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Lesson 65 Test

1. As the twentieth century (1) drew to a close, newscasters and journalists began creating lists of the century's most powerful people. Time Magazine (2) put out special issues on the topic. Peter Jennings, News Anchor for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), (3) collaborated on a book entitled the Century. (4) It identifies Nelson Mandela, first black President of South Africa. (5) as a powerful figure for having put an end to south Africa's Apartheid system, (6) which had long denied blacks the right to vote. Although "no Prince (7) in his social attitudes and his politics," according to Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford made most lists for instituting industrial mass production; building a car Working Class People (8) could afford, the model t; (9) and campaigning to pave the way for his vehicles with an interstate-highway system. (10) Select the words with the correct capitalization. (1)


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11. Choose the sentences with the correct Capitalization. Publishing tycoon william randolph hearst was once one of the most avid and yet least particular collectors in the world.


12. He filled warehouses with english furniture, moorish pottery, egyptian status, but also worthless kinkknacks.


13. He bought a welsh castle and a farm once owned by president lincoln.


14. When he wanted to move a spanish monastery he’d purchased, he built a railroad to move it stone by stone.


15. He did not need these places, since his father had a ranch in san simeon, california, overlooking the pacific ocean.


16. Still, when he inherited this estate from his father, senator george hearst, he added a spanish-style castle to it.


17. He gave his mansion the Spanish name La Cuesta Enchanted, which in english means 'The Enchanted Hill'


18. Then he filled this home with such treasures as the bed ones owned by cardinal richelieu


19. Only when Hearst's health began to fall after world war II did he leave this mountain retreat


20. He spent his last days in a beverly hills mansion, where he died on augest 14, 1951, at the age of 88


21. Choose the sentences with the correct Capitalization. Most buddhists believe that other enlightened ones existed before Siddhartha Gautama


22. However, buddhism as a religion began with Siddhartha.


23. He was born about 2,500 years ago in kosala, which was north of the ganges river near what is now nepal.


24. Buddhist texts identify his birthplace as the lumbini grove


25. Gautama was actually an indian prince


26. A Holy man told Gautama's father that his son would be a great ruler, or,if he saw suffering, a great religious teacher.


27. A man from the himalayas predicted he would definitely be a great religious teacher.


28. So the indian king tried to keep his son from seeing suffering.


29. When Gautama eventually saw the sick, elderly, dead, and holy, he was moved to do as Indians had done for centuries.


30. He went off to the Forest alone to seek truth in Silence.


31. Choose the sentences with the correct Capitalization. The athletes in the nfi, nba, wcw, and other professional leagues get a lot of attention in the media.


32. Turn on any major network- cbc, abc, nbc- and whith in minutes you're likely to see something about an athlete.


33. Espn broadcasts sports almost continuously, a. m. and p.m.


34. However, executives in corporations such as gm become behind-the-scenes players when the corporation sponsors a broadcast or uses an athlete to promote a product.


35. What's more, in the wrestling industry, "the players" whith the greatest influence actually include the wcw commissioner, the wcw president, and the booking agents.