TOEFL TEST SAMPLE

In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and question on the recording, and then choose the best answer to the question. You should pay particular attention to passives.

1. (A) Her family just arrived.
(B) She must pack to go visit her family.
(C) She opened the door to greet her family.
(D) The box from her family was opened.

2. (A) He completed the report
(B) He’s coming to work on the report.
(C) The report is due tomorrow morning.
(D) The report still needs an infinite amount of work.

3. (A) The parents are in bed now.
(B) The children were allowed to stay up.
(C) The parents stayed away from the children.
(D) The children have gone to bed.

4. (A) He got lost.
(B) The door was not in front of the house.
(C) He did not need a key to the door.
(D) The key was lost.

5. (A) He picked out some flowered wallpaper for the dining room.
(B) The dining room table has flowers painted on it.
(C) The flowers were placed on the table.
(D) The flowers were grown in the dining room.

6. (A) Nothing is really the matter.
(B) She stole some money.
(C) She left her purse in the store.
(D) Someone took her purse.

TOEFL Exercise 3 (Structure questions)

Previous TOEFL exercise: TOEFL Exercise 2

Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.

1. Air near the equator ____ a faster west-to-east motion than air farther from the equator.

(A) to have

(B) it has

(C) has

(D) having

2. About 4000 B.C., humans discovered that ____ obtained from special rocks called ores.

(A) metals could be

(B) the ability of metallic

(C) possibly metallic

(D) could metals be

3. ____ quickly after an animal dies.

(A) In the degradation of DNA

(B) Degrading DNA

(C) DNA degrades

(D) For DNA to degrade

4. ____ aerodynamic design has contributed greatly to reducing resistance to motion.

(A) Improved

(B) It improves

(C) Improvement

(D) They improve

5. The southern part of Florida is much warmer in the winter than the northern part, so more _____ to the south.

(A) flocking tourists

(B) touring flocks

(C) flocks of tourists

(D) tourists flock

6. The Moon’s gravity pulls water on the near side of the Earth toward the Moon, and this is what _____ tides to occur.

(A) the cause

(B) causes

(C) causing

(D) the cause of

7. ____, they pick up fragments of rock which become frozen into the base of the ice.

(A) Glaciers move

(B) Glaciers moving

(C) They were glaciers

(D) As glaciers move

8. The tape measure first evolved from ____ used by the Egyptians.

(A) the chains measure

(B) the chains are measured

(C) the chains are measuring

(D) the measuring chains

9. A typical Atlantic hurricane starts as a low pressure system near _____.

(A) Africa coasts

(B) coast to Africa

(C) the African coast

(D) Africa has a coast

10. It is not clear whether the subdivisions of the neocortex _____ units.

(A) individual

(B) are individual

(C) they are individual

(D) individually

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