1. A microscope can reveal vastly _____ detail than is visible to the naked eye.

(A) than
(B) than more
(C) more than
(D) more.

2. Narcissus bulbs _____ at least three inches apart and covered with about four inches of well drained
soil.
(A) should be planted
(B) to plant
(C) must planting
(D) should plant

3. Industrialization has been responsible for _____ most radical of the environmental changes caused by
humans.
(A) a
(B) the
(C) some of which
(D) which are the

4. In many areas the slope and topography of the land _____ excess rainfall to run off into a natural outlet.
(A) neither permit
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting
(D) do not permit.

5. Color and light, taken together, _____ the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.
(A) very powerfully influence
(B) very influence powerfully
(C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very.

6. _____ that Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring was one of the chief sources of inspiration for the
development of nontoxic pesticides.
(A) There is likely
(B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely

7. Total color blindness, _____, is the result of a defect in the retina.

8. _____ no conclusive evidence exists, many experts believe that the wheel was invented only once and
then diffused to the rest of the world.
(A) Even
(B) But
(C) Although
(D) So.

9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing season, life is _____ in various forms.
(A) abundant
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant
(D) it abundant

10. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____ today a liberated woman.
(A) calling what we would
(B) who would be calling
(C) what we would call
(D) she would call it.

11. _____ around stones that are sun-warmed, even the smallest of stones creates tiny currents of warm air.
(A) The cool air
(B) If the air is cool
(C) That the air cools
(D) The cooler the air.

12. Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation, country music has certain common features _____
its own special character.
(A) give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
(D) that gives it to

13. Most of _____ archaeologists know about prehistoric cultures is based on studies of material remains.
(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their

14. According to some critics, the novels of William Burroughs demonstrate the major hazard of absurd
literature, _____ tendency toward over-embellishment and incoherence.
(A) notwithstanding
(B) besides
(C) is a
(D) its

15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in New Orleans in the 1920’s _____ in blues music.
(A) was one of the greatest periods.
(B) one of the greatest periods
(C) was of the greatest periods
(D) the greatest periods.

16.Gone With the Wind, the epic novel about life in South during the Civil War period, took ten years
write. (to write)

17. None (no) two butterflies have exactly the same design on their wings.

18. To save the California condor from extinction, a group of federal, local, and privately (private)
organizations initiated a rescue program.

19. A coral reef, a (an) intricate aquatic community of plants and animals, is found only in warm, shallow,
sunlit seas.

20. Carnegie hall was the first building in New York designed special (specially) for orchestral music.

21. Since it lives in the desert, the collared lizard depends from (depends on) insects for water as well as
for food.
22. The Texas Panhandle region, in the northwestern part of the state, produces more wheat, cotton, and
grain sorghum than any of (any) other area of Texas.

23. Light rays what (that) enter the eye must be focused onto a point on the retina in order for a clear
visual image to form.

24. The orangutan’s hands and feet are designed for holding and grasping branches, and its powerful
immensely (immensely powerful) arms enable it to climb and swing in trees without difficulty.

25. The extraordinary beautiful (beauty) of orchids makes them the basis of a multimillion dollar floral
industry.

26. The Vermont Elememary Science Project, according to its founders, are designed (designed) to
challenge some of the most widely held beliefs about teaching.

27. The number 8.5 is an example of a “mixed number” because it is composing (composed) of an integer
and a fraction.

28. If it is kept dry, a seed can still sprout up to forty years after their (its) formation.

29. In The Sociology of Science, now considered a classic, Robert Merton discusses cultural, economy
and social (economic and social ) forces that contributed to the development of modern science.

30.Bacteria lived (living ) in the soil play a vital role in recycling the carbon and nitrogen needed by
plants.

31.Some snakes have hollow teeth are called (called or that are called ) fangs that they use to poison
their victims.

32.Stars derive their energy from thermonuclear reactions that take place in their heat (hot) interiors.

33.Carrie Chapman Call organized the League of Women Votes after successfully campaign
(campaigning) for the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

34.Any group that conducting (conducts ) its meeting using parliamentary rules will encounter situations
where prescribed procedures cannot be applied.

35.The strongly patriotic character of Charles Sangster’s poetry is credited about (with) greatly furthering
the cause of confederation in Canada.
36.Jessamyn West’s first and most famous novel, The friendly Persuasion describes the life of a Quaker
farmed family (D) in the mid-1800’s.

37. One inventor (invention) that Thomas Edison can take credit for is the light bulb.

38.Electric motors range in size from the tiny mechanisms that operate sewing machine (sewing machines
) to the great engines in heavy locomotives.

39.The nitrogen (nitrogen) makes up over 78 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, the gaseous mass
surrounding the planet.

40.The Mississippi, the longest river in the United States, begins as small ( a small) clear stream in
northwestern Minnesota.