A B C
observe carefully.
D
21. Fertilizers are used primarily to enrich soil and increasing yield.
A B C D
22. In the relatively short history of industrial developing in the United
A B C
States, New York City has played a vital role.
D
23. For the first time in the history of the country the person which was
A B
recommended by the president to replace a retiring justice on the Supreme
B C D
Court is a woman.
24. The prices of homes are as high that most people cannot afford to buy
A B C
them.
D
25. There are twenty species of wild roses in North America, all of which
A
have prickly stems, pinnate leaves, and large flowers, which usually smell
B C
sweetly.
D
TOEFL # 7
DIRECTIONS: In questions 1 - 25 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase which is incorrect and must be changed to make the sentence correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
1. Even after having their grandchildren live with them for ten years, the couple felt
A B
that rising children these days was the most difficult of all family matters.
C D
2. The most important cash crop of the farmers in Iraq is dates, which Iraq is the
A B C
world's leading exporter.
D
3. More has been learned about the Moon that any other of the Earth's neighbors in
A B
space because of the Apollo program, which enabled men to walk on the Moon and
C
bring back hundreds of pounds of rocks.
D
4. Despite the variety that the average family has in meat, fish, poultry, and vegetarian
A B C
recipes, they find most meals unexciting.
D
5. The speaker ought not have criticized the paraprofessionals, knowing fully well that
A B
they were seated in the audience.
C D
6. Although there are 48 sounds in the spoken English language, there are 26 letters
A B
only to express these sounds in the written language.
C D
7. Iceland has the oldest parliament, which goes as far back to 930 A.D. when
"Althing», the legislative assembly, was established.
8. The young woman often wondered where at the estuary did the river formed
A B C D
little rivulets.
9. The only problem with the debate last week was that it had beginning to sound more
A B
like a personal attack than a dispassionate, intellectual argument.
C D
10. Susan Jones was at the bus stop well on time to catch the 7:01 bus, but had to miss
A B C
her breakfast to do it.
D
11. As her father could not drive her to the airport, she requested her uncle take her
A B C
instead of her father.
D
12. Plays that stress the illogical or irrational aspects of experience usually to show the
A B C
pointlessness of modern life.
D
13. A famous collection of Persian, Indian, and Arabian folktales, the Arabian Nights
A
it was supposedly told by the legendary queen Scheherazade to her husband every night
B C D
for 1001 days.
14. What may the oldest fossil foot print yet found was discovered in June 1968 by
A B C
William J. Meister, an amateur fossil collector.
D
15. Most of us think of sharks as danger, due to a lack of information rather than fear.
A B C D
16. When ionizing radiation penetrates living tissue, it wreaks havoc on the atoms and
A
molecules in its path, setting off a chain of events that can destroy living cells, or make
B C
them function abnormal.
D
17. Numerous differences in skeletons and musculature distinguish the two groups,
A B
along the fact that loons, unlike waterfowl, cannot walk well on
C D
18. Most women have the capacity of bearing children even after the age 30, but doctors
A B
advise them to have children sooner.
C D
19. The discovery of the connection between aspirin and Reye's syndrome, a rare and
A B
deadly disease, is a recent example of the caution which drugs must be used, even for
C D
medical purposes.
20. My parents moved out of their old home sometimes last year after they
A B
had celebrated their fiftieth anniversary there.
C D
21. The library she worked in borrowed books, magazines, audio cassettes, and maps to
A B
its patrons, who could keep them for four weeks.
C D
22. The most common question that people ask a fiction writer is whether or not has
A B C D
he experienced what he has written about.
23. At the World Literacy Center, an organization that works to help people read, the
A B
volunteers work hardly, enabling them to successfully reach their goals.
С D
24. The officers made it clear that they were leaving her go only on the grounds that
A B C
she was old and not because she was above suspicion.
D
25. The book, which is a useful guide for today's young people, is dealing with many
A B
questions and problems that confront them at school and at home as well as in society.
C D
TOEFL #8
DIRECTIONS: In questions 1 - 25 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (0, and (D). Choose the one word or phrase which is incorrect and must be changed to make the sentence correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
1. The lab's conversational desk top is a voice-controlled computer system that
A B C
acts like an automatic receptionist, personal secretary, and travel agent which
D
screening all calls, taking messages, and making airline reservations.
2. Even among the general public, consciousness has been raised high enough
A
so that anyone sporting finery made from the skins of an endangered animal run
B C
the risk of at least a verbal assault.
D
3. Coastal erosion is the only natural process that has altered the world's
A B C
shorelines ever since the oceans formed first some three billion years ago.
D
4. Surveys note however, that the elderly are frequent victims of certain types of
A
crimes, like purse-snatching.
B C D
5. Noise is external and excessive stimulus that increases rather than
A B C D
decreases your tension.
6. Although teachers around the world are separated by thousands of miles,
A B C
their methods of trying to encourage children to write springs from a common source. D
7. The professor managed to attending to the needs of his family while
A B
working day and night for the prestigious award.
C D
8. Jan later laughs about having fell into the pond, although she was very
A B C
embarrassed about it then.
D
9. Only one egg hatched after twenty-eight days, while all the others hatched
A B C
after twenty-ninth day.
D
10. A few and the 50 stamps that my sister had were either for sale or trade.
A B C D
11. My grandmother could never understand why I preferred a 20-stories
A B
building to a rambling house in the fields.
C D
12. "The Starlight Cafe" is a good place for order seafood but not to order meat.
A B C D
13. The legendary Robin Hood used to steal from the rich people to give to
A B C
all poor.
D
14. Although the poor families are fast learning the new trade, the lack of
A B
education are hampering their advancement.
C D
15. In the event something happening to the family, the lawyer assured her that
A B C
the house would go to her friend.
D
16. The entire city except the western section is being plunge into darkness for
A B C D
the night.
17. Frank and Anna Johnson had a daughter who were born in 1950, but who
A B
died a few years later.
C D
18. Americans tend to embody to what many is a curious combination of
A B
admiration for their political system in general and disdain for its particular
C D
operations.
19. I have been having headaches so often later that I think I ought to see a
A B C D
doctor.
20. Thousands years ago, the world had several ice ages, or periods of time
A B C
when the climate was very cold and thick sheets of ice covered much of the earth.
D
21. Hunger is not an unavoidable phenomena as are death and taxes.
A B C D
22. Peter Weir, the prominent Australian filmmaker and screenplay writer, and
A B
was planning to visit the United States to make a film.
C D
23. While most Americans may admire a person who speaks more than one
A
language, most of them do not place any value on learning another language
B C
themself.
D
24. Having spent his childhood longing for books, Andrew Carnegie realized
A
their value and went on to become the largest donor of funds the American
B C
public library system has ever had donors.
D
25. The survival instinct of cockroaches are so great that they are known to
A B C
reproduce even within a ring of fire.
TOEFL # 9
DIRECTIONS: In questions 1 – 25 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase which is incorrect and must be changed to make the sentence correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
1. Foreigners who understand the styles of American communication will far
A
less likely be to contribute to misunderstandings and negative feelings, and their
A B C
opportunities for constructive interaction will be much greater.
D
2. Once the province of aging screen stars and wealthy, cosmetic surgery now
A B
attracts middle-class office workers, many in their 30s and 40s, and many of
C
them men.
D
3. Self-educated philosopher and orphan who wearily travelled China advocating
A B
the traditional Chinese way of life, Confucious survived all three of his children
and never fulfilled his life-long search for a government post in which he could
C D
demonstrate his teachings.
4. Neither too much rest nor a diet of rich food are good for the body.
A B C D
5. Associated with Afro-American music has been the lively and sentimental
A B C
minstrel songs written by composers such as Steven Foster and James Bland.
D
6. Once considered a luxury, the video recorder has become a necessary even
A B C D
for middle class all over America.
D
7. Columbus landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of North
A B
America, in October 12, 1492 and thought he had reached India.
C D
8. The commission’s report suggested to the agricultural countries that continue
A B C
with their own farming methods instead of blindly adopting the methods of
developed, industrial countries. D
9. The Classic Maya who considered the numbers and the days in their calendar
A
as a procession of Gods who marched along an eternal trail with no beginning
B C D
to no end.
10. Like most other modern instruments, the European lute was merely a
A
refinement of a New Eastern model which reached at Europe during the Middle
B C D
Ages through Spain and the Islamic conquests.
11. For years, Somerset Maugham was the most popular short-story writer in
A
English, and his stories, like those of Maupassant is directness and firm
B C
structure, are still widely read.
D
12. Most animals feed is made from a mixture of corn and wheat chaff rather
A B C
than chemicals.
D
13. Almost 20 percent of Finland’s population, closely 900,000 people, live in
A B
the ten-region metropolitan area of Helsinki.
C D
14. An American’s faith in the rule of law explains the conviction which many
A
held, and many foreigners couldn’t understand, that president Nixon should be
B C
removed from office as a result of his behavior in connection with what was
D
called the “Watergate Scandal”.
15. As small talk, housewives, whose numbers are steadily decreasing in
A B
American society, are liking to talk about their children, if they have any, or
C D
about household matters or personal care.
16. The dam used as a drinking water reservoir until recently, when the oil spill
A B
from an exploding tanker made the water unusable.
C D
17. Each specialized group coins new words: while some of these spread
A B
quickly especially when they are picked up by newspapers and the television
C
and radio media, others of these may become popular only in one city or
D
geographic region.
18. On the basis of annual flow combined with considerable height,
A B
Guaira, located between Brazil and Paraguay, is the world’s greater waterfall.
C D
19. By having faxed the synopsis, she only needed to follow it up with the
A B C
full-length manuscript.
D
20. When given a choice between a microwave and an exercise machine,
A B
Patricia said she could rather have the former.
C D
21. If early arrival of the doctor or ambulance is expected, try not to medical
A B
administering assistance on your own.
C D
22. A recent study of woodpeckers may have solved their mystery of why these
A B C
birds do not suffer brain damage or concussions as they hammer.
D
23. It had been a long tradition between the Montague family and the Capulet
A B
family to quarrel with one another.
C D
24. Wholely the book was less interesting than the individual sections
A B
describing the struggles faced by the cavemen.