Part A

Directions: For questions 1-5. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence. 

                  

Cloud-seeding to enhance rainfall and prevent snowstorms_____to be a breakthrough to control weather.

• expects

• it is expected

• is expected

• that is expected

In some areas of the world, ______has escalated beyond belief since the last decade.

• dancing is popular

• dance and its popularity

• the popular dances

• the popularity of dance

Malaria, once thought to be completely eradicated, _____ today a source of sickness through the developing world.

• it remains

• remained

• remains

• that remains

___________relations with friends and acquaintances, play a major role in the social development of adolescents.

• What are called peer group relations are

• Peer group relations are

• By peer group relations,

• Peer group relations, the

Outstanding for his talent as an essayist, inventor, mathematician, and astrologer in the I770s, ______ also published a popular almanac.

• Benjamin Banneker that

•  it was Benjamin Banneker

• Benjamin Banneker was

•  Benjamin Banneker

Part B

Directions: For questions 6-10. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence.

In Europe and America, linguists turned to descriptive synchronic studies of languages and to the development of empirical methods for their analysis. In the first half of the century, American linguists and the anthropologist Edward Sapir (6)_____ in the languages of the Americas, language and culture, and language in society. Leonard Bloomfield, a major descriptive linguist, (7)_____as the most influential linguist in this period. (8)­­­______also concerned with developing a general theory of language. Sapir believed that any viable linguistic theory (9)______for the mental representation of linguistic knowledge.(10)________, was a follower of behaviorism, a view that precluded any concern for mental representation of language.

• were interested

• were interesting

• that were interested

• they were interested

Part B

Directions: For questions 6-10. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence.

In Europe and America, linguists turned to descriptive synchronic studies of languages and to the development of empirical methods for their analysis. In the first half of the century, American linguists and the anthropologist Edward Sapir (6)_____ in the languages of the Americas, language and culture, and language in society. Leonard Bloomfield, a major descriptive linguist, (7)_____as the most influential linguist in this period. (8)­­­______also concerned with developing a general theory of language. Sapir believed that any viable linguistic theory (9)______for the mental representation of linguistic knowledge.(10)________, was a follower of behaviorism, a view that precluded any concern for mental representation of language.

• has emerged

• emerge

• emerged

• had emerged

Part B

Directions: For questions 6-10. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence.

In Europe and America, linguists turned to descriptive synchronic studies of languages and to the development of empirical methods for their analysis. In the first half of the century, American linguists and the anthropologist Edward Sapir (6)_____ in the languages of the Americas, language and culture, and language in society. Leonard Bloomfield, a major descriptive linguist, (7)_____as the most influential linguist in this period. (8)­­­______also concerned with developing a general theory of language. Sapir believed that any viable linguistic theory (9)______for the mental representation of linguistic knowledge.(10)________, was a follower of behaviorism, a view that precluded any concern for mental representation of language.

• That both Sapir and Bloomfield

• Both Sapir and Bloomfield

• It was both Sapir and Bloomfield

• Both Sapir and Bloomfield who

Part B

Directions: For questions 6-10. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence.

In Europe and America, linguists turned to descriptive synchronic studies of languages and to the development of empirical methods for their analysis. In the first half of the century, American linguists and the anthropologist Edward Sapir (6)_____ in the languages of the Americas, language and culture, and language in society. Leonard Bloomfield, a major descriptive linguist, (7)_____as the most influential linguist in this period. (8)­­­______also concerned with developing a general theory of language. Sapir believed that any viable linguistic theory (9)______for the mental representation of linguistic knowledge.(10)________, was a follower of behaviorism, a view that precluded any concern for mental representation of language.

• must account

• must be accounted

• must be accounting

• must have been accounted for

Part B

Directions: For questions 6-10. choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence.

In Europe and America, linguists turned to descriptive synchronic studies of languages and to the development of empirical methods for their analysis. In the first half of the century, American linguists and the anthropologist Edward Sapir (6)_____ in the languages of the Americas, language and culture, and language in society. Leonard Bloomfield, a major descriptive linguist, (7)_____as the most influential linguist in this period. (8)­­­______also concerned with developing a general theory of language. Sapir believed that any viable linguistic theory (9)______for the mental representation of linguistic knowledge. (10)________, was a follower of behaviorism, a view that precluded any concern for mental representation of language.

• Bloomfield, in his later years he

• In his later years, there is Bloomfield

• Bloomfield, in his later years

• It was Bloomfield, in his later years