Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.
1.The hard palate ……………….. between the mouth and nasal passages.
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2. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca …………….. of Humphrey Bogart`s more famous roles.
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3. …………., the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin.
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4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth`s crust formed, and life ……………. in the sea.
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5. When fluid accumulates against the eardrum, a second more insidious type of …………… .
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6. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where ……………. placed after its arrival.
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7. A stock …………… at an inflated price is called a watered stock.
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8. Acidic lava flows readily and tends to cover much larger areas, while basic lava …………….. .
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9. Seismic reflection profiling has …………… the ocean floor is underlain by a thin layer of nearly transparent sediments.
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10. ………………. and terrifying, coral snakes can grow to 4 feet. ( 1.2 meters) in length.
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11. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food of silkworms, …………. silk fabrics are woven.
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12. As ……….. in Greek and Roman mythology, harpies were frightful monsters that were half woman and half bird.
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13. Not only ……………. generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors.
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14. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and film making techniques ……………… as the Hollywood standard.
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15. …………….. be needed, the water basin would need to be dammed.
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Part B : Read the following sentences. In each sentence, choose the underline word or group of words that is NOT correct.
16. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite`s complex life cycle.
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17. The counterpartof a negative electrons is the positive proton.
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18. Alexander Hamiltone`s advocacy of a strong national government brought he into bitter conflict with Thomas Jefferson.
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19. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National Museum of Natural History`s collection of biological, geological, and anthropology treasures.
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20. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple comes to reside at Mount Vernon.
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21. Rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as cutting edge at this stage in their development.
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22. Rhesus monkeysexhibit patterns of shyness similar to that in humans.
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23. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly.
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24. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reachonly by boat or plane.
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25. Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century Virginia to race on courses short of about a quarter of a mile in length.
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26. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound.
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27. Since the dawn of agriculture 9,000 years age, only afew animal species had been domesticate.
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28. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country.
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29. The island of Kauai has much streams, some of which have worn deep canyons into the rock.
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30. It is a common observation that liquid will soak through some materials but not through other.
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31. Surrounded by forested mountain slopes are the town of Telluride, a former gold-mining town 7,500 feet above the sea level.
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32. The newsreels of Hearst Metronome News, which formed part of every moviegoer`s experience in the era before television, offer an unique record of the events of the 1930s.
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33. Probablythe best known of all dinosaurs, the tyrannosaurus was larger and last of the meat-eating carnosaurs.
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34. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not havenets.
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35. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks, has begunmaking banjos in Boston in the late 1870s.
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36. Methane in wetlands comesfrom soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter.
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37. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today bearshis name.
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38. Edward McDowell remembers as the composer of such perennialfavorites as “To a Wild Rose” and “To a Water Lily”.
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39. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are live and have feelings.
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40. Newtonian physics accountsfrom the observation of the orbits of the planets and moon.