ANSWER KEY

1. Oil-base house paint is neither easy to work with or quick to clean up, but it is often preferred
to latex paint because of its high sheen and durability.
A. or
B. but
C. preferred to
D. because of

2. The field cricket is quite injury to crops and vegetation and does most of its harmful work at night.
A. quite
B. injury
C. vegetation
D. harmful

3. Many New England farmers supplement their incomes with the sold of maple
syrup tapped from sugar maples growing on their farmland.
A. supplement
B. sold
C. tapped
D. sugar maples

4. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, physical techniques making it possible to determine the
chemical constitution of stars.
A. latter half
B. making it
C. to determine
D. of stars

5. Many of the mammals that dwell in the desert are active only at a night as the intense heat of a
desert day can be fatal to warm-blooded animals.
A. that
B. a night
C. as
D. warm-blooded

6. The cytoskeleton of a cell provides structural support also coordinates cell division, growth , and
morphology.
A. structural
B. also
C. cell
D. growth

7. Contemporary poetllen Ginsberg prides him on his ability to create

poetry which invites complete emotional and physical participation by its audience.
A. him
B. which
 C. complete
D. participation

8. Substances such asDT become more concentrated in each successively level in an ecological
pyramid.
A. such as
B. more concentrated
C. successively
D. an

9. Scientists used line spectra identifying the element helium in the sun.
A. used
B. identifying
C. the
D. in

10. The personality traits of children are often similar to those that of their parents, but these traits are
not always genetically conditioned.
A. often similar to
B. that
C. but
D. conditioned

11. The discovering of quarks, minute particles of matter, has led to a new age in particle physics.
A. discovering
B. minute
C. led to
D. physics

12. In accordance the wishes of most of his electorate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt postponed
entering the Second World War until December 11, 1941.
A. In accordance the
B. most of his electorate
C. postponed entering
D. until

13. Nutritional adequacy is hard to achieve on a low-calorie diet;even a small person should not try to
get by on fewer than twelve hundreds calories per day.
A. Nutritional
B. to achieve
C. get by on
D. hundreds

14. Ethnolinguists study language as it relates to society, culture, and human behaving.
A. study
B. it
C. culture
 D. behaving

15. The rocks of the ambrian period of prehistory were formed 500 to 600 million year ago.
A. of prehistory
B. were formed
C. year
D. ago

16. In accordance the wishes of most of his electorate, President Franklin. Roosevelt postponed
entering the Second World War until December 11, 1941.
A. In accordance the
B. most of his electorate
C. postponed entering
D. until

17. Scientists is currently trying to map the human genome, the blueprint of human heredity.
A. is
B. currently
C. to map
D. of human heredity

18. Jamesickey's first poem was published during he was still a senior in college.
A. was published
B. during
C. still
D. in

19. Nutritional adequacy is hard to achieve on a low-calorie diet ;even a small person should not try
to get by on fewer than twelve hundreds calories per day.
A. Nutritional
B. to achieve
C. get by on
D. hundreds

20. In reality, all biological reproductive begins at the cellular level.

A. reality
B. reproductive
C. begins
D. cellular