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1. At the time of the ______ of North America, the Sioux people lived on the
edges of the Great Plains grasslands.
(A) exploring the European
(B) Europeans explored
(C) explored by Europeans
(D) European exploration
2. ______ her highly individual patterns of choreography, Martha Graham
become a leading figure in modern dance.
(A) Such that
(B) So then
(C) Beyond
(D) Because of
3. Paris green, a poisonous powder, is utilized chiefly as an insecticide for
killing worms, grasshoppers, potato bugs, and_______the leaves of vegetables.
(A) the eating by insects
(B) other insect-eating
(C) that other insects eat
(D) other insect that eat
4. ______ in the cracks of rocks, it can cause the rocks to split apart.
(A) When water freezes
(B) It freezes the water
(C) Water freezes
(D) Freezes the water

5. Almost all the gas ______in the United States is natural gas.
(A) is burned
(B) that burning
(C) burned
(D) burns
6. New services make_______for newspapers to give their readers news from
around the world.
(A) it is possible
(B) it possible
(C) possible
(D) possible that
7. In 1971, Herman Badillo became_______to hold a voting membership in the
United States Congress.
(A) who was first Puerto Rican
(B) the first Puerto Rican
(C) who the first Puerto Rican
(D) the Puerto Rican who first
8. Color, line, mass, space, and texture are to a painter ______to an author.
(A) are what words
(B) what are words
(C) what words are
(D) words are what



9. Large green leaves_________the head of the cauliflower.
(A) surround
(B) are surrounded
(C) surrounding
(D) to surround
10. _______to cultural activity and is a defining characteristic of human beings.
(A) That speech, being central
(B) Speech is central
(C) The centrality of speech
(D) Speech, which is central
11. Rarely_______occur without a corresponding physical ailment.
(A) chronic mental fatigue
(B) is chronic mental fatigue
(C) does chronic mental fatigue
(D) chronic mental fatigue does
12. A mental is harder when it has small grians, a condition ______the mental is
cooled rapidly.
(A) that results when
(B) the results are when
(C) results are that
(D) this results in that
13. Key West, Florida, is ______in the continental United States.
(A) city that is most southern
(B) most southern cities
(C) the southern of most cities
(D) the southern most city
14. One important lemon by- product is citric acid, _______white crystalline
powder.
(A) that it is a
(B) is a
(C) a
(D) which a
15.________for mathematical precision been more apparent than in the field of
computer technology.
(A) The need has nowhere
(B) Has nowhere the need
(C) Nowhere has the need
(D) The need nowhere has

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1. ______many different kinds of maps.
(A) So have
(B) So are
(C) There have
(D) There are
2. Over the past two centuries, the dominant narrative genre______.
(A) has been the novel
(B) has the novel been
(C) the novel has been
(D) the has-been novel
3. A moving stream wears away______stone.
(A) the hardest
(B) the hardest is
(C) and the hardest
(D) it is a hardest
4. According to one definition, avoidance______behavior induced by
adverse stimuli.
(A) when
(B) in
(C) that
(D) is
5. Nancy Ward,______,was the legendary Pocahontas of the West.
(A) was a Cherokee leader
(B) whom a Cherokee leader
(C) a Cherokee leader
(D) of a Cherokee laeder
6. Alissa Arps research has helped explain how tubeworms and clams ______
to flourish in scalding water that spews form cracks in the ocean floor.
(A) can
(B) could
(C) are able
(D) their ability
7. During observations made over a 50-year period, the power output of the Sun
has_______than a few tenths of one percent.
(A) varied by no more
(B) varied no more by
(C) not varied more by
(D) more varied by not
8. The Little White House in warm Springs was the Georgia home of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,______there on April 12, 1945.
(A) who died
(B) died
(C) while died
(D) he died
9. When tempera, a kind of paint, is correctly applied and built up in thin layers,
it is _______nor completely opaque.
(A) nor transparent
(B) neither transparent
(C) transparent never
(D) transparent either
10. Because the Appalachian Mountains were difficult to cross, Kentucky was
not settled _______the eastern coastal area was.
(A) otherwise
(B) instead
(C) until after
(D) in spite of
11. Some of the musical pieces for ______Isadora Duncan choreographed dance
were waltzes and mazurkas by Chopin.
(A) them
(B) that
(C) which
(D) what
12. ______mural art of Charles Alston that has established his reputation and
insured his located.
(A) The
(B) That the
(C) It is the
(D) Since the
13. Like a magazine, a newspaper has a contents guide that
indicates______located.
(A) where each feature is
(B) each of the feature is
(C) each feature where it is
(D) where is each feature
14. Some laws formalize long-accepted customs, while others impose norms
_______previously mandated by the populace.
(A) not
(B) are not
(C) while do not
(D) and they do not
15. Not unital the mid-nineteenth century discovery of vast deposits of borates
in the Mojave Desert ______relatively common.
(A) borax become
(B) did borax become
(C) and borax become
(D) boraxsbecoming

1. It is difficult for the casual observer to distinguish_________.
(A) to
(B) therefore
(C) onto
(D) between
2. Rabbits make their home in fields and prairies ______hide their young under
bushes or among tall gresses.
(A) can where they
(B) where they can
(C) where can they
(D) where can
3. Analgesics_______pain without markedly interfering with physiological
processes.
(A) relieving
(B) they relieving
(C) what they relieving
(D) relieve
4. _______election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965.
(A) Julian Bond won
(B) When Julian Bond won
(C) With Julian Bonds winning
(D) Julian Bonds winning
5. Around the world _______may be as many as a million earthquakes in a
single year.
(A) yet
(B) they
(C) there
(D) ever
6. American artist Winslow Homer ______to painting scenes of New England.
(A) his skill devote
(B) devoting his skill
(C) devoted hais skill
(D) his skill was devoted
7. All paper is formed into sheets from_________.
(A) which cellulose fibers
(B)cellulose fibers
(C) fibers are cellulose
(D) which fibers are cellulose
8. In 1900,______, Mary Morris Vaux Walcott become the first woman to
climb Mount Stephen in British Columbia.
(A) of 40 years old
(B) she was 40 years
(C) when the age 40
(D) at the age of 40
9._______any aspect of society, the sociologist must determine the laws
influencing human behavior in social contexts.
(A) Explain
(B) To explain
(C) One explain
(D) The explaintion of
10. It is a widely held theory______the ancestral prototype of the flowering
Asterales was a woody plant, perhaps a small tree.
(A) where
(B) until
(C) while
(D) that
11. One basic difficulty _______the conponents of economic movement is that
those components are not completely independent of one another.
(A) of isolation
(B) will isolate
(C) in isolating
(D) be isolated
12. Leading educators insist that good writing involves much more than just the
ability to punctuate sentences and _______verbs.
(A) conjugate
(B) conjugates
(C) conjugating
(D) conjugation
13. _______of gift-giving, bartering, buying, and selling goes on among the
Navajo Indians.
(A) A great deal
(B) A great many
(C) Much greater
(D) Many


14. The green turtle has been known_______over 2,000 miles to return to a
nesting site.
(A) in the navigating
(B) the navigation
(C) to navigate
(D) navigation
15. _______, all machines are combinations of simpler machines such as the
lever the pulley, and the inclined plane.
(A) How complex is not a matter of
(B) The matter is complex if no
(C) It does not matter if the complex
(D) No matter how complex


1. Meat can be purchased not only fresh,_______canned and frozen.
(A) also
(B) not also
(C) but also
(D) but not also
2. _______steam locomotive to be used for regular passenger and freight
service in the United States was built in New York City.
(A) The first
(B) As the first
(C) First was a
(D) When it was the first
3. Soft materials such as cork and felt absorb_____that strikes them.
(A) most sound of it
(B) most of the sound
(C) the sound most
(D) sound the most
4. Geologists ________forces that alter the surface and appearance of the Earth.
(A) analyzing
(B) analyzable
(C) analyzes
(D) analyze
5. It is less expensive to build machine parts _______than to bulid a few at a
time.
(A) mass quantities in
(B) quantities mass in
(C) mass in quantities
(D) in mass quantities
6. Generally, the more precise_______the more effective the communication.
(A) a writers words
(B) there are a writers words
(C) that a writers word
(D) they are a writers words
7. In 1876 sculptor Anne Whitney bought a house in Boston,______for nearly
two decades.
(A) where did she live and work
(B) was there living and working
(C) Where she lived and worked
(D) lived and worked there
8. The quality of education from elementary school through college has become
_______in recent years.
(A) subject to especially interesting
(B) a subject of special interest
(C) such an interesting subject that special
(D) a subject that especially interests
9. Most sociologists recognize________.
(A) that social change of four main types
(B) four main types of social change
(C) are four main types of social change
(D) and social change of four main types
10. William Faulkner______and knew from an early age that he wanted to
become an author.
(A) liked to read as a boy
(B) and as a boy liked reading
(C) was a boy and who liked to read
(D) he was a boy liked reading
11. _______a state to survive more than a fleeting historical moment, it must
have the loyalty of its residents.
(A) If
(B) Then
(C) Of
(D) For
12. Art criticism and the psychology of art,_______disciplines, are both related
to aesthetics.
(A) independent even
(B) they are independent
(C) although independent
(D) independent still
13. With the production of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry became the
first Black woman________a play on Broadway.
(A) stages
(B) to stage
(C) has staged
(D) staged
14. Certain ancient societies used wood ashes and water for washing ______ the
resulting skin irritation with oil.
(A) and relieved
(B)and the relieving
(C) to relieve
(D) to have relieved
15. Pharmacists often disguise the taste of _______withelixirs.
(A) are bitter medicines
(B) bitter medicines are
(C) medicines are bitter
(D) bitter medicines


1. Quarter horses can start more quickly, turn more sharply, and run faster over
short courses______breeds can.
(A) that the other
(B) other
(C) than other
(D) of all other
2. ______is created during photosynthesis in green plants.
(A) Glucose
(B) Glucose that
(C) While glucose
(D) Why glucose
3. Instead of trying to imitate reality in their works, many artists of the early
twentieth century______their feelings and ideas in abstract art.
(A) in beginning to reveal
(B) revealed the beginning
(C) began to reveal
(D) to begin revealing
4. ______nearly 30 years for the planet Saturn to complete one orbit.
(A) It takes
(B) To take it
(C) Taking it
(D) Takes it
5. The lens of a camera performs______the lens of the eye.
(A) in the same function
(B) the same function as
(C) the function is the same as
(D) and has the same function
6. Pantomime refers to short drama in which ______words are sporken.
(A) never
(B) not
(C) no
(D) none
7. Gold has been highly prized throughout the ages, due chiefly to _____.
(A) it is scarce
(B) so scarce is it
(C) scarcity of it
(D) its scarcity
8. ______, heat is produced.
(A) The muxing together of certain chemicals
(B) Whenever certain chemicals are mixed together
(C) Certain chemicals mixed together
(D) That certain chemicals are mixed together
9. The scientific study of the motion of bodies and the action of forces that
change or cause motion______dynamics.
(A) call
(B) is called
(C) is calling
(D) called
10. ______bricks, workers press clay into blocks and bake them to the requisite
hardness in a kiln.
(A) Being made
(B) The making of
(C) To make
(D) Made
11. _________up to 80 pounds.
(A) Weighing a sea otter
(B) A sea otter can weigh
(C) The weight of a sea otter
(D) Because a sea otter can weigh
12. A hinge joint is _______permits the forward and backward movement of the
door.
(A) the
(B) what
(C) those
(D) whose
13. The University of California,______in 1868 with a single campus in
Berkeley, is administered by a president and governed by a 24-member board of
regents.
(A) founded
(B) has been founded
(C) to have been founded
(D) was founded
14. A prolific writer of prose and verse,_____of Native Americans in her nevel,
Century of Dishonor.
(A) Helen Hunt Jackson took up the cause
(B) the cause taken up by Helen Hunt Jackson
(C) was Helen Hunt Jacksons cause
(D) the cause that Helen Hunt Jackson took up
15. The parallax measurement is used in survey studies to tell how far
away_______.
(A) is an object distant
(B) distant is an object
(C) an object is distant
(D) a distant object is

1.Traditionally,_______in New England on Thanksgiving Day.
(A) when served is sweet cider
(B) when sweet cider
(C) is served sweet cider
(D) sweet cider is served
2. The flexibility of flim allows the artist ______unbridled imagination to the
animation of cartoon characters.
(A) to bring
(B) bringing
(C) is brought
(D) brings
3. Copper sulfate, spread in judicious amounts, kills algae______harming fish
or aquatic invertebrates.
(A) does not
(B) but does no
(C) except
(D) without
4. Lillian D. Wald, public-health nurse and ______, was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, in 1867.
(A) reforming society
(B) social
(C) who reformer
(D) her social reform
5. In 1964 _______of Henry Ossawa Tanners paintings was shown at the
Smithsonian Institution.
(A) was a major collection
(B) that a major collection
(C) a collection was major
(D) a major collection
6. ______that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in
facial expressions.
(A) Anthropologists have discovered
(B) Anthropologists discovering
(C) The discovery by anthropologists
(D) Discovered by anthropologist
7. Of the millions who saw Halleys comet in 1986, how many people
________long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century?
(A) will they live
(B) they will be living
(C) will live
(D) living
8. ______irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic
has been largely discontinued.
(A) Its
(B) Where its
(C) Since its
(D) Because of its
9. A historical novel may do more than mirror history;______future events.
(A) even influencing
(B) it may even influence
(C) may even influence
(D) that it may even influence
10. In order to remain in existence, _______must, in the long run, produce
something consumers consider useful or desirable.
(A) a profit-making organization
(B) a profit-making organization which
(C) therefore a profit-making organization
(D) whichever a profit-making organization
11. It is widely believed that the pull of gravity on a falling raindrop
change______round shape into a teardrop shape.
(A) of the drop
(B) the drops
(C) drop of
(D) drops their
12. ______a child, sculptor Anne Whitney showed an eager intellect and artistic
talent that her parents recognized and encouraged.
(A) Has been
(B) It was while
(C) She was
(D) As
13.______modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are
attempting to personalize them with warner, less severe interious.
(A) If
(B) But
(C) With
(D) Once
14. The greater the population there is in a locality,______for water,
transportation, and disposal of refuse.
(A) the greater the need there is
(B) greater need
(C) is there great need
(D) the great need
15. Typical of the prairie dwellers of North America______,or pronghorn.
(A) it is the American antelope
(B) the American antelope is
(C) is the American antelope
(D) the American antelope

1. On occasion weighing over 100 pounds each,______are actually elongated
canine teeth.
(A) the tusks of an elephant that
(B) elephant have tusks
(C) an elephant has tusks
(D) elephants tusks
2. Communities of every size are structured in such a way as to create_____.
(A) the labor is divided
(B) a division of labor
(C) and a labor division
(D) of labor that divides it
3. In 1879_______the first useful and cheap electric light.
(A) then Thomas Edison invented
(B) Thomas Edison invented
(C) Thomas Edisons invention
(D) Thomas Edison, who invented
4. All manufactured products can be classified as either consumer
goods_______producer goods.
(A) for
(B) by
(C) so
(D) or
5. ______cycles in commuter traffic that correspond with when people go to
work and when they return home.
(A) There are daily
(B) To have daily
(C) If daily
(D) Daily
6. It is estimated that 90 percent of the United States population _______in or
near cities by the year 2050.
(A) to live
(B) to be living
(C) will be living
(D) living
7. ______large-scale weather patterns, meteorologists must measure the
constantly changing conditions in the atmosphere.
(A) Predicted
(B) To predict
(C) Unpredictable
(D) Predictions not of
8. Remembering faces is a process that takes place in the cerebral
cortex,________area of the brain.
(A) the most highly evolved
(B) the most evolved highly
(C) of the highly evolved most
(D) highly evolved most of the
9. Although plant breeding did not become a scientific discipline until the end
of the nineteenth century,_______.
(A) old beginning
(B) beginning are very old
(C) are its very old beginning
(D) its beginning are very old
10. ______about Emily Elizabeth Dickinsons psychological and emotional
well-being is inferred from her poems and latters.
(A) What is known
(B) To be known
(C) Knowing is
(D) Known
11. Most wildlife conservationists believe it is just as important to keep some
wildlife from becoming too plentiful______to keep other from becoming too
scarce.
(A) than
(B) just as
(C) as it is
(D) than it is
12. Frederick Jones invented a refrigeration unit that ______the transportation
of frozen foods by truck.
(A) made possible
(B) possible made
(C) it possible made
(D) made it possible
13. ______on differences in life spans among animal species become adequate
for statistical analysis.
(A) Only recently the data have
(B) Only recently have the data
(C) Recently, only the data have
(D) The data have only recently
14. The pera Porgy and Bess incorporates jazz elements of the 1920s and
1930s to convey the spirit of the people___________.
(A) it tells their story
(B) who tells the story
(C) whose story it tells
(D)their story they tell
15. In physics, the greater_______objects mass, the harder it is to put it into
motion.
(A) is an
(B) it is an
(C) an
(D) which is an


1. Muscles_______bones by pulling on tendons.
(A) of moving
(B) move
(C) moving
(D) to move
2._______are found in virtually every country in the world.
(A) Swamps and marshes which
(B) When swamps and marshes
(C) Swamps and marshes
(D) Now that swamps and marshes

3. Effcetive teachers _______and understand the needs of their students.
(A) subject are thoroughly known
(B) know their subjects thoroughly
(C) thoroughly know their subject are
(D) their subjects are thoroughly known
4. The number of judges on the United States Supreme Court is fixed by
Congress, _______by the Constitution.
(A) nevertheless
(B) instead
(C) despite
(D) not
5. Clinical experiments have shown that children generally relate to other
childrens strengths and abilities, rather than_______.
(A) to one weak
(B) a weakness is
(C) to their weaknesses
(D) there is a weak one
6. _______genets and civets, mongoose do not climb trees or have scent glands.
(A) Does not like
(B) It is unlikely
(C) It is not like
(D) Unlike
7. Milk is pasteurized by raising the temperature to about

63 c for 30 minutes,
rapidly cooling it, and then_______.
(A) to store
(B) store
(C) be stored
(D) storing
8. _______of the seven continents were placed in the Pacific Ocean, there
would still be room left for another continent the size of Asia.
(A) Each
(B) If each
(C) Were each
(D) Since each
9. African-American George Washington Carver,______,discovered 300
different uses for peanuts.
(A) a great agricultural chemist
(B) was a great agricultural chemist
(C) for whom a great agricultural chemist
(D) a great agricultural chemist who
10. The last half of the nineteenth century______the steady improvement of the
means of travel.
(A) witnessing
(B) was witnessed
(C) witnessed
(D) to witness
11. Of the 3,000 languages that were once spoken by Native American peoples,
an estimated_______today.
(A) excist 150
(B) 150 excist
(C) there are 150
(D) excisting are 150
12. _______in a atmosphere of rigid New England Puritanism, novelist Harriet
Beecher Stowe demonstrated an interest in theology at the young age.
(A) Raise her
(B) Raised
(C) Raising
(D) She was raised
13. A loan______, a promissory note, or a mere promise to repay.
(A) to a bond may acknow ledge
(B) in acknowledgement of a bond
(C) may be acknowledged by a bond
(D) being acknowledged by a bond
14. Janet Collins struggle to make a place for herself in ballet is the kind of life
story _______a fascinating novel might be written.
(A) of
(B) by
(C) for whom
(D) about which
15. _______begun to understand that the air and the oceans.
(A) In the past decade have only meteorologists
(B) Only in the past decade have meteorologists
(C) The only meteorologists in the past decade
(D) Only in the past decade meteorologists


1. _______dates from the end of the gighteenth century.
(A) The modern circus
(B) That the modern circus
(C) While the modern circus
(D) The modern circus that
2. Great numbers of tiny shelled animals________on the ocean floor.
(A) live
(B) living
(C) they will live
(D) it they lived
3. The knee is the joint _______the thigh bone meets the large bone of the lower
leg.
(A) when
(B) where
(C) why
(D) which
4. Closed plane figures like the square or the equilateral triangle can be grouped
into a class_______polygons.
(A) called
(B) to call
(C) is called
(D) call as
5. _______images out of clay, stone, and metal.
(A) The shaping of sculture
(B) Sculpting
(C) To shape sculpture
(D) Sculptors shape
6. _______the history of the tough, strong-willed Nebraska farmer.
(A) Not only is much of history of Nebraska
(B) Although it is much of the history of Nebraska that is
(C) It is as much of the Nebraska s being
(D) Much of the history of Nebraska is
7. Billie Holidays reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her
ability______emotional depth to her songs.
(A) be giving
(B) are given
(C) being given
(D) to give
8. ______1985 did Cornell University begin to offer a degree in ornithology.
(A) Not until
(B) Not since
(C) Until
(D) In
9. Uniform acceleration occurs_______the rate of change remains the same
over successive and equal intervals of time.
(A) according
(B) if
(C) with
(D) under
10. Peoples expectations for a higher standard of living increase_______.
(A) condition in their community improve
(B) since condition in their improving community
(C) condition improve in their community
(D) as condition in their community improve
11. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of
_______reality.
(A) what it is conceived
(B) that is conceived
(C) what is conceived to be
(D) that is being conceived of
12. All the plants now raised on farms have been developed from plants
______wild.
(A) once they grew
(B) they grew once
(C) that once grew
(D) once grew
13. ______relatively costly, the diesel engine is highly efficient and needs
servicing infrequently.
(A) Even
(B) It is
(C) E