Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.
1.Different hormones ………… at the same time on a particular target issue.
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Question 2 of 40
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2. The tidal forces on the Earth due to …………… only 0.46 of those due to the Moon.
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3. Most radioactive elements occur in igneous and metamorphic ……………… fossils occur in sedimentary rocks.
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4. ………….. radioisotope is encountered, the first step in its identification is the determination of its half-life.
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5. The Missouri …………….. longest river in the United States, flows through seven states from its source in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi.
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6. Coral islands such as the Maldives are the tips of reefs built during periods of warm climates, when …………. higher.
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7. Hail forms within large, dense cumulonimbus, …………….. develop on hot, humid summer days.
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8. Measles is a highly contagious viral disease …………. by a characteristic skin rash.
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9. Charles Darwin`s first scientific book, published in 1842, ……………… a since substantiated theory on the origin of coral reefs and atolls.
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10. Phytoplanktons thrive where ……………… phosphorus into the upper layers of a body of water.
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11. By the end of 1609, Galileo had a 20-power telescope that enabled him to see ………… planets revolving around Jupiter.
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12. On every continent except Antarctica …………… more than 30,000 species of spiders.
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13.Many bugs possess defensive scent glands and emit disagreeable odors when …………….. .
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14. Hurricanes move with the large -scale wind currents …………… are imbedded.
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15. …………. the Earth`s ice to melt, the Earth`s oceans would rise by about two hundred feet.
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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. The brilliantly colored rhinoceros viper has two or three horns above each nostrils.
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17. Most of the outer planet has large swarms of satellites surroundingthem.
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18. Historical records show that Halley`s comet has returnabout every seventy-six years for the past 2,000 years.
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19. Robert Heinlein was instrumental in popularizing science fiction with a series of stories that is first published in the Saturday Evening Post.
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20.Each number on the Richter scale represent a tenfold increase in the amplitude of waves of ground motionrecorded during an earthquake.
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21. Lake Tahoe, located on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada range, is feed by more than thirty mountain streams.
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22. Established in 1789 and operated by the Jesuits, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. is the older Roman Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States.
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23.The surface of the planet Venus is almost completely hid by the thick clouds that shroud it.
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24. Present in rocks of all types, hematitle is particular abundant in the sedimentary rocks known as red beds.
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25. Tropical cyclones, alike extratropical cyclones, which derive much of their energy from the jet stream, originate far from the polar front.
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26. Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first U.S. women`srights convention in 1848 and was instrumentally in the struggle to win voting and property rights for women.
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27. Jaguarundis are sleek, long-tailed creatures colored either an uniform reddish brown or dark grey.
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28. It is possible to get a sunburn on a cloudy day because eighty percent of the ultraviolet rays from the Sun would penetrate cloud cover.
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29. In 1964, GATT established the International Trade Center in order to assistdeveloping countries in the promotion of its exports.
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30. Joseph Heller`s novel catch -22satirizes both the horrors of war as well as the power of modern bureaucratic institutions.
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31. In Roots, Alex Haley uses fictional details to embellish a factual histories of seven generations of his family.
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32. The carbon atoms of the diamond are so strongly bonded that a diamond can only be scratched with other diamond.
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33. Viruses are extremely tiny parasites that are able to reproduce only within the cells of theirs hosts.
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34. During the last Ice Age, which ended about 10,000 years ago, there was about three times more ice than is today.
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35. Melons most probably originated in Persia and were introduced the North American continent during the sixteenth century.
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36. More than 600 million individual bacterialives on the skin of humans.
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37. The more directly overhead the Moon is, the greatis the effect that it exhibits on the Earth.
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38. As the International Dateline at 180 degrees longitude is crossed westerly, it becomes necessary to change the date by moving it one day forward.
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39. Kilauea`s numerous eruptions are generally composed in molten lava, with little escaping gas and few explosions.
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Question 40 of 40
40. Question
40. The incubation period of tetanus is usually five to ten days, and the most frequently occurred symptom is jaw stiffness.