1.

North Carolina is well known not only for the Great Smoky Mountains National

Park ______for the Cherokee settlements.

a. Also

b. And

c. But also

d. Because

2. The value of the dollar declines as the rate of inflation raises.

a. Of the dollar

b. Declines

c. As

d. Raises

3. Anthropologists assert that many of the early Native Americans who lived on the

Plains did not engage in planting crops but to hunt, living primarily on buffalo

meat.

a. But

b. To hunt

c. Living

d. Primarily
4. ____both men and women have often achieve and women often achieved their

career ambition by midlife, many people are affilicted by at least a temporary

period of dissatisfaction and depression.

a. Because

b. So

c. A

d. Who

5. Because of the movement of a glacier, the form of the Great Lakes was very

slow.

a. Because of

b. The form

c. Of

d. Slow

6. To generate income, magazine publishers must decide wheter to increase the

sub-scription price or ____

a. To sell advertising

b. If they should sell advertising.

c. Selling adcertising.

d. Sold advertising.

7. Psychology Today is interesting, informative, and it is easy to read.

a. Is
b. Interesting

c. It is

d. To read

8. if it ____ more humid in the desert of the Southwest, the hot temperatures would

be unbearable.

a. Be

b. Is

c. Was

d. Were

9. It is essential that the temperature is not elevated to a point where the

substance formed may become unstable and decompose into its constituent

elements.

a. Is not

b. To a point

c. May become

d. Its

10. For the investor who ____ money, silver or bonds are good options.

a. Has so little a

b. Has very little

c. Has so few

d. Has very few

 The answer & Explanation

1. (C) But also is used in correlation with the inclusive not only. Choice (B) would be

used in correlation with both. Choices (A) and (D) are not used in correlation with

another inclusive.

2. (D) In order to refer to an increase in the rate of inflation, rises should be used. To

raise means to move to a higher place. To rise means to increase.

3. (B) Ideas after exclusives should be expressed by parallel structures. To hunt

should be in hunting to provide for parallelism with the phrase in planting.

4. (A) Because is used before a subject and verb to introduce cause. Choices (B),

(C), and (D) are not accepted for statements of cause.

5. (B) Form should be formation. Although both are nouns derived from verbs, the –

ation ending is needed here. Form means the structure. Formation means the

process of forming over time.

6. (A) Ideas in a series should expressed by parallel structures. Only to sell in

choice (A) provides for parallelism with the infinitive to increase. Choices (B), (C),

and (D) are not parallel.

7. (C) Ideas in a series should be expressed by parallel structures. It is should be

deleted to provide for parallelism with the adjectives interesting, informative, and

easy.

8. (D) In contrary-to-fact clauses, were is the only accepted form of the verb BE.

Choices (A), (B), and (C) are forms of the verb BE, but they are not accepted in

contrary-to-fact clauses.
9. (A) A verb word must be used in a clause after an impersonal expression. It not

should be not be after the impersonal expression it is essential.

10. (B) Only choice (B) may be used with a uncountable noun such as money.

Choices (A), (C), and (D) may be used with Countable nouns.