicago on the bus.
4. (A) At an art exhibit.
(B) In a supermarket.
(C) In a shoe store.
(D) In a clothing store.
5. (A) Ted didn't observe the speed limit.
(B) Ted should go to the hospital.
(C) More time is needed to evaluate Ted's condition.
(D) Ted will soon end his emergency training.
6. (A) She doesn't want to practice any more.
(B) They've been dancing since six o'clock.
(C) The dance routine needs more right turns.
(D) She will be ready to practice at six o'clock.
7. (A) It doesn't serve very good fish.
(B) It is an excellent restaurant.
(C) It has slow service.
(D) He'd like to see it again.
19. (A) Someone else prepared it for her.

(B) She had to deliver it.
(C) She had a great time preparing it.
(D) Someone will help her prepare it.
37. (A) Eat iron-rich foods.

(B) Buy a new alarm clock.
(C) Stop eating cereal.
(D) Call Professor Smith.
20. (A) He will help Jane with her work.

(B) He will work things out with Jane.
(C) He wishes Jane success in her new job.
(D) He wants to apologize to Jane.
38. (A) Her pills.

(B) The assignment.
(C) Professor Smith's handouts.
(D) The notes for Professor Smith's lecture.
21. (A) Joe paid too much for his new car.
(B) Joe is always in a good mood.
(C) Joe is happy with the price he paid.
(D) Joe is going to get a bargain on his purchase.
PART C
22. (A) He can't fix the television today.

(B) He hasn't had time to look at the television.
(C) He will refund the woman's money.
(D) He is willing to check the television again.
23. (A) Lend her his notes.
(B) Take her to class.
(C) Give her lecture for her.
(D) Tape record the whole lecture.
24. (A) He has been helping Linda prepare for her class.
(B) He thinks Linda is feeling better every day.
(C) He likes having Linda as a tutor.
(D) Linda would do better if she got a tutor.
25. (A) He has eaten too much.
(B) He disagrees with the woman.
(C) He feels cold.
(D) He would like to shut the door.
26. ) He doesn't really want to move.
(B) He hasn't found an apartment he can afford.
(C) He will be moving very soon.
(D) He hasn't looked for an apartment yet.
8. (A) He ate too much and needs to go to sleep.

(B) He can't wait to see his friends tomorrow.
(C) The woman should wait until tomorrow to have
27. (A) No one seems to have the book she needs.
her party.
(B) She wasn't able to srve her ticket.
(D) He doesn't want to go to the party because it starts
(C) She closed the travel agency early.
late.
(D) She has two books to return tomorrow.
9. (A) She didn't need a ride from the airport.
28. (A) They should order two more pizzas.
(B) She might have missed her flight from Boston.
(B) The pizza isn't large enough.
(C) She was taking a trip to Boston.
(C) He won't eat any more pizza.
(D) She had decided not to make the trip.
(D) There is enough pizza for everyone.
10. (A) She knew the doctor was fifty years old.
29. (A) The woman has enough tapes of jazz music
(B) She is not surprised by the man's statement.
already.
(C) The man should wait to see a doctor.
(B) The woman isn't really going to buy any more
(D) She is shocked by the man's statement.
music.
11. (A) Be understanding toward the woman.
(C) He hasn't heard any good jazz lately.
(B) Lower the woman's final grade.
(D) He doesn't like jazz as well as other types of
(C) Work hard to get an extension.
music.
(D) Expect the woman to finish her paper first.
30. (A) Elizabeth didn't go out of town after all.
12. (A) It hasn't rained much lately.
(B) Elizabeth changed her schedule.
(B) The woman doesn't like Ray.
(C) The man was mistaken about Elizabeth's plans.
(C) Ray is behaving differently than usual.
(D) Elizabeth will be out of town this week.
(D) The class started late because of the rain.
PART B
13. (A) The woman doesn't need to type her English
paper.
31. (A) How to raise butterflies and moths.
(B) He doesn't want to type any papers.
(B) How to photograph insects in the wilderness.
(C) Both of the woman's papers should be typed.
(C) Butterflies and their physical development.
(D) There are two papers this term.
(D) The characteristics of black flies.
14. (A) John's mother can't hear him very well right now.
(B) John's mother isn't here right now.
(C) The telephone belongs to John's mother.
(D) The telephone is not available right now.
39. (A) Someone who is trying to find a home for a cat.

(B) Someone who has lost a cat.
(C) Someone who might be interested in buying a cat.
(D) Someone who wants to work in a pet store.
40. (A) A common cat
(B) A hungry cat.
(C) A pure-bred cat.
(D) An expensive cat.
41. (A) Loss of blood.
(B) Ancestry.
(C) Training.
(D) Reproducing.
42. (A) They are both very expensive.
(B) They both make good pets.
(C) The history of both can be traced.
(D) They both often go homeless.
43. (A) Life in Norway during Viking times.
(B) Different ocean routes taken by the Vikings.
(C) Methods used in Viking navigation.
(D) The importance of migrating geese in Viking
navigation.
44. (A) The construction of Viking ships.
(B) Viking use of the stars in navigation.
(C) Ingenuity and technology in 900 A.D.
(D) Landmarks.
45. (A) They followed the route of migrating birds
instead.
(B) They wanted to avoid pack-ice.
(C) Along the longer route, they could stop at islands.
(D) They followed the path of the stars instead.
46. (A) Their feeding ground could be used by the
Vikings as a landmark.
(B) They were a good source of food for the Vikings.
(C) The Vikings could follow their migratory route to
find land.
(D) They helped the Vikings find routes through the
ice.
47. (A) They weren't able to travel very far from their
homeland.
(B) They migrated south.
(C) They developed an advanced technology.
(D) They were expert sailors.
48. (A) Harvesting vegetables.
(B) Designing a garden.
(C) Choosing nutritious vegetables to plant in a
garden.
(D) Soybeans.
49.
32. (A) Butterflies are bigger and more colorful than
moths are.
(B) The antennae of butterflies and moths are
different.
(C) Butterflies are faster flyers than moths are.
(D) Moths have bigger wings than butterflies do.
50.
15. (A) She lives too far away to go to Jane's presentation.

(B) Jane didn't appear nervous at all during her
presentation.
33. (A) They tickle and cause a rash.
(C) Jane needs to take lessons in public speaking.
(B) They swarm and bite.
(D) She didn't understand Jane's presentation.
(C) They are too small to see.
(D) They are difficult to catch.
16. (A) Biology 101 won't be offered next semester.
(B) Biology 101 is not popular with students.
34. (A) They develop inside of cocoons.
(C) She has already taken Biology 101.
(B) They find mates and reproduce.
(D) She hasn't heard anything about Biology 101.
(C) They learn how to spin silk.
(D) They travel from plant to plant in search of food.
17. (A) Open the door to the cafeteria.
(B) Look at the lunch schedule.
35. 5(A) She slept through her alarm.
(C) Get a schedule from someone else.
(B) She had to see a doctor.
(D) Wait in the cafeteria for lunch to be served.
(C) She was writing a paper for Professor Smith.
(D) She was too ill to leave her room.
18. (A) She might not graduate.
(B) She doesn't like to receive presents.
36. (A) She needs a blood transfusion every eight weeks.
(C) She might prefer a different gift.
(B) She can't finish her work on time for the next
(D) She doesn't wear gold.
class.
(C) She becomes ill when she eats cereal.
(D) She has an illness that many other women have.
(A) They contain Vitamin B.

(B) They are more nutritious than other bean varieties.
(C) They are better tasting than green and yellow
beans.
(D) They are easy to plant and care for.
(A) It will be on the final exam.
(B) It is more important than the other vitamins.
(C) It could help decrease stress and fatigue during
exams.
(D) It is found exclusively in soybeans.

Practice test III. (Heinemann 1997)

Section 1.
PART A
20. (A) Rewrite his notes.

(B) Ask the woman to look at his notes for him.
(C) Read the woman's notes.
(D) Study some more before the test.
37. (A) He is looking at the wrong catalog.

(B) His advisor has made a mistake.
(C) The registrar will change his grade for him.
(D) He has time to take another class before
graduation.
2. (A) In a dentist's office.

(B) At the employment office.
(C) In a pharmacy.
(D) In a coffee shop.
21. (A) Rain might spoil the class picnic.

(B) She's not certain she will go to the picnic.
(C) She wonders what the weather forecast will be.
(D) She's sure it won't stop raining in time for the
picnic.
38. (A) Go sign up for a summer course.

(B) Explain his problem to his advisor.
(C) Write a letter to the registrar.
(D) Get ready for the graduation party.
3. (A) John likes old movies more than Bill does.

(B) John likes old movies, but Bill doesn't.
(C) Both John and Bill like old movies.
(D) Old movies are really enjoyable.
22. (A) He lost something that belongs to the woman.

(B) He doesn't know how to play the tape recorder.
(C) He broke the woman's tape player.
(D) He doesn't want to listen to the new cassette.
4. (A) He wants to talk about the project.

(B) He thinks the project is fine.
(C) He agrees with the woman.
(D) The woman shouldn't be worried.
23. (A) A difficult boss.

(B) A joke.
(C) A scheduling problem.
(D) A note from a friend.
5. (A) Continue with work.

(B) Hold his breath.
(C) Breathe deeply
(D) Rest for a short time.
24. (A) She won't be able to graduate on Friday.

(B) She doesn't really have to go to Ted's graduation.
(C) She has a job interview with Ted on Friday.
(D) She might not be able to go to the ceremony.
6. (A) He didn't get the grant he wanted.

(B) He's going to choose another university.
(C) He wants the woman to help him.
(D) He isn't pleased with the university he has chosen.
25. (A) Eating the woman's food.

(B) Moving into a dormitory.
(C) Finding the woman an apartment.
(D) Fixing the woman's refrigerator.
7. (A) She has to look for the library.

(B) The library is only a little farther.
(C) The man has found the library.
(D) She doesn't know where the library is.
26. (A) She should hang up her coat.

(B) She is probably close by.
(C) She might not be coming.
(D) She was just about to leave.
8. (A) Ask the man to fix the lawn mower.

(B) Fix the lawn mower herself.
(C) Take the lawn mower out of the garage.
(D) Stop working in the garage right now.
27. (A) He doesn't know what time the group will finish.
(B) The group didn't seem to enjoy talking about
linguistics.
(C) The discussion lasted longer than he thought it
would.
(D) People were bored because the discussion lasted
too long.
1. (A) Happy.
(B) Frustrated.
(C) Sleepy.
(D) Full.
9. (A) To a beauty salon.

(B) To a furniture store.
(C) To a library
(D) To a clothing store.
10. (A) It only has two chapters.
(B) The last part won't contain any new material.
(C) He doesn't think Charles will ever finish it.
(D) He might be able to help Charles write a summary
of it.
11. (A) Take his typewriter to the library.
(B) Buy a typewriter.
(C) Borrow a typewriter from the woman.
(D) Go to the library to use a typewriter.
12. (A) Find a friend to take her to the party.
(B) Wait until she's feeling better to go to the party.
(C) Go to the party for a short time.
(D) Find the papers for the man to sign.
13. (A) His car lost the race.
(B) He wasn't able to buy the car.
(C) He can't help the woman choose a car.
(D) Someone hit his car from behind.
14. (A) He isn't very interested in the concert.
(B) The concert is too much for him to do.
(C) He is quite interested in the tickets.
(D) He couldn't see much of the concert.
15. (A) Annoyed.
(B) Hungry.
(C) Tired.
(D) Happy.
16. (A) Find another place to sit.
(B) Offer her seat to the man.
(C) Find out who has taken her seat.
(D) Ask the man if she can sit next to him.
17. (A) He has more money than he said he did.
(B) He should hurry up and buy the stereo before he
runs out of cash.
(C) He'll need to run to the bank before he goes
shopping.
(D) He doesn't need to buy anything else right now.
18. (A) The woman should stop staring at him.
(B) He didn't let Susan know about the meeting.
(C) He can't come to a meeting on such short notice.
(D) He left the meeting without the woman noticing.
19. (A) He is still waiting to hear about the position.
(B) Someone else got the job he applied for.
(C) The woman is mistaken.
(D) The woman should accept his position.
28. (A) They need to begin their work by the fifteenth.

(B) They should take their lab reports off of the desk.
(C) They have fifteen minutes to finish their work.
(D) They should get to work on their report soon.
29. (A) She didn't understand what Gary was talking
about.
(B) She didn't get to see Gary after his presentation.
(C) She didn't like the topic of Gary's talk.
(D) She got tired of thinking about the figures Gary
was discussing.
30. (A) He would love to take the woman to the opera.
(B) He hopes the woman likes opera.
(C) People who like opera will probably like the new
theater.
(D) He is especially grateful for the downtown theater.
PART B
31. (A) Pigments used in paint production.
(B) Steps in chlorophyll production.
(C) The loss of trees due to disease.
(D) Reasons for autumn leaf color.
32. (A) A change in the weather.
(B) A radio program.
(C) A botany lecture.
(D) The woman's hopes to save a dying tree.
PART C
39. (A) Distribution of goods and services.
(B) Factories.
(C) Today's homework.
(D) Advertising.
40. (A) The movement of goods from their sources to
their destinations.
(B) The arrangement of products on the shelves.
(C) The circulation of advertisements.
(D) The manufacturing of goods.
41. (A) A guest speaker might arrive.
(B) Class might be canceled.
(C) There might be a short quiz.
(D) Homework might be collected.
42. (A) Advertising as an important aspect of marketing.
(B) A comparison between wholesalers and retailers.
(C) The manufacture of goods.
(D) The roles of consumers.
43. (A) Changing exhibits.
(B) Permanent displays.
(C) The tipi village.
(D) The library service.
44. (A) It is too busy today.
(B) It is too far away.
(C) It is too dangerous.
(D) It is still being built.
45. (A) The portrait gallery.
(B) The research library.
(C) The sculpture gardens.
(D) The Indian museum.
46. (A) Because of the large number of visitors.
(B) Because of construction in part of the museum.
(C) So that visitors could shop for gifts.
(D) To give everyone a needed rest.
47. (A) To inform people about how to avoid being struck
by lightning.
(B) To explain why lightning often strikes tall trees.
(C) To point out that lightning often appears in round
flashes a round boats, airplanes, and steeple clocks.
(D) To encourage people to give up outdoor sports
during thunder storm season.
48. (A) Trees provide a good path to the ground for
electricity.
(B) The wood's resistance can cause the electricity to
flash out at people nearby.
(C) Round flashes of lightning that look like fire often
strike tall trees.
(D) Tree limbs can be hit by lightning and fall on
people.
49. (A) They are big so they offer lots of protection.

(B) They move around so it is hard for lightning to hit
them.
(C) They conduct electricity into the ground and are
33. (A) Bright autumn leaf color is due to frost and cold.
well-insulated.
(B) Pigments from leaves are used in the production of
(D) They are waterproof and reflect lightning away
paint.
from themselves.
(C) Sunlight is necessary in the production of bright
leaf color.
50. (A) Get on a bicycle or a horse.
(D) The true color of leaves is brown.
(B) Find a place to swim so you can get your feet off
the ground.
34. (A) Chlorophyll.
(C) Continue what you are doing as long as you are
(B) Bright sunlight.
not holding a metal fishing rod, shovel, or golf club.
(C) Different chemical pigments.
(D) Stay as low as possible, even getting into a ditch if
(D) Nutrient production.
you can.
35. (A) Graduation requirements.
(B) Graduating with honors.
(C) Planning a graduation party.
(D) Talking to the registrar.
36. (A) He did not get good grades this semester.
(B) He doesn't think he can graduate this spring.
(C) He can't find his advisor.
(D) His grades are not as good as Suzanne's.

Practice test IV. (Heinemann 1997)

Section 1.
PART A
1. (A) Someone is already using his vacuum.
(B) He's having trouble with his vacuum.
(C) He will need the vacuum to clean out his car.
(D) He is willing to lend the woman his vacuum.
2. (A) In a hotel.
(B) In a furniture store.
(C) In a campground.
(D) In a private home.
3. (A) There is one apartment that is worse than this one.
(B) She doesn't like the size of this apartment at all.
(C) She would like to see the next apartment.
(D) She has never seen a worse apartment.
4. (A) She can't understand why the man is thirsty.
(B) The man ought to go to the laundromat.
(C) The laundromat is too far away.
(D) She will not wash the man's clothes for him.
37.
19. (A) She had to type her report fast.
(B) Someone else typed her report for her.
(C) She will ask her secretary to help her type her
report.
(D) She needs to find a secretary to finish her report.
38.
(A) It is too expensive.

(B) It takes too much time.
(C) She doesn't have very many recyclable items.
(D) She can't remember to do it.
(A) Go for a walk with the man.
(B) Start saving money.
(C) Start recycling again.
(D) Help the man recycle his cans and bottles.
20. (A) Today's meeting was great.

(B) He doesn't mind the change in the schedule.
(C) He doesn't have time to think about the meeting.
(D) He'll have time to run to the next meeting.
PART C
21. (A) He has a lot of free time.

(B) He prefers swimming to anything else.
(C) He went swimming yesterday.
(D) He doesn't like to swim.
39. (A) In the library.

(B) In an auditorium.
(C) Outside on the campus grounds.
(D) In the greenhouse of the biology building.
22. (A) Drive her to the airport.

(B) Help her with her luggage.
(C) Help her plan her afternoon.
(D) Find her a ride to the airport.
40. (A) Library science students.

(B) Students interested in attending this college.
(C) Librarians who want to know about the library
collection.
(D) Students who will be graduating from the college
soon.
23. (A) Scored exams.

(B) Prepared to take a test.
(C) Worked on a paper.
(D) Wrote the calculus test for his students.
5. (A) He'll take no more than six courses.

24. (A) He is depending on the woman.
(B) He's not interested in hearing about the woman's
(B) He might be able to help the woman.
life.
(C) He will do anything the woman asks.
(C) He will not enroll in so many classes.
(D) He couldn't hear what the, woman was saying.
(D) He'll get his new glasses before fall.
25. (A) She needed to read the book before returning it.
6. (A) Get a better doctor.
(B) She hadn't received the book yet.
(B) Go see a doctor.
(C) The clerk forgot to give her a receipt.
(C) Try not to hurt her shoulder.
(D) She couldn't get her money back.
(D) Look carefully at her shoulder.
26. (A) He needs to return the videos he rented.
7. (A) She can't figure out what is wrong with the car.
(B) He won't rent any more videos this weekend.
(B) She is shocked by what the man has said.
(C) He wants to rent three videos for Saturday night.
(C) She disagrees with what the man said.
(D) They should watch a video together.
(D) She can't see what is behind the car.
27. (A) The weather might prevent Richard from getting
8. (A) It's Carol's turn to bake one.
to Minneapolis on time.
(B) He doesn't know when Carol baked it.
(B) Richard will not arrive on time in Minneapolis due
(C) He would like to taste it.
to bad weather.
(D) He will take it to Carol.
(C) Richard will call them as soon as he knows more
about the weather in Minneapolis.
9. (A) He has to be home by eight.
(D) The woman shouldn't interfere with Richard's
(B) He doesn't have time to eat right now.
plans to go to Minneapolis.
(C) He's going to see the woman later.
(D) He doesn't want to gain any weight.
28. (A) He hasn't received any parking tickets.
(B) The woman has gotten too many parking tickets.
10. (A) She doesn't understand the man's question.
(C) He already knew about the parking ticket.
(B) She'll have the test ready in a few days.
(D) He doesn't think the woman will get a ticket.
(C) She has a few questions about the man's schedule.
(D) The man may not take the test early.
29. (A) Sam mowed the lawn for her.
(B) Someone from the landscaping service came and
11. (A) She was tired of the professor's joke.
mowed the lawn.
(B) She paid a hundred dollars for her new glasses.
(C) Sam called the landscaping service for her.
(C) She couldn't hear what was being said in class
(D) She mowed the lawn.
very well.
(D) She had heard the professor speak many times.
PART B
12. (A) It will carry him far.
30. (A) He didn't know the woman was graduating.
(B) It is certain to improve with time.
(B) He doesn't want to be the featured speaker.
(C) It is somewhat limited.
(C) He doesn't think the woman should give the
(D) It has developed since he began singing opera.
speech.
13. (A) Can he stop and count the sandwiches?
(D) He didn't know that graduation was so soon.
(B) Did she pay for his sandwiches?
(C) Are his sandwiches included in the ones that were 31. (A) In a furniture store.
(B) In the woman's apartment.
counted?
(C) In the man's car.
(D) Did she put his sandwiches in the picnic basket for
(D) At a party.
him?
41. (A) The person who designed the library building.

(B) The author of several books in the library.
(C) The first director of the library.
(D) The biology professor after whom the library is
named.
42. (A) To the biology building.
(B) To the reference section of the library.
(C) To the cafeteria.
(D) To the admissions office.
43. (A) To get hotel management students to be more
diligent about catching thieves.
(B) To educate hotel management students about the
facts of hotel thievery.
(C) To encourage hotel management students to bolt
everything down in their hotels.
(D) To teach hotel management students how to
attracthoneymooners to their hotels.
44. (A) Security devices would have to be installed, and
people who are innocent might be falsely accused.
(B) The cost of implementing security measures is too
great.
(C) Honeymoon couples might stop visiting hotels.
(D) People who are honest throughout their lives often
become thieves when they are in a hotel room.
45. (A) So that guests won't steal them.
(B) It's good advertising when stolen articles end up
elsewhere.
(C) To make people who steal things from rooms feel
guilty about it.
(D) So that other hotels and motels can't use them.
46. (A) They are a big part of the summer hotel business.
(B) They are often young and don't think about what
they are doing.
(C) They usually want something from the hotel to
remind them of their stay.
(D) They are the good side of the problem of hotel
theft.
47. (A) Flying squirrels don't really fly; they simply glide.
(B) A flap of skin serves as a sail on each side of a
flying squirrel's body.
(C) Special muscles control the flying squirrel's glide.
(D) Flying squirrels use their tails to steer around
twigs andtree trunks.
48. (A) It does most of the steering.

14. (A) She thinks it would be a good idea to go 32. (A) Help the woman clean her apartment.
(B) It acts as a sail.
(B) Exercise with the woman.
swimming.
(C) It controls the tension of the potegum.
(C)
Help
the
woman
buy
a
bed.
(B) She wants to talk to the man.
(D) It helps the squirrel maintain its balance.
(D) Explain what he meant.
(C) She'll loan the heater to the man.
(D) The heat doesn't bother her that much.
49. (A) They like to land in a vertical position with their
33. (A) She is not a good housekeeper.
tails up.
(B) She has found a larger apartment.
15. (A)Both Professor Andrews and Professor Larson
(B) They like to be able to make slight twists in the
(C)
She
has
a
lot
more
cleaning
to
do.
refuse late work.
air.
(D)
She
wants
to
leave
a
clean
apartment.
(B) Professor Andrews will accept late work, but
(C) They don't like to have to climb up the trunks to
Professor Larson won't.
34. (A) The man will take her.
continue their journeys.
(C) Professor Larson will take everything except her
(B) She'll drive her car.
(D) The trees are so close together that the squirrels
papers to the lake.
(C) She'll take a taxi.
don't need to glide.
(D) Professor Larson and Professor Andrews both live
(D) She'll walk.
near the lake.
50. (A) A flying squirrel that has been stuffed for display
35. (A) That the woman was going to empty her trash.
in the museum.
16. (A) She can help the man this term.
(B) That the woman would save her glass containers
(B) A flying squirrel who lives at the museum and
(B) She doesn't know how to help the man.
for him.
demonstrates his glide for visitors.
(C) The man's term paper is well-organized.
(C) That the woman would go for a bicycle ride with
(C) A resident naturalist who helps give tours of the
(D)She's never seen the man's term paper.
him.
museum.
(D) That the woman was saving her used bottles and
(D) A cooperative student who stays out back to
17. (A) Look at his map.
cans for recycling.
explain how flying squirrels glide.
(B) Ask someone else for directions.
(C) Mark the map in the back of his catalog.
36. (A) Saving money.
(D) Tell her where the school catalog is.
(B) Reusing materials that have already been used.
(C) Taking the same bicycle route more than once.
18. (A) Greg might not want a sports coat.
(D) Disposing of trash.
(B) The woman should buy me sports coat.
(C) Greg really has enough sports coats.
(D) Greg might prefer a different color.
Practice test V. (Heinemann 1997)

Section 1.
Part A
1. (A) She isn't sure what she wants.
(B) She will certainly have a party.
(C) She is sure about her part for tonight.
(D) She would like to go to the party.
2. (A) On a subway.
(B) In an airport.
(C) In an airplane.
(D) In a bus station.
3. (A) Hungry.
(B) Angry
(C) Tired.
(D) Happy
4. (A) He doesn't know how much the dinner cost.
(B) He is not worried about what the woman owns.
(C) He doesn't own the diner.
(D) The woman doesn't need to pay for her meal.
5. (A) She fell and hurt herself.
(B) She hasn't been able to complete her work.
(C) She finished her term papers on time.
(D) She actually left her papers behind.
6. (A) She never minds repeating herself.
(B) She doesn't want to repeat what she said.
(C) She accepts the man's apology.
(D) She didn't hear the man.
7. (A) He mailed it for George.
(B) He sent it to the woman.
(C) He received it in the mail.
(D) George mailed it.
8. (A) She figured the problem out in her head.
(B) She was ahead of the other students until today.
(C) She didn't think carefully about the problem.
(D) She used her calculator to do the problem.
19. (A) Borrow money from Mary to buy a car.

(B) Ask Mary if he can borrow her car.
(C) Try Mary's car before borrowing it.
(D) Pay Mary for her car.
20. (A) The man's bike should be safe under the porch.
(B) She will wait on the porch for the man to arrive.
(C) The man can leave his bike on her front porch.
(D) She can't see the man's bike from her house.
21. (A) She only saw part of it.
(B) She couldn't wait until it was over.
(C) She didn't understand it.
(D) She couldn't go see it.
22. (A) He doesn't like French very well.
(B) He speaks French better than the woman does.
(C) He hasn't spent much time in France.
(D) He doesn't speak French very well.
23. (A) He is too busy to finish everything he needs to do.
(B) He is rushing around now so that he will have
morefree time this evening.
(C) He doesn't know what to do with all of his free
time.
(D) He doesn't want the woman to spend too much
timerushing around.
24. (A) She had enjoyed writing her thesis.
(B) She hadn't finished taking classes.
(C) She didn't realize how long it would take to finish
her course work.
(D) She was working faster than had been expected.
25. (A) He has been working at his new job for only a
short time.
(B) It's time for him to apply for a new job.
(C) He hasn't always worked as hard as he could.
(D) It is good to know that he likes his new job so
much.
9. (A) The man had finished the laundry.

(B) The laundry still needed to be washed.
(C) There were no dirty shirts in the laundry.
(D) All the man's clothes were clean.
26. (A) Write a report about her lost purse.

(B) Go tell the police what happened.
(C) Go back to the department store and look for her
purse.
(D) Take her purse across the street to the bank.
10. (A) He will lend the woman his book.

(B) He threw the book away.
(C) He doesn't like his sociology book.
(D) The woman should buy her own book.
27. (A) The soup needs a lot more vegetables.

(B) There is a lot of soup left.
(C) Soup with vegetables in it is healthy.
(D) He likes the way the soup tastes.
11. (A) He isn't sure when the school year will end.
(B) He doesn't want to start writing right away.
(C) He needs to read his book before the end of the
year.
(D) He's all booked up until the end of the year.
28. (A) Buying pictures.

(B) Taking photographs.
(C) Leaving as soon as possible.
(D) Finding a different spot.
12. (A) He doesn't like museums.

(B) He's tired of touring this museum.
(C) He thinks a hundred miles is too far to go for a
tour.
(D) He is excited about going to the museum.
29. (A) They can't afford to buy the kind of computer they
want.
(B) They can't find a computer that is powerful
enough.
(C) The computer they have is losing power.
(D) They don't know how to choose a new computer.
13. (A) He didn't understand what she was singing about.

(B) He has a few questions about her performance.
(C) He isn't sure what to ask her.
(D) She was definitely the best performer in the show.
30. (A) He will enjoy doing it for his landlord.

(B) He will not receive any help from his landlord.
(C) It will not cost much money to do it.
(D) He is going to pay someone to do it for him.
14. (A) He might break the handle on his glass.

(B) He has an advanced physical illness.
(C) The class might be too difficult for him.
(D) His hands have been bothering him.
15. (A) Her award isn't as impressive as it seems.
(B) She encouraged other people from her school to
apply for the scholarship.
(C) Her school has won a number of scholarships.
(D) She hopes to win the scholarship she applied for.
16. (A) He doesn't know where the bag is.
(B) He'll take the woman to the grocery store.
(C) He'll carry the groceries for the woman.
(D) He doesn't really want to go inside the house.
17. (A) The man will be tired if he doesn't get some sleep.
(B) She can't see because her eyes are tired.
(C) She can tell the man how to get rid of the circles
under his eyes.
(D) The man's physical appearance indicates that he is
tired.
18. (A) Sheila didn't make any apple pie for dessert.
(B) He didn't have time to eat any pie.
(C) There was no pie left when he went to get some.
(D) Sheila was gone when dessert was served.
Part B
31. (A) Differences between anthropology and biology.
(B) Biological approaches to the study of human
beings.
(C) Differences in two approaches to anthropological
study.
(D) Family structure in cultures all over the world.
32. (A) She didn't see the man there.
(B)The first lecture was more difficult than shed
expected.
(C) The course had a different name than shed
expected.
(D) She thought she would be studying physical
anthropology.
33. (A) Ancient human tools.
(B) The relationship between parents and children
indifferent societies.
(C) Food crops in various cultures.
(D) Height differences in people from different
cultures.
34. (A) Because he heard it was easier.
(B) Because he is interested in human cultures.
(C) Because he's a biology major.
(D) Because it is a required course for him.
35. (A) His grades have gone down.

(B) He has to go to school this summer.
(C) He doesn't like classrooms without air
conditioning.
(D) He doesn't have enough money.
36. (A) Take summer courses.
(B) Work forty hours a week.
(C) Break up with his girlfriend,
(D) Fly to England.
37. (A) It would keep him too busy.
(B) It would mean that he could go to England this
summer.
(C) It sounds quite romantic.
(D) It would help him pay for is meal card.
38. (A) Look for a cheap airline ticket.
(B) Call his girlfriend.
(C) Sign up for summer courses.
(D) Start applying for jobs.
Part C
39. (A) To present information about several Hawaiian
volcanoes.
(B) To explain a research project about an underwater
volcano.
(C) To demonstrate the latest use of underwater
cables.
(D) To discuss a study of ocean life near underwater
volcanoes.
40. (A) Geologists will bring it back.
(B) It will be sent back by cable.
(C) It will be sent by mail.
(D) It will be sent back through seismometers.
41. (A) Because it is related to work being done in class.
(B) Because she helped produce it.
(C) Because she is excited about it.
(D) Because it is a public television broadcast.
42. (A) The twenty types of manmade fibers.
(B) Rayon.
(C) How nylon is made.
(D) Clothing care.
43. (A) Since 1939.
(B) For a little over a century.
(C) For approximately twenty years.
(D) Since nylon was first invented.
44. (A) It is inexpensive to produce.
(B) It is more durable than other manmade fibers.
(C) It remains a very popular clothing fiber.
(D) It is easy to produce in great quantities.
45. (A) It does not wash well.
(B) It is manmade.
(C) It loses its color in sunlight.
(D) It is not very comfortable to wear.
46. (A) Talk about the production of nylon.
(B) Leave the factory.
(C) Take a break.
(D) Go into the rayon production room.
47. (A) The use of English in shipping and aviation.
(B) The early history of the English language.
(C) The emergence of English as a global language.
(D) The influence of the Roman Empire in Britain.
48. (A) Its publishers don't have the funds to constantly
update it.
(B) It is used only by speakers of English as a first
language.
(C) The use of English is on the decline, so it is hard
to know when to catalog new words.
(D) Many scientific and technical words are very new
and haven't yet been included.
49. (A) No one spoke English two thousand years ago.
(B) English has such a huge vocabulary it is hard to
learn.
(C) Only one half of the world's scientific periodicals
are in English.
(D) Only about 350 million people use English as a
native language.
50. (A) The rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
(B) Evidence that English is not very old.
(C) Problems posed by using English in aviation.
(D) Reasons why English is so widely used today.

Practice Test I (Heinemann 1997)

Structure and Written Expression
Section II
1.
The human brain ------- only two percent of an

adult's body weight.
(A) which makes up
(B) it makes up
(C) makes it up
(D) makes up
2.
The foreign policies ------- the Hoover

administration undertook in 1929 were marked by
good will and peaceful purpose.
(A) that
(B) where
(C) on which
(D) of
3.
Children usually turn to their parents rather than ------ for protection from threats in the
environment.
(A) they turn to other figures of authority
(B) authority figures to other
(C) to other figures of authority
(D) their turning to other figures of authority
8.
------- cause extensive damage to Pacific Island

nations each year.
(A) Because of the high tides and winds during
hurricanes
(B) The high tides and winds of hurricanes
(C) The high hurricane tides and winds which
(D) That the high tides and winds of hurricanes
The tallest bird on the North American continent,

the white whooping crane, ------- four and a half
feet tall.
(A) stands
(B) which stands
(C) it stands
(D) standing
13. Water, -------, is also one of the most abundant

compounds on earth.
(A) is one of the most critical elements for human
survival
(B) one of the most critical elements for human
survival
(C) of which one of the most critical elements for
human survival
(D) one of the most critical elements for human
survival which
9.
For thousands of years, people have used vast

amounts of wood for building and ------- their
homes.
(A) they heat
(B) to heat
(C) heating
(D) heat
14. ------ extensively by persons who cannot speak or

hear, American Sign Language ranks as the fourth
most widely used language in the U.S.today.
(A) Relied on
(B) It is relied on
(C) Relying on it
(D) To rely on it
4.
5.
Anthropologists ------- within their environments

and evaluate the adaptations they have made.
(A) societies are studied
(B) study societies
(C) who study societies are
(D) their societies are studied
6.
Malaria, which can be fatal if left untreated, is

transmitted by the female, ------- by the male,
mosquito.
(A) not
(B) however
(C) despite
(D) instead
11. ------- gene in the human genome were more

completely understood, many human diseases
could be cured or prevented.
(A) Each
(B) Since each
(C) If each
(D) Were each
7.
------- Henry David Thoreau is known for his

transcendental views.
(A) He was like his predecessor, Ralph Waldo
Emerson,
(B) His predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was
like him
(C) Like his predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
(D) That he was like his predecessor, Ralph
Waldo Emerson,
12. ------- of the United States grown during a

Republican administration.
(A) Rarely the federal government has
(B) Rarely has the federal government
(C) Has the federal government rarely
(D) The federal government has rarely
10. Past experience has shown that even well-trained

------- overwhelming success in forecasting
interest rates.
(A) experts do not always have
(B) do not always have experts
(C) there are experts who do not always have
(D) always do not have experts
16. Chicago's Sears Tower, now the taller building in the world, rises 1,522 feet
A
from the ground to the top of its antenna.
28. The world's rain forests are being cut down at the rate on 3,000 acres per hour.
A
29. In all human communities, power yields certain advantages and privileges,
17. Vitamin E, which is found in nutritious foods such as green vegetables and
A
15. Efforts to provide equal opportunity for

minorities in the United States ------- from the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
(A) may be said to date
(B) dating
(C) may say to date
(D) to date may be said
whole grains, action as an antioxidant in cell membranes.

C
such as honor, material benefits, and prestigious.

C
30. Scientists used line spectra identifying the element helium in the sun.
18. Scientists is currently trying to map the human genome, the blueprint of human 31. The compute of the passage of time has always been associated with the
A
B
C
D
A
heredity.
19. A snowflake is a frailty crystalline structure which maintains its delicate shape
A
only as long as it is airborne.

C
college.
22. Social stratification can based on many criteria, such as wealth, cultural level,
A
23. In his famous domes, architecture Buckminster Fuller utilized thousands of

A
Wyoming, the state where they were first guaranteed the right to vote.
C
into a major environmental issue in the United States.
27. If he were alive today, F.Scott Fitzgerald might be surprised to learn that his
A
novel The Great Gatsby having transcended its own age and turned into a
timeless classic.
but these traits are not always genetically conditioned.

C
membranes.
income generated in the United States annually.

C
certain chemicals found in broccoli may act as cancer preventatives.

D
38. Contemporary newspaper columnist Russell Baker is noted for his
26. Only after Theodore Roosevelt became president did conservation developed
C
37. Farther evidence is needed to support recent research which suggests that
25. The most aggressive bees known, the African honeybee is currently swarming
into North America.
36. Wages and salaries account for nearly three fourths of the total nationally
24. Early in United States history, the rights of woman were championed in
A
34. The personality traits of children are often similar to those that of their parents,
35. Lecithins and other phospholipids play key roles the structure of cell
simple equilateral triangles linked together.
33. The discovered of gold in California in 1848 led to the Gold Rush of 1849.
legal status, birth, personal qualities, and ideology.
21. Most fatty acids have been find as essential components of lipid molecules.
resources before the end of the 12th century.
20. James Dickey's first poem was published during he was still a senior in
32. Many environmentalists fear that the earth will run out essential natural
A
movements of celestial bodies.
commentaries humorous written in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin.

B
39. Nutritional adequacy is hard to achieve on a low-calorie diet; even a small

A
person should not try to get by on fewer than twelve hundreds calories per day.
C
40. In reality, all biological reproductive begins at the cellular level.

A
C
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Practice Test II (Heinemann 1997)

Section II
1. The life of Benjamin Franklin, a practical man
(B) is where Martha's Vineyard
11. When linguists encounter a new language, _______
_______ many stories have been told, was
(C) Martha's Vineyard
work to identify all of the sounds it contains.
unusually productive.
(D) is Martha's Vineyard
(A) who
(A) of
(B) they
7. Franchising offers many advantages to small
(B) about whom
(C) and
business owners _______ problematic.
(C) about
(D) those
(A) however it is
(D) of which
(B) even though it is
12. According to recent investigations, unselfish
2. Indiana University, one of the largest in the nation,
(C) despite its
motives, such as true empathy, _______, and
is located _______ town.
(D) it is
commitment to a principle, sometimes surpass self(A) a small midwestern
interest in influencing human behavior.
8. Although most cats hate to swim, _______ if
(B) in a small midwestern
(A) to have solidarity with others
necessary.
(C) small midwestern
(B) others with solidarity
(A) can they do so
(D) in small midwestern
(C) solidarity with others
(B) so can they do
(D) one has solidarity with others
3. _______ his life, Eugene O'Neill was regarded as
(C) they do so can
the foremost American dramatist.
(A) It was the time of
(B) While
(C) During
(D) By the time of
(D) they can do so

13. _______ the lip of an open-pit copper mine, the
huge tractors and cranes below look like toys, and
9. American author John Updike, _______, spent his
people look like tiny ants scurrying about.
boyhood in Shillington, Pennsylvania.
(A) Where
(A) was the only child of a high school
(B) While
mathematics teacher
(C) That
4. _______ Social Security Act of 1935 was written
(B) whom the only child of a high school
(D) From
to insure workers against unemployment.
mathematics teacher
(A) The
(C) the only child of a high school mathematics 14. Not only _______ atoms with their microscopes,
(B) What the
teacher
but they now can also "feel" them with the aid of a
(C) For the
(D) he was the only child of a high school
versatile sensing device called the "magic wrist".
(D) After the
mathematics teacher
(A) are today's scientists able to see
(B) able to see today's scientists are
5. Chemists are not sure _______.
10. In practice, setting up a chain of command in a
(C) today's scientists are able to see
(A) how precisely can cold fusion occur
business can be a very complicated task, _______it
(D) are able to see today's scientists
(B) cold fusion can occur precisely how
involves the interaction of real human beings.
(C) precisely how cold fusion can occur
(A) because of
15. In the seventeenth century, North America was vast
(D) can cold fusion occur precisely how
(B) how
and unconquered, _______ only at great cost.
(C) as
(A) it promised riches but yielded its bounty
6. Just off the Massachusetts coast _______, a
(D) due to
(B) promising riches but yielding its bounty
popular summer resort area.
(C) by promising riches but by yielding its bounty
(A) Martha's Vineyard is
(D) its riches were promised but its bounty yielded.
16. For make its nest, the yellow-headed blackbird weaves a small cup and fastens it
A
to reeds above water.

17. Native American beaded designs are often characterized by geometric shaped
A
and bright colors.
18. The codfish lays million of eggs each year, only a small percentage of which
A
to have an impact on the tobacco industry in the United States.

D
29. Antarctic blue whales can be 100 foot long and weigh more than any dinosaur
A
that ever lived.
30. Oil-base house paint is neither easy to work with or quick to clean up, but it is
A
often preferred to latex paint because of its high sheen and durability.
C
D
actually hatch.
19. When the body becomes extremely overheated, it failure to cool itself again, and 31. The colonists who first settled in New England did so because they felt there was
A
sunstroke can occur.
none social justice in their homeland of England.
at least three feet during social interaction is well documented in anthropological

D
studies.
21. In chronicling her months as a captive of the Wampanoag Indians, Mary
A
work on the designed of the first American skyscrapers.

C
33. During the 1850s, the Spanish colony of Cuba was of interest to Southerners,
A
who felt they needed it for it increasing political and economic power.
D
34. Glucose is different from fructose in its structural formula, but the molecular
22. The nests of most bird species are strategic placed to camouflage them against
A
32. Architect Louis Sullivan commanded the respect of his contemporaries for his
Rowlandson demonstrated his narrative skill.
predators.
20. The preferrins of many Western cultures for maintaining a physical distance of
A
formula for these two sugars is the similar.

C
35. A sealer should be applied at wood surfaces before they are varnished;
23. Few synthetic vitamins and minerals in pill supplements are absorbed so
efficiently by the body that are those occurring naturally in foods.
A
24. On the one hand, most Americans feel that space exploration is a legitimate
A
and important national undertaking; on the contrary, they worry about the
B
amount it costs.
25. Vitamin providing the necessary impetus for the synthesis of at least two
A
proteins involved in blood clotting.

D
26. If no fossil record were available, the next strongest evidence of the kinship
A
among organisms would to be similarities in the embryonic development of

B
organisms today.
otherwise, uneven absorption of the varnish may occur.

C
36. The high temperatures created by fire are necessary for to split open the
A
seed-bearing cones of lodge pole pines.
37. Mormon leader Brigham Young was too brilliant and strong-willed that he was
A
able to organize the most remarkable religious migration in the annals of

B
American history.
38. Due to her untimely death, the talented writer Sylvia Plath was never to know
A
how well would her work be received by the American public.

C
39. From the Mexican War toward the Civil War, the major theme of American
A
27. The black cherry tree, from which fine cabinets and furniture is made, is found
A
all across North America, from Nova Scotia to Texas.

B
28. Research and recommending concerning the dangers of smoking are beginning
A
political history was a growing sectionalism interacting with a vigorous

B
nationalism.
40. In Western culture, much attention been given to the subject of social class
A
conflict, which may cause revolution.

C

Practice Test III (Heinemann 1997)

Section II
1.
_____ fall naturally into two classes, which can be

further subdivided into several subclasses.
(A) There are vitamins
(B) Vitamins that
(C) Vitamins
(D) After vitamins
6.
The Federal Reserve System, _____ under President

Wilson, plays a key role in regulating the U.S. economy.
(A) the establishment in 1913
(B) was established in 1913
(C) established in 1913
(D) in 1913 they established it
11. _____ all citrus fruit originated with the Chinese

orange.
(A) That the belief
(B) The belief that
(C) To believe that
(D) It is believed that
2.
The incidence of anorexia nervosa, _____ , is growing in

industrially advanced societies.
(A) is an eating disorder
(B) an eating disorder which
(C) an eating disorder
(D) for which an eating disorder
7.
3.
In the 1960s, pop art _____ to discover artistic

significance in the commercial artifacts of the consumer 8.
culture.
(A) seeking
(B) to seek
(C) has sought
(D) sought
In the 1960s, due in part to the invention of air

conditioning, the population of the United States _____
a dramatic geographical shift southward.
(A) experiencing
(B) was experienced
(C) to experience
(D) experienced
12. The year 1732 saw the first appearance of Poor

Richard's Almanac, _____ Benjamin Franklin created
the character of Poor Richard.
(A) there
(B) in which
(C) in it
(D) which in
Antarctica is larger _____ , but it has no native human

population.
(A) than Europe or Australia does
(B) Europe or Australia
(C) of Europe or Australia
(D) than Europe or Australia
4.
Air _____ the carbon dioxide necessary for

photosynthesis enters leaves through tiny surface
openings.
(A) contains
(B) contained
(C) containing
(D) it contains
13. _____ more susceptible to bacterial contamination

than other types of meat because it has more surface
area exposed to bacteria laden air.
(A) Ground meat
(B) Ground meat is
(C) Ground meat that is
(D) Ground meat being
5.
Overexposure to the sun can produce ------ can some

toxic chemicals.
(A) more than damage to the skin
(B) more damage than to the skin
(C) damage more than to the skin
(D) more damage to the skin than
9.
Whole-grain food products _____ in most large

supermarkets across the United States and Canada.
(A) now can purchase
(B) can now be purchased
(C) now to purchase
(D) the purchase of which
10. A dividend is_____ the only benefit a corporation can

offer its shareholders.
(A) no
(B) nor
(C) none
(D) not
16. The field cricket is quite injury to crops and vegetation and does most of its
A
harmful work at night.
18. Works wrote by Vladimir Nabokov often contain heroes and heroines who
A
have lived in many places.
30. When attempt to explain children's food preferences, researchers are faced with
A
contradictions.
31. Glaciologists now suspect that the Antarctic ice sheet unstable is, but they are
A
ions, minerals, and gases.
32. Human infants are not usually able to walk by selves until they reach eleven or
A
twelve months of age.
33. Scholars of historical change feels that the velocity of history has been greatly
movements of cells and microbes by using low-power laser beams.

D
accelerated by the onward rush of science and technology during the twentieth
21. The mountain sheep is known for its incredible agility, timid, and ability
A
20. For the past few years, researchers have perfecting their control over the
century.
34. Psychologists and psychiatrists are trained to encourage their patients to talk for
22. The chimpanzee possesses hand tool, the sticky termite stick, with which it digs
A
termites out of logs and stumps.
algae and seaweed from early historically periods.
periodically conducts controlled strictly inspections of foodstuffs.

D
36. From the time he was a child, author Herman Melville had a interest in the sea.
24. The United States government use price supports and cost subsidies to raise farm
prices and profits.
the things that are causing them difficulty.
35. Food contamination is monitored by the Food and Drug Administration, which
23. The different layers of the Grand Canyon contain a variety of fossils, including
37. Booker T. Washington, head of the first industrial school for African Americans,
A
was as popular with Southerners than he was with Northerners.
25. The basic factors that enhance health and longevity include vigorous exercise,
A
hereditary, and diet.

C
29. Many New England farmers supplement their incomes with the sold of maple
not yet certain to what extent this instability might cause problems.
19. Organisms and their cells live by maintaining a constant exchange of elemental,
to withstand severe cold.
15. Nestled along the shoreline of Hudson Bay _____.

(A) are several recently settled Inuit communities
(B) several recently settled Inuit communities are there
(C) near several recently settled Inuit communities
(D) is where several recently settled Inuit communities
syrup tapped from sugar maples growing on their farmland.
17. Perhaps the most unique thing about carbon atoms are their ability to combine
with themselves.
14. Over the past several decades, radio telescopes _____

of the universe from the one disclosed by ordinary
telescopes.
(A) have given scientists quite a different view
(B) have quite a different view given scientists
(C) quite a different view have given scientists
(D) have they given scientists quite a different view
archeological applications in the future.
urchin, remain superior to those produced synthetically.
39. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, physical techniques making it possible
A
40. In seeking out its representative writers, twentieth-century America seems to be

A
searching for someone who chronicle the chaos and lack of direction reflected in
28. Contemporary poet James Merrill writes autobiographical verse that building on
remembrances of his childhood.
to determine the chemical constitution of stars.
27. Biologically produced ceramics, alike those made by mollusks such as the sea
A
to reveal a profusion of vivid colors.
26. Fission tracking is a new artifact dating method who promises to have important
A
38. Peacocks are among the most exotic birds in nature; its long tail feathers fan out
some contemporary value

Practice Test IV (Heinemann 1997)

Section II
1. Copper tubing is the preferred choice of plumbers
_____ noncorrosive.
(A) since it is
(B) because of
(C) it is
(D) insofar as
6. Spectrographs _____ possible for phoneticians to

analyze the human voice and its speech qualities.
(A) make
(B) make it
(C) makes it
(D) are made
2. _____ "cultural diffusion" refers to the spread of

customs or practices from one culture to another.
(A) To phrase
(B) Phrased
(C) To the phrase
(D) The phrase
7. Trace minerals are _____ are elements needed in

greater quantities.
(A) as important to healthy human tissue as
(B) most important to healthy human tissue
(C) to healthy human tissue as important
(D) important to healthy human tissue
11. Declared an endangered species in the United

States, _____.
(A) people have gathered the ginseng root almost
to the point of extinction
(B) the ginseng root has been gathered almost to
the point of extinction
(C) the near extinction of the ginseng root is due to
excessive gathering
(D) gathering the ginseng root almost to the point
of extinction
12. The sudden expansion of heated air associated with
lightning produces _____ often heard during a
storm.
(A) thunder is the rumbling sound
(B) the rumbling sound, thunder is
(C) the rumbling sound, thunder, that
(D) thunder, the rumbling sound
3. _____ born, a baby kangaroo measures less than

three inches in length.
(A) One is
(B) When is one
(C) Is one
(D) When it is
8. Balinese cats, which are a cross between Siamese

and long-haired cats, _____ medium length silky
coats of fur.
(A) they have
(B) have
(C) which have
13. Henry Ford revolutionized production management
(D) having
by_____ into small steps on a moving line.
4. _____ daily promotes physical as well as emotional
(A) breaking down auto assembly
well-being in people of all ages.
9. _____ when a person doesn't eat enough fruit and
(B) broken down auto assembly
(A) Having exercised
vegetables.
(C) he broke down auto assembly
(B) Those who exercise
(A) Depleting gradually, potassium can occur
(D) auto assembly breaking down
(C) Exercising
(B) Gradual potassium depletion can occur
(D) For exercising
(C) Since potassium can gradually be depleted
14. In carpentry, _____ "ceiling joists" refers to boards
(D) Since gradually depleting potassium can occur
hung down from unfinished ceilings as the
5. The financial manager's job ------ among the many
backbone from which finishing materials can be
sources of finance for the best interest rates
10. Anthropologist Guy Swenson _____ that witchcraft
hung.
available.
beliefs are prevalent in societies in which social
(A) to the term
(C) the term
(A) to shop around is
groups interact without formal mechanisms for
(B) is termed
(D) to term
(B) to shop around it is
social control.
(C) is it to shop around
(A) he found
15. _____ the 35 years between the end of the Civil
(D) is to shop around
(B) found
War and the turn of the century, the population of
(C) finding
the United States doubled, and manufacturing
(D) was found
production increased sevenfold.
(A) Into
(C) At
(B) In
(D) To
16. One important agent of erosion is the glacier, which is an accumulated of snow
A
slowly pressed into ice.

C
within a vast, dense ball of gas.

D
19. Paleoanthropologists believe that prehistoric man was innate a gentle,

A
cooperative, food-sharing creature.

C
recreational time and facilities safe money on health insurance in the long run.
C
21. Metal and glass containers can be recycled, and several states are
A
22. The desire to species preservation is a primary motivator for many kinds of
A
the gene in that codes for a type of peroxidase found in tobacco plants.
C
31. When the Panic of 1857, some U.S. citizens who had been rich or comfortable
A
became poor while a few others, capitalizing on economic shifts, became richer.
C
32. Many artists receive promote backing from government agencies as well as from
A
33. Dr.Frank Conrad's musical radio broadcasts in 1919 led Westinghouse open the
A
first fully licensed commercial broadcasting system in the United States on

C
year ago.
C
35. Organisms that are related are usually identifiable by at less some similarities in
23. In 1987, molecular biologist L. Mark Lagrimini of Ohio State University cloned
B
34. The rocks of the Cambrian period of prehistory were formed 500 to 600 million
animal behavior, including reproduction.
November 2,1920.
currently contemplating mandatory recycling laws for either.

C
30. Theoretical biologist Aristid Lindenmayer is known for him description of the
private individuals and firms.
20. Many corporate advisors feel that companies that provide their employees with
A
developmental processes in multicellular structures.
18. It has long been known as an entire cluster of galaxies may sometimes lie buried
A
articles often have large staffs to write and edit the editorial page.
17. Ethnolinguists study language as it relates to society, culture, and human

behaving.
29. Newspapers metropolitan that pride themselves on the quality of their opinion
anatomical structure and embryonic development.

C
36. With the development of underwater breathing equipment, helmeted divers

A
24. To fit on an ecosystem, an organism must be able to adapt or become a part of it.
can now descend six hundred foot if they breathe a special mixture of gases.
25. Arteries with poorly blood flow can leave the heart muscle starved for oxygen, a
37. According to Cherokee legend, a woman named Grandmother Spider brought to
condition that often leads to heart attack.
26. Christopher Columbus first seen Native Americans when he discovered the
A
Caribbean Islands on October 12,1492.
27. Alpine Saint Bernards are too good at following the scent of humans, even in
A
snow, that they are used by ski patrols as rescue dogs.

C
they was dramatic and direct, possessing a frankness unlike that of most other
B
her people the light of intelligence and to experience.

D
38. Many of the mammals that dwell in the desert are active only at a night as the
A
intense heat of a desert day can be fatal to warm-blooded animals.
39. The building blocks of the proteins necessary for life are amino acids, much of
A
which cannot be synthesized by the body and must be included in the diet.
28. The writing of Elizabeth Stoddard was praised by her contemporaries because
writing of the time.
40. The cytoskeleton of a cell provides structural support also coordinates cell
division, growth, and morphology.

Practice Test V (Heinemann 1997)

Section II
1. ______ growing awareness of social ills, Edna Saint
Vincent Millay wrote increasingly more somber
poetry during her later years.
(A) A
(B) Because her
(C) When a
(D) Due to her
6. ______ young, Eugene O'Neill traveled with his

father's theatrical company, and the stage was an
important part of his life.
(A) When was he
(B) He was
(C) Was he
(D) When he was
11. Scientists believe that the beaver's instinct to build

dams is more complex than ______ other animal
instinct.
(A) most
(B) all
(C) any
(D) these
2. ______ categorized as lipids.

(A) Fats and also oils
(B) While fats and oils
(C) Fats and oils are
(D) Fats and oils
7. Vitamins are organic compounds ______ and must

be ingested to maintain proper bodily functions.
(A) that they can't be produced by the body
(B) the body can't produce them
(C) that can't be produced by the body
(D) not produced them by the body
12. Considered unique and exotic, ______.

(A) over 4,000 American households keep the llama
as a pet
(B) there are over 4,000 American households that
keep the llama as a pet
(C) the llama is kept as a pet in over 4,000
American households
(D) the llama kept as a pet in over 4,000 American
households
3. The role of the mass media in influencing public

policy decisions, maintaining or changing the status
quo of our society, and ______ outlets for all types
of views is enormous.
(A) as it provides
(B) to provide
(C) provide
(D) providing
8. ______ business managers plan the tasks that their

employees are to carry out.
(A) It is the organizing process
(B) They process the organizing
(C) While the organizing process
(D) Through the organizing process
9. Copper is the favored metal for electricians' wire
because of ______.
(A) it is an excellent conductor
(B) its excellent conductivity
(C) excellent conductivity of it
(D) so conductive is it
4. ______ earth might be experiencing a global

warming trend which could have devastating
climatic effects.
(A) In the
(B) The
(C) Where the
(D) Whole
16. The tiny nucleus of an atom is held together by forces powerful capable of
B
quite high on the surface of Triton, one of the moons of Neptune.

D
26. Water and petroleum are the only two liquids what occur in large quantities in
B
27. Allowing children to help plan and prepare family meals provides enjoyable
A
learning experiences that later encouraging them to eat the foods they
B
have prepared.
calming roughness water.

D
37. Desiring to leave their own marks of identity inside the White House, most
A
presidents' wives redecorate at least some portion of its rooms as soon as arrival
34. Raindrops falling on the ocean reduce the number of breaking waves, thereby
exhausting than any European war between 1815 and 1914.
nature.
bring about behavior which in fact causes these conditions to worsen.
25. However unavoidable the Civil War may have been, it was more devastating also
C
36. According to a Keynesian economist, expects economic conditions to worsen can
24. Neither oil drilling or gas exploration can be prevented from steadily changing the
A
33. Unlike most liquids, which contract when they solidify, water expands by nine
good health is estimated at less than four ounces per day.
face of the Arctic.
are such similar as to be mutually intelligible.
23. The amount of red meat needed to provision sufficient protein for maintaining
A
35. The languages spoken by the Alaskan Eskimos and the Inuit of northern Canada
which invites complete emotional and physical participation by its audience.

C
32. The rate of stomach cancer is lowest in countries where people don't eat processed
22. Contemporary poet Alien Ginsberg prides him on his ability to create poetry
B
percentage when it freezes.
21. The incidence of which is now referred to as cryovolcanism, or ice volcanoes, is

A
meat products than in nations where such foods are consumed.
20. A square is a geometric shape which is as long as is tall and which has four right
angles.
an ecological pyramid.
19. Thanksgiving Day, a uniquely North American holiday, is celebrated in the United
A
31. Substances such as DDT become more concentrated in each successively level in
States on the four Thursday in November.
30. In accordance the wishes of most of his electorate, President Franklin D.

Roosevelt postponed entering the Second World War until December 11, 1941.
18. The discovering of quarks, minute particles of matter, has led to a new age in
particle physics.
from a specific locations on the sun's surface.
17. Because of their beautiful coloration, palomino horses does often chosen as show
A
15. By careful seeding, weathermakers can encourage

two small clouds to merge into one big cloud
______ produce a powerful thunderstorm.
(A) so
(B) these
(C) which
(D) and
29. Solar astronomers have recently observed bursts of coherent radio waves coming
unleashing great energy.
horses for parades.
14. One of the most influential Virginians of colonial

times, ______in England.
(A) the education received by William Bin
(B) was the education that William Bird received
(C) William Bird was educated
(D) the education that William Bird received
10. Chemicals in paint that pose a fire hazard ______ as

combustible, flammable, or extremely flammable.
(A) are listed
(B) listed
(C) being listed
(D) they are listed
5. Depressant drugs ______ historically have been

known to be addictive are called narcotics.
(A) and
(B) which
(C) they
(D) about which
13. Anxiety about uncontrollable situations is thought to

cause ______.
(A) to fitfully sleep
(B) fitful sleep
(C) fitful in sleep
(D) sleep fitfully
there.
38. Generally speaking, proteins that come from animal sources are complete whereas
A
those that come from another sources are incomplete proteins.

C
39. Even although he is best remembered as a writer, Walt Whitman was also a
A
newspaper publisher, teacher, and farmer.

D
40. The first domesticated bird in earth was probably the goose.
A
28. According to many economists, international specialization in the production of

A
some goods, such as cars and computers, increase world efficiency and output,
B
making all nations richer.

Practice Test I (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. John Denver _______ in October 1997 during a
flight in his new aircraft near Monterey, California.
(A) unfortunately killing
(B) he was killed
(C) to kill
(D) was killed
6. Our ability to see greatly influences _____ we

perceive the world around us.
(A) us
(B) and
(C) how
(D) in which
2. Iodine, needed for the thyroid gland to function

properly, _____ from iodized salt or seafood.
(A) obtaining
(B) can be obtained
(C) to obtain
(D) it is obtained
7. Recovery time after surgery has decreased _____

have been developed.
(A) procedures are less invasive
(B) less invasive procedures
(C) to proceed less invasively
(D) now that less invasive procedures
3. Some experts feel that children lose a great deal of

what _____ during the school year over the long
summer vacation.
(A) they learn
(B) do they learn
(C) learner
(D) learning
8. The Cheetah, the fastest bicycle in the world, cruises

at nearly 70 mph, _____ reaches speeds up to only
30 mph.
(A) the convention of a bicycle
(B) the conventional bicycle
(C) whereas the conventional bicycle
(D) conventionally, a bicycle
4. Many thousands and sometimes even millions of

______ in a single colony.
(A) ants living
(B) the lives of ants
(C) ants live
(D) living ants
9. The koala never drinks water because it gets all the

liquid that _____ from the leaves of eucalyptus trees.
(A) the need for it
(B) needing it
(C) it needs
(D) it needs is
14. _____ away from the Sun is the pressure of the solar
wind.
(A) The tail of a comet always points
(B) What keeps the tail of a comet always pointing
(C) Why does it keep the tail of a comet pointing
(D) The tail of a comet that always points
5. The Pilgrims felt that cold ocean water was bad for
their health, _____ ate fish when food supplies were
low.
(A) they only
(B) when only
(C) so they only
(D) because they
10. The stomach also secretes ammonia, a powerful

alkali, _____ as a neutralizing agent to the gastric
acid.
(A) which acts
(B) it acts
(C) acts
(D) that act
15. Motorists spend four times more on car repairs

resulting from bad roads than _____ state highway
departments on maintaining the roads.
(A) doing
(B) from
(C) to do from
(D) do
16. Lake Superior, located between Canada and the United States, cover nearly thirty
A
thousand square miles.
18. All plastics have in common the fact that them consist of large organic molecules.
B
19. Euclid was a Greek mathematician who, in 300 B.C., wrote prodigiously a
A
25. Many lumber mills shut down in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the federal
A
government restricted logging in an ancient forests of the N orthwest to protect the

C
35. Abandoning towns are often called ghost towns, but sometimes a handful of people
A
37. A moon that forms at the same time as a planet typically orbits around the planet's
A
38. Most of the more than 50 different blends of coffee imported to the United States
A
comes from Central and South American countries.
39. Ice covers roughly ten percent of the Earth's land surface, which is about the same
A
number as farms.
40. In an isosceles triangle, two sides are congruent and two angles are congruent, so
A
26. Hollywood, a famous center of movie and record production is located

A
equator and found within a few hundred thousand miles of the planet.
Southern California.
24. Fiber optic tubing carries hundreds of times more information per second than do
an hour, an hurricane is the most extreme form of a tropical cyclone.
not only mites and ticks but also scorpions.
northern spotted owl.
36. A huge counterclockwise swirl of warm moist air with winds greater than 75 miles
23. Either insects nor "bugs," spiders belong to the order of Araneida, which includes
wire communication cable.
inhabit these towns that once were home to hundreds or even thousands.
22. In 1940, the Oldsmobile corporation produced his first fully automatic
transmission automobile.
resemble individual reed organs.
information to an enemy.
to transmit telephone and telegraph signals.

A
opponent's life.
34. A traitor betrays the confidant of his or her country by revealing classified
21. In July 1962, AT&T launches Telstar, which was the first communication satellite
A
formed by tears so that vision stays clear and eyes feel comfortable.
20. Boston became the bigger town in the colony called Massachusetts, which
was started by the Puritans.
31. At the fourth century B.C., the "thumbs up" gesture was used to give silent
33. A protective film that is spread over the surface of the eye with each blink
monumental work on geometry.
13. Were _____, they would miss up to 30 percent of

their required calories.
(A) not allow young children to snack
(B) with snacks for young children
(C) no snacks be allowed for young children
(D) young children not allowed to snack
32. On an accordian, each of the keyboards on either side of the bellows effectively
12. Once _____ as a state in 1850, California imposed a

tax of $20 a month on foreign miners.
(A) instituting
(B) instituted
(C) the institution
(D) to institute
instructions to Etruscan gladiators in the arena about whether or not to spare an
17. Ultralight airplanes can being used to guide whooping cranes to their wintering
grounds.
11. In 1848, men from the Miwok and other Indian tribes
_____ half of the 4,000 miners working in the Gold
Country of California.
(A) and made up
(B) to make up
(C) which they made up
(D) made up
the third side and another angle are not congruent.
27. Eighteen-year-old gymnast Keri Strugg won the 1996 gold medal even though she
A
has broken her ankle in the Olympic event.

C
28. The acrid fumes of the combination of the two chemicals, ammonia and chlorine,
A
can be fatally to humans.

C
29. In autumn, many newspapers and magazines publish lists of year chores to prepare
A
a house for winter snow and rain.
30. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron
A
Copland, premiered with Graham in leading role.

C

Practice Test II (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. Even identical twins _____ fingerprints.
(A) distinct
(B) with distinct
(C) having distint
(D) have distinct
6. ______ trees that are too large for them to haul to a

nearby stream.
(A) Beavers, which often fell
(B) The fall of beavers and
(C) Beavers often fell
(D) How beavers fell
2. During an introduction, _____ helpful to say

something interesting and polite to make the
conversation easier.
(A) is
(B) it is
(C) to it
(D) its
7. Nearly 100 years ago, doctors in the United States

started recommending peanut butter as a good source 12. When _____ in the early 1940s, the sun's corona was
of protein, yet nobody _____ who first invented it.
found to be a baffling 2.7 million degrees Fahrenheit.
(A) knowing
(A) measuring
(B) with the knowledge
(B) was measured
(C) knows
(C) measured
(D) who knows
(D) in measuring
3. The substance holding every atom together _____

{gluon{ because it acts like a kind of cosmic glue.
(A) calling
(B) and calling
(C) is called
(D) with the call of
8. Mike Fink was a colorful American frontiersman

whose adventures _____ of numerous folktales and
legends.
(A) served as a basis
(B) as the basis serving
(C) the basis to serve
(D) to serve the basis
4. One of the most committed ______ shouted, "Give

me liberty or give me death!" in a stirring speech just
prior to the start of the American Revolution.
(A) Patrick Henry was a patriot
(B) patriotic Patrick Henry
(C) patriot was Patrick Henry
(D) patriots, Patrick Henry
14. We can determine the family that a bird falls into by

_____ like.
(A) what are the shape and behavior of a bird
(B) what the bird's shape and behavior
(C) the shape and behavior of a bird
(D) what the shape and behavior of a bird are
15. At no time _____ Susan B. Anthony pay the fine she
was charged for voting in a presidential election in
1872.
(A) did suffragist
(B) the suffragist
(C) to the suffragist
(D) was suffragist
10. Nowhere in the United States but in New Jersey

_____ so many people per square mile.
(A) there
(B) there are
(C) there is
(D) are there
16. Anyone who has ever skied down a mountain have felt the dual forces of gravity
A
13. _____ used to lure children into behaving better can

work at first, but the results are often temporary.
(A) Rewards are
(B) Rewards
(C) To reward
(D) Rewards which
9. Apogee, a variety of wheat being developed for

growth in space, grows only 18 inches high, _____
up to 1,000 bushels per acre under constant high
light.
(A) it yields
(B) yet yielding
(C) yet it yielded
(D) yet it yields
5. Though rain forests _____ about ten percent of the

Earth's surface, today one half of the rain forests are
gone.
(A) once covered
(B) one cover
(C) coverage at once
(D) covering once
and friction.
11. The new electric cars run partially on free energy

_____ installed at businesses have no means by
which to measure or bill for the electricity used.
(A) with rechargers
(B) as rechargers
(C) recharging
(D) using rechargers
31. Most castles in the Middle Ages had water-filled moats and others means of
A
17. The ordinary short bow was first used 8,000 years earlier the English long bow.
A
18. Insects are an important part of the diet of every hummingbirds.

A
B C
19. The natural immunity that a person gains by having chicken pox when still child is
B
apparently very long-lasting in virtually all cases.
20. Women have marched and dying in battle from the American Revolution to recent
A
times.
northern Minnesota's iron range.
are dominated by carbon dioxide gas.

C
22. Rain forests help renew ours atmosphere by converting most of the world's carbon
A
dioxide into oxygen.
23. A platypus is a small animal from Australia that lays always eggs, even though it is
A
a mammal, walks on webbed feet, and eats with a bill shaped like a duck's.
C
to appear bent.
C
floral, making them ideal for summer bouquets.

B
34. From the perspective of an observer on the ground, distant images will appear
B
mass.
35. Terns and gulls prefer living on sandy beaches, while ducks and gooses opt for
A
living on muddy shores or in salt marshes.
36. Afraid civilians usually flee war-torn cities seeking refuge in more peaceful areas.
A
37. The Himalayas, a mountain range that is still growing slowly, were formed the
A
38. The internal pressure of the Earth's molten core forced landmasses to break
25. Some concepts that English signals by means of free morphemes are indicated in a
A
synthetic language alike Hungarian with bound morphemes.

B
26. It is not always true that the higher a person's income, greater the happiness and
A
inner contentment.
27. Most white Southerners supported the Civil War to the end out of dedication to the
A
Confederate nation, which was symbolized Robert E. Lee and the Army of
completely cooled.
39. Comets, which are heavenly bodies with star-like nuclei and tails, appear
A
Northern Virginia.
luminously when visiting our skies as many as five or more times each year.
D
40. A black-and-white coat of the giant panda makes it one of the most distinctive,
A
appealing, and instantly recognizable mammals in the world.

C
apart into separate continents billions of years ago, before the Earth's crust has
projected on the sky if there were an inversion of cool, dense air over a hot air
collision of India with Asia, landmasses which at one time were separated.
24. The refraction of light waves cause a pencil which is placed in water
33. Cosmos, zinnias, asters, and bachelor's buttons all linger longer than other summer
21. Nearly four billion years ago, the atmospheric conditions on both Earth and Venus
32. Some of the most extensive deposits of taconite, a low-grade iron ore, is located in
A
protection, such as drawbridges, high stone walls, and battle towers.
28. The star Betelgeuse, in the large constellation Orion, is so large that were it
A
centered in the Sun's position, their radius would extend beyond Mars.
29. In California, pedestrians have the right to cross at every intersection in both
A
marking and unmarking crosswalks, unless a sign specifically prohibits crossing.

B
30. Scientists tinkering with gene therapy think that they have found a way to make
A
an unhealthy and malfunctioning hearts grow their own bypasses.

C

Practice Test III (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. Oxygen is necessary for the survival of most
organisms, but _____ these organisms.
(A) damaged
(B) it can also damage
(C) is damaging
(D) the damage
6. Although the strawberry _____ a fruit, it is actually

the base of the strawberry flower.
(A) a look like
(B) like a look
(C) liking to look
(D) looks like
11. A fluorescent lamp contains _____ glows with white

light when electricity passes through it.
(A) a glass tube
(B) a tube is made of glass
(C) a glass tube that
(D) a glass tube that it
2. _____ from the flax plant can be made into linen.

(A) Fibers
(B) They are fibers
(C) With fibers
(D) Fibers are
7. Hardly ever _____ out of the loop at work; on the

contrary, they often get more work done and see
more of their families.
(A) telecommuters feel
(B) do telecommuters feel
(C) the telecommuters
(D) the feeling of telecommuters
12. Dogs have more scent receptors than _____, so dogs

can be trained to smell many things that humans
cannot smell.
(A) do humans
(B) with humans
(C) too humane
(D) humanly
3. About 5,000 years ago, _______ was developed

simultaneously and independently by both the
Chinese and the Egyptians.
(A) the fan
(B) fans
(C) they were fans
(D) it fanned
8. Data about butterflies accumulate each Fourth of

13. When the Hubble Space Telescope focused for ten
July as _____ all over the United States participate in
days on a dark patch of sky the size of a grain of
an annual butterfly count.
sand, what initially appeared to be empty space
(A) butterfly watching
_____ thousands of distant galaxies.
(B) and watching butterflies
(A) turned out to be filled with
(C) so butterflies watch
(B) it turned out to be filled
(D) butterfly watchers
(C) turning out to be filled with
(D) and it turned out to fill
9. _____ is lubricated can affect the longevity of the
moving parts that rub together.
14. Though _____ on millions of people, "Black
(A) How often machines
Thursday," the stock market collapse of October 24,
(B) A machine often
1929, did not cause the economic depression that
(C) Often a machine
followed.
(D) How often a machine
(A) having depressing effects
(B) to affect depressingly
10. In the Civil War, about two-thirds of the property
(C) have depressing effects
_____ by Southerners was lost, their economy was
(D) have depressed effectively
wrecked, and much of their land was devastated.
(A) was owned
15. Should _____ early injections against diseases, they
(B) owned
might have a lower risk of infection in late preschool
(C) to own
and early school age.
(D) it will own
(A) receive
(B) children's reception
(C) be receiving
(D) children receive
4. Jean-Claude Van Damme, usually _______ in hit

movies as the hero, surprisingly is the villain in the
movie {No Retreat, No Surrender.{
(A) stars
(B) to star
(C) starring
(D) is the star
5. Lotto winners _____ their winnings in one lump
sum, are now being paid in equal annual payments.
(A) originated the pay of
(B) were originally paid
(C) originally paid
(D) the pay was originally
16. Most of the rocks in the Grand Canyon is red, but others are green, violet, mauve,
A
pink, and dark brown.
important than beautiful in commercial handwriting.
attacks or their need for surgery by 74 percent.

D
20. When two fractions are added, it is important to remember that both fractions must
A
have commonly denominators.
32. The Tour de France, always held each year during the month of July, is one of the
A
mostly grueling cycling races held all year long.

D
which protect they when drinking by controlling the rush of blood to their heads.
B
23. The United States was divided into four time zones in 1883, and the year next the
A
entire world was divided into 24 standard time zones based on the meridians, or
D
lines of longitude.
A
year or expect an income tax return.

D
represents 30 percent increase in two years.

C
36. Years ago, dogs with hip dysplasia and another arthritic joint conditions had little
A
37. Lincoln had to make a lot of menial jobs, such as splitting rails and delivering mail,
A
38. A comparison of the ancient mitochondrial DNA sequences of Neanderthal fossils

A
Homo sapiens.
39. Automated highway systems currently under development combine advancing
27. Bats locate insects by means of sonar, but some moths were able to avoid capture
A
to sequences from modern humans indicate that Neanderthals were not ancestors of
26. Seventy percent of all cancers can, through a healthy diet and lifestyle, probably
by sending out a jamming signal.
35. At least 11 million Americans telecommute, a change in work styles which
in his early years.
25. A U.S. tax return must be filed if a taxpayer pays income tax payments during that
could be played lively.
quality of life.
24. Anything in our bodies that produces free radicals also increase the possibility of
permanent cell damage.
34. Benjamin Franklin invented an unusual instrument, the armonica, on which tunes
22. Giraffes have extremely elastic blood vessels and special valves in their neck veins
28. Fluorescent bulbs, which last ten times as long as incandescent bulbs and use a
A
quarter of the electricity, are now available in several different form that fit
incandescent sockets.
31. At the center of a spiral galaxy is gamma rays so powerful that no organic life
ago are found in the frozen Arctic regions.
Stephen J. Field of California transmitted a telegram to President Lincoln.
been prevented.
33. Remnants of warm-blooded, hairy mammoths that roam the Earth millions of years
21. In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sending as Justice
A
30. In 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathy Sullivan became a first
could possibly exist.
19. Many of Van Gogh's painters were based on his personal experiences and feelings.
B
American woman to walk in space.
18. A stress-management program has help heart patients reduce their risk of heart
the Mediterranean Sea.
17. Palmer, a famous American penman of the 1800s, realized that speed was more
29. The Nile River runs over 4,100 miles from it source in Lake Victoria, Uganda to
versions of today's cruise control and antilock braking systems and radar with
C
magnetic and motion sensors in the road.

D
40. Greek children gave their toys to the god Apollo and the goddess Artemis when
A
they reached puberty as a sign that childhood had come an end.

B

Practice Test IV (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. With 36 black keys and 52 white keys, _____ a total
of 88 keys.
(A) a piano having
(B) a piano has
(C) to have a piano
(D) have a piano
2. John Chapman of Massachusetts, known as Johnny
Appleseed, _____ 100,000 square miles of the early
United States planting apple trees as he traveled.
(A) trekking more than
(B) he trekked as much as
(C) to trek
(D) trekked over
3. When warm air rises, _____ and cools.
(A) it expands
(B) so it expands
(C) the expansion of it
(D) its expansion
6. _____ to live at high altitudes, so it is essential to

nomadic families in the Himalayas in spite of its
stubbornness.
(A) The yak is able
(B) The ability of the yak
(C) For the yak to be able
(D) Because the yak
11. More than 90 percent of all stars _____ from Earth

can be viewed from a mountain on the island of
Hawaii.
(A) visible
(B) visibility
(C) visibly
(D) are visible
7. It was about 500 million years ago when _____ on

Earth.
(A) did the first fish appear
(B) the appearance of the first fish
(C) were the first fish to appear
(D) the first fish appeared
12. Rarely _____ in airplanes until famous pilots like

Charles Lindbergh helped to show that air travel was
safe.
(A) people travel
(B) people
(C) did people travel
(D) to travel
8. Should _____ and strengthen the muscles that

support the back, they will reduce their susceptibility
to further injuries.
(A) patiently exercise
(B) back patients exercise
(C) back patients exercising
(D) back patients to exercise
4. No one knows when _____ to make bread.

(A) the first use of yeast
(B) yeast was first used
(C) the first yeast used
(D) was yeast first used
5. The intestines are the lower portion of the alimentary
canal _____ of an upper long winding part and a
lower shorter wider part.
(A) consist
(B) they consist
(C) consisting
(D) it consists
9. Expectorants can be very effective for coughs due to

conditions causing thick respiratory secretions,
though _____ less effective for coughs associated
with common colds.
(A) with their
(B) because they
(C) there
(D) they are
sail.
men and that women are live about seven years longer than men.
C
30. In October 1925, a fifteen-year-old boy named Bill Taynton appeared in

A
31. The Pilgrims and other early American settlers were like in that they washed their
A
inner layers of clothes often but only brushed the outer layers clean.
18. By the 1870s, ice made by machine so that it could be available everywhere,
regardless of the weather.
15. Viruses need to have more beneficial conditions in

which to replicate than _____.
(A) in bacteria
(B) do bacteria
(C) bacterial
(D) to do with bacteria
a segment brief on one of the very first experimental television sets.
17. Surveys have found that women are seeing doctors almost three times as often as
B
14. The speed _____ traveling when it leaves a track will

affect the distance between the animal's footprints.
(A) which an animal
(B) at which an animal is
(C) that an animal which is
(D) which an animal is
10. Although ______ a large percentage of desperadoes

and gamblers, Tombstone was perhaps the most
cultivated city of its day in the Southwest.
(A) was attracting
(B) to attract
(C) attracting
(D) the attraction
16. The oak's leaf canopies can weigh several tons each and catching the wind like a
A
13. It is rather ironic that the rhinoceros, _____ in mud

or dust to protect itself from sunburn.
(A) having an armor-plated hide to bathe
(B) with its armor-plated hide, must bathe
(C) bathing with its armor-plated hide
(D) with an armor-plated hide it must bathe
32. On Manhattan Island, the upper cluster of skyscrapers are about halfway up the
A
island in what is known as the midtown section.
19. In 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American
A
33. Louis L'Amour's more than 100 works, mostly Westerners that convincingly
A
system of rugged individualism" in an speech at New York's Madison Square
portray frontier life, have sold more than 200 million copies in 20 different
Garden.
languages.
20. Most of the lift in airplanes are caused by negative pressure on the lower surface of 34. In addition to its calls, body language and scent are the most important means of
A
the wings.
21. Internet browsers should easily allows computer owners to locate information on
the Internet.
communication among squirrels.

A
35. Leap years are those years which are even divisible by four except for century
A
years, which must be divisible by 400.
22. The first World Series outside the United States was playing in Toronto in 1992.
A
23. The moon snail preys on another mollusk by drilling various neat hole in the shell
A
and devouring whatever is hiding inside.

C
the ice mass cause the glacier to move.
25. The name of the Mississippi River is probably derived from either two Chippewa
A
Indian words meaning "great river" and an Algonquin Indian word, "messipi."
D
solid waste and other trash.
radiated from the sun.
39. The interest in walking is part of the larger reexamination of a city growth patterns
B
since World War II.
to be sung by choruses during the holiday season.
40. Putting together a toy can be made easier by looking at the diagram, reading the
27. During the dry season when water is scarce, elephants would dig for water in a
B
sandy riverbed.
benefits to Alka-Seltzer when he combined aspirin with baking soda.
26. Handel's Messiah is one of more frequently performed classical selections
36. Hub Beardsley, president of Dr. Miles Laboratories, accidentally discovered the
38. The moon's reflected light amounts to only a fraction of the light that had been
24. Only after a glacier accumulates 60 or more feet of ice and snow do the pressure of
37. Landfills can be improved simply by adding a layer of earth each day on top the
instructions, and then making what is required step by step.

C
28. The more subtle presentations of a heart attack can make a diagnoses difficult.
A
29. We usually get measles only once because ours bodies produce special chemical
defenses called antibodies.
C

Practice Test V (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. The _____ in our solar system all revolve around the
Sun.
(A) planets are nine
(B) nine planets
(C) nine planets are
(D) nine planetary
6. The Arctic Ocean is rich in plankton, which _____

during the summer months.
(A) the feed of blue whales
(B) feeding on the blue whales
(C) blue whales feed on
(D) the blue whales that feed on it
2. An outpatient is a patient ______ at a hospital during

the day but not staying overnight.
(A) is treated
(B) being treated
(C) he is treated
(D) to be treated
7. Mr. Johnson is over 80 years old, _____ over seven

feet and holds the world pole vault record for his age
group.
(A) yet he still
(B) yet he still pole vaults
(C) yet as a pole vaulter
(D) he still pole vaults
11. Government economic analysts are concerned about

_____ to the economy if prices were to rise so
quickly that they devalue the money supply.
(A) is what happens
(B) that it could happen
(C) what could happen
(D) could it happen
12. Were _____ too rapidly between low and high
altitudes, they would experience altitude sickness
because the body must work harder to breathe at
higher altitudes.
(A) with tourists traveling
(B) tourists to travel
(C) too touristlike
(D) for traveling
3. Before there were radios and radar, sailors had

trouble knowing exactly where _____; however, they 8. A fuel cell is a device _____ chemical energy to
could often learn their location during the day by the
electrical energy.
different colors and patterns on lighthouses.
(A) the conversion
13. A tsunami in the open ocean travels much faster than
(A) were they
(B) that converts
_____ closer to shore.
(B) were
(C) it converts
(A) does
(C) they were
(D) converts
(B) does one
(D) they
(C) does travel
9. Integra, an artificial skin used to treat severe burns, is
(D) travels
4. _____ funnel clouds, are also called cyclones,
replaced with a thin graft of the patient's own skin
twisters, or water spouts.
_____ have regenerated.
14. In 1994, the spacecraft {Clementine{ orbited the
(A) Tornadoes, twisting
(A) the inner dermal cells
moon and discovered that at the cold dark corners of
(B) Tornadoes are twisting
(B) giving the inner dermal cells'
the moon _____.
(C) Twisting tornadoes and
(C) as soon as the inner dermal cells
(A) the might of water
(D) In tornadoes, twisting
(D) with the inner dermal cells'
(B) water might be
(C) might be water
5. _____ lizards in appearance, they differ in longevity 10. Windansea Beach is the place where many of
(D) water might
and body heat regulation.
surfing's pioneers honed their skills before _____ the
(A) Resembling tuataras
big waves of Hawaii.
15. Sperm whales _____ among the largest whales and
(B) Resembling lizards, tuataras
(A) conquered
are the species immortalized in Herman Melville's
(C) Tuataras and
(B) conquering
classic book {Moby Dick{.
(D) Although tuataras resemble
(C) were conquering
(A) which are
(D) conquer
(B) in
(C) are
(D) they are
16. The rings of Saturn is actually made up of crushed rock fragments that revolve
A
around the planet.
30. Nasal spray vaccine can prevent influenza in healthy children, who are two to ten
times more likely to get the disease than is adults.
17. The design of the Yale lock is credited to Linus Yale, who adds inclined planes to
A
the cylinder lock in 1848.
31. On the Richter scale, earthquakes measuring below four are less serious than those
A
register above four.
18. River otters are well-known for they playfulness and agility in the water.
32. Most cactus have thick herbaceous or woody stems than contain chlorophyll.
19. One of the warning signs of a stroke is unexplained dizziness, unsteady, or sudden
33. The more greatly a person's eating and the less the amount of daily exercise,
falling.
the fatter and the more likely to develop heart disease the person is.
20. Found in virtually all cultures, the evil eye is one of the dreadedest beliefs about
A
bad luck.
34. When liquid forced through a nozzle is at high pressure, it emerged as a condensed
A
jet or a spray of droplets.
21. Approximately 1,800 thunderstorms are, at any given moment, occur throughout
A
the world.
35. The egg of a North African ostrich is six to seven inch long and takes no less than
A
40 minutes to hard-boil.
22. The first permanent photographer required an exposure time of nearly eight hours
A
to be developed.
theory of relativity.
37. A child who earns a weekly allowance can learn both to do a good use of money
A
and not to make daily requests for ice cream, candy, or toys.
24. All of the marbles existing today was formed millions of years ago deep under the
B
to produce a universal donor tissue.
39. Extended leaves, with or without pay, have become treasured and, over the last few
A
years, increasingly common benefit for long-term and even relatively short-term
26. Ice is sometimes use in making concrete by contractors to slow down the
B
hardening process.
38. Native Americans granted their own land and with it the power of self-governance
within the framework of federal law.
25. Geneticists hope that by altering the genes of certain stem cells they would be able
36. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the "gas giants" because of the
fact that they are made by little or no solid material.
23. In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for its work on the general
Earth.
employees.
40. Like volcanoes, mountains are both high and elevated, but they are not like in that
27. Fish that live in the depths of the ocean have the specialty ability to maintain the
A
volcanoes are made from the buildup of their own lava, ash, and dust.
same pressure inside their bodies as the water pressure outside.

C
28. On May 18,1980, the asleep volcano, Mount Saint Helens, awoke in a fury, killing
A
57 people as it erupted.
29. The emperor penguin is a largest of all penguin species and can grow to a height of
A
four feet and weight of ninety-plus pounds.

Practice Test VI (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. _____ plays only a few low tones, but it can be used
to accompany other instruments or voices.
(A) The primitive bagpipe
(B) The bagpipe is primitive
(C) Because of the primitive bagpipe
(D) The primitive bagpipe's
6. A fir tree growing in nature _____ rather like a

pyramid.
(A) a tendency to be shaped
(B) the shape tends to be
(C) tends to be shaped
(D) a tendency of the shape
11. Benny Goodman, who made swing music popular,

_____ along with his band after performing at the
Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles in 1935.
(A) to become an overnight success
(B) becoming an overnight success
(C) in becoming an overnight success
(D) became an overnight success
2. Cinderella, _____ from ninth-century China, featured 7. The beaver _____, which it uses to propel itself
a noiseless slipper of gold.
though the water like a paddle.
(A) was a fairy tale
(A) with a thick, flat tail
(B) a fairy tale was
(B) it has a thick flat tail
(C) a fairy tale
(C) whose tail is thick and flat
(D) it was a fairy tale
(D) has a thick, flat tail
3. Children need to be aware of driving safety, _____
old enough to drive or not.
(A) they are
(B) to their
(C) whether they are
(D) their not
12. In the preparation of pie crusts, biscuits, or scones,

_____ are beaten with the fat until the dough is
crumbly, at which time the liquids are added.
(A) the ingredients are dry
(B) the dry ingredients
(C) to dry the ingredients
(D) drying the ingredients
8. Seabirds lay elongated eggs, _____ less likely to be

blown out of rocky nests.
(A) are
(B) which are
(C) they are
(D) therefore, they are
13. A skier making telemark turns _____ to be

genuflecting down the mountain.
(A) that appear
(B) appears
(C) in the appearance
(D) appear
4. _____ of American high school students successfully 9. Geologists know _____ commonly found enveloped
pass math courses in elementary calculus.
in igneous rock.
(A) The percent is less than two
(A) that uranium
(B) At less than two percent
(B) that uranium is
(C) Less than two percent
(C) uranium
(D) With a percent of less than two
(D) is that uranium
5. The Australian boomerang, curved and flat, _____ to
the thrower.
(A) the return
(B) and returned
(C) returnable
(D) returns
14. Superconductivity will revolutionize the way that

energy is used for the next millennium, and _____
the first truly superconductive substance will be
remembered as a technological hero.
(A) what the discovery of
(B) the discovery of
(C) whose discovery of
(D) whoever discovers
10. On American rails in 1913 _____ more than 10,000

Pullman sleepers, which gave rest to 100,000
passengers a night in the world's biggest hotel chain.
(A) were
(B) train cars were
(C) the train cars
(D) being
15. Should _____ California cuisine, you would find an

eclectic mix of Asian, European, Latin American,
and other influences.
(A) try
(B) you try
(C) trying
(D) you tried
16. A estimated 52 million Americans are doing at least some of their work from home 29. Scanning, dislike reading slowly to find the contextual meaning of a vocabulary
A
by using computers.
17. The bee hummingbird of the Caribbean is the smallest of the amethyst woodstar
A
bird.
to find a key word or phrase.
30. Laser surgery to repair nearsightedness is becoming common over the past several
18. Nearly every plant that develops roots are dependent on the mechanical and
A
19. Levi jeans were first wear by California gold miners and were made popular in the
A
considered more safe when involved in accidents.

B
supplied with molten wax as it burns.

B
through computer bulletin boards.
23. The stegosaurus weighed approximately two tons, yet their brain cavity was
35. The sheep industry has been breeding larger sheeps to make lamb chops closer
in size to pork chops and therefore more attractive to the consumer.
24. During flight, the forces of lift and thrust overcomes the counterforces of weight
A
and drag.
36. Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes primarily uses the orchestra as the
A
accompanist, but during "Sea Interludes" the orchestra is lone in carrying the
25. The ancient game of chess, once the game of eccentrics, is all of a sudden boom in
A
grade schools.
made a stunning 180 million-mile voyage.
27. Most people do not realize that sixty percent of the English words that are used
A
every day in this century came from Latin and Greek, two languages early which
B
are seldom spoken today.
insecure stock market investments will be and the least likely profit taking will be.
C
39. One of the most electrifying, no soon-to-be-forgotten moments in Super Bowl

A
history occurred in 1989 when quarterback Joe Montana led the San Francisco
28. In 1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect under a Fair Labor Standards Act
B
Chester Arthur, and other was Calvin Coolidge.
38. According to in-the-know analysts, the higher a bull market climbs, the more
opera.
37. Two presidents of the United States of America were from Vermont; one was
26. The first successful planetary probe has reached Venus in December 1962 after it
of 1938.
34. Freeware is a category of software that mostly distributed on the Internet or
helicoptors are neither as fuel efficient nor as speedily as tiltrotors.
merely the size of a golf ball.
22. Both helicopters and tiltrotors are capable of vertical and horizontal flight, but
C
33. A candle relied on the capillary action of the wick, which keeps the flame
21. When hunting for fish, dolphins emit loud clicking sounds to confuse theirs prey.
32. Typically less than half of the trees in a coniferous forest is old-growth timber.
detrimental as underemployed people have either more time or unusing skills to

offer the workplace.
20. Small cars are involved in less accidents than large ones, but large cars are
B
31. Economic reports often focus on unemployment, but underemployment is equally
1950s by James Dean and Marlon Brando.
years.
chemical environment provided by the silicate structure of clay.
word, is a reading skill that requires the reader to skim quickly through a passage
Forty-Niners 92 yards down the field for the game-winning touchdown.

D
40. In liquid form, an acid will turn blue litmus paper red and react for bases to form
A
salts.

Practice Test VII (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. _____ of the moon was drawn in 1650 by the
astronomer Riccioli.
(A) The map was the first
(B) He was mapping
(C) The first map
(D) Is the first map
2. The brain accounts for about two percent of body
weight, but _____ about twenty percent of the
oxygen that is breathed.
(A) the use of
(B) using
(C) used to be
(D) it uses
3. Some rodents have biological clocks that tell them to
move around at night when _____ them.
(A) can predators not easily find
(B) to find predators
(C) predators cannot easily find
(D) with predators
4. _____ cud just like a cow, the long-necked African
giraffe survives by stretching its neck to pluck leaves
off tall trees.
(A) It chews
(B) Chewing
(C) The chew of
(D) They chew
5. _____ a stiffener in corsets of seventeenth-century
women, was not really bone but gristle from the
mouth of a whale.
(A) Whalebone was
(B) With whalebone,
(C) Whalebone,
(D) For whalebone to be
6. Rapidly spinning black holes and neutron stars make

the space around them swirl like water _____ a
drain.
(A) running down
(B) which are running down
(C) ran down
(D) to run down
11. On the surface of the sun _____ magnetic spots that

pump a continuous flow of heat and energy from the
interior up to the surface.
(A) the
(B) are
(C) places are
(D) in the
7. _____ well camouflaged in the dappled shade of a

high tree branch that it perches on while it waits
silently for prey below.
(A) The jaguar is
(B) Why the jaguar
(C) The jaguar
(D) The jaguar that is
12. {Volunteer Vacations,{ published by Chicago

Review Press, lists opportunities for volunteers to
travel and work, _____ to teach, help maintain parks,
assist in archeological digs, or even decorate a Rose
Parade float.
(A) whether they want
(B) they want
(C) their wants
(D) want them
8. _____ was legal to use the American flag in political

advertising before the turn of the century,
presidential candidates at that time decorated flags
with all sorts of slogans and artwork.
(A) It
(B) Since it
(C) Due to
(D) Because
9. What is known as an "open cluster" _____ of
anywhere between a few dozen and a few thousand
stars.
(A) consisting
(B) that consists
(C) it consists
(D) may consist
10. The second largest number of votes received during
the first U.S. presidential election _____, who
became vice president under George Washington.
(A) for John Adams
(B) went to John Adams
(C) by John Adams
(D) was John Adams
16. Fifty-six percent of Americans with cancer will survived at least five years after
A
diagnosis.
19. The length of the wingspan of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet is greater than the entire
A
the caber," in which they throw logs as far as they can.

C
Roquefort cheese, which comes from ewe's milk.
lightning flashes within the cloud.

C
33. In 1833, Ada Lovelace, who took it from herself to explain Charles Babbage's
21. On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday, prices collapsed amid panic selling, and
A
wonderful ideas about a new machine, helped people to realize the possibilities of
thousands of investors were completely wipes out as America's Great Depression

C
began.
32. When the changes of the electric charge in a cloud becomes strong enough,
20. All of the varieties of blue cheese is made from cow's milk with the exception of
A
30. Most tulip bulbs should be planted to depth three times their length; therefore, in
31. In the Scottish Highland Games, the competitors participate a contest called "toss
distant of the first flight by the Wright brothers.
15. Despite its small size and slow gait, the wolverine is
an effective predator, for what it lacks in speed and
size _____ in strength and endurance.
(A) its make-up
(B) making it up
(C) it makes up
(D) and it makes up
inches.
18. Nuclear power plants can provide we with a source of nonpolluting energy.
A
14. If _____ space suits, astronauts have problems with

radiation and extreme temperatures.
(A) to not wear
(B) do not wear
(C) no wearing
(D) not wearing
the case of all but the smaller species of tulips, this should be about four to six
17. Under the tongue, there is three pairs of salivary glands.

A
13. Studies have shown that the elderly who are pet
owners have lower blood pressure than ______ who
live without pets.
(A) for the elderly to do
(B) elderly
(C) do the elderly
(D) to the elderly
the computer.
34. The small intestine, measuring 21 feet in length, is the longest of the wider large
22. A ROM (read only memory) chip is able to store memory permanently even when
A
the electric current was switched off.
23. If one eats too quickly without chewing, you might get indigestion.
B
hundreds of other gadgets, and everything that he invented are on display in a

C
36. Although most U.S. presidents earned degrees from colleges and universities, a
A
little, the most famous of whom were Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, did not.
C
cooking molds used for serving both puddings or fancy desserts.

C
illustrations were well paid.
C D
38. A Howdy Doody marionette and more than 100 other pieces of memorabilia from
B
the classic children's television show bought for more than $300,000 at auction.
27. When a gorilla drinks water, it first soaks the back of it hand and then sucks the
water out of its fur.
knits, from a lightweight jersey made from a thin yarn to an heavy jacquard
incorporating thick yarns.
26. In the late 1800s, publications used drawings rather than photographs, so good
39. Before they were aware that they were crushing alive creatures, divers walked on
A
coral reefs, breaking the fragile skeletons of these marine polyps and killing whole
28. In 1948, the new chemical compound polyethylene allowed the inventor Earl S.
A
Tupper to develop Tupperware, which is remarkably pliant and looks attractively.

B
29. Bomb dogs, as opposed to patrol or attack dogs, complete a several-month

A
intensive trained program before qualifying as FAA-certified dogs.

C
37. Knitting machines can be programmed to produce a seemingly endless variety of
25. Pineapple motifs symbolizing hospitality often appeared on early American
worms will spontaneously generate from mud.
24. Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the lightbulb, but he also invented
museum in Ohio.
35. Before Louis Pasteur disproved the misconception, it was widely believed that
intestine at only 6 feet.
sections of coral colonies.
40. Other than moving the right hand as a guide under the line of print, other way to
A
increase reading speed is to read just above and not below the line of print.
D

Practice Test VIII (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. _____ by placing a numerator over a denominator,
fractions represent the parts between whole numbers
on the number line.
(A) Formed
(B) They are formed
(C) The form
(D) They form
6. Outdoor climbers have to lug equipment into the

wilderness and hook it up before _____ to scale the
rock.
(A) finally beginning
(B) begin the final
(C) the final beginning
(D) finally begun
2. _____ of covering the mouth during a yawn

developed as a measure to keep life from escaping
through the mouth.
(A) The custom
(B) It was customary
(C) Customarily
(D) It accustomed
7. Biologists _____ what happens to healthy plant and

animal life when a river becomes choked with
nitrogen and phosphorus.
(A) who are concerned about
(B) are concerned about
(C) the concern about it
(D) they are concerned about
3. _____ to see children vaccinated against rotavirus

since it leads to nearly 900,000 deaths annually.
(A) Some scientists would like
(B) Hoping
(C) Scientists hoping
(D) For some scientists
8. Using Robot Super Achilles, a diverless submersible,

_____ can photograph shipwrecks up to 2,000 feet
13. Articulatory phonetics involves the study of _____
deep, and they can also deploy parachutes to bring
are produced, described, and classified according to
artifacts up to the surface.
their properties.
(A) for archeologists to be underwater
(A) phones
(B) underwater archeologists
(B) how phones
(C) archeologists are underwater
(C) how phones which
(D) with archeologists underwater
(D) how phones that
4. At the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin

_____ of circus items from the past and present.
(A) a collection is
(B) a collection
(C) is a collection
(D) to collect
10. Elliptical galaxies are more oval and compact than

_____.
(A) with spiral galaxies
(B) are spiral
(C) are spiral galaxies
(D) to spiral
16. What once concerned a few obsessed enthusiasts has became the norm for an
A
increasing number of drivers, who realize that periodic detailing protects the value
C
30. The first bread was probably done in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East from
A
wild grasses long before wheat was even cultivated.

B
miles of inland water, which amounts to more water than seven of the states fifty
B
the arid land bloom.
18. Alaska, which is the largest state in the United States, has more than 20,000 square
have.
15. Neither _____ nor can sport sailors get an accurate

reading on compasses near Split Rock because of the
iron ore in Lake Superior.
(A) merchant sailors can
(B) merchant sailors
(C) merchant sailors do
(D) can merchant sailors
31. Deep beneath the Nevada desert is aquifers containing enough fresh water to make
17. A calf can refer to a baby cow, hippo, antelope, or whales.

A
12. One of the most important ways in which the body

_____ to produce energy.
(A) uses food
(B) uses food is
(C) the use of food is
(D) is the use of food
9. According to documented research, _____ each other 14. Of the 80 million aspirin tablets taken daily by
and are willing to help each other, the crime rate is
Americans, somewhere between 30 and 50 percent
lower.
_____ as preventive medicine for cardiac diseases.
(A) trusting neighbors
(A) are taken
(B) wherever neighbors trust
(B) to take
(C) the trust of neighbors for
(C) they are taken
(D) neighborhood trust
(D) taken
5. Due to the technology of vulcanization, the sneaker,

_____, was invented and so called because of its
quiet footfall.
(A) is useful
(B) is used as an athletic shoe
(C) a rubber-soled athletic shoe
(D) a shoe is made for athletes
of their automobiles.
11. _____ the developer of the modern safety

mechanisms in elevators, allowed himself to be sent
up in an elevator and to have the cable cut to
demonstrate the effectiveness of his emergency
braking system.
(A) Elisha Otis was
(B) It was Elisha Otis who was
(C) Elisha Otis, who was
(D) Elisha Otis, whose
32. A well-trained falsetto voice stands in the same relationship to a tenor voice as the
A
recorder and the flute.
33. A person with normal color vision can, regardless of how pale the colors may be,
19. Kauai, the wettest of the Hawaiian Islands, boast an annual rainfall of 480 inches.
A
20. World's youngest chess champion is Garry Kasparov, who won in 1985 at the
A
age of 22.
distinguishing among more than 100 different hues of color.

B
34. Any one of a number of widely distributing lizards characterized by long, shiny
A
bodies, smooth scales, and short legs can be referred to as skinks.
21. Although chromium prevents rusting in steel, it would make the alloy more brittle
A
when it is added.
physician Hippocrates, who is thought to have lived from 460 to 370 B.C.
22. One ladybug can eat as much as 50 aphids in a day.

A
harmful bacteria.
puzzle physicists.
37. Brands were first registered about 1850 as a legal record of cattle ownership
24. The catalytic converter ensures that nearly all the harmful hydrocarbon emissions
A
38. The San Diego Wild Animal Park's horticultural department has successfully
25. The Sydney Opera House, finished 1973, sits on the water's edge and resembles a
ship with billowing sails.
county recorders so that ranchers had some defense against cattle rustlers.
C
from a car is processed before being released as exhaust.

B
cultivated aloes, cycads, euphorbias, cactus, and tree ferns.

C
39. By sensitively registering light from stars and galaxies too faint to be seen by other
26. In 1934, bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot to death at a farm in East
A
telescopes, the Hale's 200-inch mirror illuminated vast regions of a universe, to

B
which humans previously had been blind.
27. Although some species of birds lay eggs on bare rocks, most of they prepare a nest
A
36. Whether neutrinos contain mass or are massless, particles is something that still
23. Pasteurized milk is much safer than untreated milk because they do not contain
Liverpool, Ohio.
35. The first doctor who is recognized as the father in modern medicine was the Greek
in which to lay their eggs.
40. The invention of the integsrated circuit in 1958 had led to the development of the
A
microchip and advent of the computer age.
28. As an increasing number of Americans take pets with them when they travel,
directories for pet-friendliness hotels and activities have become popular.

B
29. Educators and others say that chess teaches a growing and maturing children
A
discipline, logic, and the analytical skills crucial in today's world.

C

Practice Test IX (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. When studying serology, medical students ______
about the properties of blood.
(A) to learn
(B) learn
(C) learning
(D) with learning
6. Even though fairly accurate weather models have

been developed, _____ enough to use for weather
forecasting.
(A) because they are not yet reliable
(B) yet without reliability
(C) they are not yet reliable
(D) still not reliable
11. The Dalton Gang, which was notorious for its train
robberies, was practically _____ while attempting to
rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kansas.
(A) in wiping out
(B) to wipe out
(C) wiped out
(D) wipe out
7. Images _____ that gases at the center of the Milky

Way Galaxy rotate at thousands of miles per hour,
indicating a powerful gravitational force.
(A) from space have revealed
(B) revelation from space
(C) they have revealed from space
(D) from space that revealed
12. In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the {Mayflower{, which

was anchored off Massachusetts, _____ that called
for a "body politick."
(A) a compact was signed
(B) to sign a compact
(C) signing a compact
(D) signed a compact
3. Because of El Ni*o, high winds, heavy surf, and

possible flooding _____ for the winter of 1997-1998
in Southern California.
(A) to be predicted
(B) all predictions
(C) were all predicted
(D) predicting
8. Tuberculosis rates in New York City dropped

sharply in the 1920s _____ horses, decreasing the
amount of bacteria-laden dust in the air.
(A) cars replaced
(B) as cars replaced
(C) replacing cars
(D) replaced cars
13. Never _____, household cleaning sprays, or solventbased cleaners be used on the seat belts of a car.
(A) detergents should
(B) detergents
(C) the use of detergents
(D) should detergents
4. _____ in water and on land, so they are generally

considered to be accurate indicators of
environmental health.
(A) Frogs living
(B) Because frogs live
(C) The life of frogs
(D) Frogs live
9. Like man, _____, which it uses to manipulate its

food.
(A) raccoons have opposing thumbs
(B) the raccoon has opposing thumbs
(C) the raccoon which has opposing thumbs
(D) the opposing thumbs on the raccoon
2. The 3,750,000 people living in the country of the

Ivory Coast ______ a small country, with only
124,500 square miles of area on the west coast of
Africa.
(A) they inhabit
(B) actually
(C) to inhabit
(D) inhabit
16. In 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurates as the first constitutionally elected
B
president of the Republic of Texas.
29. In addition of finding out that no two snowflakes are the same, Wilson W. Bentley
length.
30. Just alike a legend, the primary purpose of a fable is to tell people how they should
C D
circulated about St. Patrick's sermon incorporating the three-leaf clover as an

C
illustration of the divine Trinity.

A
minerals, including potassium and iron.
help from the driver.
doctor has the qualifiers to do so.

C
concert overture "Rob Roy Macgregor."
36. Histamines are chemicals released when irritants trigger the body's many allergic
A
responses, which include a swollen blood vessels, lowered blood pressure, and
24. Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca was one of only four explorers who were still
A
live at the end of a 1528 expedition to what is now known as Tampa Bay, Florida.
C
25. Only if it is kept out of circulation does coins become a mint-quality collector's
C
burning by starving the fire of oxygen.

D
gets it oxygen as air comes into direct contact with the surface of the eye.
D
28. On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was final inaugurated after being in
A
production for 25 years from the initial conception of the idea to its actual
C
37. According to legend, Romulus and Remus, who founded the great city of Rome,
A
were suckled a she-wolf.
on the Richter scale occur.
39. Identity theft occurs whenever personal identifying information stolen and used to
27. Unlike other organs, the cornea is not supplied with blood vessels but instead
C
itching.
38. Each year, hundreds of thousands of earthquakes with magnitudes lesser than 2.9
26. Some fire extinguishers produce a burst of carbon dioxide gas, which inhibited
realization.
35. Sir Walter Scott's book, Rob Roy, is evoked lovely in Hector Berlioz's Scottish
given the capability to direct a vehicle to move forward, steer, and stop without
33. The more greatly a person's eating and the less the amount of daily exercise,
C
34. In order for a doctor to practice medicine in any hospital, it must be proved that the
23. The most advanced version of Intelligent Transportation Systems has already be
the fatter and the more likely to develop heart disease the person is.
22. The skins of potatoes contain dietary fiber as well as an number of vitamins and
item.
and symphonies, died in 1996.
helped us to understand how these early people lived.
21. The shamrock became increasingly identify with St. Patrick's Day when the story
32. The study of the stone implements of the Paleolithic and Neolithic people have
31. Morton Gould, a popular conductor and composer of not only musicals and ballets
C
20. The koala looks like a small bear, but they are actually part of the marsupial
family.
live because it also ends with a moral.
19. When a spider builds a web, it first had used a tough thread to construct the outer
frame.
crystals.
18. Some of the Great Barrier Reef lie underwater, but at least 200 islands dot its
A
also found that they all have six sides and are usually formed from flat, platelike
17. On May 20, 1861, North Carolina voted to secede from a United States.
A
15. Should _____ in use, the horizontal movement along

a fault line can be measured continuously.
(A) a creepmeter be
(B) a creepmeter
(C) a creepmeter has it
(D) it be a creepmeter
10. British scientist John Fleming, _____ vacuum tube,

paved the way for the development of radio and
television.
(A) developed the
(B) who developed the
(C) he developed the
(D) whose development of the
5. _____, the 38th president of the United States,

became president in 1974 following the resignation
of Richard Nixon.
(A) Because Gerald Ford
(B) Gerald Ford was
(C) Gerald Ford
(D) When Gerald Ford
14. _____ of an ecosystem eventually affects those

species higher up.
(A) Whatever affects the lowliest member
(B) Whatever the effect on the lowliest member
(C) The lowliest members
(D) What is the affect on the lowliest member
receive credit in that person's name by a thief.
40. The alumnus from universities and colleges are asked to support their alma maters
A
generously to help defray tuition costs for future students.

B

Practice Test X (Longman PBT)

Section II
1. _____ called exoskeletons because they have
external skeletons.
(A) When anthropods are
(B) For anthropods to be
(C) Anthropods are
(D) Are anthropods
2. _____, the most powerful god in Norse mythology,
is the source of the modern English word
"Wednesday."
(A) Woden
(B) Woden is the god
(C) To Woden
(D) Woden is the
3. A tachometer, usually placed on the dashboard of a
car, _____ the rpm's of the engine.
(A) the measure of
(B) measurably
(C) to be measured
(D) measures
6. The surrealistic movement in art in the 1920s and

1930s _____ on the unconscious, so it often
incorporated dreamlike images.
(A) placed an emphasis
(B) emphasizing the place
(C) the place of emphasis
(D) to emphasize the place
11. Only rarely _____ in the wild because they lack the
pigments that normally provide protective coloration
and screen against the sun's ultraviolet rays.
(A) albino animals survive
(B) the survival of albino animals
(C) for albino animals to survive
(D) do albino animals survive
7. In 1911, the Philadelphia Athletics became the first

team to issue press pins to reporters _____ the World
Series.
(A) the coverage of
(B) covering
(C) it covered
(D) covers
12. The imaginary world of virtual reality, _____ the

impression of moving about in a three-dimensional
realm, can be entered by donning a special mask and
gloves.
(A) gives the user
(B) the user is given
(C) to whom the user gives
(D) which gives the user
8. About 300 million years ago, there _____ of trees

unlike those in existence today.
(A) they were huge expanses
(B) huge expanses were
(C) huge expanses
(D) were huge expanses
4. In addition to Roman numerals, capital letters, and

Arabic numerals, small letters _____ to organize
ideas in outlines.
(A) using
(B) the use of
(C) usually
(D) can also be used
9. In the United States, California began the windpower trend in the 1970s when natural gas and _____
threatened.
14. The braincases of Neanderthals were longer, lower,
(A) was coal being
and wider than _____ of modern humans.
(B) coal were being
(A) that
(C) when coal
(B) were those
(D) coal
(C) if those are
(D) were
10. Antibiotic overuse _____ underlies many health
problems that begin in the digestive system.
15. _____ where Colorado's largest gold nugget was
(A) is often what
discovered, Breckenridge had an isolated location,
(B) which often
high altitude, and bitter climate that kept most gold
(C) what often
prospectors away.
(D) is often the cause
(A) Though it
(B) Though
(C) It was
(D) To be
5. The starlight that we see today _____ 1,500 years

ago.
(A) which left the constellation Orion
(B) it left the constellation Orion
(C) to leave from the constellation Orion
(D) left the constellation Orion
16. Saliva not only washes away food particles but also possessing natural antibiotics.
A
17. Soon after a caterpillar forms a chrysalis, it would become a butterfly.

A
18. The aurora borealis is so translucent that us can see stars shining through it.
A
19. Not only do a chimney carry away smoke from a fire, but it also acts as a
A
ventilator, providing more air for the fire.

B
the most viewers of the Olympic Games.

D
appears some 13 billion years ago.

A
require high takeoff and landing speeds.

D
Arizona, and during the gunfight, three members of Ike Clanton's gang were killed
B
34. In 1858, plastic was developed when a serious shortage of ivory prompted a New
35. Fish markets often carry alive shellfish as well as fresh fish.
23. The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. has received two free copies of every
copyrighted book in the United States since 1870.
24. The double skin and watertight compartments of the Titanic was not able to
B
prevent the vessel from sinking.
25. In Roman mythology, Cupid generally proved benevolently, though he could

A
sometimes be mischievous in matchmaking at the behest of his mother Venus.

C
26. A Boston-based energy consulting firm has, by combing oxygen and hydrogen
A
38. The first photocopy was taken on October 22, 1938 by Chester Carlson, a patent
A
clerk who has invented the process to make his job easier.
B
39. Trust is one of the most difficult characteristics for teammates to develop because
placing one's fate in someone else's hands is somewhat counter to the American
27. In 1939, nylon stockings were selling publicly for the first time in Wilmington,
A
from gasoline, came up with a fuel cell that produces energy.

C
37. It is a sure sign that wet weather is in its way when the scales on a pinecone start to
close up.
36. Acrylic is synthetic material that mimics wool, but acrylic is lighter in weight and
less itchy.
a suitably substitute.
C
liquid and pushes it up through the straw into yours mouth.
Delaware by a major retailer.
32. The swept-back wings of a jetliner enable them to cruise at high speed but also
England manufacturer of ivory billiard balls to offer a ten-thousand-dollar prize for
22. When you suck through a straw, the air in the atmosphere presses down on the
and Wyatt Earp's brothers wound.
21. The Hubble Space Telescope images of deep space show us how the universe
network of dendrite fibers.
31. Each of the brain's nearly 100 billion neurons are interconnected by an elaborate
33. On October 26, 1881, the gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone,
20. With a television audience of 25 billion, World Cup Soccer has ten times
A
13. Talking on a cellular phone while driving _____ as

studies show that talking while driving has the same
accident rate as drunk driving.
(A) has proven risky
(B) prove the risk
(C) proof of the risk
(D) proving the risk
way of life, in which independence is revering.

D
40. Highly successful concert pianists need both extremely accurate technician and
28. Each Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Brothers programs which predates 1919,
A
when the two circuses merged, is a collector's item.
wonderfully emotive expression.
29. Alike the Sioux, who followed the buffalo over great distances, the tribes east of
A
the Mississippi tended to remain in small areas and found their food by fishing,
D
hunting, and gathering berries and nuts.
30. Some of the raisin grown for commercial production are dried quickly in heated
A
sheds and treated with sulfur dioxide to prevent spoilage.

B


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18. (A) He is the best student in the class.

35. (A) The car needs to be fixed.

19. (A) They are studying hard for their finals.

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(A) She is on a plane.

9. (A) Stand still.

18. (A) She began to like it more after learning more.

35. (A) morning

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18. (A) He is going to stay home.

29. (A) a sandwich and a guest lecturer

46. (A) The parents must both be university students.

30. (A) anthropologist

47. (A) $100

31. (A) crafts of ancient Rome

48. (A) He was the speaker's father.

32. (A) in a classroom

49. (A) the Ritz Carlton

33. (A) on a beach

50. (A) piano

34. (A) looking for his watch

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35. (A) in Section C

5. (A) He thinks she will do a good job.

38. (A) because they are more likely to have problems

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17. (A)It's expensive to get a 10-speed bicycle.

6. (A)Mary is going to the airport.

21. (A)to a park downtown

7. (A)She doesn't need an escort.

22. (A)two free dinners

8. (A)The fee for charging is more than $15.

23. (A)by going to the bookstore

34. (A)that he was a president

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10. Of Charles Dickens' many novels, Great Expectations is perhaps

(A) the most satisfying one

of the families of workers.

11. __________, the nation's capital remained in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

realize the true value of the Louisiana territory.

reporter because of an ankle injury.

jewelry, and shoes.

black American to play baseball in the major leagues.

from school or college.

groundwork for modern global life styles.

18. To building their nests, tailorbirds use their bills as needles.

not always conform to Dow Jones Averages.

fraction of the agricultural production now.

when most of their adult lives.

skills, persistence, and a practical view of life.

28. Benjamin Franklin, as an inventor, he had broad interests, mechanical

13. It is earth's gravity that __________ people their weight.

with those of another.

according to the individual.

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With new technology, cameras can take pictures of

_________ the fifth largest among the nine planets