English Quiz

______ on barren slopes can help prevent erosion.

• Planting trees

• For trees to be planted

• In order to plant trees

• Trees are planted

An organism must be able to adapt to changing factors in its environment.

• If survival

• For surviving

• To survive

• It survives

Judge Francis Hopkins is probably best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but he also excelled as a poet, ________ and an orator.

• as a musician

• by playing music

• a musician

• he played music

Medical researchers are constantly looking for ways to control, ________ and cure diseases.

• prevention

• preventing

• prevent

• to prevent

Vermont is the only state in New England ________ an Atlantic coastline.

• without

• not with

• which not having

• doesn't have

The higher one rises in the atmosphere, ________ the temperature generally becomes.

• colder than

• the colder

• the colder as

• is colder

Jupiter's moons can be easily seen through ________ binoculars or a small telescope.

• either

• if

• whether

• or

Rarely ________ more than fifty miles from the coast.

• redwood trees grow

• redwood trees do grow

• grow redwood trees

• do redwood trees grow

Released in 1915, ________.

• D. W. Griffith made an epic film about the Civil War, Birth of a Nation

• the Civil War was the subject of D. W. Griffith's epic film, Birth of a Nation

• D. W. Griffith's epic film Birth of a Nation was about the Civil War

• the subject of D. W. Griffith's epic film Birth of a Nation was the Civil War

Microorganisms live in extreme conditions of heat and cold where ________ other organisms can survive.

• not

• never

• no

• none