TOEFL, Section 2

Many American universities - - - - - as small, private colleges.

• begun

• beginning

• began

• for the beginning

In 1934, chemist Wallace Carothers produced a plastic which ... nylon.

• his call

• he called

• to call him

• calling

Yeast is an organic catalyst ... known to prehistoric humanity.

• was

• which was

• which it

• which

Stalactites are formed in caves by groundwater ... dissolved lime.

• it contains

• containing

• contains

• containment

Not only ... closed but also the adjoining roadways are completely blocked.

• the airport is

• the airport did

• is the airport

• did the airport

Alabama was occupied by the French and Spanish before ... to England in 1763.

• was ceded

• ceded to it

• being ceded

• ceded it

The loser the number of threads per-inch, the ... texture.

• loose fabric

• loser the fabric

• pabric has lost

• loose fabric

Students of economics take courses in such related fields as history, political science, and ...

• statistical

• statistics

• statistic

• statistician

When items appear to vanish gradually from short-term ...,the process of displacement is noted.

• memory

• memorial for

• in the memory

• memorize

An axiomatic assumption in physics holds that all matter has kinetic energy

- - - - - motion and mass.

• because its

• because of its

• because it is

• because of it