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EXERCISE I

1. .....a necessary dimension for measuring astronomical space and the


distance of heavenly bodies form the Earth.
a. Once in time
b. Time is
c. The time
d. It is time
2. Jackie Joyner-kersee, .... the world record in heptahlon in the 1998
Olympics, also won the long jump in the year.
a. Whose setting
b. Which she set
c. Whoever set
d. Who set
3. .................. the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture,
engineers are creating exotic new metallic substances.
a. meet
b. being met are
c. to meet
d. they are meeting

4. ......... James A. Bland, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was adopted is


the state song of virginia in 1940.
a. was written by
b. his writing was
c. he wrote the
d. written by

5. Most geologist believe.... from the remains of tiny marine plants and
animals that died millions of years ago.
a. what was formed petroleum
b. that petroleum was formed
c. when pretroleum formed
d. petroleum that formed

6. The seat of Frances North American holdings in the eighteenth century


was Quebec, and the French heritage....
a. to remain
b. remaining
c. by remaining
d. has remained

7. If it......... more humid in the desert of the Southwest, the hot


temperatures would be unbearable.
a. Be
b. Is
c. Was
d. Were

8. The fossilized remains of type of camel... a dog have beemn found in


the Bad Lands of South.
a. No more large
b. No larger than
c. Not langer
d. Which no langer

9. Gorillas are quiet animals,.... they are capable of making about 20


different sounds.
a. Whether
b. Which
c. Even though
d. As well as

10. Mary Garden,...... the early 1900s, was considered one of the best
singing actresses of her time.
a. a soprano was popular
b. in a popular soprano
c. was a popular soprano
d. a popular soprano

11. In the realm of psychological theory, Margaret F. Wasburn was a


dualist........... that motor phenomena have an essential role in psychology.
a. who she believed
b. who believed
c. believed
d. who did she believed

12. If Earth did not rotate, differences in air presure would be....., with
winds blowing from high-pressure to low-pressure areas.
a. primary air flow to cause
b. the primary cause of air flow
c. they primaly cause air flow
d. air flow has a primary cause

13. A mobile is a sculpture constructed of pans so delicately connected


and balnced.... the entire suspended structure may be moved by vibration
or manual manipulation.
a. in order
b. making
c. with
d. that

14. Although the Earths chemical composition had been studied for years,
only toward the end of the nineteenth century... as a discipline in its own
right.
a. When geochemistry was recognized
b. Was recognized as geochemistry
c. Then recognized as geohemistry
d. As geochemistry was recognized
15. Because the wood of the dogwood tree is very hard,..... is used for
objects, such as roller skalte wheels, in which hardness is desired.
a. And
b. It
c. What
d. Thus
16......... no real boundary to the part of the ocean referred to as a deep
because of changing water levels and movement in the sea floor.
a. it is
b. to be
c. being
d. there is

17. Unlike moderate antislavery advocates, abolitionist......... an


immediate end to slavery.
a. demanded
b. they demanded
c. that they demanded
d. in that they demand

18. The ice of glacier that reaches the sea breaks off.....
a. and forming icebergs
b. to form icebergs
c. icebergs have- formed
d. when the formation of icebergs

19. Migraine headaches are more frequent among woman..... among men.
a. than
b. however
c. except for
d. as air

20. In hot, dry regions, the Suns heat causes the outer layer of
rocks ........................... a process called exfoliation.
a. Are expanded and peeled away
b. To expand and peel away
c. Expands and peels away
d. They expand and peel away

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