L2 English year 2015 .pdf

ENGLISH TEST FOR L2 STUDENTS IN GEOLOGY Year 2015 (50 min)
Directions: This is a multiple choice test designed to test your ability to understand basic English.
You are to select one answer among the four possible choices.
Question 1: What time will she be back?
A- Five in ten B- nine to four C- quarter by nine

D- six past twenty five

Question 2: Magma is -------------------------------------------------inside the Earth?
A- molten rock
B-hot water
C- cold rock
D-a mineral

Question 3: Magnetite is ------------------------ --------A- a sedimentary rock
B- basaltic lava
C- a metamorphic rock

D-a mineral

Question 4: Which of these letters is not used to name a soil horizon?
A-E
B-P
C-T
D-B

Question 5: The world "eon" stands for -------------------A- a division time geologic
B-a geologic time division

C- an ion

Question 6: Students ------------------------------dance at noon.
A- ought to
B-must to
C-can to

D-a mineral

D-no

Question 7: The mantle is solid, but hot and weak ---------------------to permit convective flow.
A- too
B- by
C-enough
D-for

Question 8: A convergent boundary is one where two tectonic plates are ------------.
A-moving apart
B-standing
C-plunging
D-coming together

Question 9: Plate tectonics theory helps to explain -------------------------------------.
A- continental drift
B-why the sky is blue C-convection in the mantle
D-volcanoes

Question 10: -------------------------- a red car?
A- Did he had
B-Had she had

C- Does she has

D-Had he have

Question 11: Minerals that contain a chemical combination of silicon and oxygen are called-------A- Sulfides
B-silicates
C- halites
D-oxides

Question 12: Which of the following resources is nonrenewable?
A-wind energy
B- groundwater
C-coal

D- solar energy

Question 13: In photosynthesis, --------------- in the air is assimilated in the green leaf.
A-carbon dioxide
B-oxygen
C-water
D-sugar

Question 14: How many types of tectonic plate boundaries are there?
A-1
B-5
C-2
D-3

Question 15: The thin outer layer of the Earth is called the --- ---------------------------------.
A-mantle
B-core
C- crust
D-upper mantle

Question 16: In schist and gneiss, the lighter colored bands consist of -------------------------.
A- sheet silicates
B- quartz and feldspars
C- calcite
D-muscovite

Question 17: Marble is a sedimentary rock consisting of large crystals of -------------------A-gypsum
B- quartz
C- calcite
D-feldspar

Question 18: Ferromagnesian silicates minerals are usually dark because they contain --------A-K+ Mg
B- Si +Al
C-Fe+ Mg
D-Si+O

Question 19: The collective term used to describe any and all processes responsible for mountain
building is-------------------------.
A- erogeny
B- subduction
C-isostacy
D-orogenesis

Question 20: It was --------------------------- when the bus finally arrived.
A-Six Oclocks
B-six too seven
C-quarter to seven
D-two pass nine

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