TOEFL Simulation Test

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are 2 types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type

Structure

Directions: Questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see 4 words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen

1. Amanda Way's career as a social reformer ____ in 1851 when, at an antislavery meeting in Indiana, she called for a state woman's rights convention.

(A) begin

(B) began

(D) to have begun

2. The celesta, an orchestral percussion instrument, resembles ___

(A) a small upright piano

(B) how a small upright piano

(D) as a small upright piano

3. Thomas Paine, _____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that identified the American colonies with the cause of liberty.

(A) writer of eloquent

(B) whose eloquent writing

(D) writing eloquent

4. Although beavers rarely remain submerged for more than two minutes, they can stay underwater ___ fifteen minutes before having to surface for air.

(A) as long

(B) as long as

(D) so long that

5. Protein digestion begins in the stomach ___ ends in the small intestine.

(A) while

(B) and

(D) because

6. When natural gas burns, its ___ into atoms of carbon and hydrogen.

(A) hydrocarbon molecules, breaking up

(B) broke up by hydrocarbon molecules

(D) broken up hydrocarbon molecules

7. _____ ballet dancers learn five basic positions for the arms and feet.

(A) All of

(B) Of every

(D) Every

8. Some colonies of bryozoans, small marine animals, form ___ with trailing stems.

(A) creeping colonies

(B) which colonies creep

(D) colonies creep

9. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued six women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1970's, ____

(A) of five winning them

(B) five winning of them

(D) winning five of them

10. Natural selection is defined as the process ___ the course of evolution by preserving those traits best adapted for an organism's survival.

(A) to which directs

(B) of which directs it

(D) that directs

11. ____ 363 miles between the cities of Albany and Buffalo in New York State, the Eric Canal helped link the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.

(A) The extension of

(B) The extension

(D) Extends

12. The chief sources of B12, a water-soluble vitamin ____ stored in the body, include meat, milk and eggs.

(A) is not

(B) that is not

(D) that not

13. ____ is rooted in experiments in iron and steel conducted in the nineteenth century.

(A) While the history of twentieth-century architecture

(B) The history of twentieth-century architecture

(D) Both twentieth-century architecture and its history

14. The primary source of energy for tropical cyclones is the latent heat released when ____

(A) does water vapor condense

(B) condensed water vapor

(D) the condensation of water vapor

15. Manufacturing is Canada's most important economic activity, ____17 percent of the workforce.

(A) engages

(B) and to engage

(D) engaging

Written Expression

Directions: In questions 16-40, each sentence has 4 underlined words or phrases. The underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

16. The outer layer of the heart, called the pericardium, forms a sac in what the heart lies.

(A) outer

(B) called

(D) what

17. Wood from the ash tree becomes extremely flexibly when it is exposed to steam

(A) Wood

(B) flexibly

(D) exposed

18. The ability to talk is one of the skill that make humans different from the rest of the animal world.

(A) talk

(B) skill

(D) animal world

19. In plane geometry, the sum of the internal angles of any triangle has always equal to 180 degrees.

(A) In

(B) the internal

(D) has

20. Polar bears are bowlegged and pigeon-toed, adaptations that enable this massive animals to maintain their balance as they walk

(A) bears

(B) this

(D) walk

21. Caves are formed by the chemical or action mechanical of water on soluble rock, by volcanic activity, and by earthquakes

(A) action

(B) mechanical

(D) earthquakes

22. Celery, an edible plant is having long stalks topped with feathery leaves, grows best in cool weather.

(A) edible

(B) is having

(D) best

23. The first fiction writer in the United States to achieve international fame was Washington Irving, who wrote many stories, included 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.

(A) writer

(B) achieve

(D) included

24. Three fundamental aspects of forest conversation are the protection of immature trees, the use of proper harvesting methods, and provide for an environment that supports reproduction.

(A) forest conversation

(B) of proper

(D) that supports

25. For each enzyme reaction there is an optimum temperature which maximum efficiency is achieved

(A) each

(B) there is

(D) efficiency

26. Adolescence is a transitional stage in human development from the beginning of puberty to the attainment of the emotion social, and physical maturity of adulthood.

(A) transitional stage

(B) the beginning

(D) adulthood

27. The people native to the northwest coast of North American have long be known for wood carvings of stunning beauty and extraordinary quality.

(A) people native

(B) be known

(D) of

28. Colonial efforts to manufacture glass at Jamestown and later attempts near Philadelphia and Boston—failed despite the abundant of fuel and good raw materials.

(A) to manufacture

(B) later attempts

(D) materials

29. The orbit of a celestial body is usually in the shape of ellipse.

(A) orbit

(B) body

(D) of ellipse

30. Chicago is the the third largest publishing center in the United States, exceeding only by New York City and San Francisco.

(A) the third

(B) publishing

(D) exceeding

31. North American bison differ from domestic cattle in have 14 rather than 13 pairs of ribs.

(A) differ from

(B) domestic

(D) rather than

32. Female sea turtles, before laying her eggs, swim as much as 2,000 kilometers to return to the beaches where they themselves were hatched

(A) her

(B) as much

(D) where

33. Water is the only substance that occur at ordinary temperatures in all three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.

(A) occur

(B) ordinary temperatures

(D) solid

34.s Despite the growth of manufacturing and other industries, the economy of the state of Texas has remained heavily dependence on oil and gas.

(A) Despite

(B) manufacturing

(D) dependence

35. Lyndon B. Johnson was the only United States President who oath of office was administered by a woman Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes.

(A) was

(B) who

(D) administered

36. It took more than fourteen years to carve the faces of four United States Presidents into the granite cliffs to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.

(A) It

(B) more than

(D) to

37. Charles Bullfinch was the architect who design the original red brick core of the State House in Boston.

(A) the architect

(B) design

(D) of the

38. Rarely has a technological development had as great an impact on as much aspects of social, economic, and cultural development as the growth of electronics.

(A) Rarely has

(B) much

(D) growth

39. Lowell, Massachusetts, known as the 'Spindle City' since 1822 when its first textile mills were built, attracted worldwide attention as textile center.

(A) since

(B) when

(D) as textile

40. Strange Victory, Sara Teasdale's smallest and most perfect collection of poems, appear in print in 1933.

(A) smallest

(B) most perfect

(D) appear

TOEFL Simulation Test

Section 2: Structure and Written Expression

Structure

Written Expression