1. Typical of the grassland dwellers
of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.
2. Of the millions who saw Haley’s comet in 1986,
how many people will live long enough to see it
return in the twenty-first century.
3. Anthropologists have discovered that fear, happiness,
sadness, and surprise are universally reflected
in facial expressions.
4. Because of its irritating effect on humans, the
use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely
discontinued.
5. In order to remain in existence, a profit-making
organization must, in the long run, produce something
consumers consider useful or desirable.
6. The greater the population there is in a locality,
the greater the need there is for water, transportation,
and disposal of refuse.
7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly,
and effectively than to employ flowery but vague
expressions that only obscure one’s meaning.
8. With modern offices becoming more mechanized,
designers are attempting to personalize them with
warmer, less severe interiors.
9. The difference between libel and slander is that
libel is printed while slander is spoken.
10. The knee is the joint where the thigh bone meets
the large bone of the lower leg.
11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water
solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action
on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue
vegetable dyes red.
12. Billie Holiday’s reputation as a great jazz-blues
singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth
to her songs.
13. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic
representation of what is conceived to be reality.
14. Long before children are able to speak or understand
a language, they communicate through facial expressions
and by making noises.
15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow
abundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti
and sagebrush could live.
16. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred
the search for more accurate sundials with which
to regulate them.
17. Anthropology is a science in that anthropologists
use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to
document observations that can be checked by others.
18. Fungi are important in the process of decay,
which returns ingredients to the soil, enhances
soil fertility, and decomposes animal debris.
19. When it is struck, a tuning fork produces an
almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long
period of time.
20. Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern
part of the United States, they are found as far
north as Ohio and Illinois.
21. Eliminating problems by transferring the blame
to others is often called scapegoating.
22. The chief foods eaten in any country depend
largely on what grows best in its climate and soil.
23. Over a very large number of trials, the probability
of an event’s occurring is equal to the probability
that it will not occur.
24. Most substance contract when they freeze so
that the density of a substance’s solid is higher
than the density of its liquid.
25. The mechanism by which brain cells store memories
is not clearly understood.
26. By the middle of the twentieth century, painters
and sculptors in the United States had begun to
exert a great worldwide influence over art.
27. In the eastern part of New Jersey lies the city
of Elizabeth, a major shipping and manufacturing
center.
28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman medical
doctor in the United States, founded the New York
Infirmary, an institution that has always had a
completely female medical staff.
29. Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that
he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the
deaf than as the inventor of the telephone.
30. Because its leaves remain green long after being
picked, rosemary became associated with the idea
of remembrance.
31. Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree
of elasticity that enables the skeleton to withstand
considerable impact.
32. That xenon could not form chemical compounds
was once believed by scientists.
33. Research into the dynamics of storms is directed
toward improving the ability to predict these events
and thus to minimize damage and avoid loss of life.
34. The elimination of inflation would ensure that
the amount of money used in repaying a loan would
have the same value as the amount of money borrowed.
35. Futurism, an early twentieth-century movement
in art, rejected all traditions and attempted to
glorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine
and motion.
36. One of the wildest and most inaccessible parts
of the United States is the Everglades where wildlife
is abundant and largely protected.
37. Lucretia Mott’s influence was so significant
that she has been credited by some authorities as
the originator of feminism in the United States.
38. The activities of the international marketing
researcher are frequently much broader than those
of the domestic marketer.
39. The continental divide refers to an imaginary
line in the North American Rockies that divides
the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from
those flowing into the Pacific.
40. Studies of the gravity field of the Earth indicate
that its crust and mantle yield when unusual weight
is placed on them.
41. The annual worth of Utah’s manufacturing is
greater than that of its mining and farming combined.
42. The wallflower is so called because its weak
stems often grow on walls and along stony cliffs
for support.
43. It is the interaction between people, rather
than the events that occur in their lives, that
is the main focus of social psychology.
44. No social crusade aroused Elizabeth Williams’
enthusiasm more than the expansion of educational
facilities for immigrants to the United States.
45. Quails typically have short rounded wings that
enable them to spring into full flight instantly
when disturbed in their hiding places.
46. According to anthropologists, the earliest ancestors
of humans that stood upright resembled chimpanzees
facially, with sloping foreheads and protruding
brows.
47. Not until 1866 was the fully successful transatlantic
cable finally laid.
48. In his writing, John Crowe Ransom describes
what he considers the spiritual barrenness of society
brought about by science and technology.
49. Children with parents whose guidance is firm,
consistent, and rational are inclined to possess
high levels of self-confidence.
50. The ancient Hopewell people of North America
probably cultivated corn and other crops, but hunting
and gathering were still of critical importance
in their economy.
51. Using many symbols makes it possible to put
a large amount of information on a single map.
52. Anarchism is a term describing a cluster of
doctrines and attitudes whose principal uniting
feature is the belief that government is both harmful
and unnecessary.
53. Probably no man had more effect on the daily
lives of most people in the Untied States than did
Henry Ford a pioneer in automobile production.
54. The use of well-chosen nonsense words makes
possible the testing of many basic hypotheses in
the field of language learning.
55. The history of painting is a fascinating chain
of events that probably began with the very first
pictures ever made.
56. Perfectly matched pearls, strung into a necklace,
bring a far higher price than the same pearls told
individually.
57. During the eighteenth century, Little Turtle
was chief of the Miami tribe whose territory became
what is now Indiana and Ohio.
58. Among almost seven hundred species of bamboo,
some are fully grown at less than a foot high, while
others can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.
59. Before staring on a sea voyage, prudent navigators
learn the sea charts, study the sailing directions,
and memorize lighthouse locations to prepare themselves
for any conditions they might encounter.
60. Of all the economically important plants, palms
have been the least studied.
61. Buyers and sellers should be aware of new developments
in technology can and does affect marketing activities.
62. The application of electronic controls made
possible by the microprocessor and computer storage
have multiplied the uses of the modern typewriter.
63. The human skeleton consists of more than two
hundred bones bound together by tough and relatively
inelastic connective tissues called ligaments.
64. The pigmentation of a pearl is influenced by
the type of oyster in which it develops and by the
depth, temperature, and the salt content of the
water in which the oyster lives.
65. Although mockingbirds superbly mimic the songs
and calls of many birds, they can nonetheless be
quickly identified as mockingbirds by certain aural
clues.
66. Not only can walking fish live out of water,
but they can also travel short distances over land.
67. Scientists do not know why dinosaurs became
extinct, but some theories postulate that changers
in geography, climate, and sea levels were responsible.
68. The science of horticulture, in which the primary
concerns are maximum yield and superior quality,
utilizes information derived from other sciences.
69. Snow aids farmers by keeping heart in the lower
ground levels, thereby saving the seeds from freezing.
70. Even though the precise qualities of hero in
literary words may vary over time, the basic exemplary
function of the hero seems to remain constant.
71. People in prehistoric times created paints by
grinding materials such as plants and clay into
power and then adding water.
72. Often very annoying weeds, goldenrods crowd
out less hardy plants and act as hosts to many insect
pests.
73. Starting around 7000 B.C., and for the next
four thousand years, much of the Northern Hemisphere
experienced temperatures warmer than at present.
74. When Henry Ford first sought financial backing
for making cars, the very notion of farmers and
clerks owning automobiles was considered ridiculous.
75. Though once quite large, the population of the
bald eagle across North America has drastically
declined in the past forty years.
76. The beaver chews down trees to get food and
material with which to build its home.
77. Poodles were once used as retrievers in duck
hunting, but the American Kennel Club does not consider
them sporting dogs because they are now primarily
kept as pets.
78. As a result of what is now know in physics and
chemistry, scientists have been able to make important
discoveries in biology and medicine.
79. The practice of making excellent films based
on rather obscure novels has been going on so long
in the United States as to constitute a tradition.
80. Since the consumer considers the best fruit
to be that which is the most attractive, the grower
must provide products that satisfy the discerning
eye.
81. Television the most pervasive and persuasive
of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and
growth, is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary
sophistication and versatility, which promises to
reshape our lives and our world.
82. Television is more than just an electronics;
it is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle
for communication, and as such becomes a powerful
tool for reaching other human beings.
83. Even more shocking is the fact that the number
and rate of imprisonment have more than doubled
over the past twenty years, and recidivism------that
is the rate for rearrest------is more than 60 percent.
84. His teaching began at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, but William Rainey Harper lured him
to the new university of Chicago, where he remained
officially for exactly a generation and where his
students in advanced composition found him terrifyingly
frigid in the classroom but sympathetic and understanding
in their personal conferences.
85. The sloth pays such little attention to its
personal hygiene that green algae grow on its coarse
hair and communities of a parasitic moth live in
the depths of its coat producing caterpillars which
graze on its mouldy hair. Its muscles are such that
it is quits incapable of moving at a speed of over
a kilometer an hour even over the shortest distances
and the swiftest movement it can make is a sweep
of its hooked arm.
86. Artificial flowers are used for scientific as
well as for decorative purposes. They are made from
a variety of materials, such as way and glass, so
skillfully that they can scarcely be distinguished
from natural flowers.
87. Three years of research at an abandoned coal
mine in Argonne, Illinois, have resulted in findings
that scientists believe can help reclaim thousands
of mine disposal sites that scar the coal-richregions
of the United States.
88. When the persuading and the planning for the
western railroads had finally been completed, the
really challenging task remained: the dangerous,
sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually
building the lines.
89. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum
has become increasingly cautious in considering
acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases
passing up opportunities to strengthen is collections.
90. The United States Constitution requires that
President be a natural-born citizen, thirty-five
years of age or older, who has lived in the United
States for a minimum of fourteen years.
91. Arid regions in the southwestern United States
have become increasingly inviting playgrounds for
the growing number of recreation seekers who own
vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes
and indulge in hill-climbing contests or in caving
new trails in the desert.
92. Stone does decay, and so tools of long ago have
remained when even the bones of the man who made
them have disappeared without trace.
93. Insects would make it impossible for us to live
in the world; they would devour all our crops and
kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the
protection we get from insect-eating animals.
94. It is true that during their explorations they
often faced difficulties and dangers of the most
perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would
make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but
they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.
95. There is only one difference between an old
man and a young one: the young man has a glorious
future before him and old one has a splendid future
behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.
96. I find young people exciting. They have an air
of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment
to mean ambitions or love comfort. They are not
anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion
to material things.
97. I am always amazed when I hear people saying
that sport creates goodwill between the nations,
and that if only the common peoples of the world
could meet one another at football or cricket, they
would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.
98. It is impossible to say simply for the fun and
exercise: as soon as the question of prestige arises,
as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit
will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative
instincts are around.
99. It has been found that certain bats emit squeaks
and by receiving the echoes, they can locate and
steer clear of obstacles------or locate flying insects
on which they feed. This echo-location in bats is
often compared with radar, the principle of which
is similar.
100. As the time and cost of making a clip drop
to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers
may soon be free to let their imaginations soar
without being penalized by expensive failure.
