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speed of separation.
(A) the greatest
(B) the greater
(C) greater than
(D) as great as

10. The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil,
_____ the vegetable‘s strong taste.
(A) which the source of
(B) that the source is
(C) the source of
(D) of the source is

11. A regional writer with a gift for dialect, _____ her fiction with the eccentric, comic, but vital
inhabitants of rural Mississippi.
(A) and Eudora Welty is peopling
(B) Eudora Welty peoples
(C) because Eudora Welty peoples.
(D) Eudora Welty, to people.

12. Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor the air contains at a certain temperature _____
with the amount it could hold at that temperature.
(A) to compare
(B) compared
(C) comparing
(D) compares

13. Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americans arrived by crossing the land bridge that
connected Siberia and _____ more than 10,000 years ago.
(A) this is Alaska now

21. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war and through
diplomacy.

22. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings in the United
States can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

23. Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of Mexico‘s winter
wetlands.

24. Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin, who son George acquired land at
the junction of the Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.

25. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the National Gallery of
Art, where it is now locating.

26. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border, have been known to reach
90 of degrees Celsius.

27. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth‘s orbital plane, a
solar eclipse occurs.

28. Mary Cassatt‘s paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear rhythm, simple
modelings, and harmonies of clear color.

29. Plants synthesize carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide with the aid of energy is derived
from sunlight.

30. The best American popular music balances a powerful emotions of youth with tenderness, grace,
and wit.
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marked unity of effect.
(A) of each play the structure
(B) the structure of each play
(C) the play each structure of
(D) each play the structure of

2. The coherent light of a laser ____ entirely of synchronized waves of a single frequency that travel in
the same direction.
(A) it composes
(B) to compose it
(C) is composed
(D) is composing it

3. _____ that ornithischians, planteating dinosaurs, lived about 225 million years ago.
(A) Scientists believe
(B) Scientists believing
(C) Scientists believe in
(D) Scientists‘ belief

4. _____ that book American art out of the fomanticism of the mid 1800‘s and carried it to the most
powerful heights of realism.
(A) Winslow Homer‘s paintings
(B) It was Winslow Homer‘s paintings
(C) When Winslow Homer‘s paintings
(D) Paintings of Winslow Homer

5. Settlers of the western United States had a sense of equality in the face of hardship, ____
democratic political practices.
(A) led to
(B) they had led

10. ____ at a music store was one of Lil Armstong‘s first professional jobs as a young pianist when
she came to Chicago in 1917.
(A) Demonstration tunes
(B) Demonstrating tunes
(C) Demonstrate tunes
(D) Tunes that demonstrated

11. The first people to live in ____ Hawaii were the Polynesians, who sailed there in large canoes
from other Pacific Islands about 2,000 years ago.
(A) now where is
(B) what is now
(C) it is now
(D) now this is

12. The Alaskan blackfish exhibits ____ to both extreme cold and low concentrations of oxygen under
the ice.
(A) remarkable, and resistance
(B) remarkable, resistant
(C) remarkably resistant
(D) remarkable resistance

13. Penicillin acts both ____.
(A) killing bacteria and their growth being inhibited
(B) and to kill bacteria and to inhibit their growth
(C) by killing bacteria and by inhibiting their growth
(D) kills bacteria and inhibits their growth

14. Now until the 1850‘s ____ in New York seek to rescue historic building from destruction or
alteration.
(A) some concerned citizens