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Directions: Questions 1-40 are B. completely was burned

complete sentences you will see, four C. it was burned completely
words or phrases, marked (A), (B), D. completely burned it
(C) and (D). Choose the one word or
6. The Kentucky Derby _____ every
phrase that best complete the
May at Churchill Downs in Louisville,
sentences.
Kentucky.

1. The sport of hang gliding ____ by A. to be run C. it may be run

the Federal Aviation B. run D. is run
Administration (FAA).
7. ________ have captured the spirit
A. regulate it of the conquest of America as
B. is regulated well as James Fenimore Cooper.
C. that was regulated
D. that it was regulated A. Few writers
B. The few writers
2. The adder is a venomous snake C. The writers are few
____ bite may prove fatal to D. Few are the writers
humans.
8. Prospectors rushed to Nevada in
A. its 1859 ________ was discovered
B. that there.
C. whom it
D. whose A. after gold soon
B. soon after gold
3. The javelin used in competition C. gold was soon after
must be between 260 and 270 D. they found gold
centimenters _____
9. _____ heat from the Sun
A. in length C. its length is trapped near the Earths
B. it is long D. lengthly surface, greenhouse effect occurs.

4. In an internal combustion engine, A. No C. That

________ and air are heated B. When D. What
inside a cylinder.
10. ____, the outer layer of the skin,
A. and gasoline vapor contains pigments, pores, and
B. both gasoline vapor ducts.
C. gasoline
D. beside gasoline vapor A. That the epidermis
B. The epidermis is
C. The epidermis
5. In November of 1863, the city of D. The epidermis which
Atlanta_______during Sherman's
famous "March to the Sea."

A. was completely burned

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11. Keynes argued that to avoid an potentially at the expense of

economic depression the private goods.
government_______spending and
lower interest rates. A. came the argument
B. his argument
A. is C. argued
D. the economist is arguing
B. higher
C. increase 16. Overexposure to the sun causes
D. should increase ________ health problems.

12. _____ a bee colony gets, the more A. various C. but

the queen's egglaying capability B. among D. of
diminishers.
17. Birds head south to warmer
A. It is more overcrowded. climates when ________.
B. The more overcrowded.
C. More overcrowded than. A. is cold weather
D. More than overcrowded. B. does cold weather come
C. cold weather comes
13. Unlike the earth which rotates D. comes cold weather
once every twenty-four
hours,_________once every ten 18. The city council is empowered
hours. not only to enact new laws,
_________select a new mayor
A. the rotation of Jupiter between elections should the need
B. the Jupiters rotation arise.
C. Jupiter rotates A. and to C. and
D. Jupiters rotaing B. but also to D. so that

19. Drying of meats and vegetables is

no longer considered as one of
________ of preserving food.

A. the ways are useful

14. ________ peaches are classified
as freestone or clingstone depends
on how difficult it is to remove
the pit.
A. The C. Whether
B. About D. Scientifically
15. Out of John Kenneth Galbraith's
The Affluent Society ________
for an increase in public goods,
B. the ways most useful
C. the most useful ways
D. most are useful ways
20. A giant kind of grass, bamboo
may reach a height of 120 feet
and ________.
A. a diameter of one foot
B. its diameter is one foot
C. there is a diameter of one foot
D. which is a diameter of one

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foot A. helpful C. for help

B. helpfully D. with the help
21. Somerset Maugham, a novelist,
________about a restless man's 26. By praying outside saloons,
quest for inner understanding in throwing rocks in saloon
The Razor's Edge. windows, and destroying saloons
with her hatchet, ________.
A. who wrote this
B. who wrote A. alcohol was prohibited by
C. when he wrote Carrie Nation
D. wrote B. Carrie Nation worked to
prohibit alcohol
22. The nuthatch ________ six inches C. prohibiting alcohol by Carrie
long. Nation
D. Carrie Nation's work for the
A. grows seldom more than
prohibition of alcohol
B. more than seldom grows
C. seldom grows more than
D. grows more than seldom
27. More drug makers are changing
their target market from physician
to patient ________ the patient as
the key to increasing market
23. Composing more than forty share.
percent of the diet, fats are
________ by the body for energy. A. that they see
B. sees them
A. using specifically C. they see
B. used specifically D. in that they see
C. specific use
D. the use specific 29. ________cockroach is the pest
most in need of eradication is
24. The sea mammal Medusa is generally agreed upon by housing
popularly called a jellyfish authorities everywhere.
because it ________ jelly.
A. When the C. That the
A. looks rather like B. It is the D. The
B. looks like rather
C. which looks rather like 30. Aspirin is used __________ a
D. which looks like rather constriction of the blood vessels.

25. Therapists are currently using A. the counteraction

mental imagery in the hope that it B. to countract
might prove________in the C. counteract
D. counteracting
treatment of cancer.
31. In the late 1970s and early

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1980s, the United States
developed the reusable space
shuttle ________to space cheaper
and easier.
A. to make access
B and making access
C. which made accessible
D. and made accessible.
32. Genetically, the chimpanzee is
more similar to humans _______.
A. are than any other animal
B. than is any other animal
C. any other animal is
D. and any other animal is
33. _______more than 65,000
described species of protozoa, of
which more than half are fossils.
A. Being that there are
B. Are there
C. There being
D. There are
34. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
_____ nearly unanimously through
the United States Congress.
A. passed
B. having passed
C. in passage
D. passing
35. Modern skyscrapers have a steel
skeleton of beams and columns
_____ a three-dimensional grid.
A. forms
B. from which forming
C. and forming
D. that forms
36. The average level of United States
prices grew very little from 1953
until the mid-1960s when ______.
A. did inflation begin
B. inflation began
C. the beginning of inflation
D. did the beginning of inflation
37. The basis premise behind all
agricultural production is _____
available the riches of the soil for
human consumption.
A. to be made
B. making is
C. the making
D. to make
38. _____to the united states House of
Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel
Macon remained in office until
1815.
A. Who was elected
B. Elected
C. Why he was elected
D. Election
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39. ________ of classical ballet in the

United States began around 1830.

A. To teach
B. It was taught
C. Is teaching
D. The teaching

40. The universe is estimated ______

between 10 billion and 20 billion
years old.

A. being
B. which is
C. to be
D. is