No one knows what color dinosaurs were ______________ no sample of their skin has survived.

Because ___________, alabaster can be easily carved.

____________ invisible to the unaided eye, ultraviolet light can be detected in a number of ways.

___________ they are tropical birds, parrots can live in temperate or even cold climates.

Small sailboats can easily capsize ________ they are not handled carefully.

_____________ advertising is so widespread in the United States, it has had an enormous effect on American life.

_________________ toward shore, its shape is changed by its collision with the shallow sea bottom.

_____________________ together in one place, they form a community.

___________ people are increasingly linked over long distances by electronic communications, but many of them still prefer face-to-face encounters.

Error Identification : (A) Despite cats cannot see in complete darkness, (B) their eyes are (C) much more sensitive (D) to light than humans’ eyes.

Error Identification : Snakebirds were not (A) given their name because (B) they eat snakes, (C) but (D) because of their long, slender necks resemble snakes.

Error Identification : (A) In spite of (B) their (C) frightening appearance, the squid is shy and completely (D) harmless

Error Identification : (A) Since its acute sense of (B) smell , (C) the bloodhound is often (D) used in tracking.

Error Identification : (A) Although Adlai Stevenson was (B) never elected president, he was one of the preeminent American (C) politics of the mid-twentieth (D) century .

Error Identification : James Dickey's first poem was published during he was still senior in college.

Error Identification : In the sixteenth century, it was thought that a compass needle pointed north because some mysterious influence of the stars.

Error Identification : The rate of stomach cancer is the lowest in the countries when people do not eat processed meat.

Depressant drugs _______ historically have been known to be addictive are called narcotics.

_________ reaches the cells of the body, it is oxidized, or slowly burned.