English Language Quiz

Rhymes result from sound rather than spelling, and words neither have to be spelled the same way ........ look alike in order to rhyme.

• not

• and

• nor

• either

The gardenia, about 200 species ........ to tropical and subtropical countries, was named in honor of eighteenth-century naturalist Alexander Garden.

• native of which are

• are native of which

• which are native of

• of which are native

Bioethics is ........ the moral and social implications of techniques resulting from advances in the biological sciences.

• study

• studied

• the study of

• the study that

When ........ from REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, a state in which brain activity resembles the waking state, they usually report that they have been dreaming.

• awakened people

• people awakening

• are people awakening

• people are awakened

In their designs the Shakers always sought ........ to a problem, whether it was a rocking chair or a steam engine.

• the simplest solution

• the solution of simplest

• the solution that simplification

• which solution simplest

Carbohydrates, ........ of the three principal constituents of food, form the bulk of the average human diet.

• are one

• one that

• one

• which one

Eva Gatling directed ........ in Huntington, New York, from 1962 until 1978.

• the Heckscher Museum

• the Heckscher Museum was

• how the Heckscher Museum

• and the Heckscher Museum

Geometrically, the hyperbolic functions are related to the hyperbola, ........ the trigonometric functions are related to the circle.

• just as

• same

• similar to

• and similar

United States aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart set ........ long-distance flight records.

• of several

• several the

• several

• several of

The brilliance of the Sun’s disk makes observations of the corona and nearby stars ........ with ordinary telescopes, except during an eclipse.

• impossibility

• impossible

• they are impossible

• are impossible