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101. The migration route of the first humans to occupy North America took them across a
land bridge that once was connected Asia with what is now Alaska.

C. connected

that a land bridgethem

the first humans

102. Socialization, which begins in child, is a process by which people become members
of a society, learning its norms, customs, laws, and ways of living.

B. childhood

childhood

103. Poet Amy Lowell began her career by publishing the conventional volume A Dome of
Many-Coloured Glass, despite eventually succeeded Ezra Pound as leader of the progressive
Imagists.

C. although she

despite D

Amy Lowell A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass

Ezra Pound

104. The towns of Middlebury and Cornwall, both in Vermont, was united into the single
town of Middlebury in 1796.

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The towns

Middlebury Cornwall 1796 Middlebury

105. In a simile, a comparison between two distinctly differently things is indicated by

the word like or as.

B. different

differentthings

()likeas

106. While the late nineteenth century, most laborers in the United States worked six
days a week, often ten or more hours a day.

A. during

during while while ;During

19 6 10

107. Chordophones are musical instruments with strings that can be set in motion by
moving a bow, plucking a string, or striking .

D. a

a bowa string
a

Chordophones

108. The proportion of United States households owning television receivers rose from
0.4 percent in 1948 of 23.5 percent in 1951.

D. to

form to

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109. The chief character or hero of piece of fiction or drama is known as the
protagonist.

B. of a piece

a piece of fictiona piece of

protagonist

110. A drought is a period of dry weather that lasts too long enough to cause a serious
imbalance in the water cycle.

B. lasts long

too

111. Cotton crop failures and a plague of boll weevils at the beginning of the twentieth
century forced the diversification of Alabamas the agriculture.

D. agriculture

agricultureAlabamasthe

112. Although absolute zero cannot actually be reached, approximations of less than
0.001 degrees Celsius above absolute zero have been created the laboratory.

D. created in

inin the laboratory

0.01

113. That brought about the widespread extinction of the dinosaurs is unknown; it must,
however, have involved major changes in the environment.

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What

114. Structuralism and it derivative theories, especially deconstructionism, have

proposed to alter drastically the direction of literary studies during the last thirty or
thirty-five years.

A. its

its

30-35

115. The northwest coast of North America was originally settled by a series of tribal
with extremely diverse linguistic affiliations.

C. tribes

a series of + tribal

116. After the War of 1812, immigrants from Britain and Ireland swelled the populate of
Canada.

D. population

populatepopulation

1812

117. The rapidly advancement of modern anthropology since the end of the nineteenth
century has been the most important single influence on the growth of myth criticism.

A. rapid

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19

118. Although Spaniards had explored upper California much earlier, they did not attempt
to settle there until the latter part the eighteenth century.

D. part of the

D ofthe latter part of the eighteenth century

eighteenth centurythe

18

119. Although copper was hammered into tools and ornaments by some early inhabitants of
North America, the smelting and casting of copper were unknown between them.

D. among

betweenamong

(hammer;
cast
cast hammer )!

120. As moist air in a warm front ascends the retreating wedge of cold air, it cools to
produce cloudy and frequently causes precipitation.

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