TOEFL Exercise Skills 6-8

The president of the US appoints the cabinet members, ... appointments are subject to senate approval.

• their

• with their

• because their

• but their

The prisoners were prevented from speaking to reporters because ...

• not wanting the story in the papers

• the story in the papers the superintendent did not want

• the public to hear the story

• the superintendent did not want the story in the papers

Like Thomas Berger`s fictional character Little Big Man, Lauderdale managed to find himself where ... of important events took place.

• it was an extraordinary number

• there was an extraordinary number

• an extraordinary number

• an extraordinary number existed

... sucked groundwater from below, some parts of the city have begun to sink as much as ten inches annually.

• Pumps have

• As pumps have

• So pumps have

• With pumps

Case studies are the target of much skepticism in the scientific community, ... used extensively by numerous researchers

• they are

• are

• yet they

• yet they are

According to the hypothesis in the study, the monarchs pick up the magnetic field of the ... migrate by following magnetic fields

• target monarchs

• target since monarchs

• target since monarchs are

• target

... show the relations among neurons, they do not prelude the possibility that other aspects are imortant.

• Neural theories

• A neural theory

• Although neural theories

• However neural theories

... or refinanced, the lender will generally require setting up an escrow account to ensure the payment of property taxes and homeowner`s insurance.

• A home is

• A home is bought

• When a home

• When a home is bought

If ultraviolet radiation enters the Earth`s atmosphere, ... generally blocked by the ozone concentrated in the atmosphere.

• it

• it is

• so it is

• then it

Among human chromosomes, the Y chromosome is unusual ... most of the chromosome does not participate in meiotic recombination.

• in

• so

• and

• in that