EXERCISE (SKILL 12.1-12.

5): Choose the letter of the word or group of words

that best completes the sentence.
1. Rarely located near city 6. Potassium has a valence of
lights or at lower elections. positive one because it usually loses
(A) observatories are one electron when with
(B) are other elements.
(C) in the observatories (A) does it combine
(D) are observatories (B) it combines
(C) in combining
2. There are geographic, economic, (D) combination
and cultural reasons why
around the world. 7. The economic background of
(A) diets differ labor legislation will not be mentioned
(B) do diets differ in this course, be treated.
(C) are diets different (A) trade unionism will not
(D) to differ a diet (B) nor trade unionism will
(C) nor will trade unionism
3. Were millions of (D) neither trade unionism will

dollars each year replenishing eroding

beaches, the coastline would be 8. test positive for
changing even more rapidly. antibiotics when tanker trucks arrive at
(A) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a milk processing plant, according to
not spending federal law, the entire truckload must
(B) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers be discarded.
not spend (A) Should milk
(C) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (B) If milk
does not spend (C) If milk is
(D) not spending the U.S. Army (D) Milk should
Corps of Engineers
9. Located behind the two
4. Nowhere more skewed lacrimal glands.
than in the auto industry. (A) each eyelid
(A) that retail trade figures (B) is each eyelid
(B) retail trade figures are (C) each eyelid are
(C) are retail trade figures (D) each eyelid which is
(D) retail trade figures
10. Only for a short period of time
5. New York City’s Central Park is run at top speed.
nearly twice as large (A) cheetahs
second smallest country, Monaco. (B) do cheetahs
(A) as (C) that a cheetah can
(B) is the (D) can
(C) as is
(D) as is the
1. variety of flowers in In the Morgan Library in New York City
the show, from simple carnations to of medieval and Renaissance
the most exquisite roses. manuscripts.
(A) A wide (A) a collection is
(B) There was a wide (B) in a collection
(C) Was there (C) is a collection
(D) Many (D) which is a collection

2. The wedges dart 7. Some fishing fleets

board are worth from one to twenty might not have been so
points each. inefficient in limiting
(A) they are on a their catch to target
(B) are on a species
(C) are they on a more strict in enforcing
(D) on a penalties.
(A) the government had been
3. producing many (B) if the government had
new movies for release after the new (C) had the government been
season begins. (D) if the government
(A) His company is
(B) His companies 8. The Dewey
(C) The company Decimal System,
(D) Why the company is currently used in
libraries throughout the
4. the Emily world,
Dickinson wrote, 24 were given titles works into ten classes
and 7 were published during her according to subject.
lifetime. (A) dividing
(A) Of the 1,800 poems (B) divides
(B) There were 1,800 poems (C) it would be divide
(C) Because the 1,800 poems (D) was divide
(D) The 1,800 poems
9. Individual
5. Since an immediate change was differences in brain-
needed on an emergency basis, wave activity may shed
by the governor to curtail light on why some
railway expenditure. people are more prone
(A) so it was proposed to emotional stress
(B) was proposed disorders
(C) because of the proposal (A) that others are
(D) it was proposed (B) and others are
6. (C) others are
(D) than are others

10.
squeezed, the
orange juice in a one-
cup serving provides
twice the minimum daily
requirement for vitamin
C.
(A) It is freshly
(B) If freshly
(C) You freshly
(D) If it freshly