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1. Portland, Maine, is _____ the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his early years.

 

(A) where

 

(B) it where

 

(C) where is

 

(D) which is where

 

2. As consumers' response to traditional advertising techniques declines, businesses are beginning _____ new methods of reaching customers.

 

(A) the development that

 

(B) it developing

 

(C) develop

 

(D) to develop

 

3. The knee is _____ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.

 

(A) more likely to be damaged than

 

(B) likely to be more than damaged

 

(C) more than likely to be damaged

 

(D) to be damaged more than likely

 

4. The quince is an attractive shrub or small tree _____ closely related to the apple and pear trees.

 

(A) is

 

(B) that is

 

(C) that it is

 

(D) is that which

 

5. Many gases, including the nitrogen and oxygen in air, _____ color or odor.

 

(A) have no

 

(B) which have no

 

(C) not having

 

(D) they do not have

 

6. The American Academy of Poets, _____ the 1930's, provides financial assistance to support working poets.

 

(A) when it was founded

 

(B) was founded

 

(C) which was founded in

 

(D) was founded in

 

7. During the Pleistocene glacial periods _____ portions of the Earth where plant and animal life flourished making it possible for people to subsist.

 

(A) the

 

(B) it was

 

(C) there were

 

(D) have there been

 

8. The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, in which she often makes her family members _____, are an affectionate and incisive representation of the African American experience.

 

(A) are her subjects

 

(B) her subjects

 

(C) are subjects

 

(D) which her subjects.

 

9. Hubble's law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies, _____ is their relative speed of separation.

 

(A) the greatest

 

(B) the greater

 

(C) greater than

 

(D) as great as

 

10. The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil, _____ the vegetable's strong taste.

 

(A) which the source of

 

(B) that the source is

 

(C) the source of

 

(D) of the source is

 

11. A regional writer with a gift for dialect, _____ her fiction with the eccentric, comic, but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

 

(A) and Eudora Welty is peopling

 

(B) Eudora Welty peoples

 

(C) because Eudora Welty peoples.

 

(D) Eudora Welty, to people.

 

12. Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor the air contains at a certain temperature _____ with the amount it could hold at that temperature.

 

(A) to compare

 

(B) compared

 

(C) comparing

 

(D) compares

 

13. Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americas arrived by crossing the land bridge that connected Siberia and _____ more than 10,000 years ago.

 

(A) this is Alaska now

 

(B) Alaska is now

 

(C) is now Alaska

 

(D) what is now Alaska.

 

14. Fibers of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun into thread _____ woven into textile fabrics.

 

(A) as are they

 

(B) when to be

 

(C) that they are

 

(D) if they are to be

 

15. Margaret Brent, because of her skill in managing estates, became _____ largest landholders in colonial Maryland.

 

(A) what the

 

(B) one of the

 

(C) who the

 

(D) the one that

 

16. Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard against which the wives of all United States

 

A B C

 

Presidents since have uated.

 

D

 

17. The Armory Show, held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of

 

A B C

 

modern European art.

 

D

 

18. Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the

 

A B C

 

fruit will not decay too rapidly.

 

D

 

19. In 1852, Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen

 

A B C

 

years of old to attend school.

 

D

 

20. The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable

 

A B

 

evolutionary relationship of the different species to each another.

 

C D

 

21. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war and

 

A B C

 

through diplomacy.

 

D

 

22. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings

 

A B

 

in the United States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

C D

 

23. Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of

 

A B C

 

Mexico's winter wetlands.

 

D

 

24. Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin, who son George

 

A B

 

acquired land at the junction of the Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.

 

C D

 

25. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the

 

A B C

 

National Gallery of Art, where it is now locating.

 

D

 

26. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border, have been

 

A B C

 

known to reach 90 of degrees Celsius.

 

D

 

27. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's

 

A B C

 

orbital plane, a solar eclipse occurs.

 

D

 

28. Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear

 

A B

 

rhythm, simple modelings, and harmonies of clear color.

 

C D

 

29. Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of

 

A B

 

energy is derived from sunlight.

 

C D

 

30. The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with

 

A B C

 

tenderness, grace, and wit.

 

D

 

31. In the nineteenth century, women used quilts to inscribe their responses to social,

 

A B C

 

economic, and politics issues.

 

D

 

32. Fossils in 500-million-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the Cambrian

 

A B

 

period were mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to form shells.

 

C D

 

33. Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes

 

A B

 

because they are not cutting off by the horizon.

 

C D

 

34. Hot at the equator causes the air to expand, rise, and flow toward the poles.

 

A B C D

 

35. Although research has been ongoing since 1930, the existence of ESP- perception

 

A B

 

and communication without the use of sight, hear, taste, touch, or smell - is still disputed. C D

 

 

36. As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the United

 

A B

 

States comes from marketing the films abroad.

 

C D

 

37. Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing rhythms. A B C D

 

 

33. The walls around the city of Quebec, which was originally a fort military, still

 

A B

 

stand, making Quebec the only walled city in North America.

 

C D

 

34. The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line

 

A B C

 

techniques made them cheaper to produce.

 

D

 

35. The ballad is characterized by informal diction, by a narrative largely dependent

 

A B

 

on action and dialogue, by thematic intense, and by stress on repetition.

 

C D