Reading Part 1

Higher education in the US ……….. in 1636 when the first colonists ………….Harvard College.

• has begun/ founded

• began/ have founded

• began/ founded

• was beginning/ have founded

Simple photographic lenses cannot ……….. sharp, undistorted images over a wide field.

• to form

• are formed

• forming

• form

The flexibility of film allows the artist ……. unbridled imagination to the animation of cartoon characters.

• to bring

• bringing

• brought

• brings

Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, they …………. through facial expressions and by making noises.

• communicates

• communicating

• communicate

• communicated

………….. time and labor, cartoonists generally draw the hands of their characters with only three fingers and a thumb.

• Saved

• Saves

• To save

• To saving

Using many symbols makes it possible ………….. a large amount of information on a single map.

• to put

• put

• putting

• to putting

Scientists think that …………. leaves helps some trees to conserve water in the winter.

• loses

• lose

• losing

• lost

In order for information to be easily communicated, it must be …………in an understandable way.

• organized

• organize

• organizing

• organizes

Wind motion can be observed in the mesosphere by …………. the trails of meteors passing through it.

• to watch

• watched

• watching

• watch

A bridge must be strong enough …………its own weight as well as the weight of the people and vehicles that use it.

• to support

• support

• supporting

• supported