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1. Among the first plants to grow on the land regions of the Earth _____, which in prehistoric
times grew to immense size
(A) were horsetail rushes
(B) horsetail rushes
(C) horsetail rushes were
(D) and horsetail rushes
A

2. Unlike fossil fuels, which can be used only once, wind and solar power _____of energy.
(A) for renewable sources
(B) the sources are renewable
(C) are renewable sources
(D) renewable sources
C

3. _____ that the first cheese was probably made more than 4,000 years ago by nomadic tribes
in Asia.
(A) The belief
(B) Although they believe
(C) It is believed
(D) Believing
C

4. Today _____ of the Earth live on a very small percentage of the Earth's land surface.
(A) about two-thirds populated
(B) the population is about two-thirds
(C) about two-thirds of the population
(D) of about two-thirds the population is
C

5. It was in the year 1792 _____

(A) that the New York Stock Exchange was founded
(B) founding the New York Stock Exchange

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(C) which year the New York Stock Exchange was founded
(D) the New York Stock Exchange founded
A

6. Many small birds use new sites for each nesting, _____ large birds often reuse the same nest.
(A) by
(B) how
(C) within
(D) whereas
D

7. Plateaus are often referred to as tablelands _____ essentially flat-topped and stand
conspicuously above an adjacent land area.
(A) because are
(B) because they are
(C) because of their
(D) which because they are
B

8. Although many contemporary craft objects are not _____, they generally have their roots in
function.
(A) function
(B) functionally
(C) as function
(D) functional
D

9. _____ hearing aid was a tube called the ear trumpet, a flared tube held up to the ear.
(A) First
(B) When the first
(C) It was the first
(D) The first
D

10. Most leaves are coated with a waterproof _____, or cuticle.

(A) that the covering
(B) and is covering
(C) covering
(D) by covering
C

11. The first glass factory _____ the North American continent was started in Jamestown,
Virginia, in 1607.
(A) established on

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(B) being established

(C) was established on
(D) that established it
A

12. _____ in the desert is mainly due to the limited supply of desert water.
(A) Plants are widely spaced
(B) The spacing of plants is wide
(C) Plants to be spaced widely
(D) The wide spacing of plants
D

13. In addition to painting highly acclaimed portraits, Mary Cassatt was _____ to several major
art collectors.
(A) to advise
(B) an adviser
(C) advised
(D) advising
B

14. Springwater is _____ clean, since it has been filtered through permeable rocks, but all
spring water contains some dissolved minerals.
(A) generally fair
(B) generally fairly
(C) in general fair
(D) general and fair
B

15. All eels spawn in the sea, the eggs hatching into transparent, ribbon-like larvae _____,
feeding until they metamorphose into small eels.
(A) that drift about
(B) drift about
(C) about drifting
(D) drift about them
A

16. Citrus fruits thrive in quite very tropical climates.

A B C D
C
quite very---very

17.Carson McCullers was fame for her novels about life in the small owns of the southern
A B C D

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United States.
A
fame—famous

18. Because the atmosphere of Mars is so thin， wind velocities of several hundred
A B C
kilometers per hour are required to raised dust particles during dust storms.
D
D
raisedraise

19. Lumbering， the remove of timber from the forest, is a major industry in the Northwest
A B C D
region of North America.
A
Removeremoval

20. The asphalt deposits of La Brea Tar Pit in California have yielded fossils of numerous
A B
animal of the Pleistocene epoch, including the giant ground sloth.
C D
C
animalanimals

21. Located in the center of the continental United States and known for its endless wheat
A B
fields, Kansas is one of the nation's leading agriculturally states.
C D
D
Agriculturallyagricultural

22. An intrinsic part of the sound structure of poet, the repetition of a consonant sound or
A B
sounds, may also be exhibited in prose.
C D
B
poetpoetry 。

23. People feel uncomfortable when the humidity rises over 60 percent because

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A B
perspiration cannot evaporate quickly enough for the body to rid themselves of excess heat.
C D
D
themselves itself

24. While infancy, the period from birth until the age of two， a child grows to
A B
Approximately half of his or her adult height.
C D
A
whileduring

20. 25. The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for excellence in United States journalism,
A B C
literature, and musical.
D
D
musicalmusicology

26. Judgments made in a criminal cases can usually be appealed to a higher count， which
A B
can either overturn or uphold a lower court ruling.
C D
B
casescase

27. Science fiction is any fiction dealing with the future or with so imaginative subjects as
A B
interstellar travel, life on other planets, or time travel.
C D
B
soas.

28. The wingspread of various species of bats range from over five feet to less than two
A B C D
inches.
B

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range ranges

29. The harmonica's tones are made by the vibrations of the feeds created by the blowing
A B C
and suction to the player.
D
D
toof

30. The constitution of 1897, under which Delaware is now governed, is fourth constitution
A B C
in the history of the state.
D
C
fourththe fourth

31. Because most photographic filters work by subtract portions of visible light from the
A B C
subject, they decrease the intensity of light that reaches the film.
D
C
subtractsubtracting

32. In a vacuum discharge tube at ordinary voltages and currents, neon glows reddish-
A
orange and is the mostly intense of all the rare gases.
B C D
C
mostlymost.

33. Although E.E. Cummings studied art in Paris, but his writings attracted much more
A B C
interest than his paintings.
D
B
but

34. Because material organic decays slowly in peat, the remains of prehistoric animals are

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A B
often found in the depths of peat hogs.
C D
A
material organicorganic material.

35. Usually an atom having one, two, or three electrons in its valence band readily
A B
contributes electrons to and receive electrons from neighboring atoms.
C D
C
receivereceives.

36. A symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty represents a woman has just escaped from
A B
the chains of slavery, which lie at her feet.
C D
B
woman has ---woman who has

37. The southwestern portion of the United States is a land of little rain, and parts of it are
A B
too dry that they are called deserts.
C D
C
tooso.

38. Seneca chief Corn-planter helped arrange treaties between many United States settler
A B
and Native American tribes in western Pennsylvania after the American Revolutionary War.
C D
B
settlersettlers

39. Mercury is so much close to the Sun that it is usually invisible in the glare of the Sun's
A B C D
rays.
A

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so muchso。

40. Pollen can be transferred by the wind or by birds that comes into contact with flowers.
A B C D
B
comescome

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