CENTRO CULTURAL SALVADOREÑO AMERICANO

ASISTENTE TECNICO BILINGÜE

Student´s Name: ANDREA PAOLA IGLESIAS ALVARENGA Number: 15 Section: “C”

Teacher´s name: Erika Acosta

PART I. Circle the correct option

1. _____ ratchet is a wheel or bar that can move in only one direction. (A) a leading astronomer who
(A) A (B) who, as a leading astronomer,
(B) It is a (C) was a leading astronomer
(C) Although a (D) a leading astronomer,
(D) There is a
11. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body
2. Thomas Jefferson‘s achievements as an architect rival his of a runner, _____to the body.
contributions _____ a politician. (A) the stress it is greater
(A) such (B) greater is the stress
(B) more (C) greater stress is
(C) as (D) the greater the stress
(D) than
12. An ideal is a standard _____ people judge real phenomena.
3. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on ______ best (A) how
in its climate and soil. (B) of
(A) it grows (C) by which
(B) what grows (D) for it
(C) does it grow
(D) what does it grow 13. Maine has _____ weather than most of the other states in the
continental United States.
4. Possibly the greatest advance in _____ materials came with the (A) coolest
invention of a cheap way to make steel. (B) the coolest
(A) bridge-building (C) cooler
(B) building of bridges (D) the cooler
(C) building a bridge
(D) bridges are built 14. Amoebas are _____ small to be seen without a microscope.
(A) far too
5. _____, snakes frequently subdue their prey without injecting poison. (B) far and
(A) Contrary to general belief (C) so far
(B) General belief contrary to (D) as far as
(C) Belief contrary to general
(D) Contrary belief general to 15. Graphite conducts electricity _____ does not burn.
(A) because
6. Two years after she was chosen president of the Texas State Senate, (B) if
_____ successfully for a seat in the United States Congress. (C) when
(A) Barbara Jordan‘s campaign being (D) and
(B) Barbara Jordan campaigned
(C) Campaigning for Barbara Jordan 16. When _____ in arctic regions, the Aleuts construct igloos as
(D) Barbara Jordan campaigning temporary winter shelters.
(A) travel
7. The values of a people, their customs, and their perceptions of the (B) to travel
world ______ their language. (C) traveling them
(A) are influenced (D) traveling
(B) be influenced
(C) influencing 17. Most substances contract when they freeze so that the density of a
(D) influence substance‘s solid is _____ of its
liquid.
(A) than the higher density
8. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event‘s _____ (B) higher than the density
is equal to the probability that it will not occur. (C) the density is higher than that
(A) occurs (D) the higher the density
(B) will occur
(C) can occur 18. The mechanism by which brain cells store memories is _____ clearly
(D) occurring understood.
(A) none
(B) no
9. _____fashioned from a wick floating in a bowl of oil functioned (C) not
according to the principle of capillary action. (D) nor
(A) All lamps early
(B) Lamps all early 19. Desert animals _____ a means of retaining moisture in such a hot,
(C) All early lamps dry climate if they are to survive.
(D) Early all lamps (A) need
(B) needin
10. Annie Jump Cannon, _____ discovered so many stars that she was (C) to need
called ―the census taker of the sky. (D) was needed
20. Fructose is a monosaccharide sugar that is much sweeter _____. (C) cane sugar
(A) than cane sugar does (D) than cane sugar
(B) does cane sugar

PART I. Circle the mistake

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22. Hurricanes are severe cyclones with winds over seventy-five miles an hour who originate over tropical ocean waters.
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23. A great proportion of the seeds of desert flora they possess germination-inhibiting substances.
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24. Window treatment, furniture arrangement and color combine all contribute to the overall impression of a room.
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25. Harvesting of grains is affected by annual changes in temperature or in the amount of moisture, but both.
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26. Due to its excellent tensile strength, acetate rayon is an important material for products so as balloons, parachutes, fire hoses, and
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29. Watercolors dry more faster than other paints.
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30. In mathematical terms, modern algebra is set of objects with rules for connecting or relating those objects.
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33. In 1981 the fossil jaw of a previously unknown small mammal was found onto a Navaho reservation in Arizona.
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