Section 2: Structure

Time: 25 minutes

Directions: Questions 1 – 40 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.

Now begin work on the questions.

Now begin work on the questions.

1. …has traditionally been (B) until

celebrated in the United States
by parades and meetings at
which prominent labor leaders
and political figures speak.
(A)Labor Day
(B)When Labor Day
(C)It is Labor Day
(D)Labor Day, which
2. Echocardiography, also known
as cardiac ultrasound, … an
image of the heart by
transmitting and receiving
sound waves.
(A) producing
(B) produces
(C) produced by
(D) to produce
3. Joshua Tree National Park,
situated three hours east of
Los Angeles, California,
encompasses parts of both the
Mojave Desert … the Colorado
Desert.
(A) to
(C) with
(D) and
4. The development of a parasite
cannot be completed … some
time is spent on or in the body
of a living organism, known as
the host.
(A) but it is
(B) without which
(C) unless
(D) except is
5. In 1925 Florence Sabin
became … elected to lifetime
membership in the United
States National Academy of
Sciences.
(A) the first woman was
(B) her the first woman that
(C) the first woman
(D) she was the first woman
6. The mineral azurite is … the
more abundant green copper
carbonate, malachite.

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 (A) almost always found with (D) To investigate
(B) always with almost found
(C) found with always almost 11. The refraction of light in a
(D) with always found almost prism reveals … white light is
a mixture of many different
7. United States federal judges colors of light.
hold their positions during (A) ordinary that
“good behavior,” which (B) that is ordinary
generally means … serve for (C) is ordinary
life. (D) that ordinary
(A) that they are
(B) that they 12. Not until the development of
(C) that the automobile industry …
(D) do they important economically in the
United States.
8. In very loud sounds, the ear (A) rubber became
often perceives additional (B) it was rubber that became
tones, or harmonics, beyond in (C) did rubber become
the …original sound. (D) had become rubber
(A) actually present
(B) those actually present 13. The potter’s wheel, … in the
(C) some of the actually fourth millennium B.C., is a
present flat disk that revolves
(D) they are actually present horizontally on a pivot.
ones (A) invented
(B) was inventing
9. A central figure of abstract (C) which invented
expressionism, Jackson (D) was invented
Pollock created art …intensely
personal and at times violently 14. … two people, not even
emotional and anarchic. identical twins, share the
(A) that it was same fingerprints.
(B) was (A) No
(C) that was (B) There are no
(D) of which (C) Although no
(D) Of no
10. … buying patterns and
consumer attitudes, market 15. … Pennsylvania’s population
researchers often organize is concentrated in and around
consumer discussion panels. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
(A) The investigation of (A) Of almost half
(B) How to investigate (B) Almost of half
(C) When the investigation of (C) Almost half of

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(D) Half of almost
16. In her time, Isadora Duncan
was ..... today a liberated
woman.
(A) calling what we would
B. who would be calling
C. what we would call
D. she would call it
17. ..... around stones that are
sun-warmed, even the
smallest of the stones creates
tiny currents of warm air.
A.The cool air
B.If the air is cool
C.That the air cools
D.The cooler the air
18. Despite its wide range of
styles and instrumentation,
country music has certain
common features ..... its own
special charcter.
A.give it that
B.that give it
C.give that
D.that gives it to
19. Most of ..... archaeologists
know about prehistoric
cultures is based on studies
of material remains.
(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their
20. According to some critics, the
novels of William Burroughs
demonstrate the major
hazard of absurd literature
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..... tendency toward over
embelishment and
incoherence.
(A) notwithstanding
(B) besides
(C) is a
(D) its
21. Coinciding with the
development of jazz in New
Orleans in the 1920’s ..... in
blues music.
(A) was one of the greatest
(B) one of the greatest periods
(C) was of the greatest periods
(D) the greatest periods
22. Most free frogs change color
to harmonize .....
backgrounds.
(A) with its
(B) within such
(C) with their
(D) for its
23.The tongue is capable of
many motions and
configurations and plays a
vital role in chewing, .....
(A) swallowed, and speaking.
(B) swallowing, and speaking
(C) swallowed, and spoke
(D) swallow, and speak
24.Instead of being housed in
one central bank in
Washington, the Federal
Reserve system ..... twelve
districts.
(A) is division into
(B) are divided up to
(C) are dividing onto
(D) is divided into
 (D) That he was
25.Philodendrons of various
kinds are cultivated for their 30. William Walker’s mural, “Wall
..... of Respect,” .... an outdoor
(A) beautifully foliage wall in Chicago, deals with
(B) foliage beautifully social
(C) beautiful foliage (A) covers
(D) beauty foliage (B) covers it
(C) which covers
26.Kiwi birds mainly eat insects, (D) which it covers
worms, and snails ..... for
their food by probing the 31. The most elaborate of all bird
ground with their long bills. nests ....., dome
(A) and searching communal structure built by
(B) and to search social weavebirds.
(C) and search (A) larger
(D) and searches (B) largely is
(C) the large
27.One of the most difficult (D) is the large
problems in understanding
sleep is determining what ..... 32. The columbine flower, ..... to
(A) the functions of sleep is nearly all of the United
(B) is the functions of sleep States, can be raised from
(C) the functions of sleep are seed in almost any garden.
(D) are the functions of sleep (A) native
(B) how native is
28.In an area first explored by (C) how native is it
Samuel de Champlain, ..... (D) Is native
(A) establishment of the city of
Halifax in 1749. 33. The photoperiodic response
(B) in 1749 the city of Halifax of algae actually depends on
established. the duration of darkness .....
(C) in 1749, establishing the (A) the light is not on
city of Halifax. (B) and not on light
(D) the city of Halifax was (C) but is not on the light
established in 1749 (D) is not on light

29. ..... Nat Turner who led a 34. Some snakes have ..... fangs
revolt against slavery in that they use to poison their
Virginia in 1831. victims.
(A) Where was (A) hollow teeth are calling
(B) It was (B) hollow teeth which are
(C) He was called

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 (C) hollow teeth are called profitably
(D) hollow teeth call
31. … all rainwater falling from a
35. The annual worth of Utah’s cloud reaches the ground;
manufacturing is greater than some of it is lost through
..... evaporation.
(A) that of its mining and (A) Nowhere
farming. (B) Not
(B) mining and farming (C) No
combination. (D) None
(C) that mining and farming
combined. 39. Like snakes, lizards can be
(D) of its combination mining found ..... continents except
and farming. Antarctic
(A) on all another
36. Artist Gutzon designed the (B) on all others
Mount Rushmore Memorial (C) on all the others
and worked on ..... his death (D) on all other
in 1941
(A) project from 1925 until 40. Prior to an extermination,
(B) a project from 1925 until program earlier this century,
(C) the project from 1925 until ..... across nearly all of North
(D) a project from and until America.
1925 (A) alive wolves
(B) live wolves
37. It is proving less ..... for drug (C) wolves alive
makers to market directly to (D) wolves live
patient
(A) cost and more profit
(B) costly and more profitable
(C) costly and more profitably
(D) costing and more

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