Practice 2 Structure and Written Expression

PRACTICE II 7. Mt. Hood ______ in the state of Oregon.
1. Geysers have often been compared to (A) although

volcanoes ______ they both emit hot (B) and
liquids from below the Earth’s surface. (C) is
(A) due to (D) which
(B) because
(C) in spite of 8. ______ most important event in San
(D) regardless of Francisco’s history was the disastrous
earthquake and fire of 1906.
2. During the early period of ocean (A) The
navigation, ______ any need for (B) It was the
sophisticated instruments and techniques. (C) That the
(A) so that hardly (D) There was a
(B) where there hardly was
(C) hardly was 9. Vegetables are an excellent source
(D) there was hardly ______ vitamins.
(A) of
3. Refrigerating meats ______ the spread (B) has
of bacteria. (C) where
(A) retards (D) that
(B) retarding
(C) to retard 10. Microscopes make small things appear
(D) is retarded larger than ______ .
(A) really are
4. Throughout the animal kingdom, (B) are really
______ bigger than (C) are they really
the elephant. (D) they really are
(A) whale is only the
(B) only the whale is 11. The city of Montreal ______ over 70
(C) is the whale only square miles.
(D) only whale is the (A) covers
(B) that covers
5. The fact ______ money orders can (C) covering
usually be easily cashed has made them a (D) is covered
popular form of payment.
(A) of 12. Janet Collins’s struggle to make a
(B) that place for herself in ballet is the kind of a
(C) is that life story ______ a fascinating novel might
(D) which is be written.
(A) of
6. The first article of the United States (B) by
Constitution gives Congress ______ to (C) for whom
pass laws. (D) about which
(A) the power
(B) has the power 13. Experiments ________ represent a
(C) the power is giant step into the medicine of the future.
(D) of the power A. using gene therapy
B. use gene therapy
C. they use
D. gene therapy uses
14. ________ appears considerably larger 15. The greenhouse effect occurs
at the horizon than it does overhead is ________ heat radiated from the Sun.
merely an optical illusion. A. when does the Earth’s atmosphere trap
A. The Moon B. does the Earth’s atmosphere trap
B. That the Moon C. when the Earth’s atmosphere traps
C. When the Moon D. the Earth’s atmosphere traps
D. The Moon which
16. Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish because of the males’ bright colors.
A B C D
17. Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States
A B C
politician.
D
18. Fewest than half of all the adults fully understand the kinds and amounts of exercise
A B C
necessary for an effective
D
19. How many people know that the Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883, were the world’s first
A B C
suspension bridge?
D
20. Electrical disturbances on Earth are frequently caused with storms on the surface of the
A B C D
sun.
21. Inventor Granville Woods received him first patent on January 3, 1884, for a steam boiler
A B C D
furnace.
22. A deficient of folic acid is rarely found in humans because the vitamin is contained in a
A B C D
wide variety of foods.
23. The gopher digs with the big strong claws of its two front foot and with its overhanging
A B C D
front teeth.
24. An internationally famous ballerina, Maria Tallchief demonstrated that the quality of
A B C
ballet in North America could equal those of the ballet in Europe.
D
25. As two nuclei move closer together, their mutual electrostatic potential energy becomes
A B C
more large and more positive.
D
26. Anna Maxwell’s gift for organization was exemplified by her service while the Spanish-
A B C D
American War in 1898.
27. When a severe ankle injury forced herself to give up reporting in 1926, Margaret Mitchell
A B C
began writing her novel, Gone with the Wind.
D
28. Anne Elizabeth McDowell is best remembered for a weekly journal, Woman’s Advocate,
A B C
who she launched in January 1855.
D
29. A ray of light passing through the center of a thin lens keep its original direction.
A B C D
30. The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed

A B C
the first Continental currency.
D
31.Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century- Virginia to race on courses short of

A B
about a quarter of a mile in length.
C D
32. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham

A B C
has moved to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.
D
33. William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films.

A B C D
34. Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, alive wolves roamed
A B C
across nearly all of North America.
D
35. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national

A B
attention as a result its radical political activity.
C D
36. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked
A
on project from 1925 until his death in 1941.
B C D
37. It is proving less costly and more profitably for drug makers to market directly to patients.
A B C D
38. Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined.
A B C D
39. Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antarctica.
A B C D
40. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been doing home equity
A B
loans with greater frequency than ever before.
C D

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PRACTICE II 7. Mt. Hood ______ in the state of Oregon.

1. Geysers have often been compared to (A) although

30. The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed

31.Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century- Virginia to race on courses short of

32. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham

33. William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films.

35. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national

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