Structure Exercise skill 6-8

1. The president of the United States appoints the cabinet members, ___________ appointments are subject to Senate approval.

• (A) their
• (B) with their
• (C) because their
• (D) but their

2. The prisoners were prevented from speaking to reporters because ______________.

• (A) not wanting the story in the papers
• (B) the story in the papers the superintendent did not want
• (C) the public to hear the story
• (D) the superintendent did not want the story in the papers

3. Like Thomas Berger’s fictional character Little Big Man, Lauderdale managed to find himself where __________ of important events took place.

• (A) it was an extraordinary number
• (B) there was an extraordinary number
• (C) an extraordinary number
• (D) an extraordinary number existed

4. ___________ sucked groundwater from below, some parts of the city have begun to sink as much as ten inches annually.

• (A) Pumps have
• (B) As pumps have
• (C) So pumps have
• (D) With pumps

5. Case studies are the target of much skepticism in the scientific community, __________ used extensively by numerous researchers.

• (A) they are
• (B) are
• (C) yet they
• (D) yet they are

6. According to the hypothesis in the study, the monarchs pick up the magnetic field of the _________ migrate by following magnetic fields.

• (A) target monarchs
• (B) target since monarchs
• (C) target since monarchs are
• (D) target

7. ________ show the relations among neurons, they do not preclude the possibility that other aspects are important.

• (A) Neural theories
• (B) A neural theory
• (C) Although neural theories
• (D) However neural theories

8. ______________ or refinanced, the lender will generally require setting up an escrow account to ensure the payment of property taxes and homeowner’s insurance.

• (A) A home is
• (B) A home is bought
• (C) When a home
• (D) When a home is bought

9. If ultraviolet radiation enters the Earth’s atmosphere, __________ generally blocked by the ozone concentrated in the atmosphere.

• (A) it
• (B) it is
• (C) so it is
• (D) then it

10. Among human chromosomes, the Y chromosome is unusual ____________ most of the chromosome does not participate in meiotic recombination.

• (A) in
• (B) so
• (C) and
• (D) in that