COMPLETE TEST DT + CT-2 - B
SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Time : 25 minutes
This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize
language that is appropriate for standard written English.
There are two types of questions in this section, with special
directions for each type.
Structure
Directions: These questions are incomplete sentences.
Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases,
marked (A), (B), (C), and (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.
Look at the following examples.
Example I
The president ____ the elections by a landslide.
(A) won
(B) he won
(C) yesterday
(D) fortunately
The sentence should read, “ The president won the election
by a landslide.” Therefore, you should choose answer (A).
Sample Answer
A B C D
Example II
When _______ the conference?
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(A) the doctor attended
(B) did the doctor attend
(C) the doctor will attend
(D) the doctor’s attendance
The sentence should read, ”When did the doctor attend the
conference?” Therefore, you should choose answer (B)
Sample Answer
A B C D
1. ______ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it
does overhead is merely an optical illusion.
(A) The Moon
(B) That the Moon
(C) When the Moon
(D) The Moon which
2. ______ and terrifying, coral snakes can grow to 4 feet
(1.2 meters) in length.
(A) they are extremely poisonous
(B) the poison is extreme
(C) extremely poisonous
(D) an extreme amount of poison
3. ______ , the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as
a sheet of paper over most of the skin.
(A) it is the epidermis
(B) the epidermis
(C) in the epidermis
(D) the epidermis is
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4. Seismic reflection profiling has ______ the ocean floor is
underlain by a thin layer of nearly transparent
sediments.
(A) reveal that
(B) revealed that
(C) the revelation of
(D) revealed about
5. The Rose Bowl, ______ place on New Year’s Day, is the
oldest postseason collegiate football game in the United
States.
(A) takes
(B) which takes
(C) it takes
(D) took
6. According to the World Health Organization, ______
there to be an outbreak of any of the six most dangerous
diseases, this could be cause for quarantine.
(A) were
(B) they were
(C) there were
(D) were they
7. ______ off the Hawaiian coastline are living others are
dead.
(A) Coral reefs
(B) Some types of coral reefs
(C) There are many types of coral reefs
(D) While some types of coral reef
8. Acidic lava flows readily and tends to cover much larger
areas, while basic lava ______.
(A) viscous
(B) more viscous
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(C) is more viscous
(D) it is more viscous
9. As ______ in Greek and Roman mythology, harpies were
frightful monsters that were half woman and half bird.
(A) described
(B) to describe
(C) description
(D) describing
10. Sam Spade in The maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in
Casablanca ______ of Humphrey Bogart’s more famous
roles.
(A) they are two
(B) two of them are
(C) two of them
(D) are two
11. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for
silkworms, ______ silk fabrics are woven.
(A) whose cocoons
(B) from cocoons
(C) whose cocoons are from
(D) from whose cocoons
12. The greenhouse effect occurs ______ heat radiating
from the Sun.
(A) when does the Earth’s atmosphere trap
(B) does the earth’s atmosphere trap
(C) when the earth’s atmosphere traps
(D) the earth’s atmosphere traps
13. Oil shale is a soft, fine-grained sedimentary rock ______
oil and natural gas are obtained.
(A) from
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(B) is from
(C) is which
(D) from which
14. The hard palate _______ between the mouth and nasal
passages.
(A) forming a partition
(B) a partition forms
(C) forms a partition
(D) a form and a partition
15. Experiments ______ represent a giant step into the
medicine of the future.
(A) using gene therapy
(B) use gene therapy
(C) they use
(D) gene therapy uses
Written Expression
Directions: In these questions, each sentence has four
underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the
sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one
underlined word 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.
Look at the following examples.
Example I
The four string on a violin are tuned in fifths.
A B C D
The sentence should read, “ The four strings on a violin are
tuned in fifths. “ Therefore, you should choose answer (B).
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Sample Answer
A B C D
Example II
The research for the book roots taking Alex Haley
A B C
twelve years.
D
The sentence should read, “ The research for the book Roots
took Alex Haley twelve years. “ Therefore you should choose
answer (C).
Sample Answer
A B C D
16. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which
formed part of every moviegoer’s experience in the era
A
before television, offer an unique record of the events of
B C D
the1930s.
17. J. H. Pratt used group therapy early in the past century
A B
when he brought tuberculosis patients together to
C
discuss its disease.
D
18. Alexander Hamilton’s advocacy of a strong national
A B
government brought he into bitter conflict with
C D
Thomas Jefferson.
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19. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies
have recently been doing home equity loans with
A B
greater frequency than ever before.
C D
20. The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous
A B
known as Darcy’s Store.
C D
21. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive
A B C D
proton.
22. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National
Monument is among the largest and most elaborate
A B C
cliff dwellings in the country.
D
23. The United States has import all carper wools in recent
A B
years because domestic wools are too fine and soft
C D
for carpets.
24. Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations
enable them to slash theirs costs and expand.
A B C D
25. Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents
A B C
except Antarctica.
D
26. Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz
A
performer as well as a classical musician.
B C D
27. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn
A B C
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School, Martha Graham is moving to the staff of
D
the Eastman School in 1925.
28. Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in
A B C
various types of coins.
D
29. The island of Kauai has much streams, some of which
A B
have worn deep canyons into the rock.
C D
30. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through
A B
some materials but not through other.
C D
31. Surrounded by forested mountain slopes are the town of
A B
Telluride, a former Gold-mining town 7,500 feet
C
above sea level.
D
32. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one
A B C
stage of the parasite’s complex life cycle.
D
33. Probably the best known of all dinosaurs, the
A B
Tyrannosaurus was larger and last of the meat-eating
C D
carnosaurs.
34. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not
A B
have nets.
C D
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35. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks
A
has begun making banjos in Boston in the late 1870s.
B C D
36. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore
A
Memorial and worked on project from 1925 until
B C
his death in 1941.
D
37. It is proving less costly and more profitably for
A B
drug makers to market directly to patients.
C D
38. Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have
A B
on occasion mined.
C D
39. That water has a very high specific heat means that,
A B
without a large temperature change, water can
add or lose a large number of heat.
C D
40. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the
A B
National Museum of Natural History’s collection of
C
biological, geological, archaeological, and anthropology
D
treasures.
