TOEFL Structure (Problems with the Use of the Verb)

In several of his paintings^(A), Edward Hicks depicted the Quaker farm in Pennsylvania where^(B) he spends^(C) his^(D) youth.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Florida has become^(A) the twenty-seventh^(B) state^(C) in the^(D) United States on March 3, 1845.

• A

• B

• C

• D

After last week's^(A) meeting, the advertising department quickly realized^(B) that the product will^(C) need^(D) a new slogan.

• A

• B

• C

• D

John F. Kennedy's^(A) grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, serves^(B) two terms as the^(C) mayor of Boston in the beginning^(D) of the twentieth century.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Fort Ticonderoga, a strategically important fortification during the Revolution, had^(A) since been^(B) reconstructed^(C) and turned^(D) into a museum.

• A

• B

• C

• D

In making^(A) their calculations, Institute researchers assume that the least costly^(C) form of energy would^(C) be used^(D).

• A

• B

• C

• D

A twenty-one-year-old man became^(A) the second casualty yesterday when^(B) he loses^(C) control^(D) of his truck.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Most people had^(A) written^(B) with quill pens until pens^(C) with metal points become^(D) popular in the middle of the nineteenth century.

• A

• B

• C

• D

In a determined^(A) drive to pare its debt^(B), Time Warner is launching a stock offering^(C) plan that would potentially raise^(D) $2.8 billion.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The formula used^(A) in the study calls for either^(B) peroxide or metaldehyde, but^(C) metaldehyde was^(D) not always available.

• A

• B

• C

• D