English exercise 1

........ the earliest system of writing.

• The constitution of pictograms

• Pictograms in the constitution

• Constitute the pictograms

• Pictograms constitute

At temperatures ...... absolute zero, substances possess minimal energy.

• approach

• approaches

• approaching

• they approach

The Earth's one-year revolution around the Sun changes how ..... on one hemisphere or the other.

• sunlight falls

• the fall sunlight

• falling sunlight

• sunlight in the fall

Thought sporadic interest in regional dialects ...... for centuries, the first large-scale systematic studies did not take place until the nineteenth century.

• it existed

• has existed

• has it existed

• existing with it

Fort Union was the site of what .... principal fur-trading post on the upper Missouri River.

• the

• being the

• was the

• it was the

The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier. The incorrect word is......

• the

• of the

• river

• fills

The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it was made in France in the 1780s. The wrong word is ......

• false teeth

• it

• was

• made

Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest drought. The wrong word is .......

• is

• tree

• who

• withstand

Nobody know when the process of glass making was invented. The wrong word is ......

• know

• process

• was

• invented

The languages of the world presents a vast array of structural similarities and differences. The wrong word is .....

• presents

• array

• similarities

• differences