Grammar Booster part 6 test 5

Gemstones are usually bright, color, opaque, or transparent minerals found in the rocks of the Earth.

The astronomy is the oldest science, but it continues to be at the forefront of scientific thought.

The coherent light of a laser …………………….. entirely of synchronized waves of a single frequency that travel in the same direction.

The modem detective story, in which a detective solves a crime by discovering and interpretation evidence, is considered to have originated discovering and interpretation evidence, is considered to have originated

Henry David Thoreau was an American writer who is remembered for his faith in the religious significance of the nature.

………………… that. ornithischians, plant-eating dinosaurs, lived about 225 million years ago.

The superintendent of women nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War was Dorothea Dix.

Gold or silver bullion serve into commerce as mediums of exchange all over the world.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that took American art out of the romanticism of the mid- 1800′ s and carried it to the most powerful heights of realism.

Slow growth in the early 1900′ s, linked with rising unemployment, less spend, and meager business investments, led many experts to declare a recession.

The concept of television, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . images over distances, had intrigued scientists even before the invention of moving pictures or radio.

Settlers of the western United States had a sense of equality in the face of hardship ………………… democratic political practices.

Orchestrating musical works requires a understanding of the range and characteristics of each instrument.

Recent technology gives computers …………………….. making them multimedia machines with interactive potential.

The National Medal of Science is the …………………………… given by the United States government.

The Canadian province of British Columbia is rich of minerals and, because over 50 percent of the land  is covered with forests, lumbering is its major industry.

……………….. at a music store was one of Lil Armstrong’s first professional jobs as a young pianist when she came to Chicago in 1917.

Prehistoric people made paints by grinding colored materials ……………………… . into power and adding water.

Each major styles of architecture emerged because new problems in building or challenges in design appeared for architects  to resolve.

The first people to live in …………………… Hawaii were the Polynesians, who sailed there in large canoes from other Pacific Islands about 2,000 years ago.

Much of the significant research related for the theory of numbers concerns the distribution of prime numbers.

The Alaskan blackfish exhibits ………………….. to both extreme cold and low concentrations of oxygen under the ice.

Lauren Bacall made her film debut in To Have and Have Not, starring together Humphrey Bogart, who later became her husband.

Penicillin acts both ………………… .

The black leopard is very dark that its spots are  difficult  to see.

Not until the 1850’s ………………………….. in New York seek to rescue historic buildings from destruction or alteration.

On steep hillsides, tree roots bind to soil that might otherwise be washed away if heavy rains.

If a diamond is heated without oxygen, it will turn to graphite, a form of …………………. that it is used as a lubricant.

Carson McCullers was only 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for what she received much acclaim.

Today’s farmers have increased milk production greatly through improved methods of breeding, feeding, and manage dairy cattle.

Through the process of imprinting, the young of a species rapidly learn to recognize and follow other members  of own species.

Hypoglycemia is a condition in which a rapidly drop in blood sugar most Often results from an oversecretion of insulin from the pancreas.

The invention of fresh metaphors today continues to make it possible the vivid expression of emotions.

Newborn infants show a distinct preference for human voices over other sounds and also prefer her own mothers’ voices to the voices of strangers.

Absolutely nothing that floats, neither a corked bottle nor a 50,000-ton ships, can escape the effects of water currents.

Proteins are made up of long, folded irregularly chains, the links of which are amino acids.

The Chippewa and Santee Sioux of the Upper Mississippi River regional have used catlinite to produce carvings for almost 150 years.

The Wright Brothers were owner of a bicycle shop, and used a number of bicycle parts to make the original motorized airplane.

Although most species of small birds gather in groups at feeders provided by bird-watchers, the bright red cardinals usually appear alone or with its mate.

The acting of Mary Ann Duff was characterized by subdued dramatic force, fidelity to …………………. and a marked unity of effect.