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ERROR IDENTIFICATION PRACTICE 1

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Do you like soccer? Brazilians do. They call it fútbol, and it’s by far the most popular
A B C
sport. Millions of Brazilians belong local soccer clubs.
D

2. Every year, Rio hosts one of the world’s biggest party. It’s called Carnival.
A B C D

3. This land is called Central America. It’s place where two continents and many
A B C
different societies meet.
D

4. Jaguars and pumas live in the rain forests. So monkeys do, iguanas, boa constrictors,
A B C D
and colorful parrots.

5. The manatee is sometimes called a sea cow because grazes it on grasses that grow in
A B C D
the sea.

6. Earthquakes are commonly in Central America. They can be destructive and deadly.
A B C D

7. There are also more than 100 volcanos in Central America. At least 14 of them are
A B C
still active.
D

8. In 1998, Hurricane Mitch killed thousands of people and wash away whole villages
A B C D
in Central America.

9. Today, the descendant of the Maya still live in Guatemala. They still speak the Maya
A B
language. The Maya ruins at Tikal in Guatemala are a popular tourist attraction.
C D

10. Locks are gates that can close off a canal. They allow ships being raised and lowered
A B C
to different water levels.
D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Before the Panama Canal was built, ship had to travel all the way around the tip of
A B C D
South America.

2. A trip through the canal take only eight to ten hours.

A B C D

3. Have you ever drewn a picture of your street, town, or neighborhood, showing
A B
landmarks like trees, homes, and stores? If you have then you’re already a mapmaker.
C D

4. Maps help showing where one location is when compared with another.
A B C D

5. They can help you get from place to place. They can also provide other types of
A B C
informations.
D

6. How high are a mountain range? How deep does a certain spot in the ocean go? Are
A B
there mineral deposits in a particular region?
C D

7. These are all questions that the right kind of map can to answer.
A B C D

8. The most commonly maps are called general maps. They usually show a mix of
A B C
geographic and political features.
D

9. Thematic map are another type of map. Thematic maps do not give as many types of
A B C D
data as general maps.

10. It could show you what languages the people living there speak, or even how many
A B C
coffee they drink!
D

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1. Why are their maps differently from others? Captains out on the ocean and pilots up in
A
the air rely on landmarks and symbols not usually needed by others.
B C D

2. Ships, for example, need knowing where the shallow places in the ocean are and which
A B C
way the water currents move.
D

3. If you run your finger along most map, you will find a smooth surface.
A B C D

4. These glasses trick your eyes to see a flat page’s surface as though it were shown
A B C
in three dimensions.
D

5. Almost all maps contain certain aids to help you read it.
A B C D

6. A legend is a list of the symbol used on the map, along with each symbol’s meaning.
A B C D

7. Scale allows you to determine the size of the area shown on a particular map. Does a
A B
centimeter or an inch stands for a mile, a kilometer, or a million miles?
C D

8. Lines of latitude and longitude also help you to read a map. Lines of latitude are
A B
imaginary lines that run around Earth from east and west.
C D

9. The name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for “desert.” It is a vast regions that
A B
extends across parts of ten countries in northern Africa.
C D

10. The Sahara stretches the entire width of the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean in the
A B
west to the Red Sea in the east. By fact, the Sahara is almost as large as the United
C D
States!

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1. You have ______________ a TOEFL study group with some classmates.

A. form B. forming C. formed D. to formed

2. You would like ______________ your school’s large cassette player for listening practice.
A. to use B. use C. using D. to using

3. They are busy ______________ the homework.

A. to do B. do C. did D. doing

4. Don’t forget ______________ it.

A. to do B. do C. doing D. did

5. I will buy it ______________ you.

A. to B. at C. for D. of

6. Have you finished ______________the report?

A. to write B. write C. wrote D. writing
7. How should I ______________ for a service job?
A. to prepare B. prepare C. prepared D. preparing

8. You will need a high school education for any ______________ job.
A. good B. well C. goodly D. to be good

9. ______________ jobs don’t require a college education.

A. Much B. A lot of C. Many D. A little

10. I can’t ______________ to college.

A. go B. went C. to go D. going

11. Be careful – you shouldn’t take a job ______________ it offers you a good future.
A. unless B. if C. so D. although

12. What are ______________ jobs these days?

A. the B. a C. an D. any

13. They get used ______________in such a country.

A. to live B. to living C. living D. live

14. High school students ought ______________ about fields like health care and
restaurant services.
A. to think B. think C. to thinking D. thinking
15. They had better ______________ it.
A. to do B. do C. did D. doing

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Italy look like a boot kicking a football.

A B C D

2. It main part is a long peninsula that sticks into the Mediterranean Sea.
A B C D

3. The island of Sicily—the football—lie just next to the toe of the boot.
A B C D

4. Sardinia and another smaller islands in the Mediterranean also belong to Italy.
A B C D

5. These mountain, the Apennines, extend south from the valley of the Po River in northern Italy.
A B C D

6. The Po Valley is most fertile farmland in Italy, isn’t it?

A B C D

7. The mighty Alps which rise north of the Po Valley. The Italian Alps span the country’s northern
A B C
border.
D

8. Several largely lakes lie in beautiful settings in the mountains.

A B C D

9. Italy doesn’t has a lot of flat land for big farms. Instead, many small farms cover the hillsides.
A B C D

10. farmers grow grapes, citrus fruits, grains, and olives. Most of the grapes are use for making
A B C D
wine.

11. Italy produces more wine as any other country except France.
A B C D

12. In addition, much of the world’s best olive oil come from Italy.
A B C D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Rome is Italy’s capital and most largest city. It was once the capital of the Mediterranean world.
A B C D

2. Rome began its rise to power around 500 BC. Over the next centuries, the Romans built a empire
A B C
that extended from Spain to Palestine in the Middle East.
D

3. The ancient Romans filled their capital with much great buildings and monuments.
A B C D

4. You can still to see the ruins of these grand buildings in Rome.
A B C D

5. The Colosseum, for example, was a huge stadium where gladiator fights and other spectacles was
A B C D
staged.

6. Today, the pope lives in Vatican City. Vatican City which is actually a tiny independent country
A B C D
within Rome.

7. Many tourist come to the Vatican to see Saint Peter’s Basilica. It’s the most important Roman
A B C
Catholic church in the world.
D

8. Milan, the second largest city, which is in northern Italy.

A B C D

9. It is a leading business, banking, and manufacturing centers. Some of the world’s fanciest clothes
A B C
come from Milan.
D
10. It is one of the world’s most famous painting, The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
A B C D

11. Venice lies on the Adriatic Sea, is an arm of the Mediterranean.

A B C D

12. Venice is built on 120 islands. About 400 bridges connecting the islands.
A B C D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Tourists love the city because of most of its streets are canals.
A B C D

2. People get around in boats instead of cars. Many people consider Venice one of the world’s most
A B C
beautiful city.
D

3. Venice and Genoa were once great sea powers. Hundred of years ago, each one had a powerful
A B C
fleet of ships.
D

4. Each city was a city-state—a city-sized country. Much of Italy it was divided into city-states.
A B C D

5. Florence was one of the most splendid Italian city-states, didn’t it?
A B C D

6. When the 1300s and 1400s, a movement known as the Renaissance began.
A B C D

7. Renaissance means “rebirth,” and what was reborn it was an interest in the great civilizations of
A B C
ancient Greece and Rome.
D

8. Renaissance artists in Florence produced greatly books, paintings, and statues based on those of the
A B C D
ancient Greeks and Romans.

9. Italy did not became one country until the 1800s. Three men—Camillo Cavour, Giuseppe
A B C
Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel—worked to unite Italy.
D

10. In 1861, their declared Italy a single kingdom with Victor Emmanuel as king.
A B C D

11. After World War I (1914-1918), a political movement call fascism rose to power.
A B C D

12. The leader of the fascists, was Benito Mussolini, became Italy’s prime minister in 1922.
A B C D

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ERROR IDENTIFICATION PRACTICE 7

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. He soon got rid of Italy’s parliament, constitution, and other political parties. He became supreme
A B C
dictators.
D

2. Italy wasn’t a strong military power, and it suffering severe defeats and hardship.
A B C D

3. At the end of the war, an mob angry killed Mussolini.

A B C D

4. Italy voted to become a democracy and a republic in the 1946.

A B C D

5. The king stepped down after the election. Instead of one political party, Italy now has much.
A B C D

6. Many people mistakenly calling the whole country England.

A B C D

7. The United Kingdom is a country that made up of four parts: England, Scotland, Wales, and
A B C D
Northern Ireland.

8. The United Kingdom still has a monarchy in spite of today its power is mostly symbolic.
A B C D

9. England is the biggest part, but don’t forget the others. Each part was once ruled separate.
A B C D

10. Each has its own culture and its own native language, whom some people still speak. Each even
A B C
has its own national soccer team!
D

11. The United Kingdom lies off the northwest coast of Europe. There are two main islands—Great
A B C
Britain or Ireland.
D

12. Northern Ireland it is on the same island with the country of Ireland, but it is part of the United
A B C D
Kingdom.
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ERROR IDENTIFICATION PRACTICE 8

Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. England has an area of mountains and lakes call the Lake District.
A B C D

2. Wales is almost entire covered by craggy mountains and deep, green valleys.
A B C D

3. The weather in the United Kingdom is mild and damp. It’s rainy or overcast up to 300 days each
A B C
years.
D

4. London, is the capital of the United Kingdom, is located in England, and it’s the biggest city in
A B C D
Europe.

5. London which it has great churches like Saint Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
A B C D

6. It has an castle called the Tower of London and a large public square called Trafalgar Square.
A B C D

7. There is Big Ben, that is the famous clock tower at the Houses of Parliament.
A B C D

8. There is also a famous shopping and entertainment centers called Piccadilly Circus.
A B C D

9. The United Kingdom has other big city such as Edinburgh in Scotland, Belfast in Northern
A B C
Ireland, and Cardiff in Wales.
D

10. None is as big and important than London.

A B C D

11. When you are in London, don’t forget visiting Buckingham Palace.
A B C D

12. These famous palace is the London home of Queen Elizabeth II.
A B C D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to be correct.

1. Guards carefully watch over the palace grounds. Tourists enjoy watching the changing of the
A B C D
guards.

2. The queen has very a little power when compared with earlier English kings and queens.
A B C D

3. Today, an electing prime minister and Parliament hold most government power.
A B C D

4. Elizabeth II is popular with her people. You will finding her image on every British stamp,
A B C D
banknote, and coin!

5. The United Kingdom is the birthplace of the English language. Today, English is speaking in more
A B
parts of the world than any other language.
C D

6. English is considered one of the world’s richest language.

A B C D

7. It has well over half a million of words!

A B C D

8. Because many differently people settled in Britain over the centuries, and each group added their
A B C
own words.
D

9. The United Kingdom has produce some of the greatest writers of the English language.
A B C D

10. He was a great playwright and poets from England. Shakespeare wrote many famous plays,
A B C
including Romeo and Juliet.
D

11. In the 1800s, the United Kingdom was the center of is what called the Industrial Revolution.
A B C D

12. It improved machinery to manufacture goods efficiently more.

A B C D
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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to GRAMMATICALLY

correct.

1. Do you liking chocolate? Most people do. Chocolate is one of the most loved foods in the world.
A B C D

2. In Mexico, chocolate which is an ingredient in mole sauce, which is often served with chicken.
A B C D

3. Chocolate is not natural sweet. It is bitter.

A B C D

4. Chocolate is made by drying and roast the cocoa beans.

A B C D

5. Cocoa butter is what make chocolate so creamy and delicious.

A B C D

6. To make powdered cocoa, most of the cocoa butter is squeezes from the unsweetened chocolate
A B C D
liquid.

7. There are many ways to eat chocolate, but just a little types of chocolate.
A B C D

8. Semisweet chocolate, also calls dark chocolate, is often used in homemade cookies, cakes, and
A B C
other treats.
D

9. In 1519, Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés discovered a city was built by the Aztec Indians
A B C
in what is now Mexico.
D

10. Ice cream is a frozen treat that come in hundreds of flavors.

A B C D

11. Ice cream is especially popular in the United States. In fact, Americans eat more ice cream than
A B C
people in some other country.
D

12. If you freeze the mixture, you get will regular ice cream.
A B C D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to GRAMMATICALLY

correct.

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up in a world where woman could not vote.
A B C D

2. In the United States, a married woman did not have the right to own property, write a will, or even
A B C
keeping her wages.
D

3. Stanton devoted over 60 years of hers life to the cause of women’s rights.
A B C D

4. Elizabeth Cady was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Cady’s father, a congressman and
A B
judge, had her to study Greek, Latin, and math.
C D

5. At that time, this subject were usually taught only to boys. She also learned about law, and she
A B C
grew interested in the movement to end slavery in the United States.
D

6. In 1840, Cady married Henry Brewster Stanton, a writer and abolitionist (opponent of slavery).
A B C
The couple had seven childrens. In 1847, the Stantons moved to Seneca Falls, New York.
D

7. In 1848, Elizabeth and another reformers named Lucretia Mott organized the first American
A B C D
women’s rights convention.

8. It was hold in Seneca Falls. A gifted writer, Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments for the
A B C D
meeting.

9. She based document her on the United States Declaration of Independence.

A B C D

10. Stanton bold wrote that “men and women are created equal
A B C D

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correct.

1. She noted how men prevented women of going to college or winning well-paying jobs.
A B C D

2. Men, Stanton said, tried to destroying a woman’s self-confidence and to lessen her self-respect.
A B C D

3. Stanton believed that to fight for fairness and to create change, women need the right to vote.
A B C D

4. In 1851, Stanton who met another dedicated reformer, Susan B. Anthony. The two women began a
A B C
partnership that lasted for many years.
D

5. They focused on winning a amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
A B C D

6. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Suffrage is a word that mean
A B C D
right to vote.

7. Stanton he also fought to change divorce laws that favored men and laws that limited a woman’s
A B C D
right to own property.

8. Along with Anthony, Stanton helped lay the groundwork for an international organizations for
A B C D
women’s rights.

9. The work of Stanton, Anthony, and other reformer began to pay off.
A B C D

10. In the 1890s, several states granted women the right to vote, so women still could not vote in
A B C
national elections.
D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to GRAMMATICALLY

correct.

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, but she efforts lived on.
A B C D

2. In 1920, the U.S Congress which approved the 19th amendment to the Constitution giving
A B C
nationwide suffrage to women.
D

3. At last, all American womans had won the right to vote!

A B C D

4. Someday people will stand on the surface of another planet. Those planets will probably be Mars.
A B C D

5. Mars is one of the brightest objects in the night sky. It look like a reddish star.
A B C D

6. The ancient Romans named Mars after their god of war because of it was the color of blood.
A B C D

7. Of all the planet in the solar system, Mars is the most like Earth.
A B C D

8. Mars is a small, rocky planet much like Earth. Pictures of the surface of Mars sent back by
A B C
spacecraft looks like deserts on Earth.
D

9. Mars is about half the size of Earth, but its land area is about equal than Earth’s land area.
A B C D

10. Scientists also think there may be a lot of waters frozen underground.
A B C D

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correct.

1. Do you think our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life? Until 1995,
A B
astronomers had never found a solar system like our.
C D

2. A solar systems are made up of a star surrounded by planets and other objects.
A B C D

3. Since then, they found other solar systems.

A B C D

4. Astronomers now think that there are many solar system in the universe.
A B C D

5. They do not know whether there is life in any of this other solar systems.
A B C D

6. Our solar system which includes everything that orbits around the Sun.
A B C D

7. Our solar system lie near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A galaxy is a huge collection of
A B C
stars.
D

8. All the stars in the galaxy, including our Sun, orbits around the center of the Milky Way.
A B C D

9. The Sun, alike other stars, is a hot ball of gas.

A B C D

10. Eight of the nine planets in we solar system fall into two groups called the inner planets and the
A B C D
outer planets.

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correct.

1. The four planets closest to the Sun is called the inner planets. They are Mercury, Venus, Earth,
A B C D
and Mars.

2. The inner planets are also called the rocky planets due to they are made mainly of rock and iron.
A B C D

3. Some astronomers wondering whether Pluto should be called a planet.

A B C D

4. Mercury is the planet that is closest to the Sun.

A B C D

5. Venus, the next planet from the Sun, is hottest of the planets.
A B C D

6. Earth is the only planet known to has life.

A B C D

7. There are signs that liquid water may once have flowed on Mars, but now Mars is coldly and dry.
A B C D

8. What happened to the water on Mars is a great mystery that scientist are trying to solve.
A B C D

9. Jupiter is the largest of the planets. A thick atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium surrounds
A B C
it.
D

10. There is an oval-shaped red spots in the clouds. Astronomers think this spot is a big storm that has
A B C
been raging for hundreds of years!
D

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correct.

1. Where is your favorite food? Some people love pizza. Some people love ice cream.
A B C D

2. Waters are also very important for your body.

A B C D

3. You need food for many reasons. You need food in order to live. You need food to satisfy hungry.
A B C D

4. Your stomach feels hungry when need you to eat more food.
A B C D

5. Your body needs food to do energy. Every part of your body uses energy from food.
A B C D

6. Your brain uses energy to think. Your hearts use energy to beat. Your muscles use energy to move.
A B C D

7. Growing requires food. Your body also needs energy from food to stay warmly.
A B C D

8. Eating the right kinds of foods can to help keep you healthy.
A B C D

9. Eating certain foods which can help prevent some diseases.

A B C D

10. The human body is 65 percent water. Water makes up most of your blood and help carry oxygen
A B C
and food to the cells in your body.
D

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correct.

1. Water helps your body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat. Water does much other things
A B C D
inside your body.

2. You could live only eight to ten day without water.

A B C D

3. You need eight to ten cups of water each days to replace the water that your body uses up.
A B C D

4. You need all kinds of foods to keep your body strongly and healthy.
A B C D

5. Nutritionists, scientists who study food and nutrition, says you should eat grains, such as bread,
A B C D
pasta, and cereal.

6. You should eat eggs, milks, cheese, and other dairy products.
A B C D

7. You need to eat some of each of these different kinds of foods to get chemicals call nutrients.
A B C D

8. Because Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are nutrients.
A B C D

9. Carbohydrates, come from starches and sugar, are your body’s main source of energy.
A B C D

10. Peek into a clean room with no one in it. There is no pets in the room.
A B C D

11. There are different styles in classical music, depending in when the music was composed.
A B C D

12. You will notice that classical appears as a separate styles within classical music.
A B C D

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correct.

1. Billions of tiny life forms called bacteria covers the tables and chairs and the floor.
A B C D

2. You can’t see them, but they stick to the windows, they cling to the ceiling, and float through the
A B C D
air.

3. You would see pale forms moving and bumping into each other alike ghosts.
A B C D

4. These tiny life forms are bacterias. They live everywhere in the world. Billions of them even live
A B C D
inside of you!

5. Some bacteria can cause infections. The body produces cells that defends against infection by
A B C
attacking bacteria.
D

6. One of these types of cells, a macrophage, is show in yellow in this photograph.

A B C D

7. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch inventors who developed the first microscope.
A B C D

8. Leeuwenhoek was the first person observe bacteria, which he called animalcules.
A B C D

9. Some bacteria can harm you. There are bacteria who cause food poisoning, pneumonia,
A B C
tuberculosis, and other sicknesses.
D

10. Some bacteria cause tooth decay. Bacteria can also infecting farm animals and wild animals.
A B C D

11. The leading composers of this time was Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig
A B
van Beethoven. They were a brilliant group.
C D

12. You might begin listening to classical music with their works.
A B C D
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correct.

1. Have you ever hear loud honking calls and looked up to see geese flying in a V-formation?
A B C D

2. Aardvarks are mammals with long snouts that live in the Africa.
A B C D

3. Using its sharp claws, aardvarks dig into anthills and termite mounds.
A B C D

4. One way to tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles are by looking at their snouts.
A B C D

5. Crocodile has longer, sharper snouts that are shaped like triangles.
A B C D

6. Crocodiles have a teeth on each side of their lower jaw that sticks up when their mouth is closed.
A B C D

7. Alligators do not show some teeth when their mouths are closed.
A B C D

8. The Indo-Pacific, or saltwater, crocodile is one of biggest reptiles. It is about 23 feet (7 meters)
A B C
long and weighs more than 2,000 pounds (more than 1,000 kilograms).
D

9. The American alligator is smaller. It can grew to 20 feet (6 meters) long.

A B C D

10. Crocodiles live in warm, tropical places. Alligators can live in cooler places as well as warmly
A B C D
environments.

11. All crocodilians are reptiles. They are cold-blooded. This means they must warm up by lying in
A B C
sun.
D

12. Crocodilians breathe through the lungs. They spend most of their time in water but must come to
A B C
the surface to breathe.
D

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correct.

1. The thick skin of crocodilians is made up of bony plates. These animals have about 30 to 40 teeth
A B C
in each jaws.
D

2. The teeth lock together when their jaw are closed—kind of the way a zipper’s teeth fit together.
A B C D

3. Alligators and crocodiles floating with their bodies almost totally underwater.
A B C D

4. Only their nostrils, eyes, and part of their backs sticks out.
A B C D

5. They look scarily as they silently stalk their prey.

A B C D

6. Alligators and crocodiles have the long, powerful tails. They sometimes swat prey with their tails.
A B C D

7. They also use their tails to push prey into deeper waters, where it is easier to attack.
A B C D

8. They eat fishs, frogs, snakes, turtles, birds, and mammals. Crocodiles sometimes attack humans.
A B C D

9. Alligators and crocodiles do all kinds of sounds. They hiss softly. They make fearsome roars
A B C D
and bellows.

10. Scientists don’t know exact what the roars mean.

A B C D

11. Maybe the males are trying to call females. Maybe they are trying to scare other male away.
A B C D

12. Alligators and crocodiles using their tails for swimming. They swish their strong tails back and
A B C D
forth.

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correct.

1. On land, crocodilians sometimes crawl on their bellies. They can also gallop and walk fast on all
A B C
four legs, just as much mammals do.
D

2. There are the two species (kinds) of alligators: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator.
A B C D

3. The American alligator live mainly in swamps, lakes, and bayous in the southeastern United
A B C D
States.

4. American alligators will attack people. Chinese alligator almost never attack people.
A B C D

5. During coldly winters, alligators bury themselves in mud. There they can hibernate until spring.
A B C D

6. The swamp crocodile is found in the lakes and rivers of the India. The Nile crocodile lives in parts
A B C
of Africa.
D

7. Alligator mothers may help the babies breaking out of the egg.
A B C D

8. They sometimes carry the newborn alligators in its mouths. They put the babies into the water.
A B C D

9. If the young alligator gets into trouble, its mother were there to help.
A B C D

10. No one is real sure how long alligators and crocodiles live.
A B C D

11. Scientists estimate that smaller species can live from 30 to 50 years, while larger crocodilian
A B C
species can live to be 70 or even 80 years age.
D

12. Alligators and crocodiles are threatened by hunting. People hunt them main for their eggs and
A B C
for their skin.
D

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Choose the option A, B, C, or D that needs to be changed in order to GRAMMATICALLY

correct.

1. Do not be bored. Classical music can be very stimulating. Classical music begins in Europe in the
A B C
Middle Ages and continues today.
D

2. Classical music is the art music of Europe and North America. When we call them art music, we
A B
are distinguishing classical music from popular music and folk music.
C D

3. Art music generally require more training to write and perform than the other two kinds.
A B C D

4. Classical music can be wrote for orchestras (large groups of musicians) and for smaller groups.
A B C D

5. Some classical music it is written for people to sing.

A B C D

6. Orchestras usually play in concert halls. A conductor leads the musicians in a orchestra.
A B C D

7. The amount of players can range from about two dozen to well over 100.
A B C D

8. An orchestra has several sections make up of different instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and
A B C D
percussion.

9. The string section of an orchestra consists violins, violas, cellos, and basses.
A B C D

10. Brass instruments including trumpets and trombones. Percussion instruments include drums and
A B C
cymbals.
D

11. Classical music for small groups are called chamber music because it was once played in
A B C
chambers, or large rooms in people’s houses.
D

12. Example of chamber music are quintets (for five musicians), quartets (for four musicians), and
A B C D
trios (for three musicians).
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correct.

1. Some classical music is written for a soloist, is a single performer who may play an instrument,
A B C
especially the piano, or sing.
D

2. Opera combines music and drama. It tells a story, and the singers must also to act.
A B C D

3. Many operas also feature huge choruses, dance numbers, and brilliantly displays of the singers’
A B C
voices.
D

4. Some operas are more lighter in spirit and even comic.

A B C D

5. They generally end happy. Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is an example of a comic
A B C D
opera.

6. The light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and another composers are sometimes called operettas.
A B C D

7. The musical is a play that have songs, choruses, and dances in its story.
A B C D

8. Many operas feature dances or long passages played by instruments that actual interrupt the
A B C D
action.

9. Symphonies then became all the rage in Germany and the Austria.
A B C D

10. The symphony is a composition who is written for orchestra.

A B C D

11. In a performance, there is plenty to look at because the fantastic array of instruments.
A B C D

12. Famous symphony composers who include Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Peter
A B C
Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, and Dmitry Shostakovich.
D
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correct.

1. Although armies and navies have been fighting for thousands of years, air forces are fair recent.
A B C D

2. An air force needs airplanes, and the airplane was only invent in 1903.
A B C D

3. The airplane it soon became an important weapon of war.

A B C D

4. Planes which was equipped with machine guns shot one another out of the sky for the first time
A B C
during World War I (1914-1918).
D

5. Pilots who sometimes tossed hand grenades (small bombs) from the cockpit onto enemy troops on
A B C D
the ground.

6. Today, most nation has an air force for their defense. An air force protects a country from attack
A B C
by air.
D

7. It uses radar and airplanes to detect enemy aircraft. Fighter planes and missiles then intercept and
A B C
destroys enemy airplanes.
D

8. Air forces can also attack. A bomber planes drop bombs on enemy territory.
A B C D

9. Bombers try to knocking out targets on the ground and prevent the movement of troops and
A B C D
supplies.

10. Missiles carry explosive weapons who attack targets in enemy territory.
A B C D

11. The air force plans and carry out military operations along with the army and the navy.
A B C D

12. Another job of the air force are to transport troops and supplies.
A B C D
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correct.

1. People began to think about the military possibilities of airplanes soon after the airplane is
A B C D
invented.

2. After World War I, some military expert thought the next war would be decided by air power.
A B C
Others disagreed.
D
3. Air power played a major roles in World War II (1939-1945).
A B C D
4. Germany’s Luftwaffe (air force) has tried and failed to defeat Britain’s Royal Air Force in the
A B C
Battle of Britain in 1940.
D
5. Airplanes were based on aircraft carriers at sea carried out bombing raids on the enemy.
A B C D
6. Despite bombing did not decide the outcome of World War II, it played an important role in the
A B C D
defeat of Germany and Japan.

7. In 1947, after the war ends, the United States government created an independent U.S. Air Force.
A B C D
8. Until then, the air force had been a branch of the U.S. Army. Today, the United States has
A B C
strongest air force in the world.
D
9. We asking for a lot from our buildings. They have to keep out the rain, wind, rats, and bugs, not to
A B C
mention our enemies.
D
10. Kings and nobles built castles to defend ourselves against enemies.
A B C D
11. They often had high walls and water-filled moats surrounds them.
A B C D
12. One such castle is Bodiam Castle, which is built in the 1300s in England.
A B C D

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correct.

1. Every good-developed society has made arrangements for the training of the young from preschool
through college.

2. The structures of the school system normally reflects the structure of government itself.

3. In countries with highly centralized systems of government, the school system are also
centralized—with control being exercised by the national government.

4. In the latter, it is the Communist party controls the school system.

5.

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