Part A: Choose the correct choice which best completes each sentence.
Perhaps the primary ……………….. of adult education was industrialization, which accelerated the pace of socioeconomic change.
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2. Question
Magnesium has a specific gravity of 1.74, which means that ……………. 1.74 times as much as an equal volume of water.
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3. Question
Under the guidance of choreographers, Martha Graham and Jerome Robbins, American dance ……………………….. new levels of artistic achievement.
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4.Children with parents whose guidance is firm, consistent, and rational are inclined …………….high levels of self-confidence.
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5. In his writing, John Crowe Ransom describes what ………….. the spiritual barrenness of society brought about by science and technology.
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6. True hibernation takes place only among …………………animals.
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7. …………….. principal types of acceleration: linear and angular.
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8. Question
8. The flatter a hair appears under a microscope, ………………… wavier it is.
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9. Question
9. ………….was the first fully successful transatlantic cable finally laid.
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10. Question
10. The kettledrum produces different tones depending on whether …………..with sticks that have felt or sponge heads.
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11. Question
11…………………… in 1635, the Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the United States.
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12. Question
12…………………..a continuous mass of water on the Earth’s surface, all continents are islands in the strictest sense of the word.
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13. The windmill, which has been used for hundreds of years to pump water and grind grains, ……………. redesigned to produce electricity.
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14. ………………. were stones piled at intervals.
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15. Question
15. In the textile industry, the term “gunny” refers to ………………. burlap that is not of the best quality.
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16. Question
During adolescence, many young people begin to question ………….. held by their families.
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Question 17 of 30
17. Question
Part B: In each of the following sentences, choose the underlined word or group of words that is NOT correct.
17. Pumps can operate under pressures rangingbetween a fraction of a pound to more than 10,000 pounds per square inch.
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Question 18 of 30
18. Question
Booker T. Washington, an educational leader, worked throughout the lifetime to improve economic conditions for Black people in the United States.
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Question 19 of 30
19. Question
The city of Green Bay, established in 1745, was the first permanent settlerin Wisconsin.
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Question 20 of 30
20. Question
Studies of either vision and physical optics began almost as early as civilization itself.
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21. Question
21. Approximately fifty percent of the packageutilized in the United States are for foods and beverages.
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22. Question
The metaphors we use routinely are the means which by we describe our everyday experiences.
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Question 23 of 30
23. Question
The ability to retain a mental record of earlier experiences are referred to as “memory”.
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Question 24 of 30
24. Question
The private satellite industry sprang up in the mid-1960’s to relay not only television broadcasts but too phone calls and computer data.
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25. Question
Whether as statesman, scientist, and philosopher, Benjamin Franklin was destined to gain lasting honor throughout much of the world.
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Question 26 of 30
26. Question
During the Colonial days, the Iroquois had an agricultural economy basing mainly on corn with supplementary crops of pumpkins, beans, and tobacco.
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Question 27 of 30
27. Question
The most widely writer praised of the 1960’s in the United States was probably Joyce Carol Oates, who published many novels and short stories.
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Question 28 of 30
28. Question
At the age of 94, composer, conductor, arranger, and acting Eva Jessye led her choral group in the first production of the opera Porgy and Bess, written in 1935.
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Question 29 of 30
29. Question
The type of precipitation is affected by electrical conditions, air temperature and the percentage of humid in the air.
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Question 30 of 30
30. Question
The waterwheel is a mechanism designed to harness energy from a source instead than animals.