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1. Hills known as land islands, or salt domes, are _________________ Louisiana's marshlands.

(A) extremely interesting features of (C) interesting extremely features of

(B) of extremely interesting features (D) extremely interesting of features

2. ______________________ of chamber music is the string quartet.

(A) The famous most form (B) The most famous form (C) The form most famous (D) Most the form famous

3. Not until the seventeenth century ____________________ to measure the speed of light.

(A) did anyone even attempt (C) did anyone attempt even

(B) anyone did even attempt (D) did even attempt anyone

4. Alfalfa is _______________________ for livestock.

(A) a primarily grown crop (C) a crop grown primarily

(B) grown primarily a crop (D) a grown crop primarily

5. The Franklin stove, which became common in the 1790's, burned wood ______________ an open fireplace.

(A) efficiently more than much (C) much more than efficiently

(B) much more efficiently than (D) more efficiently much than

6. Reinforced concrete is concrete that is strengthened by metal bars ____________________.

(A) in it that are embedded (C) are that it embedded in

(B) embedded that are in it (D) that are embedded in it

7. The type of clothing people wear tells others a lot about _______________________.

(A) who they are (C) they are who

(B) are they who (D) who are they

8. Most Southern states had set up primary school systems by the late eighteenth century, but only in New England _____________________ and open to all students.

(A) primary schools were free (C) free were primary schools

(B) were primary schools free (D) were free primary schools

9. Fungi, ___________________, do not produce chlorophyll.

(A) as such mushrooms (C) such as mushrooms

(B) mushrooms as such (D) mushrooms such as

10. Seldom ____________________ more than twenty minutes a night.

(A) sleep giraffes (B) do giraffes sleep (C) giraffes do sleep (D) giraffes sleep

11. _________________ of the early years of space exploration was the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt in 1958.

(A) Perhaps the greatest triumph (C) The greatest perhaps triumph

(B) The triumph perhaps greatest (D) The triumph greatest perhaps

12. Today ______________ major new products without conducting elaborate market research.

(A) corporations hardly introduce ever (C) hardly ever introduce corporations

(B) hardly ever corporations introduce (D) corporations hardly ever introduce

13. Across the Chesapeake Bay from the rest of the state___________, whose farms produce

beans, tomatoes, and other garden vegetables.

(A) there lies Maryland's Eastern Shore (C) Maryland's Eastern Shore lies there

(B) lies Maryland's Eastern Shore (D) Maryland's Eastern Shore lies

14. Acidophilus bacteria are _________________ in an acid medium.

(A) those that grow best (C) that those grow best

(B) those grow best that (D) grow best those that

15._________________ of great apes, the gibbon is the smallest.

(A) Four of the types (B) The four of types (C) Four types of the (D) Of the four types

16. It is difficult __________ through swamps because of tangled roots and shallow waterways.

(A) to navigate even for small boats (C) even small boats for to navigate

(B) for even small boats to navigate (D) even to navigate for small boats

17. A lodestone is _____________________________.

(A) an occurring naturally magnet (C) naturally a magnet occurring

(B) a magnet naturally occurring (D) a naturally occurring magnet

18. So complicated ___________________ that consumers who use a product are seldom aware of where all its components come from.

(A) today trade is international (C) is international trade today

(B) today international trade is (D) international trade is today

19. The snow bunting is _________________ winter birds in Canada.

(A) one most of the common (C) one of the most common

(B) the most common one of (D) the one of most common

20. Nashville has _______________ the capital of country music.

(A) as long been known (C) long been known as

(B) been known long as (D) long as been known