Time: 25 minutes (including the reading of the directions). Now set your clock for 25 minutes.
This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There two types of questions in this section, with special direction for each type.
Structure
Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentence. Beneath each sentence you will have fourwill four word or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best complete the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of 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 Sample Answer
Geysers have often been compared to volcanoes ……..
they both emit hot liquid from below the Earth’s surface.
The sentence should read, ‘’ Geysers have often been compared to volcanoes because
they both emit hot liquid from below the Earth’s surface.’’ Therefore, you should choose (B).
Example II Sample Answer
During the early period of ocean navigation, …………..
any need for sophisticated instruments and techniques.
The sentence should read, ‘’During the early period of ocean navigation, there was hardly any need for sophisticated instruments and techniques.’’ Therefore, you should choose (D).
Now begin work on the questions.
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 the sentence to be correct. Then, o your answer sheet, find the number of question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
16.) People usually wear clothing why two basic purposes – warmth and decoration.
17.) In 1890 Kate Hurd-Mead became medical director of the Bryn Mawr School for girls, one of a first schools in the United States to initiate a preventive health program.
18.) Superior to all others woods for shipbuilding, teak is also used for furniture, flooring, and general construction.
19.) Weather is the transitory expression of climate that can change great from day to day or season to season.
20.)Archaeological investigations indicate that control of fire is an extremely old technical attainment, though the time, place, and mode of his origin may never be learned.
21.) Paul Revere designing the metal plates on which the first paper money in the United States was printed.
22.) It was after shortly microscopes were introduced at the beginning of the seventeenth century that microorganisms were actually sighted.
23.) Until the 1840’s, practically the only pioneers who had ventured to the western United States were trappers and a little explorers.
24.) Medical research indicates but large amount s of histamines can be responsible for colds, hay fever, and other respiratory reactions.
25.) Yttrium is a silvery, metallic element used in the made of red phosphors for television picture tubes.
26.) Tropical forests exist close the equator, where both high temperatures and abundant rainfall occur year-round.
27.) The ease with which houseplants can grown causes them to be popular among amateur horticulturists.
28.) Paintings of a religious, ceremonial, or history character tend to elevate their subjects above the level of ordinary existence.
29.) According to classical musical tradition, the term ‘’sonata’’ is given to those works are written for solo piano or for a solo wind or stringed instrument.
30.) Precisely because photographs are produced by mechanical devices, a camera’s images now seem to some artists the perfect means for expression the modern era.
31.) The discovery of the magnetic effects of coils made possible to measure an electric current.
32.) Since the 1950’s the city of Baltimore has financed several major programs of urban renew, including rebuilding the Inner Harbour.
33.) For at least 4,000 years, Native American artist adorned rocks, cliff walls, and caves in the American Southwest with an amazing various of symbolic figures.
34.) Animal researchers have identified many behavioural patterns associated with selection a place to live, avoiding predators, and finding food.
35.) Average world temperatures have risen on half a degree Celsius since the mid-nineteenth century.
36.) The plan connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie by a canal was first proposed in the late eighteenth century.
37.) Why certain plants contain alkaloids remains a mystery, although botanists have formulated a number of theory to explain it.
38.) Dimness of light will not harm the eyes any more than taking a photograph in dimly light can harm a camera.
39.) Contemporary film directors, some of them write the scripts for, act in, and even produce their own motion pictures, are thereby assuming ever more control of their art.
40.)Petroleum it is composed of a complex mixture of hydrogen and carbon.