Grammar Booster part 8 test 2

In 1796 investigations into the chemical nature of diamond concluded ……………….. a form of pure carbon.

She wrote several books-four novels and four volumes of poem-in which she displayed a knowledge of both history and literature.

The feathers of birds not only protect their skin from injury and conserve body heat, but also function in flight, courtship, camouflage, and sensory perceptive.

The English colonization of Virginia was devised in 1606 by a group of merchants …………………. the Virginia Company of London.

In addition to their usefulness as scavengers, birds are of enormous value to humans because of they eat insects and control the spread of weeds.

Of the many mushroom species growing wild, the common field mushroom is the one that is most frequently gather for human consumption.

The hourglass, an instrument used ……………………….. , usually consists of two bulbs united by a narrow neck.

When precipitation occurs, some of it evaporates, some runs off the surface it strikes, and some sinking into the ground.

Psychology-centered therapy is now widely employed and is among the most influential technique in modern United States clinical psychology.

A master is an electronic apparatus that ……………………… radio and light waves.

The astronauts chosen for fly the first United States spacecraft were selected from military test pilots.

Female horseflies transmit a few diseases, but their main significance as pests is in sting of their bite.

The human skin forms .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . . against the action of physical, chemical, and bacterial agents on the deeper tissues.

Tarantulas inject a  paralyzing venom into prey or with their large fangs.

Despite a lack of navigably waterways, Madison Wisconsin, developed into a manufacturing center as well as a major trade nucleus.

Medical research at the cellular level, ………………………. research on the immune system, has been made possible through twentieth-century advances in techniques of genetic research.

Born in New York City in 1891, Preston Dickinson was one of the pioneers of modem artistic in the United States.

The food and water that people consume them come from the environment, provided either by nature or through the work of farmers and other producers.

Living organisms contain more water …………………….. substance.

The water of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans make up 70.8 percent to the surface.

Communal dance, as a powerful symbol of mutual regard and cooperation group, underlies enduring traditions in folk dancing.

The twentieth century has been a period of enormous growth in mathematical research and in the number of mathematicians and fields ………………. them.

The three main television networks in the United States account for more advertising dollars than any others medium.

More than 800 major oil company  have plants and offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of the international petroleum exposition.

Public Health is ……………………. a handful of schools of public health in the United States.

In 1913 when he was only 18 year old, Leo Somers by’ s violin concerto was performed by the Chicago Symphony.

The United States Department of the Interior designated the Brooklyn bridge ……………….. in 1964.

Fossil records support the assumption which microorganisms were the first forms of life.

jazz music, a riff is a simple melodic figure, ………………………. and repeated several times.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was founded in 1878 and by 1881 had become the most largest evening newspaper in the city.

At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times …………………… and a temperature of 10 to 20 million degrees centigrade.

In artifacts from as early as the Stone Age, mathematics and art can be seen to have fused in the geometric patterns decorate pottery, weaving, and carpentry.

The United States Congress appropriates some four million dollars ……………….. the upkeep of the White House grounds.

Despite their common heritage, background, and homogeneity, the original United States consisted of 13 distinct political entities, each commanding considerable loyal from its citizenry.

The sea horse uses ………………… to cling to the seaweed and other plants.

The choreographer George Balanchine created more than 150 works for the New York City Ballet, that which he was a founder.

In the years ahead, health professionals will be able to enhance or restore health far better …………………… at present.

Some ways in which lizards different from snakes are in having ear openings, moveable eyelids, and less flexible jaws.

The constitution of New Hampshire, a second oldest among those of the fifty states, was adopted in 1784.

Much of the work of the anthropologist Margaret Mead was devoting to a study ofpatterns of child rearing in various cultures.