TOEFL Practice lll

INTRODUCTION: Choose the correct answer to complete each sentence.

Resin is a substance that ______ in water.

• (A) does not dissolve

• (B) do not dissolve

• (C) not dissolving

• (D) not dissolved

______ hardiness, daylilies can be cultivated particulary easy.

• (A) Their

• (B) Since their

• (C) It is their

• (D) Because of their

A biologist does not merely describe organisms, but tries to learn ______ act as they do.

• (A) what cause them to

• (B) causes them to what

• (C) what to cause them

• (D) what does to them

Vaporization in connection with general ______ has a marked effect on long-term climate.

• (A) atmospheric conditions that

• (B) conditinos are atmospheric

• (C) are atmosphreric conditions

• (D) atmospheric conditions

The oldest city in the state ______ .

• (A) the Hudson's Bay Company founded Vancouver, Washington, in the early ninteen century

• (B) the founding of Vancouver, Washington, by the Hudson's Bay Company in the early ninteen century

• (C) Vancouver, Washington, was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company in the early ninteen century

• (D) in the early ninteen century with the founding of Vancouver, Washington, by the Hudson's Bay Company

______ raw materials into useful products is called manufacturing.

• (A) Transform

• (B) Transforming

• (C) Being transformed

• (D) When transforming

Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the deaf ______ of the telephone.

• (A) than inventing

• (B) than as the inventor

• (C) the invention

• (D) as the inventor

Because its leaves remaing green long after being picked, rosemary ______ associated with the idea of remembrance.

• (A) and becomes

• (B) became

• (C) becoming

• (D) to become

______ that of iron construction, the technology for constructing buildings with reinforced concrete developed rather rapidly.

• (A) Dissimilar

• (B) Different

• (C) Not likely

• (D) Unlike

Although adult education in the United States began in colonial times, ______ chief growth has taken place since the 1920's

• (A) its

• (B) so it

• (C) but its

• (D) it is