Practice Test B – Structure 

1. The ponderosa pine is _____ of the  most of the timber used by forest product firms in the
Black Hills of  South Dakota. 

(A) the source 

(B) as source 
(C) the source which 
(D) because the source 

2. Computers that once took up entire  rooms are now _____ to put on  desktops and into
wristwatches. 

(A) small enough 

(B) smaller than 
(C) so small 
(D) as small as 

3. According to some educators, the  goal of teaching is to help students  learn what _____ to
know to live a  well-adjusted and successful life. 

(A) do they need 

(B) they need 
(C) they are needed 
(D) as they may need 

4. The sapphire’s transparency to  ultraviolet and infrared radiation  makes _____ in optical
instruments. 

(A) it is of use 
(B) it uses 
(C) it a useful 
(D) it useful 
5. _____ initial recognition while still  quite young. 

(A) Most famous scientists achieve (B) That most famous scientists  achieved 
(C) Most famous scientists who  achieved 
(D) For most famous scientists to  achieve 
6. Mango trees, _____ densely  covered with glossy leaves and bear  small fragrant flowers, grow
rapidly  and can attain heights of up to 90  feet. 

(A) whose 
(B) which are 
(C) are when 
(D) which 

7. _____ the Canadian composer  Barbara Pentland wrote four  

symphonies, three concertos, and  an opera, among other works. 

(A) An artist who, prolific 

(B) Is a prolific artist 
(C) Prolific an artist 
(D) A prolific artist 

8. The Chisos Mountains in Big Bend  National park in Texas were created  by volcanic eruptions
that occurred  _____. 

(A) the area in which dinosaurs  roamed 

(B) when dinosaurs roamed the  area 
(C) did dinosaurs roam the area (D) dinosaurs roaming the area
9. In bas-relief sculpture, a design  projects very slightly from its  
background, _____ some coins. 

(A) as on 
(B) because 
(C) the way that 
(D) similarly 

10. Alaska found the first years of its  statehood costly because it had to  take over the
expense of services  _____ previously by the federal  government. 

(A) to provide 
(B) be provided 
(C) providing 
(D) provided 

11. With age, the mineral content of  human bones decreases, _____  them more fragile. 

(A) make 
(B) and to make 
(C) thereby making 
(D) which it makes 
12. Not until Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave  had been completely explored in  1972. 

(A) when was its full extent realized (B) that its full extent was realized (C) was its full
extent realized 
(D) the realization of its full extent 

13. The first explorer _____ California  by land was Jedediah Strong Smith,  a trapper who crossed
the  
southwestern deserts of the United  States in 1826. 

(A) that he reached 

(B) reached 
(C) to reach 
(D) reaching it 

14. Written to be performed on a _____,  Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town depicts life in a small
New England  community. 

(A) stage scenery of bare 

(B) bare of stage scenery 
(C) scenery bare of stage 
(D) stage bare of scenery 

15. _____ many copper mines in the  state of Arizona, a fact which  
contributes significantly to the state’s  economy. 

(A) They are 

(B) There are 
(C) Of the 
(D) The

Practice Test B – Written Expression 

16. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures and she was one of the first
anthropologists to photograph hers subjects. 

17. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form. 

18. During the 1870’s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by burning
iron ore with coke, instead than with charcoal. 
19. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments to
studying the volcanoes in Hawaii. 

20. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the laws  of
motion who were developed in the seventeenth century. 

21. Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first museum  in
the United States devoted to modern art. 

22. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus more
people are able to enjoy to own a house. 

23. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systemic observations, but they also gather  data
from documentary and oral sources. 

24. Basal body temperature refers to the most lowest temperature of a healthy individual 
during waking hours. 

25. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief and 
anesthesia.
26. The Moon’s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space. 

27. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for
flooring, furniture, boxes, and crates. 

28. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short stories
before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962. 

29. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among the 
functions of hair for animals. 

30. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason for  the
recently surge of support for undergraduate research. 

31. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help the 
bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial problems. 

32. Faults in the Earth’s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where they 
interrupt previously continuous layers. 

33. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by adult butterflies and moths. 
34. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European arrival  in
the New World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
35. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the sounds  of
jazz with them of traditional orchestration. 

36. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920’s  until
the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of  production. 

37. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are associated  with
the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the lithosphere. 

38. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants native to
treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria. 

39. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long, slenderness, 
wingless, and brownish in color. 

40. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers intentional add to their 
products.