TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-13): Choose the letter of the word or group of

words that best completes the sentences. Page 101

1. the earliest system of 3. The Earths one-year revolution

writing. around the Sun changes how
A. The constitution of pictograms on one hemisphere or the other.
B. Pictograms on the constitution A. falling sunlight
C. Constitute the pictograms B. the fall of sun light
D. Pictograms constitute C. sunlight in the fall
2. At the temperatures absolute D. sunlight fall
zero, substances prossess minimal 4. Though sporadic interest in
energy. regional dialects for
A. approach centuries, the first large-scale
B. approaches systematic studies did not take
C. approaching place until the nineteenth century.
D. they approach A. has existed
B. it existed
C. has it existed
D. existing with it
Choose the letter of the underlined wor or group of words that is not correct.

___ 5. The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier.

A B C D
___ 6. The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it was made in France
A B C D
in the 1780s.
___ 7. The term Yanke was originally a nickname for people from New England,
A
but now anyone from the United States are referrred to as a Yankee.
B C D
___ 8. A network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched between the skin and the
A
Underlying muscles, supply blood to the face and sclap.
B C D
___ 9. Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest
A B C D
drought.
___ 10. At the end of the Revolution, most of the army units of the young nation was
A B
almost antirely disbanded, leaving a total national military force of 80 men in
C D
1784.
EXERCISE (Skills 9-10): Each of the following sentences contains more than one clause.
Underline the subjects once and the verbs twice. Circle the connectors. Then indicate if the
sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I). Page 91.
___ 1. My sisters prefer to eat food that have cooked themselves.
___ 2. The boat that hit the underwater rock sank.
___ 3. The car which he was driving could not possibly be his
___ 4. The children built a house in the tree that in the backyard.
___ 5. The cost of the trip which we wanted to take.
___ 6. The children are playing with the toys which their mother told them to put
away.
___ 7. The guests who were seated around the dinner table
___ 8. The stundents have to read all the chapters which are on the rest.
___ 9. I really do not like the artist which you like.
___ 10. The stones that they were set in the ring were quite valuable

TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 9-10): choose the letter of the word or group of words that best
completes the setence. Page 91-92

1. Modern humans, who first 4. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom

appeared about 600,000 years ago, as Jack Benny, was a famous
Homo Sapiens. commedian in vaudeville and on
A. calling radio and television.
B. were called A. most peoples knowledge
C. they called B. most people know
D. they were called C. knowing most people
2. The first writing evidence of D. the knowledge of most
is on Mesopotamian clay table. people
A. we 5. that hunted other animals
B. that we tended to have very narrow, sharp,
C. has curved claws.
D. that we have A. For dinosaurs
3. drought-resistant plants B. Dinosaurs are known
whice store water in fleshy tissue. C. Dinosaurs
A. Succulents are D. Like dinosaurs
B. Succulents 6. The first eyeglasses had convex
C. They are succulents lenses for the aged who
D. Succulents which are farsighted.
A. had become
B. they had become
C. becoming
D. it became
 7. Chimney Rock, 500 feet 9. Willa Cather is an author for
above the North Platte River, has her evocative and memorable
eroded considerably in the last two vision of frointier prairie life.
centuries. A. whom readers
A. stands B. the praise of readers
B. is standing C. whom praisings
C. it stands D. whom readers praise
D. which stands 10. Marss tiny moon Phobos is a
8. that accompany recurring small mountain of rock that
bouts of severe depression reduce from the asteroid belt by Marss
bone density. gravitational pull.
A. It changes hormones A. was probably captured
B. Hormonal changes B. it probably
C. The hormones change C. the probable capture
D. The change in hormones is D. probably the capture
TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-10): Choose the letter of the word or group of
words that best completes the sentence. Page 92-93.

1. is famaous as the home of 5. Since commercia risk, it has

the U.S. Naval Academy. to appeal to a large audience to
A. Annapolis justify its cost.
B. Because of Annapolis A. the face of the movie
C. Why Annapolis B. moving face
D. Because Annapolis C. a movie faces
2. Some scientists think be a D. to face a movie
planet but a moon of Neptune. 6. A current of the water known as
A. that Pluto does not seem the Gulf Stream comes up from the
B. not Pluto Gulf of Mexico, and then
C. Pluto that might not the North Atlantic toward Europe.
D. that Pluto might not A. it crosses
3. With of sophisticated oil B. crossing
lamps, elaborate tools were made C. with its crosses
to cut the wicks. D. crosses it
A. appeared 7. Systems the two symbol 0
B. the appearance and 1 are called binary number
C. the appearance was system.
D. it appeared A. use
4. Fort Union was the site of what B. they use
principal fur-trading post on the C. uses
upper Missouri River. D. using
A. the 8. Genes, the blueprints for
B. being the cell construction, exist in tightly
C. was the organized packages called
D. it was the chromosomes.
 A. are
B. they are
C. which
D. which are
9. The Earths atmosphere consist of
gases in place around the
Earth by gravitational pull of the
planet.
A. held
B. hold
C. it holds
D. the hold
10. Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated
with a number of composers
including Jerome Kern, whom
in writing the musical Show Boat.
A. joined
B. was joined
C. he joined
D. joining