STRUCTURE (Test 38) C.

can become
D. being
1. The large compound eyes of the dragonfly ___ to see moving 7. Small microcomputers of today can process ________ their
objects almost eighteen feet away. predecessors, which were twenty times their size.
A. to enable it A. in the same amount of information
B. enabling it B. and have the same amount of information
C. it enables C. the information is the same as
D. enable it D. the same amount of information as
2. Adhesive, such as glue, tape, and gum, vary with the purpose ___ 8. The total production of bushels of corn in the United States is
intended. ________ all other cereal crops combined.
A. they were for A. more as
B. for they were B. more than that of
C. which were they C. more of
D. for which they were D. more that
3. In the Osage tribe of Oklahoma, beaded belts _____ who held a 9. If humans were totally deprived of sleep, they ________
high social status. hallucinations, anxiety, coma, and eventually, death.
A. only by women were fashioned A. would experience
B. by women were fashioned only B. experience
C. were fashioned only by women C. would have experienced
D. were by women fashioned only D. had experienced
4. The wood of the holly tree, close-grained and very hard, _____ for 10. Only when it rains for many days ________.
musical instruments, furniture, and interior design. A. is there a flood.
A. is used B. there a flood is.
B. uses C. is a flood there.
C. used D. there is a flood.
D. is using 11. On Mercator's maps, the far northern and southern polar regions
5. Because its leaves remain green long after being picked, are ________.
rosemary ___ associated with the idea of remembrance. A. greatly exaggerated in area.
A. becomes B. exaggerating greatly in area.
B. became C. greatly exaggerate in area.
C. becoming D. great exaggeration in area.
D. to become 12. Only one mammal, ________ is known to bear routinely four
6. It was proposed by the new member on the committee that identical young.
membership fees ________ reduced. A. it is the armadillo
A. are about B. being the armadillo
B. will be C. which the armadillo

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13. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when ________ to at least 62¦C. D. because of
A. it be heated 19. Using a globe can be ________ it is educational.
B. it heated A. enjoyable
C. it is heated B. to enjoy as
D. it will be heated C. as enjoyable
14. Before a person may drive a car on a public highway, it is D. as enjoyable as
necessary that he ________ a driving test. 20. Keynes argued that to avoid an economic depression the
A. take government ________ spending and lower interest rates.
B. is taking A. is
C. took B. higher
D. takes C. increase
15. Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" ________ $39.9 million, three times the D. should increase
previous record.
A. once sold for WRITTEN EXPRESSION (TEST 38)
B. for sale once 21. Both cattle or railroads helped build the city of Chicago.
C. selling for once
D. for once sold 22. Champlain founded a base at Port Royal in 1605, and builds a
16. ________ the fifth largest among the nine planets that make up
our solar system. fort at Quebec three years later.
A. The Earth is
23. The name "Vitamine" is proposed by Casimir Funk,
B. The Earth being
C. That the Earth is
who suspected that these substances were essential for life.
D. Being the Earth
17. In carpentry, ________ "ceiling joists" refers to boards hung down 24. A progress has been made toward finding a cure for AIDS.
from unfinished ceilings as the backbone from which finishing
materials can be hung. 25. Too much water makes plants turning brown on the edges
A. to the term
B. is termed of their leaves.
C. the term
D. to term 26. Patients suffering from encephalitis have an inflammatory of
18. Abolitionist writer and former slave, Frederick Douglas, was
impressed with Lincoln ________ he found him entirely free of the brain.
prejudice.
A. because
B. who

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27. As television images of the astronauts showed, even for trained 36. Only once before this century a comet as big as

professionals who are used to move about in a lessened this one had come so close to the Earth.

gravitational field, there are still problems. 37. Each salmon remember the precise taste of the water in

28. State universities bear the name of their state, which it hatched.

and its achievements are recognized as state achievements. 38. Suzy had better to change her study habits if she

29. In 1961 America's first manned spacecraft launched. hopes to be admitted to a good university.

30. The tongue is the organ of taste, and is crucial for 39. Doctors agree that the fluid around the spinal cord helps

chewing, swallowed, and speaking. the nourish the brain.

31. Like jazz, African-American quilts are lively and spontaneously, 40. Forgetting something usually mean an inability to retrieve the

but unlike jazz, the quilts are just now starting material that is still stored somewhere in the memory.

to receive recognition.

32. Some jellyfish make daily journeys from deep water to the surface

and back, while others migrate horizontal.

33. The concept of lift in aerodynamics refers to the

relationship among the increased speed of air over the top of a

wing and the higher pressure of the slower air underneath.

34. A few tiles on Skylab were the only equipments that failed to

perform well in outer space.

35. Although he was happily married he preferred

spending lately hours at work to spend evenings lazily at home.