46. (A) The music contained strong political messages.
(B) The music had a steady beat that people could dance to.
(C) The music included sad melodies.
(D) The music contained irregular types of rhythms.
47. (A) The increase in beachfront property value.
(B) An experimental engineering project.
(C) The erosion of coastal areas
(D) How to build seawalls.
48. (A) To protect beachfront property.
(B) To reduce the traffic on beach roads.
(C) To provide privacy for homeowners.
(D) To define property limits.
49. (A) By sending water directly back to sea with great force.
(B) By reducing wave energy.
(C) By reducing beach width.
(D) By stabilizing beachfront construction.
50. (A) Protect roads along the shore.
(B) Build on beaches with seawalls.
(C) Add sand to beaches with seawalls.
(D) Stop building seawalls.
Section Two: Structure and Written Expression
1. The giant ragweed, or buffalo weed, grows ——.
(A) 18 feet up to high
(B) to high 18 feet up
(C) up to 18 feet high
(D) 18 feet high up to
2. Neptune is —— any planet except Pluto.
(A) to be far from the Sun
(B) far from the Sun being
(C) farther than the Sun is
(D) farther from the Sun than
3. Since prehistoric times, artists have arranged paint on surfaces in ways —— their ideas about people and the world.
(A) express
(B) that their expression of
(C) which, expressing
(D) that express
4. Except for certain microorganisms, —— need oxygen to survive.
(A) of all living things
(B) all living things
(C) all are living things
(D) are all living things
5. Dubbing is used in filmmaking —— a new sound track to a motion picture.
(A) which to add
(B) to add
(C) is adding that
(D) to add while
6. —— of green lumber may come from moisture in the wood.
(A) More weight than half
(B) Of the weight, more than half
(C) The weight is more than half
(D) More than half of the weight
7. Archaeologists study —— to trace ancient trade routes because such tools are relatively rare, and each occurrence has a slightly different chemical composition.
(A) which obsidian tools
(B) obsidian tools
(C) how obsidian tools
(D) obsidian tools are
8. —— the hamster's basic diet is vegetarian, some hamsters also eat insects.
(A) Despite
(B) Although
(C) Regardless of
(D) Consequently
9. The Navajo Indians of the southwestern United States —— for their sand painting, also called dry painting.
(A) noted
(B) are noted
(C) to be noted
(D) have noted
10. In 1784, the leaders of what would later become the state of Virginia gave up —— to the territory that later became five different Midwestern states.
(A) any claim
(B) when the claim
(C) to claim
(D) would claim
11. —— one after another, parallel computers perform groups of operations at the same time.
(A) Conventional computers, by handling tasks
(B) Since tasks being handled by conventional computers
(C) Whereas conventional computers handle tasks
(D) While tasks handled by conventional computers
12. The Liberty Bell, formerly housed in Independence Hall, —— in Philadelphia, was moved to a separate glass pavilion in 1976.
(A) which a historic building
(B) a historic building which
(C) was a historic building
(D) a historic building
13. Fossils, traces of dead organisms found in the rocks of Earth's crust, reveal —— at the time the rocks were formed.
(A) what was like
(B) was like life
(C) what life was like
(D) life was like
14. Although the huge ice masses —— glaciers move slowly, they are a powerful erosive force in nature.
(A) call them
(B) are called
(C) to call
(D) called
15. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, —— high percentage of protein.
(A) a
(B) and a
(C) since a
(D) of which a
16. A gene is a biological unit of information who directs the activity of a cell or organism during its
A B C D
lifetime.
17. The flowering of African American talent in literature, music, and art in the 1920's in New York City
A B C
became to know as the Harlem Renaissance.
D
18. The symptoms of pneumonia, a lung infection, include high fever, chest pain, breathing difficult, and
A B C D
coughing.
19. The rapid grow of Boston during the mid-nineteenth century coincided with a large influx of
A B C
European immigrants.
D
20. In 1908 Olive Campbell started writing down folk songs by rural people in the southern Appalachian
A B C
mountains near hers home.
D
21.The thirteen stripes of the United States flag represent the original thirteen states of the Union, which
A B C
they all were once colonies of Britain.
D
22. In 1860, more as 90 percent of the people of Indiana lived rural areas, with only a few cities having a
A B C
population exceeding 10,000.
D
23.Gravitation keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth and the planets other of the solar system in orbit
A B C D
around the Sun.
24. Photograph was revolutionized in 1831 by the introduction of the collodion process for making glass
A B C D
negatives.
25. After flax is washed, dry, beaten, and combed, fibers are obtained for use in making fabric.
A B C D
26. A fever is caused which blood cells release proteins called pyrogens, raising the body's temperature.
A B C D
27. Because of various gift-giving holidays, most stores clothing in the United Sates do almost as much
A B
business in November and December as they do in the other ten months combined.
C D
28.The United States National Labor Relations Board is authorized to investigation allegations of unfair
A B
labor practices on the part of either employers or employees.
C D
29.The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840's caused an unprecedented numbers of people from
A B C
Ireland to immigrate to the United States.
D
30.The particles comprising a given cloud are continually changing, as new ones are added while others
A B
are taking away by moving air.
C D
31.Political parties in the United States help to coordinate the campaigns of their members and organizes A B C
the statewide and national conventions that mark election years.
D
32.The lemur is an unusual animal belonging to the same order than monkey's and apes.
A B C D
33.Chese may be hard or soft, depending on the amount of water left into it and the character of
A B C D
the cuting.
34.The carbon-are lamp, a very bright electric lamp used for spotlights, consists of two carbon
A B
electrodes with a high-current are passing between it.
C D
35. At first the poems of E.E. Cummings gained notoriety to their idiosyncratic punctuation and
A B
typography, but they have gradually been recognized for their lyric power as well.
C D
36.The mechanism of human thought and recall, a subject only partly understood by scientists, is
A B C
extraordinary complicated.
D
37.While the process of photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used
A B
to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and organic compounds.
C D
38.The globe artichoke was known as a delicacy at least 2,500 years ago, and records of its
A B C
cultivation date from fifteenth century.
D
39. Humans do not constitute the only species endowed with intelligence: the higher animals also
A B C
have considerably problem-solving abilities.
D
40. Many of species of milkweed are among the most dangerous of poisonous plants, while others
A B C
have little, if any, toxicity.
D
