TOEFL skills 1-5

The planet Mercury ______ rotations during every two trips around the Sun.

• three complete

• completes three

• the completion of three

• completing three of the

In prehistoric ________ of western Utah was covered by Lake Bonneville.

• times, a large part

• times, there was a large part

• part of the time

• for large parts of time

Most slang terms are simply old words ________ additional new meanings.

• give

• given

• are given

• they are given

The Caldecott Medal, ________ for the best children's picture book, is awarded each January.

• a prize

• which prize

• is a prize which

• is a prize

The horn of the rhinoceros consists of a cone of tight bundles of keratin ________ from the epidermis.

• grow

• grows

• growing

• they grow

Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca ________ of Humphrey Bogart's more famous roles.

• they are two

• two of them are

• two of them

• are two

A stock ________ at an inflated price is called a watered stock.

• is issued

• issued

• it is issued

• which issued

________ with the largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.

• In the language

• The language is

• The language

• About the language

________ given to the various types of microscopic plants and animals found in water.

• Named plankton

• The name of plankton

• Plankton's name

• Plankton is the name

The 1980 explosion of ________ the first volcanic eruption in the continental United States in over 60 years.

• Mount St. Helens

• was Mount St. Helens

• it was Mount St. Helens

• Mount St. Helens was