CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER A, B, C, OR D

1. In the early 1900s, Eastman _______ inexpensive Brownie box cameras.

(A) it developed
(B) it was developed
(C) developed
(D) developing

2. ______the discovery of the fossilized remnants of tides in one-billion-year-old

rocks.
(A) Geological reports
(B) Geologists report
(C) The reports of geologists
(D) Geologists' reports

3. The Brooklyn Bridge _____ took thirteen years to complete.

(A) in New York
(B) is in New York
(C) it is in New York
(D) which New York

4. Genes control all of the physical______ we inherit.

A) that traits
(B) that are traits
(C) traits that
(D) traits are that

5. Indigo can be extracted from a plant, and then _____ to dye cloth blue.
(A) it
(B) using
(C) using it
(D) it can be used
6. _______in the United States spends 900 hours per year in class and 1,170 hours
in front of the television.
(A) The average third-grader
(B) The third grade is average
(C) These are three grades
(D) Three average grades

7. Researchers have begun studying what ______ is on human circadian rhythms.

(A) it is the effect of light
(B) the light affects
(C) is affecting the light
(D) the effect of light

8. If calcium oxide remains exposed to air, _______to calcium carbonate.

(A) turning
(B) turns
(C) it turns
(D) the turn

9. Some early batteries used concentrated nitric acid, ______gave off poisonous
fumes.
(A) they
(B) then they
(C) but they
(D) but they had

10. The sound produced by an object _____in a periodic way involve more than
the simple sine wave.
(A) it vibrates
(B) vibrating
(C) is vibrating
(D) vibrates
11. Prior to the discovery of anesthetics in 1846, surgery was done _____was still
conscious.
(A) while the patient
(B) the patient felt
(C) during the patient's
(D) while patiently

12. The drastic decline of the beaver helps to illustrate what ______to the
ecosystems of the North American continent.
(A) happening
(B) the happening
(C) has happened
(D) about happening

13. The used of shorthand died out in the Middle Ages because of _____ with
witchcraft.
(A) the association was imagined
(B) associate the imagination
(C) imagine the association
(D) the imagined association

14. A yacht is steered with a rudder, ______the flow of water that passes the hull.
(A) which deflecting
(B) deflects
(C) it deflects
(D) which deflects

15. For top speed and sudden acceleration, the above the accelerator pump feed
additional gasoline from the float chamber into ______above the venture tube.
(A) the air flows
(B) the air flow
(C) the air is flowing
(D) flows the air
CHOOSE THE INCORRECT WORD/WORDS, A, B, C OR D

16. In 1732, coach travelers could got from New York to Philadelphia in about two
A B C
days.
D

17. Some of the District of Columbia are on low-lying, marshy ground.

A B C D

18. Georgia’s economy is based main on agriculture.

A B C D

l9. The Paul Revere House was built in 1676, and today its the oldest wooden
A B C D
building in Boston.

20. Conifers such as cedars, firs, and pines bear its seeds in cones.
A B C D

21. A dome is a semispherical structures on top of a building.

A B C D

22. Succulents suck up water in just a few hour, but they can store it in
A B C
their stems for months.
D

23. Flying buttresses enabled builders to put up tall but thinnest stone walls.
A B C D

24. Weather forecasters monitor barometric pressures and record they on charts
A B C
as isobars.
D
25. In many languages, the forms of a word varies to express such contrasts as
A B C
number, gender, and tense.
D

26. A Milky Way object that erupted in the constellation Scorpius has provides
A B
information to astronomers since July.
C D

27. Much fossils are found in coal-bearing rocks.

A B C D

28. When salt is added to ice, this mixture becomes coldly enough to freeze ice
A B C D
cream.

29. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Long Island was chiefly an
A B
agricultural region with fishing, whaling, and build ships as the important
C D
industries.

30. No one who has studied the Battle of Little Bighorn know the exact route that
A B
Custer and his detachment took.
C D

PLEASE WRITE (C) FOR CORRECT AND (I) FOR INCORRECT, WRITE THE CORRECT
WORDS FOR (I) INCORRECT WORDS

1. My best friend always helpful with problems.

2. The bus schedule has changed since last week.
3. Accidentally dropped the glass on the floor.
4. The customer paying the clerk for the clothes.
5. The professor handed the syllabus to the students.
6. Each day practiced the piano for hours.
7. The basketball player tossed the ball into the hoop.
B. The new student in the class very talkative and friendly.
9. Walking with the children to school.
10. The whales headed south for the winter.