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.
Monday, 8 August 2011
TOEFL TEST SAMPLE
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
TOEFL Exercise 3 (Structure questions)
Saturday, 21 May 2011
TOEFL Test Sample : Listening Comprehension
Previous TOEFL Test Sample: TOFL Test Sample (Listening)
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 negative expressions.
1. (A) He was on time.
(B) He’s sorry he was late.
(C) He doesn’t know why he was late.
(D) He hasn’t come there lately
2. (A) She’s sorry she brought the book.
(B) She remembered to say she was sorry.
(C) She forgot the book.
(D) She didn’t remember the ring.
3. (A) The baby’s nodding off.
(B) The baby’s asleep.
(C) The baby’s on the way home.
(D) The baby’s just waking up.
4. (A) He wants to go by himself.
(B) He isn’t going on the trip.
(C) He has a large number of friends.
(D) He isn’t traveling alone.
5. (A) She does not have time to park the car.
(B) She has some free time.
(C) She has not been to the park in a while.
(D) The park is too wild.
6. (A) He closed the windows.
(B) It didn’t rain.
(C) The windows were open during the storm.
(D) He saw the rain through the windows.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
TOEFL Test Sample 4 (Structure questions)
Saturday, 26 March 2011
TOEFL Test Sample - Structure questions
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
TOEFL Exercise 2 (Structure Questions)
Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. A spacecraft is freed from friction ____ launched into space.
(A) it
(B) it is
(C) after is
(D) after it is
2. ____ with their surroundings, or they hide in crevices for protection.
(A) Lobsters
(B) Lobsters blend
(C) Lobsters blending
(D) Because lobsters blend
3. _____ a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow is a simple hinge joint.
(A) While the shoulder
(B) While the shoulder is
(C) The shoulder is
(D) The shoulder
4. A car has several sections with moving parts, ......... of those parts is essential.
(A) good lubrication
(B) well lubricated
(C) and good lubrication
(D) and well lubricated
5. Bears cannot see well _____ small eyes.
(A) bears have
(B) because having
(C) because they have
(D) because of bears
6. _____ at the Isthmus of Panama, so animals were able to migrate between North and South America.
(A) A land bridge existed
(B) When a land bridge existed
(C) A land bridge
(D) With a land bridge
7. ...........mostly made of granite, it also contains some human-made materials.
(A) The Empire State Building
(B) The Empire State Building is
(C) Although the Empire State Building is
(D) Although the Empire State Building is built
8. Pressure differences make the eardrum vibrate _____ the ear.
(A) enters the sound waves
(B) as sound waves
(C) sound waves enter
(D) as sound waves enter
9. An optical microscope magnifies as much as 2,000 times, but an electron microscope ..........as much as a million times.
(A) magnifying
(B) it magnifies
(C) can magnify
(D) magnify it
10. If scientific estimates are accurate, ___ _ with the Earth about 20,000 years ago.
(A) the Canon Diablo meteorite collided
(B) the collision of the Canon Diablo meteorite
(C) the Canon Diablo meteorite colliding
(D) colliding the Canon Diablo meteorite
11. _____ of the Pueblo Indians centered on intensive agriculture.
(A) The economic activity
(B) Because the economic activity
(C) The economy was active
(D) When the economic activity
12. In popular terminology, any long snowstorm with ____ is called a blizzard.
(A) the amount of wind is large
(B) a large amount of wind
(C) it is very windy
(D) very windy
13. Nuclear power can be produced by fusion, _____ produced by fission.
(A) it can also be
(B) it can also
(C) and it can also be
(D) and it can also
14. _____, igneous rocks may be changed into gneisses.
(A) The temperature is high
(B) If the temperature is high
(C) High temperatures
(D) If high temperature
15. In 1905, Henry Flagler _____ his plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railway out across the sea to Key West.
(A) it was announced
(B) announcement
(C) the announcement of
(D) announced
16. The sound ____ from a vibrating object will be high or low depending on the number of vibrations.
(A) Comes
(B) it is coming
(C) is coming
(D) coming
17. During the late 1880s, urban streetcars were electrified through ______ large motors.
(A) they used
(B) used
(C) the use of
(D) when they used
18. _____ almost 274 square miles, but 96 percent of the park is under water.
(A) Although Biscayne National Park encompasses
(B) Biscayne National Park encompasses
(C) Biscayne National Park encompassing
(D) Biscayne National Park
19. Legislation _______ in 1916 and 1917 gave the Wilson administration authority to intervene in the national economy if it proved necessary.
(A) it was passed
(B) was passed
(C) passed
(D) passes
20. Because a family of birds set up housekeeping in Joel Chandler Harris’s mailbox when the birds were in need of a place to stay, ______ the Wren’s Nest.
(A) the home is named
(B) so the home is named
(C) naming the home
(D) the home’s name
21. Today, the true story of _____ at Little Bighorn remains a mystery.
(A) Happened
(B) it happened
(C) what happened
(D) what happening
22. For more than a decade, ____ that certain species are becoming scarce.
(A) the warnings of bird-watchers
(B) warn the bird-watchers
(C) birdwatchers have warned
(D) a warning for bird-watchers
23. Early in the eighteenth century, Halley accurately predicted when ____ of 1682 would return.
(A) the comet
(B) was the comet
(C) the comet was
(D) had the comet
24. No single factor explains why _____ vary so greatly among individuals.
(A) aging affects
(B) the effects of aging
(C) aging has an effect
(D) the aging effect
25. Lack of clarity about ____ the party in the coming year will be removed at the party’s convention.
(A) will lead
(B) lead
(C) they will lead
(D) who will lead
26. We do not ____ the bow drill was first developed for woodworking or fire making.
(A) whether it
(B) know whether it
(C) know whether
(D) sure whether
27. Minute Man National Historical Park is a monument to where _____
(A) the beginning of the Revolutionary War
(B) in the beginning of the Revolutionary War
(C) the Revolutionary War to begin
(D) the Revolutionary War began
28. Tests on the colors of cars were conducted at the University of California to determine _____ the safest colors for cars.
(A) which
(B) which were
(C) if
(D) how were
29. The National Institute of Dental Research estimates _____ in fluoridated areas have about 25 percent less tooth decay than children elsewhere.
(A) for school children
(B) school children’s
(C) that school children
(D) that for school children
30. The process of photosynthesis explains how ____ able to use the energy in sunlight to manufacture foods from the simple chemicals in air and water.
(A) green plants
(B) green plants are
(C) planting greens
(D) with green plants are
Source: TOEFL Exercise 2 (structure questions)
Sunday, 20 March 2011
TOEFL Exercise 1 (Structure Questions)
Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.
1. Mark Twain _____ the years after the Civil War the “Gilded Age.”
(A) called
(B) calling
(C) he called
(D) his calls
2. Early ____ toes instead of hooves on their feet.
(A) horses
(B) had horses
(C) horses had
(D) horses having
3. ______ grow close to the ground in the short Arctic summer.
(A) Above tundra plants
(B) Tundra plants
(C) Tundra plants are found
(D) For tundra plants
4. In 1867, ____ Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.
(A) purchased the United States
(B) to purchase the United States
(C) the United States’ purchase of
(D) the United States purchased
5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the specialization of _____.
(A) occupations
(B) occupies
(C) they occupied
(D) it occupied them
6. The large carotid artery ____ to the main parts of the brain.
(A) carrying blood
(B) blood is carried
(C) carries blood
(D) blood carries
7. _____ radio as the first practical system of wireless telegraphy.
(A) Marconi’s development
(B) The development by Marconi
(C) Developing Marconi
(D) Marconi developed
8. In 1975, the first successful space probe to ____ beginning to send information back to Earth.
(A) Venus
(B) Venus the
(C) Venus was
(D) Venus it was
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. NASA’S Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center _________ control center for the Mercury Gemini, and Apollo space flights.
(A) it was at the
(B) it was the
(C) was the
(D) the
11. The first _____ appeared during the last period of the dinosaurs’ reign.
(A) flowers are plants
(B) plants have flowers
(C) plants flowers
(D) flowering plants
12. The earliest medicines _____ from plants of various sorts.
(A) obtaining
(B) they obtained
(C) were obtained
(D) they were obtained
13. Simple sails were made from canvas _____ over a frame.
(A) a stretch
(B) stretched
(C) was stretched
(D) it was stretched
14. Pluto’s moon, Charon, _____ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.
(A) moving
(B) is moving
(C) it was moving
(D) in its movement
15. Techniques of breath control form an essential part of any _____ program to improve the voice.
(A) it trains
(B) train
(C) trains
(D) training
16. Robert E. Lee ____ the Confederate army to General Grant in 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.
(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
(C) surrendering
(D) surrender
17. The pituitary gland, _____ the brain, releases hormones to control other glands.
(A) found below
(B) it is found below
(C) its foundation below
(D) finds itself below
18. At around two years of age, many children regularly produce sentences _____ three or four words.
(A) are containing
(B) containing
(C) contain.
(D) contains planet.
19. Multinational companies ________ it increasingly important to employ internationally acceptable brand names.
(A) finding
(B) are finding
(C) they find
(D) they are finding
20. 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
21. _____ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 and 750.
(A) The Polynesians
(B) The Polynesians arrived
(C) Because of the Polynesians
(D) It was the Polynesians
22. In 1066, a bright comet _____ in the sky attracted much attention.
(A) was appearing
(B) appears
(C) it appeared
(D) appearing
23. In some daguerreotype cameras, _____ through a hole in the back of the box.
(A) the objects view
(B) the object was viewed
(C) from the view of the object
(D) viewed the object
24. In the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.
(A) polishing
(B) they polished
(C) for polish
(D) were polished
25. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic ____ Savannah, in 1819.
(A) was the
(B) it was the
(C) the
(D) in it the
26. The Earth’s plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth _____ faults.
(A) were called
(B) calls
(C) called
(D) it was called
27. The first plant-like organisms probably _____ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years ago.
(A) life
(B) living
(C) lived
(D) it was living
28. In male pattern baldness, ______strongly influences the degree of hair loss.
(A) heredity
(B) inherited
(C) inherits
(D) heredity has
29. In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles ______attempt to explain America’s belief in flying saucers.
(A) makes a fascinating
(B) making a fascinating
(C) fascination with making
(D) fascination made a
30. The irregular coastline of _____ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the Cape Cod peninsula in the southeast.
(A) Massachusetts
(B) Massachusetts is
(C) Massachusetts it is
(D) Massachusetts on
Source: TOEFL Exercise 1 (Structure questions).
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Listening TOEFL Test Sample 1
1. (A) The dance was fun.
(B) It was a good time to dance.
(C) She thinks the man is such a good dancer.
(D) Tonight is the last time to dance.
2. (A) She’s quite thirsty.
(B) She’ll be ready in a half hour.
(C) She needs to leave now.
(D) She was ready thirty minutes ago.
3. (A) The woman should teach the class herself.
(B) The woman should see a psychiatrist.
(C) It’s a good idea to speak with the instructor.
(D) He would like to discuss psychology with the woman.
4. (A) She has a starring role.
(B) She has not found a job yet.
(C) She found the lost dog.
(D) She just began working.
5. (A) He shares everything he has.
(B) He has to find his lost shirt.
(C) He is climbing the stairs to the apartment.
(D) He has to get a roommate.
6. (A) His vacation is full of activities.
(B) In autumn he’ll have a vacation.
(C) He can’t have a vacation because he suffered a fall.
(D) He’s foolish to take a vacation now.
7. (A) The book was very enjoyable.
(B) It was unpleasant to get rid of the bugs.
(C) She only reads when it is quiet.
(D) It is pleasant to ride a bike.
