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1． The role of the ear is ____ acoustic disturbances into neural signals suitable for transmission to
the brain.
(A) to code
(B) so that coded
(C) coded
(D) it coding

2. The imagist movement in poetry arose during the second decade of the twentieth century
____against romanticism.
(A) when a revolt
(B) as a revolt
(C) a revolt was
(D) that a revolt

3. Virtually ____ species have biological clocks that regulate their metabolism over a 24-hour period.
(A) all there are
(B) all
(C) all are
(D) they all

4. According to United States criminal law, insanity may relieve a person from the usual legal
consequences____.
(A) what his or her acts have
(B) of his or her acts are
(c ) of his or her acts
(D) what of his or her acts

5. In addition to ____a place where business deals are made, a stock exchange collects statistics,
publishes prices quotations, and sets rules and standards for trading.
(A) being
(B) it is
(C ) that which
(D) where is

6. The first inhabitants of the territories ____Canada came across the Bering Strait and along the
edge of the Arctic ice.
(A) make up that now
(B) make up now that
(C ) that make up now
(D) that now make up

7.____ need for new schools following the Second World War that provided the sustained thrust for
the architectural program in Columbus, Indiana.
(A) Since the
(B) To be the
(C ) The
(D) It was the

8. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, ____high percentage of protein.

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9. Hail is formed when a drop of rain is carried by an updraft to an altitude where ____ to freeze it.
(A) is the air cold enough
(B) the air cold enough
(C ) the cold enough air
(D) the air is cold enough

10. Geometrically, the hyperbolic functions are related to the hyperbola, ____ the trigonometric
functions are related to the circle.
(A) just as
(B) same
(c ) similar to
(D) and similar

11. ____, Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, having erupted dozens of times since
1952.
(A) The big island of Hawaii’s location
(B) Locates the big island of Hawaii
(C ) Located on the big island of Hawaii
(D) On the big island of Hawaii’s location

12. Not until the eighteenth century ____ the complex chemistry of metallurgy.
(A) when scientists began to appreciate
(B) did scientists begin to appreciate
(C )scientists who were beginning to appreciate
(D) the appreciation of scientists began

13. ____ 1810, water-powered textile manufacturing arrived in New Hampshire with the founding of
a company in Manchester that manufactured cotton and wool.
(A) Early
(B) In the early
(C ) As early as
(D) When early

14. The settings of Eudora Welty’s stories may be rather limited, but ____about human nature is
quite broad.
(A) exposes
(B) exposes that
(C ) she exposes
(D) what she exposes

15. Lichens grow extremely well in very cold parts of the world ____plants can survive.
(A) where few other
(B) few others
(C ) where do few others
(D) there are few others

16．The pear tree has simple, oval leaves that are smoother and shinier than them of the apple.

17．In the orbit of a planet around the Sun, the point closest to the Sun is called it the perihelion.

18．In the early 1900’s, Roy Harris created and promoted a distinctly American style of classical
music and greatly influenced a number of composer in the United States.

19．The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of North American ports, particular Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia, as major commercial centers within the
British empire.

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20．Guitarlike instruments have exist since ancient times, but the first written mention of the guitar
itself is from the fourteenth century.

21．The law of biogenesis is the principle what all living organisms are derived from a parent or
parents.

22．Onyx is a mineral that can be recognized its regular and straight parallel bands of white, black,
or brown.

23．There are as many as 200 million insects for every human beings, and in fact their total
number exceeds that of all other animals taken together.

24．Native to South America and cultivated there for thousands of years, the peanut is said to have
introduced to North America by early explorers.

25．Originally canoes were made by the hollowing out of logs and used were for combat as well as
transport.

26．Among the symptoms of measles, which takes about twelve days to incubate, are a high fever,
swelling of glands in the neck, a cough, and sensitive to light.

27．Ice crystals in a glacier tends to melt and recrystallize within a brief moment of travel on a
downhill glide.

28．Photograph was revolutionized in 1851 by the introduction of the collodion process for making
glass negatives.

29．The piano is a stringed musical instrument in which the strings are strike by felt-covered
hammers controlled by a board.

30．The sounds used in human languages to create meaning consist of small variation in air
pressure can be sensed by the ear.

31．The mountains, especially the Rocky Mountains, formerly constituted a seriously barrier to
east-west trade in British Columbia.

32．Telescope are frequently used in astronomy to collect light from a celestial object, bring the
light into focus, and producing a magnified image.
33．Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamond can be cut only by another diamonds.

34．There are about 350 species and subspecies of birds in danger of become extinct, with a large
number of them, 117 in all, found on oceanic islands.

35．The nineteenth-century romantic movement in art was partially a reaction to what was
perceived as overemphasis on reasonable and order in neoclassicism.

36．Like triglycerides, cholesterol is a type of fat that is both consumed in the diet but manufactured
by the body.

37．Both the United States silver dollar and half-dollar, first minted in 1794, had a figure of Liberty
on one side and a eagle on the reverse side.

38．For an advertisement to be effective, its production and placement must to be based on a

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39．While photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water,
carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds.

40．The Democratic Party, the most oldest existing political party in the United States, has played a
vital role in the nation’s history.
ANSWERS:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A B B C A D D B D A
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
C B C D A D D D B A
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
B A B D C D A A C C
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
B D D B D D D C A A