1.

………… Widely used in the chemical industry, sodium carbonate is principally consumed
by the glass industry.
a. Whether
b. Except for
c. Despite
d. Though
2. …………. The sails of a distant ship are visible before the body of the ship
a. The earth, in that it curves, makes
b. The curve of the earth makes
c. Because of the curve of the earth
d. Because the curve of the earth
3. The chairman requested that………
a. With more carefulness the problem could be studied
b. The members study the problem more carefully
c. The problem was more carefully studied
d. The members studied more carefully the problem
4. ………. One of laura ingalls wilder’s many books about the American frontier are on her
own childhood experiences
a. Without
b. Except
c. All but
d. Not any
5. Alfred adams has not………
a. Never before lived sole
b. Before lived without the company of his friends
c. Lived lonelynessly in times previous
d. Ever lived alone before
6. Having been served lunch,__.
a. a discussion of the problem was made by the members of the committee
 b. the problem was discussed by the members of the committee
c. the committee members discussed the problem
d. it was discussed by the committee members the problem
7. ………causes earthquakes and forms mountains and plateaus
a. To collide continent.
b. being collided continents
c. How to collide continents
d. Colliding continents
8. ………….the best schools for their children, they will carefully consider the cost before
making a choice.
a. Had parents wanted
b. Should parents want
c. Parents should want
d. Parents want
9. …………..better off than before, even if new technological advances were able to cut in
half the environmental damage
a. When the earth would never be
b. Never would the earth be
c. Would the earth never be
d. That the earth would never be
10. Not until about 200 years ago ……… machines for making clothes.
a. that people had
b. When people had
c. People had
d. did People have
11. …………to form plaque in arterial vessels, the plaque can narrow the vessels and
contribute to cardiac disease,
a. Should cholesterol collect
b. if cholesterol collected
 c. If cholesterol had collected
d. Were cholesterol collected
12. Sea horse usually Iive along the shore among seaweed and other plants to which
(A) (B)

they cling to by their tails

(C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
13. The Pacific Ocean comprises almost the entire boundary western of North and South
(A) (B) (C) (D)
America.
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
14. Photography disseminates Information about humanity and nature, records the visible
(A) (B)
world. and extension human knowledge into areas the eye cannot penetrate
(C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
15. Because of their rapidly changing economically fortunes, many frontier towns of the
(A) (B)
American West underwent spectacular fluctuations in population in the 19 century
(C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
16. In the Milky Way galaxy. the most recent observed supernova appeared in 1604.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
17. An unexpected raise in the cost of living as well as a decline in employment
opportunities
(A) (B)
resulted in the rapid creation by congress of new government programs for the
(C) (D)
unemployed.

a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
18. The lobster, like many crustaceans. can cast off a damaging appendage and regenerate a
(A) (B) (C)
new appendage to nearly normal size.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
19. It Is said that Einstein fell very badly about the application of his theories to the creation
(A) (B) (C) (D)
of weapons of war.
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
20. In early days. hydrochloric acid was done by heating a mixture of sodium chloride with
(A) (B) (C) (D)
iron sulfate
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
21. Historical recods show that halley’s comet has return about every seventy-six years for
(A) (B) (C)
the past 2.000 years.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
22. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shyness similar to that in humans.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)

23. Each number on the Richter scale represent a tenfold increase on the amplitude of
waves
(A) (B)
of ground motion recorded during an earthquake.
(C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
24. The Spanish introduced not only horses and also cattle to the North American continent
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
25. Because of their color and shape, seahorses blend so well with the saweed in which they
(A) (B) (C)
live that it is almost impossible to see themselves.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
26. A mousebird's tail is double as long as its body.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
27. Edward McDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favourites As 'To a
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Wild Rose" and "To a Water Lily.'
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
28. Newtonian physics accounts from the observation of the orbits of the planets and moons.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)

29. Plant and animal species are disappearing from the earth at an alarmed rate. And many
(A) (B) (C)
scientist believe that human activity is largely responsible.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
30. The bodies of deceased Inca rules were treated in case they were still alive. attended to
by
(A) (B) (C)
servants in their palaces and consulted for advice on daily affairs.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
31. Despite of improved medical management. asthma and asthma -related death are
(A) (B) (C)
increasing in part to worsening indoor population.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
32. Africa has a long literary tradition because very little of this literature was written down
(A) (B) (C)
until the 20 century.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
33. When an auto-immune disease strikes. the immune system attacks the body's own
tissues
(A) (B) (C)
or organs if they were foreign substances.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
34. According to Greek Mythology. Narcissus is so handsome that he loved himself more
(A) (B) (C)
than he loved others until finally he fell or love with his own image.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)
35. To escape imprisonment by King Minos of Crete. Icarus used the wings of wax and
(A)
loathers his father invents to fly to freedom. bu he flew too close to the sun. leading to
(B) (C) (D)
disaster.
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)

36. The fluid produced by some types of octopus is so strong that it paralyzed the Sensory
(A) (B) (C)
organs of the attacker.
(D)
a. (A)
b. (B)
c. (C)
d. (D)