ALDERSGATE COLLEGE Espinoza, Daenielle Audrey M.

Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, 3709 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - 3

School of Business, Management and T166/ ENGL 31.2/ EFFECTIVE
Accountancy COMMUNICATIONS 2

POSTTEST

Focus: Completing structure problems involving incomplete independent clauses. (Note: Three or four items in
this exercise do NOT focus on missing subjects, verbs, complements, or introductory words; these items are
marked in the answer key with asterisks.)

Directions: Choose the one option—(A), (B), (C), or (D)—that correctly completes the sentences.

1. In the United States, _____ is generally the responsibility of municipal governments.

(A) for water treatment (C) where water treatment

(B) water treatment (D) in which water treatment

2. Crop rotation_____ of preserving soil fertility.

(A) it is one method (C) a method is one
(B) one method (D) is one method

3. _____ the dollar as its monetary unit in 1878.

(A) Canada adopted (C) It was adopted by Canada
(B) Adopted by Canada (D) The Canadian adoption of

4. _____ almost impossible to capture the beauty of the aurora borealis in photographs.
(A) Being (C) There is
(B) It is (D) Is

5. _____ two major art museums, the Fogg and the Sadler.
(A) Harvard University has (C) Harvard University, with its
(B) At Harvard University (D) There at Harvard University

6. American actress and director Margaret Webster_____ for her production of Shakespearean plays.
(A) who became famous (C) becoming famous
(B) famous as she became (D) became famous

7. _____ gas tanks connected to welding equipment, one full of oxygen and the other full of acetylene.
(A) It is two (C) There are two
(B) Of the two (D) Two

8. _____ is more interested in rhythm than in melody is apparent from his compositions.
(A) That Philip Glass (C) Philip Glass
(B) Philip Glass, who (D) Because Philip Glass

9 _____ by cosmic rays.

(A) The earth is constantly bombarded (C) Bombarding the earth constantly
(B) Bombarded constantly, the earth (D) The earth's constant bombardment

10. _____ primary colors are red, blue, and yellow.

(A) There are three (C) Three of them
(B) The three (D) That the three

11. _____ who was elected the first woman mayor of Chicago in 1979.
(A) It was Jane Byrne (C) That Jane Byrne
 ALDERSGATE COLLEGE Espinoza, Daenielle Audrey M.
Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, 3709 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - 3
School of Business, Management and T166/ ENGL 31.2/ EFFECTIVE
Accountancy COMMUNICATIONS 2

(B) Jane Byrne (D) When Jane Byrne

12. Every computer consists of a number of systems _____ together.

(A) by working (C) they work
(B) work (D) that work

13. On the moon, _____ air because the moon's gravitational field is too weak to retain an atmosphere.
(A) there is no (C) no
(B) where no (D) is no

14. The Glass Mountains of northwestern Oklahoma _____ with flecks of gypsum, which shine in the sunlight.
(A) they are covered (C) that are covered
(B) covered them (D) are covered

15. In some cases, __________________ to decide if an organism is a plant or an animal.

(A) difficult if (C) the difficulty
(B) it is difficult (D) is difficult

16. The first American novelist to have a major impact on world literature __________________.
(A) who was James Fenimore Cooper (C) it was James Fenimore Cooper
(B) James Fenimore Cooper was (D) was James Fenimore Cooper