1. Van Gogh’s Sunflowers …………….$39.9 million, three times the previous record.

2. Some monkeys, ………………., use their tails in a way similar to a hand.

3. Black, red, and even bright pink diamonds ………………….

4. Between the California Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada…………….

5. It is gravity ………………….objects toward the earth.

6. …………………….their territories but rather than fight, they howl.

7. ………………….strength of 70 horses, a forklift toils all day long in a warehouse lifting great weights.

8. The growth of two-income families in the United States …………………of people moving to a new social class.

9. Using a globe can be …………….it is educational.

10. Each mediocre book we read means one less great book that we would otherwise have a chance……………..

11. Most accidents in the home can be prevented by…………………. elimination of hazards.

12. …………………problems in sailing in tropical seas is the coral reefs.

13…………….The strongest dump trucks work in rock quarries, tons of rocks and soil at one time.

14. Alice Freeman,…………to head Wellesley College at age 27, is one of the youngest college presidents in history.

15. Helen Keller lost both her sight and hearing after a severe illness…………

16. One of history’s most spectacular executions were that of Damiens, the unsuccessful assassin of Louis XV of France.

17. Globes and maps have been important throughout history, but never many so than today.

18. Since vitamins are contained in a wide variety of foods, people seldom lack of most of them.

19. Psychological experiment indicate that people remember more math problems that they cannot solve than those they are able to solve.

20 The sun is a huge fiery globe at a average distance of 93,000,000 miles from the Earth.

21. Before becoming successful, Charles Kettering, former vice president of General Motors, was so poor that he has to use the hayloft of a barn as a laboratory.

22. Despite the metric system is used throughout the world, it is still not commonly used in the United States.

23. Some gorillas beat their chests as an express of high spirits.

24. Because Walter Reed’s efforts and those of the people who worked with him, human beings no longer fear the dreaded disease of yellow fever.

25. Studying the science of logic is one way to cultivate one’s reason skills.

26. The continental shelves is the shallow area of the ocean floor that is closest to the continents.

27. The average adult get two to five colds each year.

28. Fishing have been found to contain a particular type of fat that may help lower blood cholesterol levels.

29. Benjamin Franklin’s ability to learn from observation and experience contributed greatly to him success in public life.

30. Industrial lasers are most often used for cutting, welding, drilling, and measure.

31. In the last 10 years, Mexican government has reduced the number of its state companies to about half.

32. Psychologists at the University of Kansas has studied the effects of the color of a room on people’s behavior.

33. Montaigne, the illustrious French philosophy, was elected mayor of Bordeaux, which was his home town.

34. Certain pollens are more likely to cause an allergic reaction than another.

35. Computers have made access to information instantly available just by push a few buttons.

36. Mined over 2,000 years ago, copper is one of the earliest know metals.

37. Many of the early work of T.S. Eliot expresses the anguish and barrenness of modern life and the isolation of the individual.

38. A sore throat interferes with daily life by making swallow difficult.

39. A farmer’s tractor is like a powerful horse, as it plows field, pulls trailers, and moves heavy loads.

40. During wedding ceremonies in the United States guests are usually silence.