Assignment

Date : May 10th, 2016

ln the first type of question, there are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence, there
are four wordsor phrases. You will choose the one word or phrase that best completes the
sentence. The second type of question has four underlined words or phrases. You will
choose the one underlinedword or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be
corrected.

1. One of the most effective vegetable proteinsubstitutes is the soybean ______ used
tomanufacture imitation meat products.
a. which can be
b. it can be
c. who can be
d. canbe

2. _______ 1000 species of finch have beenidentified.

a. As many as
b. As many
c. As much as
d. Much as

3. The first electric lamp had two carbon rodsfrom which vapor serves
a b c
to conduct thecurrent across the gap.
d

4. A thunderhead, dense clouds thatrisehighinto the sky in huge columns,

a b c
produce hail,rain, or snow.
d

5. According to the economic laws, the greaterthe demand, the price.

a. higher
b. high
c. the higher
d. the high

6. Although no country has exactly the samefolk music likethat of any other, it is
a b c
significant that similar songs exist amongwidely separated people.
d

7. Despite of the Taft-Hartley Act which forbidsunfair union practices, some

A b
unionssuch asthe air traffic controllers have voted to strikeeven though this
c d
action might endanger thenational security.

8. The Continental United States is ______ thatthere are four time zones.
a. much big
b. too big
c. so big
d. very big

9. Benjamin West contributed a great deal toAmerican art:

a. painting, teaching, and lecturing
b. painting, as a teacher and lecturer
c. painting, teaching, and as a lecturer
d. painting, a teacher, and a lecturer

10. Operant conditioning involves rewarding or punishing certain behave

a
to reinforceor extinguishits occurrence.
b c d

11. There is an unresolved controversy as towhomis the real author of the

a b c
Elizabethan playscommonly credited to WilliamShakespeare.
d

12. A catalytic agent such platinum may be usedso that the chemical reaction
a b
advances morerapidly.
c d

13. Upon hatching, _______.

a. young ducks know how to swim
b. swimming is known by young ducks
c. the knowledge of swimming is in young ducks
d. how to swim is known in young ducks

14. The observation deck at the World TradeCenter _______ in New York.
a. was highest than any other one
b. was higher than any other one
c. was highest that any other one
d. was higher that any other one

15. When patient’s blood pressure is much higher thanit should be, a doctor
a b c
usually insist that he will not smoke.
d
16. Itwasthe invent of the hand-held electronic calculator that provided the
a b c
original technology for the present generation of small but powerful computers.
d

17. ______ is necessary for the development ofstrong bones and teeth.
a. It is calcium
b. That calcium
c. Calcium
d. Although calcium

18. Located in the cranial cavity in the skull,the brain is the larger mass of nerve
a b c
tissuein the human body.
d

19. Alike other forms of energy, natural gas maybe usedto heat homes, cook
a b c
food, andeven run automobiles.
d

20. An organ is a group of tissues capableto perform some special function, as,
a b c

for example, the heart, the liver, or the lungs.

d

21. _______ withstands testing, we may not concludethat it is true, but we may retain it.
a. if a hypothesis
b. That a hypothesis
c. A hypothesis
d. Hypothesis

22. Insulin, it is used to treat diabetes and issecured chiefly from the pancreas of
a b c d
cattleand hogs.

23. Not until a monkey is several years old_______ to exhibit signs of independencefrom its
mother.
a. it begins
b. does it begin
c. and begin
d. beginning

24. Although the weather in Martha’s Vineyard isn’t ______ to have a year round tourist
season, it has become a favorite summer resort.
a. Goodly enough
b. Good enough
 c. Good as enough
d. Enough good

25. A swarm of locust is responsible the consumption of enough plant material

a b
to feed a million and a half people.
c d

26. Oyster farming has been practice in most parts of the world for many years.
a b c d

27. It was Shirley Temple Black which represented her country in the United
a b c
Nations and later became an ambassador.
d

28. According to the wave theory, _______population of the Americas may have been the
result of a number of separate migrations.
a. The
b. Is
c. That
d. Whose

29. It is presumed that rules governing the sharing of food influenced______that the earliest
cultures evolved.
a. That the way
b. Is the way
c. The way
d. Which way

30. The prices at chain stores are as reasonable, if not more reasonable, as those
A b c d
at discount stores.

31. Historicallytherehas beenonly two major fractions in the Republican Party-

a b c d
the liberals and the conservatives.

32. Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass as a tribute to he civil War soldiers who had laid
a
on the battlefields and whom he had seenwhile serving as an army nurse.
b c d
33. Calculus, _______elegant and economical symbolic system, can reduce complex
problems to simple terms.
a. It is an
b. that an
c. an
d. is an
34. Canada does not require that U.S. citizens obtain passports to enter the country,
and_________.
a. Mexico does neither
b. Mexico doesn't either
c. neither Mexico does
d. either does Mexico

35. The Chinese were the first and large ethnic group to work on the
a b c
constructionof the transcontinental railroad system.
d

36. The range of plant life on a mountain side is a result of differences in

a b c
temperature and precipitation at varying altitudes.
d
37. the poet_______just beginning to be recognized as an important influence at the time of
his death.
a. Being Walt Whitman
b. Who was Walt Whitman
c. Walt Whitman
d. Walt Whitman was

38. _______the formation of the sun, the planets, and other stars began with the
condensation of an interstellar cloud.
a. It accepted that
b. accepted that
c. it is accepted that
d. that is accepted

39. The more the relative humidity reading rises, the worst the heat affectsus.
a b c d

40. Because correlations are not causes, statistical data which areextremely easy
a b c
to misuse.
d