Category: education

We’re back with another superb mini-test! This one is difficult, and a lot of the skills revolve around what I taught in my courses. So, if you’re interested in my courses, make sure you hit the links down below. And in saying that, let’s dive into this monster mini-test!

Written Expression

Structure

Reading

1. The planet Mercury _______ rotations during every two trips around the Sun.

• three complete
• completes three
• the completion of three
• completing three of the

2. In prehistoric _____ of western Utah was covered by Lake Bonneville.

• times, a large part
• times, there was a large part
• part of the time
• for large parts of time

3. The helicopter is able to hover in _______ powered rotors produce lift even at zero forward speed.

• flight because of the
• flying the
• the flying of the
• flight because the

4. The upper levels of the Sun’s atmosphere are of very low _______ heats the gases there to very high temperatures.

• dense and solar
• density, solar activity
• density, but solar activity
• density and activity of the Sun is

5. Lapis lazuli, ______ stone, has been valued for ornamental purposes for more than 6,000 years.

• an opaque deep blue
• is an opaque deep blue
• it is an opaque deep blue
• that is an opaque deep blue

6. Mountaineers _______ climb Mount Everest must take reservations to do so, often up to seven years in advance.

• want to
• they want to
• who want
• wanting to

7. Created by the dissolution of limestone, the underground cave system _____ Mammoth Cave is noted for its stalactites and stalagmites.

• is known as
• it is known to be
• known as
• to be known

8. Most slang terms are simply old words ______ additional new meanings.

• give
• given
• are given
• they are given

9. North Carolina’s Outer Banks are a chain of low, narrow islands _____ the mainland from the frequent Atlantic storms in the area.

• they buffer
• that buffer
• to buffer them
• that they buffer

10. It is at the age of approximately eighteen months _____ children begin to make combinations of two or three words.

• when many
• when are many
• when do many
• when have many of the

11. Story of a Bad Boy, a semi-autobiographical novel by Thomas Bail Aldrich, ranks high among books ____ have incorporated their boyhood experiences.

• the American authors
• which are American authors
• in which American authors
• are those which American authors

12. In the La Brea tar pits of Los Angeles ______ which have been preserved from the Pleistocene period.

• thousands of animals are
• thousands are animals
• the thousands of animals
• are thousands of animals

13. _______ provided a living for nearly 90 percent of the population of the American colonies.

• Farming was what
• what farming
• Farming was
• What was farming

14. Not only ______ more brittle than hard maples, but they are also less able to withstand high winds.

• soft maples are
• are soft maples
• they are soft maples
• fot maples

15. _______ become blocked so that heat and moisture could not escape, death would result.

• were the skin’s pores to
• The pores of the skin were to
• The skin’s pores
• if the pores of the skin