1. Over the centuries, ________ that try to explain 6.

Elementart schools in the United States provide

the origins of the university. formal education ________ communication skills
(A) Although many theories that including reading, writing, spelling, and
(B) Many theories speaking.
(C) Have many theories been (A) Such subjects as basic in
(D) There have been may theories (B) As basic subjects in such
2. The planet Venus is almost exactly the same size (C) In such basic subjects as
and mass ________ Earth, with a similar interior, (D) As in such basic subjects
including a nickel-iron core. 7. ________ land and money enabled construction
(A) to of the Union Pacific railroad to begin from Council
(B) as Bluffs, lowa, in 1865.
(C) Is (A) By the government granting of
(D) than (B) Government grants of
3. George Washington Carver ________ international (C) For the government to grant
fame for revolutionizing agriculture research in the (D) Government grants so that
southern United States during the early twentieth 8. Appointments to the United States Supreme Court
century. and all lower federal courts ________ be the
(A) won president with the advice and consent of the
(B) winning Senate.
(C) who has won (A) Making
(D) the winner of (B) To make
4. Constituting one of the earliest engineering (C) Are made
techniques, ________ in Paleolithic time was done (D) Have made
in order to extend natural caves. 9. The name “squirrel” is commonly used for those
(A) tunnels were built forms of the family Sciuridae that live in trees,
(B) Which built tunnels ________ it is equally accurate for ground
(C) The building of tunnels dwelling types.
(D) Tunnels whose building (A) Whether
5. The tulip tree is native to the eastern United (B) That
States, ________ the tallest and larges broadleaf (C) Although
tree. (D) In spite of
(A) Where 10. Green plants combine ________ with water and
(B) Where it is carbon dioxide to make food
(C) Its is where (A) Energy derived from light
(D) Is where (B) Energy, derived it from light
(C) Energy is derived from light
(D) From light, and energy derived
11. From the archeologist’s perspective,
understanding the past is vitally important and
requires ________ of earlier culture.
(A) The ruins examined
(B) Examining the ruins
(C) Of the ruins to be examined
(D) That the examined ruins
12. The Texas Legislature selected Vassar Miller
________ in 1982, and again in 1988.
(A) Was the state’s poet laureate
(B) As the state’s poet laureate
(C) The state’s poet laureate
(D) Become the state’s poet laureate
13. The distinguishing feature of a fluid, in contrast to
a solid, is the ease ________.
(A) That a deformed fluid
(B) To deform a fluid
(C) When a fluid that is deformed
(D) With which a fluid may be deformed
14. Oxygen and nutrients reach the body’s tissues
________ from the blood through the capillary
wall.
(A) Pass
(B) By passing
(C) To be passing
(D) Gabe passed
15. ________ important development of the Neolithic
age was not in the manufacture of stone tools but
in the production of food.
(A) The most
(B) Most
(C) Most of
(D) Of the most
 16. By 1899 Ransom olds had establish in Detroit, 24. Virtually all parts moving of an automobile need
A B A B
Michigan, the first factory in the United States to be lubricated because, without lubrication,
C C
for the manufacture of automobiles. friction would increase power consumption and
D D
damage the parts.
17. The progressive Movement is an umbrella tern

refer to a number of reform efforts that emerged 25. Rarely has a technological development had as
A B C D A B
in early 1900’s. great an impact of society as the rapid grow
C D
18. The pelican is a water bird with a large pouch electronics.
A
attached to its bill, which it uses as a scoop for
B C D 26. The North American Review, a magazine was first
catch small fish A
published in 1815, was one of the leading literary
19. The invention of reinforced concrete, plate glass, B C
journals of the past woe centuries
and steel in the mid-1800’s was enabled D
A
architects to design and build extremely tall 27. Fuel is any substance or material that reacts
B C A B
constructions, or “scyscrapers”. chemically with another substance or material to
D C
produce hot.
20. Acoustics, the study of sounds, is one of the oldest D
A B C
of the physically sciences. 28. Glint was a favored material of prehistoric
D A
humans, which used it to make tools and
21. Each of functions of the body, even thinking, B C
A B weapons, because it would chip into shapes with
requires the expenditure of energy. D
C D sharp edges.

22. Gourd were introduced to what is now the

A 29. Mutiny of a ship’s crew against the captain
southwestern United States by earliest peoples
B signifies the breakdown of the obedience and
who migrated north from Mesoamerica about A B
D E discipline required to deal effectively to perils at
7000 years ago. D D
eat.

23. The economic heart of Canada, Ontario accounts

A B 30. Of all the art-related reference and research
for more than 40 percentage of the nation’s
C library in North America, that of Metropolitan
productive capacity. A B
D Museum of a Art in New York City is among the
C
largest and most complete.
D
31. Acclimatization is the process by which an 39. The major economic activities of Cheyenne,
A A
organism adjusts to living in an environment to Wyoming, include transportation, chemicals,
B C B C
which it normally unsuited. tourism, but governmental activities.
D D

32. Glaciers, mass of the ice that flow outward from 40. The fiction writer, poetry, and critic Edgar Allan
A B A
ice caps, cover about one-tenth of earth’s land Poe is among the most familiar of American
C D B
area. writers and one of the most enigmatic.
C D

33. Some species of bacteria and fungi thrive on such

A B
simply compounds as alcohol.
C D

34. In 1923 Alice Paul began campaign to promote the

A B
adoption of an amendment to the United States
C
Constitution mandating equals rights for women.
D

35. Perhaps more than any other United States city,

A B
San Francisco is a collection of neighborhood.
C D

36. Almost every the hereditary material of an

A B C
individual organism resides in the chromosomes.
D

37. Only with early seventeenth-century observers did

A B
the music of the original inhabitants of the United
C
States and Canada entered recorded history.
D

38. Perhaps the most distinctive features of sharks

A
and undoubtedly one of the most important
B
reasons for their success is their well-developed
C
sensory system.
D