Pre-Test of TOEFL Structure

The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it encouraged others to attempt .................. .

• original themes

• to original themes

• that were original themes

• how original themes

Despite its fishlike form, the whale is ...... and will drown if submerged too long.

• an animal that breathes air

• an animal breathes air that

• an animal breathes air

• that an animal breathes air

The saguaro, found in desert regions in the southwestern United States, ...... cactus in the world.

• is the largest

• the largest

• that is the largest

• the largest that is a

Lucy Stone, ...... first feminists in the United States, helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

• one of the

• the one

• who was the

• another

......, including climate, mineral content, and the permanency of surface water, wetlands may be mossy, grassy, scrubby, or wooded.

• Depending on many factors

• Many factors depending on

• Factors depending on many

• On many factors depending

Duke Ellington's orchestra, ...... his own often complex compositions, made many innovations in jazz.

• playing

• he played

• that it played

• was playing

The term "ice age" refers to any of several periods of time when glaciers covered considerably more of Earth's surface .................. .

• than they do today

• as is today

• than today is

• that today

From colonial times, United States property owners agreed to tax themselves on the theory ...... directly from services that the government could provide.

• that property owners benefited

• property owners benefited so that

• why property owners benefited

• that if property owners benefited

Helium is not flammable and, next to hydrogen, is ...... .

• the lightest gas known

• known the lightest gas

• lightest the known gas

• the known gas lightest

Wild eagles that survive to adulthood are believed ...... from 20 to 30 years.

• to live

• live

• they live

• their living