SWET 51

1. Fingerprints form an unchangeable signature, and ______ for identification, despite

changes in the individual’s appearance or age.
(A) the use of fingerprint records
(B) with the use of fingerprint records
(C) when fingerprint records are used
(D) fingerprint records can be used

2. Animals obtain their energy from _______ .

(A) eat their food
(B) their food to eat
(C) the food they eat
(D) they eat the food

3. Liquid water has fewer hydrogen bonds than ice; so more molecules can occupy the same
space, making liquid water ______ than ice.
(A) more dense
(B) is more dense
(C) more than dense
(D) as more dense

4. It is difficult for present-day readers ______Sister Carrie was withdrawn from

circulation at the turn of the century.
(A) to understand the novel why
(B) why to understand the novel
(C) the novel to understand why
(D) to understand why the novel

5. Historical linguists study ______ over time.

(A) languages evolve
(B) whether languages evolution
(C) how languages evolve
(D) evolution that languages

6. Tennis star Chris Evert, who retired from the game after eighteen years, perhaps _____
more than anyone to make women’s professional tennis a widely respected career.
(A) who did
(B) has done
(C) and doing
(D) to do

7. The daytime _____ bright because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight.
(A) while sky is
(B) has a sky
(C) sky is
(D) for the sky

8. Edward Hopper’s paintings portray the loneliness and isolation of the individuals _____.
(A) is in an urbanized society
(B) in society is urbanized
(C) who in an urbanized society
(D) in an urbanized society

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9. Braille, _____ printing reading materials for use by people who are blind, consists
of a system of raised points or dots that are read by touch.
(A) is a method of
(B) a method of
(C) which a method of
(D) a method is of

10. The art of landscape architecture is almost as old ______ of architecture itself.
(A) as that
(B) than
(C) as
(D) than that

11. The development of synthetic fibers after 1940 led to the production of new types
of fabrics _____ more durable and easier to care for.
(A) that they were
(B) that were
(C) were
(D) and were

12. Until the eighteenth century, charcoal was _____ used in blast furnaces, as well as in
glassmaking, blacksmithing, and metalworking.
(A) what the chief fuel
(B) the chief fuel that
(C) the chief fuel was
(D) the chief fuel

13. Pure iron cannot be hardened by heating and cooling, as _____, because iron lacks the
necessary carbon.
(A) steel it can
(B) can steel
(C) with steel can
(D) so can steel

14. Rapids and waterfalls, ______ along virtually all Massachusetts waterways, provided
power in colonial times for grist and saw mills and later for textile mills.
(A) common
(B) were common
(C) which, being common
(D) being common, were

15. Airsickness is produced by a disturbance of the inner car, ______ psychogenic

factors, such as fear, also play a part.
(A) in spite of
(B) neither
(C) nor
(D) although

16. A large collections of materials focused on Louisiana’s history and culture is provided by the
Williams Reseach Center in New Orleans.

17. Mary Austin’s first book, The Land of little Rain, a description of desert life in the western United
States, won she immediate fame in 1903.

18. The most abundant phosphate mineral, apatite, includes several type that vary in their content
of fluorine, chlorine, or hydroxyl ions.

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19.Having gained a reputation as a daring, intrepid journalist, Nellie Bly became the first female
report assigned to the Eastern front during the First World War.

20. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, allows settlers 160 acres of free land after
they had worked it for five years.

21. Alone with the other physical sciences, meteorology has developed in the past three centuries
from myth and folklore to rigorous observation, computation, analyze.

22. In 1973 the United States armed forces were placed on an all-volunteer basis for a first time
since 1984.

23. Because lions do not have exceptional speedy, they must rely on the element of surprise for the
hunt.

24. The position of the earth’s magnetic poles is not constant but shows an appreciable change
after year to year.

25. Grassland vegetation reduces competition for water among species by concentrates roots at
different levels.

26. Like the giant reptiles, most lineages of organisms have eventually become extinct; still some
exist that have changed very little in millions of year.

27. Demonstrations public are an effective means by which advocacy groups can bring inequalities
to the attention of local, state and federal officials.
28. Methods used in preparing articles for an encyclopedia differs, depending on the length of the
article.

29. Since the advent of rock music in the 1950’s the popular music of the United States has become
a significant musical influence around world.

30. Cloud droplets and ice crystals first form on certain types of small particles of dust or another
airborne materials.

31. Male fiddler crabs have huge claws that move back and forth similar violinists move their arms
when playing the violin.

32. Daylight saving time came into useful in the United States in an effort to conserve electricity by
having business hours correspond to the hours of natural daylight。

33. Almost every fruits and vegetables contain riboflavin; the richest sources are leafy green
vegetables such as spinach, kale, or turnip greens.

34. Gold lends itself to the making of decorative articles because of its great resistant to corrosion
and tarnish and its ease of working.

35. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the values of life in a coherent, systematic,
and science manner.

36. Indiscriminately dumping of waste materials and inadequate sewage treatment are two serious

37. The builders of the variety ancient cliff ruins scattered throughout the canyons and mesas of the
arid Southwest of the United States are known as the cliff dwellers.

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38. A fragrant plant has tiny sacs that makes and stores the substances that give it a pleasant odor.
39. Nomadic hunter and gatherer societies have access to only a limited amount of food in an area
and moved on when they have exhausted each locality.

40. Collagen, a strong rubbery protein, supports the earflaps and the tip of nose in humans.

ANSWERS:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
D C A D C B C D B A
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
B D B A D A C B C A
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
D C A D C D A B D D
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
B B A D D A B B C C