............. than
the..............

17 Boys and girls know my name. And mothers and fathers, too. Big folks
love me. You do, too. The first letters in the first four sentences of
this paragraph spell my name; so write it here..............

18 Energy is a measure of the fullness of life and is indispensable for
genius. No energy at all is death. Idiots are feeble and listless.
Nearly all the leaders of mankind have been noted for their remarkable
..............

19 Deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter, while evergreens, as their
name implies, do not. Therefore, in forests composed of.............
trees the ground is less shaded in winter than is the case in forests
whose trees are..............

20 Some historians believe that the spread of anti-slavery feeling among
the people of the North previous to the Civil War was due less to the
moral issue involved than to the fact that they recognized the system
of............. as a menace to the industrial system of free labor.

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Adv. Exam.: Form A

TEST 1, CONTINUED

21 If I were writing about the rich, I should be inclined to divide them,
according to their attitude toward life, into workers and parasites.
The motto of the worker is, "I owe the world a life," and the motto of
the.................. is, "The.................. owes me a living."

22 Caution, when not present in excess, is a desirable trait. Often it
saves one from disappointment or failure. Occasionally, however, one
finds a person so extremely.................. that his will is
paralyzed and he is totally unable to set about any new undertaking.
Too much.................. is indeed often.................. than too
little.

23 A whale is not a fish, even though it does live in water. A fish has no
lungs, is cold-blooded, and absorbs oxygen from the water through its
gills; but a whale is warm-blooded and has a genuine set of lungs. In
consequence, in bodily structure the is.................. like a
shark, which is a true fish, than it is like a horse.

24 The brook on our farm has many whims. It ripples over bright and shiny
rocks, and falls into a placid little pool so clear that I can see the
pebbles on the bottom and can see myself down there, too. As I look
straight down, it is hard to tell whether what I see is my nose or a
.................., but as I move a little, that