1.
______________ discussed by the board of
directors when it was proposed again by the
supervisors.
a) The problem had already
b) The problem is already
c) The problem had already been (passive)
d) The problem has already
2. ________ the discovery of the fossilized
remnants of tides in one-billion-year-old rocks.
a) Geological reports
b) Geologists report (S-V)
c) The reports of geologist
d) Geologists’ reports
3. The Brooklyn Bridge ______ took thirteen years
to complete.
a) in New York (post modifier)
b) is in New York
c) it is in New York
d) which New York
4. Genes control all of the physical ________ we
inherit.
a) that traits
b) that are traits
c) traits that (N & connector)
d) traits are that
5. The Military Academy at West Point ___ on the
west bank of the Hudson River, north of New
York.
a) located
b) is located (passive verb)
c) which is located
d) whose location is
6. Some early batteries used concentrated nitric
acid, ______ gave off poisonous fumes.
a) they
b) then they (cause & effect)
c) but they
d) but they had
7. The sound produced by an object _________ in
a periodic way involves more than the simple
sine wave.
a) it vibrates
b) Vibrating (post modifier)
c) is vibrating
d) vibrates
8. There are a number of different elementary
particle in a single chemical element.
(=particles)
9. Many student whose English has reached
university level are ready to move on toward
advanced writing. (=students)
10. The largest member of the dolphin family is an
Orca, named the killer whale because of its
greedy appetite for other aquatic mammals,
fish, and seabirds. (= without an because it’s
an animal family)
11. In 400 BC, the Greek philosopher and scientist
Archytas built a model of a wooden pigeon,
capable of flights. (=flying)
12. Emily Dickinson, one of America’s great poet,
belongs more to the twentieth century than to
the century in which she lived. (=belongs to)
13. Eleanor Roosevelt changed the White House
from being merely a president’s mansion into
a rallying place for young people, womans,
farmers, and laborers. (=women)
14. Workers training for a specific job have a
strong possibility of being replace by a
machine. (=replaced/V3)
15. The salient feature of medicine today is that
these factors are no longer allow to play their
part. (=allowed/V3/passive)
16. He was not able to define the process by which
the body had protected by the immunologic
system. (=had been protected /passive)
17. The report could not be turned in on time
because all the needed work lost. (= was
lost /passive)
18. Weather forecasters monitor barometric
pressures and record they on charts as isobars.
(=them / object)
19. Much fossils are found in coal-bearing rocks.
(=many)
20. When salt is added to ice, this mixture becomes
coldly enough to freeze ice cream. (=cold
/adjective)