1. When ______ from milk, the remainder is called skim milk.

A. all the butterfat is removed

B. removing all the butterfat that
C. is all the butterfat removed
D. the removal of all the butterfat

2. Amherst College, ______ in Amherst, Massachusetts, was established in1821 and chartered in
1825.
A. a private liberal arts college is
B. a private liberal arts college
C.of which a private liberal arts college
D. such that a private liberal arts college

3. In 1890 Wyoming became ______ in the United States to grant women the right to vote
A. that was the first state
B. the first state
C. where the first state
D. the first state was

4. A turbine is a rotary engine ______ of a moving stream of water, steam, or gas into
mechanical energy.
A. converts the energy that
B. that converts the energy
C. the energy that converts
D. that the energy converts

5. ______ are chiefly derived from petroleum.

A. Plastics today
B. There are plastics today
C. Because today plastics today
D. Due to plastics today

6. A corona is a small, colored ring that seems to surround the Sun and Moon when they are
viewed ______.
A. a thin cloud through them
B. through a thin cloud
C. and through a thin cloud
D. through which, a cloud is thin

7. ______ with the knotting of fishnets andsnares by ancient peoples.

A. Originally Knitting
B. The origin of knitting
C. To originate knitting
D. Knitting originated

8. ______ to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in
office until 1815.
A. Election
B. Why he was elected
C. Elected
D. Who was elected

9. Many meteorites are thought to have originated from ______ that once existed between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
A. where a planet or planets
B. planet or planets so
C. which a planet or planets
D. a planet or planets
10. In the Arctic tundra, ice fog may form under clear skies in winter, ____ coastal fogs or low
stratus clouds are common in summer.
A. because of
B. whereas
C. despite
D. that

11. The chemical composition of sandstone is the same as ______

A. that of sand
B. that sand is
C. sand is that
D. what of sand

12. The illusion of motion pictures rests on the eyes’ tendency ______ an image for a fraction of
a second after the image has been withdrawn.
A. to retain
B. that retaining
C. to be retained
D. has retained

13. Within the Gila National Forest in New Mexico ______.

A. where are protected three wilderness areas
B. three protected wilderness areas
C. are three protected wilderness areas
D. three protected wilderness areas are

14. A moth possesses two pairs of wings _____ as single pair and are covered with dustlike
scales.
A. function
B. are functioning
C.that function
D. but functions
15. Nylon was ______ the human-made fibers
A. the first of which
B. what the first of
C. it the first of
D. the first of