Directions Structure and Written Expression part 1
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.
1. Tourism is ----- leading source of income for many coastal communities.
2. Although thunder and lightning are produced at the same time, light waves travel faster ----------, so we see the lightning before we hear the thunder.
3. Beef cattle ------ of all livestock for economic growth in the North American economy.
4. The discovery of the halftone process in photography in 1881 made it—————-photographs in books and newspapers.
5. Flag Day is a legal holiday only in the state of Pennsylvania, -----, according to tradition, Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag.
6. ——---- vastness of the Grand Canyon, it is difficult to capture it in a single photograph.
7. Speciation, -------, results when an animal population becomes isolated by some factor, usually geographic.
8. In its pure state antimony has no important uses, but ------------ with other substances, it is an extremely useful metal.
9. The dawn redwood appears ------------ some 100 million years ago in northern forests around the world.
10. Beginning in the Middle Ages, composers of Western music used a system of notating their compositions———-------be performed by musicians.
11.Civil rights are the freedoms and rights ---------------- as a member of a community, state, or nation.
12. Richard Wright enjoyed success and influence ---------- among Black American writers of his era.
13.---------- of large mammals once dominated the North American prairies: the American bison and the pronghorn antelope.
14. Franklin D. Roosevelt was——————the great force of radio and the opportunity it provided for taking government policies directly to the people.
15. During the late fifteenth century, ------------- of the native societies of America had professions in the fields of arts and crafts.
Directions Structure and Written Expression part 2
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.
16. Jane Addams, social worker, author, and spokeswoman for the peace and women's suffiage movements, she reccived the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her humanitarian achievements.
17. The public ceremonies of the North American Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in the Southwest.
18. In some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female, performs the task of caring for the young.
19. When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Evert was the most famous woman athlete in the United States.
20. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their armies.
21. Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence based on eating habits, posture, and skeletal structural suggests some may have been warm-blooded.
22. Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, government programs such as Social Security have been built into the economy to help avert severity business declines.
23. In the 1970s, consumer activists succeeded in promoting laws that set safety standards for automobiles, children's clothing, and a widely range of household products.
24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological parks where animals roams freely and people watch from across a moat.
25. In primates, as in other mammal, hairs around the eyes and ears and in the nose, prevent dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.
26. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800s, in a decades preceding the United States Civil War.
27. The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order, blending fact, fiction, adventure, and subtle symbolic.
28. Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of that element contains, called its atomic number.
29. The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed for flight, being both lightly in weight and remarkably strong
30. From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her writing career, producing of her three most popular novels.
31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles.
32. Although diamond is colorless and transparent when pure, it may appear in various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black, if it is contaminated with other material.
33. Comparative anatomy is concerned te the structural diferences among animal forms.
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves, vibrations that travel from its point of origin through Earth or along its surface
35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900s and eventually replaced once-popular type of fat, gas, or oil lamps for almost every purpose.
36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Icefield covers area of 120 square miles and is 3,300 feet thick in some places.
37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the musical Oklahoma! extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as familiar with the traditional forms of operetta and musical comedy.
38. Although traditional flutes are among the world's oldest musical instruments, but the flute used in orchestras today is one of the most technically sophisticated.
39. Rice, which it still forms the staple diet of much of the world's population, grows best in hot, wet lands.
40. Federal funds appropriated for art in the 1930s made possible hundreds of murals and statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States.
