1.Orchestral instruments _____ under the following types: strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion.

(A) grouped (B) can group (C) can be grouped (D) to be grouped

2._____ depressions in the ocean floor are called trenches.

(A) There are the deep (B) Are the deep (C) Where deep (D) Deep

3.In the course of her life, Mary Anne Sadlier ______, some fifty of them original novels and collections of stories.

(A) Produced nearly sixty books (B) Produced sixty books nearly

(C) Nearly sixty books produced (D) Sixty books nearly produced

4._____ xenon could not form chemical compounds was once believed by scientists.

(A) For (B) It was (C) That (D) While

5.Eastern meadowlarks abound in places ____ , but eat harmful insects rather than grain.

(A) land is cultivated there (B) there is land cultivated

(C) where land is cultivated (D) where is cultivated land

6.Amplifiers such as those in computers and sound reproducing systems are responsible for ___ an erratic input signal.
(A) strengthening (B) being strengthened (C) strengthen (D) to strengthen

7._____ John Aaron Lewis pioneered in the development of “third stream music,” a blend of jazz and classical music.

(A) A composer, who was (B) He was a composer

(C) As a composer (D) When a composer he

8.In reorganizing the curriculum of Mt. Holyoke College in the late 1800‘s Elizabeth Mead laid the foundation _____ the
modern college rests.

(A) is which (B) on which (C) which is on (D) on it

9.Research into the dynamics of storms is directed toward improving the ability to predict these events ____ to minimize
damage and avoid loss of life.

(A) and thus (B) so (C) however (D) because

10. _____ lived on the North Saskatchewan River long before the Hudson‘s Bay Company built a fur trading post there.
(A) Cree people (B) For Cree people (C) It was Cree people (D) Where Cree people

11. _____ has been a topic of continual geological research.

(A) Did the continents originate (B) How did the continents originate

(C) Have the continents originated (D) How the continents originated

12. Because the papaya grows readily from seed, _____ spread from its home in Central America and now grows
throughout the tropics.

(A) to be (B) it (C) the (D) its

13. The elimination of inflation would ensure that the amount of money used in repaying a loan would have ______ as
the amount of money borrowed.

(A) as the same value (B) the same value (C) value as the same (D) the value is the same

14. Futurism, ______ early twentieth-century movement in art, rejected all traditions and attempted to glorify
contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.

(A) an (B) was an (C) that it was an (D) that an

15. All living organisms constantly absorb carbon 14 ______ their existence.

(A) out (B) about (C) around (D) throughout

16. Porcelain is not a single clay, and a compound of kaolin, ball clay, feldspar, and silica.

17. The bison, know for the hump over its shoulders, is usually called a buffalo in North America.

18. Perspiration, the body‘s built-in cooling mechanism occurs as a natural reaction to nervousness, intense heat, or
vigorously exercise.

19. Because of the rising cost of fuel, scientists are building automobile engines who will conserve gasoline but still run
smoothly.

20. The primary function of a sonometer is to calculate and demonstrate the relations mathematical of melodious tones.
21. The most useful way of looking at a map is not as a piece of papers, but as a record of geographically organized
information.

22. Philodendrons of various kinds are cultivated for their beautifully foliage.

23. Vitamin A is essential to bone grow and to the healthiness of the skin and mucous membranes.

24. The Moon, being much more nearer to the Earth than the Sun, is the principal cause of the tides.

25. One of the wildest and most inaccessible parts of the United States are the Everglades where wildlife is abundant
and largely protected.

26. The dromedary camel is raised especially to racing.

27. The founding of the Boston Library in 1653 demonstrate the early North American colonists interest in books and
libraries.

28. Public recognition of Ben Shahn as a major American artistic began with a retrospective show of his work in 1948.

29. The texture of soil is determined by the size of the grains or particles that make up.

29. To produce one pound of honey, a colony of bees must fly a distance equals to twice around the world.

30. The domestic dog, considered to be the first tamed animal, is coexisting with human beings since the days of the
cave dwellers.

31. Nature not only gave the Middle Atlantic region fine harbors, however endowed it with a first-class system of inland
waterways.

32. All matter resists any change in their condition of rest or of motion.

33. Swans, noted for graceful movements in the water, have been the subject of many poetry, fairy tales, legends, and
musical compositions.

34. Since peach trees bloom very early in the season, they are in danger for spring frosts.
35. Like some other running birds, the sanderling lacks a back toe and has a three-toed feet.

36. Lucretia Mott‘s influence was too significant that she has been credited by some authorities as the originator of
feminism in the United States.

37. Large bodies of water and the prevalence of moisture-bearing winds often produce a condition of tall humidity,
affecting the local weather.

38. Manganese does not exist naturally in a pure state because it reacts so easily with other element.

39. Scientists estimate that as many as hundred millions visible meteors enter the Earth‘s atmosphere every day.

40. Although not abundant in nature, zinc is important for both the galvanization of iron and the preparation of alloys as
such brass and German silver.