Adjective Clauses Test 1

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1) There were several girls dancing, ______________ had made her own dress.

2) When discussing history it is always difficult to know ______________ period to actually begin.

3) They act mostly on suggestions from older members, ______________ are women.

4) The Spiral arms, ______________ wrap around the bulge, contain numerous young blue stars and lots of gas and dust.

5) The lands of Turkey are located at a point _________________ the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe make up the old world.

6) The man ______________ car had been stolen immediately reported the theft.

7) They develop theories, also called hypotheses, ______________ are possible explanations for what they have observed.

8) Descartes, ______________ is often called the father of modern philosophy, proposed that philosophy should begin with a radical skepticism about the possibility of obtaining reliable knowledge.

9) Many of those ______________ were directly involved were quite conscious that they were making history.

10) History is made, some say, by great men – great white men, ______________ are now dead.

11) Students _____________do not meet the residence requirements of the state or city _____________ has a public college or university will be admitted.

12) Educational activity primarily involves the presentation of material by the faculty to students ______________ are learning about the subject matter.

13) Distance education is formal learning ______________ the student and the instructor are not in the same place at the same time.

14) Continuing Education is a category ______________ indicates a collection of courses for completion of a specialized program of study.

15) Cooperative education is an instructional program ______________ is designed to complement the student’s academic training with realistic on-the-job experiences.

16) A formal learning activity is the one ______________ occurs when students and instructor are separated by geographic distance or by time.

17) This is the first reaction of anyone ______________ asserts that science is just a special case of the greater “marketplace of ideas.”

18) Most of his writings are collected in ‘A System of Synthetic Philosophy, ______________ covers ten volumes.

19) If Dante is right, then this is bad news for those Western philosophers like myself ________________ have thought to find in Indian thought ethical insights that can be appropriated by us as Westerners.

20) Someone __________ I cannot remember divided scientists into synthesizers, who try to find the common core _____________ explains a variety of facts, and the diversifiers, who take joy from uncovering more and more complex processes.