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English 42

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Most of our ideas of what ancient people looked and dressed come from the works of Renaissance artists.

a)

what

b)

and

c)

from

d)

works

2.

Plants require mush less moist in cold weather than in warm weather.

a)

require

b)

less

c)

moist

d)

than

3.

All nations may have to make fundamental changes in their economic, political, and the technological institutions if they are to preserve the environment.

a)

have to make

b)

changes

c)

the technological institutions

d)

to preserve

4.

Massachusetts was first explored in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the first permanent settlement at Plymouth in 1620.

a)

first explored

b)

early

c)

centuries

d)

settlement at

5.

Sarah Vaughan had a voice like a perfect instrument, and it was an instrument that she knew how to use it with the utmost skill.

a)

perfect

b)

an

c)

to use it

d)

utmost

6.

During early nineteenth century, the building of canals and rairoads strengthened the state oflndiana's links with the eastern United States.

a)

During early

b)

of

c)

strengthened

d)

with

7.

Maryland, even though a southern state, remained loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.

a)

even though

b)

remained

c)

loyalty

d)

during

8.

A monsoon is an enormous cycle of air set in motion by differences temperature over land and sea.

a)

enormous

b)

set

c)

differences temperature

d)

over

9.

In 1879, ________ , Alice Freeman PlIlmer became head of the history department at Wellesley College.

a)

twenty-four years

b)

at the age of twenty-four

c)

age twenty-four

d)

of twenty-four years

10.

The United States spends more money On advertising _____ country in the world.

a)

other

b)

other than

c)

than any other

d)

while other

11.

Penicillin, probably _______ ,came into widespread use after the .Second World War

a)

an antibiotic of known

b)

was known the antibiotic

c)

the best known antibiotic

d)

know best antibiotic

12.

Although Emily Dickinson is now a well-known American poet, only seven of her poems _____ while she Wasalive.

a)

publishing

b)

to publish

c)

have published

d)

were published

13.

Thomas Jefferson served as president of the American

Philosophical Society, an organization that encouraged ________ of scientific and intellectual research.

a)

ranging wide

b)

a wide range

c)

which ranged widely

d)

a widely ranging

14.

Part of the Great Plains, Kansas is famous for _______ fields of wheat.

a)

its seemingly endless

b)

it seems endless

c)

it is seemigly endless

d)

it is endless it seems

15.

Skimming lIlong the surface of the ocean or rising from its depths like delicate balloons, _______ to their aquatic habitat.

a)

the perfect adaption of jellyfish

b)

jellyfiah are perfectly adapted

c)

jellyfish are adapted to perfectly

d)

and the adaption is perfect for jellyfish

16.

The sidereal day is the period ____ the Earth completes one rotation on its axis.

a)

when does it

b)

while it

c)

during which

d)

in that

17.

____ rainfall in the desert is low, it is one of the most important climatic factors in the formation of desert erosion features

a)

Although

b)

Why

c)

Despite

d)

Due to

18.

A strong swimmer, ______.

a)

that fish and seal are eaten chiefly by the polar bear

b)

the polar bear eats chiefly fish and seal

c)

the polar bear eating chiefly fish and seal

d)

eating fish and seal chiefly by the polar bear

19.

Helicopters can rise or descend vertically, hover, and move forward, backward, ______.

a)

they move laterally

b)

and are lateral

c)

or lateral motion

d)

or laterally

20.

The Dallas Theater Center presents plays in two buildings, _____ was designed by the internationally renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

a)

which

b)

which one

c)

that which

d)

one of which