Structure and Written Expression

1. Among the 450 artworks in the White House art collection __________.
(A) as is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children
(B) is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children
(C) which is Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children
(D) Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children

2. An unconsolidated aggregate of silt particles is also termed silt, __________ a consolidated aggregate is called siltstone.
(A) which
(B) why
(C) whereas
(D) whether

3. In 1864 the American Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth gained critical acclaim when he __________ Hamlet at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
(A) perform
(B) performed
(C) had been performing
(D) having performed

4. __________ are chiefly derived from petroleum.
(A) Plastics today
(B) There are plastics today
(C) Because today plastics today
(D) Due to plastics today

5. Most tangerine trees and their flowers and fruits resemble __________ the orange, although tangerines are generally smaller.
(A) of those
(B) which of those
(C) those of
(D) which are of

6. Ohio, the center of __________ the Hopewell culture, has the greatest concentration of ancient burial mounds in the United States.
(A) called
(B) what is called
(C) that is called
(D) is called

7. __________, such as jazz, are often played from memory rather than from a written score.
(A) Of some types music
(B) Music some of types
(C) Some types of music
(D) Types of music some

8. During the 1850', reform movements__________temperance and the abolition of slavery gained strength in the United States.
(A) advocating
(B) they had advocated
(C) to advocating
(D) to advocate when

9. Many meteorites are thought to have originated from __________ that once existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
(A) where a planet or planets
(B) a planet or planets so
(C) which a planet or planets
(D) a planet or planets

10. The modern automobile is a __________composed of more than 14,000 parts.
(A) complex technical system
(B) system of complex technical
(C) complex technical system that
(D) system is technically complex

11. __________ over 100 years since the invention of the square-bottomed paper bag.
(A) Now is
(B) Now it has
(C) There is now
(D) It is now

12. The novelist John Dos Passes developed a style of fiction incorporating several documentary devices __________ to his works.
(A) lent realism
(B) that lending realism
(C) to lend realism
(D) of whose realism lent

13. In Earth's infancy, its surface was warm enough for life __________ the young Sun
was fainter than it is today.
(A) in spite of
(B) whether
(C) neither of which
(D) even though

14. The invention of the compound microscope (which allowed much higher magnification through multiple lenses) made __________ the great strides in life sciences.
(A) it possible
(B) possibly
(C) possible
(D) it was possible

15. Hares generally have longer ears and hind legs than rabbits and move by jumping __________ running.
(A) rather to be
(B) rather than
(C) are rather
(D) as rather


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