Written Expression

Duke University in North Carolina has an outstanding collecting of documents concerning

Southern history.

• has

• collecting

• concerning

• history

Chemical compounds with barium, cobalt, and strontium are responsible to many of the vivid

colors in fireworks.

• with

• are

• to

• colors

The discover of gold and silver in the rugged mountains of Nevada in 1858 attracted many

fortune-seekers to that area.

• discover

• mountains

• attracted

• to that area

More than 10,000 years ago, glaciers moved across the Minnesota region four time, leveling most of the land.

• more than

• moved

• time

• most of

Viscosity is a measurement describing the relative difficulty or easy with which liquids flow.

• describing

• relative

• easy

• with which

Abigail Adams' letters to her husband present a graphic picture of the age which she lived.

• letters

• her

• a graphic

• age which

Some critics have called Theodore Dreiser's book Sister Carrie a first modern novel because

it broke so many traditions.

• have called

• a first

• because

• so many

Runner Wilma Rudolph win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics, and she set the

world record for the 100-meter dash in 1961.

• win

• at the 1960

• she set

• world record

Woody Guthrie wrote thousands of songs during the lifetime, many of which became classic

folk songs.

• thousands

• the lifetime

• which

• folk songs

Composer John Cage used many unusual objects as instrument in his music, including

cowbells, flower pots, tin cans, and saw blades.

• unusual

• instrument

• including

• tin cans