Skill 1: Subjects and Verbs

•SKILL 1: SUBJECTS AND VERBS
Example
_____C____ was ringing continuously for hours.
(A) Loudly
(B) In themorning
(C) The phone
(D) The bells
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•During the Precambrian period, the Earth’s crust formed, and life ____A____ in the seas.
(A) First appeared
(B) First to appear
(C) Is first appearing
(D) Appearing
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• Diane Feinstien of California ___D___ to the House of Representatives in l986 and to the Senate in
1996.
(A) When elected
(B) Elected
(C) Who was elected
(D) Was elected
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•SKILL 2: OBJECTS OF PREPOSITION
Example
To Mike ___B___ was a big surprise.
(A) Really
(B) The party
(C) Funny
(D) When
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•SKILL 3: PRESENT PARTICIPLES
Example:
The film___A___ appearing at the local theater is my favorite.
(A) now
(B) is
(C) it
(D) was
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Humans living at high elevations ___A___ to the lower level of oxygen in the air by producing more red
bloodcorpuscles.
(A) Adjust
(B) To adjust
(C) The adjustment
(D) Adjusting
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The radiation piercing the atmosphere ___C___ of tanning or burning in humans.
(A) it is the cause
(B) causing it
(C) is the cause
(D) the cause
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On November 19, 1863, Abraham
Lincoln, speaking from notes on an old ___C___ the famous Gettysburg Address in only two minutes
time.
(A) gave the envelope
(B) envelope giving
(C) envelope, gave
(D) gift of an envelope
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Thomas Jefferson, ___D___ a personally designed and constructed lap-top desk, wrote the Declaration
of Independence in the summer of 1776.
(A) he used
(B) hadused
(C) theuse of
(D) using
•SKILL 4: PAST PARTICIPLESS

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The reactor core of a nuclear reactor is housed in a steel vessel ___D___ by a thick layer of concrete.
(A) is surrounded
(B) itsurrounds
(C) surrounds
(D) surrounded
The tea plant, an evergreen shrub pruned to three to five feet high, ___D___ mild, semitropical climate
in which to grow.
(A) the need for
(B) it needs
(C) to need
(D) needs a
The Statue of Liberty, completed in Paris in 1884, __D__ in New York Harbor in 1886.
(A) The unveiling
(B) to unveil
(C) it unveiled
(D) was unveiled
The Mayflower Compact, signed by the Pilgrims upon their arrival in Massachusetts in 1620, _D_ their
political and religious beliefs.
(A) The statement of
(B) stating
(C) with a statement of
(D) stated
•SKILL 5: COORDINATE CONNECTORS

Example:
The ear is a flexible organ, ___A___ simply was not designed to withstand the noise of modern living.
(A) But it.
(B) it
(C) but
(D) its
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Like a mountain, the Empire State
Building creates its own updrafts,
__A__ have been observed to fall up.
(A) and snow and rain
(B) snow and rain
(C) of snow
(D) but snow
Using robot Super Achilles, a driverless' submersible, ___B___ can photograph shipwreck up to 2,000
feet deep, and they can also deploy parachutes to bring artifacts up to the surface.
(A) For archeologists to be underwater
(B) underwater archeologists
(C) archeologists are underwater
(D) with archeologists underwater
Caffeine is primarily consumed in coffee and tea, ___C___ also found in cocoa, cola, and other soft
drinks.
(A) But
(B) but it
(C) but it is
(D) it is
Gustave Eiffel is famous for building the Eiffel Tower, ___C___ for designing
the framework of the Statue of Liberty.
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(A) He is remembered
(B) is remembered
(C) yet he isseldom remembered
(D) yet remembered
•SKILL 6: ADVERB CLAUSE CONNECTORS
Example:
Prior to the discovery of anesthetics in1846, surgery was done ___A___ was still conscious.
(A) while the patient
(B) the patient felt
(C) during the patient’s
(D) while patiently
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Parent flamingos lose their intense pink coloring until ___C___
(A) Weaning young
(B) Their youths
(C) They wean their young
(D) Young
A little fat is essential for humans___A___ retain body heat, gives musclesenergy, and keeps skin soft.
(A) As it helps
(B) although it
(C) it helps
(D) in helping
•SKILL 7: NOUN CLAUSE CONNECTORS
Historical records ___D___ were used in China for centuries before spreading to Europe.
(A) suggesting that fireworks
(B) fireworks
(C) that fireworks
(D) suggest that fireworks
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___D___ global climate is warming has been well documented.
(A) There is the
(B) Itis the
(C) The
(D) That the
___A___ floats or sinks is determined by its density rather than its weight.
(A) Whether an object
(B) An object if it
(C) Because an object
(D) An object
___A___ in so perfectly with their environment is what makes Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture so
distinctive.
(A) That the buildingsblend
(B) The buildings blend
(C) Since the buildings blend
(D) Build and blend
•SKILL 8: NOUN CLAUSECONNECTOR/SUBJECTS
Environmentalists are earnestly trying to determine ___C___ of the ozone layer over the poles.
(A) Is causing the deterioration
(B) what the cause of the deterioration
(C) what is causing the deterioration
(D) the deterioration is causing
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___C___ such a challenging science is that all theory is based on observations that cannot be
replicated in a controlled environment.
(A) It is astronomy
(B) Astronomyis
(C) What makes astronomy
(D) Why is astronomy
___C___ in the atmosphere is the temperature falling below freezing.
(A) Frost is produced
(B) Frost produces
(C) What produces frost
(D) What is frost
•SKILL 9: ADJECTIVE CLAUSE CONNECTORS
Example:
Genes control all of the physical___C___ we inherit.
(A) That traits
(B) that are traits
(C) traits that.
(D) traits are that
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Skin color is determined by a chemical called melanin, ___A___ in greater or lesser amounts.
(A) Which human skin contains
(B) human skin contains
(C) in human skin contains
(D) there is in human skin
Subduction is the process ___C___ the ocean floor recycles itself.
(A) That
(B) which is
(C) by which
(D) how
Some radio isotopes which ___B___ as radioactive waste are now being used in experimental cancer
therapies.
(A) Once discarded by scientists
(B) Scientists discarded
(C) Todiscard by scientists
(D) Werediscarded scientists
SKILL 10: ADJECTIVE CLAUSE CONNECTOR/ SUBJECTS
The first mention of the cultivation of tea ___D___ in a Chinese dictionary which dates about the year
350.
(A) Finding
(B) to be found
(C) it is found
(D) can be found
Bank employees collect worn-out dollar bills, ___B___ to a central office to be destroyed in a furnace.
(A) Who send them
(B) which are sent
(C) who are sent
(D) are sent
Bees perform a complex dance ___D___ other bees about the location ofa good source of nectar.
(A) tells
(B) tell
(C) it tells
(D) that tells

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•SKILL 4: PAST PARTICIPLESS

•SKILL 5: COORDINATE CONNECTORS

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