1.

If you lived near the factory, you … the

sound of the explosion in the middle of the
night.
A. hear
C. would have heard
B. would hear
D. will hear

2. For years, … hunted for food and ivory, and

as a result their numbers have been greatly
reduced.
A. was elephant
C. elephants were
B. which elephants were
D. elephants was
3. The Appalachian Trail, which extends (active
verb -> extending) approximately 2,020 miles
from Maine to Georgia, is the longest
continuous marked footpath in the world.
A. extending approximately
C. to extend approximately
B. extended approximately
D. which extending approximately

4. The test administrator made us not … our

books until h told us to do so.
A. open
C. opening
B. to open
D. opened
5. Industrial buyers are responsible for
supplying the goods and services that an
organization is required for … operations.
A. its
C. it’s (it is/it was/it has)
B. their
D. theirs

6. The easiest process for mining gold is

panning, … involves using a circular dish with a
small pocket at the bottom.
A. to
C. and
B. which
D. since
7. When … imports, a country had been said to
have a trade surplus.
A. overall exports exceeded
C. overall exports exceed
B. overall exports have exceeded
D. overall exports is exceeding

8. Martha Graham, … , has run her own dance

company for half a century.
A. is the great modern choreographer
B. one of the great modern choreographers
C. that the great modern choreographers
D. the modern choreographers were great
9. The new government will have the budget of
education ….
A. increased
C. increase
B. to increase
D. increasing

10. In the photography of moving objects, … in

both the United States and Europe well before
1900.
A. Experiments been conducting
C. Experiments had been conducted
B. were Experiments conducting
D. being conducted by Experiments
11. The University of Georgia, which was
chartered in 1785, was the first state supported
university in the United States.
A. chartered
C. it was chartered
B. was chartered
D. to be chartered

12. The fugitive … on Friday night at the gas

station.
A. was escaped
C. were not seen
B. was volunteering
D. was last seen
13. The worldwide race to develop an
affordable synthetic fuel has so far consumed
billions of dollars and … few results.
A. Yields
C. Yielded
B. To yield
D. Has yielded

14. A liquid is similar … a gas because molecules

are not fixed to each other in any specific way.
A. To
C. for
B. With
D. If
15. The principal always has the students … the
school rules.
A. obey
C. to obey
B. obeying
D. obeyed

16. The first library in the North American

colonies was established establishing in
Massachusetts in the year 1638.

17. Like other academic disciplines, sociology in

most of the countries has a major sub-
disciplines.
18. Mammals lose body heat to their
environment in cold weather the more quicklier
than in hot weather.

19. The developing development of mechanical

timepieces spurred the search for more
accurate sundials with which to regulate them.

20. Maine has cooler weather than most of the

other states in the continental United States.

21. Like ethnographers, ethnohistorians make

systematic observations, but they also gather
data from documentary and oral sources
sources oral.
22. Research in the United States on
acupuncture have has focused on its use in pain
relief and anesthesia.

23. Although the pecan tree is chiefly valuable

for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for
flooring, furniture, boxed, and crates.

24. If the cerebellum of a pigeon was were

destroyed, the bird would not be able to fly.

25. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several

geological settings, most of which are
associated with the boundaries of the
enormous, rigid plates whose which make up
the lithosphere.
26. The Dead Sea is the lower lowest sea on
earth, 1,300ft (400km) below the sea level.
27. The most coral islands develop from reefs
that grow up around volcanic islands.

28. Orchestrating musical work requires an

understanding of the range and characteristics
of each instrument.

29. Father will have the mechanic repaired my

car before I use it tomorrow.

30. The importance of the hand, and more

generally of the body, in children’s acquisition
of arithmetic can be hardly exaggerated.

31. Each pot and pan in her kitchen has its own
place on the shelf.
32. Phyllis was purchased by Mr. Wheatley,
whom whose wife was impressed by her and
taught her to speak English.

33. Nadine usually gets the woman to sweep

the floor in the morning.

34. The clasmosaur, a giant prehistoric sea

reptile with fierce-looking jaws and flippers, has
a muscular neck that accounts for more than
half their its length.

35. The General Sherman tree, a giant sequoia

in California, has grown to be the world’s
largest larger plant at approximately 272 feet
tall.
36. Jimmy Connors, well-known tennis
champion, is supposed to have said that he did
not want to participates in all the tournaments
once he had reached forty.

37. The month is not some a suitable unit of

measure for determining the seasons since the
seasons are a solar, not a lunar phenomenon.

38. In 1727 Benjamin Franklin found founded

one of the first adult-education organization, a
group called the Junto.

39. Many people have stopped smoking to

smoke because they are afraid that it are afraid
that it may be harmful to their health.
40. Balloons rise into the air because they
contain a gas which is more little less dense, or
lighter, than air.