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*choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct.

1. Nobody know when the process of glass-making was invented.

Excuse : know change knows

2. The languages of the world presents a vast array of structural similarities and differences.
excuse : because languages (plural),present (singular)

3. The rise of multinationals have resulted in a great ideal of legal ambiguty because multinationals can operate in so many jurisdictions.
Excuse : because between the subject and the verb

4. All of the east-west interstate highmay in the United States has even numbers, while north-south interstate highways are odd-numbered.
Excuse : the subject, the verb agrees with the object.

5. When a massive star in the large Magellanic Cloud exploded in 1987, a wave of neutrinos were detected on Earth.
Excuse : Were replaced with was.

6. Every open space in the targeted area that has grass and a few bushes are occupied by the white-crowned sparrow.
Excuse : Has change to have.

7. Krakatoa is remembered as the volcano that put so much ash into the air that sunsets arround the world was affected for two years afterward.
Excuse : is remembered change to are remember

8. The term "Yankee" was originally a nickname for people from New England, but now anyone from the United States are referred to as a Yankee.
Excuse : Are change to is

9. A network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched between the skin and underlying muscles, supply blood to the face and scalp.
Excuse : Sandwiched change to sandwich

10. Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest drought.
Excuse : Who change to which.

*This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate
for standard written English.

1. The Eiffel Tower ___________ Paris, France.
a. landmarks                                       b. is landmarked in                
c. is a landmark in                             d. is in a landmark

2. Young deer _________.
a. are called fawns                             b. be fawns
c. is fawns                                           d. are fawns called

3. Not until a dog is several months old does it begin to exhibit signs of
independence ___________.
a. its mother from                              b. from mother
c. to mother                                        d. from its mother

4. The Treasury Department__________
a.is take a new look at regulations limiting
b.number of interest that bank and
c.savings, and loan associations
d.can pay on deposits.
 
5. ____________ a tree can be grown from a seedling.
a. That is generally believed
b. Believed generally is
c. Generally believed it is
d. It is generally believed that

6. The poverty level in the United State is currently set __________________.
a. at 12,000 dollars or less.
b. as 12,000 dollars or less.
c. at 12,000 dollars as less
d. at 12,000 dollar or less

7. To score a goal in soccer you ________.
a. must kick the ball
b. must kicks the ball
c. may kick them ball
d. must kick them balls

8. The observation deck at the Sears Tower _________ in Chicago.
a. is highest than any other one
b. is highest than any other one
c. is higher than any other one
d. is higher that any other one

9. If it _________ so cloudy, we would plan on having the fair outside.
a. was
b. was not
c. weren’t
d. had not

10. At the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Geraldine Ferraro
became the first woman _________ for the vice presidency.
a. to being nominated
b. to has been nominated
c. to have been nominated
d. to will be nominated

11. _______ chocolate will give you a tummy ache.
a. Eat too much
b. Eating to much
c. Eating too much
d. Eating too many

12. If she ____________ to advance her clock one hour, she wouldn’t have been late
for work.
a. should have remembered
b. could remembered
c. remembered
d. would have remembered

13. A dream about falling _________.
a. scary is
b. is scary
c. are scary
d. very scary is

14. George Washington _________first U.S. President.
a. was the
b. became
c. were the
d. are the

15. Amelia Earhart was _______________ to pilot her plane across the Atlantic
Ocean.
a. the first and a woman
b. the first woman
c. who the first woman
d. the woman who first

16. NASA’s lyndon B.johnson space center____________ control center for the mercury, gemini, and apollo space flights ?
A. it was at the
B. it was the
C. Was the
D. The

 

17. v. to chase after; to follow; to aspire to; to strive for
a. ship
b. irritate
c. dispute
d. pursue

18. v. to grant a permit; to authorize; to permit; to allow
a. copy
b. signify
c. stem
d. license

19. v. to create; to write; to relax; to calm oneself; to settle
a. regulate
b. posture
c. compose
d. rate

20. v. to restore to health; to make well; to correct a bad habit; to preserve food
a. image
b. assign
c. relinquish
d. cure

21. v. to include; to contain; to consist
a. decline
b. reward
c. look forward to
d. comprise

22. v. to meet; to assemble to gather; to get together
a. converge
b. revive
c. create
d. treasure

23. v. to desert; to abandon; to change sides
a. monetize
b. slope
c. kit

d. defect

24. v. to search for valuable materials (such as gold, oil, etc.)
a. stretch
b. allow
c. cart
d. prospect

25. v. to establish; to create; to build; to set up; to start a company
a. resolve
b. legitimate
c. found
d. chart