SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Time - 25 minutes
(including the reading of the directions)
Now set your clock for 25 minutes.
This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.
Structure
Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Fill in the space so that the letter inside the oval cannot be seen.
Look at the following examples.
Example I
The president the election by a landslide. Sample answer
(A) won
(B) he won
(C) yesterday
(D) fortunately
The sentence should read, "The president won the election by a landslide." Therefore, you should choose (A).
Example II
When the conference? Sample answer
(A) the doctor attended
(B) did the doctor attend
(C) the doctor will attend
(D) the doctors attendance
The sentence should read, "When did the doctor attend the conference?" Therefore, you should choose (B).
Now begin work on the questions.
1.______, the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin.
(A) It is the epidermis
(B) In the epidermis
(C) The epidermis
(D) The epidermis is
2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca______ of Humphrey Bogart’s more famous roles.
(A) they are two
(B) two of them are
(C) two of them
(D) are two
3. The compound microscope has not one______two lenses.
(A) and also
(B) but
(C) and there are
(D) but there are
4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth's crust formed, and life______in the seas.
(A) first appeared
(B) first to appear
(C) is first appearing
(D) appearing
5. The hard palate forms a partition ______and nasal passages.
(A) the mouth
(B) between the mouth
(C) is between the mouth
(D) it is between the mouth
6. Conditions required for seed germination include abundant water, an adequate supply of oxygen, and ______
(A) the temperatures must be appropriate
(B) having appropriate temperatures
(C) appropriate temperatures
(D) appropriately temperate
7. When fluid accumulates against the eardrum, a second more insidious type of ______
(A) otitis media may develop
(B) developing otitis media
(C) the development of otitis media
(D) to develop otitis media
8. Some general theories of motivation ______of central motives, from which other motives develop.
(A) identify a limited number
(B) identification of a limited amount
(C) identify a limited amount
(D) identifying a limited number
9. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where ______placed after its arrival.
(A) should the statue be
(B) the statue being
(C) it should be the statue
(D) the statue should be
10. Hydroelectric power can be produced by______and using tidal flow to run turbines.
(A) water basins are dammed
(B) damming water basins
(C) to dam water basins
(D) dams in water basins
11. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, ______of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, were both born in Kentucky.
(A) they were opposing presidents
(B) were opposing presidents
(C) opposing presidents
(D) presidents opposed
12. A stock______at an inflated price is called a watered stock.
(A) issued
(B) is issued
(C) it is issued
(D) which issued
13. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms, ______silk fabrics are woven.
(A) whose cocoons
(B) from cocoons
(C) whose cocoons are from
(D) from whose cocoons
14. Not only______generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors.
(A) a nuclear breeder reactor
(B) it is a nuclear breeder reactor
(C) does a nuclear breeder reactor
(D) is a nuclear breeder reactor
15. D.w. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and filmmaking techniques ______as the Hollywood standard.
(A) that established
(B) that became established
(C) what established
(D) what became established
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Directions: In questions 16-40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Look at the following examples.
Example I Sample Answer
The four string on a violin are tuned
A B C D
in fifths.
The sentence should read, "The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths.” Therefore, you should choose (B).
Example II Sample Answer
The research for the book Roots taking
A B C
Alex Haley twelve years.
D
The sentence should read, “The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years.” Therefore, you should choose (C).
Now begin work on the questions.
16. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite’s
A B C
complex life cycle.
D
17. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton.
A B C D
18. The ankle joint occur where the lower ends of the tibia and fibula slot neatly around
A B C D
the talus.
19. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the operate of
A B C
motorcycles as well as automobiles.
D
20. The neocortex is, in evolutionary terms, most recent layer of the brain.
A B C D
21. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National Museum of
A B
Natural History’s collection of biological, geological, archeological, and
C
anthropology treasures.
D
22. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple came to resides A B C D
at Mount Vernon.
23. At this stage in their development, rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as
A B C D
cutting edge.
24. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shy similar to those in humans.
A B C D
25. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly.
A B C D
26. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reach
A B C
only by boat or plane.
D
27. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on
A B C D
the light-sensitive tube of a television camera.
28. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound.
A B C D
29. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and
A B
most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country.
C D
30. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through some materials but not
A B C
through other.
D
31. The number of wild horses on Assateague are increasing lately, resulting in
A B C
overgrazed marsh and dune grasses.
D
32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of every moviegoers
A
experience in the era before television, offer an unique record of the events of the
B C D
1930s.
33. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets.
A B C D
34. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making banjos in Boston
A B C
in the late 1870s.
D
35. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United
A
States, lived in the White House and of least thirty-seven other residences.
B C D
36. Methane in wetlands comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
A B C D
37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today
A B
bears his name.
C D
38. Edward MacDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as “To a
 B C D
Wild Rose" and “To a Water Lily."
39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and
A B
wind are live and have feelings.
C D
40. Newtonian physics accounts for the observing orbits of the planets and the moons.
A B C D