Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.

1.Based on the premise that light was composed of color, the Impressionists came to the conclusion ……….. not really black.

2. ………… a parliamentary system, the prime minister must be appointed on the basis of the distribution of power in the parliament.

3. …………. of the play Mourning Becomes Electra introduces the cast of characters and hints at the plot.

4. As soon as ………….. with an acid, salt, and sometimes water, is formed.

5. Weathering ……….. the action whereby surface rock is disintegrated or decomposed.

6. The people of Western Canada have been considering ……….. themselves from the rest of the provinces.

7. Although Margaret Mead had several assistants during her long investigations of Samoa, the bulk of the research was done by ………….. alone.

8. ………… war correspondent, Hemingway used his experiences for some of his most powerful novels.

9. Thirty-eight national sites are known as parks, another eighty-two as monuments, and ………….. .

Part B : Read the following sentences. In each sentence, choose the underline word or group of words that is NOT correct.

10. Interest in automatic data processing has grown rapid since the first large calculators were introduced in 1950.

11. Vaslav Nijinsky achieved world recognition as both a dancer as well as a choreographer.

12. The plants that they belong to the family of ferns are quite varied in their size and structure.

13. Columbus Day is celebrated on the twelve of October because on that day in 1492, Christopher Columbus first landed in the America

14. One of the most influence newspapers in the U.S. is The New York Times, which is widely distributed throughout the world.

15. Coastal and inland waters are inhabited not only by fish but also by such sea creature as shrimps and clams.

16. Economists have tried to discourage the use of the phrase “underdeveloped nation” and encouraging the more accurate phrase “developing nation” in order to suggest an ongoing process.

17. A gas like propane will combination with water molecules in a saline solution to form a solid called a hydrate.

18. Although it cannot be proven, presumable the expansion of the universe will show down as it approaches a critical radius.

19. A city University professor reported that he discovers a vaccine that has been 80 percent effective in reducing the instances of tooth decay among small children.

20. When they have been frightened, as, for example, by an electrical storm, dairy cows may refuse giving milk.

21. Miami, Florida, is among the few cities in the United States that has been awarded official status as bilingual municipalities.

22. Fertilizers are used primarily to enrich soil and increasing yield.

23. If the ozone gases of the atmosphere did not filter out the ultraviolet rays of the sun, life as we know it would not have evolved on earth.

24. When he was a little boy, Mark Twain would walk along the piers, watch the river boats, swimming and fish in the Mississippi, much like his famous character, Tom Sawyer.

25. Almost all books have a few errors in them in spite of the care taken to check its proof pages before the final printing.