PRE TEST TOEFL INTENSIVE

1. Charlie Parker, _____ was one of the creators of the music style called "bop."

• (A) a great jazz improviser who

• (B) to improvise great jazz

• (C) a great jazz improviser

• (D) improvised great jazz.

2. The world's deepest cave, Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees Mountains, is almost three times as deep _____.

• (A) as the Empire State Building is high.

• (B) That the Empire State Building is higher.

• (C) Is higher than the Empire State Building

• (D) And the Empire State Building's height.

3. When Columbus reached the New World, corn was the _____ in the Americas.

• (A) widely most grown plant.

• (B) Most widely grown plant

• (C) Most grown widely plant

• (D) Plant widely grown most.

4. Because kaolin shrinks in firing at a different rate than ordinary clay, _____ when creating pottery using both types of clay.

• (A) special handling is required

• (B) special handling required

• (C) a requirement of special handling

• (D) the required special handling

5. The ceremonial Chilcat blanket of the Northwest Tlingit Indians was generally _____ from cedar bark, wool, and goats' hair.

• (A) wove

• (B) to weave

• (C) weaving

• (D) woven

6. _____ composed traditionally has been a subject of debate among scholars.

• (A) Were ballads how

• (B) Ballads were how they

• (C) How ballads that were

• (D) How ballads were

7. Jupiter, the closest of the giant planets to Earth, has _____ solid surface and is surrounded by zones of intense radiation.

• (A) not

• (B) nor

• (C) no

• (D) neither.

8. The black-billed cuckoo has been known to steal eggs _____ to other birds.

• (A) belong

• (B) which belonging

• (C) which they belong

• (D) that belong

9. The purpose of phonetics is _____ an inventory and a description of the sounds found in speech.

• (A) to provide

• (B) provided

• (C) which provided

• (D) providing that

10. Earthquakes can damage a tree _____ violently, and it can take several years for the tree to heal.

• (A) to cause shaking

• (B) when shaking it causes

• (C) by causing it to shake

• (D) to cause to shake it