1.

The significance of mythology within a culture is reflected in ---, the amount of time devoted to this activity, and the relevance of
mythology to ceremonials.
(A) Storytellers have prestige
(B) The prestige of storytellers
(C) Telling stories is prestigious
(D) Prestige comes with storytelling

2. Although --- some textile products, it imports many as well.

(A) the exports of the United States
(B) exporting of the United States
(C) exporter of the United States
(D) the United States exports

3. Economic goods may take the form --- of material things or of services.
(A) either
(B) because
(C) as
(D) or

4. Ragtime is a kind of music --- a strongly syncopated melody and a regularly accented accompaniment.
(A) has
(B) that it has
(C) that has
(D) it has

5. Historically, --- chief material for making furniture has been wood, but metal and stone have also been used.
(A) It was the
(B) That the
(C) There was a
(D) the

6. All gases and most liquids and solids expand --- heated.
(A) in
(B) how
(C) when
(D) about

7. Abstraction goes into the making of any work of art, --- or not.
(A) whether the artist being aware of it
(B) the artist is being aware whether
(C) whether the artist is aware of it
(D) the artist is aware whether

8. --- often added to sauces and soups, is plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
(A) Parsley, an herb that is
(B) For parsley, an herb to be
(C) An herb, parsley is
(D) Parsley, is that herb

9. Emily Post’s book Etiquette, --- in 1922, was an immediate success.

(A) published
(B) was published
(C) when it published
(D) that it published

10. Emily Post’s book Etiquette, --- in 1922, was an immediate success.
(A) published
(B) was published
(C) when it published
(D) that it published
11.A majority of people in the United States can get all the calcium their bodies --- from the food they eat.
(A) require
(B) requires
(C) requiring
(D) to require

12. --- map dates back to about 3,000 B.C.

(A) Known to be the oldest
(B) It was the oldest known
(C) Known as the oldest
(D) The oldest known

13. The best way to control rats is by seeing that they have as --- .
(A) possibly little nourishment
(B) nourishment possibly little
(C) little as possible nourishment
(D) little nourishment as possible

14. The small greenish flowers of the American elm tree appear in the spring, --- .
(A) is grown long before the leaves
(B) long before the leaves grow
(C) the leaves before growing long
(D) the growth of leaves before long is

15. In the years between 1937 and 1952, author Margaret Wise Brown ---more than a hundred books but also wrote the lyrics for 21
children’s records.
(A) not only produced
(B) only not produced
(C) produced only
(D) only have produced

16. Lizards lack the built – in body temperature control many another creatures possess

17. Doctor are discovering that there is a strong psychological component to chronic pain.

18. With her talent for business promotion, Kate Gleason expansion her family’s small machine-tool company

into a major manufacturer of gear – cutting machinery.

19. Using their bills as needles, tailorbirds sew large leaves together with plant fiber to forming their nests.

20. Columns may be circular or polygonal in cross section, and are generally at least four times more taller than

they are wide.

21. The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrates a major characteristically of twentieth –century writing: the

conflict between commitment to a social ideal and commitment to art.

22. Montessori preschools differ than public elementary schools in that the activities focus on the child’s

individual abilities and interests rather than academic ones.

23. Josh Billings roamed the country as a laborer when he was a young man, but settled down in his later life to

become a humorist and lecturing.

24. Data received from two spacecraft indicate that there is many evidence that huge thunderstorms

are now occurring around the equator of the planet Saturn.

25. Every individual cell, whether its exists as an independent microorganism or is part of a complex creature,

has its own life cycle.

26. Because aluminum is nonmagnetic, it is value for protecting electrical equipment from magnetic

interference.

27. Nitrogen and oxygen are too important that most living organisms cannot survive without these elements.

28. Coal and petroleum resulted when plants become buried in swamps and decayed.

29. Percapita income is a nation’s entire income dividing by the number of people in the nation.

30. Jim Thorpe, a football, track, and baseball stars from Pennsylvania, is considered by many to be the greatest

all-around athlete of modern times.

31. For centuries waterwheels were the only sources of power aside from human and animal strong .

32. Proteins form the most of the structure of the body and also act as enzymes.

33. The attorney general of the United States advises the President on any questions of law who may arise

in the conduct of administrative affairs.

34. Many of the science fiction publications by Ray Bradbury display a desire to rebel against society’s depend

on machines.

35. The age of a geological sample can be estimated from the ratio of radioactive to nonradioactive carbon

present in the object is examined.

36. Dams vary in size from small rock barriers to concrete structures many feet height.

37. Even before the human organism developed into their present stage of home sapiens, the beginnings of

culture were already evident.

38. In the United States, sleds for recreation were first produced commercial in the 1870’s or thereabouts.

39. Employments agencies bring together persons qualified for specific jobs and employers who have those jobs

available.

40. Salmon spend most of their adult lives in salt water, despite they return to their freshwater birthplaces to

spawn and die.