TOEFL Exercise

_____ 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