Practice test 1
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION Time-20 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. Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete
sentences.
Example I
Most American families at least one automobile.
(A) have
(C) that
(B) in
(D) has
1. The human brain __________ only two percent of an adult’s
body weight.
A) Which makes up
B) It makes up
C) Makes it up
D) Makes up
8. The tallest bird on the North American continent, the white
whooping crane_______ four and a half feet tall.
A) Stands
B) Which stands
C) It stands
D) Standing
2. The foreign policies__________ the hoover administration
undertook in 1929 were marked by good will and peaceful
purpose.
A) that
B) where
B) on which
C) of
9. For thousands of years, people have used vast amounts of
wood for building and _______ their homes
A) They heat
B) To heat
C) Heating
D) Heat
3. Children usually turn to their parents rather than _______for
protection from threats in the environ
A) They turn to other figures of authority
B) Authority figures to other
C) To other figures of authority
D) They turning to other figures of authority
10. Past experience has shown that even well-trained______
overwarming success in forecasting in rates.
A) Experts do not always have
B) Do not always have experts
C) There are experts who do not always have
D) Always do not have experts
4. __________ cause extensive damage to pacific island nations
each year.
A) Because of the high tides and winds during hurricanes
B) The high tides and winds of hurricanes
C) The high hurricane tides and winds which
D) That the high tides and winds of hurricanes
11. __________ gene in the human genome were more
completely understood, many human diseases can be cured or
prevented.
A) Each
B) Since each
C) If each
D) Were each
5. Anthropologists _______ within their environments and
evaluate the adaptations they have Made.
A) Societies are studied
B) Study societies
C) Who study societies are
D) Their societies are studied
12. _________ of the united states grown during a republican
administration.
A) Rarely the federal government has
B) Rarely has the federal government
C) Has the federal government rarely
D) The federal government has rarely
6. Malaria, which can be fatal if left untreated, is transmitted by
the female, ___________by the male mosquito
A) Not
B) However
C) Despite
D) Instead
13. Water,______ is also one of the most abundant compounds
on earth.
A) Is one of the most critical elements for human survival
B) One of the most critical elements for human survival
C) Of which one of the most critical elements for human survival
D) One of the most critical elements for human survival which
7. __________, Henry David Thoreau is known for his
transcendental views.
A) He was like predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) His predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, was like him
C) Like his predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) That he was like his predecessor, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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14. __________extensively by persons who cannot speak or
hear. American Sign Language ranks as the fourth most widely
used language in the U.S. today.
A) Relied on
B) It is relied on
C) Relying on it
D) To rely on it
15. Efforts to provide equal opportunity for minorities in the
United States______________ from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A) may be said to date
B) dating
C) may say to date
D) to date may be said
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION Time-20 minutes
Directions: In questions 16-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked
(A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on
your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Example I
Sample Answer
The octopus is a unique animal because they
A
B
C
◯A
◯ B
◯C
◯D
has three functioning hearts.
D
The sentence should read, "The octopus is a unique animal because it has three functioning hearts." Therefore, you should choose
answer THEY.
X
16. Chicago´s Sears Tower, now the taller building in the world rises 1,522 feet from ground to the top of its antenna.
A
B
C
D
17. Vitamin E, which is found in nutritious foods such green vegetables and whole grains, action as an antioxidant in cell membranes.
B
A
C
D
18. Scientists is currently trying to map the human genome, the blueprint of human heredity.
A
B
C
D
19. A snowflake is a frailty crystalline structure which maintains its delicate shape only as long as it is airborne.
B
A
C
D
20. James Dickey´s first poem was published during he was still a senior in college.
A
B
C
D
21. Most fatty acids have been find as essential components of lipid molecules.
B
A
C
D
22. Social stratification can based on many criteria, such as wealth, cultural level, legal status, birth, personal qualities and ideology.
B
A
C
D
23. In his famous domes, architecture Buckminster Fuller utilized thousands of simple equilateral triangles linked together.
B
A
C
D
24. Early in United States history, the rights of woman were championed in Wyoming, the state where they were first guaranteed the
A
B
C
D
right to vote.
25. The most aggressive bees known, the African honeybee is currently swarming into North America.
B
A
C
D
26. Only after Theodore Roosevelt became president did conservation developed into a major environmental issue in United States.
B
A
C
D
27. If he were alive today. F. Scott Fitzgerald might be surprised to learn his novel The Great Gatsby having transcended its own age and
A
B
C
D
turned into a timeless classic.
28. The world´s rain forests are being cut down at the rate on 3,000 acres per hour.
A
B
C
D
29. In all human communities, power yields certain advantages and privileges, such as honor, material benefits, and prestigious.
B
A
C
D
30.- Scientists used line spectra identifying the element helium in the sun.
A
B
C
D
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31. The compute of the passage of time has always been associated with the movements of celestial bodies.
A
B
C
D
32. Many environmentalists fear that the earth will run out essential natural resources before the end of the twentieth century.
A
B
C
D
33. The discovered of gold in California 1848 led to the Gold Rush of 1849.
A
B
C
D
34. The personality traits of children are often similar to those that their parents, but these traits are not always genetically conditioned.
A
B
C
D
35. Lecithins and other phospholipids play key roles the structure of cell membranes.
A
B
C
D
36. Wages and salaries account for nearly three fourths of the nationally income generated in the United States annually.
A
B
C
D
37. Farther evidence is needed to support recent research which suggests that the certain chemicals found broccoli may act as cancer
A
B
C
D
preventatives.
38. Contemporary newspaper columnist Russell Baker is noted his commentaries humorous written in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin.
A
B
C
D
39. Nutritional adequacy is hard to achieve on low calorie diet; even a small person should not try to get by on fewer twelve hundreds
A
B
calories per day.
C
D
40. In reality, all biological reproductive beings at the cellular level.
A
B
C
D
READING COMPREHENSION Time-20 minutes
1 It takes a long time to raise a family of owlets, so the great horned owl begins early in the year, In January and February,
or as late as March in the north, the male calls to the female with a resonant hoot. The female is larger than the male.
She sometimes reaches a body length of twenty-two to twenty-four inches, with a wingspread up to fifty inches. To
impress her, the male does a strange courtship dance. He bobs. He bows. He ruffles his feathers and hops around with
5 an important air. He flutters from limb to limb and makes flying sorties into the air. Sometimes he returns with an
offering of food. They share the repast, after which she joins the dance, hopping and bobbing about as thought keeping
time to the beat of an inner drum.
Owls are poor home builders. They prefer to nest in a large hollow in a tree or even to occupy the deserted nest of
a hawk or crow. These structures are large and rough, built of sticks and bark and lined with leaves and feathers.
10 Sometimes owls nest on a rocky ledge, or even on the bare ground. The mother lays two or three round, dull white eggs.
Then she stoically settles herself on the nest and Spreads her feather skirts about her to protect her precious charges
from snow and cold.
It is five weeks before the first downy white owlet pecks its way out of the shell. As the young birds feather out,
they look like wise old men with their wide eyes and quizzical expressions. They clamor for food and keep the parents
15 busy supplying mice, squirrels, rabbits, crayfish, and beetles. Later in the season baby crows are taken. Migration
songsters, waterfowl and game birds all fall prey to the hungry family. It is nearly, ten weeks before fledglings leave the
nest to search for their own food. The parent birds weary of family life by November and drive the young owls away to
establish hunting ranges of their own.
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41. What is the topic of this passage?
a) Raising a family of great horned owls
b) Mating rituals of great horned owls
c) Nest building of great horned owls
d) Habits of young great horned owls
42. The phrase “a resonant hoot” is closest in meaning to:
a) An instrument
b) A sound
c) A movement
d) An offering of food
43. it can be inferred from the passage that the courtship of great
horned owls:
a) Takes place on the ground
b) Is an active process
c) Happens in the fall
d) Involves the male alone
44. According to the passage, great horned owls:
a) Are discriminate nest builders
b) Need big nests for their numerous eggs
c) May inhabit a previously used nest
d) Build nests on tree limbs
46. The phrase “precious charges” in the line 11 refers to:
a) The eggs
b) The nest
c) The hawks and crows
d) Other nesting owls
47. According to the passage, young owlets eat everything EXCEPT
a) Other small birds
b) Insects
c) Small mammals
d) Nuts and seeds
48. In line 14 the word “they” refers to:
a) The wise old men
b) the adult birds
c) The young birds
d) The prey
49. What can be inferred from the passage about the adult
parents of the young great horned owls?
a) They are sorry to see their young leave home
b) They are lazy and careless about feeding the small owlets
c) They probably don’t see their young after November.
d) They don’t eat while they are feeding their young.
45. According to the passage, which of the following is the mother
owl’s job?
50. The phrase “weary of” in line 16 is closest in meaning to:
a) To initiate the courtship ritual
a) Tire of
b) To feed the young
b) Become sad about
c) To sit on the nest
c) Support
d) To build the nest
d) Are attracted to
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