TOEFL Practice Tests 35

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1. The geographic position of North America, ________ in the early days of the European settlement.
(A) laying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolating it
(B) isolating it as it laid between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
(C) lying between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, isolated it
(D) isolating it between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans as it was layed
2. Often a team of engineers are ________.
(A) work on one project
(B) on one project work
(C) working on one project
(D) to working on one project
3. Most insurance agents would rather you ________ anything about collecting claims until they investigate the situation.
(A) do
(B) didn't do
(C) don't
(D) didn't
4. Only one mammal, ________ is known to bear routinely four identical young.
(A) it is the armadillo
(B) being the armadillo
(C) which the armadillo
(D) the armadillo
5. The Appalosa horse was brought to Mexico from Spain, was later 0introduced into the United States, and today ________.
(A) by American ranchers is prized
(B) is prized by American ranchers
(C) prized by American ranchers
(D) American ranchers prized it
6. Cuba is ________sugar-growing areas in the world.
(A) one of the larger
(B) one of largest
(C) one of the largest
(D) largest
7. Not every pearl that is found ________.
(A) of value
(B) is valuable
(C) to be valued
(D) valuable
8. The bacteria in milk is destroyed when ________ to at least 62¦C.
(A) it be heated
(B) it heated
(C) it is heated
(D) it will be heated
9. The growth of two-income families in the United States ________ of people moving to a new social class.
(A) has resulted in millions
(B) results of millions
(C) millions of results
(D) resulting in millions
10. Although it is difficult ________ , a frog is more likely to be smooth and wet, and a toad rough and dry.
(A) distinguishing among a frog and a toad
(B) distinguish a frog and a toad
(C) between a frog and a toad distinguish
(D) to distinguish between a frog and a toad
11. ________ fall naturally into two classes, which can be further subdivided into several subclasses.
(A) There are vitamins
(B) Vitamins that
(C) Vitamins
(D) After vitamins
12. Not until the Triassic Period ________.
(A) the first primitive mammals did develop
(B) did the first primitive mammals develop
(C) did develop the first primitive mammals
(D) the first primitive mammals develop
13. ________ planet from the sun, Mars, has a year of 687 days.
(A) The fourth
(B) The four
(C) Four
(D) Fourth
14.
The city council is empowered not only to enact new laws, ________
select a new mayor between elections should the need arise.
(A) and to
(B) but also to
(C) and
(D) so that
15. A giant kind of grass, bamboo may reach a height of 120 feet and ________.
(A) a diameter of one foot
(B) its diameter is one foot
(C) there is a diameter of one foot
(D) which is a diameter of one foot
16. The sea mammal medusa is popularly called a jellyfish because it ________ jelly.
(A) looks rather like
(B) looks like rather
(C) which looks rather like
(D) which looks like rather
17. The tallest bird on the North American continent, the white whooping crane, ________ four and a half feet tall.
(A) stands
(B) which stands
(C) it stands
(D) standing
18.
________ extensively by persons who cannot speak or hear, American
Sign Language ranks as the fourth most widely used language in the U.S.
today.
(A) Relied on
(B) It is relied on
(C) Relying on it
(D) To rely on it
19. In the seventeenth century, North America was vast and unconquered, ________ only at great cost.
(A) it promised riches but yielded its bounty
(B) promising riches but yielding its bounty
(C) by promising riches but by yielding its bounty
(D) its riches were promised but its bounty yielded
20. By the twenty-first century, the computer ________ a necessity in every home.
(A) became
(B) becoming
(C) has become
(D) will have become