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_______, the hummingbird gets its name from the sound that its wings make during flight.

• Has a briliant color

• The briliant color

• Which is briliantly colored

• Briliantly colored

Except for the Sun, all starts are too far from the Earth for their distances ________ in miles or kilometers.

• to be conveniently measured

• which conveniently measured

• to measure conveniently

• conveniently measured

Many technological innnovations, such as the telephone, ________ the result of sudden bursts of inspiration in fact were preceded by many inconclusive efforts.

• whose appearance

• that appear to be

• and appear to be

• are appearing

Corporations, companies owned by much stockholders rather than by a single proprietor, began to play an important economic role in the late nineteenth century.

• owned

• much

• rather than

• role

Diamonds have the unique ability to allow the passage of neither infrared and visible light.

• have

• abillity

• neither

• visible

Gilbert Newton Lewis, a chemist, helped to develop the modem electron theory of valence, a theory what explains the forces holding atoms together in molecules.

• a

• develop

• what

• together

The first women governor in United States history was Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was elected governor of Wyoming in 1925.

• women

• was

• who

• of

Because of a high birthrate and considerable immigration, the United States population in the late nineteenth century increased tremendously into 31 million in 1860 to 76 million in 1900.

• high

• considerable

• increased

• into

In laboratory experiments, an investigator often begins by work out different conditions for two groups of subjects.

• often

• work

• for

• of subjects

In Florida, when the temperature drops below freezing, citrus growers keep young tree warm by constantly showering them with water.

• when

• drops

• tree

• with water