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SECTION 2 STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION ‘Time—25 minutes (including the reading of the 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: These questions 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 in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen, Look at the following examples. sampler =e Th poietic ytd e 0 see ioten 8 Fey (D) fortunately ‘The sentence should read, “The president won the election by a landslide.” Therefore, you should choose answer (A) ample —— i _eam g (A) the doctor attended © (B) did the doctor attend ® (C) the doctor will attend (D) the doctor's attendance ‘The sentence should read, "When did the doctor attend the conference?” Therefore, you should choose answer (B). 1. Indiana's Lost River __ underground fora distance of 22 miles. etravels (B) traveling, (©) towavel (D) it travels volcanic eruption in the continental United States in over 60 years. (A) Mount St. Helens (B) was Mount St, Helens (C)_itwas Mount St. Helens {DMount St. Helens was, JrBiatic clectricity one cloud to her or between clouds and the ground exeates lightning, (AT"Tlows from (B) the flow from (C) flowing from\y (D) is flowing from 4. The Model T car, introduced in 1908, $8850. (A) the price was (B) aprice of (©) to be priced at {was priced at atts with a chlorine atom, an electron is wansferred from the outer shell of the sodium atom to the outer shell of the chlorine atom. (APA sodium atom: (B) When a sodium atom (C) Fora sodium atom (D) Itisa sodium atom 6 10. Flintlock muskets, In 1858, the siteS____was to became the city of Denver was settled as a way station for outfitting gold prospectors. a) it (B) ofit (©) what (Dyrof what light from an electrical lamp includes any different wavelengths, ina laser is concentrated on only one ‘wavelength, Swymall the energy (B) itieall the energy (©) while all the energy (D) while all the energy is In the Antarctic Ocean erustacean forms of life. “(man abundance of (®) isanabundance of J (©) itisabundant (D) an abundance is sharp bayonets were standard weapons during the American Revolution, (A) tip with @ytipped with (C) the tips of (D) were tipped with Benjamin Franklin believed that the turkey rather than the eagle of the United States. (Weshould become the symbol (B) the symbol becomes. (C) should symbolize becoming (D)_ becoming the symbol to occur in the Earth’s crust, push- 14, The temperatures take place vary pull and shake waves would be generated widely for different materials. Aenea (A) which melting and freezing B. 1g (A) Were a break/ 8 at which melting and freezing ‘@yrifa break (C) which they melt and freeze (©) Abreak was (D) at which they melt and freeze (D) If broken In general, the cells of large animals and Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas produce plants are only slightly larger than a carbon dioxide when - plants and animals. (a)_are burned (A) smaller (®P they burned (B) are smaller (©) burned Vo (©) those smaller (D) are they burned. (D) are those of smalles 13. Not until Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected governor of Wyoming in 1924 as governor of a U.S. state. (A) a woman served, (B) a woman serving (C) toservea woman (dedi a woman serve Written Expression Directions: In these questions, sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentenc#are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D), Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changéd in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill inthe space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you Look at the following examples. Example 1 ‘Sample Answer ‘The four string on a violin are tuned xe cD in fifths. ® The sentence should read, “The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths." Therefore, you should choose answer (B). Example I ‘The research for the book Roots taking TE Sample Answer @ == BS e Alex Haley twelve years. ‘The sentence should read, “The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years." Therefore, you should choose answer (C). 16. 17. 18. ‘The music on a compact disk (CD) is record by lasers. A 5B D Alaska has more active glaciers as the rest of the inhabited world combined. a oT ~~ RD Aristotle believed that everything in the universe were composed of four basic ~K - Cc elements; earth, water, air, and fire. D 27 in the cold climate of the far north, mosquito eggs may remains dormant from 21. 22, 23. 24, 28, a D autumn until late June, v Passengers have ridden the first Ferris wheel at the Columbian Exposition in “ir 8 One type of Australian frog lays up to 25 eggs at a time and then swallows they for protection, protection ‘The Cro-Magnons entered the area that is today Europe and quickly eliminated or ae Se absorbed theirs Neanderthal predecessors. D The Spanish introduced not only horses and also cattle to the North American a as t continent. Sentinent, ‘The best-known members of the cabbage vegetable group includes head cabbage, ar BO Dp cauliflower, broccoli, kale, collard, and brussels sprouts. White blood cells are the largest of red blood cells and are more varied in size and in x D shape. 26, An hiccup is a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, which leads to a massive spammed iy intake of air oiae A. Tomake a lithograph, an artist used a flat stone of akind that wil soak up oil and Z wy e wi 28. Alike a bar magnet, the Earth has two magnetic poles. age rer maps oops me 29. Not until Harvard College was founded in 1636 was there any colleges in America. ad Se 30, Antelopes are gregarious animals that travel in herds, ranging in amount from a few —_A Te to several thousand. sepet 31. A supersonic airplane can fly faster than a speed of sound. x oc a 821, Emma Willard opened officially the doors of the first school in the United BS States to offer college-level courses for women. ne 33. The first gummed postage stamps issued in New York City in 1842, & “ = D 34. Typical long bone such as the femur consists of a long shaft with swellings at each a —~ ec aT end. 35. ‘The common octopus lives lone in a den just big enough for its body. a rr c”6|6U 36, The vacuum tube did an important contribution to the early growth of radio and x ee “Dp television. 37. St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez, was razing 21 years z B later by Francis Drake. aD vy (Ad bimetallic thermometer relies the different rates of expansion of two types of —* e rs metal, usually brass and copper. 7 3of Anice coy te the ni@let on which a hallstone is built, “s D ‘Tremendous flooding during the summer of 1993 ae 8 million acres of nine midwestern states aa ‘and proved both expensively ind deadly. sendy

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