IV. Incomplete sentence
| 1. Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, ............... of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, were both born in Kentucky. |
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were opposing presidents |
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they were opposing presidents |
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| 2. ..............., the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin. |
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| 3. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms, ............... silk fabrics are woven. |
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whose cocoons are from |
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| 4. Conditions required for seed germination include abundant water, an adequate supply of oxygen, and ................ |
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having appropriate temperatures |
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appropriate temperatures |
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appropriately temperate |
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the temperatures must be appropriate |
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| 5. Not only ............... generate energy, but it also produces fuel for other fission reactors. |
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a nuclear breeder reactor |
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it is a nuclear breeder reactor |
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does a nuclear breeder reactor |
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is a nuclear breeder reactor |
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| 6. ..............., the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over most of the skin. |
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| 7. The compound microscope has not one ............... two lenses. |
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| 8. During the Precambrian period, the Earth′s crust formed, and life ............... in the seas. |
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| 9. D.W. Griffith pioneered many of the stylistic features and filmmaking techniques ............... as the Hollywood standard. |
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that became established |
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what became established |
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| 10. The hard palate forms a partition ............... and nasal passages. |
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it is between the mouth |
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| 11. Hydroelectric power can be produced by ............... and using tidal flow to run turbines. |
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water basins are dammed |
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| 12. Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where ............... placed after its arrival. |
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it should be the statue |
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| 13. Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca ............... of Humphrey Bogart′s more famous roles. |
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| 14. During the Precambrian period, the Earth′s crust formed, and life ............... in the seas. |
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| 15. A stock ............... at an inflated price is called a watered stock. |
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V. Error recognition
| 16. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the operate of motorcycles as well as automobiles. |
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Explain: operation |
| 17. Mosquitoes will accepts the malaria parasite at only one stage of the parasite′s complex life cycle. |
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Explain: accept |
| 18. The number of wild horses on Assateague are increasing lately, resulting in overgrazed marsh and dune grasses. |
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Explain: is |
| 19. The Betataken House Ruins at Navajo National Monument is among the largest and most elaborate cliff dwellings in the country. |
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Explain: are |
| 20. Alois Alzheimer made the first observers of the telltale signs of the disease that today bears his name. |
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Explain: observer |
| 21. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton. |
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Explain: electron |
| 22. Edward MacDowell remembers as the composer of such perennial favorites as "To a Wild Rose” and "To a Water Lily.” |
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Explain: is remembered |
| 23. Dwight David Eisenhower, military officer and thirty-fourth president of the United States, lived in the White House and of least thirty-seven other residences. |
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Explain: at least |
| 24. The counterpart of a negative electrons is the positive proton. |
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Explain: electron |
| 25. The neocortex is, in evolutionary terms, most recent layer of the brain. |
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Explain: the most |
| 26. There are more than eighty-four million specimens in the National Museum of Natural History′s collection of biological, geological, archeological, and anthropology treasures. |
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Explain: anthropological |
| 27. Unlikely gas sport balloons, hot air balloons do not have nets. |
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Explain: Unlike |
| 28. A zoom lens produces an inverted real image, either on the film in a camera and on the light-sensitive tube of a television camera. |
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Explain: or |
| 29. Born in Massachusetts in 1852, Albert Farbanks has begun making banjos in Boston in the late 1870s. |
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Explain: began |
| 30. After George Washington married widow Martha Custis, the couple came to resides at Mount Vernon. |
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Explain: reside |
| 31. At this stage in their development, rubberized asphalt can hardly be classified as cutting edge. |
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Explain: its |
| 32. Methane in wetlands comes from soil bacteria that consumes organic plant matter. |
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Explain: consume |
| 33. It is a common observation that liquids will soak through some materials but not through other. |
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Explain: others |
| 34. In the United States and Canada, motor vehicle laws affect the operate of motorcycles as well as automobiles. |
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Explain: operation |
| 35. Animism is the belief that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are live and have feelings. |
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Explain: living/alive |
| 36. Supersonic flight is flight that is faster the speed of sound. |
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Explain: faster than |
| 37. The ankle joint occur where the lower ends of the tibia and fibula slot neatly around the talus. |
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Explain: occurs |
| 38. In space, with no gravity for muscles to work against, the body becomes weakly. |
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Explain: weak |
| 39. Rhesus monkeys exhibit patterns of shy similar to those in humans. |
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| 40. Fort Jefferson, in the Dry Tortugas off the southern tip of Florida, can be reach only by boat or plane. |
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Explain: reached |
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