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Grammar structure

Time: you only have 15 minutes

This section measures your ability to understand and use the structure of written English.
There are 20 questions and two types of questions.

Example 1

This type of question consists of incomplete sentences. You will select the word or phrase
that best completes the sentence. (The one that is correct).

Directions: chose the letter of the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1 Virginia Wolf _____________ for her novels.

A) famous
b) has fame
C) is famous
D) famed

Example 2

This type of question consists of a sentence with four underlined words or phrases. You will
select the one underlined word or phrase that is not correct in the sentence.

Directions: chose the letter of the underline word or phrase that is not correct.

2 The rings of Saturn are so distant to be seen from Earth without a telescope.
A B C D
Diagnostic Exam: Grammar structure Now begin working in the structure questions.

1 Not all birds ______________

A) flying
B) fly
C) to fly
D) flown

2 Natural predators, disturbing from tourists, and pollution, have all contribute to
A B C
the decline of the California condor.
D

3 A construction kit consists of parts that can be___________________

A) together they are fitted
B) that when fitted together
C) fitted together
D) together are fitted

4 the Canadian sheep, the old sheep breed of sheep in existence , has changed little since 3500 B.C.E.
A B C D

5 The Swedish scientist ______________ to people who have done something important to help
humankind.
A) left money to be awarded to Alfred Nobel
B) Alfred Nobel left to be awarded money
C) Alfred Nobel left money to be awarded
D) Awarding money to Alfred Nobel to be left

6 A traveler can reach some of the village along the Amazon only by riverboat.
A B C D

7 the western part of Oregon generally receives more rain than________ the eastern Part.
A) it in does
B) does
C) it does in
D) in

8 Fiber is important element in nutrition, and it aids in protecting the digestive system as well.
A B C D

9 _____________ porpoises and dolphins, whales are mammals.

A) as
B) also
C) like
D) when
10 The first European settlement of Australia left the city of Portsmouth in May in 1787.
A B C D
11_____________, Luxor did not get preeminence until 2000 B.C.E.
A) Many centuries earlier it was founded
B) The city founded centuries earlier
C) Although founded many centuries earlier
D) Founding the city centuries earlier

12 Starches provide people with important nutrients which they need them.
A B C D

13 ____________ living in Birmingham, England, that the American writer Washington Irving wrote Rip
Van Winkle.
A) It was
B) There was
C) It was while
D) While he was

14 The Bactrian, or Asian, camel can be identified by their two humps.

A B C D

15 ______________ known as “Stonehenge” has never been determined.

A) Who built the stone circle
B) The stone circle
C) That the stone circle
D) There is the stone circle

16 A trade center since antiquity, Catalonia itself, has often been ruled by outsider.
A B C D

17 Certain Paleolithic artifacts are given special terms ________________:

A) Which indicating the location of their discovery
B) Whose locations are indicating their discovery
C) What the location of their discovery is
D) Indicating the location of their discovery

18 Early balloonists remained aloft in the air for relatively short periods.
A B C D

19 No matter_____________, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child.

A) How remarkable it seems
B) How seems it remarkable
C) It seems remarkable how
D) How it seems remarkable

20 At space camp, youngsters go through concentrated astronaut training but shuttle simulations.
A B C D