This section is 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

Directions: Question 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four
words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best
completes the sentence. 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. Fill in the space so that
the letter inside oval cannot be seen.

Look at the following examples.

Example 1 Sample Answer

The president ___the election by a landslide.
(A) Won
(B) He won
(C) Yesterday
(D) Fortunately

The sentence should read, “The president won the election by a landslide.” Therefore, you should
choose (A).

Example II Sample Answer

When ____ the conference?

(A) The doctor attended

(B) Did the doctor attend?
(C) The doctor will attend
(D) The doctor’s attendance

The sentence should read, “When did the doctor attend the conference?” Therefore, you should
choose (B).

Now begin work on the questions.

1. _____, the outermost layer of skin, is 7. When fluid accumulates against the
about as thick as a sheet of paper over eardrum, a second more insidious type
most of skin. of _____.
(A) It is the epidermis (A) otitis media may develop
(B) In the epidermis (B) developing otitis media
(C) The epidermis (C) the development of otitis media
(D) The epidermis is (D) to develop otitis media
2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and 8. Some general theories of motivation
Rick Blaine in Casablanca _____ of ______ of central motives, from which
Humphrey Bogart’s more famous roles. other motives develop.
(A) they are two (A) identify a limited number
(B) two of them are (B) identification of a limited amount
(C) two of them (C) identify a limited amount
(D) are two (D) identifying a limited number
3. The compound microscope has no one 9. Before the statue of Liberty arrived in
_____ two lenses. the United States, newspapers invited
(A) and also the public to help determine where
(B) but ______placed after its arrival.
(C) and there are (A) should the statue be
(D) but there are (B) the statue being
4. During the Precambrian period, the (C) it should be the statue
Earth’s crust formed, and life _____ in the (D) the statue should be
seas. 10. Hydroelectric power can be produced
(A) first appeared by ______and using tidal flow to run
(B) first to appear turbines.
(C) it first appearing (A) water basins are dammed
(D) appearing (B) damming water basins
5. The hard plate forms a partition _____ (C) to dam water basins
and nasal passages. (D) dams in water basins
(A) the mouth 11. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson
(B) between the mouth Davis,____ of the Union and the
(C) is between the mouth confederacy during the Civil War, were
(D) it is between the mouth both born in Kentucky.
6. Conditions required for seed (A) they were opposing presidents
germination include abundant water, an (B) were opposing presidents
adequate supply of oxygen, and _____. (C) opposing presidents
(A) the temperatures must be (D) president opposed
appropriate
(B) having appropriate temperatures
(C) appropriate temperatures
(D) appropriately temperate
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 reactors.
(B) is issued (A) a nuclear breeder reactor
(C) it is issued (B) it is a nuclear breeder reactor
(D) which issued (C) does a nuclear breeder reactor
(D) is a nuclear breeder reactor
15. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the
13. The leaves of the white mulberry stylistic features and filmmaking
provide food for silkworms, ______ silk techniques_____ as Hollywood standard.
fabrics are woven. (A) that established
(A) whose cocoons (B) that became established
(B) from cocoons (C) what established
(C) whose cocoons are form (D) what became established
(D) from whose cocoons
 Written expression

Direction: In questions 16-26, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four
underlined parts of the sentences are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined
word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentences 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.

Look at the following examples.

Example I

The four string on a violin are tuned in fifths.

A B C D

The sentence should read. “The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths.” Therefore, you should
choose (B).

Example II

The research for the book Roots taking Alex Haley twelve years.
A B C D

The sentences should read. “The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years.”
Therefore, you should choose (C).

Now begin work on the questions.

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

17. The counterpart of a negative electrons 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
A B C D
the 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 eighty-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 Curtis, the couple came to resides at
A B C D
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 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 in 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 dwellings 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
B C D
1930’s

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 in
A B C
the late 1870’s .
D

35. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United
A
States, lived in the white House and of least thirty-seven other residences.
B C D

36. Methane in wetlands comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
A B C D
37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today
A B
bears his name.
C 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
A B
wind are live and have feelings.
C D

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