Section Two: Structure and Written Expression

1.Fingerprints form an unchangeable signature, and ______ for identification, despite changes in the individual’s appearance or age.
(A) the use of fingerprint records
(B) with the use of fingerprint records
(C) when fingerprint records are used
(D) fingerprint records can be used

2.Animals obtain their energy from ______ .
(A) eat their food
(B) their food to eat
(C) the food they eat
(D) they eat the food

3.Liquid water has fewer hydrogen bonds than ice, so more molecules can occupy the same space, making liquid water ______ than ice.
(A) more dense
(B) is more dense
(C) more than dense
(D) as more dense

4.It is difficult for present-day readers ______ Sister Carrie was withdrawn from circulation at the turn of the century.
(A) to understand the no
(B) why to understand the novel
(C) the novel to understand why
(D) to understand why the novel

5.Historical linguists study ______ over time.
(A) languages evolve
(B) whether language evolution
(C) how languages evolve
(D) evolution that languages

6.Tennis star Chris Event, who retired from the game after eighteen years, perhaps ______ more than anyone to make women’s professional tennis a widely respected career.
(A) who did
(B) has done
(C) and doing
(D) to do

7.The daytime______ bright because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight.
(A) while sky is
(B) has a sky
(C) sky is
(D) for the sky

8.Edward Hopper’s paintings portray the loneliness and isolation of the individual______ .
(A) is in an urbanized society
(B) in society is urbanized
(C) who in an urbanized society
(D) in an urbanized society

9.Braille,______ printing reading materials for use by people who are blind, consists of a system of raised points or dots that are read by touch.
(A) is a method of
(B) a method of
(C) which a method of
(D) a method is of

10.The art of landscape architecture is almost as old______ of architecture itself.
(A) as that
(B) that
(C) as
(D) than that

11.The development of synthetic fibers after 1940 led to the production of new types of fabrics ______ more durable and easier to care for.
(A) that they were
(B) that were
(C) were
(D) and were

12.Until the eighteenth century, charcoal was______ used in blast furnaces, as well as in glassmaking, blacksmithing, and metalworking.
(A) what the chief fuel
(B) the chief fuel that
(C) thc chief fuel was
(D) the chief fuel

13.Pure iron cannot be hardened by heating and cooling, as______ , because iron lacks the necessary carbon.
(A) steel it can
(B) can steel
(C) with steel can
(D) so can steel

14.Rapids and waterfalls, ______ along virtually all Massachusetts waterways, provided power in colonial times for grist and saw mills and later for textile mills.
(A) common
(B) were common
(C) which, being common
(D) being common, were

15.Airsickness is produced by a disturbance of the inner car,______ psychogenic factors, such as fear, also play a part.
(A) in spite of
(B) neither
(C) nor
(D) although