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Often a team of engineers is ________.

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work on one project
on one project work
working on one project
to working on one project

Question 2

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________ in the world export diamonds.

Answer

Only little nations
Only few nations
Only a little nations
Only a few nations

Question 3

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A vacuum will neither conduct heat nor ________.

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transmit sound waves
transmitting sound waves
sound waves are transmitted
the transmission of sound waves

Question 4

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To relieve pain caused by severe burns, prevent infection, and treat for shock, ________.

Answer

taking immediate steps
to take immediate steps
taken steps immediatly
take immediate steps

Question 5

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All cereal grains ________ grow on the prairies and plains of the United States.

Answer

but rice
except the rice
but for rice
excepting rice

Question 6

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Besides rain, ________ is seldom pure.

Answer

water naturally
natural water
water of nature
the nature's water

Question 7

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Burrowing animals provide paths for water in soil, and so do the roots of plants ________.

Answer

decaying and they dying
when they die and decay
they die and decay
when they will die and decay

Question 8

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________ a busy city, Pompeii was virtually destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

Answer

Once
It was once
Once it was
That once

Question 9

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In his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, Adams attempted to show that his generation ________.

Answer

did not know how to live in a technological society
did not know living in a technological society
was not knowing how live in a technological society
had not know living in a technological society

Question 10

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The FDA was set up in 1940 ________ that maintain standards for the sale of food and drugs.

Answer

to enforce the laws
to enforcing laws
enforcing laws
enforced the laws

Question 11

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Green and magenta are complementary colors located opposite each other on the color wheel, ________.

Answer

and blue and yellow so
and too blue and yellow
and so blue and yellow
and so are blue and yellow

Question 12

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Doublestars orbit ________.

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each to the other
each other
each other one
other each one

Question 13

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John F. Kennedy was the youngest president of the United States and ________ to be assassinated.

Answer

the fourth
fourth
four
the four

Question 14

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Oscillatona, one of the few plants that can move about, ________ a wavy, gliding motion.

Answer

having
has
being
with

Question 15

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________ a teacher in New England, Webster wrote the Dictionary of the American Language.

Answer

It was while
When
When was
While

Question 16

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: The bridge at Niagara Falls spans the longer unguarded border in the history of the world symbolizing the peace and goodwill that exist between Canada and the United States.

Answer

Niagara Falls
the longer
exist
between

Question 17

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Nitrogen must be combine with another element such as hydrogen or oxygen to be useful in agriculture or industry.

Answer

must be combine
another element
such as
to be useful

Question 18

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: In ancient times and throughout the Middel Ages, many people believed that the earth is motionless.

Answer

many people
believed
the earth
is

Question 19

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Anyone reproducing copyrighted works without permission of the holders of the copyrights are breaking the law.

Answer

reproducing
are
breaking
the law

Question 20

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Supersonic transport such the Concorde will probably be widely accepted as soon as problems of noise and atmospheric pollution are resolved

Answer

such
widely
as soon
are

Question 21

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: It is generally believed that Thomas Jefferson was the one who had researched and wrote the Declarate of Independence during the months prior to its signing in July 1776.

Answer

It is generally believed
wrote
its signing
in July 1776

Question 22

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Because not food is as nutritius for a baby as its mother's milk, many women are returning to the practice of breast feeding.

Answer

not food
as nutritious
as
many

Question 23

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: In the sixteenth century, Francois Vieta, a French mathematician, used the vowels a,e, i, o, y, to represent a unknown number.

Answer

sixteenth century
used
to represent
a

Question 24

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Increasing involvement in agriculture by large corporations has resulted in what is known as agribusiness--that is, agriculture with business techniques, including heavy capitalization, specialization of production, and to control all stages of the operation.

Answer

by large corporations
has resulted in
known as
to control

Question 25

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Civil engineers had better planning to use steel supports in concrete structures built on unstable geophysical sites.

Answer

Civil engineers
planning
to use
built

Question 26

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Aristotle systematically set out the various forms of the syllogism that has remained an important reference for logic.

Answer

systematically
various
that
has remained

Question 27

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: If the oxygen supply in the atmosphere was not replenished by plants, it would soon be exhausted.

Answer

in the atmosphere
was
by plants
be exhausted

Question 28

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: With his father's guidance, Mozart begun playing the clavier at the age of three and composing at the age of five.

Answer

his
begun
playing
composing

Question 29

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: The practical and legal implications of euthanasia, the practice of causing the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease, are so controversial as it is illegal in most countries.

Answer

suffering
as
it is
in most countries

Question 30

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Programs such as Head Start were developed to prepare children from deprived situations to enter school without to experience unusual difficulties.

Answer

such as
were developed
to prepare
without to experience

Question 31

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Since lightning was probably significant in the formation of life, understanding it might help us to understanding life itself.

Answer

it
might help
to understanding
itself

Question 32

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Starfishes and sea urchins, members of the echinoderms or spiny skinned animals, are particularly interested because of their unusual structures.

Answer

are
interested
because of
their

Question 33

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Almost poetry is more enjoyable when it is read aloud.

Answer

Almost
is
more enjoyable
it is

Question 34

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: It is essential that cancer is diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to assure a succesful cure.

Answer

is
diagnosed
as early as
to assure

Question 35

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Vasco da Gama, accompñanied by a large crew and a fleet of twenty ships, were trying to establish Portuguese domination in Africa and India during the sixteenth century.

Answer

by a large crew
were
to establish
in Africa and India

Question 36

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Gold, silver, and copper coins are often alloyed with harder metals to make them hard as enough to withstand wear.

Answer

harder
to make
them
hard as enough

Question 37

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: A vine climbs from one tree to another, continuing to grow and support itself even when the original supporting tree is not longer live.

Answer

to grow
itself
supporting
not longer

Question 38

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: After Dr. Werner Arber discovered restriction enzymes, Drs. Daniel Nathan, Hamilton Smith, and him were awarded the Nobel prize for their research in that field.

Answer

discovered
him
were awarded
their

Question 39

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Although the Indians and the Eskimo had lived for centuries in Canada and the United States, when the European settlers came in the seventeenth century, the newcomers began a systematic effort to push them further into the wilderness and to take the land from their.

Answer

in Canada and the United States
in the seventeenth century
to push
their

Question 40

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Find the wrong part based in English grammar: Sometime ants keep smaller insects that give off honeydew, milking them regularly and even building barns to shelter them.

Answer

Sometime
smaller insects
regularly
to shelter

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