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20. In the 1800‘s daguerreotypes were used a greatest deal, especially for portraits.
21. Vervet mons have a well-developed systems vocal communication.
22. The invention of a cotton gin by Eit Whitney in 1793 made cotton yarn more economy than linen
yarn.
23. Scientists has found that the saliva of the octopus contains a substance that functions as a
powerful heart stimulant.
24. The katydid, a type of grasshopper, is actively at night and rests motionless amid foliage during
the day.
25. Soap is used as a lubricant in making tiny wires for electrical appliances such television sets and
telephones.
26. Although the art of sand painting originated with neighboring Pueblo Indians, the Navajo Indians
have refined and richly reinterpreted they symbology and execution.
27. In 1967, Canada‘s year centennial, one and a quarter million people from all over the world visited
Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
28. The General Sherman tree, a giant sequoia in California, has grown to be the world‘s largest plant
at approximate 272 feet tall.
29. Since the turn of the century, the number of Native Americans living in Canada is increased.
30. Eleanor Roosevelt played a leading part in women‘s organizations, and she was active in
encouraging youth movements, in promoting consumer welfare, and to work for civil rights.
31. Nutrients are substances, neither occurring naturally or in synthetic form, that are necessary for
maintenance of the normal functioning of organisms.
32. Even in an age of experimentation and departures from convention, the sonata form remain
among the most vital means of musical expression.
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33. Researchers have found many ways of treating paper so that it will be strong, fireproof, and
resistance to liquids and acids.
34. Because its body is supported by water, the blue whale can grow to a size considerable large than
any land mammal alive today.
35. Langston Hughes, a prolific writer of the 1920‘s was concerned with the depicting the experience
of urban Black people in the United States.
36. During eclipses of the Sun, the Ojibwa Indians of North America shot flaming arrows inside the
sky to rekindle the light.
37. From 1892 to 1895, Alice Elvira Frecman was Dean of Women at the newly foundation University
of Chicago.
38. Historical geology deals about data on the development of the Earth gathered from the study of
rocks, which are analyzed to determine their age and composition.
39. Human being have thirty-thirty or thirty-four vertebrae, but a snake may have as many as three
hundred.
40. Parrots have heavily bodies and exceedingly strong legs.
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1993 年 10 月语法题
1. A fuel is a substance used --- light, heat, or energy.
(A) generating
(B) generates
(C) to generate
(D) it is generating
2. The state of Maine generally has cooler temperatures than ---.
(A) there are most other states
(B) most other state which have
(C) most other states have
(D) having most other states
3. Fruit is one of the most abundant, nutritious, and --- foods a person can eat.
(A) delicious
(B) too delicious
(C) is it delicious
(D) tastes delicious
4. Prescriptions for corrective lenses that are provided by an optometrist are often brought to an
optician who --- the lenses.
(A) grinding
(B) grinds
(C) they grind
(D) are ground
5. Loganberries can be used in jams --- their juice.
(A) and for
(B) while
(C) too
(D) in which
6. From her early teens ---.
(A) Blanche Willis Howard‘s determination to be an author
(B) Was determined to be an author, Blanche Willis Howard
(C) Blanche Willis Howard was determined to be an author
(D) An author, Blanche Willis Howard was determined to be
7. Adhesive, such as glue, tape, and gum, vary with the purpose --- intended.
(A) they were for
(B) for they were
(C) which were they
(D) for which they were
8. Alaskan forests --- five or six miles inland from the Pacific coast.
(A) penetrate more rarely than
(B) more rarely than penetrate
(C) more penetrate than rarely
(D) rarely penetrate more than
9. The colors of a rainbow --- arranged in the same order.
(A) which are always
(B) and they are always
(C) always
(D) are always
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10. ---, The Yearling, won a Pulitzer Prize.
(A) Marjorie Rawlings‘ best work was
(B) Marjorie Rawlings‘ best work
(C) Her best work was Marjorie Rawlings‘
(D) That Marjorie Rawlings‘ best work
11. Jimmy Connors, well-known tennis champion, is supposed --- that he did not want to participate in
all the tournaments once he had reached forty.
(A) has said
(B) he says
(C) saying
(D) to have said
12. The month is not a suitable unit of measure for determining the seasons --- the seasons are a
solar, not a lunar phenomenon.
(A) in order that
(B) while
(C) since
(D) in view of
13. The human skeleton consists of more than two hundred bones --- together by tough and relatively
inelastic connective tissues called ligaments.
(A) are bound
(B) to bind
(C) bind them
(D) bound
14. Not until about 20,000B. C. --- executed.
(A) were known of the oldest paintings
(B) the oldest of known paintings were
(C) the oldest known were paintings
(D) were the oldest known paintings
15. In 1727 Benjamin Franklin founded one of the first adult-education organizations --- the Junto.
(A) has been called
(B) which group called
(C) to call
(D) a group called
16. At the future, banks will be offering an increasingly broad spectrum of financial services.
17. Considered one of America‘s greatest playwrights, Eugene O‘Neill win the Novel Prize for
literature in 1936.
18. The density of a substance is calculus by dividing its mass by its volume.
19. The grouper is an ocean fish that lives in warm and temperate seas, most around rocky shores
and coral reefs.
20. In the 1950‘s, aircraft were developed that flew high they could hardly be seen from the ground.
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21. Paper is strong under tension instead crumples easily under the stress of compression.
22. Tariffs are the taxes or customs duties levied against goods that are import from another country.
23. Each person in the United States consumes an average of 560 pounds of dairy productivity every
year.
24. The vascular system consist of the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and lymphatics.
25. The Hopi community of Oraibi in northeastern Arizona is one of the oldest, not if the oldest,
continuously occupied settlements north of Mexico.
26. When a corporation needs to raise large amounts of capital, common stock can be issued and sell
in part to outside investors.
27. The development of stratus clouds is extremely common over the cold seawater away the
northwestern United States coast.
28. Contemporary management practice have been influenced by investigations in the behavioral
sciences.
29. The Yukon River, which flows into the Bering Sea, gives its name to a region of Alaska and a
territory of the Canada.
30. Although the United States experienced rapidly growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, it
was still predominately concerned with agriculture and forestry.
31. Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin has called the first truly successful North American opera.
32. Over the past two decades, the popularity of the bicycle as a mean of transportation and
recreation has increased tremendously in the United States.
33. Having resided in New Mexico for many years, painter Georgia O‘Keefe employs such as
Southwestern motifs as bleached bones, rolling hills, and desert blooms.