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1. Alabama was occupied by the French and Spanish before ______ to England in 1763
A. was ceded
B. ceded to it
C. it was ceded
D. ceded it
3. On November 23, 1863, Grant stunned the confederates on Missionary Ridge with what
______ to be a full-dress military parade of troops who unexpectedly opened fire.
A. appeared
B. appearing
C. appearance
D. apparent
4. Researchers have long debated______Saturn’s moon Titan contains hydrocarbon oceans and
lakes.
A. over
B. whether the
C. whether over
D. whether.
5. According to Bernoulli’s principle, the higher the speed of a fluid gas, _______ the pressure.
A. it will be lower
B. lower than the
C. the lower
D. lower it is
6. The flight instructor, _________ at the air base, said that orders not to flight had been issued.
A. when interviewed
B. when he interviewed
C. when to interview
D. when interviewing
7. In the northern and central parts of the state of Idaho _________ and churning rivers.
A. majestic mountains are found
B. are majestic mountains found
C. are found majestic mountains
D. finding majestic mountains
8. Featured at the Henry Ford Museum _____of antique cars dating from 1865.
A. is an exhibit
B. an exhibit
C. an exhibit is
D. which is an exhibit
10. ____appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical
illusion.
A. The moon
B. That the moon
C. When the moon
D. The moon which
11. According to the World Health Organization, _____ any of the six most dangerous diseases
to break out, it could be cause for quarantine..
A. were
B. they were
C. there were
D. were they
13. The leaves of the white mulbery provide food for silkworms, ______ silk fabrics are woven.
A. whose cocoons
B. from cocoons
C. whose cocoons are from
D. from whose cocoons
14. Not only _______ generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors.
A. a nuclear breeder reactor
B. it i s a nuclear breeder reactor
C. does a nuclear breeder reactor
D. is a nuclear breeder reactor
15. D.W Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and filmmaking techniques ______ as
the Hollywood standard.
A. that established
B. that became established
C. what established
D. what became established
16. The lobster, like many crustaceans, can cast of a dammaging appandage and
regenerate
A B C
a new appandage to nearly normal size.
D.
17. The main cause of the oceans’ tides is the gravitation pull of the moon.
A B C D.
18. The curricula of American public schools are set in individual states, they do not determine
by
A B C D
the federal government.
19. The fact that the sophisticated technology has become part of revolution in travel
A B
delivery systems has not made travel schedules less hectic.
C D
20. Balanchine’s plotless ballets, such Jewels and The Four Temperaments, present dance purely
A B C D
as a celebration of the movement of the human body.
22. In early days hydrochloric acid was done by heating a mixture of sodium chloride with iron
sulfate.
A B C D
23. Dweight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United
A
States, lived in the White House and of least thirty-seven other residences
B C D
24. Methane in wetlands comes from soil baccteria that consumes organic plant matter.
A B C D
25. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today
bears
A B
C
his name
D
26. Edward MacDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as “To a
Wild
A B C D
Rose” and “To Water Lily.”
27. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind
A B
are live and have feelings
C D
28. Newtonian physics accounts for the observing orbits of the planets and the moons
A B C D
29. The earliest known artworks were done by cavemen which used a mixture o clay, chalk,
and
A B C D
burned wood and bones
30. Variations in melody, rhythm, and tone of voice becomes a major feature of child speech
A B C
toward the end of the first year
D
31. As a protective protein molecule, an antibody can combines with a foreign virus protein
A B C D
32. The water moccasin is a high venomous and extremely dangerous pit viper
A B C D
33. Though aluminium is more common than iron, it is extremely difficult to break their
hold
A B C
on other atoms
D
34. Defects occur when liquid helium undergoing a phase transition from its normal to its
A B C D
superfluid phase
35. During the 1960s the Barkeley campus of the University of California came to
A B
national attention as a result its radical political activity
C D
36. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on
A
project from 1925 until his death in 1941
B C D
37. It is proving less costly and more profitably for drugmakers to market directly to patients
A B C D
39. Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antartica.
A B C D
40. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been doing home
A B
equity loans with greater frequency than ever before
C D