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TOEFL

Practice Test
Volume 1
1999
1. Andy Warhol was _________ in the Pop Art
movement who was known for his multi-image silkscreen paintings.
A. That one of a leading figure
B. A leading figure
C. Leading figures
D. Who leads figures

7.-Woodrow Wilson______ as governor of NewJersey


before he was elected President of the United States in
1912.
A. To have served
B. Who has served
C. serving
D. served

2.-Even with vast research, there is still a great deal that


is ______ known about the working of the human brain.
A. neither
B. none
C. no
D. not

8.- ________ fish in Great Salt Lake, but its waters do


contain small brine shrimp.
A. Why no
B. No
C. Not only
D. There are no

3.-_____ the United States consists of many different


immigrant groups, many sociologists believe there is
distinct national character.
A. In spite of
B. Despite
C. Even though
D. Whether

9. An etude is a short musical composition written


especially______ a particular technique.
A. Enable students practicing
B. Enables students practicing
C. Enable students to practice
D. To enable students to practice.

4.- Typically, ____ in meadows or damp woods and


bloom in the spring.
A. Wild violets grow
B. Wild violets growth
C. Growing wild violets
D. The growth of wild violets

10.- Seldom _____ games been of practical use in


playing real games.
A. Theories of mathematics
B. Theorized as mathematics
C. Has the mathematical theory of
D. The mathematical theory has

5.-The art works of Madlyn-Ann Woolwich are


characterized by strong, dark colors and fine attention to
patterns of light _______ the viewers eye.
A. That attract
B. When attracted
C. Which attraction
D. Attract to

11.- The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, derives its name


from a Native American word _______ bubbling
springs.
A. meant
B. meaning
C. that it meant
D. whose meaning

6.-A grass-eating, river dwelling mammal, the


hippopotamus _____ to the pig.
A. Being related
B. Is related
C. relate
D. relating

12.-Jet propulsion involves _________ of air and fuel,


which forms a powerful exhaust.
A. A mixture is ignited
B. To ignite a mixture
C. A mixture of igniting
D. The ignition of a mixture

13.-Salt is manufactured in quantities that exceed


those of the most, _______, other commercial
chemicals.

19.-Weather is the transitory expression of climate


that can change great from day to day or season to
season.

A.
B.
C.
D.

Of all not
Not if all are
Are not all
If not all

A.
B.
C.
D.

climate
can
great
or

14.-The United States consists of fifty states,


_______ has its own government.
A. Each of which
B. Each they
C. They each
D. Each of

20.- Archaeological investigations indicate that


control of fire is an extremely old technical
attainment, though the time, place, and mode of his
origin may never be learned.
A. investigations
B. extremely
C. the time
D. his

15.-Though smaller than our solar system, a quasar,


which looks like an ordinary star, emits more light
_______ galaxy.
A. Than an entire
B. Entirely has
C. That the entire
D. Entirely tan

21.- Paul Revere designing the metal plates on which


the first paper money in the Was United States was
printed.
A. designing
B. which
C. first
D. in

16.- People usually wear clothing why two basic


purposes - warmth and decoration.
A. Usually wear
B. why
C. basic
D. decoration

22.- It was after shortly microscopes were introduced


at the beginning of the seventeenth century that
microorganisms were actually sighted.
A. After shortly
B. Were introduced
C. The beginning
D. actually

17.- In 1890 Kate-Hurd became medical director of


the Bryn Mawr School for girls, one of a first schools
in the United States to initiate a preventive health
program.
A. became
B. of the
C. a
D. to initiate
18.-Superior to all others woods for shipbuilding, teak
is also used for furniture, flooring, and general
construction.
A. others
B. for
C. also
D. furniture

23.- Until the 1840s, practically the only pioneers


who had ventured to the western United States were
trappers and a little explorers.
A. Until
B. practically
C. has ventured
D. a little
24.- Medical research indicates but large amounts of
histamines can be responsible for colds, hay fever,
and other respiratory reactions.
A. but
B. large amounts
C. can be
D. colds

25.- Yttrium is a silvery, metallic element used in the


made of red phosphors for television picture tubes.
A. A silvery
B. metallic
C. made
D. televisin
26.-Tropical forests exist close the equator, where
both high temperatures and, abundant rainfall occur
year-round.
A. Tropical
B. close
C. where
D. abundant
27.-The ease with which houseplants can grown
causes to be popular among amateur horticulturists.
A. With which
B. Can grown
C. To be
D. Among

28.- Paintings of a religious, ceremonial, or history


character tend to elevate their subjects above the
level of ordinary existence.
A. history
B. tend
C. their
D. ordinary
29.-According to classical musical tradition, the term
sonata is given to those works are written for solo
piano or for a solo wind or stringed instrument.
A. According to
B. musical
C. Works are
D. Instrument
30.-Precisely because photographs are produced by
mechanical devices, a cameras mages now seem to
some artists the perfect means for expression the
modern era.
A. are produced
B. mechanical
C. the perfect
D. for expression

31.-The discovery of the magnetic effects of coils


made possible to measure an electric current.
A. discovery
B. magnetic
C. made possible
D. electric current
32.-Since the 1950s the city of Baltimore has
financed several major programs of urban renew,
including rebuilding the Inner Harbor.
A. Since
B. major programs
C. renew
D. rebuilding
33.-For at least 4,000 years, Native Americans artists
adorned rocks, cliff walls, and caves in the American
Southwest with an amazing various of symbolic
figures.
A. At least
B. caves
C. various
D. figures
34.-Animal researchers have identified many
behavioral patterns associated with selection a place
to live, avoiding predators, and finding food.
A. associated
B. selection
C. to live
D. predators
35.- Average world temperatures have risen on half a
degree Celsius since the mid-nineteenth century.
A. world temperature
B. on
C. a degree
D. since
36.-The plan connected the Hudson river with Lake
Erie by a canal was first proposed in the late
eighteenth century.
A. connected
B. with
C. first
D. the

37.-Why certain plants contain alkaloids remains a


mystery, although botanists have formulated a
number of theory to explain it.
A. why
B. remains
C. although
D. theory
38.- Dimness of light will not harm the eyes any
more than taking a photogragh in dimly light can
harm a camera.
A. Will not
B. Any more
C. taking
D. dimly
39.-Contemporary film directors, some of them
write the scripts for, act in, and even produce their
own motion pictures, are thereby assuming ever
more control of the art.
A. them
B. even
C. motion
D. thereby assuming
40.-Petroleum it is composed of a complex mixture
of hydrogen and carbon.
A. It is
B. of
C. mixture
D. carbon

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D Skill 24: Parallelism with nouns


B Skill 1: Main clause missing
A Skill 3: Appositive phrase modifying the subject noun.
B Skill 24: Parallelism with verb phrases
C Skill 1: Main clause missing
C Skill 3: Appositive
C Skill 11: Connector for adjective clause
A Skill 28: Superlative
B Skills56-57: phrasal verb: begin as
A Passive Voice: for infinitive
A Skill 48: word order for adverbs and adjectives
D Skill 1: Subject and verb missing
D Skill 13: Modifying phrases
A Skill 14: Reduced adverb clause
A Skill 22: Reducing clause with auxiliary Subject-verb agreement
C Skill 48: Word order (almost entirely)
D Skill 46: Word form and function (WFF) adjective. vs. adverb (well)
D Skill 56-57: Paired prepositions: from.to (from.to)
B Skill 20: subject-verb agreement (pays)
C word form and function noun vs. adjective (different)
B Skill 36 and 56: wrong preposition (since)
D Skill 39: plural noun (kinds)
B Skill 48 and 60: word order (other variety)
B Skill 33 and 35: have been sequence of tenses (have been)
B Skill 24: Subject-verb agreement Skill 20 and parallelism with verbs (breathe)
D Skill 44: its possessive adjective (its)
C Skill 46: WFF adjective vs. adverb. (directly)
B Skill 44: WFF him vs. his (his)
D Skill 56-57: wrong preposition by refusing (for)
C Skill 45: wrong pronoun its (its)
C Skill 11 and 12: subject missing (which he)
B Skill 39: Plural noun (zones)
C WFF verb vs. noun (advertisement)
A Adverb clause connectors and prepositions with the same meaning: Although vs. Despite (despite)
C Skill 24: parallelism verb phrase (generate)
D Skills 24: Parallelism with nouns (medicine)
A Skill 42: WFF noun person/noun thing (champion)
D Skill 50: live/alive adjectives (live)
B Skills 56-57: preposition required: as (regard as)
A Adverb clause connectors and prepositions with the same meaning: while/during (during)

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