1.

Most doctors of the Colonial period believed _______ was caused by an imbalance of humors in
the body.
A. in disease
B. that disease
C. of disease
D. about disease

2. In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became _________ at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
A. she was the first woman to conduct
B. the first woman conductor
C. the woman was first conducting
D. the woman conducts first

3. On January 7, 1955, Marian Anderson became _________ to sing a major role at New York
City’s Metropolitan Opera House.
A. the first African American
B. the first African American was
C. she was the first African American
D. when the first African American

4. Perhaps the most significant postwar trend was the decentralization of cities throughout the
United States, _________ when massive highway-building programs permitted greater
suburban growth.
A. and accelerated a phenomenon
B. a phenomenon that accelerated
C. accelerating a phenomenon which,
D. the acceleration of which phenomenon

5. Ronald Reagan had served two terms as governor of California before _________ President.
A. he became
B. when becoming
C. became
D. did he become

6. _________, domesticated grapes grow in clusters, range in color from pale green to black, and
contain sugar in varying quantities.
A. Their botanical classification as berries
B. Although their botanical classification as berries
C. Because berries being their botanical classification
D. Classified botanically as berries

7. The cymbal is ________ in the military band and is also frequently used in modern orchestral
music.
A. a basic instrument
B. basic instrument
C. how basic an instrument it is
D. as an instrument is basic

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8. In instrumentalist philosophy, ideas and knowledge are exclusively functional processes: they are
of significance only _________ instrumental in the development of experience.
A. as they are
B. are they
C. there are
D. are

9. _________ either by cooling or by depriving the fire of oxygen, and most do both.
A. Working fire extinguishers
B. Fire extinguishers that work
C. Fire extinguishers work
D. The work of fire extinguishers

10. The introduction of mass-production methods enabled many people _________ and gave them
an unprecedented amount of mobility.
A. to purchase their own automobiles
B. their own to purchase automobiles
C. to their own purchase automobiles
D. own their automobiles to purchase

11. Frances Perkins, _________ of the United States cabinet, served in the cabinet as secretary of
labor from 1933 to 1945.
A. the first female member
B. was the first female member
C. the first female member who
D. of whom the first female member

12. When _________ to dough and heated, carbon dioxide is released, causing the dough to rise.
A. is added baking powder
B. added baking powder is
C. is baking powder added
D. baking powder is added

13. _________ the percentage of individuals with similar traits in succeeding generations,
geneticists use the theory of probability.
A. The calculation of
B. To calculate
C. Is calculating
D. Calculated

14. Big-band jazz relies on fixed arrangements, where _________ than one instrument playing
some of the parts, rather than on improvisation.
A. is more
B. whenever more
C. there is more
D. more

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15. Because of _________ diversity, seven separate groupings or divisions of algae have been
established by botanists.
A. them
B. so that
C. those
D. their

16. Chromosomes are regarded today as the major carriers of genetic material, _________ of DNA
and various types of protein.
A. consisting
B. as to consist
C. consist
D. which consisting

17. During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s, much African American writers, artists, and
musicians came to Harlem in New York City, creating a cultural center there.

18. In Concord, Massachusetts, there is a museum commemorating the life of Louisa May Alcott,
the author the nineteenth-century novel Little Women.

19. Lactose, a sugar present in milk, is one of simple sugars used in food preparations for infants.

20. Jackson, Michigan, a city who was settled in 1829, was named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh
President of the United States.

21. Boulder, Colorado, is only city in the United States that derives its water supply from a glacier.

22. Construction of first skyscraper began in Chicago in 1883 with the ten-story Home Insurance
Building.

23. The Mississippi riverboat, which evolved from simpler steamship of the early 1800’s, became
the dominant form of passenger transport on the Mississippi River.

24. Modern stringed instruments comprise both instruments of ancient origin, such as the harp, and
the developed recently family of bowed instruments that includes the violin.

25. Stars provided early astronomer with a reference system for measuring the motions of planets,
the Moon, and the Sun.

26. The coal industry is important to every industrial nations because most other industries are
directly or indirectly dependent on it.

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27. The brightly colored kingfisher that perches until it sights a fish, then dives into the water to
catch its prey.

28. Neptune circles the Sun once every 164.8 Earth years, and its day --- one rotation its axis --- is
15.8 hours.

29. Observable comets are occasionally attracted toward the inner Solar System by the fields
gravitational of nearby stars and giant molecular clouds.

30. A single bacterium has the potential to produce 16 million copies of themselves in a day.

31. Atoms are held together by the electrical forces of attraction between each negative electron
and a positive protons within the nucleus.

32. The original aim of encyclopedias was to provide a general educational.

33. Icebergs are usually white, blue, or green, even although some are black due to rock material
incorporated in them .

34. Both adult ladybugs and their larvae are voracious eaters of aphids, scale insects, and another
plant pests.

35. Early English burlesque often ridiculed celebrated literary works and sentimentally drama.

36. The American clipper ship era was of duration short, extending from about 1845 to 1859.

37. Crystals of pure quartz, usually called rock crystal, are coarseness, colorless, and transparent.

38. Of 120 minerals known to have been used as gemstones, only about 25 are in common use in
today jewelry.

39. One of the thirteen original state of the United States, North Carolina lies on the Atlantic coast
midway between New York and Florida.

40. The various peoples who developed North America have made it a world leader economic .