Bill was about average in performance in comparison with other students in his class.

For many years, scientists studying the effects that the sun has on human skin.

It was Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain, who discovered Alaska on its voyage to Russia in 1741.

Several million points on the human body registers either cold, heat, pain, or touch

The shore patrol has found the body of a man who they believe to be the missing marine biologist.

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences: 

The children have never read that book before, ________?

Her application for a visa was turned down not only because it was incomplete and incorrectly filled out but also because it was written in pencil

As you come to each town, however small, you will see a sign which states the name of the town and how many inhabitants does it have.

The us mint makes frequently coins from cheap alloys that are worth far less the value stamped on them.

If the Oxygen supply in the atmosphere was not replenished by plants, it would soon be exhausted.

The vast majority of the world’s manganese is found in either South Africa but also the countries of the former Russian.

Short-wave radios that can receive and transmit signals are used by pilots, the police, and amateur operator.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (marked A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence: 

She was sick yesterday, __________ she was absent from school.

VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES: Choose the best options 

Mrs. Lee suggests __________ a shower to save water. 

Had we known the traffic would be so bad, we did not drive back from work so early.

Tom is watching TV now. So_____________.

Julie’s mother abandoned her when she was a few of months old and she grew up in an orphanage.

Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick describes the dangers, difficult, and often violent life aboard a whaling ship.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (marked A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence. 

8.   If the weather _________ worse, we won’t go to the beach.

Electric motors range in size from the tiny mechanisms that operate sewing machine to the great engines in heavy locomotives.

Identify the one underlined word or phrase A, B, C, or D that must be changed for the sentence to be correct: 

Because of it consists only of a relatively short strand of DNA protected by a shell of protein, a virus cannot eat or reproduce by itself.