TOEFL Practice - Structure

Choose the best answer.

__________ most important event in San Francisco’s history was the disastrous earthquake and fire

of 1906.

• The

• It was the

• That the

• There was a

Choose the best answer.

Vegetables are an excellent source _____ vitamins.

• of

• has

• where

• that

Choose the best answer.

Microscopes make small things appear larger than _____.

• really are

• are really

• are they really

• they really are

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The city of Montreal _____ over 70 square miles.

• covers

• that covers

• covering

• is covered

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Janet Collins’s struggle to make a place for herself in ballet is the kind of a life story _____ a fascinating novel might be written.

• of

• by

• for whom

• about which

Choose which part is incorrect

How many people know that the Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883, were the world’s first suspension bridge?

• many

• built

• were

• bridge

Choose which part is incorrect

Anna Maxwell’s gift for organization was exemplified

by her service while the Spanish-American War

in 1898.

• gift

• organization

• exemplified

• while

Choose which part is incorrect

When a severe ankle injury forced herself to give up

reporting in 1926, Margaret Mitchell began writing

her novel, Gone with the Wind.

• severe

• injury

• herself

• began

Choose which part is incorrect

Anne Elizabeth McDowell is best remembered for

a weekly journal, Woman’s Advocate, who she

launched in January 1855.

• best

• remembered for

• weekly

• who

Choose which part is incorrect

A ray of light passing through the center of a thin lens

keep its original direction.

• through

• the center

• keep

• original