Structure Exercise

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.

Questions 1-25 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or
phrases. Choose the 'one' word or phrase that best completes the sentence by clicking on it.

In questions 26-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Identify the 'one'
underlined word of phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct by
clicking on it.

Time: 25 minutes including the reading of the directions.

Name *

Maylafaiza Humayra

Class *

PSPD A

PSPD B

PSPD C

NIM *

215070107111062

Structure and Written Expressions

Questions 1-15 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 complete the sentence.

In questions 16-40, 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 or phrase that must be
changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

1. Some snakes lay eggs, but others _____ birth to live offspring. *

(A) give

(B) giving

(C) they give

(D) to have given

2. Because it was so closely related to communication, _____ art form to

develop. *

(A) drawing was probably the earliest

(B) to draw early was probably

(C) early drawing probably

(D) the earliest draw

3. Halley's Comet had its first documented sighting in 240 B.C. in China and
_____ it has been seen from the Earth 29 times. *

(A) after

(B) because of

(C) since then

(D) that is
4. _____ that managers commit in problem solving is jumping to a conclusion
about the cause of a given problem. *

(A) Major errors

(B) Since the major error

(C) The major error

(D) Of the major errors

5. Algonkian-speaking Native Americans greeted the Pilgrims _____ settled

on the eastern shores of what is now New England. *

(A) to whom

(B) of which

(C) who

(D) which

6. The best known books of Ross Macdonald, _____ writer of detective

novels, feature the character Lew Archer, a private detective. *

(A) is the

(B) is an

(C) they are by

(D) the
7. The first building to employ steel skeleton construction, _____. *

(A) Chicago, Illinois, the home of the Home Insurance Company Building completed
in 1885

(B) the Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois, was completed in
1885

(C) because the Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois, was
completed in 1885

(D) the Home Insurance Company Building in Chicago, Illinois, in 1885

8. During the course of its growth, a frog undergoes a true metamorphosis

_____ with a fishlike larval stage. *

(A) begin

(B) began

(C) beginning

(D) is begun

9. Mahalia Jackson, _____ combined powerful vitality with great dignity, was
one of the best-known gospel singers in the United States. *

(A) it was her singing

(B) which songs

(C) who sang

(D) whose singing

10. Precious metals, gems, and ivory have been used to make buttons, but
most buttons are made of _____ wood, glass, or plastic. *

(A) such materials that

(B) materials as such

(C) such materials as

(D) such materials

11. Outside the bright primary rainbow, _____ much fainter secondary
rainbow may be visible. *

(A) so

(B) a

(C) since

(D) still

12. Any critic, teacher, librarian, or poet who hopes to broaden poetry's
audience faces the difficult challenge of persuading skeptical readers _____.
*

(A) that poetry is important today

(B) for poetry to be important today

(C) to be important poetry today

(D) poetry that is important today

13. Following the guidelines for speaking and voting established by the book
Robert's Rules of Order, _____ during meetings. *

(A) and avoid large decision-making organizations' procedural confusion

(B) large decision-making organizations avoid procedural confusion

(C) is procedural confusion avoided by large decision- making organizations

(D) are avoiding procedural contusion in large decision- making organizations

14. Indigo is a vat color, -—— called because it does not dissolve in water. *

(A) which it

(B) it is

(C) but

(D) so

15. Associated with the Denishawn company from 1916 until 1923, Martha
Graham developed a powerful, ------- that was integral to the foundations
of modern dance. *

(A) expressively stylish

(B) a style expressive

(C) stylishly expressive

(D) expressive style

16. _____ any area receives more water than the ground can absorb, the
excess water flows to the lowest level, carrying loose mineral. *

(A) Being

(B) Whenever

(C) When might

(D) Is

17. In 1935 seismologist Charles F. Richter devised _____ for rating the
strength of earthquakes. *

(A) for the numerical scale

(B) the scale is numerical

(C) a numerical scale

(D) a scale of numerical

18. Celluloid and plastics have largely replaced genuine ivory in the
manufacture _____ buttons, billiard balls, and piano keys. *

(A) of such things as

(B) as of such things

(C) such things as of

(D) things as of such

19. The chair may be the oldest type of furniture, _____ its importance has
varied from time to time and from country to country. *

(A) but when

(B) until then

(C) in spite of

(D) although

20. When wood, natural gas, oil, or any other fuel burns, _____ with oxygen
in the air to produce heat. *

(A) combining substances in the fuel

(B) substances in the fuel that combine

(C) substances in the fuel combine

(D) a combination of substances in the fuel

21. _____ 350 species of sharks, and although they are all carnivorous, only a
few species will attack people. *

(A) About

(B) Where about

(C) There are about

(D) About the

22. Do you know where I can take the bus _________ goes to Saint Peter
Cathedral? *

(A) Which

(B) When

(C) Who

(D) That

23. Has Helen reviewed the latest sales report _____________ gave us last
week? *

(A) Who the sales manager

(B) Which the sales manager

(C) That the sales manager

(D) Whose the sales manager

24. The man ___________ received that recommendation letter works for the
government. *

(A) That she

(B) Who she

(C) From whom she

(D) To whom she

25. The researcher __________ doesn't follow ethics can not be considered a
professional. *

(A) Which he

(B) Who

(C) Who he

(D) Whose

26. *

(A) According to

(B) psychological

(C) expresses

(D) listen
27. *

(A) is

(B) alert

(C) well

(D) smell

28. *

(A) faint

(B) resembling

(C) perhaps

(D) know
29. *

(A) commonly

(B) into

(C) which

(D) are believed

30. *

(A) smile

(B) identify

(C) can also

(D) experimental
31. *

(A) musical genius

(B) unconventional

(C) he respected

(D) and performances

32. *

(A) complexity

(B) blending

(C) must be

(D) mixed
33. *

(A) Several

(B) on the

(C) registers

(D) pain

34. *

(A) store

(B) a needle

(C) trust

(D) never
35. *

(A) Although

(B) typical

(C) concerned

(D) systems

36. *

(A) While

(B) for

(C) the

(D) rarity
37. *

(A) an

(B) once

(C) begin

(D) stretching

38. *

(A) to serve

(B) was known

(C) advocacy

(D) urban
39. *

(A) atmospheric

(B) in what

(C) or

(D) object

40. *

(A) which found

(B) a

(C) varying in

(D) from

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