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DIAGNOSTIC TEST

A. Complete the following sentences with the correct choice:

1. …………………. the Boston Red Sox have often been outstanding, they haven’t won the World Series since 1918.

a. However
b. Yet
c. That
d. Although


2. ……………….. many computer software programs that possess excellent word-processing capabilities.

a. There are
b. The
c. There is a lot of
d. Some


3.Many Middle Eastern diplomats still feel that the United States is intent …………… the ultimate policeman in the region.

a. to being
b. being
c. be
d. on being


4. Woodrow Wilson believed the United States’ entry into World War I would ……………….. the war in months.

a. to finish
b. finish
c. finishing
d. will had finished


5. …………………. of New York’s Erie Canal greatly enhanced trade inthe upstate region.

a. The complete
b. Completing
c. A completing
d. The completion


6. After ………………. the skin, a leech is best removed by the application of either salt or heat.

a. it attaches to
b. attaching it
c. its attaching to
d. where it attaches to


7. ……………….. east of the Mississippi River.

a. Indigo was grown usually
b. Usually grown was Indigo
c. Indigo usuallygrown
d. Indigo was usually grown


8. ………………. wrote the operetta “Babes in Toyland,” drawn from the childhood characters of Mother Goose.

a. That was Victor Herbert who
b. Victor Herbert who
c. Since it was Victor Herbert
d. It was Victor Herbert who


9. Some of the oldest and most widespread creation myths are …………….. involving the all giving ”Earth Mother.”

a. those
b. themc. they
d. their


10. In ………………, compact disk technology has almost made record albums obsolete.

a. the decade from
b. the decade since
c. the past decade
d. decade ago the


11. In the first months of life, an infant learns how to lift its head, how to smile, and ……………

a. how its parents to recognize
b. how to recognize its parents
c. to be recognizing its parents
d. therecognizing of its parents


12. Juana Inés de la Cruz ………………. Mexico’s greatest female poet.

a. considered
b. considered to be
c. is considered
d. is consideration


13. Because the metal mercury ……………… in direct proportion to temperature, it was once used as the indicator in common thermometers.

a. is expanding
b. expands
c. is expanded
d. expanded


14. ………………….. what is now SanSalvador, Christopher Columbus believed that he had found Japan.

a. He reached
b. When did he reach
c. Having reached
d. Whether he reached


15. The principal purpose of aviation medicine is ………………. by people aboard an aircraft.

a. to study the stress experienced
b. study the experienced stress
c. to study stress experiencing
d. studying the stress experience



B. Choose theunderlined part of the sentence that must be changed in order for the sentence to be grammatically correct:

16. The dwarf lemon tree, grown in many areas of the world, bears fruit when it is less than six
A B C
inches in high.
D17. The brain is composed of a mass of softly gray matter in the skull that controls our intelligence.
A B C D
18. Polluter is a topic of such importance today that even elementary school children are well-
A B
informed about its dangers.C D
19. Best represented in a famous oil painting by Da Vinci, The Last Supper it is an important part of
A B C
the history of Christianity.
D
20. Together with his friend Little John, Robin Hood are fondly remembered today by millions...