TOEFL

Practice Test
Volume 1

1999
1. Andy Warhol was _________ in the Pop Art 7.-Woodrow Wilson______ as governor of NewJersey
movement who was known for his multi-image silk- before he was elected President of the United States in
screen paintings. 1912.
A. That one of a leading figure A. To have served
B. A leading figure B. Who has served
C. Leading figures C. serving
D. Who leads figures D. served

2.-Even with vast research, there is still a great deal that 8.- ________ fish in Great Salt Lake, but its waters do
is ______ known about the working of the human brain. contain small brine shrimp.
A. neither A. Why no
B. none B. No
C. no C. Not only
D. not D. There are no

3.-_____ the United States consists of many different 9. – An etude is a short musical composition written
immigrant groups, many sociologists believe there is especially______ a particular technique.
distinct national character. A. Enable students practicing
A. In spite of B. Enables students practicing
B. Despite C. Enable students to practice
C. Even though D. To enable students to practice.
D. Whether

4.- Typically, ____ in meadows or damp woods and 10.- Seldom _____ games been of practical use in
bloom in the spring. playing real games.
A. Wild violets grow A. Theories of mathematics
B. Wild violets growth B. Theorized as mathematics
C. Growing wild violets C. Has the mathematical theory of
D. The growth of wild violets D. The mathematical theory has

5.-The art works of Madlyn-Ann Woolwich are 11.- The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, derives its name
characterized by strong, dark colors and fine attention to from a Native American word _______ “bubbling
patterns of light _______ the viewer’s eye. springs”.
A. That attract A. meant
B. When attracted B. meaning
C. Which attraction C. that it meant
D. Attract to D. whose meaning

6.-A grass-eating, river dwelling mammal, the 12.-Jet propulsion involves _________ of air and fuel,
hippopotamus _____ to the pig. which forms a powerful exhaust.
A. Being related A. A mixture is ignited
B. Is related B. To ignite a mixture
C. relate C. A mixture of igniting
D. relating D. The ignition of a mixture

13.-Salt is manufactured in quantities that exceed 19.-Weather is the transitory expression of climate
those of the most, _______, other commercial that can change great from day to day or season to
chemicals. season.
 A. Of all not A. climate
B. Not if all are B. can
C. Are not all C. great
D. If not all D. or

14.-The United States consists of fifty states, 20.- Archaeological investigations indicate that
_______ has its own government. control of fire is an extremely old technical
A. Each of which attainment, though the time, place, and mode of his
B. Each they origin may never be learned.
C. They each A. investigations
D. Each of B. extremely
C. the time
D. his

15.-Though smaller than our solar system, a quasar, 21.- Paul Revere designing the metal plates on which
which looks like an ordinary star, emits more light the first paper money in the Was United States was
_______ galaxy. printed.
A. Than an entire A. designing
B. Entirely has B. which
C. That the entire C. first
D. Entirely tan D. in

16.- People usually wear clothing why two basic 22.- It was after shortly microscopes were introduced
purposes - warmth and decoration. at the beginning of the seventeenth century that
A. Usually wear microorganisms were actually sighted.
B. why A. After shortly
C. basic B. Were introduced
D. decoration
C. The beginning
D. actually

17.- In 1890 Kate-Hurd became medical director of 23.- Until the 1840’s, practically the only pioneers
the Bryn Mawr School for girls, one of a first schools who had ventured to the western United States were
in the United States to initiate a preventive health trappers and a little explorers.
program. A. Until
A. became B. practically
B. of the C. has ventured
C. a D. a little
D. to initiate
18.-Superior to all others woods for shipbuilding, teak 24.- Medical research indicates but large amounts of
is also used for furniture, flooring, and general histamines can be responsible for colds, hay fever,
construction. and other respiratory reactions.
A. others A. but
B. for B. large amounts
C. also C. can be
D. furniture D. colds
25.- Yttrium is a silvery, metallic element used in the 31.-The discovery of the magnetic effects of coils
made of red phosphors for television picture tubes. made possible to measure an electric current.
A. A silvery A. discovery
B. metallic B. magnetic
C. made C. made possible
D. televisión D. electric current
26.-Tropical forests exist close the equator, where 32.-Since the 1950’s the city of Baltimore has
both high temperatures and, abundant rainfall occur financed several major programs of urban renew,
year-round. including rebuilding the Inner Harbor.
A. Tropical A. Since
B. close B. major programs
C. where C. renew
D. abundant D. rebuilding
27.-The ease with which houseplants can grown 33.-For at least 4,000 years, Native Americans artists
causes to be popular among amateur horticulturists. adorned rocks, cliff walls, and caves in the American
A. With which Southwest with an amazing various of symbolic
B. Can grown figures.
C. To be A. At least
D. Among B. caves
C. various
D. figures
28.- Paintings of a religious, ceremonial, or history 34.-Animal researchers have identified many
character tend to elevate their subjects above the behavioral patterns associated with selection a place
level of ordinary existence. to live, avoiding predators, and finding food.
A. history A. associated
B. tend B. selection
C. their C. to live
D. ordinary D. predators
29.-According to classical musical tradition, the term 35.- Average world temperatures have risen on half a
“sonata” is given to those works are written for solo degree Celsius since the mid-nineteenth century.
piano or for a solo wind or stringed instrument. A. world temperature
A. According to B. on
B. musical C. a degree
C. Works are D. since
D. Instrument
30.-Precisely because photographs are produced by 36.-The plan connected the Hudson river with Lake
mechanical devices, a camera’s mages now seem to Erie by a canal was first proposed in the late
some artists the perfect means for expression the eighteenth century.
modern era. A. connected
A. are produced B. with
B. mechanical C. first
C. the perfect D. the
D. for expression
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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Answers:

1. D Skill 24: Parallelism with nouns

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