Dr. Prinsky

Engl. 1101

Test on Missing Words (Ch. 39, NMHH)

1. In the following sentence -- Commuting in carpools, train, or bus can help reduce the nation’s consumption of oil -- the words omitted that are necessary for grammatical correctness are: (a) nouns (b) verbs (c) pronouns (d) adverbs (e) prepositions

2. In the following sentence -- Many companies suggest their employees carpool or take mass transit to work -- the word omitted that is necessary for clarity and grammatical correctness is: (a) verb (b) pronoun (c) adverb (d) conjunction (e) preposition

3. In the following sentence -- Driving alone is less energy-efficient than any way of commuting to work -- the problem is: (a) missing preposition (b) incomplete or illogical comparison (c) missing verb (d) incomplete subject of the sentence

4. In the following sentence -- The gang members neither cooperated nor listened to the authorities -- the word omitted that is nan adverb (d) a conjunction (e) a preposition

5. In the following sentence -- The boss flies first class; the rest of us economy class -- the word omitted that is necessary for grammatical correctness is: (a) a noun (b) a verb (c) a pronoun (d) an adverb (e) a preposition

6. In the following sentence -- The coach declared that our team has never and will never be defeated -- the word omitted that is necessary for grammatical correctness is: (a) a noun (b) a verb (c) a pronoun (d) an adverb (e) a preposition

7. In the following sentence -- The author dedicated the book to her children and teachers -- the problem with omitting a second “her” before teachers is the ambiguity about: (a) who the author is (b) whether the children are the author’s (c) whether the teachers are those of the author (d) whether the children are also the teachers

8. Which is the best standard grammatical form of the sentence: (a) The attorney argued men and women should receive equal pay for equal work (b) The attorney argued that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work (c) The attorney arguing men and women should receive equal pay for equal work (d) a or b

9. The problem with the immediately preceding sentence is an omitted: (a) noun (b) verb (c) adverb (d) preposition (e) conjunction

10. In the following sentence -- I loved my grandmother more than my sister -- the problem is ambiguity about: (a) whether the writer felt more love toward the grandmother or toward the sister (b) who the “I” is of the sentence (c) whether the sister loved the writer’s grandmother more than the writer loved the grandmother (d) a and c

11. In the following sentence -- High schools and colleges stage The Laramie Project more than any play -- is that the incomplete comparison implies that: (a) The Laramie Project is itself not a play (b) high schools and colleges are similar in the activity designated (c) various kinds of dramas are not differentiated from each other (d) the staging took place over an indefinite period of time

12. In the following sentence -- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, directed by New Zealander Peter Jackson, won more awards than any film in 2004 -- is that the incomplete comparison implies that: (a) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is itself not a film (b) the nationality of the director is relevant to the awards (c) the year should be placed in comparison to the decade (d) the awards may have been for other categories besides films

13. Which one of the following sentences is incorrect in usage of the articles a, an, and the: (a) He gave me the books that he liked best (b) The classroom contained an aquarium, birdcage, and rabbit hutch (c) A dog that bites should be kept on a leash (d) The classroom contained a fish tank, birdcage, and rabbit hutch

39.1 - Divide up the paragraphs as follows: (a) “Most early” (b) “The Italian” (c) “He set” (d) “Although its” (e) “Almost one” (f) “Roemer hypothesized” (g) “Knowing Jupiter’s” (h) “Roemer’s result” (i) “According to” (j) “The speed” (k) “For instance”

14. In 39.1, the most formal version for writing of sentence (a): (a) is as printed (b) should be ”scientists thought that the speed of light was infinite” (c) should be “believed the speed of light was infinite”

15. Sentence (b) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “did not agree or listen to” (c) should be “never agreed with nor listened to”

16. Sentence (c) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “set up an experiment” (c) should be “set up a experiment”

17. Sentence (d) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “than any experiments of his day” (c) should be “than any other experiment of his day”

18. Sentence (e) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “measure the speed of light” (c) should be “measure speed of the light”

19. The correct, as well as most formal version for writing, of sentence (f) of 39.1 is: (a) is as printed (b) should be “hypothesized that” (c) should be “the planet Jupiter” (d) should be “will take to reach earth” (e) b, c, and d

20. Sentence (g) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “Knowing that Jupiter’s distance from earth at various times of the year, Roemer . . . “(c) should be “Roemer calculated speed of light at 141,000 miles per second”

21. Sentence (h) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “was closer than any earlier scientist to the actual speed of light” (c) should be “was closer than that of any scientist to the actual speed of light”

22. Sentence (i) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “has not ever and will not ever be exceeded” (c) should be “has never been and will never be exceeded”

23. Sentence (j) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “Speed of light is variable, however” (c) should be “The speed of light is, however, variable”

24. Sentence (k) of 39.1, (a) is correct as is (b) should be “slower through water than through a vacuum” (c) should be “travels about twenty-five percent more slowly through water”

25. The subject matter of exercise 39.1 could be categorized as: (a) biology (b) history (c) mathematics (d) physics