1．Because air is highly compressible, ____ to define a clear upper boundary of the atmosphere.
(A) it is impossible
(B) impossible is
(C) so the impossibility
(D) is the impossibility
A
　
2．BASIC, the acronym for Beginner`s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is a high - level
Instruction Code, is a high - level computer programming language______.
(A) learning relatively simple
(B) related it simply to learning
(C) simple and relative to learn
(D) that is relatively simple to learn
D
 
3. ____ Frances Perkins held the post of labor secretary for twelve years.
(A) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was
(B) The first woman appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position
(C) Appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position was the first woman who
(D) The first woman was appointed by a United States President to a cabinet position who
B
4. ____ at the turn of the century, the Minnesota State Capitol building is made of white granite
and marble.
(A) Erected
(B) Was erected
(C) To erect it
(D) Erecting it
A
　
5. A stream of volcanic lava flows differently, -- on the sort of ground it flows over.
(A) to depend
(B) depending
(C) that dependent
(D) when it depended
B
 
6. ____ large amounts of vitamin E found in green leaves, such as lettuce, and in cereals,
especially in wheat germ.
(A) The
(B) They have
(C) There are
(D) Because of
C
 
7. A popular belief ____ radio and television have homogenized the language of the United
States.
(A) states that
(B) that is stated
(C) that states
(D) stating that
A
 
8. The astronomical unit is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun ____ is the standard
of distances in the Solar System.
(A) and
(B) also
(C) in addition
(D) because
A
 
9. In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea ____.
(A) won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
(B) and the Nobel Prize for Literature won in 1954
(C) in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for this work.
(D) a work that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954
D
 
10. Many birds have feathers____-with their surroundings.
(A) colors blend
(B) that colors to blend
(C) whose colors blend
(D) of which the colors that blend
C
 
11. Mosaic is the art of closely setting small, colored pieces, such
as stone or glass, into a surface --.
(A) and create a decorative design
(B) and a decorative design creates
(C) to create a decorative design
(D) that a decorative design is created
C

12.____ that distinguish human beings from mother primates are related to the ability of people
to stand upright and walk on two legs.
(A) Many of the physical characteristics
(B) Of the many physical characteristics
(C) The physical characteristics
(D) There are many physical characteristics
A
 
13.The letters of Abigail Adams to her husband and future President, John, ____ during the
American Revolution, conveyed a vivid picture of the times
(A) were written
(B) which written
(C) written
(D) written when
C
 
14. The lenses in an optical microscope bend the light passing through a specimen to form an
image of that specimen that is much larger ____ actually viewed.
(A) than it
(B) than the one
(C) one than
(D) than one which
B
 
15. Not only ____ as a cooked dish the world over, but it is also used as the base of
many other foods, condiments, and even beverages.
(A) eating rice
(B) rice is eaten
(C) people eat rice
(D) is rice eaten
D
 
16．According to modern astronomers, the space between the planets and stars is
A B
not empty; rather he is filled with something called dark matter.
C D
C
he ( it
 
17.In the late nineteenth century, journalist and publisher William Randolph Hearst
established a vast publishing empire that included Eighteen newspapers in twelve city.
A B C D