GRAMMAR TEST 2

Find the error!

in a solar battery, a photosensitive semiconducting substance such as silicon crystal is the source of electrician

• semiconducting

• such as

• the source

• electrician

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The curricula of American public schools are set in individual states; they do not determine by the federal government

• The

• Are

• set in

• do not determine

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Balanchine's plotless ballets, such jewels and The Four Temperaments, present dance purely as a celebration of the movement of the human body

• plotless

• such

• present

• purely

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Never in the history of humanity there have been more people living on this relatively small planet

• in the history

• there have

• more people

• living

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The internal revenue service uses computers to check tax return computations to determine the reasonableness of deduction and for verifying the accuracy of reported income

• uses

• computations

• for verifying

• reported incomes

the population of Houston was ravaged by yellow fever in 1839 _____ in 1867

• it happened again

• and again

• was ravaged again

• again once more

Thunder occurs as _____ through air, causing the heated air to expand and collide with layers of cooler air

• an electrical charge

• passes an electrical charge

• the passing of an electrical charge

• an electrical charge passes

______ range in color from pale yellow to bright orange

• canaries

• canaries which

• that canaries

• canaries that are

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only about 3 percent of oil wells actually do a profit

• only about

• oil wells

• actually

• do

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particles with unlike charges attract each other, while particles with alike charges repel each other

• unlike

• while

• alike

• other