TOEFL Skills 33-36

In several of his paintings, Edward Hicks depicted the Quaker farm in Pennsylvania where he spends his youth

• several of his paintings

• where

• spends

• youth

Florida has become the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845

• has become

• twenty-seventh

• state

• in the

After last week's meeting, the advertising department quickly realized that the product will need a new slogan

• last week's

• realized

• will

• need

John F. Kennedy's grand father, John F. Fitzgerald, serves two terms as the mayor of Boston in the beginning of the twentieth century

• Kennedy's

• serves

• as the

• in the beginning

Fort Ticonderoga, a strategically important fortification during the Revolution, had since been reconstructed and turned into a museum

• had

• been

• reconstructed

• turned

In making their calculations, Institute researches assume that the least costly form of energy would be used

• making

• the least costly

• would

• used

A twenty-one-year-old man became the second casualty yesterday when he loses control of his struck

• became

• when

• loses

• control

Most people had written with quill pens until pens with metal points become popular in the middle of the nineteenth century

• had

• written

• pens until pens

• become

In a determined drive to pare its debt, Time Warner is launching a stock offering plan that would potentially raise $2.8 billion

• determined

• its debt

• stock offering

• would potentially raise

The formula used in the study calls for either peroxide or metaldehyde, but metaldehyde was not always available

• used

• for either

• but

• was