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Grammar
1.In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States
developed the reusable space shuttle ________to space
cheaper and easier.
A. to make access
B and making access
C. which made accessible
D. and made accessible.
2. Genetically, the chimpanzee is more similar to humans
_______.
A.
are than any
other animal
B.
than is any
other animal
C.
any other
animal is
D.
and any other
animal is
3._______more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of
which more than half are fossils.
A.
Being that
there are
B.
There being
C.
Are there
D.
There are
4.The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously
through the United States Congress.
A.
passed
B.
in passage
C.
having passed
D.
passing
5.Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and
columns ___a three-dimensional grid.
A.
forms
B.
from which
forming
C.
and forming
D.
that forms
6.The average level of United States prices grew very little
from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when ____________.
A.
did inflation
begin
B.
inflation
began
C.
the beginning
of inflation
D.
did the
beginning of inflation
7.The basis premise behind all agricultural production is
_____available the riches of the soil for human consumption.
A.
to be made
B.
the making
C.
making is
D.
to make
8.___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791,
Nathaniel Macon remained in office until 1815.
A.
Election
B.
Why he was
elected
C.
Elected
D.
Who was
elected
9.________ of classical ballet in the united states began
around 1830.
A.
To teach
B.
Is teaching
C.
It was taught
D.
The teaching
10.The universe is estimated ___between 10 billion and 20
billion years old.
A.
being
B.
to be
C.
which is
D.
is.
11. A situation in which an economic market is dominated by
a ____ is known as a monopoly.
A.
single of a
product seller
B.
product
single of a seller
C.
seller of a
product single
D.
single seller
of a product
12.____ freshwater species of fish build nests of sticks,
stones, or scooped-out sand..
A.
As the many
B.
Of the many
C.
Many
D.
Many of them
are
13.Newspaper publishers in the united states have estimated
___________reads a newspaper every day.
A.
nearly 80
percent of the adult population who
B.
it is nearly
80 percent of the adult population
C.
that nearly
80 percent of the adult population who
D.
that nearly
80 percent of the adult population
14. The foundation of all other branches of mathematics is
arithmetic, _ science of calculating with numbers.
A.
is the
B.
the
C.
which the
D.
because the
15.Nylon was ___the human-made fibers.
A.
the first of
which
B.
what the
first of
C.
it the first
of
D.
the first of
16.The male cicada sound is made by specialized
structures on the abdomen and which apparently
severs to attract females.
17.Televisions are now an everyday feature of most
households in the United States, and television
viewing is the number one activity leisure.
18.Bacteria are one of the most abundant life
forms on Earth, growing on and inside another
living things, in every type of environment.
19.Fluorine is a greenish gas too active that
even water and glass burn in it.
20.In general, novels are thought of extended works
of prose fiction depicting the inner and outer
lives of their characters.
21.Metabolism is the inclusive term for the
chemical reactions by which the cells of an
organism transforms energy, maintain their identity,
and reproduce.
22.Although most petroleum is produced from
underground reservoirs, petroleum occurs in a varieties
of forms at the surface.
23.A musical organ can have pipes of two kinds:
flue pipes that work like a flute and reed pipes that
operate on same principle as a clarinet.
24.The Land Ordinance of 1784 divided the western
lands belonging to the United States into
territories, each to be govern temporarily by its
settlers.
25.If there is too much pituitary hormone of too
few insulin, the amount of sugar in the blood
rises abnormally, producing a condition called
hyperglycemia.
26.The care of children during their years of
relative helplessness appears to have being
the chief incentive for the evolution of family
structures.
27.It was not until the 1920’s that pollution came
to be viewed by many as a threat to the health of
live on Earth.
28.Platelets are tiny blood cells that help transport
hormones and other chemicals throughout the body, and
it play a key role in clotting blood.
29. Until the twentieth century, pendulum clocks
were calibrated against the rotation of earth by
taking astronomically measurements.
30.The rapid growth of the world’s population over the past
100 years have led
to a
great increase in the acreage of land under
cultivation.
31.In the eighteenth century, the Pawnees, descendants of
the Nebraska culture, lived in
villages sizeable
on the Loup and Platte rivers in central Nebraska.
32.The attraction of opposite charges is one of the
force that keep electrons in orbit around of
nucleus of an atom.
33.Of every the major traditions of wood carving,
the one that is closest in structure to the tree
is the crest pole made by the Native Americans of the
Northwest coast.
34.Many of the fine-grained varieties of sedimentary
rocks known as shales yield oil when distilled
by hot.
35.In 1820 there were only 65 daily newspapers
in the united states, which total daily circulation
of perhaps 100,000.
36.The Milky Way galaxy includes the Sun, its
planets, and rest of the solar system, along with
billions of stars and other objects.
37.Some of sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s exploits with
a gun are almost unbelievable when
it comes
to accuracy, speed of firing ,and endure.
38.Evidence from ancient fossils indicates the
scorpion may had been among the first land
animals.
39.Jetties, piers designed to aid in marine
navigation, are constructed primary of wood,
stone, concrete, or combinations of these
materials.
40.The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, was
chartered in 1922 to promotion art education
by providing art classes and by establishing a publishing
program.
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