SECTION 2

STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Time : 25 minutes

(including the reading of the directions)

Now set your clock for 25 minutes.

The structure and written expression section is designed to measure your ability to recognize
language that is appropirate for standard written english. There are two types of questions in
this section, with special directions for each type.

STRUCTURE

Directions : Question 1-15 are incomplete sentence. Beneath each sentence you will see
four words or phrase, marked (A), (B), (C), (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best
completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill
in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Example recieved law degrees as today.

A. Never so many women have

B. Never have so many women
C. The women aren”t ever
D. Women who have never

The sentence should read, “Never have so many women recieved law degrees as today.”
Therefore, you should choose (A).

Now begin work on the questions.

1. Rarely located near city lights 3. Were millions of dollars each year
or a lower elevations. replenishing eroding beaches, the
A. Observatories coastline would be changing even more
B. Are rapidly.
C. In the observatories A. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
D. Are observatories not spending
B. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
2. There are geographic, economic, and not spend
cultural reasons why around the C. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
world. Does not spend
A. Diets differ D. Not Spending The U.S. Army Corps
B. Do diets differ of Engineers
C. Are diets different
D. To differ a diet
4. Nowhere more skewed than in the 10. Only for a short period of time
auto industry. run at top speed.
A. That retail trade figures A. Cheetahs
B. Retail Trade figures B. Do cheetahs
C. Are retail trade figures C. That a cheetahs can
D. Retail trade figures D. Can

5. New York City’s Central Park is nearly 11. variety of flowers in the
twice as large second smallest show, from simple carnations to the
country, Monaco. most exquisite roses.
A. As A. A wide
B. Is the B. There was a wide
C. As is C. Was there
D. As is the D. Many

6. Potassium has a valnce of positives one 12. The wedges dartboard are
because it usually loses one electron worth from one to twenty points each.
when with other elements
A. Does it combine A. They are on a
B. It Combines B. Are on a
C. In Combining C. Are they on a
D. Combination D. On a

7. The economic background of labor 13. producing many new

legislation will not be mentioned in this movies for release after the new
course, be treated. season begins.
A. Trade unionism will not A. His company is
B. Nor trade unionism will B. His companies
C. Nor will trade unionism C. The company
D. Neither trade unionism will D. Why the company is

8. test positive for antibiotics 14. that Emily Dickinson wrote

when tanker trucks arrive at a milk 24 were given titles and 7 were
processing plant, according to federal published during her lifetime.
law, the entire truckload must be A. Of the 1.800 poems
discarded. B. There were 1.800 poems
A. Should milk C. Because the 1.800 poems
B. If milk D. The 1.800 poems
C. If milk is
D. Milk should 15. Story of a Bad Boy, a
semiautobiographical novel by
9. Located behind the two lacrimal Thomas Baily Aldrich, ranks high
glands. among books have in-
A. Each eyelid corporated their boyhood experience.
B. Is each eyelid A. The American authors
C. Each eyelid are B. Which are American authors
D. Each eyelid which is C. In which American authors
D. Are those which American authors
 WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Directions : In questions 16-40 each sentences has four underlined word or phrases. The
four underlined parts of the sentence are marked A, B, C, and D. Identify the one underlined
word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your
answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the
letter of the answer you have chosen.

Example : The balloonist who remained aloft in the air radioed the control center.

The sentence should read “The balloonist who remained aloft radioed the control center.”
Therefore, you should choose C.

Now begin work on the questions.

16. The wave lengths of ultraviolet light are short than those of visible light but longer than
A B C D
those X-rays.

17. All thoroughbreds are descended from three Arabian stallion imported into England
A B C D
between 1689 and 1724.

18. By measuring the rate of decay of potassium isotopes in volcanic ash, scientists
A
can date the layers of volcanic ash and any human remains in they.
B C D

19. Hundreds of partial to complete fossil skeletons of Triceratops have been gather in North
A B C
America from rocks of the late Cretaceous Period.
D

20. By the time of the Dinosaurs, turtles have already developed the hard shell into which
A B C
their heads and legs could be drawn.
D

21. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on the
A B C D
light-sensitive tube of television camera.

22. The leaves and young twigs of the henna plant are ground into a powder to produce a
A B
paste that can uses as a dye.
C D
23. Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves are present in humans, and each pair have two roots.
A B C D

24. William Randolph Hearts built a chain of newspapers that included 25 dailies and 11
A B C
Sunday editions at their peak in 1937.
D

25. The electromagnetic spectrum consist in bands of different wavelenghts.

A B C D

26. Lemon trees are similar in longevity and appear to orange trees but have more upright
A B C
growth.
D

27. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Marta Graham
A B C
is moving to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.
D

28. Manganese, found in trace amounts in higher animals, activates a large amount of the
A B
enzymes involved in metabolic processes.
C D

29. The Ford Motor Company introduced the moving assembly line in 1914 so that it will be
A B
able to meet huge demand for its Model T.
C D

30. By 1830, approximately 200 steamboats had become operationally on the Mississipi
A B C D
River.

31. The huge Meteor Crater was created when a 63.000-ton iron meteorites struck the
A B C D
Earth Near Winslow, Arizona

32. Daniel Boone helped to build the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap,
A B
creating a route for settlers heading westerly.
C D

33. The Appalachian Mountains extend Georgia and Alabama in the south to Canada in the
A B C D
North.
34. Howard Hughes once did more than half a billion dollars in one day in 1966 when he
A B
recieved a single bank draft for $546,549,171 for his share of TWA.
C D

35. The city of Tampa, Florida, is located on peninsula across Tampa Bay from Saint
A B C D
Petersburg.

36. The closer it gets to December 21st, the first day of winter, the short of days become.
A B C D

37. Only about a hundred out of an estimating 3.000 known mineral species
A
have been found at least reasonably suitable for use as gems.
B C D

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