Language Form and Meaning
Directions
  In this section of the test, you will answer 37 questions found in seven different texts. Within each text are boxes that contain four possible ways to complete a sentence. Choose the word or words in each box that correctly complete each sentence. Mark the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.
Here are two sample questions:
1. The idea that rocks last forever and that rocks      
(A) very     
(B) ever       
(C) quite       
(D) never
2. change is not completely true. If you have ever stood next to a rushing river, you    
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(A) saw
(B) seen
(C) are seeing
(D) may have seen
the water hammering away at the rocks.
The correct answer to Sample 1 is (D), “never.”
The correct answer to Sample 2 is (D), “may have seen.”
Go on to the next page, and the test will begin with question number one.
1. A country’s _______ include all of its minerals, such as coal, gold, and silver.
(A) resource                (B) financial              (C) ability                  (D) list
2 .Whether two people or groups are fighting with words or weapons, we can say they are having a _______.
(A) dispute                (B) war                  (C) combat                  (D) victim
3. If some lives in the _______ of your home, you would call that person a neighbor.
(A) vicinity                (B) remote                (C) distant                  (D) lonely
4. If you are always patient, we can say that you _______ lots of patience.
(A) acquire                (B) erasable                (C) eliminable                (D) deletable
5. Roses _______ greatly in color, size, and shape.
(A) fragrant              (B) vary                    (C) aroma                (D) thorn
6. A _______ is a process that often involves a series of steps.
(A) breather              (B) half-whisper              (C) susurrate                  (D) procedure
7. If you say you have _______ time for an assignment, that means you have enough time to do it.
(A) insufficient            (B) adequate                (C) wanting              (D. quiver
8. Anything that puts pressure on out emotions, bodies, or minds can be called _______.
(A) arrow                  (B) Stress                  (C) projectile              (D) straight
9. Thelma had a _______ with her neighbors over their dogs’ getting into her garbage cans.
(A) indignant                (B) approximately          (C) everywhere            (D) resent
10. When the Carveys didn’t pay their rent for the third month in a row, the landlord actually came to their door to _____ them.
(A) urge                  (B) console              (C) keen                    (D) scold
11. In the 1800s, it must have been very difficult to _______ with people who lived far away. Today we are all lucky to have phones and good mail service.
(A) liaison                  (B) connect                (C) beam                    (D) admonish
Questions 1-26
12. Snow aids farmers by keeping heat in the lower ground levels, thereby _____ from freezing.
(A) to save the seeds        (B) saving the seeds        (C) which saves the seeds    (D) the seeds saved
13. _____ mineral content in the bones of very young children is low compared to that of adults.
(A) If the                (B) That is                (C) The                (D) It is the
14. _____, the silvery-checked hornbill chooses a hollow tree for a nest and seals herself in until her chicks are grown.
(A) Protection for predators against
(B) Against protection predators for
(C) For protection against predators
(D) Predators against protection for
15. A floodplain is an extension of a river channel, _____ not inundated except during a flood.
(A) where is it            (B) but it is                (C) or is                (D) in case it
16. The United States Congress made Washington, D.C., _____ in 1800.

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