1. The president _____ the election by a landslide.
a. won
b. he won
c. yesterday
d. fortunately


2. when _____ the conference?
a. the doctor attended
b. did the doctor attend
c. the doctor will attend
d. the doctor's attendance


3. The North Pole _____ a latitude of 90 degrees north.
a. has
b. is having
c. which is having
d. it has


4. _____ greyhound, can achieve speeds up to thirty-six miles per hour.
a. The
b. The fastest
c. The fastest dog
d. The fastest dog, the


5. The Mayflowerwas bound for Virginia, but a hurricane _____ off course.
a. blew it
b. to blow it
c. it blew
d. blowing it


6. The greenhouse effect occurs _____ heat radiating from the Sun.
a. when does the Earth's atmosphere trap
b. does the Earth's atmosphere trap
c. when the Earth's atmosphere traps
d. the Earth's atmosphere traps


7. The Rose Bowl, _____ place on New Year's Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate football game in the United States.
a. takes
b. which takes
c. it takes
d. took


8. Experiments _____ represent a giant step into the medicine of the future.
a. using gene therapy
b. use gene therapy
c. they use
d. gene therapy uses


9. _____ off the Hawaiian coastline are living, others are dead.
a. Coral reefs
b. Some types of coral reefs
c. There are many types of coral reefs
d. While some types of coral reefs


10. People who reverse the letters of words _____ to read suffer from dyslexia.
a. if they tried
b. when trying
c. when tried
d. if he tries


11. Featured at the Henry Ford Museum _____ of antique cars dating from 1865.
a. an exhibit is
b. an exhibit
c. is an exhibit
d. which is an exhibit


12. Rubber _____ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber.
a. is produced
b. producing
c. that produces
d. produced


13. _____ in scope, romanticism was a reaction against neoclassical principles.
a. Mainly literary
b. It was mainly literary
c. The main literature was
d. The literature was mainly


14. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) _____ came about as a result of the National Security Act of 1947.
a. what
b. it was
c. was what
d. it was what


15. Oil shale is a soft, fine-grained sedimentary rock _____ oil and natural gas are obtained.
a. from
b. is from
c. is which
d. from which


16. _____ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion.
a. The Moon
b. That the Moon
c. When the Moon
d. The Moon which


17. According to the World Health Organization, _____ there to be an outbreak of any of the six most dangerous diseases, this could be cause for quarantine.
a. were
b. they were
c. there were
d. were they


18. Thefour string on a violin are tuned in fifths.


19. The researchfor the book Roots taking Alex Haley twelve years.


20. Segregation in publicschools was declare unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954.


21. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brighteststar in the sky with an absolute magnitude about twenty-three times that of the Sun.


22. Killer whales tendto wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together.


23. Some of the most usefulresistor material are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys.


24. The communityof Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy's Store.


25. J.H. Pratt used grouptherapy early in the past century when he brought tuberculosis patients together to discuss its disease.


26. Alloys of gold and copper havebeen widely using in various types of coins.


27. The United States has importall carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools are too fine and soft for carpets.


28. Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable themto slash theirs costs and expand.


29. Thatwater has a very high specific heat means that, without a large temperature change, water can add or lose a large number of heat.


30. Benny Goodman was equallytalented as both a jazz performer as well as a classical musician.


31. No longersatisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham is moving to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.


32. Irving Berlin wrote"Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in a U.S. Army during World War I.


33. Shortlybefore the Allied invasion of Normandy, Ernest Hemingway has gone to London as a war correspondent for Collier's.


34. During the 1960s, the Berkeley campus of the University of California came tonational attention as a result its radical political activity.


35. Because of the flourish with whichJohn Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, his name become synonymous with signature.


36. On the floorof the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile beneath sea level.


37. William Hart was an actbest known for his roles as western heros in silent films.


38. Prior toan extermination program early in the last century, alive wolves roamed across nearly all of North America.


39. The state seal still usedin Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed the first Continental currency.


40. Artist Gutzon Borglum designedthe Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on project from 1925 until his death in 1941.


41. It is proving less costlyand more profitably for drugmakers to market directly to patients.


42. Sapphires weighingas much as two pounds have on occasion mined.


43. Likesnakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antarctica.


44. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recentlybeen doing home equity loans with greater frequency than ever before.

1. John Butterfield _____ the Southern Overland Mail Company with two stagecoaches in 1858.
a. he set up
b. setting up
c. set up
d. the setup


2. The radiation piercing the atmosphere _____ of tanning or burning in humans.
a. it is the cause
b. causing it
c. is the cause
d. the cause


3. The _____ during an earthquake are caused by seismic waves.
a. actually vibrate
b. actual vibrations
c. vibrations happen
d. from the actual vibrations


4. During the Middle Ages, _____, large sets of bells with as many as 70 bells, first became popular.
a. with carillons
b. carillons are
c. carillons have
d. carillons


5. The tea plant, an evergreen shrub pruned to three to five feet high, _____ mild, semitropical climate in which to grow.
a. the need for
b. it needs
c. to need
d. needs a


6. _____, an author probably most famous for his tales of terror, also dabbled in some science fiction.
a. To Edgar Allen Poe
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. Edgar Allen Poe was
d. For Edgar Allen Poe to be


7. Humans living at high elevations _____ to the lower level of oxygen in the air by producing more red blood corpuscles.
a. adjust
b. to adjust
c. the adjustment
d. adjusting


8. By 1870, over 30 nations _____ their own postage stamps.
a. the issue
b. were issuing
c. issuing
d. they issued


9. The Statue of Liberty, completed in Paris in 1884, _____ in New York Harbor in 1886.
a. the unveiling
b. to unveil
c. it unveiled
d. was unveiled


10. Red Ribbon Week, a national campaign to keep young people from using drugs, _____.
a. annually in October
b. annually in October each year
c. takes place annually in October
d. taking place annually in October


11. In a triathlon, the _____, bike, and run.
a. athlete swims
b. athletes swim
c. swim athletically
d. the swimming athlete


12. The Mayflower Compact, signed by the Pilgrims upon their arrival in Massachusetts in 1620, _____ their political and religious beliefs.
a. the statement of
b. stating
c. with a statement of
d. stated


13. ____ alcoholism are the slow destruction of the liver and possible death.
a. Dangerously,
b. The eventual effect of
c. The long-term effects of
d. Chronic and eventual


14. The _____, the first daily newspaper in the United States, first appeared in 1783.
a. two-page Pennsylvania Evening Post
b. Pennsylvania Evening Postis two pages long
c. Pennsylvania Evening Post was
d. two-page Pennsylvania Evening Post's


15. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, speaking from notes on an old _____ the famous Gettysburg Address in only two minutes time.
a. gave the envelope
b. envelope giving
c. envelope, gave
d. gift of an envelope


16. _____ runs parallel to the coast of California for more than 600 miles.
a. The San Andreas Fault is long
b. On the San Andreas Fault
c. The San Andreas Fault
d. Along the San Andreas Fault


17. _____, one of the most famous presidents, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
a. For Abraham Lincoln
b. Abraham Lincoln was
c. Of all the presidents
d. Abraham Lincoln


18. _____, Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
a. Excellent speed and running ability
b. The outstanding track athlete runs
c. An outstanding track athlete
d. He had excellent speed and running ability


19. Thomas Jefferson, _____ a personally designed and constructed lap-top desk, wrote the Declaration of Independence in the summer of 1776.
a. he used
b. had used
c. the use of
d. using


20. The Great Plains in the Midwest of the United States _____ a rich, fertile farming area.
a. definitely making
b. from the beginning
c. the pioneers planted
d. makes up