TOEFL Exercise Skills 1-23 and Skills 1-32

1. 1. ________several unsuccessful attempts, Robert Peary reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909.

• After

• He made

• When

• His

2. 2. The musical instrument ________ is six feet long.

• is called the bass

• it is called the bass

• called the bass

• calls the bass

3. One problem with all languages _______ they are full of irregularities.

• when

• so

• is that

• in case

4. ______ of economic cycles been helpful in predicting turning points in cycles, they would have been used more consistently.

• Psychological theories

• Psychological theories have

• Had psychological theories

• Psychologists have theories

5. 5. Hospital committees _____ spent weeks agonizing over which artificial kidney candidate would receive the treatments now find that the decision is out of their hands.

• once

• that once

• have

• once had

6. More than half of the children in the 1,356-member district qualifies for reduced-price or free lunches.

• More than

• of the

• qualifies

• reduced-price

7. 7. Five miles beyond the hills were fire with its flames reaching up to the sky.

• the hills

• were

• its

• reaching

8. Kettledrums, what were first played on horseback, were incorporated into the orchestra in the eighteenth century.

• what

• played

• were

• into the

9. When is a flag hung upside down, it is an internationally recognized symbol of distress.

• is a flag

• hung

• it is

• internationally

10. The Museum of the Confederation in Richmond hosts an exhibition which documenting the origins and history of the banner that most Americans think of as the Confederate flag.

• hosts

• documenting

• most Americans

• of as