Section 3 (1-30)

Choose the appropriate option.

1. When population is not checked by artificial means, it increases, putting
more strain on limited natural resources.
a) they
b) them
c) its
d) it

2. The portion of a mountain where trees cannot grow is called the tree line.
a) there
b) that
c) so
d) where

3. In 1892, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball to provide college
students with exercise during the winter months.
a) provide
b) provided
c) to have provided
d) to provide

4. Not only was Mary Ann Shadd famous for helping escaped slaves, she was also the
first African Canadian woman to establish a newspaper.
a) Was only not
b) Not only was
c) Was not only
d) Not only

5. Everest being the highest, K2 is the second highest mountain peak in the world.
a) the second of the
b) of the second highest
c) the second highest of the level
d) the second highest

6. “It is not very cold. I don’t think we need these big jackets.”
“I don’t think so, either.”
a) anyway
b) either
c) neither
d) too

7. Neither Nebraska nor Iowa has any coastline.
a) Either
b) Neither
c) Both
d) Together

8. Birds owe much of their success as a group to their unusual powers of
migration.
a) That birds
b) A bird
c) The bird
d) Birds

9. The house sparrow, now a common bird in NY city, was first seen in the city in 1850.
a) now a common bird
b) bird in common
c) a bird now in common
d) which a common bird

10. During the early period of Ocean navigation there was hardly any need for
sophisticated instruments and techniques.
a) was so hardly
b) so that hardly
c) when there hardly was
d) there was hardly

11. It was difficult at first, but Mike got used to working at night.
a) be used to working
b) were used to working
c) got used to working
d) is used to working

12. The legal systems of most countries can be classified as either common law or
civil law.
a) as either
b) either as
c) either to
d) to either

13. Who you work for is your own business.
a) Who you work for
b) Whose you work for
c) Who for you work
d) You work for whom

14. Doing an aerobic exercise for 20 minutes a day will strengthen your heart
and you will get rid of excess fat.
a) Do
b) Make
c) Making
d) Doing

15. So high is Mount Everest that climbers can take only a couple of steps per minute as they near
the summit.
a) The height of Mount Everest
b) How high Mount Everest is
c) Mount Everest is high
d) So high is Mount Everest

16. Eight ounces of skim milk contain more protein than the same volume of regular milk.
a) more than protein as
b) more protein than
c) more protein as
d) as more protein

17. In 1983 astronaut Sally Ride became the first woman from the USA to travel into
space.
a) of the first woman
b) the first woman was
c) the first woman
d) she was the first woman

18. The accordion, a musical instrument, consisting of a rectangular bellows expanded and contracted between the hands, is frequently used in folk music.
a) the hands that between them
b) them between the hands
c) by between the hands
d) between the hands

19. Mason bees are solitary bees, which means that they do not live in colonies like honey
bees or bumble bees.
a) do not live
b) when they do not live
c) that they do not live
d) that do not live

20. Zora Hurtson first undertook fieldwork in anthropology, but eventually settled into
her most cherished calling, that of fiction writer.
a) was writing fiction
b) that she wrote fiction
c) that of fiction writer
d) who wrote fiction

21. Not until a frog develops lungs does it leave the water and lives on the land.
a) that it leaves
b) it leaves
c) leaves it
d) does it leave

22. The mass of insects on Earth is greater than that of all other land animals combined.
a) greater than that of
b) as large
c) more greater
d) broader than the one of

23. Many people hate to eat in restaurants by themselves.
a) themselves
b) theirselves
c) himself
d) ourselves

24. Actor Paul Newman received an Academy Award for Lifetime
Achievement for acting in dozens of popular movies over several decades.
a) because acting
b) for acting in
c) with acting in
d) in his acting in

25.The American and the Soviet space exploration programs, even though they are
reputedly opposites, are very much alike in their empirical goals.
a) unlike
b) alike
c) not alike
d) like

26.I don’t feel like staying home today.
a) feel unlike
b) feel alike
c) feel like
d) feel likely

27. “What did you think of the book?”
“ Of all the books I’ve read, it was the most interesting.”
a) From
b) All
c) All of
d) Of all

28. “ Is your husband a good dancer?”
“ Yes. He dances exceptionally well.”
a) exceptional good
b) exceptionally good
c) exceptionally well
d) exceptional well

29. “Is Marsha still here?”
“ No. She was the first to leave.”
a) leaving
b) leave
c) to leave
d) in leaving

30. “I took the TOEFL. It was really hard”.
“Had you studied a lot before you took it?”
a) real hardly
b) real hard
c) really hard
d) really hardly