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 outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin.
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2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca_____ of Humphrey Bogart’s more famous roles.
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3. The compound microscope has not one_____ two lenses.
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4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth's crust formed, and life_____ in the seas.
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5. The hard palate forms a partition_____and nasal passages.
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6. Conditions required for seed germination include abundant water, an adequate supply of oxygen, and______
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7. When fluid accumulates against the eardrum, a second more insidious type of______.
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8. Some general theories of motivation_____of central motives, from which other motives develop.
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9. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where_____placed after its arrival.
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10. Hydroelectric power can be produced by_____and using tidal flow to run turbines.
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11. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, _____ of the Union and the Confederacyduring the Civil War, were both born in Kentucky.
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12. A stock_____ at an inflated price is called a watered stock.
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13. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms,_____ silk fabrics are woven.
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14. Not only_____ generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors.
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15. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and filmmaking techniques_____ as the Hollywood standard.
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16. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite’s
complex life cycle.
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17. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton
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18. The ankle joint occur where the lower ends of the tibia and fibula slot neatly around the talus.
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19. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the operate of motorcycles as well as automobiles.
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20. The neocortex is, in evolutionary terms, most recent layer of the brain.
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21. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s collection of biological, geological, archeological, and anthropology treasures.
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22. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple came to resides at Mount Vernon.
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23. At this stage in their development, rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as cutting edge.
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24. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shy similar to those in humans.
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25. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly.
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26. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reach only by boat or plane
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27. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on
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28. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound
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29. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country.
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30. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through some materials but not through other.
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31. The number of wild horses on Assateague are increasing lately, resulting in overgrazed marsh and dune grasses
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32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of every moviegoers experience in the era before television, offer an unique record of the events of the 1930s
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33. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets.
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34. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making banjos in Boston in the late 1870s.
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35. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United States, lived in the White House and of least thirty-seven other residences.
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36. Methane in wetlands comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
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37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today bears his name.
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38. Edward MacDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as “To a Wild Rose" and “To a Water Lily.”
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39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are live and have feelings.
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40. Newtonian physics accounts for the observing orbits of the planets and the moons.
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