1. Because air is highly compressible, --- to define a clear upper boundary of the atmosphere.

(A) it is impossible
(B) impossible is
(C) so the impossibility
(D) is the impossibility

2. BASIC, the acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a high – level Instruction Code, is a high – level computer programming language ---.

(A) learning relatively simple
(B) related it simply to learning
(C) simple and relative to learn
(D) that is relatively simple to learn

3. --- Frances Perkins held the post of labor secretary for twelve years.

(A) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was
(B) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position
(C) Appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was the first woman who
(D) The first woman was appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position who

4. --- at the turn of the century, the Minnesota State Capitol building is made of white granite and marble.

(A) Erected
(B) Was erected
(C) To erect it
(D) Erecting it

5. A stream of volcanic lava flows differently, -- on the sort of ground it flows over.

(A) to depend
(B) depending
(C) that dependent
(D) when it depended

6. --- large amounts of vitamin E found in green leaves, such as lettuce, and in cereals, especially in wheat germ.

(A) The
(B) They have
(C) There are
(D) Because of

7. A popular belief --- radio and television have homogenized the language of the United States. (A) states that
(B) that is stated
(C) that states
(I) stating that 8. The astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun --- is the standard of distances in the Solar System.

(A) and

(B) also (C) in addition (D) because

9. In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ---.
(A) won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
(B) and the Nobel Prize for Literature won in 1954
(C) in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work.
(D) a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954

10. Many birds have feathers----with their surroundings.
(A) colors blend
(B) that colors to blend
(C) whose colors blend
(D) of which the colors that blend

11.Mosaic is the art of closely setting small, colored pieces, such as stone or glass, into a surface --.

(A) and create a decorative design
(B) and a decorative design creates
(C) to create a decorative design
(D) that a decorative design is created

12.--- that distinguish human beings from mother primates are related to the ability of people to stand upright and walk on two legs.

(A) Many of the physical characteristics
(B) Of the many physical characteristics
(C) The physical characteristics
(D) There are many physical characteristics

13.The letters of Abigail Adams to her husband and future President, John, --- during the American Revolution, conveyed a vivid picture of the times

(A) were written
(B) which written
(C) written
(D) written when

14. The lenses in an optical microscope bend the light passing through a specimen to form an image of that specimen that is much larger --- actually viewed.

(A) Than it
(B) Than the one
(C) One than