Titan Gate - English Grammar TEST

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1. According to the third law of thermodynamics, ............. possible is -273.16 degrees centigrade.

a) that temperature is lowest

b) the temperature is lower

c) lowest temperature

d) the lowest temperature

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2. After the First World War, the author Anais Nin became interested in the art movement known as Surrealism and in psychoanalysis, both .............. her novels and short stories.

a) in which the influence

b) of which influenced

c) to have influence

d) its influence in

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3. Muskrats generally ........... close to the edge of a bog, where their favourite plant foods grow plentifully.

a) staying

b) they are staying

c) stay

d) to stay there

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4. Oliver Ellsworth, ........... of the United States Supreme Court, was the author of the bill that established the federal court system.

a) he was the third chief justice

b) the third chief justice was

c) who the third chief justice

d) the third chief justice

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5. .......... Colonial period the great majority of Connecticut's settlers came from England.

a) Since

b) The time

c) During the

d) It was

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6. A politician can make a legislative proposal more ........... by giving specific examples of what its effect will be.

a) to understanding

b) understandably

c) understandable

d) when understood

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7. Playing the trumpet with dazzling originality, ............ dominated jazz for 10 years.

a) Louis Armstrong

b) the influence of Louis Armstrong

c) the music of Louis Arm

d) Louis Armstrong's talent

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8. Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the proportion of the population that .............. for each candidate.

a) Are voted

b) voting

c) to be voted

d) will vote

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9. ............... at a rived ford on the Donner Pass route to California, the city of Reno grew as bridges and railroads were built.

a) Settle

b) To settle

c) It was settling

d) Having been settled

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10. The air inside a house or office building has higher concentration of contaminants ............. heavily polluted outside air.

a) than does

b) more

c) as some that are

d) like of

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11. The farmhouse was so isolated that they had to generate their own electricity .............. .

a) current.

b) supply.

c) grid.

d) power.

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12. Marianne seemed to take ........... at my comments on her work.

a) annoyance

b) insult

c) offence

d) indignation

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13. Anyone ........... after the start of the play is not allowed in until interval.

a) arrives

b) has arrived

c) arriving

d) arrived

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14. A local company has agreed to .............. the school team with football shirts.

a) contribute

b) supply

c) give

d) produce

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1. As a "poet" Nikki Giovanni makes "effective" use "in" jazz and blues "rhythms".

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2. "Unlike" wood, paper, and fabric, which "tendency" to disintegrate "after being" buried for many years, ceramics and glassware although easily "broken", survive well in the ground.

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3. Margaret Mead achieved world "fame" "through" her studies of child-rearing, "personality", and "culture".

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4. The "discovery" of the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 "has not produced" antibiotics "useful" for the treatment of "infectious" diseases until 1940.

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5. In the United States, the Cabinet "consist" of a "group of" advisers, "each of whom" is "chosen" by the President to head the executive department of the government.

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6. Colleges in the newly formed United States, "recovering" from the adverse "effects" of the American Revolution, inaugurated "a broad" curriculum in "response of" social demands.

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7. Hummus is formed "during" soil microorganisms decompose "animal and plant" material into "elements" usable by "plants".

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8. Ozone is "an" unstable, "faintly" bluish gas "that" is the most "chemical" active form of oxygen.

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9. The "development" of "professional" sports in the United States "dates" back "to the nineteenth" century.

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10. Long "before" his death, John Dewey "saw" his philosophy have a profound "influences" on education and thought in the United States "and" elsewhere.