Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported A B C into the United States to combat insect pests.. In the United States among 60 percent of
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1 Pop Art was a movement of the 1950's and 1960's whom imagery was based on readily
A B C
recognized American products and people
D
2 Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported
A B C
into the United States to combat insect pests
D
3 All almost the electricity for industrial use comes from large generators driven by steam
A B C D
turbines
4 The Egyptians first discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and
A B C
improvement its flavor
D
5 During his twelve year there, Ellis Marsalis turned the New Orleans Center for the Creative
A B
Arts into a rich training place for future jazz stars
C D
6 Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other
A B
elements that are often represented at symbols
C D
7 As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St Vincent Millay produced in the 1920's
A B C
increasing gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice
D
8 When a pearl is cut in half and examined under a microscope, but its layers can be seen
A B C D
9 A conductor uses signals and gestures to let the musicians to know when to play various
A B C D
parts of a composition
10 If a glass lizard loses its tails, a new one grows to replace it
A B C D
11 Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs
A B C D
12 It was near end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared
A B C D
13 Martin Luther King Jr.'s magnificent speaking ability enabling him to effectively express
A B C
the demands for social justice for Black Americans
D
14 Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its particularly activity by
A B C studying human motion and physiology
D
15 Gothic Revival architecture has several basis characteristics that distinguish it from other
A B C D
nineteenth-century architectural styles
16 Since rats are destructive and may carry disease, therefore many cities try to exterminate
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17 In the United States among 60 percent of the space on the pages of newspapers is reserved
A B C for advertising
D
18 Recently in the automobile industry, multinational companies have developed to the point A
where such few cars can be described as having been made entirely in one country
B C D
19 Scientists believe that by altering the genetic composition of plants it is possible to develop
A
specimens that are resisting to disease and have increased food value
B C D
20 The purpose of traveler's checks is to protect travelers from theft and accidental lost of
A B C D
money
21 The early periods of aviation in the United States was marked by exhibition flights made by
A B
individual fliers or by teams of performers at country fairs
C D
22 The American anarchist Emma Goldman infused her spirited lectures, publishes, and A
demonstrations with a passionate belief in the freedom of the individual
B C D
23 Being the biggest expanse of brackish water in the world, the Baltic Sea is of special
A B C
interesting to scientists
D
24 The main advertising media include direct mail, radio, television, magazines, and
A B C
newspaper
D
25 While studying the chemistry of human body, Dr Rosalyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize for the
A B
research she conducted on the role of hormones
C D
PRACTICE TEST 2
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correction
1 According to most psychological studies, body language expresses a speaker's emotions and
A B C
attitudes, and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen
D
2 The dachshund is a hardy, alert dog with a well sense of smell
A B C D
3 Quasars, faint celestial objects resembling stars, are perhaps the most distant objects know
A B C D
4 The importance of environmental stimuli in the development of coordination between
A B
sensory input and motor response varies to species to species
C D
Trang 35 A smile can be observed, described, and reliably identify; it can also be elicited and
A B C
manipulated under experimental conditions
D
6 A musical genius, John Cage is noted for his highly unconventional ideas, and he respected
A B C for his unusual compositions and performances
D
7 Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa
A B
beans, which must be ground and mixed with sugar
C D
8 Several million points on the human body registers either cold, heat, pain, or touch
A B C D
9 In the 1800's store owners sold everything from a needle to a plow, trust everyone, and
A B C
never took inventory
D
10 Although they reflect a strong social conscience, Arthur Miller's stage works are typical
A B more concerned with individuals than with systems
C D
11 While highly prized for symbolizing good luck, the four-leaf clover is rarity found in nature
A B C D
12 An involuntary reflex, an yawn is almost impossible to stop once the mouth muscles begin
A B C the stretching action
D
13 Elected to serve in the United States House of Representatives in 1968, Shirley Chisholm A
was known for advocacy the interests of the urban poor
B C D
14 A mirage is an atmospheric optical illusion in what an observer sees a nonexistent body of
A B
water or an image of some object
C D
15 Turquoise, which found in microscopic crystals, is opaque with a waxy luster, varying in
A B C
color from greenish gray to sky blue
D
16 Homo erectus is the name commonly given into the primate species from which humans are
A B C
believed to have evolved
D
17 Today, modern textile mills can manufacture as much fabrics in a few seconds as it once
A B
took workers weeks to produce by hand
C D
18 The Hopi, the westernmost tribe of Pueblo Indians, have traditionally lived large multilevel
A B C
structures clustered in towns
Trang 419 Exploration of the Solar System is continuing, and at the present rate of progress all the
A B
planets will have been contacted within the near 50 years
C D
20 Since their appearance on farms in the United States between 1913 and 1920, trucks have
A B C changed patterns of production and market of farm products
D
21 Antique collecting became a significant pastime in the 1800's when old object began to be
A B C
appreciated for their beauty as well as for their historical importance
D
22 American painter Georgia O'Keeffe is well known as her large paintings of flowers in which
A B single blossoms are presented as if in close-up
C D
23 Despite television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households,
A
Garrison Keillor's Saturday night radio show of folk songs and stories is heard by millions of
B C D people
24 The work which the poet Emma Lazarus is best known is "The New Colossus," which is
A B
inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty
C D
25 In the New England colonies, Chippendale designs were adapted to locally tastes, and
A B
beautiful furniture resulted
C D
26 The Armory, Show held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of modern
A B C D
European art
27 Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will
A B C
not decay too rapidly
D
28 In 1852 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen years of old
A B C D
to attend school
29 The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable evolutionary
A B
relationship of the different species to each another
C D
30 Matthew C Perry, a United States naval commander gained fame not in war and through
A B C
diplomacy
D
Trang 531 One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings in the
A B
Unites States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
C D
32 There of every four migrating water birds in North American visits the Gulf of Mexico's
A B C
winter wetlands
D
33 Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin, who son George acquired land
A B C
at the junction of the ELK and Kanawha rivers in 1787
D
34 Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the National
A B C
Gallery of Art, where it is now locating
D
35 Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border have been known to
A B C
reach 90 of degrees Celsius
D
36 When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's orbital
A B C
plane, a solar eclipse occurs
D
37 Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear rhythm, simple
A B C
modelings, and harmonies of clear color
D
38 Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of energy is
A B
derived from sunlight
C D
39 The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with tenderness,
A B C
grace, and wit
D
40 In the nineteenth century, women used quilts to inscribe their responses to social, economic,
A B C
and politics issues
D
41 Fossils in 500-million-year-old rocks demonstrate that life forms in the Cambrian period
A B
were mostly marine animals capability of secreting calcium to form shells
C D
42 Rainbows in the shape of complete circles are sometimes seen from airplanes because they
A B
are not cutting off by the horizon
C D
43 Hot at the equator causes the air to expand, rise, and flow toward the poles
A B C D
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A B
communication without the use of sight, hear, taste, touch, or smell-is still disputed
C D
45 As many as 50 percent of the income from motion pictures produced in the United States
A B
comes from marketing the films abroad
C D
46 Sleep is controlled by the brain and associated by characteristic breathing rhythms
A B C D
47 The walls around the city of Quebec, which was originally a fort military, still stand, making
A B C
Quebec the only walled city in North America
D
48 The manufacture of automobile was extremely expensive until assembly-line techniques
A B C
made them cheaper to produce
D
49 The ballad is characterized by informal diction, by a narrative largely dependent on action
A B
and dialogue, by thematic intense, and by stress on repetition
C D
50 Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard against which the wives of all United States Presidents
A B C
since have evaluated
D
PRACTICE TEST 3 Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to show the underlined part that needs correction.
1 Gold or silver bullion serves into commerce as mediums of exchange all over the world
A B C D
2 Today's farmers have increased milk production greatly through improved methods of
A B C
breeding, feeding, and manage dairy cattle
D
3 Hypoglycemia is a condition in which a rapidly drop in blood sugar most often results from
A B C
an over-secretion of insulin from the pancreas
D
4 Newborn infants show a distinct preference for human voices over other sounds and also
A B
prefer her own mothers' voices to the voices of strangers
C D
5 The Chippewa and Santee Sioux of the Upper Mississippi River regional have used catlinite
A B
to produce carvings for almost 150 years
C D
6 Absolutely nothing that floats, neither a corked bottle nor a 50,000-ton ships, can escape
A B C D
the effects of water currents
Trang 77 The Wright Brothers were owner of a bicycle shop, and they used a number of bicycle parts
A B
to make the original motorized airplane
C D
8 Gemstones are usually bright, color, opaque or transparent minerals found in the rocks of the
A B C D Earth
9 The modern detective story, in which a detective solves a crime by discovering and
A B
interpretation evidence, is considered to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe's "The
C D
Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841
10 The superintendent of women nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War was Dorothea
A B C D
Dix
11 Slow growth in the early 1900's, linked with rising unemployment, less spend, and meager
A B C
business investments, led many experts to declare a recession
D
12 Orchestrating musical works requires a understanding of the range and characteristics of
A B C
each instrument
D
13 The Canadian province of British Columbia is rich of minerals and, because over 50 percent A
of the land is covered with forests, lumbering is its major industry
B C D
14 Each major styles of architecture emerged because new problems in building or challenges
A B
in design appeared for architects to resolve
C D
15 Much of the significant research related for the theory of numbers concerns the distribution
A B C D
of prime numbers
16 Lauren Bacall made her film debut in To Have and Have Not, starring together Humphrey
A B C
Bogart, who later became her husband
D
17 The black leopard is very dark that its spots are difficult to see
A B C D
18 On steep hillsides, tree roots bind to soil that might otherwise be washed away if heavy
rains
19 Carson McCullers was only 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely
A B
Hunter, for what she received much acclaim.
C D
20 Through the process of imprinting, the young of a species rapidly learn to recognize and
A B
follow other members of own species
C D
Trang 821 The invention of fresh metaphors today continues to make it possible the vivid expression of
A B C D emotions
22 Proteins are made up of long, folded irregularly chains, the links of which are amino acids
A B C D
23 Although most species of small birds gather in groups at feeders provided by bird-watchers, A
the bright red cardinals usually appears alone or with its mate
B C D
24 The astronomy is the oldest science, but it continues to be at the forefront of scientific
A B C D
thought
25 Henry David Thoreau was an American writer who is remembered for his faith in the
A B C
religious significance of the nature
D
26 The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of Machias, Maine
A B C
in June 1775
D
27 The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in
A B C
the Southwest
D
28 In some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female,
A B
performs the task of caring for the young
C D
29 When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Evert was the most famous
A B C
woman athlete in the United States
D
30 The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their
A B C D
armies
31 Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence based on
A B
eating habits, posture, and skeletal structural suggests some may have been warm-blooded
C D
32 Since the Great Depression of the 1930's, social programs such as Social Security have been
A built into the economy to help avert severity business declines
B C D
33 In the 1970's consumer activities succeeded in promoting laws that set safety standards for
A B C
automobiles, children's clothing and a widely range of household products
D
34 Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological parks A
where animals roams free and people watch from across a moat
B C D
Trang 935 In human beings as in other mammal, hairs around the eyes and ears and in the nose prevent
A B C dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs
D
36 The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800's, in a decades
A B C
preceding the United States Civil War
D
37 The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order, blending
A B
fact, fiction, adventure, and subtle symbolic
C D
38 Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of that
A B C
element contains, called its atomic number
D
39 The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed for flight,
A B C
being both lightly in weight and remarkably strong
D
40 From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her writing career,
A B
publishing of her three most famous novels
C D
41 In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the A
fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles
B C D
42 Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, when contaminated with other material
A B
it may appear in various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black
C D
43 Comparative anatomy is concerned to the structural differences among animal forms
A B C D
44 A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves, vibrations that A
travel from its point of origin through the Earth or along its surface
B C D
45 Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900's and have replaced other A
type of fat, gas, or oil lamps for almost every purpose
B C D
46 Located in Canada, the Columbia Ice-field covers area of 120 square miles and is 3,30 feet
A B
thick in some places
C D
47 Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the musical
A
Oklahoma extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as familiar with the
B C
traditional forms of operetta and musical comedy
D
Trang 1048 Because of its vast tracts of virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has one of the
A B C
lowest population density in the world
D
49 Rice, which it still forms the staple diet of much of the world's population, grows best in hot,
A B C D wet lands
50 Government money appropriated for art in the 1930's made possible hundreds of murals and
A B
statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States
C D
PRACTICE TEST 4
1 Margaret Mead studied many different cultures, and she was one of the first anthropologists
A B C
to photograph hers subjects
D
2 Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form
A B C D
3 During the 1870's iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by burning iron
A B C
ore with coke, instead than with charcoal
D
4 Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments to studying
A B C D the volcanoes in Hawaii
5 Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the laws of
A B C
motion who were developed in the seventeenth century
D
6 Was opened in 1918, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D C., was the first museum in
A B
the United States devoted to modern art
C D
7 A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus more people
A B C
are able to enjoy to own a house
D
8 Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systematic observations, but they also gather
A B C
data from documentary and oral sources
D
9 Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy individual during
A B C D waking hours
10 Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief and
A B C D
anesthesia
11 The Moon's gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space
A B C D
12 Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for
A B C D