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1. Despite (A) its cultural importance, the Daily Gazette lost (B) 70 percent of its subscribers since 1920 and, by 1955, was losing (C) as much as(D) $200,000 a year. No error (E) (06.1,29)
2. Africa’s Kanem empire, after enduring for (A) over a thousand years, is (B) believed to have fallen into decline (C) when trade centers shift (D) outside its boundaries. No error (E) (06.5, 25)
3. Although the precise date and place of the origin of baseball are hotly debated (A), it is beyond dispute (B) that the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn play (C) an important role in its (D) early development. No error (E)
( Online Course 4，Section 5, 24)
4. Of ancient origin (A), the game of checkers was played (B) in Egypt during the time (C) of the pharaohs and is mentioned (D) in the writings of Homer and Plato. No error (E) ( Online Course 5，Section 6, 28)
5. Jean Toomer was not only (A) the author of Cane, a novel whose publication has been viewed (B) as marking (C) the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, but also a respected advisor among Quakers (D). No error (E)
( Online Course 6，Section 5, 18)
6. Because the garden was untended (A), the windows had no (B) shutters, and the lawn overrun (C) by weeds, people passing by (D) the old house assumed that it was unoccupied. No error (E)
(06, 1 section 3, 17)
7. Because the American Indian Rodeo includes games and exhibitions developed as early as(A) the seventeenth century, they predate (B) by (C) a few hundred years the form (D) of rodeo now seen on television. No error (E)
(06, 1 section 3, 27)
8. Many jazz enthusiasts would have to admit (A) that their having (B) unjustly overlooked (C) the music of Bennie Nawahi, who popularized (D) the Hawaiian steel guitar sound in the early 1930’s. No error (E)
(08, 1, 13)
9. In addition to (A) being (B) a talented pianist and composer, Bela Bartok was a respected (C) musicologist who wrote (D) several books on Hungarian, Slovakian, and Romanian folk music. No error (E) (OC -4 –S5 -15)
10. It was obvious that all of the candidates had planned carefully (A) for the televised debate, for each (B) answer to (C) the opening question showed evidence of having been (D) rehearsed. No error (E) (08-1-S7-25)
11. People were trained to perform (A) one tiny part of one process in one department of one industry, and so having (B) no sense of (C) the process as a whole (D). No error (E) (OC -2 –S6-15)
12. Unlike her (A) best friend Margie, making (B) the varsity soccer team as (C) a freshman, Jill did not (D) make the team until her junior year. No error (E) (OC -4 –S5- 23)
13. That (A) I have little interest (B) in art is not the fault of my parents, taking (C) me to art exhibit and galleries from the time I was (D) ten years old. No error (E) (09-5-S6-21)
14. During (A) my most recent (B) trip, I came across (C) a wonderful antique store wandering (D) in the old quarter of the city. No error (E) (07-5-16)
15. Quincy took Dan to Derek’s home for a visit (A), never imaging (B) that five years would pass (C) before seeing (D) Derek again. No error
( 08-5, section 6, 29)
16. Determined (A) to make a name for herself (B) as a writer (C) of short stories, Helen never submits anything to an editor until revising (D) it several times. No error (E) (09-5-S6-25)
17. The Roman poet Virgil is highly esteemed (A) today for his epic poem, The Aeneid, yet (B) on his deathbed he himself sought (C) to prevent its publication on the grounds of not being (D) sufficiently polished. No error (E) (09-5-S6-29)
18. The Stegosaurus, plant- eating dinosaurs (A) with protective (B) bony plates and tail spikes, was once common in (C) what is now (D) Colorado. No error (E) (OC -2 –S6 -16)
19. Long thought of as (A) a quite, stuffy place (B) where people (C) just borrowed books, libraries have been changing (D) their images dramatically over the last few years. No error (E) (OC -6 –S5 -28)
20. I have gone to (A) only one (B) football game after (C) I graduated (D) from high school. No error (E)
( Online Course 3，Section 4, 27)
21. When (A) recipes for iced tea appeared in (B) a few (C) late nineteenth century cookbooks, the drink did not become popular (D) until the 1904 World’s Fair. No error (E) (08-5, S6, 23)
22. Among birds that forage (A) in tree trunks, nuthatches are the only ones that regularly feed (B) with their heads facing downward, when they often find (C) food in bark crevices overlooked in (D) their upward search. No error
(Online Course 5, section 6, 25)
23. Not many (A) authors have described (B) the effects of environmental pollution as effective as (C)Rachel Carson, whose work is still a model for (D) nature writers. No error (E) (06.1,21)
24. Some experts say that of all (A) the musical forms that constituted African music in the second half of the (B) twentieth century, Congolese rumba and its rambunctious offspring, soukous, were (C) the more (D) influential. No error (E)
(09-1-S6-19)
25. It was (A) a Chinese American grower who finally succeeded with adapting (B) the now familiar (C) orange tree to(D) the American climate. No error (E)
(06.1, 22)
26. Five years in the writing (A), her new book is both a response (B) to her critics’ mistrust with (C) her earlier findings and an elaboration (D) of her original thesis. No error (E) (06.1, 28)
27. Opposite to (A) most people I know, Annie, a good photographer herself (B), actually enjoys seeing (C) the photographs that her friends take on their (D) vacations. No error (E) (06.5, 26)
28. When the village elders present (A) recommendations, there is (B) hardly ever (C) any opposition against (D) their proposals. No error (E)
( Online Course 3，Section 4, 29)
29. At (A) the reception were (B) the chattering (C) guests, the three-tiered cake, and the lively music that have become characteristic of (D) many wedding celebrations. No error (E) (06.5, 29)
30. Not very particular in (A) nesting sites (B), house wrens may nest (C) in birdhouses, mailboxes, building crevices—even in the pockets of (D) hanging laundry. No error (E) (06.5, 28)
31. Mediators were standing by, prepared to intervene in (A) the labor dispute even though (B) both sides had refused (C) earlier offers for (D) assistance. No error (E) (07.1, 26)
32. At a time when (A) interest in twentieth-century classical music seems (B) on the verge to disappear (C), the avant-garde compositions of the 1960s and 1970s manage (D) to retain their popularity. No error (E) (07.10, 25)
33. A powerful advocate to (A) equal rights, Belva Lockwood was (B) twice a candidate for President long before the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution (C) allowed women to (D) vote. No error (E) (07.10, 26)
34. Annual visitors to (A) New York City’s Central Park number (B) almost (C) ten times that of Mount Rushmore (D). No error (E) (07.10, 28)
35. To insist that a poem means whatever one (A) wants it (B) to mean is often ignoring (C) the intention and even (D) the words of the poets. No error (E) (07.10, 29)
36. To stand in (A) Persepolis in modern Iran and look out, as Darius the First must have done (B), at the immense sweep of fields and mountains (C) is to grasp (D) the vastness of the ancient Persian Empire. No error (E) (08-10-S5-25)
37. The seven-month-old baby was considered precocious to her family (A) because she was already able (B) to grasp tiny items delicately (C) between her thumb (D) and forefinger. No error (E) (08.1, 28)
38. Chess players find that playing against a computer is helpful to improve (A) their (B) skills, even though (C) no chess-playing computer has yet won (D) a championship. No error
( Online Course 1，Section 7, 20)
39. By (A) the early 1920s, Louis Armstrong recorded his first (B) solos as a member of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in such pieces as (C) “Chimes Blues” and “Tears”, which (D) he composed with pianist Lil Hardin. No error (E)
( Online Course 5，Section 6, 29)
40. A gray owl flying low (A) across a forest clearing, its wings beating (B) quietly and its ultrasensitive ears turned to the faint sounds (C) made by small creatures concealed (D) under leaves. No error (E)
( 09-5-S4-24)
41. Built from 1609 to 1617 to rival (A) the Hagia Sophia, Isanbul’s Sultanahmet Mosque was celebrated (B) not so much for its architecture but because of (C) the exquisite blue tiles that adorned its (D) interior. No error (E)
( 09-5-S4-27)
42. In 1991 Burmese military officials arrested dissident political leader Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby(A) preventing (B) her from leaving (C) Burma for accepting (D) the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. No error (E)
(09-01-S6-20)