(Usept) : BPU Universitas Sriwijaya
(Usept) : BPU Universitas Sriwijaya
BPU
UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA
(U S E P T)
(UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST)
PETUNJUK UMUM
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dimonitor sesuai dengan pilhan anda.
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anda ubah.
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UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST
(USEPT)
SECTION 1
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
In Section 1, there are three parts (Part A, Part B, and Part C) with
special directions for each part. Answer all the questions on the basis
of what is stated or implied by the speakers in this test. You are not
allowed to take notes or write in your test book. Read the directions.
PART A
Directions: In Part A, you will hear 30 short conversations between
two people. After each conversation, you will hear a question about
the conversation. The conversations and questions will not be
repeated. After you hear a question, read the five possible answers in
your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer
sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
1. (A) She recently purchased (C) The man can get a job
laundry detergent. where the woman
(B) She will buy some works.
detergent for the man.
(D) The man should keep
(C) The Laundromat is
around the corner. his current job.
(D) The man can buy (E) The man should stop
detergent at the store. his job.
(E) She will give detergent
for the man. 3. (A) She did not realize that
their team had won.
2. (A) The man will find a job (B) Their team nearly lost
if he continues to look. the game.
(B) The man should look (C) She called to find out
for a job in a different the score of the game.
field. (D) Their team usually wins
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its games. changed the
(E) Their teams played conference time.
well. (B) He is planning to stay
until the conference is
4. (A) The woman should finished.
continue driving. (C) He will not attend the
(B) They will arrive late for concert.
dinner. (D) He will wait for the
(C) He forgot to make Woman.
reservations. (E) He will call the woman.
(D) He is not sure what is
wrong with the car. 8. (A) The woman and the
(E) He stopped driving. man have plans to
eat out together
5. (A) The woman did not (B) The woman would
remember her prefer to stay
appointment. home this evening
(B) The woman needs to (C) The man has changed
get a calendar. his mind about the new
(C) The appointment must restaurant.
be changed to a (D) The man is sorry he
different day. cannot join the woman
(D) The calendar shows for dinner.
the wrong month. (E) The man did not leave
(E) The woman shows the for the restaurant.
calender.
9. (A) The woman should call
6. (A) He thinks the woman’s the professor the next
computer is broken. day.
(B) He worked on the (B) He is cancelling the
woman’s computer for choir rehearsal because
too long. of illness.
(C) He sometimes gets (C) The woman will feel
headaches after doing better in a day or two.
computer work. (D) He will turn up the heat
(D) He needs to take in the choir room.
longer break. (E) The woman will call the
(E) he bought a new Professor.
Computer.
10. (A) She does not believe it
7. (A) Professor Campbell will snow.
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(B) Snow in October is (C) He prefers to play in
unusual. the gym.
(C) Canadian winters are (D) It is not supposed to
rather long.
rain tomorrow.
(D) Winter is her favorite
season. (E) The will not play in the
(E) He likes the season gym.
11. (A) He lost his wallet on a 14. (A) Type the letter as it is.
trip to Germany. (B) Change some wording
(B) His private lessons did in his letter.
not help him. (C) Send the letter without
(C) His German tutor typing it.
charges him a (D) Check to make sure
reasonable fee. his facts are correct.
(D) He plans to continue (E) Type the letter.
taking lessons.
(E) He did not take the 15. (A) It is next to the
lessons. Holiday Motel.
(B) It is nicer than the
Holiday Motel.
12. (A) The committee has
(C) It is very inexpensive.
just begun to (D) It is a little farther than
write the report. the Holiday Motel.
(B) The report will be (E) It is very popular.
short.
(C) The committee 16. (A) She is still using her
members have just economics book.
become acquainted. (B) She knows where the
(D) The report is finished man can buy the book.
except for the (C) She will talk to
introduction. Professor Phillips.
(E) The report is unclaer. (D) She will lend her book
to the man.
13. (A) They should play (E) She will call the man.
another time.
(B) They will probably 17. (A) She no longer teaches
have to play in the architecture.
gym. (B) She takes photographs
of different subjects.
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(C) She did not enjoy her movie tonight.
trip to the desert. (C) He has already seen
(D) She just took down the the movie on a big
display at the student screen.
center. (D) He is planning to buy a
(E) She learned at the tv with a large screen.
student center. (E) He has a new Tv.
18. (A) He rarely sends e-mail 21. (A) She did not see the
messages. play last night.
(B) He thought the woman (B) She does not enjoy
read the message. going to plays.
(C) He will have his (C) She will give her ticket
computer repaired later to the man.
today. (D) She will meet the man
(D) He was unable to send at the door of the
an e-mail message. theater.
(E) He did not get e-mail (E) She will get the ticket
Message. from the man.
19. (A) He will not get a refund 22. (A) She had a hard time
for a purchase. finding a table.
(B) He does not feel well (B) She does not like old
enough to attend a furniture.
concert. (C) The table was not
(C) A radio program has expensive.
been canceled. (D) The table needs to be
(D) A concert will not take repaired.
place. (E) She bought a new
(E) He was happy to join table.
the concert.
23. (A) He just started
20. (A) He knows that watching exercising at the gym.
a movie on a small (B) He also feels tired
screen is not ideal. today.
(B) He will try to come to (C) The woman will
the showing of the probably be tired for a
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few days. as teachers.
(D) The woman should not (E) They go to the student
sleep so late. center.
(E) She also needs to
Drink. 27. (A) She might have to buy
a new computer.
24. (A) He also had to miss (B) She liked her old
mark’s party. computer better.
(B) He took his sister to (C) She might not use all of
mark’s party. the new computer's
(C) His sister also had the features.
flu. (D) She needs to have her
(D) His sister will have a computer repaired.
graduation party soon. (E) She might have a new
(E) He enjoyed the party. A new computer.
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(C) She believes that (B) Buy a cup of coffee.
Norah (C) Order a sandwich.
is very clever. (D) Have his cup refilled.
(D) She would have (E) Drink a cup of tea.
chosen different food
for the party.
(E) She does not know that
the man will complain.
Part B
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear longer conversations.
After each conversation, you will hear several questions. The
conversations and questions will not be repeated.
After you hear a question, read the five possible answers in your test
book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer sheet, find the
number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the
letter of the answer you have chosen.
Remember, you are not allowed to take notes or write in your test book.
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there. 37. (A) A classical temple.
(C) His economics professor (B) A well-known museum.
did research work there. (C) A natural landscape.
(D) Microcredit programs have (D) A modern office building.
been very successful there. (E) A traditional cultures.
(E) he will contact to professor.
38. (A) Traditional views on the
purpose of a museum.
34. (A) Cancel her credit card. (C) Traditional notions of
(B) Sign up for the economics respect for elected leaders.
seminar. (D) Traditional forms of
(C) Type the man’s term paper. classical architecture.
(D) Do research on banks in (B) Traditional values of Native
Asia. Americans.
(E) work in office. (E) The changing function of
the modern architecture.
35. (A) The life of a well know
Canadian architect.
(B) The architectural design of
a new museum.
(C) The variety of museums in
Washington D.C.
(D) The changing function of
the modern museum.
(E) Traditional activities on the
purpose of a museum.
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Part C
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short talks. After
each talk, you will hear some questions. The talks and the questions will
not be repeated. After you hear a question, read the five possible
answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your
answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Remember, you are not allowed to take notes or write in your test
pages.
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shipbuilding. (B) How they got their
(C) The development of name.
shipbuilding industry in (C) How they hunt.
New England. (D) How they solve
(D) The role of the British problems.
surveyor general in (E) How they imitate.
colonizing New
England. 48. (A) By changing its
(E) The progress of the appearance.
economics value. (B) By imitating signals that
the other spiders send.
43. (A) Law (C) By spinning a large
(B) Mathematics web.
(C) History (D) By imitating insects
(D) Engineering caught in a web.
(E) Agriculture (E) By jumping in the web.
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reach the rock THIS IS THE END OF SECTION 1
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Section 2
Reading Comprehension
Time: 55 minutes
Directions: In this section you will read several passages. Each one is
followed by a number of questions about it. For questions 1-50, you are
to choose the one best answer (A), (B), (C), (D) or (E) to each question.
Then on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in
the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Questions 1-5
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(C) Forests
5. The word "locales" in line (D) Coasts
16 is closest in meaning to (E) Continents
(A) Places
(B) Distances
Questions 6-10
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creatures are well adapted to live.
Questions 11-15
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10 other activities.
The family was also a school. Parents were charged by law to
attend to the education of all the children in their immediate care. Most
people had little chance for any other sort of academic education,
though "common schools" were just beginning to appear by the end of
15 the seventeenth century. At the same time, the family was a vocational
institute. However deficient it may have been in transmitting the formal
knowledge and skills of reading and writing, it clearly served to prepare
its young for effective, independent performance in the larger economic
system. For the great majority of persons, who became farmers, this
20 learning process was instinctive and almost unconscious. But it applied
with equal force to the various trades and crafts of the time, which were
usually learned in the home of a master craftsperson.
The family was many other things too. It was a house of correction.
Idle persons and even criminals were sentenced by the court to live as
25 servants in the families of more reputable citizens. The family was also a
welfare institution that provided several different kinds of welfare service.
It was occasionally a hospital, at least insofar as certain individuals
thought to have medical knowledge would receive sick persons into their
homes for day-to-day care and treatment. It was an orphanage in that
children whose parents had died were straightaway transferred into
another household (often that of a relative). It was a home for the aged
and infirm who, no longer able to care for themselves, were usually
incorporated into the households of their grown children.
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11. What aspect of life in 14. The word "it" in line 20
colonial New England is the refers to
passage mainly about? (A) Family
(A) The various roles (B) The larger economic
played by the family. system
(B) The different types of (C) The great majority of
education that children persons
received. (D) This learning process
(C) The contribution that (E) Medical knowledge
families made to
reducing crime. 15. According to the third
(D) The size of the average paragraph, why were some
Family. persons sentenced to work
(E) Natural extension of as servants?
family life. (A) To provide them with
vocational training
(B) To correct their
12. AIl of the following are behavior
mentioned in the passage (C) To make the work of
as functions of the colonial the court easier
American family EXCEPT (D) To help families too
(A) Meeting the material poor to hire servants
needs of its members. (E) To transfer into another
(B) Providing treatment for household
persons who were ill.
(C) Providing housing for
officials of the court.
(D) Providing basic
education to its
members.
(E) Providing for their
fundamental material
wants.
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Section 2
Reading Comprehension
Questions 16 – 20.
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16. What does the passage weight.
mainly discuss? (B) Leaves no residue after
(A) The cheminal composition burning.
of phlogiston. (C) Was thought to be made
(B) Attempts to explain what of nearly pure phlogiston.
happens when materials (D) Was thought to contain no
burn. phlogiston.
(C) Limitations of (E) Was more reasonable and
seventeenth-century straightforward.
scientific theories.
(D) The characteristics of the 20. Which of the following is true
residue left after fires. of both the phlogiston theory
(E) A different theory of of burning and Lavoisier’s
burning. theory of burning?
(A) Both theories propose that
17. The word “it” in line 5 refers to total weight always
(A) Burning increases during burning.
(B) Phlogiston (B) Both theories are
(C) Combustible material considered to be
(D) Air reasonable and
(E) Magnesium straightforward.
(C) Both theories have
18. The word “properties” in line difficulty explaining why
14 is closest in meaning to residue remains after
(A) Interpretations burning.
(B) Locations (D) Both theories recognize
(C) Characteristics that air is important to
(D) Virtues combustion.
(E) Substance (E) Both theories explain
propose that total weight
19. The author mentions always decreases during
“magnesium” in line 18 as an burning.
example of a substance that
(A) Seemed to have
phlogiston with a negative
Questions 21 - 25
Questions 26 - 30
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Questions 31 - 35
Questions 36 - 40
The end of the nineteenth century and the early years of the
twentieth century were marked by the development of an
international Art Nouveau style, characterized by sinuous lines,
floral and vegetable motifs, and soft evanescent coloration. The
(5) Art Nouveau style was an eclectic one, bringing together elements
of Japanese art, motifs of ancient cultures, and natural forms. The
glass objects of this style were elegant in outline, although often
deliberately distorted, with pale or iridescent surfaces. A favored
device of the style was to imitate the iridescent surface seen on
(10) ancient glass that had been buried. Much of the Art Nouveau
glass produced during the years of its greatest popularity had
been generically termed “art glass.” Art glass was intended for
decorative purposes and relied for its effect on carefully chosen
color combinations and innovative techniques.
(15) France produced a number of outstanding exponents of the
Art Nouveau style; among the most celebrated was Emile Galle
(1846-1904). In the United States, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1843-
1933) was the most noted exponent of this style, producing a
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great variety of glass forms and surfaces, which were widely
(20) copied in their time and are highly prized today. Tiffany was a
brilliant designer, successfully combining ancient Egyptian,
Japanese, and Persian motifs.
The Art Nouveau style was a major force in the decorativ
arts from 1895 until 1915, although its influence continued
(25) throughout the mid-1920’s. It was eventually to be overtaken by a
new school of thought known as Functionalism that had been
present since the turn of the century. At first restricted to a small
avant-garde group of architects and designers, Functionalism
emerged as the dominant influence upon designers after the First
World War. The basic tenet of the movement-that function should
determine from-was not a new concept. Soon a distinct aesthetic
code evolved: from should be simple, surfaces plain, and any
ornament should be based on geometric relationships. This new
design concept, coupled with the sharp postwar reactions to the
styles and conventions of the preceding decades, created an
entirely new public taste which caused Art Nouveau types of glass
to fall out of favor. The new taste demanded dramatic effects of
contrast, stark outline and complex textural surfaces.
37. The word “one” in line 5 39. What is the main purpose of
refers to paragraph 2?
(A) century (A) To compare different Art
(B) development Nouveau styles
(C) style (B) To give examples of
(D) coloration famous Art Nouveau
(E) reaction artists
(C) To explain why Art
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Nouveau glass was so
popular in the United (A) clearly distinguished
States between art and design
(D) To show the impact Art (B) appealed to people who
Nouveau had on other liked complex painted
cultures around the designs
world (C) reflected a common
(E) To imitate the iridescent desire to break from the
surface past
(D) was easily interpreted
40. It can be inferred from the by the general public
passage that one reason (E) was eventually to be
Functionalism became overtaken
popular was that It .....
Questions 41-45
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Questions 46-50
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46. What does the passage a similar set of
mainly discuss? characteristics
(A) The problems faced by (E) Social groups
leaders determine who will lead
(B) How leadership differs them
in small and large
groups 49. Which of the following
(C) How social groups statements about leadership
determine who will lead can be inferred from
them paragraph 2?
(D) The role of leaders in (A) A person who is an
social groups effective leader of a
(E) Different leadership particular group may not
roles be an effective leader in
another group.
47. The passage mentions all of (B) Few people succeed in
the following ways by which sharing a leadership role
people can become leaders with another person.
EXCEPT (C) A person can best learn
(A) Recruitment how to be an effective
(B) Formal election process leader by studying
(C) Specific leadership research on leadership.
training (D) Most people desire to be
(D) Traditional cultural leaders but can produce
patterns little evidence of their
(E) Evidence of their qualifications.
qualifications (E) People minimize tension
and conflict among
48. In mentioning “natural them.
leaders” in lines 10-11, the
author is making the point 50. The passage indicates that
that instrumental leaders
(A) Few people qualify as generally focus on
“natural leaders” (A) ensuring harmonious
(B) There is no proof that relationships
“natural leaders” exist (B) sharing responsibility
(C) “Natural leaders’ are with group members
easily accepted by the (C) identifying new
members of a social leaders
group (D) achieving a goal
(D) “Natural leaders” share (E) give orders
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THIS IS THE END OF SECTION 2
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Section 3: Structure
Time: 25 minutes
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on
(C) Factors depending on 11. Color and light, taken
many together, ..... the aesthetic
(D) On many factors depending impact of the interior of a
(E) Depend many factors building.
(A) Very powerfully influence
7. A microscope can reveal (B) Very influence powerfully
vastly ..... detail than is visible (C) Powerfully very influence
to the naked eyes. (D) Influence powerfully very
(A) Than more (E) Influence very powerful
(B) Than more
(C) More than 12.Portland, .......,is located
(D) More primarily on two hilly
(E) That more than peninsulas overlooking Casco
Bay and its many island.
8.The term "ice age" refers to (A) Which Maine's largest city
any of several periods of time (B) Maine's largest city where
when glaciers covered (C) Is Maine's largest city
considerably more of Earth's (D) The largest Maine’s city
surface ...... (D) Maine's largest city
(A) As is today (E) Where city maine’s largest
(B) Than today is
(C) Than they do today
(D) That today 13. Total color blindness ..... as
(E) Is that today the result of a defect in the
retina.
9. Industrialization has been (A) a rare condition that
responsible for ..... most (B) a rare condition
radical of the environmental (C) that a rare condition
changes caused by humans. (D) Is a rare condition
(A) a (E) a rare that condition
(B) the
(C) some of which 14.Cells,first identified by the
(D) which are the early microscopists, began to
(E) which some of be considered ........ in the
nineteenth century.
10. Helium is not flammable and, (A) Them as microcosm of
next to hydrogen ,is ....... living organisms
(A) Known the lightest gas (B) The microcosm of living
(B) Lightest the known gas organisms
(C) The lightest gas known (C) The microcosm of living
(D) The known gas lightest organisms to be
(E) The gas lightest known (D) As which, the microcosm
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of living organisms 19. Most of ..... archaeologists
(E) The microcosom organism know about prehistoric
living cultures is based on studies
of material remains.
15. ..... no conclusive evidence (A) These
exists, many experts believe (B) What
that the wheel was invented (C) Which
only once and then diffused (D) Their
to the rest of the world (E) Who
(A) Even
(B) But 20. Flag Day is a legal holiday
(C) Although only in the state of
(D) So Pennsylvania, ......... Betsy
(E) That Ross sewed the first
American flag.
16. In her time, Isadora Duncan (A) Which
was ..... today a liberated (B) Where
woman. (C) That
(A) Calling what we would (D) What
(B) Who would be calling (E) Whom
(C) What we would call
(D) She would call it
(E) What calling it 21. Coinciding with the
development of jazz in New
17. ..... around stones that are Orleans in the 1920’s ..... in
sun-warmed, even the blues music.
smallest of the stones creates (A) Was one of the greatest
tiny currents of warm air. (B) One of the greatest periods
(A) The cool air (C) Was of the greatest
(B) If the air is cool periods
(C) That the air cools (D) The greatest periods
(D) The cooler the air (E) The periods greatest
(E) The air cool that
22. Speciation , ........, results
18. Beef cattle ......... of all when an animal population
livestock for economic growth becomes isolated bv some
in certain geographic regions. factor, usually geographic.
(A) The most are important (A) Form biological species
(B) Are the most important (B) Iological species are
(C) The most important are formed
(D) That are the most (C) Which forming biological
important species
(E) Are most important that (D) The formation of biological
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species worms, and snails ..... for
(E) Biological forming species their food by probing the
ground with their long bills.
22. Most free frogs change color (A) And searching
to harmonize ..... (B) And to search
backgrounds. (C) And search
(A) With its (D) And searches
(B) Within such (E) And to searching
(C) With their
(D) For its 27.One of the most difficult
(E) For with problems in understanding
sleep is determining what .....
23.The tongue is capable of (A) The functions of sleep is
many motions and (B) Is the functions of sleep
configurations and plays a (C) The functions of sleep are
vital role in chewing, ..... (D) Are the functions of sleep
(A) swallowed, and speaking. (E) The sleeping function of
(B) swallowing, and speaking
(C) swallowed, and spoke 28.In an area first explored by
(D) swallow, and speak Samuel de Champlain, .....
(E) swallow and speaking (A) Establishment of the city
of Halifax in 1749.
24.Instead of being housed in (B) In 1749 the city of Halifax
one central bank in established.
Washington, the Federal (C) In 1749, establishing the
Reserve system ..... twelve city of Halifax.
districts. (D) The city of Halifax was
(A) Is division into established in 1749.
(B) Are divided up to (E) Establishing the city of
(C) Are dividing onto Halifax in 1949.
(D) Is divided into
(E) Will devide 29. ..... Nat Turner who led a
revolt against slavery in
25.Philodendrons of various Virginia in 1831.
kinds are cultivated for their (A) Where was
..... (B) It was
(A) Beautifully foliage (C) He was
(B) Foliage beautifully (D)That he was
(C) Beautiful foliage (E) When he was
(D) Beauty foliage
(E) Foliage beautiful 30. William Walker’s mural, “Wall
of Respect,” .... an outdoor
26.Kiwi birds mainly eat insects, wall in Chicago, deals with
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social (B) Hollow teeth which are
(A) Covers called
(B) Covers it (C) Hollow teeth are called
(C) Which covers (D) Hollow teeth call
(D) Which it covers (E) Hollow teeth calling
(E) Covering which
35. The annual worth of Utah’s
manufacturing is greater than
31. The most elaborate of all bird .....
nests .......dome communal (A) That of its mining and
structure built by social farming.
weavebirds. (B) Mining and farming
(A) Larger combination.
(B) Largely is (C) That mining and farming
(C) The large combined.
(D) Is the large (D) Of its combination mining
(E) Is largest and farming.
(E) That mined and farmed
32. The museum on Ellis Island, combining
a former immigration station,
contains documents and
artifacts ........ to four 36. Since prehistoric people first
centuries of United States applied natural pigments to
immigration. cave walls, ...... have painted
(A) Related them to express themselves.
(B) Related (A) When artists
(C) Related that (B) Artists
(D) Be related (C) Artists who
(E) That related (D) That artists
(E) When artist
33. The photoperiodic response
of algae actually depends on 37. It is proving less ..... for drug
the duration of darkness ..... makers to market directly to
(A) The light is not on patient
(B) And not on light (A) Cost and more profit
(C) But is not on the light (B) Costly and more
(D) Is not on light profitable
(E) The light is on not (C) Costly and more
profitably
34. Some snakes have ..... fangs (D) Costing and more
that they use to poison their profitably
victims. (E) Cost and more profit
(A) Hollow teeth are calling
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38. Any acid can, in principle, (A) On all another
neutralize any base, although (B) On all others
...... between some of the (C) On all the others
more reactive compounds. (D) On all other
(A) Side reactions can occur (E) On all any other
(B) The occurrence of side
reactions can 40. Pleasing to look at and touch,
(B) The occurrence of side beads come in shapes,
reactions can colors, and materials ....... to
(C) Can side reactions occur handle and to sort them.
(D) Side reactions that can (A) That almost compel one
occur (B) One compels
(E) Eactions side that can (C) That compel almost
(D) One is almost compelled
39. Like snakes, lizards can be (E) Compel that
found ..... continents except
Antarctic
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