TOEFL PREPARATION

PRE-TEST TOEFL
1. In the early 1900s, Eastman_______ inexpensive Brownie box
cameras.
a. It developed
b. It was developed
c. Developed
d. Developed
2. _____ the discovery of the fossilized remnants of tides in one-billion-
year-old rocks.
a. Geological reports
b. Geological report
c. The reports of geologists
d. Geologists’ reports
3. The Brooklyn Bridge _____ took thirteen years to complete.
a. In New York
b. Is in New York
c. It is in New York
d. Which New York
4. Genes control all of he physical ____ we inherit
a. That traits
b. That are traits
c. Traits that
d. Traits are that
5. Indigo can be extracted from a plant, and then ____ to dye cloth blue.
a. It
b. Using
c. Using it
d. It can be used
6. _____ in the United States spends 900 hours per year in class and
1,170 hours in front of the television.
a. The average third-grader
b. The third grade is average
c. There are three grades
d. Three average grades
7. Researchers have begun studying what ____is on human circadian
rhythms.
a. It is the effect of light
b. The light affects
c. Is affecting the light
d. The effect of light
8. If calcium oxide remains exposed to air, ____ to calcium carbonate.
e. Turning
f. Turns
g. It turns
h. The turn
9. Some early batteries used concentrated nitric acid, ____ gave off
poisonous fumes.
a. They
b. Then they
c. But they
d. But they had
10. The soundproduced by an object _____ in a periodic way involves more
thatn the simple sine wave.
e. It vibrates
f. Vibrating
g. Is vibrating
h. Vibrates
11. Prior to discovery of anesthetics in 1846, surgery was done ___ was
still conscious.
a. While the patient
b. The patient left
c. During the patient’s
d. While patiently
12. The drastic decline of the beaver helps to illustrate what ____ to the
ecosystems of the North American continent.
e. Happening
f. The happening
g. Has happened
h. About happening
13. The use of shorthand died out in the Middle Ages because of ___
with witchcraft.
a. The association was imagined
b. Associate the imagination
c. Imagine the association
d. The imagined association
14. A yacht is steered with a rudder, ____ the flow of water that passes
the hull
e. Which deflecting
f. Deflects
g. It deflects
h. Which deflects
15. For top speed and sudden acceleration, the accelerator pump feeds
additional gasoline from the float chamber into ___ above the
venture tube.
a. The air flows
b. The air flow
c. The air is flowing
d. Flows the air
16. In 1732, coach travellers could got from New York to Philadelphia in
about two days.
17. Some of the District of Columbia are on low-lying, marshy ground.
18. Georgia’s economy is based main on agriculture.
19. The Paul Revere House was built in 1676, and today its the oldest
wooden building in Boston.
20. Conifers such as cedars, firs, and pines bear its seeds in cones.
21. A done is a semispherical structures on top of a building.
22. Succulents suck up water in just a few hour, but they can store it in
their stems for months.
23. Flying buttresses enabled builders to put up tall but thinnest stone
walls.
24. Weather forecasters monitor barometric pressures and record they
on charts as isobars.
25. In many languages, the forms of a word varies to express such
contrasts as number, gender, and tense.
26. A milky way object that erupted in the constellation Scorpius has
provides information to astronomers since July.
27. Much fossils are found in coal-bearing rocks.
28. When salt is added to ice, this mixture becomes coldly enough to freeze
ice cream.
29. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Long Island was chiefly
an agricultural region with fishing, whaling, and build ships as the
important industries.
30. No one who has studied the Battle of Little Bighorn know the exact
route that Custer and his detachment took.
31. The folktales which the brothers Grimm had collecting were translated
into English in 1823.
32. In our solar system, nine planets, fifty-seven moons, several dozen
comets, several million asteroids, and billions of meteorites have so far
been discover.
33. From the 1850s until after the turn of the century, many of America’s
super-rich families made Newport his favourite summer resort.
34. Mars may looks red because it is covered with a layer of soft red iron
oxide.
35. The radioactive substances that pose the greatest harm to humanity
have neither very short or very long half lives.
36. A robin cocks its head to peer at a worm with one eyes and not to hear
it, as was once thought.
37. Film sound is often record by an analog system which, like the compact
disc, uses light.
38. The scribes of the Middle Ages used quill pens to produce their high
decorated manuscripts.
39. The principles of physics described by Christian Doppler in 1842 for the
movement of stars has been adapted to evaluate the movement of
blood within the heart.
40. The pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were the first vehicle of humankind
to venture beyond the limits of ours solar system.