Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.

1.When a friend insist on …………. expensive gifts, it makes most Americans uncomfortable.

2.Gilbert Stuart is considered by most art critics ……………… greatest portrait painter in the North America colonies.

3. A child in the first grade tends to be ………… all of the other children in the class.

4. The bird`s egg is such an efficient structure for protecting the embryo inside …………… difficult for the hatching to break.

5. As a safety measure, the detonator for a unclear device may be made of …………, each of which is controlled by a different employee.

6. ………………. that the English settled in Jamestown.

7. An equilateral triangle …………. and three angles of equal size.

8. …………. two waves pass a given point simultaneously, they will have no effect on each other`s subsequent motion.

9.Staying in a hotel costs ………….. renting a room in a dormitory for a week.

10. Unlike most Europeans, many Americans …………….. a bowl of cereal for breakfast every day.

21. Fast-food restaurants have become popular because many working people want ………. .

12. On an untimed test, to answer accurately is more important than …………….. .

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

13.The extent to which an individual is a product of either heredity or environment cannot proved, but several theories have been proposed.

14. Jane Addams had already established Hull House in Chicago and began her work in the Woman`s Suffrage Movement when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace.

15. The flag of the original first colonies may or may not have been made by Betsy Ross during the revolution.

16. The most common form of treatment it is mass inoculation and chlorination of water sources.

17. Without alphabetical order, dictionaries would be impossibility to use.

18. The pickerel Fog, native to southern Canada and the eastern United States, should be avoided because their skin secretions are lethal to small animals and irritating to humans.

19. Scientists had previously estimated that the Grand Canyon in Arizona is ten million years old, but now, by using a more modern dating method, they agree that the age is closer to six million years.

20. Although jogging is a good way to lose weight and improve one`s physical condition, most doctors recommend that the potential jogger begin in a correct manner by getting a complete checkup.

21. Some conifers, that is, tree that have cones, are able to thrive on poor, thin soil.

22. Airports must be located near to major population centers for the advantage of air transportation to be retained.

23. It is imperative that a graduate student maintains a grade point average of “B” in his major field.

24. Dairying is concerned not only with the production of milk, but with the manufacture of milk products such as butter and cheese.