Scoring test 2

______ is helping to break new ground in

drug research.

• Computers are being used more if

• The increasing use of the computer

• If an increase in the use of the computer

• Computers are being used more

An elephant ______ vigorously when it is overheated.

• flapping its ears

• its ears flap

• flaps its ears

• ears flap it

Broadway musical comedy has been called ______ of the United States to modern theater.

• the major contribution that

• what is the major contribution

• the major contribution

• to the major contribution

______ in 1968 as a nonprofit agency to finance the growth of noncommercial radio and television in the United States.

• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting established

• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established

• When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established

• Even though the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established

Cold temperatures, short growing seasons, and heavy snows prevent ______ at high elevations.

• grow trees

• the growth of trees

• trees are growing

• and growth of trees

Usually, the more skilled an athlete ______ effortless the athlete's movements appear to be.

• what is the most

• that is the more

• that it is more

• is the more

Trilobites, a group of spineless animals, flourished in the oceans for several hundred million years ______ some 200 million years ago.

• until they became extinct

• and their extinction

• that were extinct

• because their extinction

Recent engineering developments have made ______ to recycle plastic soda bottles into polyester fabric.

• possible, and

• it is possible

• the possible

• it possible

______, bottle-nosed dolphins become talented performers at many aquariums.

• When to train

• Are training

• When trained

• To train them

The art of the 1970's was characterized by diversity and by the independence of artists ______ main affinities were more often sociopolitical than stylistic

• whose

• they have

• that

• of which