Standardized Test of English Proficiency

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SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
(25 minutes)

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for
standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special
directions for each type.

STRUCTURE
1. _________, the outermost layer of skin, is 7. When fluid accumulates against the
about as thick as a sheet of paper over most eardrum, a second more insidious type of
of the skin. _____.
A. It is the epidermis C. The epidermis A. otitis media may develop
B. In the epidermis D. The epidermis is B. developing otitis media
C. the development of otitis media
2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick D. to develop otitis media
Blaine in Casablanca ____________ of
Humphrey Bogar’s more famous roles. 8. Some general theories of motivation
A. they are two C. two of them _______ of central motives, from which
B. two of them are D. are two other motives develop.
A. identify a limited number
3. The compound microscope has not one B. identification of a limited number
_____ two lenses. C. identify a limited amount
A. and also C. and there are D. identifying a limited number
B. but D. but there are
9. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the
4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth’s United States, newspapers invited the
crust formed, and life _____ in the seas. public to help determine where ____
A. first appeared C. is first appearing placed after its arrival.
B. first to appear D. appearing A. should the statue be
B. the statue being
5. The hard palate forms a partition _____ and C. it should be the statute
nasal passages. D. the statue should be
A. The mouth
B. Between the mouth 10. Hydroelectric power can be produced by
C. Is between the mouth ____ and using tidal flow to run turbines.
D. It is between the mouth A. water basins are dammed.
B. damming water basins
6. Conditions required for seed germination C. to dam water basins
include abundant water, an adequate supply D. dams in water basins
of oxygen, and ____
A. the temperatures must be appropriate 11. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis,
B. having appropriate temperatures _____ of the Union and Confederacy
C. appropriate temperatures during the Civil War, were both born in
D. appropriately temperate. Kentucky.
A. they were opposing presidents
B. were opposing presidents

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C. opposing presidents
D. presidents opposed
12. A stock ___ at an inflated price is called a 14. Not only ______ generate energy, but it
watered stock. also produces fuel for other fission
A. issued c. it is issued reactors.
B. is issued D. which issued A. a nuclear breeder reactor
B. it is a nuclear breeder reactor
13. The leaves of the white mulberry provide C. does a nuclear breeder reactor
food for silkworms, ______ silk fabrics are D. is a nuclear breeder reactor
woven.
A. whose cocoons 15. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the
B. from cocoons stylistics features and filmmaking
C. whose cocoons are from techniques ____ as the Hollywood
D. from whose cocoons standard.
A. that established
B. that became established
C. what established
D. what became established

WRITTEN EXPRESSION

16. Mosquitos will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite’s complex life
A B C D
cycle.

17. The counterpart of a negative electron is the positive proton.

A B C D

18. The ankle joint occur where the lower ends of the tibia and fibula slot neatly around the
A B C D
Talus.

19. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the operate of motorcycles
A B C
as well as automobiles.
D

20. The neocortex is, in evolutionary terms, most recent layer of the brain.
A B C D

21. There are more than eghty-four million specimens in the National Museum of Natural
A B
History’s collection of biological, geological, archeological, and anthropology treasures.
C D

22. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple came to resides at
A B C D

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Mount Vernon.

23. At this stage in their development, rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as cutting
A B C D
edge.

24. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shy similar to those in humans.

A B C D

25. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly.
A B C D

26. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reach only by
A B C D
boat or plane.

27. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on the
A B C D
light-sensitive tube of a television camera.

28. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound.

A B C D

29. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and most
A B
elaborate cliff dwelling in the country.
C D

30. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through some materials but not through
A B C
other.
D

31. The number of wild horses on Assateague are increasing lately, resulting in overgrazed
A B C D
marsh and dune grasses.

32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of every moviegoer’s
A
experience in the era before television, offer an unique record of the events of the 1930s.
B C D

33. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets.
A B C D

34. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making banjos in Boston
A B C
in the late 1870s.
D

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35. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United States,
A
lived in the White House and of least thirty-seven other residences.
B C D
36. Methane in Wetland comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
A B C D

37. Alois Alzeimer made the first observers of telltale signs of the disease that today bears
A B C
his name.
D
38. Edward MacDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as “To a Wild
A B C D
Rose” and “To a Water lily.”

39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind
A B
are live and have feelings.
C D

40. Newtonian physics accounts for the observing orbits of the planets and the moons.
A B C D

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