Structure and Written Expression
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 ElIsworth,_____ 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 at 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 EmiIy 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
___________________
ABC
recognized American products and people.
_____
D
17 Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported
_____ ___________________
A BC
into the United States to combat insect pests.
_______
D
18 All almost the electricity forindustrial use comes from large generators driven by steam_______ ______ __ _______
A BC D
turbines.
19 The Egyptians first discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and improvement
___ ____ ________________
A BC D
its flavor.
20 During his twelve year there, Ellis Marsalis turned the New Orleans Center for the Creative
_____________ ____
AB
Arts into a 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
________
AB
elements that are often represented at symbols.
_______
CD
22 As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St. Vincent Millay produced in the 1920 s
________ _______
AB C
increasing gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.
________
D
23 When a pearl is cut in half and examined under a microscope, but its layers can be seen.
______________ _________
ABC D
24 A conductor uses signals and gestures to let the musicians to know when to play various parts
___ __________________
AB C D
of a composition.
25 If a glass lizard loses its tails, a new one grows to replace it.
____ __________
A BCD
26 Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs.
___________________
AB C D
27 It was near end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared.
_____________ ________ ______
A BCD
28 Martin Luther King, Jr. s magnificent speaking ability enabling him to effectively express, the
___________ _______
AB C
demands for social justice for Black Americans.
__
D
29 Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its particularly activity by
____________ ____________ ________
AB C
studying human motion and physiology.
______
D
30 Gothic Revival architecture has several basis characteristics that distinguish it from other
_________________
A BCD
nineteenth-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 _____ ________________
A BC
foradvertising.
________
D
33 Recently in the automobile industry, multinational companies have developed to the point
____________
A
where such few cars can be described as having been made entirely in one country.
_______ __________________
B CD
34 Scientists believe that by altering the genetic composition of plants it is possible to develop
_____
A
specimens that are resisting to disease and have increased food value.
_________________
B CD
35 The purpose of traveler s checks is to protect travelers from theft and accidental lost of money. _ ____ __
ABC D
36 The early periods of aviation in the United States, was marked by exhibition flights made by
______________ ___________
A B
individual fliers or by teams of performers at country fairs.
__________________________
CD
37 The American anarchist Emma Goldman infused her spirited lectures, publishes,
______
A
and demonstrations with a passionate belief in the freedom of the individual.____ ____ __
B C D
38 Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special interesting____ ______________A B C D
to scientists.
39 The main advertising media include direct mail, radio, television, magazines, and newspaper.
___ ______________ _______
ABC D
40 While studying the chemistry of human body, Dr.Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the
__________________
AB
research she conducted on the role of hormones.
_______________
C D
