WRITTEN EXPRESSION 101
TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-13): Choose the letter of the word or
group of words that best completes the sentence.
1 the carliest system of writing. 3, The Earth's one-year revolution
around the Sun changes how
‘on one hemisphere or the other.
(A) The constitution of pictograms
(B) Pictograms in the constitution
(C) Constitute the pictograms (A) falling sunlight
(D) Pictograms constitute (B) the fall of sunlight
(C) sunlight in the fall
2. At temperatures __ absolute zero, (D) sunlight falls
substances possess minitnal energy.
4, Though sporadic interest in regional
dialects __ for centuries, the first
large-scale systematic studies did not
take place until the nineteenth
century.
(A) has existed
(B) it existed
(C) has it existed
(D) existing with it
(A) approach
(B) approaches
(C) approaching
(D) they approach
Choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct.
5. The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier.
A B cD
——__ 6. The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it,
A B
was made in France
Cheep.
in the 1780s.
—— 7. The term “Yankee” was originally a nickname for people from New England,
A
but now anyone from the United States are referred to as a Yankee.
B Cc D
ed between the skin and the
—— 8. Anetwork of small arteries, mostly sands
Se
underlying muscles, supply blood to the face and scalp.
B oD
9. Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest
AB Cc D
drought.
10. At the end of the Revolution, most of the army units of the young nation was
A B
almost entirely disbanded, leaving a total national military force of 80 men
Ds
in 1784,