1. The president _____ the election by a landslide. 13.

In some daguerreotype cameras, _____ through a hole in

(A) won the back of the box.
(B) he won (A) the object’s view
(C) yesterday (B) the object was viewed
(D) fortunately (C) from the view of the object
(D) viewed the object
2. _____ greeted me enthusiastically at the front door.
(A) Parental 14. _____ radio as the first practical system of wireless
(B) My friends telegraphy.
(C) If (A) Marconi’s development
(D) Them (B) The development by Marconi
(C) Developing Marconi
3. The large carotid artery _____ to the main parts of the (D) Marconi developed
brain.
(A) carrying blood 15. _____ in the United States spends 900 hours per year in
(B) blood is carried class and 1,170 hours in front of the television.
(C) carries blood (A) The average third-grader
(D) blood carries (B) The third grade is average
(C) There are three grades
4. _____ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 (D) There average grades
and 750.
(A) The Polynesians Error recognition
(B) The Polynesians arrived
(C) Because of the Polynesians 1. Above tundra plants grow close to the short Arctic
(D) It was the Polynesians
summer.
5. To Mike, _____ was a big surprise. 2. A sudden freezing can destroy citrus crops.
(A) really
(B) the party 3. The two biggest resort towns in Arkansas be Hot Springs
(C) funny
(D) when and Eureka Springs.
4. Scientists belief that the continents once formed a single
6. Early _____ toes instead of hooves on their feet.
(A) horse continent surrounded by an enormous sea.
(B) had horses
(C) horses had 5. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic in 1819 is the
(D) horses having Savannah.
7. _____ was ringing continuously when the secretary greeted 6. The sun raises in the east and sets in the west.
the guests.
(A) Loudly 7. Hot and drought had continued for more than three
(B) In the morning
(C) The phone months.
(D) The bells 8. The research for the book Roots taking Alex Haley twelve
8. The plane _____ landing at the airport in five minutes. years.
(A) it is
(B) it really is 9. In a severe dry season, the leaves of the trees remain brown
(C) is descending or black and die.
(D) will be
10. Our teacher read a story us before we started the lesson.
9. In 1867, _____ Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.
(A) purchased the United States 11. The unit of measuring called the foot was originally based
(B) to purchase the United States
(C) the United States purchased on the length of the human foot.
(D) the United States’ purchase of 12. The first plant-like organisms probably living in the sea,
10. In the early 1900s, Eastman _____ inexpensive Brownie perhaps 3 billion years ago.
box cameras.
(A) developed 13. On December 17, 1903, the Flyer it took off near Kitty
(B) developing
Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright as pilot.
(C) it developed
(D) it was developed 14. If a strike is called in violation of an existing contract

11. In 1975, the first successful space probe to _____ between labor and management, its a wildcat strike.
beginning to send information back to Earth.
(A) Venus 15. When Pierre L’Enfant designed the national capital in
(B) Venus the 1791, her envisioned a broad boulevard linking the White
(C) Venus was
(D) Venus it was House and the Capitol.

12. NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center _____ control

center for the Mercury Gemini, and Apollo space flights.
(A) it was at the (C) was the
(B) it was the (D) the