Mini-test" Structure (1)

__________ , an organism must be able to adapt to changing factors in its environment.

• (A) If survival

• (B) For surviving

• (C) To survive

• (D) It survives

The art of landscape architecture is __________ that of architecture itself.

• (A) almost as old as

• (B) as almost old

• (C) almost as old than

• (D) old as almost

The Mummers' Parade has __________ every year in Philadelphia on New Year's Day since 1901.

• (A) holding

• (B) been holding

• (C) held

• (D) been held

Rarely __________ more than fifty miles from the coast.

• (A) redwood trees grow

• (B) redwood trees do grow

• (C) grow redwood trees

• (D) do redwood trees grow

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

• (A) not

• (B) never

• (C) no

• (D) none

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

• (A) colder than

• (B) the colder

• (C) the colder as

• (D) is colder

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

• (A) prevention

• (B) preventing

• (C) prevent

• (D) to prevent

Nerve cells, or neurons, __________ in the human body.

• (A) the most complex cells are

• (B) are the most complex cells

• (C) most complex the cells are

• (D) most are the complex cells

9. Released in 1915, __________

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

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

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

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

__________ on barren slopes can help prevent erosion.

• (A) Planting trees

• (B) For trees to be planted

• (C) In order to plant trees

• (D) Trees are planted