NAME : ________________________________

1. Seals appear clumsy on the land, _______ are able to move short distances faster than most
people can run.
a. But they b. which they c. they d. which
2. Not only are today’s scientists able to see atoms with their microscopes, _______ feel them
with the aid of a versatile sensing devices called the magic wrist.
a. But also she can c. but they now can also
b. But also can they d. and they now can also
3. Almost all economists agree that nations gain by trading with one another and _____ products.
a. Selling b. sold c. sell d. sells
4. She did not want to play with Jill, and she _____ to play with Tim.
a. Did not wanted c. did not want
b. Does not want d. do not want
5. I need to go the store, _______ I am feeling too sick to drive.
a. But b. so c. and d. or
6. Medical researchers are constantly looking for ways to control, _______, and cure diseases.
a. Preventing b. prevention c. prevent d. to prevent
7. R.M. Bartlett of Philadelphia _______ the first private business college in the United States
in 1843.
a. Founding b. founded c. was founded d. has founded
8. Natural resources provide the raw material _______ to produce finished goods.
a. needed b. are needed c. which need d. needing
9. Sarah Knight _______ a fascinating account of a journey that she made from Boston to New
York in 1704.
a. Written b. writes c. wrote d. writing
10. A cupful of stagnant water may _______ millions of microorganisms.
a. Contains b. to contain c. contain d. containing
11. Endive can be used _______as a salad green or as a cooking vegetable.
a. Such b. both c. either d. neither
12. Thomas Eakins studied not only painting _______ anatomy when he was training to become
an artist.
a. Moreover b. but also c. as well d. and
13. The National Road, _______ of the first highways in North America, connected the East Coast
to the Ohio Valley.
a. Which one b. it was one c. one d. was one
14. A group of Shakers, ______ , settled around Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, in 1805.
a. members of a strict religious sect which c. members of a strict religious sect
b. Whose members of a strict religious sect d. were members of a strict religious sect
15. Joseph Henry, _______ director of the Smithsonians Institution, was President Lincoln’s
adviser on scientific matters.
a. the first b. to be the first c. was the first d. as the first

16. Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together.

17. Although television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households,

Garrison Keilor’s Saturday night radio show of folk song and stories nice is heard by millions

of people.

18. Some snakes have hollow teeth called fangs that they use to poison and killing their victims.

19. Because it contains only of a relatively short standard of DNA protected by a shell of proteins,

a virus cannot eat or reproduction by itself.

United States Constitution giving women the right to vote.

21. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collections of short stories

before publishing and given her well-knows novel Ship of Fools in 1962.

22. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on the light-

sensitive tube of a television camera.

23. A man may die, nations may rise and fell, but an idea lives on.

24. Tell the truth, worked hard, and come to dinner on time.

25. Water is the only substance which occurs at ordinary temperatures in all three states of matter:

solid, liquid, and so gas.

26. The first city in The United States where it was put into effect major plan for the clustering of

government building and mixed them into one place was Washington D.C.

27. Sloths spend most of their time hanging up from the trees and to feed on leaves and fruit.

28. Civil engineers had better include steel support in concrete structure built both on unstable

geophysical sites and physical sites.

29. Mr. Brown likes to go home early, or his wife prefers to stay late.

30. The U.S. Congress consists of both the Senate as well as the House of Representatives.

31. The best way for children to learn science is for them to perform experiments himself.

32. Most candles are made of Paraffin Wax mixing with compounds that have higher melting

points to keep them from melting in hot weather.

33. Playwright Frank Shin has often describes the lives of Chinese Americans in his dramas.

34. The Michigan Dunes, located on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore, may to reach a height of 200

feet.

35. Minerals in seawater exists in the same proportions in all of the oceans of the world.

36. The galaxy Andromeda is the most distance object visible to observers in the Northern

Hemisphere.

37. Corn played an important role in the cultural of the cliff-dwelling Indians of the Southwest.

38. Judges in dog shows rate dogs on such points as their colorful, shape, posture, and size.

39. Beekeepers can sell both the honey and the beeswax that their bees produces.

40. Elizabeth Peabody, founder of the first American kindergarten, she helped gain acceptance of

that institution as a regular part of public education.