Grammar Quiz

11. _______________ for their strong fiber include flax and hemp.

10. Aerodynamics is the study of the forces _____________ on an object as it moves through the atmosphere.

23. The seal, like the sea lion and the walrus, is a descendant of ancestors that once live on the land.

21. We walked along the road about twenty minutes when a car stopped and the driver offered us a lift.

9._______in American waterways a little over a decade ago, zebra mussels have already earned a nasty reputation

20. In English,questions have formed by changing word order ora statement, whereas in some languages it remains the same

19. In Colonial times, flax and wool required months of preparation before they could be dyed and spin into cloth.

3. When ______ on July 4 1789, the federal tariff was remarkably evenhanded.

4. The Masters, one of the most important of all golf tournaments, _________ in Augusta, Georgia, since 1934.

18. Particular issues that concerned teenagers were covering in the half-hour program.

30. Fungi causes more serious plant disease than other plants.

15. Bats avoid running into objects by ___________ high-frequency sounds and listening for echoes.

6. Weavers are social birds __________ complex nests housing hundreds of families.

24. The top layer of the ocean stores as much heat as does gases in the atmosphere.

13. It has been estimated that if we intend to stay above the starvation level, _______ the food supply.

14. A cupful of stagnant water may __________ millions of microorganisms.

12. _________________, methane can be used as a fuel.

22. The first fish had appeared on earth approximately 500 million years ago.

5. Because of his reservations about the issue, ______________ to vote for it.

1. Small companies may take their goods abroad without paying foreign value-added taxes by acquiring _____ an ATA carne

16. Elfreth’s Alley in Philadelphia is the oldest residential street in the United States, with _____________ from 1728.

8. Geometry is the branch of mathematics __________________ the properties of lines, curves, shapes, and surfaces.

27. Blakelock specialized in painting wild,lonely nighttime landscapes, with black trees were silhouetted against Moon.

2. All animals __________ on other animals or plants.

25. A quantitative analysis,using both the computer and quantitative techniques, are used to optimize financial decision

28. To enter the FBI National Academy, an application must be between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-four.

29. Candles are made of paraffin wax mixing with compounds having high melting points to keep them from melting in heat.

26. Playwright Frank Shin has often describes the lives of Chinese Americans in his dramas.

17. In 1821, the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, was laid out in a design __________ after that of Washington, D.C.

7. The Massachusetts State House, ______ in 1798, was the most distinguished building in the United States at that time.