1. Since the early 1950’s, _____ throughout the world has more than doubled.

a. the demand for food

b. there is demand for food
c. if food is in demand
d. food, a demand that
2. Even though he did not attend school until he was twelve, Dr. Samuel C.C. Ting was ___ the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976.
a. won
b. the winning
c. the winner of
d. to be won
3. Gas particles move ____ when the gas is hot than it is cold.
a. fast
b. faster
c. as fast
d. fastest
4. The different colors of ____ the different temperatures of the stars’ surfaces.
a. the stars indicate
b. indicating stars
c. the indication that the stars
d. stars indicating that
5. As a country develops from agricultural to an industrial economy, the attitudes, values,
structures, and functions of the family ___
a. the change
b. which change
c. change
d. changing
6. Only a few sounds produced by insects are heard by humans ____ most of the sounds are
pitched either too low or too high.
a. in spite of
b. because
c. as a result of
d. instead of
7. The ordinary chair _____ in countless shapes, sizes, styles, and materials.
a. has been made
b. to be made
c. is making
d. been making
8. For 125 years after ____ initial use at Harvard in 1642, the Bachelor of Arts degree was the
only degree awarded by colleges in the United States.
a. its
b. it was
c. being
d. when
9. Since the Sun illuminates half the surface of the Moon, only half surface ____ can be seen
from the Earth.
a. most
b. much
 c. with more
d. at most
10. The novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson, _____, have special interest for their regional
settings.
a. in a nineteenth-century writer
b. a nineteenth-century writer
c. the nineteenth-century writing
d. wrote about the nineteenth century
11. _____ Oklahoma is important as a farming state, it is even more important for its rich oil
deposits.
a. By
b. Although
c. In order for
d. Concerning
12. No animal seems ____ on a diet of peat moss.
a. survived
b. can survived
c. of surviving
d. able to survive
13. The upper part in a harmonic arrangement _____ by mixed voices is usually written for a
soprano voice.
a. to be sung
b. as singing
c. to be singing
d. was sung
14. The first school ____ the state of Washington was opened at old Fort Vancouver in 1832.
a. is now
b. is that in
c. what is that
d. in what is now
15. Radio, ____, developed from the theories and experiments of many people.
a. like other many inventions
b. like many other inventions
c. inventions like many other
d. many other like inventions

16. While attempting to fly hers plane around the world in 1937, Amelia Earhart mysteriously
A B C
disappeared.
D
17. Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children, a collection of short stories, were a critical success
A B C
when it appeared in 1938.
D
18. The principle on which the boat called hydrofoil is designed is identically to that
A
demonstrated by an airplane wing moving through air.
B C D
19. Migrating butterflies can travel long distant over water.
A B C D
20. During a early period in the settlement of the western United States, pioneers claimed parts of
A B
the wilderness by marking trees to establish a boundary.
C D

21. All digital computers use binary, or two-valued, digits instead than decimal, or ten-valued,
A B C
digits to represent and store data
D
22. An ambassador serves as a nation’s highest-ranking diplomacy in another country.
A B C D

23. Early adolescence is a developmental phase consisting of rapid changes in behavior,

A B C
psychological, and hormones.
D
24. Knowledge from the frontiers of research genetic will increasingly pose difficult problems for
A B C
policy makers and for society in general.
D
25. Pictures called glass mosaics are made by setting small pieces of colors glass into fresh
A B C D
plaster.

26. Approximately every nineteen month Venus and the Sun reach their greatest angular
A B
separation in the solar system
C D

27. Anthropologists recently have found evidence that, centuries ago, Inuits used to entering their
A B
subterranean homes through tunnels, which helped keep the cold and the heat in.
C D

28. The tree porcupine is found in wooded areas throughout most from North America.
A B C D

29. To date, only a small percentage of all glass manufactured in the United States is recycled,
A B
but markets for recycled glass that are growing steadily.
C D

30. The oceans are the major source of the atmospheric moisture that is obtained through
A B C
evaporator.
D
31. Only those insects with high developed, multilensed eyes have good color vision.
A B C D
32. The Earth’s atmosphere functions much like a giant greenhouse, admitting sunlight between
A B
outer space but preventing heat from escaping.
C D

33. The almond tree which produces the oldest species of nut and is the most widely grown of all
A B C
nut tree
D

34. Fran Tannenbaum, a paleontology student doing summer fieldwork, found a completely
A B C D
seventy-five-million-year-old egg near Chateau, Montana.

35. Fencing, originally developed as a sport in fourteenth century, was included in the
A B
first modern Olympic Games of 1896.
C D

36. Depth within ancient tombs, 3000-year-old have been found alongside mummies.
A B C D

37. Art Nouveau developed in the 1890’s when artists did a conscious effort to break with what
A B C
they regarded as worn-out formulas of the past
D
38. The most widely cultivated all of fruit trees, the apple is second only to the grape in its
A B
importance as a temperate-zone fruit
C D

39. Pawnbroking, or making loans to customers who pledge personal household goods as
A B C
security, is one of the oldest trade known.
D

40. Of 1901 to 1914, acclaimed actor Douglas Fairbanks appeared on stage in a series of light
A B C
comedies
D