Part A : Choose the best answer for each question.
1. In the late 1880s, Hull House …………….. United States first welfare states.
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2. …………… with the largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.
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3. ………………. given to the various types of microscopic plants and animals found in water.
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4. Charles Babbage (1792-1871) drew up the first plans for a programmable digital computer in 1834, but ………… was never complete.
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5. ……………., one of the oldest forms of written communication, was used as early as 3000 B.C.
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6. As a protection device, an octopus ejects black or purple ink to cloud the water when …………. .
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7. ……………….. manipulate with their feet as well as with their hands, it is difficult for them to stand upright.
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8. Approximately 500 varieties of insectivorous plants, which trap animals for their sustenance, ……………. in the world.
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9. Ozone is formed when ultraviolet radiation from the Sun …………….. molecules into highly reactive oxygen atoms.
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10. The surrealistic movement in art in the 1920s and 1930s placed ……………. is pictured in the unconscious and often incorporated dreamlike images.
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11. Today used to measure the weight of gem-stones or the amount of gold per 24 parts of pure gold, ………….. originally the weight of a seed of the carob tree.
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12. The film Lawrence of Arabia is three hours and forty-one minutes long, one minute ……………. Gone with the wind.
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13. The genus Equus became extinct in North America during the glacial period, and it was not reintroduced until ……………. by the Spaniards.
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14. In ……………. several vertically aligned honeycombs with hexagonal wax cells stacked close together.
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15. The shapes of snow crystals depend largely ………………. temperature and humidity are.
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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 price of silver rose to $ 50.05 per troy ounce in January 1980 and then fell to $ 10.80 two month later.
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17. Most polar seals retreat to open water during the winter, but a few types have learn to survive on and under the ice all year round.
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18. More than half of all stars is in binary or multiple-star systems.
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19. The harpsichord is themost complex and most large of all the plucked keyboard instruments.
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20. United Statesforces won the city of Los Angeles in 1847 during the Mexican War and gain all of the California in the same year.
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21. During fermentation, complex carbohydrates are converted to another chemicals by the action of enzymes produced by molds, yeasts, or bacteria.
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22. The surface of Mars is very complex and consists of a mixture of flat deserts, craters, volcanoes, and mountainous.
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23. Hardwood comes from broad-leaved deciduous trees, those that lose theirs leaves in winter.
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24. The Washington quarter was firstminting by the U.S. government in 1932 on the 200th anniversary of George Washington`s birth.
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25. W. Somerset Maugham`s best-known novel, Of Human Bondage, is a partially fictionalized account of a unhappy youth.
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26. The congressional Medal of Honor, instituted at the height of the Civil War, is today a highest decoration for gallantry in the United States.
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27. High blood pressure results from either an increased output of blood from the heart and an increased resistance to its flow through tiny branches of the arteries.
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28. When the U.S. government`s liberty was burned by the British in 1814, former President Thomas Jefferson donated 6,487 of their own books to start the present day Liberty of Congress.
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29. James A. Garfield has become the twentieth president of the United States in 1881 and was assassinated later in that year.
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30. Mambas, poisonous African snakes that come from the same family as cobras, possess an extreme potent venom.
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31. Not until the discovery of Pluto`s moon Charon was many of the characteristics of the planet Pluto evident.
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32. Scorpions, which are normallylone, have developed a cautious mating ritual because they are not immune to their own poison.
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33. The diameter of the Sun is more than one hundred timesgreater than the Earth.
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34. In the mid-18th century, American, Russian, and Canadian hunters on the Pacific coast of North America annihilated almost the sea otter in order to collect the pelts.
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35. Pat Garrett, who shot and killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881, laterdid his living as a Texas Ranger.
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36. Paul Revere was the son of a French immigration named Apollos Rivoire, who later began calling himself Revere to make his name easier for Americans to pronounce.
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37. Safety glass, a toughened glass sheet, is six times stronger than untreating glass.
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38. The foxglove is source of the drug digitalis, which isused to treat heart disease.
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39. Related fungus from a family of yeasts called ascomycetes cause bread to rise, create the veins in blue cheese, and produce penicillin.
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40. Rival leaders during the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis bothhailed Kentucky.