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1. Some methods to prevent soil erosion are plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to plant trees on unproductive land, and rotating crops.
(A) Some
(B) to prevent
(C) are
(D) to plant
2. Chicago, is called the Windy City because of the winds coming down across the lake from Canada, is never very hot in summer.
(A) Chicago, is called
(B) because of
(C) is
(D) never very
3. Disease is not as widespread than before because of better preventive medicine and vastly improved nutrition.
(A) Disease
(B) than before
(C) better
(D) vastly
4. When scientists discovered how soap works, it became possible to do synthetic detergents out of petroleum.
(A) discovered
(B) how
(C) it
(D) to do
5. Electric telegraph, invented in 1835 by Samuel Morse, was first used in 1844.
(A) Electric telegraph
(B) by Samuel Morse
(C) first
(D) used
6. Every scientist knows that gravity is the force that maintains the earth and the planets in its orbits around the sun.
(A) knows
(B) that
(C) maintains
(D) its
7. After studying all the new materials, the student was able to rise his test score by twenty-five points.
(A) After studying
(B) all the new
(C) was able
(D) rise
8. Mr Anderson used to jogging in the crisp morning air during the winter months, but now he has stopped.
(A) jogging
(B) crisp morning
(C) during
(D) winter months
9. The tongue is the principle organ of taste, and is crucial for chewing, swallowed, and speaking.
(A) principle
(B) of taste
(C) is
(D) swallowed
10. Clare Boothe Luce wrote and productioned her first play while she was in high school.
(A) wrote
(B) productioned
(C) her
(D) play
11. Gamma globulin, a protein found in blood plasma, it is used to prevent such infectious disease as measles and viral hepatitis.
(A) found in
(B) it is
(C) such
(D) as
12. The plants that they belong to the family of ferns are quite varied in their size and structure.
(A) they
(B) belong
(C) are
(D) their
13. Vasco da Gama, accompanied by a large crew and a fleet of twenty ships, were trying to establish Portuguese domination in Africa and India during the sixteenth century.
(A) by a large crew
(B) were
(C) to establish
(D) in Africa and India
14. Scientists had previously estimated that the Grand Canyon in Arizona is ten million years old; but now, by using a more modern dating method, they agree that the age is closer to six million years.
(A) previously
(B) is
(C) by using
(D) six million years
15. In 1950 it was naively predicted that eight or ten computer would be sufficient to handle all of the scientific and business needs in the United States.
(A) In 1950
(B) naively
(C) eight or ten computer
(D) to handle
16. George Ellery Hale and his colleagues designed the two-hundred-inch telescope on Mount Palomar study the structure of the universe.
(A) his
(B) two-hundred-inch
(C) on Mount Palomar
(D) study
17. There is about 600 schools in the United States that use the Montessori method to encourage individual initiative.
(A) There is
(B) in the United States
(C) use
(D) to encourage
18. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades [GATT] is an international agreement designing to increase trade among member nations.
(A) international
(B) designing
(C) among
(D) member nations
19. J. Edgar Hoover has served as director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972.
(A) has served
(B) as director
(C) from
(D) his death
20. I put my new book of zoology here on the desk a few minutes ago, but I cannot seem to find it.
(A) book of zoology
(B) the desk
(C) ago
(D) I cannot seem to find it


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1. Many birds will, in the normal course of their migrations, flying more than three thousand miles to reach their winter homes.
(A) their
(B) flying
(C) more than three thousand miles
(D) to reach
2. Heartburn can best be understood as a symptom causing by acid reflux due to a weak lower esophageal sphincter.
(A) best be
(B) causing by
(C) due
(D) weak
3. Some gorillas beat their chests as an express of high spirits.
(A) beat
(B) as
(C) express
(D) high
4. Air pollution, together with littering, are causing many problems in our large, industrial cities today.
(A) with
(B) are
(C) many
(D) in our large
5. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo nonstop from New York to Paris in such short time.
(A) was
(B) to fly
(C) in
(D) such short time
6. He has been hoped for a raise for the last four months, but his boss is reluctant to give him one.
(A) has been hoped
(B) last
(C) to give
(D) one
7. Industrialist Henry Ford introduced assembly-line techniques into the manufacturer of motor vehicles.
(A) Industrialist
(B) introduced
(C) manufacturer
(D) vehicles
8. Aristotle systematically set out the various forms of the syllogism that has remained an important reference for logic.
(A) systematically
(B) various
(C) that
(D) has remained
9. Salmon lay their eggs and die in freshwater, although they live in salt water when most of their adult lives.
(A) lay
(B) although
(C) when
(D) adult lives
10. The understanding electricity depends on a knowledge of atoms and the subatomic particles of which they are composed.
(A) The understanding
(B) depends on
(C) they
(D) are composed
11. Dorothea Dix worked extensively during the second half of the nineteenth century to improve condition in mental health facilities and the prisons.
(A) extensively
(B) during the
(C) to improve condition
(D) the
12. As television images of the astronauts showed, even for trained professionals who are used to move about in a lessened gravitational field, there are still problems.
(A) As
(B) who
(C) used to move
(D) there are
13. Because the interstate highway system linking roads across the country was built about thirty-five years ago, most of the roads in the system now need repaired.
(A) Because
(B) was built
(C) ago
(D) repaired
14. The soil is composed of a mixture of organic matter called humus and inorganic matter derived from rocks.
(A) The soil
(B) is
(C) composed
(D) called
15. Crocodiles different from alligators in that they have pointed snouts and long lower teeth that stick out when their mouths are closed.
(A) Crocodiles
(B) different from
(C) pointed snouts
(D) are closed
16. Perhaps the colonists were looking for a climate like England, when they decided to settle the North American continent instead of the South American continent.
(A) looking for
(B) like England
(C) to settle
(D) instead of
17. Ghost towns like Rhyolite, Nevada are communities that are not longer inhabited because changes in economic conditions have caused the people to move elsewhere.
(A) like
(B) not longer
(C) because
(D) to move
18. Into among the five Great Lakes, only Lake Michigan is located entirely within the territorial boundaries of the United States.
(A) Into among
(B) is located
(C) entirely
(D) territorial boundaries
19. The two types of nucleic acids, known as DNA and RNA, are not the alike.
(A) types of
(B) known
(C) are
(D) the alike
20. This new model not only saves time but also energy by operating on two batteries instead of four.
(A) This
(B) energy
(C) operating
(D) instead


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1. It is generally believed that Thomas Jefferson was the one who had researched and wrote the "Declaration of Independence" during the months prior to its signing in July 1776.
(A) It is generally believed
(B) wrote
(C) its signing
(D) in July 1776
2. The children's television program called "Sesame Street" was seeing in 84 countries in 1989.
(A) The children's
(B) called
(C) seeing
(D) in
3. People from temperate climates cannot survive for long in temperatures extreme.
(A) from
(B) climates
(C) for long
(D) temperatures extreme
4. Some earthworms grow to a very large size. five or six feet in length, but most of them are a little inches long.
(A) Some
(B) a
(C) a
(D) little
5. The Augustinian monk, Gregor Mendel, performed many experiments which have won him the title of "Father of Genetic".
(A) The Augustinian
(B) performed
(C) which
(D) have wo
6. The leader emphasized the need for justice and equality between his people.
(A) the need
(B) for justice
(C) between
(D) people
7. Several people have apparent tried to change the man's mind, but he refuses to listen.
(A) have
(B) apparent
(C) the man's mind
(D) to listen
8. Those of us who smoke should have their lungs X-rayed regularly.
(A) Those
(B) who
(C) their
(D) regularly
9. Akuce Ganuktibm, she spent her life working with the health and welfare of the families of workers.
(A) she
(B) her life
(C) welfare
(D) the
10. The bridge at Niagara Falls spans the longer unguarded border in the history of the world, symbolizing the peace and goodwill that exist between Canada and the United States.
(A) Niagara Falls
(B) the longer
(C) exist
(D) between
11. Patients suffering from encephalitis have an inflammatory of the brain.
(A) suffering
(B) from
(C) inflammatory
(D) the brain
12. Almost the plants known to us are made up of a great many cells, specialized to perform different tasks.
(A) Almost
(B) known to us
(C) a great many cells
(D) to perform
13. Most large corporations provide pension plans for their employees so that they will be secure enough than to live comfortably during their retirement.
(A) so that
(B) secure enough than
(C) to live
(D) comfortably
14. The smallest of the apes, the gibbon, is distinguished by its too long arms.
(A) The smallest
(B) by
(C) its
(D) too long
15. Despite its smaller size, the Indian Ocean is as deep the Atlantic Ocean.
(A) Despite
(B) its
(C) smaller size
(D) as deep
16. Before the invention of the musical staff, people passed musical compositions on to each other not by writing them down but also by remembering them.
(A) Before
(B) each other
(C) but also
(D) them
17. There exists more than 2,600 different varieties of palm trees, with varying flowers, leaves, and fruits.
(A) exists
(B) more than
(C) with
(D) varying
18. The National Wildflower Research Center which was established in 1982 by Lady Bird Johnson on sixty acres of land east of Austin.
(A) which was
(B) established
(C) on sixty acres
(D) east of
19. The classification of a dinosaur as either saurischian nor ornithischian depends on the structure of the hip.
(A) as
(B) nor
(C) depends on
(D) the hip
20. It is extremely important for an engineer to know to use a computer.
(A) It is
(B) extremely
(C) for
(D) to know


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1. The first electric lamp had two carbon rods from which vapor serves to conduct the current across the gap.
(A) The first
(B) which
(C) serves
(D) to conduct
2. In spite modern medical technology, many diseases caused by viruses are still not curable.
(A) In spite
(B) many
(C) by viruses
(D) not
3. The Earth depends the sun for its heating.
(A) The
(B) depends
(C) sun for
(D) heating
4. Luther Burbank was a pioneer in the process of graft immature plants onto fully mature plants.
(A) a pioneer
(B) graft
(C) fully
(D) plants
5. An ardent feminist, Margaret Fuller, through her literature, asked that women be given a fairly chance.
(A) through
(B) that
(C) be
(D) fairly
6. The fossils represent animals or plants that had hard and usually well-developed body structure.
(A) The fossils
(B) that had
(C) hard
(D) usually
7. During the early part of the Colonial period, living conditions were hard, and people have had little time for reading and studying.
(A) were
(B) people have had
(C) for reading
(D) studying
8. The progress made in space travel for the early 1960s is remarkable.
(A) progress
(B) made
(C) in space
(D) for
9. Psychological experiment indicate that people remember more math problems that they cannot solve than those they are able to solve.
(A) experiment
(B) solve
(C) those
(D) to solve
10. The teacher told the students to don't discuss the take-home exam with each other.
(A) told
(B) to don't
(C) discuss
(D) with each other
11. Death Valley is 130 miles length and no more than 14 miles wide.
(A) is
(B) length
(C) no more
(D) than
12. Economists have tried to discourage the use of the phrase "underdeveloped nation" and encouraging the more accurate phrase "developing nation" in order to suggest an ongoing process.
(A) to discourage
(B) the use
(C) encouraging
(D) the more
13. Since infection can cause both fever as well as pain, it is a good idea to check a patient's temperature.
(A) can cause
(B) as well as
(C) to check
(D) a patient's
14. A barometer is a device with a sealed metal chamber designed to reading the changes in the pressure of air in the atmosphere.
(A) A barometer
(B) sealed
(C) reading
(D) air
15. Philosophy of the ancient Greeks has been preserved in the scholarly writing of Western civilization.
(A) Philosophy
(B) has been preserved
(C) scholarly writing
(D) Western civilization
16. Quasars, which relatively small objects, emit an enormous amount of energy.
(A) which
(B) emit
(C) amount
(D) energy
17. William Faulkner, a famous novelist from Mississippi, said that it is not possible to understand the South unless you were born there.
(A) is
(B) to understand
(C) the South
(D) you
18. To estimate how much it will cost to build a home, finding the total square footage of the house and multiply by cost per square foot.
(A) it will cost
(B) to build
(C) finding
(D) by cost
19. Plant cuttings who are placed in water will develop roots and can then be planted in soil.
(A) who
(B) placed
(C) then be
(D) in soil
20. They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell them.
(A) what did happen
(B) last night
(C) unable to
(D) tell them


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1. Some important characteristics of the Baroque style was a renewed interest in ornamentation and a powerful use of both light and shade.
(A) was
(B) a renewed interest
(C) use
(D) and
2. Alexander Graham Bell was once a teacher who run a school for the deaf in Massachusetts.
(A) once
(B) run
(C) for
(D) in
3. The student realised with disappointment that he had learned new nothing in the lecture.
(A) with
(B) that
(C) new nothing
(D) in
4. The greater number of dentists in smallest towns shows either that dentists don't like big cities or there are now more dentists.
(A) The greater
(B) smallest
(C) big cities
(D) more
5. The ordinary cold, which is ours most common sickness, is a rival disease whose cure has not yet been found.
(A) which is
(B) ours
(C) whose
(D) cure
6. After the team of geologists had drawn diagrams in their notebooks and wrote explanations of the formations which they had observed, they returned to their camp-side to compare notes.
(A) their
(B) wrote
(C) which
(D) to compare
7. A catalytic agent such as platinum may be used so the chemical reaction advances more rapidly.
(A) such as
(B) so
(C) advances
(D) rapidly
8. In ancient times and throughout the Middle Ages, many people believed that the earth is motionless.
(A) many people
(B) believed
(C) the earth
(D) is
9. Before the nineteenth century it was rarely to find organized systems of adult education.
(A) Before
(B) it
(C) rarely
(D) systems
10. Starfishes and sea urchins, members of the echinoderms or spiny skinned animals, are particularly interested because of their unusual structures.
(A) are
(B) interested
(C) because of
(D) their
11. According the kinetic theory, all mater consists of constantly moving particles.
(A) According the
(B) consists
(C) constantly
(D) moving
12. Please don't parking in those spaces that have signs reserving them for the handicapped.
(A) don't parking
(B) reserving
(C) for
(D) the handicapped
13. The amount of books in the Library of Congress is more than 58 million volumes.
(A) The amount
(B) in the Library of Congress
(C) is
(D) more than
14. It has been proven that when a subject identifies a substance as tasting well, he is often associating the taste with the smell.
(A) It has been proven
(B) well
(C) he
(D) associating
15. Many of the problems associated with aging such as disorientation and irritability may result from to eat an unbalanced diet.
(A) Many
(B) such as
(C) may result
(D) from to eat
16. When a child, Barbara Mandrell played the guitar, banjo, and saxophone in her family's band, but in 1981 she was named Entertainer of the Year for her singing.
(A) When
(B) played
(C) in 1981
(D) was named
17. The 3,500-foot George Washington Bridge spans the Hudson River to link New York City also New Jersey.
(A) spans
(B) the
(C) link
(D) also
18. The average salt content of seawater is more than three percents.
(A) average
(B) content
(C) more than
(D) percents
19. The narwhal can be easily to recognize by the long spiraled tusk attached to the left side of its head.
(A) to recognize
(B) spiraled
(C) attached to
(D) its
20. A vine climbs from one tree to another, continuing to grow and support itself even when the original supporting tree is not longer alive.
(A) to grow
(B) itself
(C) supporting
(D) not longer


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