STRUCTURE POST-TEST (Paper)

SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Time—25 minutes

1._____ range in color from pale yellow to bright orange.

(A) Canaries
(B) Canaries which
(C) That canaries
(D) Canaries that are

2.Carnivorous plants _____ insects to obtain nitrogen.

(A) are generally trapped
(B) trap generally
(C) are trapped generally
(D) generally trap

3.A federal type of government results in ___.

(A) a vertical distribution of power
(B) power is distributed vertically
(C) vertically distributed
(D) the distribution of power is vertical

4.February normally has twenty-eight days, but every fourth year, ___ has twenty
nine.
(A) there
(B) its
(C) is a leap year
(D) a leap year, it

5.Evidence suggests that one-quarter of operations ___ bypass surgery may be

unnecessary.
(A) they involve
(B) involve
(C) involving
(D) which they involve

6.____ a tornado spins in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, it

spins in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere.
(A) However
(B) Because of
(C) Although
(D) That

7.The Caldecott Medal, _____ for the best children’s picture book, is awarded each
January.
(A) is a prize which
(B) which prize
(C) which is a prize
(D) is a prize

8.Sports medicine is a medical specialty that deals with the identification and
treatment of injuries to persons ____.
(A) sports are involved
(B) involved in sports
(C) they are involved in sports
(D) sports involve them

9.The Wilmington Oil Field, in Long Beach, California, is one of ____ oil fields in
the continental United States.
(A) productive
(B) the most productive
(C) most are productive
(D) productivity

10.Thunder occurs as ____ through air, causing the heated air to expand and collide
with layers of cooler air.
(A) an electrical charge
(B) passes an electrical charge
(C) the passing of an electrical charge
(D) an electrical charge passes

11.The population of Houston was ravaged by yellow fever in 1839 _____ in 1867.
(A) it happened again
(B) and again
(C) was ravaged again
(D) again once more

12.Researchers have long debated ____ Saturn’s moon Titan contains hydrocarbon
oceans and lakes.
(A) over it
(B) whether the
(C) whether over
(D) whether

13.According to Bernoulli’s principle, the higher the speed of a fluid gas, ____ the
pressure.
(A) it will be lower
(B) lower than the
(C) the lower
(D) lower it is

14.The flight instructor, ____ at the air base, said that orders not to fight had been
issued.
(A) when interviewed
(B) when he interviewed
(C) when to interview
(D) when interviewing

15.In the northern and central parts of the state of Idaho _____ and churning rivers.
(A) majestic mountains are found
(B) are majestic mountains found
(C) are found majestic mountains
(D) finding majestic mountains

16.(a)Light can (b)travels from (c)the Sun to the Earth (d)in eight minutes and twenty
seconds.

17.Every human (a)typically (b)have twenty-three (c)pairs of chromosomes in

(d)most cells.

18.(a)In the (b)sport of fencing, three (c)type of swords (d)are used: the foil, the epee,
and the sabre.

19.The Internal Revenue Service (a)uses computers to check tax return

(b)computations, to determine the reasonableness of deductions, and (c)for verifying
the accuracy of (d)reported income.

20.There (a)was four groups of (b)twenty rats (c)each involved in the (d)test.

21.The type of jazz (a)known as “swing” was (b)introduced by Duke Ellington when
(c)he wrote and (d)records “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.”

22.The bones of mammals, (a)not alike (b)those of (c)other vertebrates, (d)show a

high degree of differentiation.

23.The United States (a)receives a (b)large amount of revenue from (c)taxation of

(d)a tobacco products.

24.(a)Much fats are composed of (b)one molecule of glycerin (c)combined with three
molecules of (d)fatty acids.

25.The (a)capital of the Confederacy was (b)originally in Mobile, but (c)they were
(d)moved to Richmond.

26.A pearl develops (a)when a tiny grain of sand or some (b)another (c)irritant
accidentally (d)enters into the shell of a pearl oyster.

27.The English horn is (a)an alto oboe with (b)a pitch one fifth lower (c)as (d)that of
the soprano oboe.

28.In the Milky Way galaxy, (a)the most (b)recent observed supernova (c)appeared
(d)in 1604.

29.(a)Although the name suggest (b)otherwise, the ship (c)known as Old Ironsides
was built of oak and cedar rather than (d)it was built of iron.
30.Never (a)in the history of humanity (b)there have been (c)more people (d)living on
this relatively small planet.

31.Because of (a)the mobile of Americans today, (b)it is difficult for (c)them to put
down (d)real roots.

32.For five (a)years after the Civil War, Robert E. Lee served (b)to president of
Washington College, (c)which later (d)was called Washington and Lee.

33.Doctors (a)successfully used hypnosis (b)during World War II (c)to treat

(d)fatigue battle.

34.The lobster,(a)like (b)many crustaceans, can cast off (c)a damaging appendage and
regenerate a new appendage to (d)nearly normal size.

35.The main cause of the (a)oceans’ tides (b)is the (c)gravitation pull of (d)the Moon.

36.(a)The curricula of American public schools (b)are (c)set in individual states; they
(d)do not determine by the federal government.

37.The fact that the sophisticated technology (a)has become part of (b)revolution in
travel (c)delivery systems has not made travel schedules (d)less hectic.

38.Balanchine’s (a)plotless ballets, (b)such Jewels and The Four Temperaments,

(c)present dance (d)purely as a celebration of the movement of the human body.

39.In a solar battery, a photosensitive (a)semiconducting substance (b)such as silicon

crystal is (c)the source of (d)electrician.

40.(a)In early days hydrochloric acid was (b)done by (c)heating a mixture of sodium
chloride (d)with iron sulfate.