Practice Test A - Structure

5. Flag Day is a legal holiday only in

1. Dairy farming is _____ leading the state of Pennsylvania, _____
agricultural activity in the
Betsy Ross sewed the first
United States.
American flag.
(A) a (A) which
(B) at (B) where
(C) then
(C) that
(D) none (D) has

2. Although thunder and lightening 6. _____ vastness of the Grand

are produced at the same time, Canyon, it is difficult to capture it in
light waves travel faster _____, so
a single photograph.
we see the lightening before we
hear the thunder. (A) While the
(B) The
(A) than sound waves do (C) For the
(B) than sound waves are (D) Because of the
(C) do sound waves
(D) sound waves
7. Speciation, _____, results when an
animal population becomes isolated
3. Beef cattle _____ of all livestock
by some factor, usually geographic.
for economic growth in certain
geographic regions. (A) form biological species
(B) biological species are formed
(A) the most are important (C) which forming biological species
(B) are the most important
(D) the formation of
(C) the most important are biological species
(D) that are the most important

8. In its pure state antimony has no

4. The discovery of the halftone important uses, but _____ with
process in photography in 1881 other substances, it is extremely
made it _____ photographs in useful metal.
books and newspapers.
(A) when combined physically
(A) the possible reproduction or chemically
(B) possible to reproduce
(B) combined when physically
(C) the possibility of reproducing
or chemically
(D) possibly reproduce
(C) the physical and
chemical combination
(D) it is combined physically
and chemically
9. The dawn redwood appears _____ 13. _____ of large mammals once
some 100 million years ago in dominated the North American
northern forests around the world. Prairies: the American bison and
the pronghorn antelope.
(A) was flourished
(B) having to flourished (A) There are two species
(C) to have flourished (B) With two species
(D) have flourished (C) Two species are
(D) Two species

10. Beginning in the Middle Ages,

composers of Western music used 14. Franklin D. Roosevelt was _____
a system of notating their the great force of radio and the
compositions _____ be performed opportunity it provided for taking
by musicians. government policies directly to the
people.
(A) will
(B) that (A) as the first President
(C) and when to he understood fully
(D) so they could (B) the first President that, to
fully understand
(C) the first President
11. Civil Rights are the freedoms and fully understand
rights _____ as a member of a (D) the first President to
community, state, or nation. understand fully

(A) may have a person

(B) may have a person who 15. During the late fifteenth century,
(C) a person may have _____ of the native societies of
(D) and a person may have America had professions in the
fields of arts and crafts.

12. Richard Wright enjoyed success (A) only a few

and influence _____ among Black (B) a few but
American writers of his era. (C) few, but only
(D) a few only
(A) were unparalleled
(B) are unparalleled
(C) unparalleled
(D) the unparalleled
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16. The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of
Machias, Maine, in June 1775.

17. The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of
the Navajo in the Southwest.

18. In some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the
female, performs the task of caring for the young.

19. When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Evert was the
most famous woman athlete in the United States.

20. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars
to transporting their armies.

21. Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence
based on eating habits, posture, and skeletal structural suggests some may have
been warm-blooded.

22. Since the Great Depression of the 1930’s, social programs such as Social Security have

been built into the economy to help avert severity business declines.

23. In the 1970’s consumer activities succeeded in promoting laws that set safety
standards for automobiles, children’s clothing, and a widely range of
household products.

24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological
parks where animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.
25. In human beings, as in other mammals, hairs around the eyes are ears and in the
nose prevent dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.

26. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800’s in
a decades preceding the United States Civil War.

27. The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order,
blending fact, fiction, adventure, and subtle symbolic.

28. Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of
that element contains, called its atomic number.

29. The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed
for flight, being both lightly in weight and remarkably strong.

30. From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her
writing career, publishing of her three most famous novels.

31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists
in the fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles.

32. Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, when contaminated with other

material it may appear in various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black.

33. Comparative anatomy is concerned to the structural differences among animal forms.
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves,
vibrations that travel from its point of origin through the Earth or along its surface.

35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900’s and have
replaced other type of fat, gas, or oil lamps for almost every purpose.

36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Icefield covers area of 120 square miles and is
3,300 feet thick in some places.

37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the
musical Oklahoma! extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as
familiar with the traditional forms of Operetta and musical comedy.

38. Because of its vast tracts of virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has one
of the lowest population density in the world.

39. Rice, which it still forms the staple diet of much of the world’s population, grows best
in hot, wet lands.

40. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930’s made possible hundreds
of murals and statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States.
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5. The ponderosa pine is _____ of 9. _____ initial recognition while

the most of the timber used by still quite young.
forest-product firms in the Black
Hills of South Dakota. (A) Most famous scientists achieve
(B) That most famous
(A) the source scientists achieved
(B) as source (C) Most famous scientists
(C) the source which who achieved
(D) because the source (D) For most famous scientists
to achieve

6. Computers that once took up entire

rooms are now _____ to put on 10. Mango trees, _____ densely
desktops and into wristwatches. covered with glossy leaves and
bear small fragrant flowers, grow
(A) small enough rapidly and can attain heights of
(B) smaller than up to 90 feet.
(C) so small
(D) as small as (A) whose
(B) which are
(C) are when
7. According to some educators, the (D) which
goal of teaching is to help students
learn what _____ to know to live a
well-adjusted and successful life. 11. _____ the Canadian composer
Barbara Pentland wrote four
(A) do they need symphonies, three concertos, and
(B) they need an opera, among other works.
(C) they are needed
(D) as they may need (A) An artist who, prolific
(B) Is a prolific artist
(C) Prolific an artist
8. The sapphire’s transparency to (D) A prolific artist
ultraviolet and infrared radiation makes
_____ in optical instruments. 12. The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend
National park in Texas were created
(A) it is of use by volcanic eruptions that occurred
(B) it uses _____.
(C) it a useful
(D) it useful (A) the area in which
dinosaurs roamed
(B) when dinosaurs roamed
the area
(C) did dinosaurs roam the area
(D) dinosaurs roaming the area
13. In bas-relief sculpture, a design 16. The first explorer _____ California
projects very slightly from its by land was Jedediah Strong
background, _____ some coins. Smith, a trapper who crossed the
southwestern deserts of the United
(A) as on States in 1826.
(B) because
(C) the way that (A) that he reached
(D) similarly (B) reached
(C) to reach
(D) reaching it
14. Alaska found the first years of its
statehood costly because it had to
take over the expense of services 17. Written to be performed on a
_____ previously by the _____, Thornton Wilder’s play Our
federal government. Town depicts life in a small New
England community.
(A) to provide
(B) be provided (A) stage scenery of bare
(C) providing (B) bare of stage scenery
(D) provided (C) scenery bare of stage
(D) stage bare of scenery

15. With age, the mineral content of

human bones decreases, _____ 18. _____ many copper mines in the
them more fragile. state of Arizona, a fact which
contributes significantly to the state’s
(A) make economy.
(B) and to make
(C) thereby making (A) They are
(D) which it makes (B) There are
(C) Of the
(D) The
16. Not until Kentucky’s Mammoth
Cave had been completely explored
in 1972.

(A) when was its full extent realized

(B) that its full extent was realized
(C) was its full extent realized
(D) the realization of its full extent
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25. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures and she was one of the
first anthropologists to photograph hers subjects.

26. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form.

27. During the 1870’s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by
burning iron ore with coke, instead than with charcoal.

28. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments

to studying the volcanoes in Hawaii.

29. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the
laws of motion who were developed in the seventeenth century.

30. Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first
museum in the United States devoted to modern art.

31. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus
more people are able to enjoy to own a house.

32. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systemic observations, but they also
gather data from documentary and oral sources.

33. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy
individual during waking hours.

34. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief
and anesthesia.
34. The Moon’s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space.

35. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively
for flooring, furniture, boxes, and crates.

36. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short
stories before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962.

37. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among
the functions of hair for animals.

38. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason
for the recently surge of support for undergraduate research.

39. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help the

bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial problems.

40. Faults in the Earth’s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where
they interrupt previously continuous layers.

41. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths.

42. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European
arrival in the New World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
41. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the
sounds of jazz with them of traditional orchestration.

42. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the
1920’s until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs
of production.

43. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are associated with

the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the lithosphere.

44. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants
native to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria.

45. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long,
slenderness, wingless, and brownish in color.

46. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers intentional add to
their products.