English 39

The mountains surrounding Los Angeles effectively shield the city from the hot, dry winds of the Mojave Desert, ________ the circulation of air.

• but they also prevent

• also prevented by them

• and also to prevent

• and also preventing

Not only ________ to determine the depth of the ocean floor, but it is also used to locate oil.

• to use seismology

• is seismology used

• seimoslogy is used

• using seismology

Nebraska has floods in some years, _______.

• in others drought

• droughts are others

• while others droughts

• other in drought

Pop Art was a movement of the 1950's and 1960's whom imagery was based on readily recognized American products and people.

• a movement

• whom

• based on

• people

Because the tachinid fly is a parasite of harmful insects, much species have been imported into the United States to combat insects pests.

• harmful

• much

• have been imported

• to combat

All almost the electricity for industrial use comes from large generators driven by steam tubirnes.

• All almost

• industrial

• use

• driven

The Egyptians first discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and improvement its flavor.

• first

• drying

• sweeter

• improvement

During his twelve year there, Ellis Marsalis turned the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts into a rich training place for future jazzz stars.

• twelve year there

• turned

• a rich

• stars

Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that are often represented at symbols.

• branch

• sets

• elements

• at

As her focus changed, the love poetry that Edna St. Vincent Millay produced in the 1920's in increasing gave way to poetry dealing with social injustice.

• As

• changed

• produced

• increasing