1.

Large quantities of nitrogen are used together with hydrogen ____________ammonia, a colorless
gas.

(A) to produce
(B) produce
(C) being produced
(D) the production of
2. The ___________east of the Mississippi River is made up of the Lumbee people.
(A) Native American nation largest
(B) largest Native American nation
(C) largest nation Native American
(D) Native American largest nation
3. _________in the United States began in the eighteenth century, when individuals, merchants, and
colonial governments loaned money to one another.
(A) Banking
(B) When banking
(C) It was banking
(D) Banking was
4. In most music based on the European tradition, musical pitch is grouped into eight
notes_________
(A) an octave is called
(B) called an octave
(C) when is called an octave
(D) as an octave called
5. A maser is an electronic apparatus that ___________ radio and light waves.
(A) generated and was amplified
(B) generating and amplifying
(C) generates and amplifies
(D) to generate and amplify
6. The "penny press" newspapers of the mid-nineteenth century in the United States provided
__________
at a low price for the ordinary reader.
(A) human interest stories were
(B) by human interest stories
(C) human interest stories
(D) such human interest stories that
7. Frederick Douglass failed in an attempt to escape slavery in 1836, _________two years later he
succeeded and reached New Bedford, Massachusetts.
(A) nor
(B) in spite of
(C) whether
(D) but
8. Surface tension is the property __________________ the surface of a liquid to behave as if it
were covered with a weak elastic skin.
(A) of which causes
(B) that causes
(C) that it causes
(D) causes
9. Kim Campbell was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada, ___________.
(A) held the office the first woman
(B) was the first woman to hold the office
(C) the first woman to hold the office
(D) and for holding the office the first woman
10. In 1948, 54 percent of United States families owned at least one automobile; by 1970
_____________ had risen to 82 percent.
(A) figure
(B) it was a figure
(C) that the figure
(D) that figure
11. The ability of forests to hold water depends not nearly so much on the trees and their root
systems _____________on the mosses they shelter.
(A) than
(B) as
(C) as does
(D) than those
12. To break thick ice, an icebreaker boat moves fast enough to ride up on the ice,
___________under its
weight.
(A) so then breaks
(B) when breaks it
(C) which then breaks
(D) for which then breaks
13. In the human diet, the three principal components______________ digestion are carbohydrates,
proteins, and fats.
(A) required
(B) they require
(C) requiring
(D) require

14. By 1872 the United States had 70 engineering colleges, ______________ astonishing expansion
credited largely to the Morrill Act of 1862.
(A) because
(B) an
(C) to which
(D) was
15. Some nomadic peoples move homes and even villages when _______________ for growing
crops, and others wander in accordance with the grazing needs of their herds.
(A) the soil becoming too exhausted
(B) too much exhaustion of the soil
(C) the soil becomes too exhausted
(D) does the soil become too exhausted

Written Expression
16. In Connecticut, hundreds of houses dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are
preserved by more as 100 local or national historical societies.
17. The able of writers to precisely record observations made about others enables them to include
in their work a great deal of material outside their own experience.
18. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century strove to revitalizing handicrafts
and applied arts during an era of increasing mass production.
19. A great number of desert plant species in Arizona are annual wildflowers that spend most of its
life cycle in a dormant stage.
20. The macula is responsible for central vision, which enables people do activities that require
focusing directly ahead.
21. In 1913 when he was only 18 year old, Leo Sowerby's violin concerto was performed by the
Chicago Symphony.
22. On the basis of experimental and clinical evidence, most cognitive psychologists believe that the
storage capacity of long-term memorize is unlimited.
23. If there is too much pituitary hormone or too few insulin, the amount of sugar In the blood rises
abnormally, producing a condition called hyperglycemia.
24. In 1916, United States suffragist Alice Paul founded the National Woman’s Party, a political party
dedicate to establishing equal rights for women.
25. By 1830 the glass industry in the United States had become too well established that the country
no longer needed to depend on imported glass
26. When study different cultures and societies, anthropologists often focus on marriage as a
contractual agreement between different parties.
27. The work of Post-Impressionist artists departed from certain features or Impressionism, such as
to analyze of the effects of light.
28. The primary emphasis of management science is on the creating practical mathematical models
that can be used in decision making.
29. The atmosphere is layered into zones, each with its own distinctly characteristics with respect to
temperature and composition.
30. Although all sedimentary rocks contain iron, but the deposits that are richest in iron consist
predominantly of minerals such as iron oxides, carbonates, silicates, and sulfides.
31. When canned using proper methods, food suffers no loss in vitamins or another nutritive
elements.
32. On September 6,1996, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the highest honor the United States government gives to civilian.
33. The spice cinnamon and the druqs cascara and quinine all come from bark, the protective out
layer of stems and roots of woody plants.
34. Since mud retains heat well and distributes it evenly to the skin, mud baths have Iong used to
apply heat to the body.
35. Toward the end of his life, John Singer Sargent returned to the painting of landscapes and the use
of watercolors, of which he excelled.
36. Most asteroids have orbits between Mars and Jupiter and are believed to be remnants of planets
that they once occupied this region and were later destroyed.
37. Glaciers, mass of ice that flow outward from ice caps, cover about one-tenth of Earth's land area.
38. Watercolor ranks as one of the major art media because of the variety, brilliant, and delicacy of
the results attainable.
39. The major purpose of the United States Department of Education are to ensure equal educational
opportunity for all and to improve the quality of education.
40. Unlike chimpanzees and gorillas, orangutans live almost exclusively in trees, coming to the
ground relatively rare.