Time: 25 minutes, including the reading of directions Now set your clock for 25 minutes. This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English, There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type Structure Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences, Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill n the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Examplet Sample Answer @®eo® Geysers have often been compared to volcanoes from below the Earth surface. (A) due to (8) because (© in spite of (0) regardless of they both emit hot liquids The sentence should read, "Geysers have often been compared to volcanoes because they both emit hot liquids from beneath the Earths surface’ Therefore, the correct choice is (8) Example! Sample Answer e2ec6e During the early petiod of ocean navigation, instruments and techniques. (A) so that haraly (8) when there hardly was (G hardly was (0) there was haraly any need for sophisticatedThe sentence should read, “During the earlier period of ocean navigation, there was hardly any need for sophisticated instruments and techniques’ Therefore, the correct answer is (0) Now begin work on the questions.1 4 . Gas particles move Since the early 1950's, __ throughout the world has more than doubled (A) the demand for food (8) there is demand for food (© iffoodisin demand (0) food, a demand that Even though he did not attend school until he was twelve, Dr. Samuel C.C.Ting was. the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976. (A) won (8) the winning (©) the winner of (0) tobe won when the gas is hot than when itis cold, (A) fast (8) faster (©) as fast (0) fastest The different colors of. the different temperatures of the stars’ surfaces. (A) the stars indicate {B) indicating stars (C) the indication that the stars (0) stars indicating that The ordinary chair . For 125 years after . Asa country develops from an agricultural to an industrial economy, the attitudes, values, structures, and functions of the family (A) the change (8) which change (Q change (0) changing . Only a few sounds produced by insects are heard by humans most of the sounds are pitched either too low or too high, (A) in spite of. (8) because (© asaresult of (0) instead of in countless shapes, sizes, styles, and materials. (A) has been made (8) tobe made (©) ismaking (0) been making initial use at Harvard in 1642, the Bachelor of Arts degree was the only degree awarded by colleges in the United States. (A) its (8) itwas (O) being (0) when9. Since the Sun illuminates half 13. The upper part in a harmonic the surface of the Moon, only arrangement ___ by mixed half the surface can be voices is usually written for a seen from the Earth, soprano voice. (A) most (A) to be sung (8) much (8) assinging (©) with more (©) tobe singing (0) at most (0) was sung 10. The novels of Constance 14. The first school the state Fenimore Woolson, ——, of Washington was opened at have special interest for their old Fort Vancouver in 1832. regional settings. (A) isnow (A) inanineteenth-century (8) is thatin writer (©) what is that (8) anineteenth-century writer (0) inwhat is now (O the nineteenth-century writing 15. Radio, ___, developed from (©) wrote about the nineteenth the theories and experiments century of many people. (A) like other many inventions nL. Oklahoma is important {@) like many other inventions as.a farming state, itis even (© inventions like many other more important for its rich oil (0) many other like inventions deposits. () By (8) Although (© In order for (©) Concerning 12. No animal seems diet of peat moss. (A) survived ( cansurvive (© of surviving (0) able to survive onaWritten Expression Directions: in questions 16-40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (0). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill n the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Example! Sample Answer @eeoo Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish because ofthe males'bright colors. c DB A The sentence should read, “Guppies are sometimes called rainbow fish because of the males'bright colors*Therefore, you should choose (A), Example Il Sample Answer ®eoo Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States A 8 c politician D The sentence should read, "Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States politician’ Therefore, you should choose (8) Now begin work on the questions.16. While attempting to fly hers plane around the world in 1937, Amelia Earhart A 8 c mysteriously disappeared, D 17. Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of short stories, were 2 A 8 critical success when it appeared in 1938, c ° 18. The principle on which the boat called a hydrofoil is designed is identically to A that demonstrated by an airplane wing moving through ait, B C D 19. Migrating butterflies can travel long distant over water, A B c oD 20. During a early period in the settlement of the western United States, pioneers A claimed parts of the wilderness by marking trees to establish a boundary. B c D 21. All digital computers use binary, or two-valued, digits instead than decimal, or A 8 c ten-valued, digits to represent and store data. D - An ambassador serves as a nation's highest-ranking diplomacy in another A 8 c country. D 23. Early adolescence is a developmental phase consisting of rapid changes in A 8 C behavior, psychological, and hormones. D 24. knowledge from the frontiers of research genetic will increasingly pose difficult A B C problems for policy makers and for society in general. D 3025. Pictures called glass mosaics are made by setting small pieces of colors glass A B c Into fresh plaster. D 26. Approximately every nineteen month Venus and the Sun reach their greatest A B angular separation in the solar system. C D 27. Anthropologists recently have found evidence that, centuries ago, Inuits A used to entering their subterranean homes through tunnels, which 8 helped keep the cold out and the heat in. C D 28. The tree porcupine is found in wooded areas throughout most from A 8 c D North America. 29, To date, only a small percentage of all glass manufactured in the United States A Is recycled, but markets for recycled glass that are growing steadily. 8 C D 30. The oceans are the major source of the atmospheric moisture that is obtained A B c through evaporator. D 31. Only those insects with high developed, multilensed eyes have good A B c color vision. Do 32. The Earth’s atmosphere functions much lke a giant greenhouse, admitting A sunlight between outer space but preventing heat from escaping, 8 c D 33. The almond tree which produces the oldest species of nut and is the most A B widely grown of all nut trees. Cc D34. Fran Tannenbaum, a paleontology student doing summer fieldwork, found A BC completely seventy-ive-millon-year-old fossil egg near Chateau, Montana 35. Fencing, originally developed as a sport in fourteenth century, was included in A 8 the first modern Olympic Games of 1896 C D 36. Depth within ancient tombs, 3,000-year-old peanuts have been found A 8 c alongside mummies. D 37. Art Nouveau developed in the 1890's when artists did a conscious effort to A B c break with what they regarded as worn-out formulas of the past D 38. The most widely cultivated allof fruit trees, the apple is second only to the A B grape in its importance as a temperate-zone fruit c D 39. Pawnbroking, or making loans to customers who pledge personal or A B C household goods as security, is one of the oldest trade known. D 40. Of 1901 to 1914, acclaimed actor Douglas Fairbanks appeared on stage in A 8 aseries of light comedies. C D This is the end of Section 2. Ifyou finish in less than 25 minutes, check your work on Section 2 only. DO NOT read or work on any other section of the test. Atthe end of 25 minutes, go on to Section 3. Use exactly 55 minutes to work on Section 3 32