QUIZ
1. Because aluminium is lighter and cheaper _________, it is
frequently used for hightension power transmission.
a. as copper
b. than copper
c. for copper
d. more copper
2. It is only recently that ballets have been based on themes
______ American life.
a. reflecting
b. reflects
c. is reflecting
d. reflected
3. Poison oak generate irritating poisons _______
a. they can affect people
b. that can affect people
c. what can effect people
d. which can effect people
4. ________ ants live in colonies, keep farms, go to war, carry
off slaves, and have a society somewhat like human beings.
a. studies of ant life show that
b. studies of ant life that
c. That is studied
d. That the studies of ant life
5. Generic medications are just as ______ and much less
expensive.
a. effectively brand-name products
b. brand-name products effective
c. brand-name products as effective
d. effective as brand-name products
6. ________ is no way to tell the exact number of heroin addicts
in the United States.
a. it
b. there
c. what
d. each
7. Ernest Hemingway is _________ of modern fiction.
a. one tof the molders
b. the molders one
c. who is one of the molders
d. the molders who is the one
8. _______ occasions for congratulations.
a. birthdays that usually considered
b. usually considering birthdays
c. birthdays are usually considered
d. that considered birthdays usually
9. "Forty-niners" _______ to California for gold in 1848.
a. rushed
b. are rushed
c. have rushed
d. rushing
10. In order for people to work together effectively, they need
_____ each other's needs.
a. to be sensitive to
b. is sentisitive for
c. sensitivity
d. sensitive
11. It is good form to use the name of the person _________
a. who are greeting
b. you are greeting
c. which you are greeting
d. greeting for you
12. _________ the promotion of health and to helping people
avoid injury and disease.
a. to commit The Red Cross
b. The Red Cross to commit
c. Commited to the Red Cross is
d. The Red Cross is comminted to
13. People usually can get a sufficient amount of the calcium
their bodies ____ from the food they consume.
a. need
b. needs
c. needing
d. to need
14. It is possible _______ may assist some trees in saving water
in the winter.
a. the leaves are lost
b. when leaves have lost
c. that the loss of leaves
d. to lose leaves
15. Hollywood, the heart of America's motion picture industry,
____ of Los Angeles a century ago.
a. was only a quiet suburb
b. only quiet suburb was
c. quiet suburb only was
d. suburb was quiet only
16. Kitchen appliences called blenders became ______ in the
1930s, when Stephn J. Poplawski developed a machine that excelled
at making his favorite drink.
a. establish
b. establishing
c. established
d. which establish
17. Built at the beginning of the century, the Library of
Congress houses one of the largest _____ collections of books in
the world.
a. and fine
b. and finest
c. or finest
d. yet fine
18. In the preparation of fibrous material for production uses,
stiff woody fibers from plants ____ fibers from animals
sources.
a. the most heat the
b. need more heat than
c. than more heat needed
d. need the more heat than
19. A partnership is an association of two or more individuals
who ____ together to develop a business.
a. worked
b. they work
c. work
d. working
20. Chosen as the nation's capital at the eand of the American
Civil War, ______ a city of over a million people.
a. Washington, D.C., is now
b. for Washington, D.C.,
c. to Washington, D. C.,
d. now in Washington, D. C.,
21. Within an area of only 100 miles, Death Valley sinks to 282
feet below sea level while Mount Whitney _____ to a height of
14,494 feet.
a. soaring
b. soar
c. soared
d. soars
22. The cosmopolitan flvor of San Francisco is enhanced by _____
shops and restaurants.
a. an ethnic
b. its many ethnic
c. it ethnicity
d. ethnicity
23. ______ that increasing numbers of compact-disc players will
be bought by consumers in the years to come.
a. they are anticipated
b. in anticipation
c. anticipating
d. it is anticipated
24. How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an
eclipse of the sun.
A B C D
25. The children's television program called Sesame Street was
seeing in 84 countries in 1989.
A B C D
26. Some research suggests what there is a link between the
body's calcium balance and tooth
A B C D
decay.
27. Luther Burbank earned the funds to go west by sale his new
ideas about growing potatoes.
A B C D
28. Louisa May Alcott infused her own life into the character of
Jo in book of Little Women.
A B C D
29. Rock Music was original a mixture of country music and
rhythm and blues.
A B C D
30. An increasing number of office works use computer programs
as daily routine.
A B C D
31. Traveling ballet companies were uncommon before her Augusta
Maywood formed the first
A B C
traveling troupe.
D
32. The virtues of ordinary life is the focus of many poems.
A B C D
33. Economic goods often consist to material items, but they can
also be services to people.
A B C D
34. Moby-Dick is a novel that telling the story of a ship
captain's single-minded hatred of a huge
A B C D
white whale.
35. Earwax lubricates and protects the ear from foreign matter
such water and insects.
A B C D
36. Before creating the telegraph, Samuel Morse made their
libing as a painter.
A B C D
37. Some jellyfish make daily journey from deep water to the
surface and back, while others
A B C
migrate horizontal.
D
38. Putting a large amount of information on a map, a variety of
symbols are used.
A B C D
39. Before the nineteenth century it was rarely to find
organized systems of adult education.
A B C D
40. Smoking is the number one prevent cause of death in the
United State.
A B C D
41. Not single alphabet has ever perfectly represented the
sounds of any of Earth's natural
A B C D
languages.
42. When the Second World War, almost a third of a million
people were killed.
A B C D
43. The ozon layer must be protected because it shields the
Earth from excessive ultraviolet radiations.
A B C D
44. Carbohydrates and fats are two essential sources of energy
for animal grow.
A B C D
45. By passing sunlight through a prism, the light is separate
into a spectrum of colors.
A B C D
46. In spite modern medical technology, many diseases caused by
viruses are still not curable.
A B C D
47. Though Pablo Picasso was primarily a painting, he also
became a fine sculptor, engraver, and
A B C D
cermist.
48. People who live in small towns often seem more warm and
friendly than people who live in
A B C
populated densely areas.
D
49. It took eight years to complete the Erie Canal, the 365-mile
waterway which it connects Albany and
A B C D
Buffalo in New York State.
50. Every candidate under considering for a federal job must
undergo a thorough medical examination.
A B C D
