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30. Some nineteenth-century advocates for the emancipation of women in the United States were
also activity in the Underground Railroad, helping to slaves escape.

31. Feathers not only protect birds from injury and conserve body heat but also function in flight.
courtship, camouflage, and sensory perceptive.
32. The radio telescope, invented in 1932, has capabilities beyond far those of optical telescopes in
tracking signals from galaxies.

33. Rafting was an essential mean of transportation from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century.

34. Many fortification rank among the most functional and beautiful works of architecture constructed
in North America before the twentieth century.

35. Because her work was popular with European royally, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer became financial
successful as a sculptor in the mid-eighteen hundreds.

36. The actor James Earl Jones gained Broadway stardom in ―The Great White Hope‖ for his powerful
portrayal of prizefighter.

37. Despite fats and oils arc nutritionally important as energy sources, medical research indicates that
saturated fats may contribute to hardening of the
arteries.

38. Large multicolored insects with four wings, dragonflies play a very important role in the ecosystem
of humid area by controlling the population of mosquitoes.

39. During early nineteenth-century Boston. the architect Charles Bulfinch, eager to make the city
beautiful, sometimes provided free plans for people building


5. ____ touching in O. Henry‘s stories is the gallantry with which ordinary people struggle to maintain
their dignity.
(A) Most is
(B) It mostly is
(C) Is it most
(D) What is most

6. The face of the Moon is changed by collisions with meteoroids, ____ new craters to appear.
(A) cause
(B) causing
(C) caused
(D) have cause

7. Social scientists believe that ____ from sounds such as grunts and barks made by early ancestors
of human beings.
(A) the very slow development of language
(B) language developed very slowly
(C) language which,, was very slow to develop
(D) language, very slowly developing

8. ____ substances include various forms of silica, pumice, and emery.
(A) Natural abrasives occur
(B) Abrasion occurs in natural
(C) Naturally occurring abrasive
(D) A natural occurrence of abrasion

9._____ in the upper part of their long thin legs allow deer to run swiftly and jump far.
(A) Muscles are powerful
(B) There are powerful muscles
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about environmental issues such as pollution.
(A) dedicated to raising
(B) dedicated raising
(C) dedicates to raise
(D) that dedicates to raising

15.In 1992 Albert Gore, Jr., the son of a former United States senator, became _____ Vice President
of the United States.
(A) who was the forty-fifth
(B) and the forty-fifth
(C) the forty-fifth
(E) he was the forty-fifth

16. Although Christopher Columbus failed in his original goal, the discoveries he did make were as
Important than the route to Asia he expected to find.

17. Martha Graham, a leading figure in modern dance, made she debut in 1920 with the Denishawn
School.

18. In the United States, the federal government is responsible to regulating the working conditions in
factories.
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19. Jupiter is a gaseous planet with. an atmosphere composed most of hydrogen and helium.

20. Throughout her career Georgia O‘Keeffe paid meticulous attention to her craft; her brushes were
always clean, her colors fresh and brightness.

21. Hydrogen the nine most abundant element in the Earth‘s crust, is an odorless, colorless, and
tasteless gas.

birds in the state of California.

33. Instead of tooth, the blue whale has a row of bony plates in its mouth that functions as a food-
collecting device.

34. Murres are black-and-white driving birds that mate every five or six years and lay only a single egg
at time.

35. A bar code consists a pattern of lines and bars that a computer can translate into information.

36. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly to backwards.

37. Fluorine, a greenish-yellow gas that is slightly heavy than air is poisonous and corrosive and has a
penetrating and disagreeable odor.

38. The Everglades, a large swamp area is an unique wilderness extending over much of southern
Florida.

39. Each year millions of tons of fertile topsoil that could produce good crops washed away by rains.

40. Since the 1950‘s, folk‘ music has had a significant influence on many popular vocal and
instrumental music.