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1. _____ first settled (main verb) the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 and 750.

A. The Polynesians
B. The Polynesians arrived
C. Because of the Polynesians
D. It was the Polynesians
Kode Soal: 1 klausa. Main Verb sudah ada. Subjek Hilang. Ambil Subjek Murni.

Anto sedang baca komik. Sementara Rudi cuci piring di dapur.


SV CON SV
Sementara Anto sedang baca komik, rudi cuci piring di dapur.
CON SV SV

Analisis data … harus sekaligus dengan opsi


Tahapan analisis data itu ngapain?
1. Kita harus menentukan kalimat itu punya berapa klausa? 1 klausa kah? 2 klausa?
2. Lihatnya darimana? Dari pasangan Subjek dan Main verb. 1 pasang disebut 1 klausa.
3. Kita harus melihat kesesuaian antara Subjek dan Main Verb.
4. Apabila Subjek Singular (Tunggal) maka Main Verb harus Singular (Pakai S)
5. Apabila Subjek Plural (Jamak) pakai S maka Main Verb harus Plural (tidak pakai S)
6. Apabila klausanya ada 2, harus ada satu jembatan. Jembatan ini disebut CON alias CONJUNCTION.
7. Setelah itu barulah analisis aspek yang lain.

2. In 1066, a bright comet_____ in the sky attracted much attention.


A. was appearing (main verb dalam past continuous)
B. appears (main verb dalam present simple singular)
C. it appeared (ada subjeknya sehingga akan kesalahan double subjek)
D. appearing (pelakor)
kode soal: 1 klausa. Subjek sudah ada. Verb sudah ada. Yang dicari adalah Secondary Verb. (Gerombolan Si Berat)

Secondary Verb ada 4:


1. Bare Infinitive (help) (make) (talk) – LET HELP MAKE + MODALS
2. To Infinitive (to help) (to make) (to talk) = kegiatannya belum terjadi / baru akan dilangsungkan / baru
diniatkan
3. Present participle (helping) (making) (talking) = subjeknya mampu melakukan kegiatan
4. Past Participle (helped) (made) (told) = subjeknya tidak mampu melakukan kegiatan

Saya tidak akan membiarkan siapapun mengganggumu.


I will not let anyone disturb you.
Dia membantu saya mencuci piring setiap hari.
He helps me wash the dishes every day.

Saya ingin kamu menjemput adikmu dari sekolah.


I want you to pick your sister from school.
Melihatnya menari menimbulkan kebahagiaan di hatiku.
Watching her dance makes me happy.

Churches built in this area are known to be haunted.

3. In some daguerreotype cameras, _____ through a hole in the back of the box.
A. the object's view
B. the object was viewed
C. from the view of the object = preposisi atau kata depan tidak bisa menjadi subjek
D. viewed the object = hanya ada verb, subjeknya tidak ada…
kode soal: 1 klausa – subjek hilang – verb hilang ….

4. In the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.
A. Polishing (si berat)
B. they polished (subjek they)
C. for polish (preposisi for membuat tidak bisa jadi subjek tidak bisa jadi main verb)
D. were polished
kode soal: 1 klausa – subjek plural (pakai s) … maka harus butuh main verb plural (tanpa s)

5. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic _____ Savannah, in 1819.


A. was the
B. it was the
C. the
D. in it the
kode soal 1 klausa // soal khusus inversi tipe 3.// inversi adalah keadaan dimana main verb atau aux verb muncul
lebih dulu atau di depan subjek. .. maka kita harus cari main verb atau aux verb nya.
Aux = modals = will // would // do // does // did // may // might // can // could // shall // should // have to //
ought to //

Di bawah kaki gunung Fuji terletak rumah Hamdan.


Inversi tipe 3

Not until (everything is lost) did Sharon realize she was hypnotized.
Did Sharon realize (that) she was hypnotized.
Not
Inversi tipe 2
Never before had Padjadjaran University given a free doctoral degree.
Padjajaran University had never given a free doctoral degree before.
Rarely

Never
6. The Earth's plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth_____ faults.
A. were called
B. calls
C. called
D. it was called

7. The first plant-like organisms probably_____ in the sea, perhaps three billion years ago.
A. life
B. living
C. lived
D. it was living

kalau namanya benda = pasti jumlah katanya Satu

WORD ORDER = ARTIKEL + ADVERB + ADJECTIVE + NOUN


_____ OF _____

The Most beautiful woman of my senior year.

8. In male pattern baldness, ______ strongly influences the degree of hair loss.
A. heredity
B. inherited
C. inherits
D. heredity has

9. In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles ______ attempt to explain America’s belief in flying saucers.
A. makes a fascinating
B. making a fascinating
C. fascination with making
D. fascination made a

10. The irregular coastline of ______ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the Cape Cod peninsula in
the southeast.
A. Massachusetts
B. Massachusetts is
C. Massachusetts it is
D. Massachusetts on

11. I forgot my coat______ I got very cold.


A. then
B. so
C. later
D. as a result
12. ______ arrived at the library, he started to work immediately.
A. The student
B. When
C. He
D. After the student

13. A spacecraft is freed from friction ________launched into space.


A. it
B. it is
C. after is
D. after it is

14. _____with their surroundings, or they hide in crevices for protection.


A. Lobsters
B. Lobsters blend
C. Lobsters blending
D. Because lobsters blend

15. _____a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow is a simple hinge joint.


A. While the shoulder
B. While the shoulder is
C. The shoulder is
D. The shoulder

16. A car has several sections with moving parts, _____of those parts is essential.
A. good lubrication
B. well lubricated
C. and good lubrication
D. and well lubricated

17. Bears cannot see well _____ small eyes.


A. bears have
B. because having
C. because they have
D. because of bears

18. _____ at the Isthmus of Panama, so animals were able to migrate between North and South America.
A. A land bridge existed
B. When a land bridge existed
C. A land bridge
D. With a land bridge
19. _____ mostly made of granite, it also contains some human-made materials.
A. The Empire State Building
B. The Empire State Building is
C. Although the Empire State Building is
D. Although the Empire State Building is built
65% = soal intermediate

Present Simple = Do / Does

He does not want to work here.


He has improved her behavior.

20. Pressure differences make the eardrum vibrate_____ the ear.


A. enters the sound waves
B. as sound waves
C. sound waves enter
D. as sound waves enter
65% intermediate … = tiga warna = con = s = v

as ….. as kamu sama cantiknya dengan istri saya.

As = sebagai My role as

As = karena
As = saat
Because // Since //As //

21. An optical microscope magnifies as much as 2,000 times, but an electron microscope_____ as much as a million
times.
A. Magnifying
B. it magnifies
C. can magnify
D. magnify it
22. If scientific estimates are accurate, _____ with the Earth about 20,000 years ago.
A. the Canon Diablo meteorite collided
B. the collision of the Canon Diablo meteorite
C. the Canon Diablo meteorite colliding
D. colliding the Canon Diablo meteorite

23. _____ of the Pueblo Indians centered on intensive agriculture.


A. The economic activity
B. Because the economic activity
C. The economy was active
D. When the economic activity

24. In popular terminology, any long snowstorm with_____ is called a blizzard.


A. the amount of wind is large
B. a large amount of wind
C. it is very windy
D. very windy

25. Nuclear power can be produced by fusion, _____ produced by fission.


A. it can also be
B. it can also
C. and it can also be
D. and it can also

26. _____, igneous rocks may be changed into gneisses.


A. The temperature is high
B. If the temperature is high
C. High temperatures
D. If high temperature

27. In 1905, Henry Flagler_____ his plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railway out across the sea to Key West
A. it was announced
B. announcement
C. the announcement of
D. announced

28. The sound_____ from a vibrating object will be high or low depending on the number of vibrations.
A. comes
B. it is coming
C. is coming
D. coming
29. During the late 1880s, urban streetcars were electrified through _____large motors.
A. they used
B. used
C. the use of
D. when they used

30. ____almost 274 square miles, but 96 percent of the park is under water.
A. Although Biscayne National Park encompasses
B. Biscayne National Park encompasses
C. Biscayne National Park encompassing
D. Biscayne National Park

31. Legislation ____ in 1916 and 1917 gave the Wilson administration authority to intervene in the national
economy if it proved necessary.
A. it was passed
B. was passed
C. passed
D. passes

32. Because a family of birds set up housekeeping in Joel Chandler Harris’s mailbox when the birds were
in need of a place to stay, ____ the Wren’s Nest.
A. the home was named
B. so the home was named (b)
C. naming the home
D. the home’s name
90 persen = ADVANCED TOEFL

33. The citizens worry about____ is doing.


A. what the government
B. the government
C. it
D. is what the government

TIGA LEVEL PREPOSISI


1. Kalau liat preposisi, carilah noun / butuh noun / butuh satu kata
2. Kalau liat preposisi, carilah con rc + S V atau con rc + V (what, why, when, who, whose, whom, which,
whether, how, that, where)
3. Kalau liat preposisi, carilah struktur WORD ORDER: Artikel + Adverb + Adjective + Noun
34. The company was prepared for____ happened with the economy.
A. it
B. the problem
C. what
D. when

35. Today the true story of ____ at Little Bighorn remains a mystery.
A. happened
B. it happened
C. what happened
D. what happening

36. For more than a decade, ____ that certain species are becoming scarce.
A. the warnings of bird-watchers
B. warn the bird-watchers
C. bird-watchers have warned
D. a warning for bird-watchers

37. Early in the eighteenth century, Halley accurately predicted when ________of 1682 would return.
A. the comet
B. was the comet
C. the comet was
D. had the comet

38. No single factor explains why ________ vary so greatly among individuals.
A. aging affects
B. the effects of aging
C. aging has an effect
D. the aging effect

39. Lack of clarity about________ the party in the coming year will be removed at the party’s convention.
A. will lead
B. lead
C. they will lead
D. who will lead

40. We do not________ the bow drill was first developed for woodworking or fire making.
A. whether it
B. know whether it
C. know whether
D. sure whether

41. Minute Man National Historical Park is a monument to where________


A. the beginning of the Revolutionary War
B. in the beginning of the Revolutionary War
C. the Revolutionary War to begin
D. the Revolutionary War began

42. Tests on the colors of cars were conducted at the University of California to determine ________the
safest colors for cars.
A. which
B. which were
C. if
D. how were

43. The National Institute of Dental Research estimates ________ in fluoridated areas have about 25 percent less
tooth decay than children elsewhere.
A. for school children
B. school children’s
C. that school children
D. that for school children

44. The process of photosynthesis explains how________ able to use the energy in sunlight to manufacture foods
from the simple chemicals in air and water.
A. green plants
B. green plants are
C. planting greens
D. with green plants are

45. 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

46. About 4000 B.C., humans discovered that________ obtained from special rocks called ores.
A. metals could be
B. the ability of metallic
C. possibly metallic
D. could metals be

47. ________ quickly after an animal dies.


A. In the degradation of DNA
B. Degrading DNA
C. DNA degrades
D. For DNA to degrade

48. ________ aerodynamic design has contributed a major part in reducing resistance to motion.
A. Improved
B. It improves
C. Improvement
D. They improve

49. The southern part of Florida is much warmer in the winter than the northern part, so more________ to the
south.
A. flocking tourists
B. touring flocks
C. flocks of tourists
D. tourists flock

50. The Moon’s gravity pulls water on the near side of the Earth toward the Moon, and this is what ________ tides
to occur.
A. the cause
B. causes
C. causing
D. the cause of

51. ________, they pick up fragments of rock which become frozen into the base of the ice.
A. Glaciers move
B. Glaciers moving
C. They were glaciers
D. As glaciers move

52. The tape measure first evolved from ________ used by the Egyptians.
A. the chains measure
B. the chains are measured
C. the chains are measuring
D. the measuring chains

53. A typical Atlantic hurricane starts as a low pressure system near ________.
A. Africa coasts
B. coast to Africa
C. the African coast
D. Africa has a coast

54. It is not clear whether the subdivisions of the neocortex ________ units.
A. individual
B. are individual
C. they are individual
D. individually

55. The job________ started yesterday was rather difficult.


A. when
B. was
C. after
D. that he

56. ________ just dropped off a package for you is my sister.


A. The woman
B. The woman who
C. Because the woman
D. With the woman

57. Modern humans, who first appeared about 600,000 years ago, ________ Homo sapiens.
A. calling
B. were called
C. they called
D. they were called

58. The first writing ________ evidence of is on Mesopotamian clay tablets.


A. we
B. that we
C. has
D. that we have

59. ________ drought-resistant plan is which store water in fleshy tissue.


A. Succulents are
B. Succulents
C. They are succulents
D. Succulents which are

60. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom________ as Jack Benny, was a famous comedian in vaudeville and on radio and
television.
A. most people’s knowledge
B. most people know
C. knowing most people
D. the knowledge of most people

61. ________ that hunted other animals tended to have very narrow, sharp, curved claws.
A. For dinosaurs
B. Dinosaurs are known
C. Dinosaurs
D. Like dinosaurs

62. The first eyeglasses had convex lenses for the aged who________ far-sighted.
A. had become
B. they had become
C. becoming
D. it became

63. Chimney Rock________ 500 feet above the North Platte River, has eroded considerably in the last two
centuries.
A. stands
B. in standing
C. it stands
D. which stands

64. ________ that accompany recurring bouts of severe depression reduce bone density.
A. It changes hormones
B. Hormonal changes
C. The hormones change
D. The change in hormones is

65. Willa Cather is an author________ for her evocative and memorable vision of frontier prairie life.
A. whom readers
B. the praise of readers
C. whom praisings
D. whom readers praise

66. Mars’s tiny moon Phobos is a small mountain of rock that________ from the asteroid belt by Mars’s
gravitational pull.
A. was probably captured
B. it probably
C. the probable capture
D. probably the capture

67. ________ is famous as the home of the United States Naval Academy.
A. Annapolis
B. Because of Annapolis
C. Why Annapolis
D. Because Annapolis

68. Some scientists think________ be a planet but a moon of Neptune.


A. that Pluto does not seem
B. not Pluto
C. Pluto that might not
D. that Pluto might not

69. With________ of sophisticated oil lamps elaborate tools were made to cut the wicks.
A. appeared
B. the appearance
C. the appearance was
D. it appeared

70. Fort Union was the site of what ________ principal fur-trading post on the upper Missouri River.
A. the
B. being the
C. was the
D. it was the

71. Since________ commercial risk, it has to appeal to a large audience to justify its cost.
A. the face of the movie
B. moving faces
C. a movie faces
D. to face a movie

72. A current of water known as the Gulf Stream comes up from the Gulf of Mexico, and then________ the North
Atlantic toward Europe.
A. it crosses
B. crossing
C. with its crosses
D. crosses it

73. Systems________ the two symbols 0 and 1 are called binary number systems.
A. use
B. they use
C. uses
D. using

74. Genes, ________ the blueprints for cell construction, exist in tightly organized packages called chromosomes.
A. are
B. they are
C. which
D. which are

75. The Earth’s atmosphere consists of gases________ in place around the Earth by the gravitational pull of the
planet.
A. held
B. hold
C. it holds
D. the hold

76. Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated with a number of composers including Jerome Kern, whom ________
in writing the musical Show Boat.
A. joined
B. was joined
C. he joined
D. joining

77. Both of a halibut's eyes are on one sides of its head.


A B C D

78. Colorful rock formations is found in Haleakala's crater.


A B C D

79. Nobody know when the process of glass-making was invented.


A B C D

80. Sugars like glucose is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
A B C D

81. Part of the electricity used in the United States today come from hydroelectric sources.
A B C D

82. The languages of the world presents a vast array of structural similarities and differences.
A B C D

83. The rise of multinationals have resulted in a great deal of legal ambiguity because multinationals can operate in
A B C D
so many jurisdictions.

84. All of the east-west interstate highways in the United States has even numbers, while north-south interstate
A B
highways are odd-numbered.
C D

85. When a massive star in the large Magellanic Cloud exploded in 1987, a wave of neutrinos were detected on
A B C D
Earth.

86. Some of the agricultural practices used today is responsible for fostering desertification.
A B C D

87. Every open space in the targeted area that has grass and a few bushes are occupied by the white-crowned
A B C D
sparrow.

88. Krakatoa is remembered as the volcano that put so much ash into the air that sunsets around the world
A B
was affected for two years afterward.
C D

89. ________ the earliest system of writing.


A. The constitution of pictograms
B. Pictograms in the constitution
C. Constitute the pictograms
D. Pictograms constitute

90. At temperatures________ absolute zero, substances possess minimal energy.


A. approach
B. approaches
C. approaching
D. they approach

91. The Earth's one-year revolution around the Sun changes how________ on one hemisphere or the other.
A. falling sunlight
B. the fall of sunlight
C. sunlight in the fall
D. sunlight falls

92. Though sporadic interest in regional dialects________ for centuries, the first large-scale systematic studies did
not take place until the nineteenth century.
A. has existed
B. it existed
C. has it existed
D. existing with it

93. The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier.


A B C D

94. The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it was made in France in the 1780s.
A B C D

95. The term ‘Yankee’ was originally a nickname for people from New England, but now anyone from the United
A
States are referred to as a Yankee.
B C D

96. A network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched between the skin and the underlying muscles, supply blood to
A B C D
the face and scalp.
97. Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest drought.
A B C D

98. At the end of the Revolution, most of the army units of the young nation was almost entirely disbanded,
A B C
leaving a total national military force of eighty men in 1784.
D

99. Ballpoint pens are less versatile but more population than fountain pens.
A B C D

100. Riddles vary greatly in both grammatical and phonology form.


A B C D

101. Blood pressure is measured by feeling the pulse and apply a force to the arm.
A B C D

102. The Moon has no atmosphere, no air, and no watery.


A B C D

103. The first matches were too hard to ignite, a mess, or too dangerously easy to ignite.
A B C D

104. A 1971 U.S. government policy not only put warnings on cigarette packs but also banning television
A B C
advertising of cigarettes.
D

105. Demand, beauty, durability, rare, and perfection of cutting determine the value of a gemstone.
A B C D

106. The Harvard Yard, which was Harvard’s original campus, is still a major attraction for both students and
A B C
visiting.
D

107. In 1862, the American Confederacy raised the Merrimack, renamed it Virginia, covered it with iron plates, and
A B C
an outfit it with ten guns.
D

108. The liquid crystals in a liquid crystal display (LCD) affect the polarized light so that it is either blocked and
A B C D
reflected by the segments of the display.
109. Most cells in multicelled organisms perform ________ functions.
A. specialize
B. specialized
C. they specialize
D. specialization

110. The big island of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ________ by five volcanoes.
A. creation
B. it was created
C. creating
D. was created
111. The Sun uses up over four million tons of hydrogen per second, ________ still has enough hydrogen to last for
the next five billion years.
A. it does not
B. it
C. but it
D. to it

112. For Katherine L. Bates, who ________ the top of Pikes Peak in 1893, the view provided the inspiration for her
hymn “America the Beautiful.”
A. reached
B. she reached
C. reaching
D. she was reaching

113. Coal, petroleum, and natural gaseous are all fossil fuels.
A B C D

114. The mass of neutron stars generally range from one-tenth to twice the mass of the Sun.
A B C D

115. Grasses grow in ways that help them to survive being nibbled, chilly, or dried.
A B C D

116. Most of Hemingway’s novels glorifies heroic exploits such as bullfighting or boxing.
A B C D

117. Paleographers study ancient and medieval handwriting in order to establish not only its age and also its
A B C D
background.

118. The sounds produced by bullfrogs and toads vary greatly because each species have its own particular call.
A B C D
119. By the 1920s, many radio transmitters had been build.
A B C D

120. Fish farming has rose in the United States in recent years.
A B C D

121. In areas of volcanic activity, beach sand may contains dark minerals and little quartz.
A B C D

122. Cro-Magnon man was names after the caves in southwest France where the first remains were discovered.
A B C D

123. Lassie, the famous collie who made her first screen appearance in 1943, has always be played by a male dog.
A B C D

124. A blue bigwig lizard stakes out a territory and will defending females within it against courting males.
A B C D

125. President George Washington was inaugurates on the steps of the Federal Building in New York City.
A B C D

126. By 1627, Plymouth had became a viable and growing community of fifty families, twenty-two goats, fifteen
A B C
cows, and more than fifty pigs.
D

127. Tobacco was the crop on which the eminence of Williamsburg and the prosperity of Virginia were base.
A B C D

128. Because there may be scores of genes in each suspect DNA region, scientists must identifying and sequence
A B C
the actual genes contributing to type I diabetes.
D

129. ________ 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

130. 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

131. Some composers, such as Richard Wagner, have felt that ________ the action of the opera too much and
have written operas without them.
A. arias interrupt
B. interrupt arias
C. the interruption of arias
D. areas of interruption

132. Water stored behind a dam can used to drive turbines.


A B C D

133. Our universe may continue to expand as it gets colder, empty, and deader.
A B C D

134. Every form of matter in the world are made up of atoms.


A B C D

135. The lens and cornea are supply with nutrients and oxygen by the aqueous fluid.
A B C D

136. Dodge City, laid out in 1872, owed both its prosperity and its famous to the buffalo in its early years.
A B C D

137. The amount of the two kinds of cholesterol in the blood have been shown to have an effect on the risk of
A B C D
heart attack.

138. By the time Noah Webster reached his mid-twenties, he had already publish an elementary speller.
A B C D

139. Cone shells live in much different seas and feed mainly on small fish and worms.
A B C D

140. The leaves of the common sunflower are rough to the touch on both side.
A B C D

141. Hemoglobin enables the red blood cells to carry oxygen and small numbers of carbon dioxide.
A B C D

142. Those with narcolepsy experience the uncontrollable desire to sleep, perhaps several time in one day.
A B C D

143. Another great artists of the time and possibly the most gifted silversmith in the colonies was Paul Revere.
A B C D
144. Alzheimer’s disease afflicts two in ten person over the age of seventy in the United States.
A B C D

145. The red cardinal spends many of its time feeding on the ground.
A B C D

146. In the 1920s, Tulsa had a higher number of millionaire than any other U.S. city.
A B C D

147. Because Washington is a district and not a state, its residents have less rights than other citizens.
A B C D

148. Implosive consonants occur in many different language, but they are particularly common in American Indian
A B C D
and African languages.

149. ________ 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

150. In most parts of the globe, the ________ not exceed roughly 31 degrees centigrade.
A. ocean surface
B. ocean has a surface
C. ocean surface does
D. ocean has surfaced

151. ________ which climatologists have determined is the wettest place on Earth not under water is a spot on the
island of Kauai.
A. The place
B. It is the place
C. The place is
D. In the place is

152. A single protein molecule may being composed of tens of thousands of atoms.
A B C D

153. Less plants grow in the poor taiga soils beneath the trees.
A B C D
154. Vast reserves of oil and gas is located in the Gulf of Mexico.
A B C D

155. Helium is a colorless, odorless, taste element often used to inflate balloons.
A B C D

156. The common was the heart of every New England villages built in the eighteenth century.
A B C D

157. Some of the regulations that bind U.S. institutions allows foreign banks to package loans at hard-to-beat
A B C
interest rates.
D

158. In angioplasty, a catheter is thread through an artery and guided through the body to the blocked area.
A B C D

159. Animals like frogs have waterproof skin that prevents they from drying out quickly in air, sun, or wind.
A B C D

160. Because of its ability to survive close to human habitations, the Virginia deer has actually increased their
A B C D
range and numbers.

161. John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, and he was the richest man in the world at
A B
the time of her retirement.
C D

162. The aorta arches out of the heart, and then its moves down toward the lower body.
A B C D

163. Global average temperatures are now 6 degrees Celsius warmer than we were 100 years ago.
A B C D

164. During the Civil War, Clara Barton became known as the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ for hers fearless care of
A B C D
wounded soldiers.

165. Our Sun is a medium-size star orbiting near the edge of a collection of stars that our call the Milky Way.
A B C D

166. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as they stood alone watching the British
A B C D
bombardment of Fort McHenry.
167. Some scallops can open and close theirs valves and swim away rapidly when they are disturbed.
A B C D

168. Pearl S. Buck began her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, in 1925, while her was traveling between the
A B C D
United States and China.

169. Although knives and forks ________ prehistoric origin, spoons are relatively new.
A. are
B. they are
C. are they
D. which are

170. Neptune’s ________ the planet in the direction opposite to the other seven moons.
A. moon Triton orbiting
B. moon Triton orbits
C. moon Triton in orbit
D. moon is in Triton’s orbit

171. A dip pen’s nib is split into two halves ________ at the point of the nib.
A. who meet
B. which meet
C. they meet
D. meet

172. In 1785, Henry Knox was appoint the new republic’s first secretary of war.
A B C D

173. Biophysics is one of the various branch of physics.


A B C D

174. Unlike many great writers, Longfellow was an enormously popular poet in him day.
A B C D

175. After Lincoln’s assassination, Ford’s Theater was closed and parts of it was converted to government office
A B C
space.
D

176. Most of the Earth’s ice is found either in the two great ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland and on the tall
A B C D
mountains of the world.

177. Except for a few species, such as the spotted salamander, the courtship of salamanders are secretive and not
A B C
often observed.
D

178. Unlike most mollusks, crustaceans outgrow their shells and need to build several completely new casings
A B C
throughout they lives.
D

179. Sounds quieter than 10 decibels are impossibly for the human ear to hear.
A B C D

180. Often the best farmland is next to a river that floods periodical.
A B C D

181. The planet Mercury has a moderately elliptically orbit.


A B C D

182. An eighteen-watt fluorescent bulb seems as brightly as a seventy-five-watt incandescent bulb.


A B C D

183. The telephone works by changing the voice’s sound waves into electrically signals.
A B C D

184. In the Northern United States, two European species of small white birch are extensive planted as
A B C D
ornamentals.

185. Fifty million Americans continue to smoke despite abundant evidence that smoking is extremely
A B C
unhealthfully.
D

186. The U.S. Military Academy sits on scenic heights overlooking a strategically bend in the Hudson River.
A B C D

187. The Erie Canal became so successfully at providing cheap transportation that it was greatly enlarged between
A B C D
1835 and 1862.

188. The Infra-Red Astronomy Satellite (IRAS), launched in 1983, contained a special coded reflecting telescope
A B C D
that detected infrared rays.

189. On December 17, 1903, the Flyer ________near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright as pilot.
A. took off
B. it took off
C. taking off
D. took it off

190. Comets are relatively small celestial bodies ________ up chiefly on dirt and icy materials.
A. make
B. made
C. they make
D. make them

191. Researchers have long debated about ________ moon Titan contains hydrocarbon oceans or lakes.
A. Saturn’s
B. whether it is Saturn’s
C. whether Saturn’s
D. whether Saturn’s is a
192. The abrasively action of the wind wears away softer layers of rock.
A B C D

193. There are two way of making a gas condense: cooling it or putting it under pressure.
A B C D

194. Researchers have discovered that the application of bright light can sometimes be uses to overcome jet lag.
A B C D

195. Salmon migrations may include having to jump up waterfalls, swim up rapids, or climbing fish ladders at dams.
A B C D

196. If a strike is called in violation of an existing contract between labor and management, its a wildcat strike.
A B C D

197. Snapping turtles are easily recognized because of the large head, the long tail, and the shell that seems
A B C
insufficiently to protect the body.
D

198. The long string of genes making up a chromosome have been likened to a string of pearls.
A B C D

199. ________ lived on Earth for nearly 150 million years.


A. Dinosaurs
B. Dinosaurs who
C. If dinosaurs
D. Since dinosaurs

200. Early printers arranged type into ________ a small, flat composing stick.
A. words
B. are words on
C. words on
D. the words are on

201. ________ 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

202. Yeast is an organic catalyst ________ known to prehistoric humanity.


A. was
B. which was
C. which it
D. which

203. Many communities ________ a complex system of linguistic levels in order to show respect.
A. useful
B. use already made
C. making it useful
D. make use of

204. The ear is a flexible organ,________ simply was not designed to withstand the noise of modem living.
A. but it
B. it
C. but
D. its

205. In 1934, chemist Wallace Carothers produced a plastic which ________ nylon.
A. his call
B. he called
C. to call him
D. calling

206. As ________ grows, the shell in which it lives grows, too.


A. a mollusk
B. a mollusk it
C. has a mollusk
D. it has a mollusk

207. The first ________ the Civil War was fired from Fort Johnson upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
A. shot
B. shot in
C. shot was in
D. it was shot

208. Stalactites are formed in caves by groundwater ________ dissolved lime.


A. it contains
B. containing
C. contains
D. containment

209. By studying the movements of the Sun and Moon, even early astronomers could ________ eclipses would
take place.
A. predicting when
B. when it predicts
C. the prediction when
D. predict when

210. Coffee probably originally grew wild in Ethiopia in the province of Kaffe, and from there ________ to southern
Arabia.
A. bringing it
B. it was brought
C. brought it
D. brought with it

211. Alabama was occupied by the French and Spanish before ________ to England in 1763.
A. was ceded
B. ceded to it
C. it was ceded
D. ceded it

212. A group of winged reptiles ________ pterosaurs is believed to have been the first vertebrates with the power
of flight.
A. call
B. calls
C. called
D. is called

213. On November 23, 1863, Grant stunned the Confederates on Missionary Ridge with what ________ to be a
full-dress military parade of troops who unexpectedly opened fire.
A. appeared
B. appearing
C. appearance
D. apparent

214. Vast flows of information is carried on hair-thin fiber optic cables.


A B C D

215. The crafting of fine violins has been proceeding for several century as a secret art.
A B C D

216. Linguistic conflicts due to divided ethnic and national loyalties they can be bitter and violent.
A B C D
217. In 1851, with the publication of her antislavery novel, Harriet Beecher Stowe rocketed to famous.
A B C D

218. The smallest and simple living organisms on Earth are bacteria.
A B C D

219. The effort to determine the exact numerical value of pi has now reach 2.16 billion decimal digits.
A B C D

220. The hammerhead shark is usual found in warm, temperate waters.


A B C D

221. Princeton University, was founded in 1746, is one of the oldest universities in the United States.
A B C D

222. According to a World Resources Institute report, a significant part of forest acreage disappear each year.
A B C D

223. The Earth’s crust is composed of fifteen plates which float on the partially molten layer below they.
A B C D

224. As one climbs high up a mountain, the air becomes both colder or thinner.
A B C D

225. When a bone is broke into several pieces, doctors may pin the pieces together for proper healing.
A B C D

226. The long necks of much plant-eating dinosaurs were useful for reaching up to the treetops to feed.
A B C D

227. Hippocrates believed that health depended on the balanced of the four fluids of the body: blood, phlegm,
A B C D
bile, and black bile.

228. A jet stream is a flat and narrow tube of air that moves more rapid than the surrounding air.
A B C D

229. Because mistletoe berries are poisonous, everyone with Christmas decorations containing mistletoe need to
A B C
be aware of the potential danger.
D

230. When Pierre L’Enfant designed the national capital in 1791, her envisioned a broad boulevard linking the
A B C D
White House and the Capitol.
231. In a copperhead snake, the venom flows from a single venom glands to a pair of hollow teeth.
A B C D

232. A hawk swallows its food in large pieces, digests some of it, and regurgitating the rest.
A B C D

232. Defects occur when liquid helium undergoing a phase transition from its normal to its superfluid phase.
A B C D

233. The earliest known artworks were done by cavemen which used a mixture of clay, chalk, and burned wood
A B C D
and bones.

234. Variations in melody, rhythm, and tone of voice becomes a major feature of child speech toward the end of
A B C D
the first year.

235. As a protective protein molecule, an antibody can combines with a foreign virus protein.
A B C D

236. The water moccasin is a high venomous and extremely dangerous pit viper.
A B C D

237. Though aluminum is more common than iron, it is extremely difficult to break their hold on other atoms.
A B C D

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