I. The Arctic Circle __ through northern 7. Venus is almost the same size as the Earth.

North America, Europe, and Asia. -- mountain ranges are much higher.
(A) the pass (A) they
(B) passing (B) but they
(C) it passes (C) its
(D) passes (D) but its

2. Earth's gravity pulls everything toward 8. In concrete poetry, the primary

__ Earth. consideration is the way that __ in the
(A) it centers poem.
(B) the center of (A) words are arranged
(C) centered it (B) the arrangement of words
(D) the center (e) arranging the words
(D) words in an arrangement
3. The forces __ earthquakes are the same
ones that build mountains. 9. Scientists are now only beginning to
(A) unleash understand the factors __ cigarette
(B) unleashes
addietion.
(C) that unleash (A) cause
(D) that unleashing (B) causing
(e) they cause
4. Since the eighteenth century, __ the (D) causes
major genre of literature in most literate
societies. 10, In the early decades of the twentieth
(A) becoming the novel century, agricultural __ largely
(B) has the novel become responsible for the unfolding of nutritional
knowledge of vitamin~ and minerals.
(e) a becoming novel
(D) the novel has become (A) was
(B) chemists
5. Under a microscope, __ of a computer (e) with chemists
chip looks like a network of aluminum (D) chemists were
tracks,
(A) the circuitry II. Each summer the .aoanoke Historical
(B) Association sponsors a play that shows
with the circuitry
(C) after the circuitry __ about the fate of the early colony,
(D) it circulates (A) known
(B) what is known
6, Dinosaurs became extinct sixty-four (e) what knowing
million years __ first people ever (D) is known
appeared on Earth.
(A) prior to the
(B) the preceding time
(C) before the
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12. Agriculture requires a steady supply of 14. The reactor core of a nuclear reactor is
water to keep the plants alive, so __ in housed in a steel vessel __ by a thick
areas with a lot of rainfall. layer of concrete.
(A) naturally started (A) is surrounded
(B) starting nature (B) it surrounds
(C) it naturally started (C) surrounds
(0) its natural start (0) surrounded

13. Even though _'__ about $2,000 to fully IS. The properties of every protein depend on
train a hearing dog, these dogs are how __ are arranged in the molecular
generally given without charge to qualified chain.
candidates.
(A) all the amino acids
(A) it costs (B) all of the amino acid
(B) the cost of it (C) all of the aminos acidify
(C) the cost (0) of all the amino acids
(0) costs

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 Written Expression

Directions: In questions J 6-40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four
underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B). (C), and (0). Identify the one underlined word
or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then on your answer sheet,
find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds-to the letter of the answer you
have chosen.
Look at the following examples.

Example I Sample Answer

The four string on a violin are tuned

A -B- C-O-
in fifths.

The sentence should read, "The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths." Therefore. you should
choose (B).

ExampleD Sample Answer

The research for the book Roots taking

<h)@.@
--A--B- -C-

Alex Haley twelve years.

o

The sentence should read, "The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years." Therefore.
you should choose (C).
Now begin work on the questions.

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2 • 2 •. 2 •. 2 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 2
16. Polar winters are length, dark, and cold enough to kill most plants.
-'::-B- -C- [)

17. Coal actually the remains of very ancient wood.

--A- --B- -c -D-

18. In 1893, Henry Ford built his first car engine in he home workshop in Detroit.
1\8 C D

19. Armies of laborers toiled for eight year to build the Erie Canal.
-A- -B- -c [)
20. Some of the stars in the closing stages of their lives becomes white dwarfs.
1\ B -c --D-

21. The nonnally force of gravity at the Earth's surface is called Ig.
--A- -B- ---c- 0

22. Edward McDowell is remember as the composer of such perennial favorites as "To a Wild
ABC IT
Rose."

23. Because its gravitationally bound to the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy is currently
ABC
approaching Earth.
D

24. CATscanners are used not only for detecting conditions but also for observation the effects of
1\ B C
therapy.
--D-

25. The chain of rider stations along the way were crucial to the success of the Po.ny Express.
-A- -a-C- -D-

26. The functional relationship between the brain's two hemispheres it has been a major focus of
--A- -B- C [)
research in neuropsychology.

27. The Great Salt Lake is the remnant of a vast inland seas.
A --B- C 1>

28. A desire to eradicate irregular spellings in English can being traced back to the sixteenth
--A- --B- -C- --D-

century.

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 29. Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater is found in the oceans of the Earth.
-A- -B- C -0-

30. The number of electrons in an atom match the number of charged particles, or protons.
--A- -B- --C- 0

31. The neocortex becomes progressive more developed in the more advanced mammals.
--A- B C 0

32. During their first attempts as a songwriter, George Gershwin diligently continued to study the
I\' --B- C
piano, harmony, theory, and orchestration.
-0-

33. Alexander Graham Bell was twenty-nine during his basic telephone patent was granted in 1876.
A -B-C -0-

34. Early television sets such as the RCA Victor model had small screens but containing a mass of
-A- Ir C

additional components.
o
35. A huge amount of immigrants passed through the Great Hall on Ellis Island between 1892
-A- ----a- -c- -0-

and 1954.

36. The cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde were built in the thirteenth century by Native Americans
A B
which farmed the green plateau.
-C- --0-

37. The poet Walt Whitman was an easy recognized figure with his long, white beard and wide-
A B'" ---c- J)
brimmed hat.

38. The sand dollars are a distinctive group of sea urchins that have adapt especially to life on
T B . c I>
sandy shores.

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39. Someone who personifies the "American Dream" are Andrew Carnegie. who immigrated to the
A 13
United States from Scotland without money and made millions in the steel industry.
-C- 0

40. The Nez Perce lived peacefully with the trappers and traders who traveled theirs lands until the
A 13 -C-

discovery of gold in 1860 brought miners and settlers into the region.
--0-

ThIs Is the end of Section 2.

If you finish before 25 minutes has ended,
check your work on Section 2 only.

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At the end of 25 minutes, go on to Section 3.
Use exactly 55 minutes to work on Section 3.

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