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SU · 04-01-2007, 01:15 AM

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1.In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, the United States developed the reusable space shuttle ________ to space cheaper and easier.

A) to make access
B) and making access
C) which made accessible
D) and made accessible

2.Genetically, the chimpanzee is more similar to humans _______.

A) are than any other animal
B) than is any other animal
C) any other animal is
D) and any other animal is

3. _______ more than 65,000 described species of protozoa, of which more than half are fossils.

A) Being that there are
B) There being
C) Are there
D) There are

4. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 ___ nearly unanimously through the United States Congress.

A) passed
B) in passage
C) having passed
D) passing

5. Modern skyscrapers have a steel skeleton of beams and columns ___a three-dimensional grid.

A) forms
B) from which forming
C) and forming
D) that forms

6.The average level of United States prices grew very little from 1953 until the mid-1960’s when ____________.

A) did inflation begin
B) inflation began
C) the beginning of inflation
D) did the beginning of inflation

7.The basis premise behind all agricultural production is _____ available the riches of the soil for human consumption.

A) to be made
B) the making
C) making is
D) to make

8.___to the united states House of Representatives in 1791, Nathaniel Macon remained in office until 1815.

A) Election
B) Why he was elected
C) Elected
D) Who was elected

9.________ of classical ballet in the united states began around 1830.

A) To teach
B) Is teaching
C) It was taught
D) The teaching

10 The universe is estimated ___between 10 billion and 20 billion years old.

A) being
B) to be
C) which is
D) is.