Passive Voice and Comparison

Perhaps the colonists were (a) looking for a climate (b) like England, when they decided (c) to settle the North American continent (d) instead of the South American continent.

• a. looking for

• b. like England

• c. to settle

• d. instead of

(a) Work (b)is often (c)measure in units (d)called foot pounds.

• a. Work

• b. is

• c. measure

• d. called

One's fingerprints are ....

• a. different from those of any other person

• b. different from any other person

• c. different any other person

• d. differs from another person

It is generally true that the lower the stock market falls, .....

• a. higher the price of gold rises

• b. the price of gold rises high

• c. the higher the price of gold rises

• d. rises high the price of gold

It has been estimated that ..... one hundred thousand men participated in the gold rush of

1898.

• a. approximate

• b. until

• c. as many as

• d. more

..... Giant Ape Man, our biggest and probably one of our first human ancestors, was just

about the size of a male gorilla.

• a. It is believed that

• b. That it is

• c. That is believed

• d. That believing

(A)The (B)more important theorem of all in plane geometry (C)is (D)the Pythagorean Theorem.

• a. The

• b. more

• c. is

• d. the

It is generally accepted that the common cold (A) is caused (B) by (C) as much as forty strains of viruses (D)that may be present in the air at all times.

• a. is caused

• b. by

• c. as much as

• d. that

Although we often use "speed" and "velocity" interchangeably, in a technical sense, "speed" is not always ..... "velocity."

• a. alike

• b. the same as

• c. similiar

• d. as

After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, the United States had ..... it had previously owned.

• a. twice more land than

• b. two times more land than

• c. twice as much land as

• d. two times much land than