SWET 2

1. Navigators on ships and aircraft use a compass to determine _________ they are heading.
A. the direction in which
B. to where the direction
C. that direction of which
D. where the direction

2. A condenser is a heat exchanger _________ steam or vapor loses heat and returns to liquid
form.
A. what
B. in which
C. in whose
D. that

3. Published in 1957, John Cheever’s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, earned _________ the
National Book Award.
A. that he had
B. him
C. was his
D. to him

4. As seen from the Earth at night, _________ planet Jupiter ranks third among the planets and
stars in maximum brightness, after Venus and Mars.
A. when the
B. in which the
C. the
D. and the

5. _________ produces a crimson glow in a vacuum tube and is used extensively in advertising
displays.
A. Neon that
B. When neon
C. Neon
D. There is neon

6. Chaparral consists of _________ stunted by short, wet winters followed by long, dry summers.
A. are trees and shrubs
B. how trees and shrubs
C. trees and shrubs have
D. trees and shrubs

7. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was _________ of United States policy concerning the activities
and rights of European powers in North and South America.
A. when a statement
B. as a statement
C. a statement
D. to a statement

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8. _________ to stand in a warm place, it sours because of the presence of bacteria that convert
milk sugar into acid.
A. When milk is allowed
B. When is milk allowed
C. Milk, when allowed
D. When milk allowed

9. While play is important at all levels of human development, _________ takes on particular
significance when children are five and six years old.
A. it
B. and
C. which
D. because it

10. During the second and third years of life, children gain _________ over their bodies.
A. control increasing
B. increasing to control
C. control is increasing
D. increasing control

11. All brass instruments use a mouthpiece _________ into a long cone-shaped tube.
A. is inserted
B. that inserted
C. that is inserted
D. and inserted

12. _________ as children that most people first come in contact with myths.
A. When
B. It is
C. There are
D. That is

13. By the mid-twentieth century, United States presidential staffs, _________ had numbered fewer
than ten a century earlier, numbered in the hundreds.
A. as
B. that they
C. which
D. and

14. In 1966 only 60 percent of all five year olds in the United States attended kindergarten,
_________ in 1985 almost 82 percent did so.
A. with
B. which
C. whether
D. while

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15. _________ industries, inventions, and communal endeavors of the Shakers, the best known is
their fine furniture.
A. Of the many
B. Their many
C. Are the many
D. Many of the

16. Most fishes and many reptiles have ribs along most of the spine, but in mammals _________
only in the chest area.
A. they are found
B. finding them
C. in which they are found
D. are found

110. Subjects of Cecilia Beaux’s paintings included prominent figures in government, the arts, and
financial, but her strongest works are portraits of family members and friends.

111. By 1920 the area of the United States under cultivation had more than doubled in just 50
years, and the national population that surpassed 100 million.

112. Some areas of the deep sea are vulnerable frequent natural disturbances taking the form of
intense currents, mud slumps, low oxygen, and upwellings.

113. In the United States, the first roads were paved in colonial times, first with logs, latest with
cobblestones or brick, depending on the region.

114. In physics, sound is considered to be the waves of vibratory motion, nether or not they are
heard by the human ear.

115. Over one thousand mineral are known, most of which are characterized by definite chemical
composition, crystalline structure, and physical properties.

116. The layers of an elephant’s tusk are deposited from the pulp, yet that the innermost layer is the
newest.

117. Butane is found into both oil and natural gas.

118. When expelled from the nucleus of an atom, a neutron is unstable and decay to form a proton
and an electron.
The monument is decaying after years of neglect

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120. Automobile insurance compensates only not for fire and theft but also for damage caused by a
collision and for injury to victims of an accident.

121. Importance as foods, carbohydrates supply energy and are used to make fats.

122. Because banana plants yield only one bunch of fruit, each plant is cut down after produces
bananas.

123. Flash photography is widely used for taking pictures when the natural light is insufficient, such
as outdoors at night and indoors most of time.

124. The specific purpose served by a storage dam will influence its design and determined the
amount of reservoir storage needed.

125. In 1889 Jane Addams founded Hull House, an institution in Chicago where she and other
socially reformers lived and worked to improve urban living conditions.

126. Early United States revolutionaries shaped an orderly processes by which frontier territories
would move from colonial status to statehood.

127. In music, cacophony is discordant sounds, false harmony, or noisily and inharmonious
combinations of sounds.

128. Small to medium-sized marsh birds similar in body shape by cranes, rails are found throughout
the world, except in the polar regions.

129. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 gave California its first direct rail
connection with a rest of the United States.

130. Whilhelmina Cole Holladay she was the founder and first president of the National Museum of
Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.

131. As sweeteners, there is very small difference between honey and sucrose, although the former
does contain minimal quantities of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

132. Cultivated for salad since ancient times, lettuce is harvesting before its flower stem shoots up
to bear its small yellow flowers.

133. Phonological structure encodes speak sounds as a sequence of vocal tract configurations ---
successive positions of the larynx, jaw, lips, tongue, and velum.

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134. The steamship contributed of the development of fast news-gathering during the nineteenth
century.

135. The 1880’s saw not only the creation of the curtain wall and wind-braced iron frame also the
architectural mastery of these structural devices.

ANSWERS:
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A B B C C D C A A D
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C B C D A A B D A B
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C B C B C B A D C C
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A C B D A B B A B B