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Section 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Time – 25 minutes

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for
standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special
directions for each type.

Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see
four words of phrases, marked (A), (B),(C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that the
best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and
fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Fill in the space
so that the letter inside the oval cannot be seen.

Example I

Vegetables are an excellent source ----- vitamins.

(A) of
(B) has
(C) where
(D) that

The sentence should read, “Vegetables are an excellent source of vitamins”. Therefore, you
should choose answer (A).

Example II

-------- in history when remarkable progress

was made within a relatively short span of time.

(A) Periods
(B) Throughout periods
(C) There have been periods
(D) Periods have been

The sentence should read, “There have been periods in history when remarkable progress was
made within relatively short span of time”. Therefore, you should choose answer (C).

1) Dried leaves continue to hand on the branches of some deciduous trees ------- the
new leaves appear
(A) until
(B) that
(C) by
(D) from

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2) The mastoid is located at the side of skull, -----
(A) the ear just behind
(B) just behind the ear
(C) just the ear is behind
(D) is just behind the ear

3) Economists regard land as the natural wealth of the earth from which all goods -----.
(A) produced
(B) are produced
(C) produce them
(D) they produce

4) ------ 700,000 recognized species of insects.

(A) About
(B) For about
(C) About the
(D) There are about

5) As secretary of Smithsonian Institution, Spencer Fullerton Baird greatly increased

collections, ------, and founded the National Museum of Natural History.
(A) improved cataloging methods
(B) cataloging methods were improved
(C) the improvement of cataloging methods
(D) methods of improved cataloging

6) When heat travels by conduction, ------- moves through a material without carrying
any of the material with it
(A) what it
(B) which
(C) it
(D) and

7) The Boston Latin School, the first secondary school in the American colonies, -----
in 1635.
(A) and started classes
(B) classes started
(C) started classes
(D) then classes started

8) Lilian Welsh decided, during her early years of professional activity, -------
(A) that her real talents lay in the field of preventive medicine
(B) in the field of preventive medicine lay, her real talents
(C) lay her real talents in the field of preventive medicine
(D) preventive medicine the field was where her real talents lay

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9) -------, a tornado comes into contact with a much smaller area, but it is much more
violent and destructive.
(A) Comparing a cyclone
(B) A cyclone with comparison subjto
(C) Compared to a cyclone
(D) A cyclone to be compared with

10) The question of ------ has long challenged the imagination and ingenuity of the
marketing strategists.
(A) a consumer is motivated to buy
(B) motivates what consumer buys
(C) what motivates a consumer to buy
(D) buying what a motivated consumer

11) A person’s blood flows through a pipeline of vessels that ,end to end, would
stretch more than ------ half times around the Earth at the equator.
(A) twice a
(B) two and a
(C) two and
(D) twice and

12) It is only ----- faceted that its brilliance and beauty are revealed to the eye.
(A) a rough diamond is
(B) that rough diamond is
(C) when a rough diamond is
(D) a rough diamond if

13) ------- debate and discussion, opposing ideas are presented in an attempt to
persuade people.
(A) Both
(B) Although both
(C) That both
(D) In both

14) Rocky shores that ------- beaches are eventually destroyed by the sea.
(A) lack
(B) without
(C) do not
(D) no

15) Pierre, South Dakota, ------- capital is almost in the exact center of the state.
(A) the
(B) it is the
(C) there is the appositive
(D) where is the

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Directions: In questions 16-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases.
The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify
the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for sentence to be
correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the
space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Example I

A ray of light passing through the center

A B
of a thin lens keep its original direction.
C D

The sentence should be read, “A ray of light passing through the center of a thin lens
keeps its original direction”. Therefore you should choose answer (C).

Example II

The mandolin, a musical instrument that has

A B
strings, was probably copied from the lute,
C
a many more older instrument.
D

The sentence should be read, “ The mandolin, a musical instrument that has strings,
was probably copied from the lute, a much more older instrument”. Therefore you
should choose answer(D).

After you read the directions, begin work on the questions.

16) The training of performers, directors, and designers been the purpose of the
A B
has beenC
American National Theatre and Academy for over 50 years.
D

17) All members of the animal kingdom require oxygen, water, and to eat food.
A B C and food D to eat
18) The modern steam engine was first use to facilitate the mining of a coal.
A B C D
used to facilitating
19) A primary color is it which cannot be made by mixing other colors.
theA color B C D

20) How many people living today are enough old to remember the appearance
A B C D
of Halley’s comet in 1910?. old enough

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21) Among pure pharmaceuticals, the earliest to be isolated from natural
A B C
sources they were the alkaloids.
D
were
22) Linseed oil exposed to airs forms a rubbery film.
A B C D
air
23) Squanto acted as an interpreter in the treaty negotiations between the
A
Pilgrims and the Wampanogas, and he taught the Pilgrims how to fishing and
B C
cultivate corn. fish
D

24) When saw near the horizon, the Moon appears strikingly larger than when
A B C
viewed overhead.
seen
D

25) Novelists Richard Wright strongly encouraged Ralph Ellison to pursue a

A B C
novelist
career in writing.
D

26) The woodwind section of an orchestra may enrich the melody by providing
A B
different tonally qualities.
C D
tonal
and an interscience discipline.
27) Bionies is not specialized in science moreover
A B
adv
C D

28) An aromatic alcohol, phenol exhibits weak acidic properties and is corrode
A B C
and poisonous. corroded/corrodi
D ng
29) During hibernation bears lose between fifteen and thirty percent of their
A B C
body weight. to
D

30) Blocks of stone, similar as sandstone,

similar granite,
to/similar and marble, are cut from the
with/same
A B C
parent mass by hand. as
D

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31) If it were to far from the Sun, the Earth would be too much cold to support
A B C
any living thing too/much
D

32) In analyzing literature, theorists often take into consideration the author’s
A B C
intentional as well as the work’s effect on the reader.
D
intention
33) Managers today usually have very relatively little share in the ownership of
A B C
the companies they operate.
D

34) The lamprey’s skin is smooth, shine, and scaleless.

A B C shiny
D

35) For the highly competitive student, doing good grades can be more
A B C
important than learning. making
D

36) A watt is an unit of power equal to one joule per second.

A B C D
a unit
37) Lecture Fannie Barrier Williams helped found two interracial benevolent
A B C
lecturer
institutions in Chicago.
D

38) The group of skyscrapers known as Rockefeller Center is a masterpiece of

A B C D
the simplicity. of
39) Like that of any other commodities, the value of gold results from the
A commodity
B
interplay of the forces of supply and demand.
C D

40) Nations whose industrialized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are
A B
which are
now confronted with the problems of antiquated machinery and plants.
C D