PART A

STRUCTURE

1. If ultraviolet radiation enters the Earth's atmosphere, __________ generally blocked by

the ozone concentrated in the atmosphere.
A. It
B. it is
C. so it is
D. then it

2. The three basic chords in __________________ the tonic, the dominant, and the
subdominant.
A. functional harmony
B. functional harmony is
C. functional harmony are
D. functional harmony they are

3. Without the proper card installed inside the computer, ____________ impossible to run a
graphical program.
A. is definitely
B. because of
C. it is
D. is

4. The charter for the Louisiana lottery was coming up for renewal, _______________
spared no expense in the fight to win renewal.
A. the lottery committee
B. so the lottery committee and
C. so the lottery committee
D. the lottery committee made

5. The first ____________ appeared during the last period of the dinosaur’s reign.
A. Flowers are plants
B. Plants have flowers
C. Plants flowers
D. Flowering plants

6. The earliest medicines ____________ from plants of various sorts.

A. Obtaining
B. They obtained
C. Were obtained
D. They were obtained
7. Simple nails were made from canvas _________ over a frame.
A. a stretch
B. stretched
C. was stretched
D. it was stretched

8. Pluto’s moon, Charon, _____________ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.
A. Moving
B. is moving
C. it was moving
D. in its moving

9. Techniques of breath control form an essential part of any _________ program to

improve the voice.
A. it trains
B. train
C. trains
D. training

10. The ear is a flexible organ, _________ simply was not designed to withsand the noise of
modern living.
A. but it
B. it
C. but
D. its

11. A current of water as the Gulf Stream comes up from the Gulf of Mexico, and then
_________ the North Atlantic toward Europe.
A. It crosses
B. Crossing
C. With its crosses
D. Crosses it

12. The sun uses up over four million tons of hydrogen per second, ___________ still has
enough hydrogen to last for the next five billion years.
A. it does not
B. it
C. but it
D. to it
13. _____________ will be carried in the next space shuttle has not yet been announced to
the public.
A. It
B. What
 C. When
D. That

14. Eugine Debs ran for presidency of the United States five times, ____________ was never
elected.
A. He
B. but he
C. to him
D. for his

15. Indigo can be extracted from a plant, and then _____________ to dye clothe blue.
A. It
B. using it
C. using
D. it can be used
 PART B
WRITTEN EXPRESSION