SImulation Structure & LIstening
SImulation Structure & LIstening
2. A mother would rather ___ herself than to ever let her children down.
a. to hurt
b. hurted
c. hurt
d. is hurting
10. She ….. accepts that she was never meant to him.
a. slow
b. slownessly
c. slowly
d. can’t
11. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States developed the reusable space shuttle
________to space cheaper and easier.
A. to make access
B and making access
C. which made accessible
D. and made accessible.
13._______more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of which more than half are fossils.
A. Being that there are
B. There being
C. Are there
D. There are
14.The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously through the United States
Congress.
A. passed
B. in passage
C. having passed
D. passing
15.Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and columns ___a three-dimensional grid.
A. forms
B. from which forming
C. and forming
D. that forms
16.The average level of United States prices grew very little from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when
____________.
A. did inflation begin
B. inflation began
C. the beginning of inflation
D. did the beginning of inflation
17.The basis premise behind all agricultural production is _____available the riches of the soil for
human consumption.
A. to be made
B. the making
C. making is
D. to make
18.___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in office
until 1815.
A. Election
B. Why he was elected
C. Elected
D. Who was elected
22.____ freshwater species of fish build nests of sticks, stones, or scooped-out sand..
A. As the many
B. Of the many
C. Many
D. Many of them are
24. The foundation of all other branches of mathematics is arithmetic, _ science of calculating
with numbers.
A. is the
B. the
C. which the
D. because the
26. According to the third law of thermodynamics, _____ possible is –273.16 degrees
centigrade.
(A) that temperature is lowest
(B) the temperature is lower
(C) lowest temperature
(D) the lowest temperature.
27. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art
movement known as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both _____ her novels and shorts
stories.
(A) in which the influence
(B) of which influenced
(C) to have influence
(D) its influence in
28. Muskrats generally _____ close to the edge of a bog, where their favorite plant foods
grow plentifully.
(A) staying
(B) they are staying
(C) stay
(D) to stay there
29. Oliver Ellsworth, _____ of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the
bill that established the federal court system.
(A) he was the third chief justice
(B) the third chief justice was
(C) who the third chief justice
(D) the third chief justice
30. _____ Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut's settlers came from England.
(A) Since
(B) The time
(C) During the
(D) It was
31. A politician can make a legislative proposal more _____ by giving specific examples
of what its effect will be.
(A) to understanding
(B) understandably
(C) understandable
(D) when understood
32. Playing the trumpet with dazzling originality, _____ dominated jazz for 20 years.
(A) Louis Armstrong
(B) The influence of Louis Armstrong
(C) The music of Louis Armstrong
(D) Louis Armstrong's talent
33. Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the
proportion of the population that _____ for each candidate.
(A) are voted
(B) voting
(C) to be voted
(D) will vote
34. _____ at a river ford on the Donner Pass route to California, the city of Reno grew as
bridges and railroad were built.
(A) Settle
(B) To settle
(C) It was settling
(D) Having been settled
35. The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of
contaminants _____ heavily polluted outside air.
(A) than does
(B) more
(C) as some that are
(D) like of
36. The decimal numeral system is one of the _____ ways of expressing numbers.
(A) useful most world's
(B) world's most useful
(C) useful world's most
(D) most world's useful
37. Emily Dickinson's garden was a place _____ great inspiration for her poems.
(A) that she drew
(B) by drawing her
(C) from which she drew
(D) drawn from which
38. The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry
winds of the Mojave Desert, _____ the circulation of air.
(A) but they also prevent
(B) also prevented by them
(C) and also to prevent
(D) and also preventing
39. Not only _____ to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate
oil.
(A) to use seismology
(B) is seismology used
(C) seismology is used
(D) using seismology
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