TOEFL Practice Test Stucture 1
TOEFL Practice Test Stucture 1
TOEFL Practice Test Stucture 1
STRUCTURE QUESTIONS
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Structure Questions
Directions: These questions are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see
four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best
completes the sentence.
1. Mark Twain _____ the years after the Civil War the Gilded Age.
(A) called
(B) calling
(C) he called
(D) his calls
2. Early ____ toes instead of hooves on their feet.
(A) horses
(B) had horses
(C) horses had
(D) horses having
3. ______ grow close to the ground in the short Arctic summer.
(A) Above tundra plants
(B) Tundra plants
(C) Tundra plants are found
(D) For tundra plants
4. In 1867, ____ Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.
(A) purchased the United States
(B) to purchase the United States
(C) the United States purchase of
(D) the United States purchased
5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the specialization of
_____.
(A) occupations
(B) occupies
(C) they occupied
(D) it occupied them
6. The large carotid artery ____ to the main parts of the brain.
(A) carrying blood
(B) blood is carried
(C) carries blood
(D) blood carries
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14. Plutos moon, Charon, _____ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.
(A) moving
(B) is moving
(C) it was moving
(D) in its movement
15. Techniques of breath control form an essential part of any _____ program to improve the
voice.
(A) it trains
(B) train
(C) trains
(D) training
16. Robert E. Lee ____ the Confederate army to General Grant in 1865 at the Appomattox
Courthouse.
(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
(C) surrendering
(D) surrender
17. The pituitary gland, _____ the brain, releases hormones to control other glands.
(A) found below
(B) it is found below
(C) its foundation below
(D) finds itself below
18. At around two years of age, many children regularly produce sentences
_____ three or four words.
(A) are containing
(B) containing
(C) contain.
(D) contains planet.
19. Multinational companies ________ it increasingly important to employ internationally
acceptable brand names.
(A) finding
(B) are finding
(C) they find
(D) they are finding
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20. The cornea is located under the conjunctiva, on ______ of the eye.
(A) the part is exposed
(B) exposed the part
(C) the exposed part
(D) exposes the part
21. _____ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 and 750.
(A) The Polynesians
(B) The Polynesians arrived
(C) Because of the Polynesians
(D) It was the Polynesians
22. In 1066, a bright comet _____ in the sky attracted much attention.
(A) was appearing
(B) appears
(C) it appeared
(D) appearing
23. In some daguerreotype cameras, _____through a hole in the back of the box.
(A) the objects view
(B) the object was viewed
(C) from the view of the object
(D) viewed the object
24. In the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.
(A) polishing
(B) they polished
(C) for polish
(D) were polished
25. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic____ Savannah, in 1819.
(A) was the
(B) it was the
(C) the
(D) in it the
26. The Earths plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth _____ faults.
(A) were called
(B) calls
(C) called
(D) it was called
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27. The first plant-like organisms probably_____ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years ago.
(A) life
(B) living
(C) lived
(D) it was living
28. In male pattern baldness, ______strongly influences the degree of hair loss.
(A) heredity
(B) inherited
(C) inherits
(D) heredity has
29. In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles______attempt to explain Americas belief in flying
saucers.
(A) makes a fascinating
(B) making a fascinating
(C) fascination with making
(D) fascination made a
30. The irregular coastline of _____ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the
Cape Cod peninsula in the southeast.
(A) Massachusetts
(B) Massachusetts is
(C) Massachusetts it is
(D) Massachusetts on
31. A spacecraft is freed from friction ____launched into space.
(A) it
(B) it is
(C) after is
(D) after it is
32. ____ with their surroundings, or they hidein crevices for protection.
(A) Lobsters
(B) Lobsters blend
(C) Lobsters blending
(D) Because lobsters blend
33. _____ a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow isa simple hinge joint.
(A) While the shoulder
(B) While the shoulder is
(C) The shoulder is
(D) The shoulder
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34. A car has several sections with movingparts, of those parts is essential.
(A) good lubrication
(B) well lubricated
(C) and good lubrication
(D) and well lubricated
35. Bears cannot see well _____ small eyes.
(A) bears have
(B) because having
(C) because they have
(D) because of bears
36. _____ at the Isthmus of Panama, so animals were able to migrate between North and
South America.
(A) A land bridge existed
(B) When a land bridge existed
(C) A land bridge
(D) With a land bridge
37. mostly made of granite, it also contains some human-made materials.
(A) The Empire State Building
(B) The Empire State Building is
(C) Although the Empire State Building is
(D) Although the Empire State Building is built
38. Pressure differences make the eardrum vibrate _____ the ear.
(A) enters the sound waves
(B) as sound waves
(C) sound waves enter
(D) as sound waves enter
39. An optical microscope magnifies as much as 2,000 times, but an electron microscope as
much as a million times.
(A) magnifying
(B) it magnifies
(C) can magnify
(D) magnify it
40. If scientific estimates are accurate, ____ with the Earth about 20,000 years ago.
(A) the Canon Diablo meteorite collided
(B) the collision of the Canon Diablo meteorite
(C) the Canon Diablo meteorite colliding
(D) colliding the Canon Diablo meteorite
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