Structure and Written Expression

1 According to the third law of thermodynamics, _______ possible is -273.16 degrees centigrade.
(A) that temperature is lowest
(B) the temperature is lowest
(C) lowest temperature
(D) the lowest temperature

2 After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both _____her novels and short stories.
(A) in which the influence
(B) of which influenced
(C) to have influence
(D) its influence in

3 Muskrats generally_______ close to the edge of a bog, where their favorite plant foods grow plentifully.
(A) staying
(B) they are staying
(C) stay
(D) to stay there

4 Oliver ElIsworth,_____ of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the bill that
established the federal court system.
(A) he was the third chief justice
(B) the third chief justice was
(C) who the third chief justice
(D) the third chief justice

5 _______Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut s settlers came from England.
(A) Since
(B) The time
(C) During the
(D) It was

6 A politician can make a legislative proposal more _____by giving specific examples of what its
effect will be.
(A) to understanding
(B) understandably
(C) understandable
(D) when understood

7 Playing the trumpet with dazzling originality,_____dominated jazz for 20 years.
(A) Louis Armstrong
(B) the influence of Louis Armstrong
(C) the music of Louis Armstrong
(D) Louis Armstrong s talent

8 Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the proportion of the population that _____for each candidate.
(A) are voted
(B) voting
(C) to be voted
(D) will vote

9 ______at a river ford on the Donner Pass route to California, the city of Reno grew as bridges and railroads were built.
(A) Settle
(B) To settle
(C) It was settling
(D) Having been settled

10 The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of contaminants
_____heavily polluted outside air.
(A) than does
(B) more
(C) as some that at are
(D) like of

11 The decimal numeral system is one of the _____ways of expressing numbers.
(A) useful most world s
(B) world s most useful
(C) useful world s most
(D) most world s useful

12 EmiIy Dickinson s garden was a place _____ great inspiration for her poems.
(A) that she drew
(B) by drawing her
(C) from which she drew
(D) drawn from which

13 The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry winds of the Mojave Desert, _____ the circulation of air.
(A) but they also prevent
(B) also prevented by them
(C) and also to prevent
(D) and also preventing

14 Not only _____ to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.
(A) to use seismology
(B) is seismology used
(C) seismology is used
(D) using seismology

15 Nebraska has floods in some years, _____ .
(A) in others drought
(B) droughts are others
(C) while other droughts
(D) others in drought

16 Pop Art was a movement of the 1950 s and 1960 s whom imagery was based on readily