Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Part A
Directions: Items in this part are incomplete sentences. Following each of these sentences,
there are four words or phrases. You should select (A), (B), (C), or (D) that best completes the
sentence. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet.
Example:
Pepsin ____ an enzyme used in digestion.
(A) that
(B) is
(C) of
(D) being
This sentence should properly read "Pepsin is an enzyme used in digestion." You should fill in
(B) on your answer sheet.
Part B
Directions: The items in this part have four underlined words or phrases, (A), (B), (C), and
(D). You must identify the one underlined expression that must be changed for the sentence to
be correct. Then find the number of the question on your answer sheet.
Example:
Lenses may to have either concave or convex shapes.
A B C D
This sentence should read "Lenses may have either concave or convex shapes." You should
therefore select answer (A).
16. Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish because of the males’ bright colors.
A B C D
17. Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United
A B C
States politician.
D
18. On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a
A B C D
mile.
19. Because of the flourish with which John Hancock signed the Declaration of
A
Independence, his name become synonymous with signature.
B C D
20. Segregation in public schools was declare unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
A B C
in 1954.
D
21. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude
A B
about twenty-three times that of the Sun.
C D
22. Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together.
A B C D
23. Some of the most useful resistor material are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys.
A B C D
24. The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy’s Store.
A B C D
25. Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in various types of coins.
A B C D
26. J. H. Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought tuberculosis
A B C
patients together to discuss its disease.
D
27. The United States has import all carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools
A B C
are too fine and soft for carpets.
D
28. Irving Berlin wrote “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” while serving in a
A B C
U.S. Army during World War 1.
D
29. Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable them to slash theirs
A B C
costs and expand.
D
30. That water has a very high specific heat means that without a large temperature
A B
change water can add or lose a large number of heat.
C D
31. Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz performer as well as a
A B C
classical musician.
D
32. The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also
A B C
designed the first Continental currency.
D
33. Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century- Virginia to race
A
on courses short of about a quarter of a mile in length.
B C D
34. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham
A B C
has moved to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.
D
35. William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films.
A B C D
36. Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, alive wolves roamed
A B C
across nearly all of North America.
D
37. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to
A B
national attention as a result its radical political activity.
C D
38. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on
A
project from 1925 until his death in 1941.
B C D
39. It is proving less costly and more profitably for drug makers to market directly to
A B C D
patients.
40. Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined.
A B C D
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