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MODEL TEST 9
MODEL TEST 9
GRAMMAR OF STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH
40 QUESTIONS 30 MINUTES
A.
SENTENCE COMPLETION 20 QUESTIONS 15 MINUTES
Objective : The test of grammar aims at measuring your knowledge-based skill of rapidly and
analytically recognizing grammatical structures commonly used in standard written English.
Directions : Questions 1-20 are incomplete sentences. Each of which is followed by five answer
choices marked (A), (B), (C), (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
Fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Put your answer on
the sheet supplied by filling in the space so that the circle is fully blackened.
1. The consistency of
_______that of glue.
(A) alike
(B) similar with
(C) similar
(D) the same as
(E) the same
protoplasm
is
2. The lights and appliances in most homes use

alternating current ______.
(A) instead of direct current
(B) instead direct current
(C) that instead direct current
(D) for direct current instead
(E) instead from direct current
3. The United States is _____that there are a
great number of tourist attractions.
(A) much bigger
(B) too big
(C) very big
(D) so big
(E) the biggest
4. After assassination attempt, President
Reagents doctor suggested that he
_______ a short rest on Niagara.
(A) takes
(B) must take
(C) take
(D) would take
(E) took
5. The US postal service policy for check
approval includes a requirement that two
pieces of identification ________.
(A) must present
(B) be presented
(C) presented
(D) for presentation
(E) are presented
6. Nerve impulses _______ to the brain of a

speed of about one hundred yards per
second.
(A) sending sensation
(B) to send sensation
(C) send sensation
(D) sensation
(E) which send sensation
7. Although exact statistics vary because
political changes, _____ separate nation
states are included in the official lists at
any time.
(A) more than two hundred
(B) as much as two hundred
(C) many as two hundred
(D) most that two hundred
(E) as many two hundred
8. ________ owe much of their success as a
group to their unusual powers as
migration.
(A) That birds
(B) A bird
(C) The bird
(D) Birds
(E) The birds which are
9. Research in the work place reveal that
people work for many reasons
.
(A) money beside
(B) money besides
(C) beside money
(D) besides money
(E) beside the money
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10. Seals can _________ because they have a

thick layer of blubber under their fur.
(A) keep them warm
(B) keep themselves warm
(C) they keep warm
(D) keep their warm
(E) keep warm they
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
16.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was not

only a poet and an author but also
__________ the modern language
department at Harvard University for
more than eighteen years.
(A) presiding
(B) preside
(C) president of
(D) presidency of
(E) who presides
17.
Miami, Florida is among the few cities in

the United States _____________ official
status as bilingual municipalities.
(A) has been awarded
(B) which have been awarded
(C) that having been awarded
(D) that is awarded
(E) have been awarded
18.
The understanding of electricity depends

on a knowledge of atoms and sub atomic
particles of which ___________ .
(A) they composed
(B) they are composed
(C) they compose
(D) are composed
(E) composed
19.
If England ___________ a tax on tea

since two hundred and twenty years ago,
would the United States have remained
part of the British commonwealth ?
(A) have not imposed
(B) is not imposed
(C) had not imposed
(D) does not impose
(E) did not impose
20.
The concept of lift in aerodynamics

__________ to the relationship between
the increased speed of air over the top of
wing and the higher pressure of the
shower.
(A) refer
(B) refers
11. Both liquids and gases flow freely from a

container because they have________.
(A) not definite shape
(B) none definite shape
(C) nothing definite shape
(D) no definite shape
(E) no definitely shape
12. One of Dickenss _______ Oliver Twist,
was the story that reflected the social
criticism.
(A) greatest work
(B) greatest works
(C) the greatest work
(D) the greatest works
(E) greatest the works
13. Although the scientific community had
hoped that the field of transplantation
_________, the short age of organ donors
has curtailed research.
(A) progress
(B) had progressed
(C) would progress
(D) progressing
(E) progressed
14. __________ unknown quantities is the task
of algebra.
(A) To found
(B) Find
(C) The find
(D) Finding
(E) Foundation
Chains restaurants
Chains restaurants
Chain restaurant
Chain restaurants
That Chain restaurants
15. __________ like McDonalds and Kentucky

fried Chicken have used franchising to
extent their sales internationally.
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(C) which refers

(D) referring
(E) have referred
B.
SENTENCE REVISION : 10 QUESTIONS 10 MINUTES
Directions : Questions 21-30 are sentence revision. Each sentence has an incorrect word or phrase
as underlined. Revise the sentence by identifying one of the four choices marked (A), (B), (C), (D)
in order for the sentence to be correct. Put your answer on the sheet supplied by filling in the space
so that the circle is fully blackened.
21.
The prime rate which is the rate of interest that a bank will charge when
it lends money to its best clients.
A. is the rate
C. thats the rate
B. which the rate
D. it is the rate
22.
When a pregnant woman smokes, the blood supply to the uterus is

affected, reduction
oxygen to the foetus.
A. to reduce
B. which reducing
C. reducing
D. its reduction
23.
The area where a microchip is manufactured be the cleanest environment possible.

A. which is the cleanest
C. it is the cleanest
B. is the cleanest
D. that be the cleanest
24.
Before his death in 1943, in an effort to encourage less dependence on one crop by the
south, George Washington Carver is responsible for developing hundreds of industrial
uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes.
A. which is responsible
C. it is responsible
B. was responsible
D. which responsible
25.
Sodium, usually a metal, and chlorine, usually a gas, they react to form the
solid sodium
chloride, or table salt.
A. which they react
C. they react
B. reacting
D. react
26.
Mathematics is such important field and serves so many of the sciences that it is
prerequisite for studying every scientific discipline.
A. that is such an important field
C. such an important field
B. a such important field
D. such important a field
27.
When they have been frightened, as, for example, by an electrical storm, dairy cows
may refuse giving milk.
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A. give
B. to give
28.
C. given
D. giving
He founded a base Port Royal in 1605, and builds a forts at Quebec a
year later.
A. built
C. building
B. which built
D. it built
29.
A calorie is the quantity of heat require to raise one gallon of water at one
atmospheric pressure.
A. requiring
C. required
B. which require
D. to require
30.
Natural gas which often occurs together with petroleum in the minute pores of rocks
such as sandstone and limestone.
A. which often occur
C. often occurs
B. often occur
D. is often occurred
C.
ERROR RECOGNITION : 10 QUESTIONS 5 MINUTES
Directions : Questions 31-40 are error recognition. Each sentence contains an error part that is
located on the underlined words or phrases marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Recognize the error part
of each sentence that must be changed in order that the sentence is correct. Put your answer on the
sheet supplied by filling in the space so that the circle is fully blackened.
31.
New synthetic materials have improved the construction of artificial body parts by
A
B
C
provide the power and the range of action of a natural limb.
D
32.
Sloths spend most of its time hanging upside down from trees and feeding off leaves
A
B
C
and fruit.
D
33.
The cabinets consist of secretaries of department, who report to the Presidents, give him
A
B
advice, and helping him make decision.
C
D
34.
The native people in the Americas were referred to as Indians because, according to
A
B
the believe at the time, Christopher Columbus had reached the East Indies.
C
D
35.
A barometer is a device with a sealed metal chamber designed to reading the changes in
A
B
C
the pressure of air in the atmosphere.
D
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36.
Cotton fibre, like other vegetable fibres, are composed with cellulose.
A B
C
D
37.
Almost all life depends to chemical reactions with oxygen to produce energy.
A
B
C
D
38.
It may be argued that modern presidents had far great responsibilities than their
A
B
C
predecessor did.
D
The audible range of frequencies for human beings usually lays between 20 and 20.000 Hz.
A
B
C
D
39.
40.
Many grasshoppers can produce sound by rub their hind legs again their wings.
A
B
C
D
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MODEL TEST 9

SENTENCE COMPLETION 20 QUESTIONS 15 MINUTES

2. The lights and appliances in most homes use

6. Nerve impulses _______ to the brain of a

10. Seals can _________ because they have a

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was not

Miami, Florida is among the few cities in

The understanding of electricity depends

If England ___________ a tax on tea

The concept of lift in aerodynamics

11. Both liquids and gases flow freely from a

15. __________ like McDonalds and Kentucky

(C) which refers

SENTENCE REVISION : 10 QUESTIONS 10 MINUTES

When a pregnant woman smokes, the blood supply to the uterus is

The area where a microchip is manufactured be the cleanest environment possible.

ERROR RECOGNITION : 10 QUESTIONS 5 MINUTES

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