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Section Two: Structure and Written Expression
1.Classical logic is characterized by a concern for the structure and elements of argument_______that
thought, language, and reality are interrelated.
(A) based on the belief
(B) on the belief based
(C) belief based on the
(D) the based belief on
2.Adult fleas_______ only blood and are external parasites of mammals and birds.
(A) eat
(B) having eaten
(C) that eat
(D) to eat
3.Heat energy may be absorbed or released when_______ while work is done on or by the system.
(A) changes in the internal energy of a system
(B) by changing the internal energy of a system
(C) the internal energy of a system that changes
(D) the internal energy of a system changes
4.Methods of measuring mass, time, and distance are_______ of human culture.
(A) among the oldest skills
(B) they are among the oldest skills
(C) what among the oldest skills
(D) the skills that among the oldest
5._______ they sometimes swim alone, dolphins usually congregate in large groups, often numbering
in the hundreds.
(A) Why
(B) Although
(C) Even
(D) Nevertheless
6._______ plays an important part in commercial art, illustrating advertisements, textbooks,

brochures, and articles in magazines
and periodicals.
(A) Drawing and
(B) Because drawing
(C) Drawing, which
(D) Drawing
7.Goldfinches build compact_______ nests, which they line with soft vegetable down.
(A) shaped like a cup
(B) cup-shaped
(C) cup shapes
(D) shape of a cup
8.Louisa May Alcott published her first book, Flower Fables_______ of fairy tales, in 1854.
(A) which a collection
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(B) a collection was
(C) a collection
(D) in which a collection
9._______ understanding of weather and its variability, it has been difficult to prove that weather can
be controlled.
(A) Since incomplete
(B) Because of incomplete
(C) Incomplete
(D) Why is incomplete
10.Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program included_______ designed to provide relief and
counteract the effects of the economic depression that had begun in 1929.
(A) measures were temporary
(B) in temporary measures
(C) temporary and measures
(D) temporary measures

11.Current health guidelines recommend that people restrict their consumption_______ .
(A) foods of high in fat
(B) of foods in fat high
(C) of foods high in fat
(D) in foods high of fat
12.Walt Whitman originated a distinctive form of free verse that sets his work apart from_______ of
all other poets.
(A) what
(B) that
(C) how
(D) it
13._______ economic change by investigating the fluctuations in the relationship between workers’
wages and their buying power.
(A) Economists gauging
(B) Economists gauge how
(C) Economists gauge
(D) Whenever economists gauge
14.Although the many hours of summer sunshine in Canada’s Klondike region produce good
vegetable crops, the long winters rarely permit_______ .
(A) grain crops ripen
(B) grain crops are ripe
(C) the ripening of grain crops
(D) to ripen grain crops
15.Tools, a workshop, and some storage space were_______ for early experiments in aviation.
(A) required all that
(B) all that was required
(C) all the requirements that
(D) such that all the requirements
16. A major railroad junction in Illinois, Decatur has became an important commercial hub for
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A B
the region’s farm products and livestock.
C D
17. People use muscles to make various movements, such as walk, jumping, or throwing.
A B C D
18. Emily Dickinson unmistakably fixed her own highly individually and revolutionary personality
A B
in her elliptical and provocative poems.
C D
19. The human skeleton is made up of 206 bones of difference sizes and shapes.
A B C D
20. One of the earliest strike in United States history occurred in 1740 when bakers refused
A B C
to work until their wages were increased.
D
21. Count Basie’s distinctive piano style and band arrangements of the late 1930’s earned his
A B C
an important place in jazz history.
D
22. The wide range of elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains allows for the
A B
great diverse of plant life found there.
C D
23. Four huge shield volcanoes have been observed on Mars, as well as a great number of
A B
smaller ones like found those on the Earth.
C D
24. The 1897 discover of gold in the Klondike hastened the commercial development of
A B

Washington State, as did the increasing trade with Pacific Islands.
C D
25. The Saint Lawrence River is young relatively by geological standards, as it was formed
A B C D
during the last ice age.
26. With the ability produce and control fire, early humans could make heat and light and could
A B
cook foods that were difficult to eat raw.
C D
27. Only the female and the worker wasps are equipped with a sting, which they use it to
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A B C
attack their prey or to protect themselves against enemies.
D
28. Compared with another breeds, quarter horses can start more quickly, turn more sharply, and
A B
run faster over short courses.
C D
29. Stars emit radio waves, which they may be detected and studied using radio telescopes.
A B C D
30. A glider is a type of aircraft resembling an airplane but often having not means of
A B C D
propulsion at all.
31. A matrilineal extended family consists of core group of males, their wives, and their
A B C D
unmarried daughters.
32. Herons inhabit marshy areas or the shores along fresh or salt water, which they find fishes,
A B C
frogs, crustaceans, and other aquatic animals to eat.

D
33. A computer program that communicates with the user solely by choices providing from interlined
A B C
menus is said to be menu-driven.
D
34. In the 1930’s few major orchestras in the United States hired woman, so many chose to perform
A B C
in amateur musical groups as an alternative.
D
35. Complex spacecraft are characterized by a various of supporting systems, including
A B
communications, guidance and navigation, altitude control, and ,in some cases, life-support systems.
C D
36. When a piano keyboard is substituted for buttons on right side of an accordion, the instrument
A B C
is known as a piano accordion.
D
37. Today’s lunar and solar eclipses can be predicted to within seconds of its occurrence, and
A B C
interest in them is scientific as well as aesthetic.
D
38. The windowless inner rooms of the Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico served for the storage of
A
supplies, while the brighter outer rooms were using for living quarters.
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B C D
39. Ultrasonic is concerned with sound vibrates or waves of a frequency above 20,000 cycles per
A B
second, the upper range audible to the human ear.

C D
40. Freesia plants reach a height of two and one-half feet and thrive best at temperature
A B C D
of 50 degrees to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
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