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1. Laura Southworth, a children's author who is beginning to attract the notice of critics and librarians alike, wrote and illustrated her first story Tika and she was only seven years old then.
A. and she was only seven years old then
B. at age seven years old only
C. when she was only seven years old
D. upon the reaching of only seven years
E. at the time when she was only seven
2. Many building technologies are changing significantly in the last two thousand years, but today's concrete is still similar to the concrete of Roman times.
A. are changing
B. have changed
C. had changed
D. are going to change
E. change
3. The video class that meets on Thursdays makes use of the innovative software MAYA, which enables students to design and build a virtual stage set, a home, or even a city in three dimensions.
A. makes use of the innovative software MAYA, which enables students to design and build
B. using the innovative software MAYA and enabling students to design and build
C. besides making use of the innovative software MAYA, enables students to design and build
D. because it makes use of the innovative software MAYA, it enables students to design and build
E. not only making use of the innovative software MAYA, but also enabling students in the design and building of
4. The ancient belief of all matter being in continuous motion seems borne out by modern discoveries about atomic structure.
A. of all matter being in continuous motion
B. is that all matter is in continuous motion
C. which is that all matter is in continuous motion
D. that all matter is in continuous motion
E. of all matter that is in continuous motion
5. If Marcel Proust's memory had not been felicitously stirred by the taste of a madeleine, he might never have been moved to write Remembrance of Things Past.
A. had not been felicitously stirred by the taste of a madeleine
B. had not been stirred by means of the felicitous taste of a madeleine
C. were not to be felicitously stirred by the taste of a madeleine
D. were not to be stirred by the taste of a felicitous madeleine
E. should not be stirred by the felicitous taste of a madeleine
6. The game hadn't ended yet, but Sarin knows that his chances of winning are slipping away by the second and he needs a miracle.
A. knows that his chances of winning are slipping away by the second and he needs a miracle
B. knew that he had no chance of winning and in a second he would need a miracle
C. knows that winning is a long shot and that he needs a miracle
D. knew that his chances to win were slipping away by the second and a miracle is what he needed
E. knew that his chances of winning were slipping away by the second and he needed a miracle
7. When preparing to write a research paper, you should gather information from books, periodicals, and the Internet, and your documenting of sources should be carefully done.
A. and your documenting of sources should be carefully done
B. and document your sources carefully
C. and you should document your careful sources
D. because your sources need to be documented carefully
E. yet you need to carefully document your sources
8. Because it has rich limestone similar to the Rhine Valley , Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley attracted many German settlers who had brought traditional farming methods with them from home.
A. the Rhine Valley
B. the Rhine Valley did
C. it has the Rhine Valley
D. the Rhine Valleys
E. that of the Rhine Valley
9. Catherine II of Russia died at 67, and her reputation still surviving as one of the forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe.
A. 67, and her reputation still surviving as one of the forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe
B. 67, however her reputation is surviving as one of the forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe
C. 67, her reputation as one of the forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe still surviving
D. 67; her reputation as one of the forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe still survives
E. 67; and her reputation as being one of the more forward-looking, enlightened monarchs of Europe will always survive
10. You may not realize that it is still possible to pick one's own fruit from an orchard ; the supermarket is not the only place where fruit is available today.
A. You may not realize that it is still possible to pick one's own fruit from an orchard
B. One may not realize that it is still possible to pick your own fruit from an orchard
C. Picking your own fruit from the orchard
D. Although many don't realize it, picking fruit from the orchard is still an option
E. Picking your own fruit from the orchard can be a possibility
11. The Bauhaus school of design, craft, and architecture held many theories in common with the De Stijl movement; however, it instigated a paradigm shift in design.
A. however, it instigated a paradigm shift in design
B. however, they instigated a paradigm shift in design
C. however, the Bauhaus school instigated a paradigm shift in design
D. and the Bauhaus school instigated a paradigm shift in design
E. and a paradigm shift was instigated by the Bauhaus school
12. Weather vanes range in style from the practical to the fanciful, but in the end its purpose is still the same : to point out the direction of the wind.
A. its purpose is still the same
B. their purpose being the same
C. the purpose is the same for every one of them
D. they all share the same purpose
E. the purpose is the same for all of them
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