Review TOEFL XI - Structure and Written Expression

1. Beef cattle ...... of all livestock for economic growth in certain geographic regions.

• (A) the most are important

• (B) are the most important

• (C) the most important are

• (D) that are the most important

2. Still a novelty in the late nineteenth century, ....... limited to the rich'.

• (A) was

• (B) was photography

• (C) it was photography

• (D) photography was

3. The major cause ...... the pull of the Moon on the Earth.

• (A) the ocean tides are

• (B) of ocean tides is

• (C) of the tides in the ocean

• (D) the oceans' tides

4. Alaska found the first years of its statehood costly because it had to take over the expense of services......... previously by the federal government.

• (A) to provide

• (B) be provided

• (C) providing

• (D) provided

5. A computerized map of the freeways using information gathered by sensors embedded in the pavement ...... on a local cable channel during rush hours.

• (A) airs

• (B) airing

• (C) air

• (D) to air

6. The sapphire’s transparency to ultraviolet and infrared radiation makes ........ in optical instruments.

• (A) it is of use

• (B) it uses

• (C) it a useful

• (D) it useful

7. The dawn redwood appears ...... some 100 million years ago in northern forests around the world.

• (A) was flourished

• (B) having to flourished

• (C) to have flourished

• (D) have flourished

8. ………. vastness of the Grand Canyon, it is difficult to capture it in a single photograph.

• (A) While the

• (B) The

• (C) For the

• (D) Because of the

9. The first explorer ........ California by land was Jedediah Strong Smith, a trapper who crossed the southwestern deserts of the United States in 1826.

• (A) that he reached

• (B) reached

• (C) to reach

• (D) reaching it

10. …… the Canadian composer Barbara Pentland wrote four symphonies, three concertos, and an opera, among other works.

• (A) An artist who, prolific

• (B) Is a prolific artist

• (C) Prolific an artist

• (D) A prolific artist