UAS English Class

1. 1. ______ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between a.d. 300 and 750.

• (A) The Polynesians

• (B) The Polynesians arrived

• (C) Because of the Polynesians

• (D) It was the Polynesians

2. In 1066, a bright comet ______ in the sky attracted much attention.

• (A) was appearing

• (B) appears

• (C) it appeared

• (D) appearing

3. In some daguerreotype cameras, ______ through a hole in the back of the box.

• (A) the object’s view

• (B) the object was viewed

• (C) from the view of the object

• (D) viewed the object

4. In the Stone Age, stone tools ______ with other rock materials.

• (A) polishing

• (B) they polished

• (C) for polish

• (D) were polished

5. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic ______ Savannah, in 1819.

• (A) was the

• (B) it was the

• (C) the

• (D) in it the

6. The Earth’s plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth ______ faults.

• (A) were called

• (B) calls

• (C) called

• (D) it was called

7. The first plant-like organisms probably______ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years ago.

• (A) life

• (B) living

• (C) lived

• (D) it was living

8. In male pattern baldness, ______ strongly influences the degree of hair loss.

• (A) heredity

• (B) inherited

• (C) inherits

• (D) heredity has

9. In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles ______ attempt to explain America’s belief in flying

saucers.

• (A) makes a fascinating

• (B) making a fascinating

• (C) fascination with making

• (D) fascination made a

10. The irregular coastline of ______ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the Cape

Cod peninsula in the southeast.

• (A) Massachusetts

• (B) Massachusetts is

• (C) Massachusetts it is

• (D) Massachusetts on