TOEFL Structure (ETS Practice Test A)

_____ of classical ballet in the United States began around 1830.

• To teach

• Is teaching

• It was taught

• The teaching

Mason bees are solitary bees, which means _____ in colonies like honeybees or bumblebees.

• do not live

• when they do not live

• that they do not live

• that do not live

Long before the advent of written literature, _____ their myths and stories in oral poems told by successive generations.

• people recorded

• recording people

• people’s recordings

• people who recorded

Comparative anatomy is _____ classification of both plants and animals.

• the basis for

• for basics

• the basis that

• the basically

Although legend has it that the Pilgrims first set foot in America on Plymouth Rock in 1620, _____ documentary evidence confirming this.

• no

• still is no

• there is no

• but no

Despite its fishlike form, the whale is _____ and will drown if submerged too long.

• an animal breathes air that

• an animal that breathes air

• an animal breathes air

• that an animal breathes air

Clouds _____ in warm air rises, cools, and condenses.

• when form water vapor

• form when water vapor

• form vapor water when

• vapor form when water

Portland, _____ , is located primarily on two hilly peninsulas overlooking Casco Bay and its many islands.

• which Maine’s largest city

• Maine’s largest city where

• is Maine’s largest city

• Maine’s largest city

Mars, the so-called red planet, is actually colored red by iron oxide and other impurities _____ the whole surface.

• that cover

• in which are covered

• that they cover

• and covered

The 1903 film The Great Train Robbery was the first significant film in which the classic western story’s formula of crime and retribution _____ .

• was used

• to be used

• used

• had used