SELF-REINFORCEMENT TCAS Admission 1 TGAT & A-LEVEL EXERCISE 2

1. The purpose of the United Nations, (1) broad speaking, is (2) to maintain peace and security and to encourage (3) respect for human (4) rights.

2. The (1) oriental fruit fly causes (2) extensive damage to grapefruit, lemons, and oranges, but (3) does no harm to the trees (4) on where the fruit grows.

3. The (1) study of fossil spores and pollen has yielded (2) many information about the (3) relative ages of sedimentary rocks (4) that contain petroleum.

4. The doctor warned him (1) that his health would (2) deteriorate if he (3) had not given up (4) his habit of heavy smoking and drinking.

5. Food biotechnology has been around for (1) thousands of years as farmers used plants-breeding techniques to enhance (2) desired traits, such as the ability of plants to produce (3) higher yields or (4) resisting pests and diseases.

6. (1) Ideally, a phonetic alphabet should represent each separate (2) sounds by a separate symbol, but this (3) end is almost (4) never attained.

7. A (1) powerful swimmer, the polar bear sometimes is found many miles (2) at sea, (3) traveling from one iceberg to (4) the other.

8. People (1) have been tried for (2) thousands of years to control the climate and today are investing (3) much effort and (4) millions of dollars to achieve this goal.

9. (1) A sailing vessel is not only a vehicle (2) for work and play (3) and also a wind-driven (4) work of art.

10. Chemists use microchemistry to identify and (1) isolating (2) microscopic amounts of substances (3) located in large (4) volumes of other substances.

11. The techniques of the ballet (1) designed (2) to display the human body in the (3) most elegant and harmonious way (4) possible.

12. About (1) three thousand years ago, North Americans (2) beginning to craft clay pots, an innovation (3) that accompanied the appearance of agriculture in the (4) eastern area of the continent.

13. Cells are (1) composed by a nucleus, cytoplasm, (2) and a cell membrane, all (3) of which have different (4) functions.

14. The most useful way (1) of looking at a map is not as a piece (2) of paper, but as a (3) record of (4) geographical organized information.

15. (1) Because they are (2) generally taken simply to obtain a recognizable and (3) relatively cheap image, most nonprofessional photographs demand (4) few equipment.

Advanced & Super Advanced Exercises

Directions: Read the following statements and choose the underlined

part that is grammatically wrong.

16. The (1) Sukhothai gold chain is famous for (2) it use of the basketry technique to (3) knit the gold threads together and (4) unique because it was inspired by the artisan.

17. Males whose index (1) finger are shorter than their ring fingers received more of the hormone (2) during gestation, and (3) show a greater tendency towards physical aggression as (4) adults.

18. (1) To most of us, the flu is a (2) nuisance and annual disease, which mutates so fast that no one ever becomes (3) fully immune, and a new vaccine (4) has to make each year.

19. (1) Finding out how language works (2) is as fascinated as (3) finding out the workings of the atom (4) or the secrets of space.

20. (1) He reached the station exhausting (2) and was very disappointed (3) only to learn (4) that the train had just left.

21. Large (1) quantities of lead in the atmosphere can have a (2) damage effect on (3) certain pollution-control (4) mechanisms.

22. The ability (1) to convert raw materials into (2) more valuable commodities is the (3) basis of an (4) industrious economy.

23. (1) Even though air is denser in cold weather, a wind (2) of the same speed exerts 25 percent (3) more force during the winter than (4) it does during the summer.

24. (1) Since their high vitamin and low (2) calorie content, mushrooms are (3) included in certain (4) diets.

25. Civilization today (1) had depended on wood (2) at great (3) cost to the world’s (4) natural resources.

26. (1) Either humans and animals (2) learn by experience, and what is learned (3) influences the planning and (4) carrying out of simple actions.

27. The increasing (1) popularity of the motorcycle as a (2) convenience, economical (3) form of transportation has been (4) just short of astounding.

28. Fungus growth (1) develops in many different natural (2) setting, most of which are characterized by a lack of (3) constant, direct sunlight that (4) dries out the fungus spores.

29. The surface (1) conditions on the planet Mars are (2) the more like the Earth’s (3) than those of any (4) other planet in the solar system.

30. Marian Anderson, (1) in addition to gaining fame as a concert (2) soloist, also (3) served as a United States (4) delegates to the United Nations.