MINITEST STRUCTURE 2 - ADVANCED GRAMMAR FOR TOEFL

_____, an organism must be able to adapt to changing factors in its environment.

• If survival
• For surviving
• To survive
• It survives

The art of landscape architecture is _____ that of architecture itself.

• almost as old as
• as almost old
• almost as old than
• old as almost

The Mummers' Parade has _____ every year in Philadelphia on New Year's Day since 1901.

• holding
• been holding
• held
• been held

Rarely _____ more than fifty miles from the coast.

• redwood trees grow
• redwood trees do grow
• grow redwood trees
• do redwood trees grow

Microorganisms live in extreme conditions of heat and cold where _____ other organisms can survive.

• not
• never
• no
• none

The higher one rises in the atmosphere, _____ the temperature generally becomes.

• colder than
• the colder
• the colder as
• is colder

Medical researchers are constantly looking for ways to control, _____ and cure diseases.

• prevention
• preventing
• prevent
• to prevent

Nerve cells, or neurons, _____ in the human body.

• the most complex cells are
• are the most complex cells
• most complex the cells are
• most are the complex cells

Released in 1915, _____.

• D. W. Griffith made an epic film about the Civil War, Birth of a Nation
• the Civil War was the subject of D. W. Griffith's epic film, Birth of a Nation
• D. W. Griffith's epic film Birth of a Nation was about the Civil War
• the subject of D. W. Griffith's epic film Birth of a Nation was the Civil War

_____ on barren slopes can help prevent erosion.

• Planting trees
• For trees to be planted
• In order to plant trees
• Trees are planted