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1. _______ range in color from pale yellow to
bright orange.
(A) Canaries which
(B) Canaries
(C) That canaries
(D) Canaries that are
2. _______ of precious gems is determined by their hardness, color, and brilliance.
(A) The valuable
(B) It is the value
(C) It is valuable
(D) The value
3. _______ a tornado spins in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, it spins in
the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
(A) However
(B) Because of
(C) Although
(D) That
4. The Caldecott Medal, _______ for the best children's picture book, is awarded each January.
(A) a prize
(B) which prize
(C) is a prize which
(D) is a prize
5. The horn of the rhinoceros consists of a cone of tight bundles of keratin _______ from the
epidermis.
(A) grow
(B) grows
(C) growing
(D) they grow
6. Most species of heliotropes are weeds, _______ of them are cultivated.
(A) some
(B) but some
(C) for some species
(D) some species
7. Thunder occurs as _______ through air, causing the heated air to expand and collide with
layers of cooler air.
(A) an electrical charge
(B) passes an electrical charge
(C) the passing of an electrical charge
(D) an electrical charge passes
8. Researchers have long debated _______ Saturn's moon Titan contains hydrocarbon oceans and
lakes.
(A) over it
(B) whether it
(C) whether
(D) whether over
9. Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark grey clouds _______ forebode rain.
(A) what
(B) which
(C) what they
(D) which they
10. _______ in several early civilizations, a cubit was based on the length of the forearm from
the tip of the middle finger to the elbow.
(A) It was used as a measurement
(B) A measurement was used
(C) The use of a measurement
(D) Used as a measurement
11. Only when air and water seep through its outer coat _______
(A) does a seed germinate
(B) to the germination of a seed
(C) a seed germinates
(D) for a seed to germinate
12. _______ seasonal rainfall, especially in regions near the tropics, is winds that blow in an
opposite direction in winter than in summer.
(A) Causing
(B) That cause
(C) To cause
(D) What causes
13. The extinct Martian volcano Olympus Mons is approximately three times as _______ Mount
Everest.
(A) high
(B) high as is
(C) higher than
(D) the highest of
14. The flight instructor, _______ at the air base, said that orders not to fight had been given.
(A) when interviewed
(B) when he interviewed
(C) when his interview
(D) when interviewing
15. In the northern and central parts of the state of Idaho _______ and churning rivers.
(A) majestic mountains are found
(B) found majestic mountains
(C) are found majestic mountains
(D) finding majestic mountains
16. Light can travels from the Sun to the Earth in eight minutes and twenty seconds.
17. Every human typically have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in most cells.
18. Most sedimentary rocks start forming when grains of clay, silt, or sandy settle in river
valleys or on the bottoms of lakes and oceans.
19. The total thickness of the ventricular walls of the heart are about three times that of the atria.
20. The type of jazz known as "swing" was introduced by Duke Ellington when he wrote
and records "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing."
21. The bones of mammals, not alike those of other vertebrates, show a high degree of
differentiation.
22. The neocortex has evolved more recently then other layers of the brain.
23. The United States receives a large amount of revenue from taxation of a tobacco products.
24. Much fats are composed of one molecule of glycerin combined with three molecules
of fatty acids.
25. The capital of the Confederacy was originally in Mobile, but they were moved to Richmond.
26. A pearl develops when a tiny grain of sand or stone or some another irritant
accidentally enters into the shell of a pearl oyster.
27. The English horn is an alto oboe with a pitch one-fifth lower than the soprano oboe.
28. In the Milky Way galaxy, the most recent observed supernova appeared in 1604.
29. Never in the history of humanity has there been more people living on this relatively small
planet.
30. Because of the mobility of Americans today, it is difficult for they to put down real roots.
31. For five years after the Civil War, Robert E. Lee served to president of Washington
College, which was later called Washington and Lee.
32. The number of wild horses on Assateague is increasing lately, resulting in overgrazed marsh
and dune grasses.
33. Hypnoses was successfully used during World War II to treat battle fatigue.
34. The lobster, like many crustaceans, can cast off a damaging appendage and regenerate a new
appendage to nearly normal size.
35. Humans develop normally twenty primary, or deciduous, teeth and thirty-
two permanent ones.
36. The curricula of American public schools are set in individual states; they do not
determine by the federal government.
37. The fact that the sophisticated technology has become part of revolution in
travel delivery systems has not made travel schedules less hectic.
38. Balanchine's plotless ballets, such Jewels and The Four
Temperaments, present dance purely as a celebration of the movement of the human body.
39. In a solar battery, a photosensitive semiconducting substance such as silicon crystal is the
source of electrician.
40. In early days, hydrochloric acid was done by heating a mixture of sodium chloride with iron
sulfate
