- Please type your name, student code, and email address:
Your answer:
- What's your average grade in the English subjects you have taken at CMU? (A, B, C, or D)
Your answer:
- Please specify you major field of study:
Your answer:
- Extensive forests, _________, abundant wildlife, and beautiful waterfalls are among the attractions of Glacier National Park.
Your answer:
it has spectacular mountain scenery
the mountain scenery is spectacular
spectacular mountain scenery
and the specacular scenery of the mountain
I don't know.
- A network of railroads to unite the continent and encourage Western settlement ___________ before the Civil War by Asa Whitney.
Your answer:
when proposed
a proposal
was proposed
to propose
I don't know.
- The chief advantage of using satelites to predict weather __________ can survey vast regions of the Earth at one time.
Your answer:
they
is that they
is that
that they
I don't know.
- The small, ___________ farms of New England were not appropriate for the Midwest.
Your answer:
self-support
they supported themselves
self-supporting
supporting themselves
I don't know.
- _________ art appreciation is an individual matter, no work of art is ever perceived by two persons in exactly the same way.
Your answer:
Since
According to
Because of
Perhaps
I don't know.
- _______ a black singer and actor, first came to the public's attention for his role in Eugene O'Neill's play "The Emperor Jones."
Your answer:
Paul Robeson was
Because Paul Robeson
It was Paul Robeson
Paul Robenson,
I don't know.
- Dragonflies remain stationary in the air while _________ their prey to come near.
Your answer:
waited for
they wait
waiting for
to wait
I don't know.
- Fiction writer Zona Gale wrote about the small Wisconsin town ___________ she grew up, showing both its positive and negative qualities.
Your answer:
in which
which in
which
in where
I don't know.
- A collectible coin _________ in mint condition when it looks as it did when it was made.
Your answer:
to be is said
said is to be
is to be said
is said to be
I don't know.
- Dust storms most often occur in areas where the ground has little vegetation to protect ___________ of the wind.
Your answer:
from the effects
it the effects
it from the effects
the effects from it
I don't know.
- ___________ of their size and weight, grizzly bears are remarkably nimble animals.
Your answer:
Animals
For animals
As animals
To be animals
I don't know.
- ________ most fruits, cherries must ripen on the vine.
Your answer:
Unlikely
Different
Dislike
Unlike
I don't know.
- ________ who made Thanksgiving an official holiday in the United States.
Your answer:
Abraham Lincoln
He was Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was
It was Abraham Lincoln
I don't know.
- The higher _________ octane number of gasoline, the less knocking occurs in the engine as the fuel is burned.
Your answer:
some
the
is
than
I don't know.
- Historian Barbara Tuchman was the first woman _______ president of the Academy of Ars and Sciences.
Your answer:
whose election as
to elect
was elected
to be elected
I don't know.
- Although drama is a form of literature, _________ from the other types in the way it is presented.
Your answer:
it differs
is different
despite the difference
but it is different
I don't know.
- Not only ________ the most populous city in the United States in 1890, but it had also become the most congested.
Your answer:
was New York Ciy
that New York City was
New York City was
has New York City
I don't know.
- In 1989, President George Bush appointed Carla A. Hills ___________ a special trade representative.
Your answer:
to
as
like
be
I don't know.
- Iguanas are different from most other lizards ___________ they are not carnivores.
Your answer:
in spite of
even
so that
in that
I don't know.
- _________ are considered humorous is mainly due to his characters' use of slang.
Your answer:
Damon Runyan's stories
Damon Runyan's stories, which
That Damon Runyan's stories
Because Damon Runyan's stories
I don't know.
- The spores of ferns are almost microscopic and are far simpler than ______ in structure.
Your answer:
that of seeds
so are seeds
seeds do
seeds
I don't know.
- Good pencil erasers are soft enough not __________ paper but hard enough so that they crumble gradually when used.
Your answer:
by damaging
so that they damage
to damage
damaging
I don't know.
- _________ the outer rings of a gyroscope are turned or twisted, the gyroscope itself continues to spin in exactly the same position.
Your answer:
However
Somehow
Otherwise
No matter
I don't know.
- Most of the spices and many of the herbs _______ today originate from plants native to tropical regions.
Your answer:
using
use of
in use
are used
I don't know.
- ________ get older, the games they play become increasingly complex.
Your answer:
Children
Children, when they
As children
For children to
I don't know.
- ______ is the ancestor of most types of domestic ducks is well documented.
Your answer:
That the mallard
The mallard
Because the mallard
The mallard which
I don't know.
- Rarely ______ last longer than an hour.
Your answer:
do tornados
tornados
tornados that
tornados do
I don't know.
- Adobe bricks tend to crumble if ________ to excessive moisture or cold.
Your answer:
they expose
exposed
are exposed
to be exposed
I don't know.
- ________ play 'Alison's House', the author Susan Glaspell won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931.
Your answer:
Her
By her
It was her
For her
I don't know.
- ______ type of insects that pollinate plants.
Your answer:
Not only are the bees
Bees are not the only
Not the only bees are
Bees are not only the
I don't know.