Pre-test Structure And Written Expression
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Questions
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By English_emc
Question Excerpt
| 1. | The North Pole ______ a latitude of 90 degrees north. |
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| 2. | The city of Beverly Hills is surrounded on ______ the city of Los Angeles. |
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| 3. | ______ greyhound, can achieve speeds up to thirty-six miles per hour: |
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| 4. | Marmots spend their time foraging among meadow plants and flowers or _____ on rocky cliffs. |
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| 5. | The greenhouse effect occurs ______ heat radiated from the Sun. |
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| 6. | The Rose Bowl, ______ place on New Year’s Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate football game in the United States. |
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| 7. | Experiments _____ represent a giant step into the medicine of the future. |
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| 8. | ______ off the Hawaiian coastline are living, others are dead. |
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| 9. | Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark gray clouds ______ forebode rain. |
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| 10. | Some economists now suggest that home equity loans are merely a new trap to push consumers beyond ______ . |
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| 11. | People who reverse the letters of the words ______ to read suffer from dyslexia. |
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| 12. | Featured at the Henry Ford Museum ______ of antique cars dating from 1865. |
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| 13. | Rubber ______ from vulcanized silicons with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber. |
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| 14. | ______ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion. |
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| 15. | According to the World Health Organization, ______ any of the six most dangerous diseases to break out, it could be cause for quarantine. |
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| 16. | On the floor of the Pasific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains A B C more than a mile beneath sea level. D |
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| 17. | Because of the flourish with which John Hancock signed the A Declaration of Independence, his name become synonymous with B C D signature. |
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| 18. | Segregation in public schools was declare unconstitutional by the A B C Supreme Court in 1954. D |
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| 19. | Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude about twenty-three times that of the Sun. A B C D |
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| 20. | Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together. A B C D |
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| 21. | Some of the most useful resistor materials are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys. A B C D |
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| 22. | The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy’s Store. A B C D |
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| 23. | Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in various types of coins. A B C |
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| 24. | J. H Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought tuberculosis patients together to discuss its disease. |
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| 25. | The United States has import all carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools are too fine and soft for carpets. A B C D |
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| 26. | Irving Berlin wrote “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” while serving in a U.S. Army during World War I. A B C D |
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| 27. | Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable them to slash theirs costs and expand. A B C D |
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| 28. | That water has a very high specific heat means that without a large temperature change water can add or lose a large number of A B C D heat. |
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| 29. | Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz performer as well as a classical musician. A B C D |
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| 30. | The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed the first Continental currency. A B C D |
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| 31. | Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century Virginia to race on courses short of about a quarter of a mile in length. A B C D |
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| 32. | No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, A B C Martha Graham has moved to the staff of the Eastman School in D 192 |
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| 33. | Wiiliam Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films. A B C D |
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| 34. | Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, alive wolves roamed across nearly all of North America. A B C D |
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| 35. | During the 1960s the Barkeley campus of the University of California A came to national attention as a result its radical political activity. B C D |
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| 36. | Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and A worked on project from 1925 until his death in 1941. B C D |
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| 37. | It is proving less costly and more profitably for drugmakers to market directly to patients. A B C D |
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| 38. | Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined. A B C D |
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| 39. | Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antartica. A B C D |
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| 40. | Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been A doing home equity loans with greater frequency than ever before. B C D |
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