PART ONE
1. According to the third law of thermodynamics, ---- possible is-273. 16 degrees centigrade.
(A) that temperature is lowest
(B) the temperature is lowest
(C) lowest temperature
(D) the lowest temperature
2. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known
as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both ---- her novels and short stories.
(A) in which the influence
(B) of which influenced
(C) to have influence
(D) its influence in
3. Muskrats generally ---- close to the edge of a bog, where their favorite plant foods grow plentifully.
(A) staying
(B) they are staying
(C) stay
(D) to stay there
4. Oliver Ellsworth, ---- of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the bill that established the federal court system.
(A) he was the third chief justice
(B) the third chief justice was
(C) who the third chief justice
(D) the third chief justice
5. ---- Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut's settlers came from England.
(A) Since
(B) The time
(C) During the
(D) It was
6. A politician can make a legislative proposal more ---- by giving specific examples of what its effect will be.
(A) to understanding
(B) understandably
(C) understandable
(D) when understood
7. Playing the trumpet with dazzling originality, ---- dominated jazz for 20 years.
(A) Louis Armstrong
(B) the influence of Louis Armstrong
(C) the music of Louis Armstrong
(D) Louis Armstrong's talent
8. Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the proportion of the population that ---- for each candidate.
(A) are voted
(B) voting
(C) to be voted
(D) will vote
9. ---- at a river ford on the Donner Pass route to California, the city of Reno grew as bridges and railroads were built.
(A) Settle
(B) To settle
(C) It was settling
(D) Having been settled
10. The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of contaminants ---- heavily polluted outside air.
(A) than does
(B) more
(C) as some that are
(D) like of
11. The decimal numeral system is one of the ---- ways of expressing numbers.
(A) useful most world's
(B) world's most useful
(C) useful world's most
(D) most world's useful
12. Emily Dickinson's garden was a place ---- great inspiration for her poems.
(A) that she drew
(B) by drawing her
(C) from which she drew
(D) drawn from which
13. The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry winds of the Mojave Desert, ---- the circulation of air.
(A) but they also prevent
(B) also prevented by them
(C) and also to prevent
(D) and also preventing
14. Not only ---- to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.
(A) to use seismology
(B) is seismology used
(C) seismology is used
(D) using seismology
15. Nebraska has floods in some years, ----.
(A) in others drought
(B) droughts are others
(C) while other droughts
(D) others in drought
16. Pop Art was a movement of the 1950's and 1960's whom imagery was based on readily recognized
A B C
American products and people.
D
17. Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported into the United
A B C
States to combat insect pests.
D
18. All almost the electricity for industrial use comes from large generators driven by steam turbines.
A B C D
19. The Egyptians first discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and improvement its flavor.
A B C D
20. During his twelve year there, Ellis Marsalis turned the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts into a
A B
rich training place for future jazz stars.
C D
21. Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that
A B C
are often represented at symbols.
D
22. As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St. Vincent Millay produced in the 1920's increasing
A B C D
gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.
23. When a pearl is cut in half and examined under a microscope, but its layers can be seen.
A B C D
24. A conductor used signals and gestures to let the musicians to know when to play various parts of a
A B C D
composition.
25. If a glass lizard loses its tails, a new one grows to replace it.
A B C D
26. Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs.
A B C D
27. It was near end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared.
A B C D
28. Martin Luther King. Jr.'s magnificent speaking ability enabling him to effectively express the demands
A B C
for social justice for Black Americans.
D
29. Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its particularly activity by studying
A B C D
human motion and physiology.
30. Gothic Revival architecture has several basis characteristics that distinguish it from other nineteenth-
A B C D
century architectural styles.
31. Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
A B C D
32. In the United States among 60 percent of the space on the pages of newspapers is reserved for advertising.
A B C D
33. Recently in the automobile industry, multinational companies have developed to the point where such few
A B
cars can be described as having been made entirely in one country.
C D
34. Scientists believe that by altering the genetic composition of plants it is possible to develop specimens that
A
are resisting to disease and have increased food value.
B C D
35. the purpose of traveler's checks is to protect travelers from theft and accidental lost of money.
A B C D
36. The early periods of aviation in the United States was marked by exhibition flights made by individual
A B C
fliers or by teams of performers at country fairs.
D
37. The American anarchist Emma Goldman infused her spirited lectures publishes. and demonstrations with
A B
a passionate belief in the freedom of the individual.
C D
38. Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special interesting to
A B C D
scientists.
39. The main advertising media include direct mail, radio, television, magazines, and newspaper.
A B C D
40. While studying the chemistry of human body, Dr. Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the research she
A B
conducted on the rote of hormones. .
C D
PART TWO
1. ---- the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture, engineers are creating exotic new metallic substances.
(A) Meet
(B) Being met are
(C) To meet
(D) They are meeting
2. ---- James A. Bland, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was adopted as the state song of Virginia in 1940.
(A) Was written by
(B) His writing was
(C) He wrote the
(D) Written by
3. Mary Garden, ---- the early 1900's was considered one of the best singing actresses of her time.
(A) a soprano was popular
(B) in a popular soprano
(C) was a popular soprano
(D) a popular soprano in
4. In the realm of psychological theory, Margaret F. Washburn was a dualist ---- that motor phenomena
have an essential role in psychology.
(A) who she believed
(B) who believed
(C) believed
(D) who did she believe
5. ---- no real boundary to the part of the ocean referred to as a deep because of changing water levels and movement in the sea floor.
(A) It is
(B) To be
(C) Being
(D) There is
6. Unlike moderate antislavery advocates, abolitionists ---- an immediate slavery.
(A) demanded
(B) they demand
(C) that they demanded
(D) in that they demand
7. A few animals sometimes fool their enemies ----to be dead.
(A) appear
(B) to appear
(C) by appearing
(D) to be appearing
8. ---- of the mourning dove is made only by the male.
(A) That the sad cooing call
(B) The sad cooing call
(C) Is the sad cooing call
(D) The cooing call is sad
9. The work of painters in the United States during the early twentieth century is noted for ---- as well as telling stories.
(A) it is representing of images
(B) which images representing
(C) the images representing
(D) representing images
10. Abraham Lincoln insisted that ---- not just on mere opinion but on moral purpose.
(A) to base democracy
(B) for democracy to be based
(C) democracy be based
(D) whenever democracy is based
11. World trade patterns are indicative of the important economic issues ---- confront the world today.
(A) what
(B) that
(C) who
(D) they
12. In the symphony orchestra, bass drums are not ---- kettle drums.
(A) as prevalent
(B) that prevalent
(C) so prevalent as
(D) prevalent than
13. Most natural ports are located where the shoreline is irregular and ----.
(A) deep water
(B) is the water deep
(C) the water is deep
(D) there is the deep water
14. ---- to the reproductive rates of other small mammals, that of the bat is very low indeed.
(A) Compared
(B) It is compared
(C) To be comparing
(D) Have compared
15. ---- native to Europe, the daisy has now spread throughout most of North America.
(A) Although
(B) If it were
(C) In spite of
(D) That it is
16. On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consists of a nearly hundred large stumps scattered on
A B C
an exposed coal bed.
D
17. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earth's than are those of any other planet
A B C D
in the solar system.
18. The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky for twenty-four hours or
A B C
longer.
D
19. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting, and farmer region in
A B C D
western Newfoundland, Canada.
20. Among the parameters that determine whether an environment is suitably for life as we know it are
A B
temperature, water availability, and oxygen content.
C D
21. When eggs of some species of insects hatch, the newly born insects look almost like its adult counterparts.
A B C D
22. Although there are more than 2,000 different variety of candy, many of them are made from a basic boiled
A B C
mixture of sugar, water, and corn syrup.
D
23. The capital of the United States, originally New York City, was moved to Philadelphia where stayed until
A B C D
1800.
24. Migration of animals may be initiated by physiological stimuli such as reproductive changes, external
A B
pressures such as weather changes, or a combination of either types of changes.
C D
25. Lawrence Robert Klein received the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering the useful of
A B C
computers to forecast economic activity.
D
26. The strength, size, and surefootedness of the llama make it as excellent beast of burden in mountainous
A B C
regions today as it was in the past.
D
27. Nuclear energy, despite its early promise as a source of electrical power, is still insignificant in compared
A B C D
with older and safer energy sources.
28. Hawaii's eight major islands and numerous islets form the only state in the United States that is not lie on
A B C D
the mainland of North America.
29. Established about 1300, the Acoma pueblo in New Mexico is believed to be oldest continuously occupied
A B C D
settlement in the United States.
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Part One
30. Nocturnal creatures, raccoons forage primarily at night and spend their days rest in their dens.
A B C D
31. Marian Anderson, in addition to gaining fame as a concert soloist, also served as a United States delegates
A B C D
to the United Nations.
32. Good dental hygiene and a proper diet are necessary for the maintain of sound teeth.
A B C D
33. Rice adapt better than other grain crops to areas with unfavorable saline, alkaline, or acid sulfate soils.
A B C D
34. Jeanette Rankin, pacifist and lifetime crusader for social and electoral reform, was the first woman to be a
A B C
membership of the United States Congress.
D
35. In the United States, Maryland ranks second only to Virginia as a oyster-producing state.
A B C D
36. The social games of children help to prepare themselves for their adult roles.
A B C D
37. Algae have been an extremely important link in the food chain after the beginning of life on Earth as we
A B C D
know it.
38. the chorus plays a large part in any oratorio, linking areas were sung by soloists with segments of choral
A B C D
music.
39. Butte, Montana, had built above large deposits of silver, gold, and copper and became known as the
A B C
richest hill on Earth.
D
40. Realistic novels, in trying to present life as it actually is, have written many works that are notable for
A B C D
their artistry of style.
Part Two
1. The fertile catkins of the willow tree are the green, caterpillar-like ones, commonly ---- in length.
(A) or an inch more
(B) or an inch as
(C) at least the inches
(D) an inch or more
2. ---- a short-handled, long-bladed weapon, similar to a dagger but larger.
(A) Like a sword
(B) A sword is
(C) A sword is what
(D) Before a sword
3. In 1948 the United States Secretary of States Dean Acheson ---- the Marshall Plan to aid the economic recovery of Europe after the Second World War.
(A) begin to carry out
(B) began carrying out
(C) beginning and carrying out
(D) to have begun carrying out
4. The protection of technologies and technological information has become ---- of many nations.
(A) the importance of a concern
(B) a concern of important
(C) the importance concerning
(D) an important concern
5. ---- several years for bamboo seeds to grow into plants that can be used for commercial purposes.
(A) To be taken
(B) It takes
(C) By taking
(D) Although taking
6. Arthur Miller's Play Death of A Salesman is the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own hollow values and those of the society ----.
(A) he lives in which
(B) in which he lives
(C) which in he lives
(D) lives he which in
7. During courtship, ---- displays his green-and-gold upper tail feathers before the peahen.
(A) in which the crested peacock
(B) which the crested peacock
(C) the crested peacock that
(D) the crested peacock
8. ---- theories approximate the truth is the day-to-day business of science.
(A) Determining how closely
(B) How closely to determine
(C) How one determines close
(D) One is close to determining
9. The earthworm is a worm ---- in moist, warm soil in many geographical areas.
(B) where is it found
(C) is found
(D) and found it
(A) found
10. ---- advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the surface of the sea itself is never at rest.
(A) Not only when the tides do
(B) As the tides not only do
(C) Not only do the tides
(D) Do the tides not only
11. The monarch butterfly's migration of 1,800 miles or more makes ---- among insects.
(A) uniquely
(B) is uniquely
(C) it unique
(D) it is unique
12. A reagent is any chemical that reacts in a predictable way ----with other chemicals.
(A) when mixed
(B) when is mixed
(C) it mixed
(D) mixed is
13. By the 1950's, Mahalia Jackson's powerful, joyous gospel music style had gained her ----.
(A) and she had an international reputation
(B)with an international reputation
(C) which was her international reputation
(D) an international reputation
14. Hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles, are unusual ---- travel over land and water on a layer of air .
(A) they
(B) in they
(C) that they
(D) in that they
15. In the United States, a primary election is a method ---- voters select the nominees for public office.
(A) that
(B) is that
(C) by which
(D) by those
16. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous detective agency that bears him name, directed a Civil War
A B C
espionage system behind Confederate lines.
D
17. Until the 1910 formation of the National Hockey Association in eastern Canada, professional and amateur
A B
teams were allowed to playfully together.
18. Contralto Marian Anderson became a member permanent of the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1955.
A B C D
19. Widely acknowledged as a great and important playwright, Eugene O'Neill brought to the United States
A
stage it was probably its first really serious drama.
B C D
20. Because some critics considered it decadent, subversive, and incomprehensibly, abstract art encountered
A B C
much opposition in its early years.
D
21. To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weigh in food every day.
A B C D
22. The glass tube in a fluorescent lamp contains mercury vapor under small pressure.
A B C D
23. In 1977, Marilyn Yadlowski, a undergraduate at Cornell University, found that pigeons had excellent low-
A B
frequency hearing, far surpassing that of humans.
C D
24. The General Accounting Office reviews the accounting systems used by federal agencies to determination
A B
whether expenditures conform to laws, and it also settles claims.
C D
25. Australian koalas are furry, gray animal that live in trees and feed on leaves.
A B C D
26. Won its war for independence in 1783, the United States then struggled to establish its own economic and
A B C
financial system.
D
27. The first known radio program among the United States was broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1906, by
A B C
Reginald Fessenden from his experimental station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
D
28. A typical feature-length film costs millions of dollars to make and requires the skillful of hundreds of
A B C D
workers.
29. After his trips to the West between 1869 and 1872, Ralph Albert Blakelock would often painted American
A B C
Indian encampments on brown-and-yellow-toned canvases.
D
30. Artist Helen Frankenthaler returned home from college in 1949 to her native New York, the city
A B
producing the most art revolutionary of the day.
C D
31. The giraffe's long neck and legs are the most obvious features that make different from all other animals.
A B C D
32. Tilling means preparation the soil to plant the seeds and keeping the soil in the best condition to help crop
A B C
grow until it is ready for harvesting.
D
33. The city of Boston was settled in 1630 on a hilly, wooded peninsula where the Charles River flows into a
A B C
natural harbors.
D
34. Critical thinkers are able to identify main issues, recognize underlying assumptions, and evaluating
A B C D
evidence.
35. Because of its maneuverability and ability to land and take off in small areas, the helicopter is used in
A B C D
wide range of services.
36. Melting glaciers may account the rise in sea level that has taken place during this century.
A B C D
37. Farce is a dramatic form that derives much of its humorous from improbable characters and situations.
A B C D
38. Anthropologist Jane Goodall has contributed a wealth information concerning primate behavior through
A B C
her studies of chimpanzees.
D
39. The discovery of gold in 1848 transformed San Francisco suddenly from a quiet port into one of the
A B C
world's richest and most famous city.
D
40. The outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere is very hot that its gases continually expand away from the
A B C D
Sun.
Part Three
1. Amber comes----from the resins of pine trees that grew in Northern Europe millions of years ago.
(A) chiefly
(B) and chiefly
(C) it is chiefly
(D) since it is chiefly
2. An adult human must take eight steps to go----as a giraffe does in one stride.
(A) as far
(B) the farther
(C) how far
(D) farther
3. When the focus of a pair of binoculars is adjusted, ----into view.
(A) bringing distant objects
(B) distant objects can be brought
(C) and bring distant objects
(D) to bring distant objects
4. From the Iroquois tradition of behind-the-scenes political participation by women, Alice Jemison acquired a self-confidence that----in her later crusades.
(A) her served well
(B) served well her
(C) served her well
(D) her well served
5. Because of its importance in modern living, ----in all parts of the world.
(A) algebra is studies in schools and colleges
(B) studying algebra in schools and colleges
(C) and the study of algebra in schools and colleges
(D) in schools and colleges are algebra studies
6. ----in the diet is especially important for vegetarians.
(A) Enough protein is obtained
(B) Obtaining enough protein
(C) They obtain enough protein
(D) By obtaining enough protein
7. The early work of Edith Wharton----the relationship between the individual and the community.
(A) focuses attention on
(B) focusing the attention on
(C) the attention is focused on
(D) is the attention and focus
8. Archaeologists know----35,000 years ago, but it is still unclear for precisely what purpose.
(A) drawing being practiced
(B) when the practice of drawing
(C) that drawing was practiced
(D) practicing of drawing
9. Coral reefs owe their brilliant colors to algae----in symbiosis with coral polyps.
(A) that live
(B) do they live
(C) why they live
(D) live
10. The specialized nature of anthropological research makes----that various groups of people be studied to determine their similarities and differences.
(A) imperative is
(B) it imperative
(C) it is imperative
(D) it is an imperative
11. Watercolor provides a brilliant transparency and freshness, ----it allows extraordinarily free brushwork.
(A) that
(B) during
(C) which
(D) and
12. The common cold, normally----illness, can seriously threaten the health of postoperative patients.
(A) can be minor
(B) as minor
(C) minor an
(D) a minor
13. Commercial expansion from city to suburb has affected the way people in the United States----.
(A) living and working
(B) they live and work
(C) live and work
(D) to live and to work
14. Only recently----possible to separate the components of fragrant substances and to determine their chemical composition.
(A) it becomes
(B) having become
(C) has it become
(D) which becomes
15. Charles Lindbergh told reporters----never been deterred from attempting to cross the Atlantic alone even though others had failed.
(A) that he had
(B) that he had it
(C) had it
(D) his having
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