TOEFL (Structure and Written Expression)

Gas particles move ______ when the gas is hot than whenit is cold.

• fast
• faster
• as fast
• fastest

The different colors of ______ the different temperatures of the stars’ surfaces

• the stars indicate
• indicating stars
• the indication that the stars
• stars indicating that

As a country develops from an agricultural to an industrial economy, the attitudes, values, structures, and functions of the family ______.

• the change
• which change
• change
• changing

Only a few sounds produced by insects are heard by humans ______ most of the sounds are pitched either too low or too high.

• in spite of
• because
• as a result of
• instead of

The ordinary chair ______ in countless shapes, sizes, styles, and materials.

• has been made
• to be made
• is making
• been making

For 125 years after ______ initial use at Harvard in 1642, the Bachelor of Arts degree was the only degree awarded by colleges in the United States.

• its
• it was
• being
• when

Since the Sun illuminates half the surface of the Moon, only half the surface ______ can be seen from the Earth

• most
• much
• with more
• at most

The novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson, ______ , have special interest for their regional settings.

• in a nineteenth-century writer
• a nineteenth-century writer
• the nineteenth-century writing
• wrote about the nineteenth century

______ Oklahoma is important as a farming state, it is even more important for its rich oil deposits.

• By
• Although
• In order for
• Concerning

The upper part in a harmonic arrangement ______ by mixed voices is usually written for a soprano voice.

• to be sung
• as singing
• to be singing
• was sung