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1. A microscope can reveal vastly 5. Color and light, taken together,

detail than is visible to the naked eye. the aesthetic impact of the interior of a
building.
(A) than
(B) than more (A) very powerfully influence
(C) more than (B) very influence powerfully
(D) more (C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very

2. Narcissus bulbs at least three

inches apart and covered with about four 6. that Rachel Carson's 1962 book
inches of well-drained soil. Silent Spring was one of the chief sources
of inspiration for the development of
(A) should be planted nontoxic pesticides.
(B) to plant
(C) must planting (A) There is likely
(D) should plant (B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely
3. Industrialization has been responsible for
most radical of the environmental
changes caused by humans. 7. Total color blindness, , is the result
of a defect in the retina.
(A) a
(B) the (A) a rare condition that
(C) some of which (B) a rare condition
(D) which are the (C) that a rare condition
(D) is a rare condition

4. In many areas the slope and topography

of the land excess rainfall to run off 8. no conclusive evidence exists,
into a natural outlet. many experts believe that the wheel was
invented only once and then diffused to
(A) neither permit the rest of the world.
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting (A) Even
(D) do not permit (B) But
(C) Although
(D) So
9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the 13. According to some critics, the novels of
growing season, life is in various William Burroughs demonstrate the major
forms. hazard of absurd literature,
tendency toward overembellishment and
(A) abundant incoherence.
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant (A) notwithstanding
(D) it abundant (B) besides
(C) is a
(D) its
10. Most of archaeologists know about
prehistoric cultures is based on studies of
material remains. 14. Despite its wide range of styles and
instrumentation, country music has
(A) these certain common features its own
(B) what special character.
(C) which
(D) their (A) give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
11. In her time, Isadora Duncan was (D) that gives it to
today a liberated woman.

(A) calling what we would 15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in
(B) who would be calling New Orleans in the 1920's in blues
(C) what we would call music.
(D) she would call it
(A) was one of the greatest periods
(B) one of the greatest periods
12. around stones that are sun (C) was of the greatest periods
warmed, even the smallest of stones (D) the greatest periods
creates tiny currents of warm air.

(A) The cool air

(B) If the air is cool
(C) That the air cools
(D) The cooler the air
16. Gone With the Wind, the epic novel about life in the South during the CiviI War period, took ten
years write.

17. None two butterflies have exactly the same design on their wings.

18. To save the California condor from extinction, a group of federal, local, and privately organizations
initiated a rescue program.

19. A coral reef, a intricate aquatic community of plants and animals, is found only in warm, shallow,
sunlit seas.

20. Carnegie Hall was the first building in New Y ark designed special for orchestral music.

21. Since it lives in the desert, the collared lizard depends from insects for water as well as for food.

22. The Texas Panhandle region, in the northwestern part of the state, produces more wheat, cotton,
and grain sorghum than any of other area of Texas.

23. Light rays what enter the eye must be focused onto a point on the retina In order for a clear visual
image to form.

24. The orangutan's hands and feet are designed for holding and grasping branches, and its powerful
immensely arms enable it to climb and swing in trees without difficulty.
25. The extraordinary beautiful of orchids makes them the basis of a multimillion dollar floral industry .

26. The Vermont Elementary Science Project, according to its founders, are designed to challenge
some of the most widely held beliefs about teaching.

27. The number 8 is an example of a "mixed number" because it is composing of an integer and a
fraction.

28. If it is kept dry, a seed can still sprout up to forty years after their formation.

29. In The Sociology of Science, now considered a classic, Robert Mert on discusses cultural,
economy, and social forces that contributed to the development of modem science.

30. Bacteria lived in the soil play a vital role in recycling the carbon and nitrogen needed by plants.

31. Some snakes have hollow teeth are called fangs that they use to poison their victims.

32. Stars derive their energy from thermonuclear reactions that take place in their heat interiors.

33. Carrie Chapman Catt organized the League of Women Voters after successfully campaign for the
constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
34. Any group that conducting its meetings using parliamentary rules will encounter situations where
prescribed procedures cannot be applied.

35. The strongly patriotic character of Charles Sangster's poetry is credited about greatly furthering the
cause of confederation in Canada.

36. Jessamyn West's first and most famous novel, The Friendly Persuasion, describes the life of a
Quaker farmed family in the mid-1800's.

37. One inventor that Thomas Edison can take credit for is the light bulb.

38. Electric motors range in size from the tiny mechanisms that operate sewing machine to the great
engines in heavy locomotives.

39. The nitrogen makes up over 78 percent of the Earth's atmosphere, the gaseous mass surrounding
the planet.

40. The Mississippi, the longest river in the United States, begins as small, clear stream in
northwestern Minnesota.
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1. is helping to break new ground in 5. Cold temperatures; short growing

drug research. seasons, and heavy snows prevent
at high elevations.
(A) Computers are being used more if
(B) The increasing use of the computer (A) grow trees
(C) If an increase in the use of the (B) the growth of trees
computer (C) trees are growing
(D) Computers are being used more (D) and growth of trees

2. An elephant vigorously when it is 6. Usually, the more skilled an athlete

overheated. the more effortless the athlete's
movements appear to be.
(A) flapping its ears
(B) its ears flap
(C) flaps its ears (A) what is
(D) ears flap it (B) that is
(C) that it is
(D) is
3. Broadway musical comedy has been
called of the United States to
modern theater. 7. Trilobites, a group of spineless animals,
flourished in the oceans for several
(A) the major contribution that hundred million years some 200
million years ago.
(B) what is the major contribution
(C) the major contribution
(A) until they became extinct
(D) to the major contribution
(B) and their extinction
(C) that were extinct
(D) because their extinction
4. in 1968 as a nonprofit agency to
finance the growth of noncommercial
radio and television in the United States.
8. Recent engineering developments have
(A) The Corporation for Public made to recycle plastic soda
Broadcasting established bottles into polyester fabric.
(B) The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting was established (A) possible, and
(C) When the Corporation for Public (B) it is possible
Broadcasting was established (C) the possible
(D) Even though the Corporation for (D) it possible
Public Broadcasting was established
9. , bottle-nosed dolphins become 13. , the hummingbird gets its name
talented performers at many aquariums. from the sound that its wings make during
flight.
(A) When to train
(B) Are training (A) Has a brilliant color
(C) When trained (B) The brilliant color
(D) To train them (C) Which is brilliantly colored
(D) Brilliantly colored

10. The art of the 1970's was characterized

by diversity and by the independence of 14. Except for the Sun, all stars are too far
artists main affinities were more from the Earth for their distances
often sociopolitical than stylistic. in miles or kilometers.

(A) whose (A) to be conveniently measured

(B) that (B) which conveniently measured
(C) they have (C) to measure conveniently
(D) of which (D) conveniently measured

11. Flower oils are of the ingredients 15. Many technological innovations, such as
used in making perfume. the telephone, the result of
sudden bursts of inspiration in fact were
preceded by many inconclusive efforts.
(A) among expensive
(B) among the most expensive
(A) whose appearance
(C) being most expensive
(B) that appear to be
(D) expensive
(C) and appear to be
(D) are appearing

12. A quilt that looks ordinary may

become a work of abstract art when it is
hung on a white wall.

(A) lying on a bed

(B) lies on a bed
(C) to be lying on a bed
(D) to lie on a bed
16. Corporations, companies owned by much stockholders rather than by a single proprietor, began to
play an important economic role in the late nineteenth century.

17. Diamonds have the unique ability to allow the passage of neither infrared and visible light.

18. Gilbert Newton Lewis, a chemist, helped to develop the modern electron theory of valence, a
theory what explains the forces holding atoms together in molecules.

19. The first women governor in United States history was Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was elected
governor of Wyoming in 1925.

20. Because of a high birthrate and considerable immigration, the United States population in the late
nineteenth century increased tremendously into 31 million in 1860 to 76 million in 1900.

21. In laboratory experiments, an investigator often begins by work out different conditions for two
groups of subjects.

22. In Florida, when the temperature drops below freezing, citrus growers keep young tree warm by
constantly showering them with water.

23. The pitch of a musical instrument is defined as the relative highness or low of the sound it
produces.

24. The delicious of chocolate depends not only on the quality of the cacao but also on a complex
process of grinding, heating, and blending.
25. Scientists have found that occasional exposure to bright light can be help a person get used to
working the night shift.

26. Rocks have forming, wearing away and re-forming ever since the Earth took shape.

27. For most of their history, especially since the 1860's, New York City has been undergoing major
ethnic population changes.

28. The dramatic first-floor gallery of the New Britain Museum of American Art is devoted to Thomas
Benton's series of five oversized mural.

29. Although color is a minor factor in soil composition, it is excellent characteristic by which to
distinguish different soil layers.

30. Eagles are predatory birds that have large, heavy, hooked bills and strong, sharp claws called as
"talons."

31. Cotton is one of the most popular fiber used to make clothes.

32. Turreted mansions decorated with elaborate wooden ornamentation became a mark of wealthy
and elegance in the United States in the late nineteenth century.

33. Most of our ideas of what ancient people looked and dressed come from the works of
Renaissance artists.
34. Plants require much less moist in cold weather than in warm weather.

35. All nations may have to make fundamental changes in their economic, political, and the
technological institutions if they are to preserve the environment.

36. Massachusetts was first explored in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , and the
first permanent settlement at Plymouth in 1620.

37. Sarah Vaughan had a voice like a perfect instrument, and it was an instrument that she knew how
to use it with the utmost skill.

38. During early nineteenth century, the building of canals and railroads strengthened the state of
Indiana's links with the eastern United States.

39. Maryland, even though a southern state, remained loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.

40. A monsoon is an enormous cycle of air set in motion by differences temperature over land and
sea.