NOUN, DERIVATIVES, ADJECTIVE & ADVERB AND COMPARISON

1. This year’s group of freshmen _____

(A) includes twice, or more, as many women than last year’s
(B) include twice or more as much women as did last year’s
(C) include at least twice the women as last year
(D) includes at least twice as many women as last year’s
2. It can be difficult for small investors to sell their shares of stock in companies whose policies they disagree with,
because small investors’ assets are less robust ____ large investors.
(A) than
(B) than those of
(C) than is true of
(D) compared with
3. New high-combustion models of engines show the potential of being able to produce high
horsepower and performance without the costly ____ required by earlier high horsepower
models.
(A) maintaining and consumption of special racing fuel
(B) maintenance and consuming of specially fuel racing
(C) maintaining and consuming in special racing fuel
(D) maintenance and consumption of special racing fuel
4. The herring gull population in the North America is now thirty times larger ____ the beginning of the century.
(A) than in
(B) than they were at
(C) than it was at
(D) compared to that of
5. American productivity is declining in relation to Europe’s; the energy expended per unit of production in the
United _____ .
(A) as much as twice that expended in West Germany
(B) as much as twice that of West Germany’s expenditure
(C) up to two times of West Germany’s expenditure
(D) up to two times what West Germans expended
6. Like the color-discriminating apparatus of the human eye, ____ recording and comparing light intensities in
three regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
(A) an insect eye depends on
(B) that of insects depend on the
 (C) that of an insect’s eye depends on
(D) that of an insect’s is dependent to
7. The humidity, air pollution, and noise have affected the children of Maria ____ her neighbor.
(A) less drastically than (C) less dramatically than they have
(B) dramatically less than those of (D) less drastically than those of
8. Of the twin supernovas, _____ that has irrevocably altered astronomers’ ideas about the origins of the universe.
(A) the one most recently discovered is the largest, but it is the small one
(B) the most recently discovered is larger, but it is the smaller
(C) the more recently discovered one is the larger one but the small one
(D) the more recently discovered is the larger, but it is the smaller one
9. When the chorus divides the women into sopranos and altos, it will be able to sing songs many
times more complicated _____ as it is now.
(A) compared to those that can be (C) than those that can be sung
(B) than that can be sung (D) compared than that can be sung
10. The United States spends a larger percentage of its defense budget on developing its anti-missile
shield than ____
(A) the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea do on nuclear missile technology.
(B) does the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea on nuclear missile technology.
(C) do the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea on nuclear missile technology.
(D) has People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea done on nuclear missile technology
11. The Emperor Augustus, it appears, commissioned an idealized sculpture portrait, the features of which are ____
what one scholar calls an "artificial face."
(A) so unrealistic as to constitute
(B) so unrealistic they constituted
(C) so unrealistic that they have constituted
(D) unrealistic enough so that they constitute
12. ______ accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles
per hour.
(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can

1. The survey showed that (A) children are much more (B) psychological stable when raised in a
family with two parents (C) than in a family in which only one parent cares (D) for the child.
2. Recently discovered gravitational lensing around certain proximate stars (A) strong suggests that
the nine planets of our solar system are ( B ) a common phenomenon in the universe rather
than a type that (C) developed incidentally from a unique galactic phenomenon (D) several
billion years ago.
3. Language immersion experiences (A) was valuably (B)because they can quickly teach stu dents (C)
who might not learn the language in other settings or during months of (D) regular
teaching
4. Many (A) fear the epidemic of obesity in America; (B)the amount of food (C) consumed per
person in America is as (D) many as three times that consumed in Japan.
5. Wineries in upstate New York (A)create rich, full-bodied wines (B) similar with the wines from Germany, (C)
which, like upstate New York, is an area with a (D) temperate climate.
6. In(A) a recent survey, Physical Fitness Weekly found that people (B)exercising daily consider
(C)themselves no healthier than people(D)do exercising three to five times a week.
7. More than five thousand years ago, Chinese scholars (A) accurately described the flow of blood (B) as a
continuous circle (C) controlled by the heart, but the discovery went (D) unnotice in the West.
8. Salt deposits and (A) moist threaten (B) to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation (C) in Pakistan, the site of an
ancient civilization that (D) flourished at the same time as the civilizations the Nile delta and the river valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates.
9. The brain is something of (A) a stimulus reduction system, a means to reduce, in order (B) to comprehend, the
nearly infinite number of (C) stimulus that (D) reach the senses at any given moment.
10. St. John's, Newfoundland, (A) lies on the same latitude as Paris, France, but in spring St. John's residents are less
likely (B) to sit at outdoor cafes than to be bracing (C) themselves against arctic chills, shoveling snow, or seeking
shelter from a (D) raging northeast storm.