1. The province of Newfoundland has ____ than any other region of North America in which 5.

5. Although thunder and lightning are produced at the same time, light waves travel faster
the first language is English. ____, so we see the lightning before we hear the under.

(A) the longest history (A) than sound waves do

(B) a longer history (B) than sound waves are
(C) the longer the history (C) do sound waves
(D) the history is longer (D) sound waves

2. The Pulitzer Prize has been _____ in American literature for more than seventy years. 6. The art of landscape architecture is almost as old ______ of architecture itself.

(A) the award most prestigious that (A) as that

(B) the most prestigious award (B) than
(C) a prestigious award that most (C) as
(D) most prestigious award (D) than that

3. Computers that once took up entire rooms are now _____ to be put on desktops and into 7. The total mass of all asteroids in the solar system is much less ______ mass of Earth’s Moon.
wristwatches.
(A) than that is the
(A) small enough  (B) than the 
(B) smaller than (C) the
(C) so small (D) is the
(D) as small as

8. The planet Venus is almost exactly the same size and mass _____ Earth, with a similar
4. The lenses in an optical microscope bend the light passing through a specimen to form an interior, including a nickel-iron core.
image of that specimen that is much larger ____ actually viewed.
(A) to 
(A) than it (B) as
(B) than the one (C) is
(C) one than (D) than
(D) than one which
9. Migraine headaches are more frequent among women _____ among men.

(A) than
(B) however 
(C) except for
(D) as are

10. Carbohydrates are the most abundant and _____ food sources of energy.

(A) least cost

(B) least costly
(C) less cost 
(D) fewer costs

11. In Navajo society, not only _____ for food and for wool, but also as a means of payment or
exchange.

(A) sheep were valuable

(B) to value the sheep
(C) the sheep’s value
(D) were sheep valued

12.