Practice test 1

Team : __________________
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1. ... team sports require cooperation. 7. A person of ... age may suffer from defects of
a. Of all vision.
b. They are all a. every
c. All b. any
d. Why are all c. certain
d. some
2. A medical emergency is a sudden or
unexpected condition ... immediate care to 8. ... have settled, one of their first concerns has
prevent death or serious harm. been to locate an adequate water supply.
a. is requires a. Wherever people
b. to require b. There are people who
c. that require c. Whether people
d. a requirement of d. People

3. Centuries of erosion have exposed ... rock 9. If a bar magnet is ..., the two pieces form two
surfaces in the Painted Desert of nothern complete magnets, each with a north and
Arizona. south pole.
a. in colors of the rainbow a. broken
b. colored like a rainbow b. broke
c. rainbow colored c. breaking
d. a rainbow’s coloring d. break

4. The higher the temperature of a molecule, ... . 10. The type of plant and animal life living in and
a. the more energy it has around a pond depends on the soil of the
b. than it has more energy pond, ..., and the pond’s location.
c. more energy has it a. what the quality of the water is
d. it has more energy b. how is the water quality
c. the quality of the water
5. Frontier surgeon Ephraim MacDonald had to d. what is the water quality
perform operations ... anesthesia.
a. no 11. Clifford Holland, ... civil engineer, was in
b. not having charge of the construction of the first tunnel
c. without under the Hudson River.
d. there wasn’t a. he was a
b. a
6. ... young, chimpanzees are easily trained. c. being a
a. When are d. who was, as a
b. When
c. They are
d. When they
12. ... parrots are native to tropical regions is
untrue. 14. In 1775, Daniel Boone opened the Wilderness
a. That all Trail and made ... the first settlements in
b. All Kentucky.
c. Why all a. possibly it was
d. Since all b. as possible
c. possible
13. A major concern among archaelogists today is d. it possible
the preservation of archaelogical sites, ... are
threatened by development. 15. Rarely ... seen far from water.
a. of which many a. spotted turtles
b. many of them b. spotted turtles are
c. many of which c. have spotted turtles
d. which many d. are spotted turtles

16. Ceramics can be harder, light, and more resistant to heat than metals.
A B C D
17. Not everyone realizes that the most largest organ of the human body is the skin.
A B C D
18. Mold is extremely destruction to books in a library.
A B C D
19. Sidney Lanier achieved fame both as a poet or as a symphony musician.
A B C D
20. The horses used to playing polo are not of any special breed or any definite size.
A B C D
21. A tapestry consists of a foundation weave, called the wrap, which across are passed different colored
A B C
threads, called the weft, forming decorative patterns.
D
22. The works of early American woodcarvers had many artistic qualities, but these craftmen probably did not
A B C
think of them as artists.
D
23. Perhaps mankind’s first important musical influence were the songs of birds.
A B C D
24. The techniques of science and magic are quite different, but their basic aims-to understand and control
A B C
nature-they are very similar.
D
25. It was in a cave near Magdalena, New Mexico, when the oldest known cars of cultivated corn were
A B C
discovered.
D
26. The fossil remains of much extinct mammals have been found in the tar pits at Rancho La Brea in
A B C D
Los Angeles.
27. Sharks can detect minute electrical discharges coming from its prey.
A B C D
28. A dark nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar dust enough dense to obscure the stars beyond it.
A B C D

29. Commercially honey is heated and filtered in order to stabilize and clarify it.
A B C D
30. The various parts of the body require so different surgical skills that many surgical specialties have
A B C D
developed.
31. One reason birds have been so successful is because of their able to escape from danger quickly.
A B C D
32. The wood of the rosewood tree is used to do fine musical instruments.
A B C D
33. Chemical engineering is based on the principles of physics, chemists, and mathematics.
A B C D
34. Ballet performers must be believable actors and actresses as well as experts dancers.
A B C D
35. Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is exactly almost the same size as the Earth.
A B C D
36. P.T. Barnum opened his own circus in 1871 and become the most famous showman of his time.
A B C D
37. The way a child plays with other children reveals a lots about the child’s emotional development.
A B C D
38. Sheep have been domesticated for over 5,000 years ago.
A B C D
39. Chemical compounds with barium, cobalt, and strontium are responsible to many of the vivid colors in
A B C D
fireworks.
40. Duke University in North Carolina has an outstanding collecting of documents concerning southern history.
A B C D

41. In the past, lions _______ common in many b. are really

parts of the world. c. are they really
a. Were d. they really are
b. Once
c. When 44. The city of Montreal ________ on an island in
d. Only the Saint Lawrence River.
a. was built
b. has built
42. Vegetables are an excellent source ________ c. that built
vitamins. d. built
a. have
b. of 45. A singer's struggle to succeed in popular
c. where music is the kind of story ________ a
d. contain fascinating film could be made.
a. With
b. By
43. Microscopes make small things appear larger
than ________. c. for whom
a. really are d. about which
46. A large (A) number of automobile (B) part are now (C) made of plastic (D) instead of steel.
47. Although a kangaroo (A) normally uses (B) its large feet and strong legs (C) for hopping, (D) but it can also
swim.
48. When a (A) severe ankle (B) injury forced (C) herself to give up reporting in 1926, Margaret Mitchell 
(D) began writing her novel, Gone with the Wind.
49. (A) The pineapple, a fruit (B) grow in tropical climates (C) throughout the world, (D) is native to parts of
South America.
50. Canals are (A) artificial waterways, often constructed (B) either to transport heavy loads or to 
(C) delivering water (D) to cities and farms.
51. Anne Elizabeth McDowell is (A) best (B) remembered for a (C) weekly journal, Woman's Advocate, 
(D) who she launched in January 1855.
52. A ray of light passing (A) through (B) the center of a thin lens (C) keep its (D) original direction.

53. It is difficult to get young people to plan for 56. Dotting the marshy expanse of the Florida
their old age, which seems very distant to Everglades are little islands known locally as
them. hummocks.
a. impossible a. generally
b. far away
b. to all
c. observable
d. fearful c. in that area
d. occasionally
54. Receptors for the sense of smell are located at
the top of the nasal cavity. 57. It is not possible for people
a. upper end to recall everything that they have thought,
b. inner edge felt, or done.
c. mouth a. Remember
d. division b. Appreciate
c. Repeat
55. Passenger ships and aircraft are often d. Discuss
equipped with ship-to-shore or air-to-land
radio telephones. 58. When preparing a diet, a person should be
a. Highways aware that vitamin D acts to increase the
b. Railroads amount of calcium absorbed by the body.
c. Airplanes a. schedule of exercise
d. Sailboats b. nutritional plan
c. study of longevity
d. medicinal chart