TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 1-2): Choose the letter of the word or group of

words that best completes the sentence.

1. The North Platte River………. 5. The large carotid artery ………. to

from Wyoming into Nebraska. the main parts of the brain.
a. it flowed a. carrying blood
b. flows b. blood is carried
c. flowing c. carries blood
d. with flowing water d. blood carries

6. ………. Biloxi received its name

2. ……….grow closed to the ground
from a Sioux word meaning “first
in short Arctic summer.
people.”
a. Above tundra plants
a. The city of
b. Tundra plants
b. Located in
c. Tundra plants are found
c. It is in
d. For tundra plants
d. The tour included
3. Mark Twain ………. the years 7. ………. tea plant are small and
after the Civil War the Golden white.
Age. a. The
a. called b. On the
b. calling c. Having flowers the
c. he called d. The flowers of the
d. his calls
8. Any possible academic assistance
4. In 1867, ………. Alaska from the from taking stimulants ……….
Russians for $7.2 million. marginal at best.
a. purchased the United States a. it is
b. to purchase the United States b. there is
c. The United States’ purchase of c. is
d. The United States Purchased d. as

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9. The two biggest resort ……….
Arkansas are Hot Springs and
Eureka Springs.
a. in
b. towns in
c. towns are
d. towns are in

10. A computerized map of the

freeways using information
gathered by sensors embedded in
the pavement……….on a local
cable channel during the rush
hours.

a. airs
b. airing
c. air
d. to air

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TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 3-4): Choose the letter of the word or group of
words that best completes the sentence.

1. Multinational companies ………. c. for polish

it increasingly important to d. were polished
employ internationally
5. Pluto’s moon, Charon, ……….
acceptable brand names.
in a slightly elliptical path around
a. finding
the planet.
b. are finding
a. moving
c. they find
b. is moving
d. they are finding
c. it was moving
2. Simple sails were made from d. in its movement
canvas ………. over a frame.
6. Robert E. Lee……….the
a. a stretch
Confederate army to General
b. stretched
Grant in 1865 at the Appomattox
c. was stretched
Courthouse.
d. it was stretched
a. surrendered
3. In 1066, a bright comet……….in b. he surrendered
the sky attracted much attention. c. surrendering
a. was appearing d. surrender
b. appears
c. it appeared 7. The pituitary gland,……….the

d. appearing brain, releases hormones to

control other glands.
4. In the Stone Age, stone a. found below
tools……….with other rock b. it is found below
materials. c. its foundation below
a. polishing d. finds itself below
b. they polished

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8. At around two years of age,
many children regularly produce
sentences……….three or four
words.
a. are containing
b. containing
c. contain
d. contains

9. Techniques of breath control

form an essential part of
any………. Program to improve
the voice.
a. it trains
b. train
c. trains
d. training

10. The cornea is located under the

conjunctiva on ………. of the
eye.
a. the part is exposed
b. exposed the part
c. the exposed part
d. exposes the part

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TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 5-6): Choose the letter of the word or group of
words that best completes the sentence.

1. I forgot my coat, ………. I got a. good lubrication

very cold. b. well lubrication
c. and good lubrication
a. then
d. and well lubricated
b. so
c. later
5. Bears cannot see well……….
d. as a result
small eyes.
a. bears have
2. ………. with their surroundings,
b. because having
or they hide in crevices for
c. because they have
protection.
d. because of bears
a. Lobsters
b. Lobsters blend
6. ……….at the Isthmus of Panama,
c. Lobsters blending
so animals were able to migrate
d. Because lobsters blend
between North and South
America.
3. . ……….a ball-and-socket joint,
a. A land bridge existed
the elbow is a simple hinge joint.
b. When a land bridge existed
a. While the shoulder
c. A land bridge
b. While the shoulder is
d. With a land bridge
c. The shoulder is
d. The shoulder
7. ……….mostly made of granite, it
4. A car has several sections with
also contains some human-made
moving parts, ………. of those
materials.
parts is essential.

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 a. The Empire State Building electron microscope……….as
b. The Empire State Building is much as a million time.
c. Although the Empire State a. magnifying
Building is b. it magnifies
d. Although the Empire State c. can magnify
Building is built 10. If scientific estimates are
accurate, ……….with the Earth
about 20,000 years ago.
a. the Canon Diablo meteorite
8. Pressure differences make the collided
eardrum vibrate……….the ear. b. the collision of the Canon
a. enters the sound waves Diablo meteorite
b. as sound waves c. the Canon Diablo meteorite
c. sound waves enter colliding
d. as sound waves enter d. colliding the Canon Diablo
meteorite
9. An optical microscope magnifies
as much as 2,000 times, but an
d. magnify it

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 TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 7-8):
Choose the letter of the underlined
word or group of words that is not
correct.

1. Today, the true story of

……….at Little Bighorn remains
a mystery.
4. The first eyeglasses had convex
a. happened
lenses for the aged who ……….
b. it happened
farsighted.
c. what happened
a. had become
d. what happening
b. they had become
2. No single factor explains c. becoming
why……….vary so greatly d. it became
among individuals.
5. Chimney Rock,……….500 feet
a. aging affects
above the North Platte River, has
b. the effects of aging
eroded considerably in the last
c. aging has an effect
two centuries.
d. the aging effect
a. stands
3. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom b. it standing
………. as Jack Benny, was a c. it stands
famous comedian in vaudeville d. which stands
and on radio and television.
6. Minute Man Natuonal Historical
a. most people’s knowledge
Park is a monument to where
b. most people know
………….
c. knowing most people
a. the beginning of the
d. the knowledge of most
Revolutionary War
people
b. in the beginning of the
Revolutionary War

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 c. the Revolutionary War to b. the praise of readers
begin c. whom praisings
d. the Revolutionary War began d. whom readers praise

9. The first writing……….evidence

7. The process of photosynthesis of is on Mesopotamian clay
explains how……….able to use tablets.
the energy in sunlight to
a. we
manufacture foods from from the
b. that we
simple chemicals in air and
c. has
water.
d. that we have
a. Green plants
b. Green plants are 10. Genes, ……….the blueprints for
c. Planting greens cell construction, exist in tightly
d. With green plants are organized packages called
chromosomes.
8. Willa Cather is an author
……….for her evocative and a. are
memorable vision of frontier b. they are
prairie life. c. which
d. which are
a. whom readers

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TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 9-11): Choose the letter of the word or group of
words that best completes the sentence.

1. When …………. nests during 4. ………. behind government

spring nesting season, Canadian secrery for nearly half a cemtury,
geese are fiercely territorial. the Handford plant in central
a. building Washington produced plutonium
b. are building for the nuclear weapons of the
c. built Cold war.
d. are built a. It is hidden
b. Hidden
2. 1n 1870, Calvin, along with
c. Which is hidden
Adirondack hunter Alvah
d. The plant is hiding
Dunning, made the first known
ascent of Seward Mountain, 5. Until……….incorrect,
……….far from roads or trail. astronomers had assumed that the
a. A remote peak insides of white dwarfs were
b. It is a remote peak uniform.
c. A remote peak is a. they
d. Which a remote peak b. their proff
c. the astronomers recently
3. Kokanee salmon begin to proven
deteriorate and die d. recently proven
soon………..at the age of four.
6. ……… artifacts from the early
a. they spawn
Chinese dynasties, numerous
b. after spawning
archeologists have explored the
c. spawn
sourthern Silk Road.
d. spawned the salmon
a. They were searching for
b. It was a search for

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7. The National
……….Washington, says
federal efforts to
workplace smoking would limit
restaurants’ ability to respond to
the desires of their patrons.
a. Association in
b. Association is in
c. Association which is in
d. Association, based in
8. ……….in North
waterways less than a decade
ago, zebra mussels have already
earned a nasty reputation for their
expensive habit of
water pipes in the Great Lakes
area.
a.The first sighting
b. Although first sighted
c. Zebra mussels were first
sighted
d. First sighting
9. Small companies may take their
goods abroad for trade shows
without paying foreign value-
added taxes by acquiring ……….
an ATA carnet.
a. a document calls
b. a document called
d. Searching for
Restaurant c. calls a document
that d. called a document
regulate
10. Rarely……………located near
city lights or at lower elevations.
a. observatories are
b. are
c. in the observatories
d. are observatories
11. There are geographic, economic,
American and cultural reasons
why………..around the world.
a. diets differ
b. do diets differ
clogging c. are diets different
d. to differ a diet
12. Were……….millions of dollars
each replenishing eroding
beaches, the coastline would be
changing even more rapidly.
a. the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers not spending
b. the U.S Army Corps of
Engineers not spend
c. the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers does not spend
d. not spending the U.S Army
Corps of Engineers
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13. ………. test positive for antibiotics when tanker trucks arrive at milk
processing plant, according to federal law, the entire truckload must be
discarded.
a. Should milk
b. If milk
c. If milk is
d. Milk should

14. Located behind……….the two lacrimal glands.

a. each eyelid
b. is each eyelid
c. each eyelid are
d. each eyelid which is

15. In Hailey, the best-known lecturer was woman’s rights activist Abigail Scott
Duniway of Portland, Oregon, who could usually be persuaded to
speak ………. town visiting her son.
a. she was in
b. while in
c. while she was
d. was in

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