Part A: Structure

Directions: Questions 1–4 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.

1. The North Pole___________ a latitude of 90 degrees north.

A. it has
B. is having
C. which is having
D. has

2. The city of Beverly Hills is surrounded on ________ the city of Los Angeles.
A. its sides
B. the sides are
C. it is the side of
D. all sides by

3. ________ greyhound, can achieve speeds up to thirty-six miles per hour.

A. The
B. The fastest
C. The fastest dog
D. The fastest dog, the

4. Marmots spend their time foraging among meadow plants and flowers or ________ on rocky
cliffs.
A. gets sun
B. sunning
C. the sun
D. sunny

5. The greenhouse effect occurs ________ heat radiated from the Sun.
A. when does the Earth’s atmosphere trap
B. does the Earth’s atmosphere trap
C. when the Earth’s atmosphere traps
D. the Earth’s atmosphere traps

6. The Rose Bowl, ________ place on New Year’s Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate football
game in the United States.
A. Takes
B. it takes
C. which takes
D. took

7. Experiments ________ represent a giant step into the medicine of the future.
A. using gene therapy
B. use gene therapy
C. they use
D. gene therapy uses
8. ________ off the Hawaiian coastline are living, others are dead.
A. While some types of coral reefs
B. Some types of coral reefs
C. There are many types of coral reefs
D. Coral reefs

9. Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark gray clouds ________ forecast rain.
A. What
B. Which
C. What they
D. Which they

10. Some economists now suggest that home equity loans are merely a new trap to push consumers
beyond ________.
A. they can afford
B. they can afford it
C. what is affordable
D. able to afford

11. People who reverse the letters of words ________ to read suffer from dyslexia.
A. when trying
B. if they tried
C. when tried
D. if he tries

12. Featured at the Henry Ford Museum ________ of antique cars dating from 1865.
A. is an exhibit
B. an exhibit
C. an exhibit is
D. which is an exhibit

13. Rubber ________ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to
distinguish from natural rubber.
A. is produced
B. producing
C. that produces
D. produced

14. ________ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical
illusion.
A. The Moon
B. That the Moon
C. When the Moon
D. The Moon which

15. According to the World Health Organization, ________ there to be an outbreak of any of the six
most dangerous diseases, it could be cause for quarantine.
A. were
B. they were
C. there were
D. were they
B. Written Expression

Directions: In questions 5–10, 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.

16. On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile
A B C D
beneath sea level.

17. Because of the flourish with which John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence,
A
his name become synonymous with signature.
B C D

18. Segregation in public schools was declare unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954.
A B C D
19. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude about
A B
twenty-three times that of the Sun.
C D
20. Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together.
A B C D
21. Some of the most useful resistor material are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys.
A B C D
22. The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy's Store.
A B C D
23. Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in various types of coins.
A B C D
24. J. H. Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought tuberculosis patients
A B C
together to discuss its disease.
D
25. The United States has import all carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools are
A B C
too fine and soft for carpets.
D
26. Irving Berlin wrote "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in a U.S. Army
A B C
during World War 1.
D

27. Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable them to slash theirs costs
A B C
and expand.
D
28. That water has a very high specific heat means that without a large temperature change
A B
water can add or lose a large number of heat.
C D
29. Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz performer as well as a classical
 A B C D
musician.
D
30. The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed
A B C
the first Continental currency.
D
31. Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century- Virginia to race on courses short of
A B
about a quarter of a mile in length.
C D

32. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham has moved
A B C D
to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.

33. William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films.
A B C D
34. Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, alive wolves roamed across nearly all
A B C D
of North America.

35. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national
A B
attention as a result its radical political activity.
C D
36. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on project from
A B
1925 until his death in 1941.
C D
37. It is proving less costly and more profitably for drug makers to market directly to patients.
A B C D

38. Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined.

A B C C

39. Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antarctica.
A B C D
40. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been doing home equity
A B
loans with greater frequency than ever before.
C D