STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Structure

DIRECTIONS: 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 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. Fill in the space so that the letter inside the
oval cannot be seen.

1. The hard palate ____ between the mouth

and nasal passages. 5. When fluid accumulates against the eardrum,
(A) forming a partition a second more insidious type of ____.
(B) a partition forms (A) otitis media may develop
(C) forms a partition
(B) developing otitis media
(D) a forrn and a partition
(C) the development of otitis media
(D) to develop otitis media
2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and
Rick Blaine in Casablanca ____ of Humphrey
Bogart's more famous roles. 6. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in
(A) they are two the United States, newspapers invited the
(B) two of them are public to help determine where ____ placed
(C) two of them after its arrival.
(D) are two (A) should the statue be
(B) the statue being
3. _____ ,the outermost layer of skin, is about (C) it should be the statue
as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the (D) the statue should be
skin.
7. A stock ____ at an inflated price is called a
(A) It is the epidermis
watered stock.
(B) The epidermis
(A) is issued
(C) In the epidermis
(B) issued
(D) The epidermis is
(C) it is issued
(D) which issued
4. During the Precambrian period, the
Earth's crust formed, and life ____ in the seas.
8. Acidic lava flows readily and tends to
(A) first appeared
cover much larger areas, while basic lava ____
(B) the first to appear
(A) viscous
(C) the first appearance
(B) more viscous
(D) appearing first
(C) is more viscous
(D) it is more viscous

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9. 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

10. ____ 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

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. 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

13. Not only ____ generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors.
(A) a nuclear breeder reactor
(B) it is a nuclear breeder reactor
(C) does a nuclear breeder reactor
(D) is a nuclear breeder reactor

14. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and filmmaking techniques ____ as the
Hollywood standard.
(A) that established
(B) that became established
(C) what established
(D) what became established

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15. ____ be needed, the water basin would need to be dammed.
(A) Hydroelectric power should
(B) When hydroelectric power
(C) Hydroelectric power
(D) Should hydroelectric power

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Written Expression

DIRECTIONS: 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. 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.

16. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite’s complex life cycle.
A B C D

17. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton.

A B C D

18. Alexander Hamilton's advocacy of a strong national government brought he into bitter conflict
A B C D
with Thomas Jefferson.

19. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National Museum of Natural History's
A B

collection of biological, geological, archeological, and anthropology treasures.

C D

20. After George Washington married widow Martha Curtis, the couple comes to reside at Mount
A B C D
Vernon.

21. Rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as cutting edge at this stage in their development.
A B C D

22. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shyness similar to that in humans.

A B C D

23. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly.
A B C D

24. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reach only by boat or
A B C D
plane.

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25. Quarter horses were develop in eighteenth-century Virginia to race on courses short of about a
A B C
quarter of a mile in length.
D

26. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound.

A B C D

27. Since the dawn of agriculture 9,000 years ago, only a few animal species had been domesticated.
A B C D

28. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and
A B
most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country.
C D

29. The island of Kauai has much streams, some of which have worn deep canyons into the rock.
A B C D

30. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through some materials but not through other.
A B C D

31. Surrounded by forested mountain slopes are the town of Telluride, a former gold-mining town
A B C
7,500 feet above sea level
D

32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of every moviegoer's experience in
A
the era before television, offer an unique record of the events of the 1930s.
B C D

33. Probably the best known of all dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus was larger and last of the meat-
A B C D
eating carnosaurs.

34. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets.
A B C D

35. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making banjos in Boston in the late
A B C D
1870s.

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36. Methane in wet lands comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
A B C D

37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today bears
A B C
his name.
D

38. Edward McDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as "To a Wild Rose"
A B C D
and "To a Water Lily."

39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are live
A B C
and have feelings.
D

40. Newtonian physics accounts from the observation of the orbits of the planets and moons.
A B C D

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