STRUCTURE/GRAMMAR

1. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States developed the reusable space shuttle

____to space cheaper and easier.

• A. to make access

• B and making access

• C. which made accessible

• D. and made accessible.

2. Genetically, the chimpanzee is more similar to humans ___.

• A. are than any other animal

• B. than is any other animal

• C. any other animal is

• D. and any other animal is

3.___more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of which more than half are fossils.

• A. Being that there are

• B. There being

• C. Are there

• D. There are

4.The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously through the United States

• A. passed

• B. in passage

• C. having passed

• D. passing

5.Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and columns ___a three-dimensional grid.

• A. forms

• B. from which forming

• C. and forming

• D. that forms

6.The average level of United States prices grew very little from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when

____.

• A. did inflation begin

• B. inflation began

• C. the beginning of inflation

• D. did the beginning of inflation

7.The basis premise behind all agricultural production is ___available the riches of the soil for

human consumption.

• A. to be made

• B. the making

• C. making is

• D. to make

8.___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in office until 1815.

• A. Election

• B. Why he was elected

• C. Elected

• D. Who was elected

9.____ of classical ballet in the united states began around 1830.

• A. To teach

• B. Is teaching

• C. It was taught

• D. The teaching

10.The universe is estimated ___between 10 billion and 20 billion years old.

• A. being

• B. to be

• C. which is

• D. is