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Practice Test 25
Practice Test 25
Practice Test 25
Question 1 Amanda Way’s career as a social reformer____ in 1851 when, at an antislavery meeting in Indiana, she called for a state
Not yet woman’s rights convention.
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B. began
C. have begun
D. to have begun
Question 3 Thomas Paine, _____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that identified the American colonies with the cause of liberty
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A. writer of eloquent
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B. whose eloquent writing
C. an eloquent writer
D. writing eloquent
Question 4 Although beavers rarely remain submerged for more than two minutes, they can stay underwater ___fifteen minutes before
Not yet having to surface for air.
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B. as long as
C. so long
D. so long that
Question 5 Protein digestion begins in the stomach ____ends in the small intestine.
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A. while
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B. and
C. how
D. because
Question 6 When natural gas burns, its___ into atoms of carbon and hydrogen.
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A. hydrocarbon molecules, breaking up
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B. broke up by hydrocarbon molecules
Question 7 _____ ballet dancers learn five basic positions for the arms and feet.
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A. All of
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B. Of every
C. all
D. every
Question 8 Some colonies of bryozoans, small marine animals, form ___with trailing stems.
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A. creeping colonies
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B. which colonies creep
D. colonies creep
Question 9 Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued six women’s rights cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1970’s,____
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A. of five winning them
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B. five winning of them
Question 10 Natural selection is defined as the process ___the course of evolution by preserving those traits best adapted for an
Not yet organism’s survival.
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B. of which directs it
C. directs it
D. that directs
Question 11 ____ 363 miles between the cities of Albany and Buffalo in New York State, the Eric Canal helped link the Atlantic Ocean
Not yet with the Great Lakes.
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B. The extension
C. Extending
D. Extends
Question 12 The chief sources of B12,a water-soluble vitamin ____ stored in the body, include meat, milk and eggs.
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A. is not
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B. that is not
C. not that is
D. that not
Question 13 ____ is rooted in experiments in iron and steel conducted in the nineteenth century.
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A. While the history of twentieth-century architecture
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B. The history of twentieth-century architecture
Question 14 The primary source of energy for tropical cyclones is the latent heat released when ____
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A. does water vapor condense
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B. condensed water vapor
Question 15 Maufacturing is Canada’s most important economic activity, ____17 percent of the workforce.
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A. engages
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B. and to engage
C. that it engage
D. engaging
Question 16 The outer layer of the heart, called the pericardium, forms a sac in what the heart lies.
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A. outer
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B. called
C. forms
D. what
Question 17 Wood from the ash tree becomes extremely flexibly when it is exposed to steam.
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A. Wood
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B. flexibly
C. it
D. exposed
Question 18 The ability to talk is one of the skill that make humans different from the rest of the animal world.
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A. talk
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B. skill
C. humans different
D. animal world
Question 19 In plane geometry, the sum of the internal angles of any triangle has always equal to 180 degrees.
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A. in
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B. the internal
C. any
D. has
Question 20 Polar bears are bowlegged and pigeon-toed, adaptations that enable this massive animals to maintain their balance as they
Not yet walk.
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B. this
C. to maintain
D. walk
Question 21 Caves are formed by the chemical or action mechanical of water on soluble rock, by volcanic activity, and by earthquakes.
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A. action mechanical
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B. on soluble
C. volcanic
D. earthquakes
Question 22 Celery, an edible plant is having long stalks topped with feathery leaves, grows best in cool weather.
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A. edible
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B. is having
C. topped with
D. best
Question 23 The first fiction writer in the United States to achieve international fame was Washington Irving, who wrote many stories,
Not yet included “ Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
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B. achieve
C. fame
D. included
Question 24 Three fundamental aspects of forest conversation are the protection of immature trees, the use of proper harvesting
Not yet methods, and provide for an environment that supports reproduction.
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B. of proper
C. provide
D. that supports
Question 25 For each enzyme reaction there is an optimum temperature which maximum efficiency is achieved.
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A. each
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B. there is
C. temperature which
D. efficiency
Question 26 Adolescence is a transitional stage in human development from the beginning of puberty to the attainment of the emotion,
Not yet social, and physical maturity of adulthood.
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B. the beginning
C. emotion
D. adulthood
Question 27 The people native to the northwest coast of North American have long be known for wood carvings of stunning beauty and
Not yet extraordinary quality.
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B. be known
C. for
D. of
Question 28 Colonial efforts to manufacture glass at Jamestown---- and later attempts near Philadelphia and Boston---failed despite the
Not yet abundant of fuel and good raw materials.
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B. later attempts
C. abundant
D. materials
C. usually
D. of ellipse
Question 30 Chicago is the third largest publishing center in the United States, exceeding only by New York City and San Francisco.
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A. the third
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B. publishing
C. center
D. exceeding
Question 31 North American bison differ from domestic cattle in have 14 rather than 13 pairs of ribs.
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A. differ from
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B. domestic
C. have
D. rather than
Question 32 Female sea turtles, before laying her eggs, swim as much as 2,000 kilometers to return to the beaches where they
Not yet themselves were hatched.
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B. as much
C. to return
D. where
Question 33 Water is the only substance that occur at ordinary temperatures in all three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.
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A. occur
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B. ordinary temperatures
C. all three
D. solid
Question 34 Despite the growth of manufacturing and other industries, the economy of the state of Texas has remained heavily
Not yet dependence on oil and gas.
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B. manufacturing
C. has
D. dependence
Question 35 Lyndon B. Johnson was the only United States President who oath of office was administered by a woman Judge Sarah
Not yet Tilghman Hughes.
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B. who
C. offive
D. administered
Question 36 It took more than fourteen years to carve the faces of four United States Presidents into the granite cliffs to Mount
Not yet Rushmore, South Dakota.
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B. more than
C. to carve
D. to
Question 37 Charles Bullfinch was the architect who design the original red brick core of the State House in Boston.
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A. the architect
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B. design
C. original
D. of the
Question 38 Rarely has a technological development had as great an impact on as much aspects of social, economic, and cultural
Not yet development as the growth of electronics.
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B. much
C. development
D. growth
Question 39 Lowell, Massachusetts, known as the “Spindle City” since 1822 when its first textile mills were built, attracted worldwide
Not yet attention as textile center.
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B. when
C. attracted
D. as textile
Question 40 Strange Victory, Sara Teas dale’s smallest and most perfect collection of poems, appear in print in 1933.
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A. smallest
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B. most perfect
C. poems
D. appear