1. Refrigerating meats_____the spread of bacteria 11.

An internationally famous ballerina, Maria Tallchief demonstrated that the quality of ballet in
(A) retards
(B )retarding North America could equal those of the ballet in Europe.
(C) to retard
(D) is retarded
12. As two nuclei move closer together, their mutual electrostatic potential energy becomes more
2. Throughout the animal kingdom,______bigger than the elephant.
(A) whale is only the large and more positive.
(B) only the whale is
(C) is the whale only 13. Mt. Hood_____in the state of Oregon.
(D) only whale is the
(A) although
3. The fact______money orders can usually be easily cashed has made them a popular form of (B) and
payment. (C) is
(D) which
(A) of
(B) that 14. ________most important event in San Franciscos history was the disastrous earthquake
(C) is that
and fire of 1906.
(D) which is
(A)The
4. The first article of the United States Constitution gives Congress _____to pass laws.
(B) It was the
(C)That the
(A) the power
(D)There was a
(B) has the power
(C) the power is
(D) of the power
15. Vegetables are an excellent source_____vitamins.
5. Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish because of the males s bright colors.
(A) of
(B )has
6. Serving several term in Congress,Shirley Chisholm became an Important United (C) where
(D) that
States politician.
16. Microscopes make small things appear larger than_____ .
7. Electrical disturbances on Earth are frequently caused with storms on the surface of the sun
(A )really are
(B) are really
8. Inventor Granville Woods received him first patent on January 3, 1884, for a steam boiler (C) are they really
furnace. (D) they really are

9. A deficient of folic acid is rarely found in humans because the vitamin is contained in a wide 17. 17. The city of Montreal_____over 70 square miles.

variety of foods. (A) covers

(B) that covers
(C) covering
10. The gopher digs with the big strong claws of its two front foot and with its overhanging front (D) is covered

teeth.
18. Janet Collinss struggle to make a place for herself in ballet is the kind of a life story_____a (A) upper end
(B) inner edge
fascinating novel might be written. (C) mouth
(D) division
(A) of
(B) by 27. Passenger ships and aircraft are often equipped with ship-to-shore or air-to-land radio
(C) for whom
(D) about which telephones.
19. Fewest than half of all the adults fully understand the kinds and amounts of exercise (A) highways
(B) railroads
necessary for an effective physical fitness program (C) planes
(D) sailboats

28. Dotting the marshy expanse of the Florida Everglades are little islands known locally as
20. How many people know that the Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883, were the worlds first
hummocks.
suspension bridge?
(A) generally
(B) to all
(C) in that area
21. Anna Maxwells gift for organization was exemplified by her service while the Spanish-
(D) occasionally

American War in 1898. 29. It is not possible for people to remember everything that they have thought, felt, or done.

(A) recall
(B) appreciate
22. When a severe ankle injury forced herself to give up reporting in 1926, Margaret Mitchell (C) repeat
(D) discuss
began writing her novel, Gone with the Wind.
29. When preparing a diet, a person should be aware that vitamin D acts to increase the amount
23. Anne Elizabeth McDowell is best remembered for a weekly journal, Womans Advocate,who
of calcium absorbed by the body.
she launched in January 1855.
(A) schedule of exercise
(B) nutritional plan
24. A ray of light passing through the center of a thin lens keep its original direction. (C) study of longevity
(D) medicinal chart
25. It is difficult to get young people to plan for their old age, which seems very distant to them.

(A) impossible 30. Food is, after all, an important part of Chinese culture and mission controllers say it is
(B) faraway
(C ) observable important _____ China's space pioneers do not go hungry.
(D) fearful
(A) to ensure that
26. Receptors for the sense of smell are located at the top of the nasal cavity. (B) so that
(C) make sure
 (D) that food is provided for 38. . A no-smoking program has help overweight people reduce their risk of heart attacks or their

31. After a muscle fiber has worked intensely for while, it begins to lose potassium, and that need for surgery by 63 percent.

dampens the fiber's ability to contract. 39. Across the country, recreational and commercial fishers have been pointing fingers for

32. The Eiffel Tower was built the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the decades over which group is responsible for _____ stocks of sports fish.
centenary of the French Revolution. (A) dwindling
(B) increasing
33. Apple Computer has unveiled its new desktop computer design, _____ all disk drives and (C) growing
(D) reduce
processors into a flat display less than two inches thick
40. By far the most noticeable blemishes on the surface of the Sun _____ sunspots.
(A) which includes
(B) enclosing (A) are
(C) which contains (B) that are
(D) which integrates (C) in the
(D) are
34. Japan's latitudinal spread, ranging from subtropical in the south to sub-arctic in the north,

makes that a wide diversity of flora and fauna. 41. The problems of squaring a pan-European agenda with the national interests of 25 separate

countries _____ the process of integration a slow, complex and at times divisive one.

35. The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access (A) have made
(B) causes
to contraception has improved in the past decade, _____ new report. (C) often affect
(D) resulting in
(A) according a
(B) publish in a 42. For decades the food industry has been known serving up sugary or fat-laden products,
(C) according to a
(D) stated in a promoted with ceaseless advertising.

43. _____ are poor observers of their child's behavior so deviant behavior reaches
36. The hospital is now discounting 10 standard operations and _____ , ranging from having a
unmanageable proportions.
baby and treating a cataract to undergoing a heart bypass.
(A) Parents that
(A) equipment (B) When parents
(B) procedures (C) Parents
(C) visit (D) If parents
(D) medication
44. Greece's achievement in the 2004 Olympics raise anew the question of whether Athens

should be the permanent home of the Games.

45. Crushed ice is use to cool drinks, and is often applied to injuries where there is swelling, to . Nearly all the brown bears in the United States _____ in Alaska, which has an estimated
30,000
remove excess heat generated in the tissues.
to 40,000 brown bears, also called grizzlies.
46. International trade in the world's 20-odd varieties of sturgeon _____ by the United Nations
(A) Live
since 1998, after a drastic rise in poaching. (B) Are resident
(C) Reside
(A) has been regulated
(B) is controlled (D) Inhabit
(C) is supported
(D) has been promoted 50. The most important factors in determining a person's risk of developing heart disease _____
body weight and the type of fat he or

47. The 2000 Census showed that married couples _____ half of the 2 million households in the she consumes.
state, and 46 percent of those couples had children under roof.
(A) Is
(A) Made up (B) Measurement of
(B) And made up (C) Through
(C) To make up (D) Are
(D) Which they made up
51. Since 2001, the company's annual revenue from ticket sales and contributions grown by 85
percent, to $42.9 million.
48. Astronomers on _____ announced the discovery of a new -- and possibly abundant -- class of
planets that has more in common with Earth than the uninhabitable gas giants previously 52. At colleges across the country, from Ivy League to less exclusive state schools, students
discovered _____ mispronouncing the library's name this month will soon feel truly and deeply a part of
their college.
(A) university research labs
(A) Who are
(B) Tuesday
(B) Which are
(C) NASA
(C) Are
(D) Observatories
(D) They are
49. Long hours and unsociable shifts _____ take their toll on health, relationships and family life.
(A) Can 53. Why do traffic jams sometimes _____ to appear out of nowhere?
(B) Must
(C) Are able to (A) Look
(D) Shouldnt
(B) seem

(C) occur

(D) happen
 (D) such as

54. Temperature can affect the sound of an musical instrument in a variety of ways, _____ 58. When major food companies began widely using partially hydrogenated oils in the 1970s,
they thought they were making these products more healthful.
different for each instrument
59. For most _____ , the notion of harnessing nanotechnology for electronic circuitry suggests
(A) although often something wildly futuristic.
(B) with (A) research

(C) which are (B) components

(D) while (C) people

(D) laboratories
55. The decanting of red wines _____ a long tradition in high quality wine service and can be
done to add a special flourish at a meal.
60. Charters are self-governed schools that operate independent of local school boards,however
(A) has
with public money.
(B) is

(C) Are
61. Men dying sooner than women _____ biologically: because 105 males are born for every 100
(D) have
females, it would assure that there are about the same number of men and women at
reproductive ages.

56. In 2002, 20 million people in the United States were reported have asthma -- a chronic (A) makes sense

(B) in natural
inflammatory lung disease characterized by wheezing, difficulty breathing, chest tightness
(C) works in
and coughing.
(D) is obvious

57. Geysers occur where magma lies just below the earths surface, particularly in volcanic
regions _____ Iceland or New Zealand. 62. On the bottom of the New York MetroCard have three arrows and little white letters that say

(A) alike "Insert this way/This side facing you." What is it about that instruction that is so impossible to

(B) for example

understand?
(C) e.g
63. Our sun, in many ways an average sort of star, has been around for nearly five billion years
and has enough fuel to _____ going for another five billion years.
67. Scientists have uncovered evidence for an innate satisfaction in human beings giving people
(A) continue
their comeuppance.
(B) carry
68. Cincinnati's state-of-the-art Underground Railroad Museum makes details of escapes and
(C) keep
_____ imaginable aspect of slavery in America accessible to the broad public.
(D) maintain
(A) every other
64. A new law will require foreigners who marry South Africans _____ five years before they can
(B) all
apply for anything but temporary residence and work permits
(C) each other
(A) to live
(D) whatever
(B) to wait

(C) for residence

69. Angiosperms inhabit relatively diverse environments and may be found ___ higher plants can
(D) women
survive.
65. As a pedestrian, you may assume that you have _____ vehicles, but city drivers are oblivious
to that quaint notion. A. there

(A) the priority to B. wherever

C. somewhere
(B) the right of way over
D. then
(C) first rights ove
70. Gorillas are quiet animals, __________ they are able to make about twenty different sounds.
(D) precedence
A. how
66. Computers crash _____ in the operating system (OS) software or errors in the computer
B. in spite of

hardware. Software errors are probably more common, but hardware errors can be C. because of
D. even though
devastating and harder to diagnose.

(A) due the errors 71. ___hardiness, daylilies can be cultivated particularly easily.
A. Their
(B) because of errors
B. Since their
(C) resulting in errors C. It is their
(D) owing errors D. Because of their
72. Somerset Maugham, a novelist, ________ about a restless man's quest for inner 77. The Federal Reserve System, ________ under President Wilson, plays a key role in
understanding in The Razor's Edge. regulating the U.S. economy.
A. who wrote this A. the establishment in 1913
B. who wrote B. was established in 1913
C. when he wrote C. established in 1913
D. wrote D. in 1913 they established it

73. Sesame ________ a herbaceous plant native to the tropics. 78. Many books ________, but one of the best is "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by
A. is Dale Carnegie.
B. which A. have written about success
C. from B. written about success
D. it is C. have been written about success
D. about successful
74. Although the name was not popularized until the Middle Ages, engineering ________
civilization. 79. Drying of meats and vegetables is no longer considered one of ________ of preserving food.
A. as old as A. the ways are useful
B. is as old as B. the ways most useful
C. that is old as C. the most useful ways
D. as old as that D. most are useful ways

75. Although research scientists had hoped that the new drug interferon ________ to be a cure 80. Due primarily to ________ the Oneida Community broke up in 1880.
for cancer, its applications now appear to be more limited. A. internal stresses
A. prove B. there were internal stresses
B. had proven C. internal stresses of it
C. would prove D. it had internal stresses
D. will prove
76. Black, red, and even bright pink diamonds ________. 81. The cyclist ________ he crossed the main street.
A. occasionally to find A. looked with caution after
B. occasionally found B. had looked cautiously before
C. have occasionally been found C. was looked cautious when
D. have occasionally found D. looks cautious when
82. Although dissimilar in almost every other respect, birds and insects have both evolved 87. ________ the operation costs were rising so fast, the United Nations decided to reduce
efficient ________ capabilities. personnel by half.
A. fly A. If
B. flying B. Because
C. to fly C. As a result
D. is flying D. As if

83. The sea mammal medusa is popularly called a jellyfish because it ________ jelly. 88. The speaker is ________.
A. looks rather like A. very well acquainted with the subject
B. looks like rather B. recognized as an authority who knows a great deal in terms of the subject
C. which looks rather like C. someone who knows well enough about the subject which he has undertaken to
D. which looks like rather do the speaking
D. a person who has close awareness of the subject that he speaks about so much
84. Built at the beginning of the century, the Library of Congress houses one is of the largest
________ collections of books in the world.
A. and fine
B. and finest
C. or finest
D. yet fine
85. ________ in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge spans the channel at the entrance to San
Francisco Bay.
A. Completes
B. Completed
C. Completing
D. To complete
86. Despite claims that filters and low-tar tobacco make smoking somewhat safer, in fact they
only marginally reduce, ________ eliminate, the hazards.
A. none
B. no
C. not
D. nor