Choose the best answer and give an
explanation about your answer
1. The
large carotid artery ____ to the main parts of the brain.
a. Carrying
blood
b. Blood
is carried
c. Carries
blood
d. Blood
carries
2. Mark
Twain _____ the years after the Civil War the “Gilded Age.”
(A) called
(B) calling
(C) he called
(D) his calls
(A) called
(B) calling
(C) he called
(D) his calls
3. _____
radio as the first practical system of wireless telegraphy.
(A) Marconi’s development
(B) The development by Marconi
(C) Developing Marconi
(D) Marconi developed
(A) Marconi’s development
(B) The development by Marconi
(C) Developing Marconi
(D) Marconi developed
4. The
earliest medicines _____ from plants of various sorts.
(A) obtaining
(B) they obtained
(C) were obtained
(D) they were obtained
(A) obtaining
(B) they obtained
(C) were obtained
(D) they were obtained
5. Pluto’s
moon, Charon, _____ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.
(A) moving
(B) is moving
(C) it was moving
(D) in its movement
(A) moving
(B) is moving
(C) it was moving
(D) in its movement
6. Robert
E. Lee ____ the Confederate army to General Grant in 1865 at the Appomattox
Courthouse.
(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
(C) surrendering
(D) surrender
(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
(C) surrendering
(D) surrender
7. In
the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.
(A) polishing
(B) they polished
(C) for polish
(D) were polished
(A) polishing
(B) they polished
(C) for polish
(D) were polished
8. The
first steamship to cross the Atlantic ____ Savannah, in 1819.
(A) was the
(B) it was the
(C) the
(D) in it the
(A) was the
(B) it was the
(C) the
(D) in it the
9. The
first plant-like organisms probably _____ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years
ago.
(A) life
(B) living
(C) lived
(D) it was living
(A) life
(B) living
(C) lived
(D) it was living
10. Air near the equator ____ a faster
west-to-east motion than air farther from the equator.
(A) to have
(B) it has
(C) has
(D) having
11. ____ quickly after an animal dies.
(A) In the degradation of DNA
(B) Degrading DNA
(C) DNA degrades
(D) For DNA to degrade
12. _____ is famous as the home of the U.S. Naval Academy.
(A) Annapolis
(B) Because of
Annapolis
(C) Why Annapolis
(D) Because
Annapolis
13. _________ the deepest valleys and canyons on the Earth.
(A) In the
Pacific Ocean with
(B) In the
Pacific Ocean
(C) The Pacific
Ocean
(D) The Pacific Ocean has
14. In the United States, the participation of
females in the labor force from 37 percent in 1965 to 51 percent in 1980.
(A) it jumped
(B) jump
(C) jumping
(D) jumped
15. ______ the second most common metal in the earth’s
crust, and it always occurs in combination with other substances.
(A) Iron
(B) Iron is
(C) With iron
(D) With iron is
16. Although knives
and forks _____ of prehistoric origin, spoons are relatively new.
(A) are
(B) they are
(C) are they
(D) which are
17. ____ lived on Earth for nearly 150 million
years.
(A) Dinosaurs
(B) Dinosaurs who
(C) If dinosaurs
(D) Since
dinosaurs
18. _____along most of its length into an upper chamber and
a lower chamber.
(A) The divided cochlea
(B) Dividing the
cochlea
(C) The cochlea
is divided
(D) With a divided
cochlea
19. When _____ the conference?
(A) the doctor attended
(B) did the
doctor attend?
(C) the doctor
will attend
(D) the doctor’s
attendance
20. To Mike ____ was a big surprise.
(A) really
(B) the party
(C) funny
(D) when
JAWABAN:
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. A
11. B
12. A
13. D
14. A
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. C
19. C
20. B
