Questions
The ____________ of visual images in the dreams of a blind person depends on whether s/he is blind from birth or became blind later in life.
- occurrence
- appearance
- showing
- seeing
Organic food is grown under natural conditions _____________ any inorganic herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers or additives.
- except
- without
- rather
- instead
This endangered species animals are quite __________ to diseases spread by domestic animals.
- allergic
- susceptible
- used
- fall ill
The ____________ of the physical state of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase is called condensation.
- temperature
- termination
- transfer
- transition
Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that homing pigeons can sense changes in the earth's magnetic field, see light waves that people cannot see, detect low-frequency sounds from miles away, sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors.
- A. sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors
- B. can sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors
- C. sense changes in air pressure, and identify familiar odors
- D. air pressure changes can be sensed, and familiar odors identified
In ancient times, Nubia was the principal corridor where there were cultural influences transmitted between Black Africa and the Mediterranean basin.
- A. where there were cultural influences transmitted
- B. through which cultural influences were transmitted
- C. where there was a transmission of cultural influences
- D. for the transmitting of cultural influences
It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous system that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another and also adopt some preferential orientation.
- A. to one another and also adopt
- B. one to the other, and also they adopt
- C. one to the other, but also adopting
- D. to one another but also adopt
Like Byron at Missolonghi, Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
- A. Like Byron
- B. Like Byron's death
- C. Just as Byron died
- D. Similar to Byron
One of every two new businesses fail within two years.
- A. fail
- B. fails
- C. should fail
- D. may have failed
Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.
- A. basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California
- B. basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California
- C. basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California
- D. a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California
Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease.
- A. its victims unless inoculated
- B. its victims unless they are inoculated
- C. its victims unless inoculation is done
- D. the victims unless there is an inoculation
In a period of time when women typically have had a narrow range of choices, Mary Baker Eddy became a distinguished writer and the founder, architect, and builder of a growing church.
- A. In a period of time when women typically have
- B. During a time in which typically women have
- C. Typically, during a time when women
- D. At a time when women typically
The message conveyed by the conference speakers make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in stocks traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- A. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in stocks traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
- B. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in NASDAQ stocks.
- C. make me feel fortunate that I did not invest my money in NASDAQ stocks.
- D. makes me feel fortunate that I did not invest all of my money in NASDAQ stocks.
Cynics charge that Major League Baseball lobbied for stadiums with fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
- A. lobbied for stadiums with fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
- B. lobbied for stadiums with less seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
- C. lobbied for stadiums that had fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
- D. lobbied for stadiums that had less seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that homing pigeons can sense changes in the earth's magnetic field, see light waves that people cannot see, detect low-frequency sounds from miles away, sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors.
- A. sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors
- B. can sense changes in air pressure, and can identify familiar odors
- C. sense changes in air pressure, and identify familiar odors
- D. air pressure changes can be sensed, and familiar odors identified
In ancient times, Nubia was the principal corridor where there were cultural influences transmitted between Black Africa and the Mediterranean basin.
- A. where there were cultural influences transmitted
- B. through which cultural influences were transmitted
- C. where there was a transmission of cultural influences
- D. for the transmitting of cultural influences
It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous system that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another and also adopt some preferential orientation.
- A. to one another and also adopt
- B. one to the other, and also they adopt
- C. one to the other, but also adopting
- D. to one another but also adopt
Like Byron at Missolonghi, Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
- A. Like Byron
- B. Like Byron's death
- C. Just as Byron died
- D. Similar to Byron
One of every two new businesses fail within two years.
- A. fail
- B. fails
- C. should fail
- D. may have failed
Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.
- A. basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California
- B. basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California
- C. basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California
- D. a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California