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

A B C 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

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

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 their stems for months.
A B C 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 as isobars.
A B C D

25. In many languages the forms of a word varies to express such contrasts as number, gender, and tense.
A B C D

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

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

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

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31. The folktales which the brothers Grimm had collecting were translated into English in 1823.
A B C D

32. In our solar system, nine planets, fifty-seven moons, several dozen comets, several million
A B
asteroids, and billions of meteorites have so far been discover.
C D

33. From the 1 850s until after the turn of the century, many of America’s super-rich families made
A B C
Newport his favorite summer resort.
D

34. Mars may looks red because it is covered with a layer of soft red iron oxide.
A B C D

35. The radioactive substances that pose the greatest harm to humanity have neither very short or
A B C
very long half lives.
D

36. A robin cocks its head to peer at a worm with one eyes and not to hear it, as was once thought.
A B C D

37. Film sound is often record by an analog system which like the compact disc, uses light.
A B C D

38. The scribes of the Middle Ages used quill pens to produce their high decorated manuscripts.
A B C D

39. The principles of physics described by Christian Doppler in 1842 for the movement of stars has
A B
been adapted to evaluate the movement of blood within the heart.
C D

40. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were the first vehicles of humankind to venture beyond the
A B
limits of ours solar system.
C D

This is the end of the Structure and Written Expression Diagnostic Pre-Test.

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