TOEFL Junior Practice - Language form and meaning - qs 10-25

Questions 10-13 refer to the following announcement.

______________ from Barksdale High School won this year’s

regional mathematics competition. Ellen Murphy was among ten finalists in

• Because a student

• Being a student

• It was a student

• A student

11. the last round of the competition. The final question was a very______________________ algebra problem. The first student to answer the question correctly was named

• (A) wide

• (B) difficult

• (C) physical

• (D) powerful

12. named ____________ One student finished the problem

• (A) the winner.

• (B) is the winner.

• (C) being the winner.

• (D) will be the winner.

13._____________Ms. Murphy, but his answer was incorrect. Ms. Murphy solved the problem correctly and took the grand prize.

• (A) as fast

• (B) fastest

• (C) to be fast

• (D) faster than

Questions 14-17 refer to the following part of a short story.

When Dan knocked on the door of the old gray house, he was a little 14.________________ His friends at school had said that the woman who lived in

• (A) total.

• (B) funny.

• (C) foreign.

• (D) nervous.

15. the house was unfriendly, but Dan was sure that _______ in his yard was hers. He wanted to take it to her.

“Hello,” a woman’s voice responded to his knock. “Who is it?”

• (A) finding the cat

• (B) the cat he had found

• (C) he had found the cat

• (D) the cat had been found

16. “Hi. I’m your neighbor from down the street,” Dan said ______________ she opened the door a few centimeters. “Is this cat yours?”

“Oh, my goodness,” the woman said with a big smile. She pulled the door

open wide. “Yes, this is Daisy, and I’ve been worried about her! Thank you so

• (A) as

• (B) that

• (C) which

• (D) during

17. much for_______her back!”

• (A) bring

• (B) brings

• (C) brought

• (D) bringing

Questions 18-25 refer to the following notice.

18. ____________ next Tuesday, the science building will be under (19.) construction

• (A) Begins

• (B) Beginning

• (C) Is beginning

• (D) To have begun

19. construction. Workers will____________________ repairs to the outside of the building for approximately four weeks.

• (A) making

• (B) be made

• (C) be making

• (D) been making