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Charlie Parker, _____ ,was one of the creators of the music style called "bop."
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The world's deepest cave, Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees Mountains, is almost three times as deep _____.
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3. When Columbus reached the New World, corn was the _____ in the Americas.
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4. Because kaolin shrinks in firing at a different rate than ordinary clay, _____ when creating pottery using both types of clay.
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5. The ceremonial Chilcat blanket of the Northwest Tlingit Indians was generally _____ from cedar bark, wool, and goats' hair.
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6. _____ composed traditionally has been a subject of debate among scholars.
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7. Jupiter, the closest of the giant planets to Earth, has _____ solid surface and is surrounded by zones of intense radiation.
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8. The black-billed cuckoo has been known to steal eggs _____ to other birds.
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9. The purpose of phonetics is _____ an inventory and a description of the sounds found in speech.
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10.Earthquakes can damage a tree _____ violently, and it can take several years for the tree to heal.
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11._____ bacteria in foods are killed, as they are during baking or stewing, decay is slowed down.
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12.The colors and patterns of the wings of butterflies and moths help _____ the organism against predators.
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13.In 1993 the Library of Congress appointed author Rita Dove _____ of the United States.
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14.At the South Pole _____, the coldest and most desolate region on Earth.
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15.Tornados, powerful, destructive wind storms, occur most often in the spring when hot winds _____ over flat land encounter heavy cold air.
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16.Many exercises (A) SUCH AS calisthenics, running, or (B) TO SWIM involve producing muscle tension (C) THROUGH a range of movements that (D) ARE CALLED isotonics. B muscle tension through a range of movements that are called isotonics.
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(A)INTELLIGENCE, education, (B) AND experience all (C) HELPS shape (D) MANAGMENT style.
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18. (A) THE BASIC elements of public-opinion (B) RESEARCH are interviewers, questionnaires, tabulating (C) EQUIPMENT, and (D) TO SAMPLE population.
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19. (A) CONSERVATION organizations help (B) FOR TO preserve the ecology of an area (C) BY KEEOING track of (D) ENDANGERED species. D
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20. Gwendolyn Brooks, (A) WHICH won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, (B) HAD 75 (C) POEMS published by the time she (D) WAS twenty. D
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21. O Halifax (A) IS LARGEST city and chief port of Nova Scotia (B) AND IS the eastern terminus of Canada's (C) TWO GREAT railway (D) SYSTEMS.
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22.T. S. Eliot received wide recognition (A) AFTER PUBLISHES The Waste Land, (B) WHICH FUSED poetic traditions (C) WITH (D) ELEMENTS of modern music and language.
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23. (A) NUMEROUS types of cells, (B) SUCH AS skin cells and (C) WHITE BLOOD cells, have the power (D) REPRODUCE SEXUALITY.
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24. The knee is (A) MORE LIKELY to be (B) DAMAGE than most other joints because (C) IT is subject to tremendous forces (D) DURING vigorous activity.
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25. (A) ALTHOUGH ferns (B) LACK flowers, they (C) DO have leaves, stems, and (D) ROOT.
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26. Crazy Horse is (A) GENERALLY RECOGNIZED for his (C) CORAGEOUS AND SKILL, and he was revered (C) BY the Sioux as their (D) GREATEST leader.
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27. In medicine, (A) CERTAIN plastics have important (B) USES because they (C) DO NOT AFFECTED by chemicals in the body, and they (D) DO NOT HARM the body.
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28. Since a hospital (A) IS ORGANIZED to protect and treat people who are ill, its goals, (B) STRUCTURES, and functions (C) DEPEND ON the (D) CURRENTLY state of medical science.
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29. A change in direction of the monsoon winds (A) RESULT from the (B) DIFFERENCES between the heating or (C) COOLING of landmasses and that of (D) OCEANS .
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30. (A) SMALL DIRECTIONS among stamps, unimportant to (B) THE PERSON AVERAGE, would (C) MEAN a great deal (D) TO the stamp collector.
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31. Members of a nation's foreign service (A) REPRESENT that country's interests (B) ABROAD and (C) REPORT ON the conditions, trends, and policies of the (D) COUNTRY WHICH THEY are stationed.
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32. Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home resembled (A) THOSE of many (B) OTHERS mid-western pioneers, (C) WITH (D) ITS dirt floor, sleeping loft, and crude fireplace.
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33. Dwelling (A) PRIMARILY in the (B) ICE northern polar seas, beluga whales (C) ARE characteristically small, (D) WHITE, agile, and elusive.
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34. (A) THERE IS evidence that the caribou originated (B) INTO North America and crossed (C) OVERAL land bridge into Asia and (D) EVOLVED into the Old World's reinde.
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The (A) BOLD way in which Margaret Mead defined the (B) TERMS "family" - (C) BASED as much on choice as on biological relationship - is possibly the (D) MOST ENDURING of her legacies.
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36. (A) THE planet Mars is a (B) FEEZING , barren (C) DESERTS with huge, dry canyons (D) AND towering volcanoes.
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37. Of the (A) MANY machines invented in the late nineteenth century, none (B) HAD a (C) GREAT impact on the United States (D) ECONOMY than the automobile.
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38. (A) A NUMBER OF the Pacific Islands are volcanoes that have (B) PUSHED UP FROM the ocean floor, others are the (C) TOPS SUNKEN mountain (D) RANGES.
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39. It has been reported that (A) DURING any (B) TWENTY-FOUR HOUR period, (C) A MINIMAL of threehundred North American women (D) START their own businesses.
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40. Archeological studies (A) HAVE PROVIDED evidence (B) THAT the (C) USED OF plants for decoration as well as for food developed early in (D) THE HISTORY.
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