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DIRECTIONS

Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Fill in the space so that the letter inside the oval cannot be seen.

1. The giant ragweed, or buffalo weed, grows ………

(A) 18 feet up to high
(B) to high 18 feet up
(C) up to 18 feet high
(D) 18 feet high up to

2. Neptune is ……… any planet except Pluto.

(A) to be far from the Sun
(B) far from the Sun being
(C) farther than the Sun is
(D) farther from the Sun than

3. Since prehistoric times, artists have arranged paint on surfaces in ways ……… their ideas about people and the world.

(A) express
(B) that their expression of
(C) which, expressing
(D) that express

4. Except for certain microorganisms, ……… need oxygen to survive.

(A) of all living things
(B) all living things
(C) all are living things
(D) are all living things

5. Dubbing is used in filmmaking ……… a new sound track to a motion picture.

(A) which to add
(B) to add
(C) is adding that
(D) to add while

6. ……… of green lumber may come from moisture in the wood.

(A) more weight than half
(B) of the weight, more than half
(C) the weight is more than half
(D) more than half of the weight

7. Archaeologists study ……… to trace ancient trade routes because such tools are relatively rare, and each occurrence has a slightly different chemical composition.

(A) which obsidian tools
(B) obsidian tools
(C) how obsidian tools
(D) obsidian tools are

8. ……… the hamster’s basic diet is vegetarian, some hamsters also eat insects.

(A) Despite
(B) Although
(C) Regardless of
(D) Consequently

9. The Navajo Indians of the southwestern United States ……… for their sand painting, also called dry painting.

(A) noted
(B) are noted
(C) to be noted
(D) have noted

10. In 1784, the leaders of what would later become the state of Virginia gave up ……… to the territory that later became five different Midwestern states.

(A) any claim
(B) when the claim
(C) to claim
(D) would claim

11. ……… one after another, parallel computers perform groups of operations at the same Time.

(A) Conventional computers, by handling tasks
(B) Since tasks being handled by conventional computers
(C) Whereas conventional computers handle tasks
(D) While tasks handled by conventional computers

12. The Liberty Bell, formerly housed in Independence Hall, ……… in Philadelphia, was moved to a separate glass pavilion in 1976.

(A) which a historic building A
(B) a historic building which
(C) was a historic building
(D) a historic building

13. Fossils, traces of dead organisms found in the rocks of Earth’s crust, reveal ……… at the Time the rocks were formed.

(A) what was like
(B) was like life
(C) what life was like
(D) life was like

14. Although the huge ice masses ……… glaciers move slowly, they are a powerful erosive force in nature.

(A) call them
(B) are called
(C) to call
(D) called

15. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, ……… high percentage of protein.

(A) a
(B) and a
(C) since a
(D) of which a

Jawaban

  1. (C) up to 18 feet high
  2. (D) farther from the Sun than
  3. (D) that express
  4. (B) all living things
  5. (B) to add
  6. (D) more than half of the weight
  7. (B) obsidian tools
  8. (B) Although
  9. (B) are noted
  10. (A) any claim
  11. (C) Whereas conventional computers handle tasks
  12. (D) a historic building
  13. (C) what life was like
  14. (D) called
  15. (B) and a

Written Expression

DIRECTIONS

In questions 16- 40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

16. A gene is a biological unit of information who directs the activity of a cell or organism during its lifetime.

17. The flowering of African American talent in literature, music, and art in the 1920’s in New York City became to know as the Harlem Renaissance.

18. The symptoms of pneumonia, a lung infection, include high fever, chest pain, breathing difficult, and coughing.

19. The rapid grow of Boston during the mid-nineteenth century coincided with a large influx of European immigrants.

    20. In 1908 Olive Campbell started writing down folk songs by rural people in the southern Appalachian mountains near hers home.

    21. The thirteen stripes of the United States flag represent the original thirteen states of the Union, which they all were once colonies of Britain.

    22. In 1860, more as 90 percent of the people of Indiana lived rural areas, with only a few cities having a population exceeding 10,000.

    23. Gravitation keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth and the planets other of the solar system in orbit around the Sun.

    24. Photograph was revolutionized in 1831 by the introduction of the colloid process for making glass negatives.

    25. After flax is washed, dry, beaten, and combed, fibers are obtained for use in making fabric.

    26. A fever is caused which blood cells release proteins called pyrogens, raising the body’s temperature.

    27. Because of various gift-giving holidays, most stores clothing in the United Sates do almost as much business in November and December as they do in the other ten months combined.

    28. The United States National Labor Relations Board is authorized to investigation allegations of unfair labor practices on the part of either employers or employees.

    29. The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840’s caused an unprecedented numbers of people from Ireland to immigrate to the United States.

    30. The particles comprising a given cloud are continually changing, as new ones are added while others are taking away by moving air.

    31. Political parties in the United States help to coordinate the campaigns of their members and organizes the statewide and national conventions that mark election years.

    32. The lemur is an unusual animal belonging to the same order than monkey’s and apes.

    33. Cheese may be hard or soft, depending on the amount of water left into it and the character of the cutting.

    34. The carbon-are lamp, a very bright electric lamp used for spotlights, consists of two carbon electrodes with a high-current are passing between it.

    35. At first the poems of E.E. Cummings gained notoriety to their idiosyncratic punctuation and typography, but they have gradually been recognized for their lyric power as well.

    36. The mechanism of human thought and recall, a subject only partly understood by scientists, is extraordinary complicated.

    37. While the process of photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and organic compounds.

    38. The globe artichoke was known as a delicacy at least 2,500 years ago, and records of its cultivation date from fifteenth century.

    39. Humans do not constitute the only species endowed with intelligence: the higher animals also have considerably problem-solving abilities.

    40. Many of species of milkweed are among the most dangerous of poisonous plants, while others have little, if any, toxicity.

    Jawaban

    16. (B) Who
    17. (D) to know
    18. (D) difficult
    19. (A) grow
    20. (D) hers
    21. (D) they all
    22. (A) as
    23. (C) planets other
    24. (A) Photograph
    25. (B) dry
    26. (B) which
    27. (A) stores clothing
    28. (B) to investigation
    29. (C) numbers
    30. (C) taking away
    31. (C) organizes
    32. (D) than
    33. (D) into
    34. (D) it
    35. (B) to
    36. (D) extraordinary
    37. (A) While
    38. (D) from fifteenth
    39. (D) considerably
    40. (A) Many of

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