Practice Test B - Structure

Practice Test B – Structure
1. The ponderosa pine is of 5. initial recognition while

the most of the timber used by still quite young.
forest- product firms in the Black
Hills of South Dakota. (A) Most famous scientists achieve
(B) That most famous
(A) the source scientists achieved
(B) as source (C) Most famous scientists
(C) the source which who achieved
(D) because the source (D) For most famous scientists
to achieve
2. Computers that once took up

entire rooms are now to 6. Mango trees, densely
put on desktops and into covered with glossy leaves and
wristwatches. bear small fragrant flowers, grow
rapidly and can attain heights of up
(A) small enough to 90 feet.
(B) smaller than
(C) so small (A) whose
(D) as small as (B) which are
(C) are when
(D) which
3. According to some educators, the
goal of teaching is to help
students learn what to know to 7. the Canadian composer
live a well-adjusted and Barbara Pentland wrote four
successful life. symphonies, three concertos,
and an opera, among other
(A) do they need works.
(B) they need
(C) they are needed (A) An artist who, prolific
(D) as they may need (B) Is a prolific artist
(C) Prolific an artist
(D) A prolific artist
4. The sapphire’ s transparency to
ultraviolet and infrared radiation 8. The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend
makes in optical National park in Texas were
instruments. created by volcanic eruptions that
occurred
(A) it is of use
(B) it uses .
(C) it a useful
(D) it useful (A) the area in which
dinosaurs roamed
(B) when dinosaurs roamed
the area
(C) did dinosaurs roam the area
(D) dinosaurs roaming the area
9. In bas-relief sculpture, a design
13. The first explorer California
projects very slightly from its
by land was Jedediah Strong
background, some
Smith, a trapper who crossed the
coins.
southwestern deserts of the United
States in 1826.
(A) as on
(B) because (A) that he reached
(C) the way that
(B) reached
(D) similarly (C) to reach
(D) reaching it
10. Alaska found the first years of its
statehood costly because it had 14. Written to be performed on a ,
to take over the expense of Thornton Wilder’ s play Our Town
services
depicts life in a small New England
previously by the community.
federal government.
(A) stage scenery of bare
(A) to provide (B) bare of stage scenery
(B) be provided
(C) scenery bare of stage
(C) providing
(D) stage bare of scenery
(D) provided
15. many copper mines in the

11. With age, the mineral content of state of Arizona, a fact which
human bones decreases,
contributes significantly to the state’
them more fragile.
s economy.
(A) make
(A) They are
(B) and to make
(B) There are
(C) thereby making (C) Of the
(D) which it makes
(D) The
12. Not until Kentucky’ s Mammoth

Cave had been completely explored
in 1972.
(A) when was its full extent realized

(B) that its full extent was realized
(C) was its full extent realized
(D) the realization of its full extent
Practice Test B – Written Expression
16. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures and she was one of the
first anthropologists to photograph hers subjects.
17. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form.
18. During the 1870’ s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by
burning iron ore with coke, instead than with charcoal.
19. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments

to studying the volcanoes in Hawaii.
20. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the
laws of motion who were developed in the seventeenth century.
21. Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first
museum in the United States devoted to modern art.
22. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus
more people are able to enjoy to own a house.
23. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systemic observations, but they also
gather data from documentary and oral sources.
24. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy
individual during waking hours.
25. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief
and anesthesia.
26. The Moon’ s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space.
27. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively
for flooring, furniture, boxes, and crates.
28. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short
stories before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962.
29. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among
the functions of hair for animals.
30. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason
for the recently surge of support for undergraduate research.
31. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help
the bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial
problems.
32. Faults in the Earth’ s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where
they interrupt previously continuous layers.
33. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths.
34. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European
arrival in the New World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
35. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the
sounds of jazz with them of traditional orchestration.
36. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920’
s until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of
production.
37. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are
associated with the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the
lithosphere.
38. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants
native to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria.
39. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long,
slenderness, wingless, and brownish in color.
40. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers intentional add to
their products.

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Practice Test B – Structure

1. The ponderosa pine is of 5. initial recognition while

2. Computers that once took up

15. many copper mines in the

12. Not until Kentucky’ s Mammoth

(A) when was its full extent realized

19. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments

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