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Structure & Written Expression
Practice Test 3 • Section 2 • 40 Questions
Part A: Structure (Select the correct completion)
1. Overexposure to the sun causes _______ health problems.
(A) various
(B) among
(C) but
(D) of
2. Birds head south to warmer climates when _______.
(A) is cold weather
(B) does cold weather come
(C) cold weather comes
(D) comes cold weather
3. The city council is empowered not only to enact new laws, _______ between elections should the need arise.
(A) and to
(B) but also to
(C) and
(D) so that
4. Drying of meats and vegetables is no longer considered one of _______ of preserving food.
(A) the ways are useful
(B) useful ways
(C) the most useful ways
(D) most are useful ways
5. A giant kind of grass, bamboo may reach a height of 120 feet and _______.
(A) a diameter of 1 foot
(B) its diameter is 1 foot
(C) there is a diameter of 1 foot
(D) which is a diameter of 1 foot
6. Somerset Maugham, a novelist, _______ about a restless man's quest for inner understanding in The Razor's Edge.
(A) who wrote this
(B) who wrote
(C) when he wrote
(D) wrote
7. Aspirin is used _______ a constriction of the blood vessels.
(A) the counteraction
(B) to counteract
(C) counteract
(D) counteracting
8. The nuthatch _______ six inches long.
(A) grows seldom more than
(B) more than seldom grows
(C) seldom grows more than
(D) grows more than seldom
9. Composing more than 40 percent of the diet, fats are _______ by the body for energy.
(A) using specifically
(B) used specifically
(C) specific use
(D) the specific use
10. The sea mammal medusa is popularly called a jellyfish because it _______ jelly.
(A) looks rather like
(B) looks like rather
(C) likes looking rather
(D) rather likes looking
11. Therapists are currently using mental imagery in the hope that it might prove _______ in the treatment of cancer.
(A) helpful
(B) for help
(C) helpfully
(D) with the help
12. By praying outside saloons, throwing rocks in saloon windows, and destroying saloons with her hatchet, _______.
(A) alcohol was prohibited by Carrie Nation
(B) prohibiting alcohol by Carrie Nation
(C) Carrie Nation worked to prohibit alcohol
(D) prohibition of alcohol
13. More drugmakers are changing their target market from physician to _______.
(A) patient as the key to increasing market share
(B) patient as the key to increasing market share.
(C) patient as the key
(D) patient as the key to increasing market
Note: The answer is technically just 'patient', but looking at the structure 'patient as the key' completes the thought of the new strategy.
14. _______ cockroach is the pest most in need of eradication is generally agreed upon by housing authorities everywhere.
(A) When the
(B) It is the
(C) That the
(D) The
15. _______, the jaguar used to roam freely in the southwestern United States.
(A) It is now found only in Central and South America
(B) Finding in Central and South America
(C) To be found in Central and South America
(D) Now found only in Central and South America
Part B: Written Expression (Select the ERROR)
16. The
larger
(A) of the forty-eight
continental states
(B) in the United States
is
(C) Texas.
(A) larger
(B) continental states
(C) is
(D) [No error / Texas]
Correction: largest
17. According to
the
(A) experts, genetic inheritance is
probability
(B) the most important
factor
(C) in determining a person's
health
(D).
(A) the
(B) probability
(C) factor
(D) health
Correction: probably
18. The railroad
was
(A) one of the first methods of transportation to be
use
(C) extensively in early
American history
(D).
(A) was
(B) methods [implied]
(C) use
(D) American history
Correction: used
19. Often when the weather
is
(A) extremely hot, people
have
(A) very thirsty
but
(C) are not terribly
hungry
(D).
(A) have
(B) is [implied]
(C) but
(D) hungry
Correction: are
20. Pioneers on the plains sometimes
living
(A) in dugouts, sod
rooms
(B) cut
into
(C) hillsides.
(A) living
(B) rooms
(C) into
(D) hillsides [implied]
Correction: lived
21. Balloons have been used
in various
(A) wars
not only
(B) to direct artillery fire...
however
(C) to carry bombs.
(A) in various
(B) not only
(C) however
(D) to carry [implied]
Correction: but also
22. The National Wildflower Research Center
which was
(A) established in 1982 by Lady Bird Johnson
on
(B) sixty acres of
land
(C) east of Austin.
(A) which was
(B) on
(C) land
(D) [No error / Austin]
Correction: was (delete which)
23. The idea... has been
upheld
(A) by
painters
(B), writers, and
musicals
(C) for centuries.
(A) upheld
(B) painters
(C) musicals
(D) centuries [implied]
Correction: musicians
24. To
improvement
(A) the stability of the building, a
concrete
(B) foundation two feet
thick
(C) must be
installed
(D).
(A) improvement
(B) concrete
(C) thick
(D) installed
Correction: improve
25. In 1786... suggested daylight savings time
as
(A) a means of cutting down on the
consumes
(B) of
candles
(C).
(A) as
(B) consumes
(C) candles
(D) [No error]
Correction: consumption
26. An alligator is an animal
somewhat
(A) like a crocodile, but with a
broad
(B),
flatten
(C) snout.
(A) somewhat
(B) broad
(C) flatten
(D) snout [implied]
Correction: flat
27. An extremely dangerous
forms
(A) of cocaine, crack
attacks
(B) the nervous system... in a
sharper
(C) fashion...
(A) forms
(B) attacks
(C) sharper
(D) fashion [implied]
Correction: form
28. It is the role... to establish accurate
measurements
(A) for science,
industrial
(D), and commerce.
(A) measurements
(B) role [implied]
(C) establish [implied]
(D) industrial
Correction: industry
29.
Into
(A) among the five Great Lakes,
only
(B) Lake Michigan is
located
(C) entirely within the
territorial
(D)...
(A) Into
(B) only
(C) located
(D) territorial
Correction: Of / Among
30. Teddy Roosevelt
demonstrated
(A) his competitive
spirit
(B)... in 1905
what
(C) he led the
Rough Riders
(D)...
(A) demonstrated
(B) spirit
(C) what
(D) Rough Riders
Correction: when
31. The Fairness Doctrine...
requires
(A) that... stations
give
(B) equal time to
opposing
(C) sides of
issues controversial
(D).
(A) requires
(B) give
(C) opposing
(D) issues controversial
Correction: controversial issues
32. Mary Harris Jones... was a
prominence
(B) figure in the labor
movement
(C) at the
turn
(D) of the century.
(A) known [implied]
(B) prominence
(C) movement
(D) turn
Correction: prominent
33.
Consequently
(A) the kit fox is an
endangered
(B) species, wildlife experts... are
using
(C) various methods to protect
it
(D).
(A) Consequently
(B) endangered
(C) using
(D) it
Correction: Because / Since
34. In addition to serving as
members
(A) of the president's cabinet, the
attorney general
(B) is the
head
(C) of the Justice
Department
(D).
(A) members
(B) attorney general
(C) head
(D) Department
Correction: a member
35. The
need
(A) to improve technique motivates ballerinas
exercising
(B) and
rehearse
(C) for hours
daily
(D).
(A) need
(B) exercising
(C) rehearse
(D) daily
Correction: to exercise
36. The narwhal can be
easily to
(A) recognize
by
(B) the long spiraled tusk
attached
(C) to the left side...
(A) easily to
(B) by
(C) attached
(D) [No error]
Correction: easily
37. The poet Ogden Nash
often
(A) used a comic style to
do
(B) a
serious
(C) point.
(A) often
(B) do
(C) serious
(D) [No error]
Correction: make
38. The water in the Great Salt Lake is
a less
(B) four times
saltier
(C)
than
(D) seawater.
(A) water [implied]
(B) a less
(C) saltier
(D) than
Correction: (remove 'a less' or use 'at least')
39. On February 20, 1962, Friendship 7
has orbited
(B) the Earth in a
manned
(C) flight that
lasted
(D) just under five hours.
(A) [No error]
(B) has orbited
(C) manned
(D) lasted
Correction: orbited
40. It has been
suggested
(A) that the battleship Missouri
be brought
(B) back... at
cost
(D) of $475 million.
(A) suggested
(B) be brought
(C) back [implied]
(D) cost
Correction: a cost / the cost
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