STRUCTURE EXERCISE Intensive Course
Graduate Program
TOEFL
TOEFL EXERCISE
EXERCISE (Skills
(Skills 1-2)
1-2)
1. Mark Twain _____ the years after the Civil War the “Gilded Age.”
(A) called 6. The large carotid artery ____ to the main parts of the brain.
(B) calling (A) carrying blood
(B) blood is carried
(C) he called
(C) carries blood
(D) his calls (D) blood carries
2. Early ____ toes instead of hooves on their feet. 7.___ radio as the first practical system of wireless telegraphy.
(A) horses (A) Marconi’s development
(B) had horses (B) The development by Marconi
(C) horses had (C) Developing Marconi
(D) horses having (D) Marconi developed
3. ______ grow close to the ground in the short Arctic summer. 8. In 1975, the first successful space probe to ____ beginning
(A) Above tundra plants to send information back to Earth.
(A) Venus
(B) Tundra plants
(B) Venus the
(C) Tundra plants are found
(C) Venus was
(D) For tundra plants (D) Venus it was
4. In 1867, ____ Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million. 9. The two biggest resort _____ Arkansas are
(A) purchased the United States Hot Springs and Eureka Springs.
(B) to purchase the United States (A) in
(C) the United States’ purchase of (B) towns in
(D) the United States purchased (C) towns are
(D) towns are in
5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the
specialization of _____. 10. NASA’S Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ____ control
center for the Mercury Gemini, and Apollo space flights.
(A) occupations
(A) it was at the
(B) occupies
(B) it was the
(C) they occupied (C) was the
(D) it occupied them (D) the
TOEFL
TOEFL EXERCISE
EXERCISE (Skills
(Skills 3-4
3-4))
1. The first _____ appeared during the last period of the
dinosaurs’ reign.
(A) flowers are plants 4. Pluto’s moon, Charon, _____
(B) plants have flowers in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.
(C) plants flowers (A) moving
(D) flowering plants (B) is moving
(C) it was moving
2. The earliest medicines _____ from plants of various sorts. (D) in its movement
(A) obtaining
(B) they obtained 5. Techniques of breath control form
(C) were obtained an essential part of any _____ program
(D) they were obtained to improve the voice.
(A) it trains
3, Simple sails were made from canvas _____ over a frame. (B) train
(A) a stretch (C) trains
(B) stretched (D) training
(C) was stretched
(D) it was stretched
6. Robert E. Lee ____ the Confederate army to General Grant
in 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
9. Multinational companies ________
(C) surrendering
it increasingly important to employ
(D) surrender
internationally acceptable brand names.
7. The pituitary gland, _____ the brain, releases hormones to (A) finding
control other glands. (B) are finding
(A) found below (C) they find
(B) it is found below (D) they are finding
(C) its foundation below
(D) finds itself below 10. The cornea is located under the conjunctiva,
on ______ of the eye.
8. At around two years of age, many children regularly (A) the part is exposed
produce sentences _____ three or four words. (B) exposed the part
(A) are containing (C) the exposed part
(B) containing (D) exposes the part
(C) contain.
(D) contains planet.
TOEFL
TOEFL EXERCISE
EXERCISE (Skills
(Skills 5-6)
5-6)
1. A spacecraft is freed from friction ____ launched into space.
(A) it
(B) it is
4. A car has several sections with
(C) after is
moving parts, of those
(D) after it is
parts is essential.
(A) good lubrication
2. ____ with their surroundings, or they hide in crevices for
(B) well lubricated
protection.
(C) and good lubrication
(A) Lobsters
(D) and well lubricated
(B) Lobsters blend
(C) Lobsters blending
5. Bears cannot see well _____ small eyes.
(D) Because lobsters blend
(A) bears have
(B) because having
3. _____ a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow is a simple hinge
(C) because they have
joint.
(D) because of bears
(A) While the shoulder
(B) While the shoulder is
(C) The shoulder is
(D) The shoulder
TOEFL Exercise (Skill 7-8)
1. Today, the true story of _____ at Little Bighorn remains a
mystery.
(A) Happened 4. No single factor explains why _____
(B) it happened vary so greatly among individuals.
(C) what happened (A) aging affects
(D) what happening (B) the effects of aging
(C) aging has an effect
2. For more than a decade, ____ that certain species are (D) the aging effect
becoming scarce.
(A) the warnings of bird-watchers 5. Lack of clarity about ____ the party
(B) warn the bird-watchers in the coming year will be removed
(C) birdwatchers have warned at the party’s convention.
(D) a warning for bird-watchers (A) will lead
(B) lead
3. Early in the eighteenth century, (C) they will lead
Halley accurately predicted when ____ of 1682 (D) who will lead
would return.
(A) the comet
(B) was the comet
(C) the comet was
(D) had the comet
6. We do not ____ the bow drill was first developed for
woodworking or fire making.
(A) whether it
(B) know whether it 9. The National Institute of Dental Research
(C) know whether estimates _____ in fluoridated areas have
(D) sure whether about 25 percent less tooth decay
than children elsewhere.
7. Minute Man National Historical Park is a monument to (A) for school children
where _____ (B) school children’s
(A) the beginning of the Revolutionary War (C) that school children
(B) in the beginning of the Revolutionary War (D) that for school children
(C) the Revolutionary War to begin
(D) the Revolutionary War began 10. The process of photosynthesis explains
how ____ able to use the energy in
8. Tests on the colors of cars were conducted sunlight to manufacture foods from
at the University of California to determine the simple chemicals in air and water.
_____ the safest colors for cars. (A) green plants
(A) which (B) green plants are
(B) which were (C) planting greens
(C) if (D) with green plants are
(D) how were
TOEFL Exercise (Skill 9-10)
1. Modern humans, who first appeared about 600,000
years ago, _____ Homo sapiens.
(A) calling 4. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom ____
(B) were called as Jack Benny, was a famous comedian
(C) they called in vaudeville and on radio and television.
(D) they were called (A) most people’s knowledge
(B) most people know
2. The first writing _____ evidence of is (C) knowing most people
on Mesopotamian clay tablets. (D) the knowledge of most people
(A) we
(B) that we 5. _____ that hunted other animals tended
(C) has to have very narrow, sharp, curved claws.
(D) that we have (A) For dinosaurs
(B) Dinosaurs are known
3. _____ drought-resistant plants which store water in (C) Dinosaurs
fleshy tissue. (D) Like dinosaurs
(A) Succulents are
(B) Succulents
(C) They are succulents
(D) Succulents which are
6. The first eyeglasses had convex lenses for the aged who
____ farsighted.
(A) had become
9. Willa Cather is an author _____
(B) they had become
for her evocative and memorable
(C) becoming
vision of frontier prairie life.
(D) it became
(A) whom readers
(B) the praise of readers
7. Chimney Rock, ____ 500 feet above the North Platte
(C) whom praisings
River, has eroded considerably in the last two centuries,
(D) whom readers praise
(A) stands
(B) is standing
10. Mars’s tiny moon Phobos is a small
(C) it stands
mountain of rock that _____
(D) which stands
from the asteroid belt by
Mars’s gravitational pull.
8. _____ that accompany recurring bouts of
(A) was probably captured
severe depression reduce bone density.
(B) it probably
(A) It changes hormones
(C) the probable capture
(B) Hormonal changes
(D) probably the capture
(C) The hormones change
(D) The change in hormones is
TOEFL REVIEW Exercise (Skill 1-10)
4. Fort Union was the site of what ____
principal fur-trading post on
the upper Missouri River.
1. _____ is famous as the home of the U.S. Naval Academy. (A) the
(A) Annapolis (B) being the
(B) Because of Annapolis (C) was the
(C) Why Annapolis (D) it was the
(D) Because Annapolis
5. Since _____ commercial risk,
2. Some scientists think _____ be a planet but a moon of it has to appeal to a large audience
Neptune. to justify its cost.
(A) that Pluto does not seem. (A) the face of the movie
(B) not Pluto (B) moving faces
(C) Pluto that might not (C) a movie faces
(D) that Pluto might not (D) to face a movie
3. With _____ of sophisticated oil lamps, elaborate tools 6. A current of water known as the Gulf
were made to cut the wicks. Stream comes up from the Gulf of
(A) appeared Mexico, and then ____
(B) the appearance the North Atlantic toward Europe.
(C) the appearance was (A) it crosses
(D) it appeared (B) crossing
(C) with its crosses
(D) crosses it
7. Systems ____ the two symbols 0 and 1 are called binary
number systems.
(A) use
(B) they use
(C) uses 9. The Earth’s atmosphere consists of gases
(D) using _____ in place around the Earth
by the gravitational pull of the planet.
8. Genes, _____ the blueprints for cell construction, (A) held
exist in tightly organized packages called (B) hold
chromosomes. (C) it holds
(A) are (D) the hold
(B) they are
(C) which 10. Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated with
(D) which are a number of composers including
Jerome Kern, whom _____
in writing the musical Show Boat.
(A) joined
(B) was joined
(C) he joined
(D) joining
