STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
REVIEW EXERCISE 8
1. Charlie Parker, _____ was one of the creators of the music style called “bop.”
(A) a great jazz improviser who
(B) to improvise great jazz
(C) a great jazz improviser
(D) improvised great jazz.
2. The world’s deepest cave, Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees Mountains, is almost
three times as deep _____.
(A) as the Empire State Building is.
(B) That the Empire State Building is higher.
(C) Is higher than the Empire State Building
(D) And the Empire State Building’s height.
3. In the course of her life, Mary Anne Sadlier ______, some fifty of them original
novels and collections of stories.
(A) produced nearly sixty books
(B) produced sixty books nearly
(C) nearly sixty books produced
(D) sixty books nearly produced
4. ______ xenon could not form chemical compounds was once believed by scientists.
(A) For
(B) It was
(C) That
(D) While
5. _______ all rainwater falling from a cloud reaches the ground; some of it is lost
through evaporation.
(A) Nowhere
(B) Not
(C) No
(D) None
6. Eastern meadowlarks abound in places _______ , but eat harmful insects rather
than grain.
(A) land is cultivated there
(B) there is land cultivated
(C) where land is cultivated
(D) where is cultivated land
7. Amplifiers such as those in computers and sound –reproducing systems are
responsible for ______ an erratic input signal.
(A) strengthening
(B) being strengthened
(C) strengthen
(D) to strengthen
8. ________ are not leached out of soil, reclamation procedures are needed to
restore the land’s productivity.
(A) For concentrations of salt
(B) Salt concentrations that
(C) If salt concentrations
(D) With concentrations of salt
9. John Lone’s physical grace and _____ age, sex, and culture make him an
extraordinary performer.
(A) his ability to transcend
(B) is able to transcend the
(C) the transcending ability
(D) with his ability transcending
10. Before _______ of synthetic dyes, yarns were often colored by dyes obtained from
natural vegetable and mineral matter.
(A) introducing
(B) introduction
(C) the introduction
(D) introducing that
11. Ducks have been domesticated for many centuries _________ commercially for
their meat and eggs.
(A) raised
(B) and are raised
(C) raised as
(D) are raised
12. Maggie Lena Walker, an insurance and banking executive, ________ and spent
her entire life in Richmond, Virginia.
(A) and was brought up
(B) brought up with
(C) who was brought up
(D) was brought up
13. The elimination of inflation would ensure that the amount of money used in
repaying a loan would have ______ as the amount of money borrowed.
(A) as the same value
(B) the same value
(C) value as the same
(D) the value is the same
14. Futurism, ______ early twentieth-century movement in art, rejected all traditions
and attempted to glorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.
(A) an
(B) was an
(C) that it was an
(D) that an
15. All living organisms constantly absorb carbon 14 ______ their existence.
(A) out
(B) about
(C) around
(D) throughout
16. Many exercises such as calisthenics, running, or to swim involve producing
muscle tension through a range of movements that are called isotonics.
17. The bison, knowing for the hump over its shoulders, is usually called a buffalo in
North America.
18. Perspiration, the body’s built-in cooling mechanism occurs as a natural reaction to
nervousness, intense heat, or vigorously exercise.
19. Because of the rising cost of fuel, scientists are building automobile engines who
will conserve gasoline but still run smoothly.
20. Pathologists use their knowing of body tissues and body fluids to aid other
physicians.
21. Objects falling freely in a vacuum have the same rate of speed is regardless of
differences in size and weight.
22. The construction of sundials was considered to be an acceptable part of a student’s
educator as late as the seventeenth century.
23. Historians have never reached some general agreement about the precise causes
of the Civil War in the United States.
24. The Moon, being much more nearer to the Earth than the Sun, is the principal
cause of the tides.
25. A neutron star forms when a star much more massive than the Sun dies and
exploded.
26. The dromedary camel is raised especially to racing.
27. The founding of the Boston Library in 1653 demonstrate the early North American
colonists interest in books and libraries.
28. Public recognition of Ben Shahn as a major American artistic began with a
retrospective show of his work in 1948.
29. The texture of soil is determined by the size of the grains or particles that make
up.
30. The domestic dog, considered to be the first tamed animal, is coexisting with
human beings since the days of the cave dwellers.
31. Nature not only gave the Middle Atlantic region fine harbors, however endowed it
with a first-class system of inland waterways.
32. All matter resists any change in their condition of rest or of motion.
33. Swans, noted for graceful movements in the water, have been the subject of many
poetry, fairy tales, legends, and musical compositions.
34. Since peach trees bloom very early in the season, they are in danger for spring
frosts.
35. Like some other running birds, the sanderling lacks a back toe and has a threetoed feet.
36. Lucretia Mott’s influence was too significant that she has been credited by some
authorities as the originator of feminism in the United States.
37. Large bodies of water and the prevalence of moisture-bearing winds often produce
a condition of tall humidity, affecting the local weather.
38. Manganese does not exist naturally in a pure state because it reacts so easily with
other element.
39. Scientists estimate that as many as hundred millions visible meteors enter the
Earth’s atmosphere every day.
40. Although not abundant in nature, zinc is important for both the galvanization of
iron and the preparation of alloys as such brass and German silver.