SOAL TOEFL — Structure & Written Expression

Complete the sentence: Amanda Way's career as a social reformer ____ in 1851 when, at an anti-slavery meeting in Indiana, she called for a state-level women's rights convention.

• begin

• began

• have begun

• to have begun

Complete the sentence: Celesta, a percussion instrument in the orchestra, resembles ____.

• a small upright piano

• how a small upright piano

• a small upright piano is

• as a small upright piano

Complete the sentence: Thomas Paine, ____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that linked the American colonies with the struggle for freedom.

• writer of eloquent

• whose eloquent writing

• an eloquent writer

• writing eloquent

Complete the sentence: Although otters rarely stay submerged for more than two minutes, they can be underwater ____ fifteen minutes before they must surface to breathe.

• as long

• as long as

• so long

• so long that

Complete the sentence: When natural gas burns, ____ breaks down into carbon and hydrogen atoms.

• hydrocarbon molecules, breaking up

• broke up by hydrocarbon molecules

• hydrocarbon molecules break up

• broken up hydrocarbon molecules

Complete the sentence: Some colonies of bryozoa, small marine animals, form ____ with creeping stems.

• creeping colonies

• which colonies creep

• creeping colonies are

• colonies creep

Complete the sentence: Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued six cases regarding women's rights in the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1970s, ____.

• of if we winning them

• fi ve winning of them

• of them fi ve winning

• winning fi ve of them

Complete the sentence: ____ 363 miles between the cities of Albany and Buffalo in the State of New York, the Erie Canal helps connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.

• The extension of

• The extension

• Extending

• Extends

Complete the sentence: The main source of vitamin B12, a water-soluble vitamin and ____ stored in the body, includes meat, milk, and eggs.

• is not

• that is not

• not that is

• that not

Lengkapi kalimat: Sumber utama energi untuk siklon tropis adalah panas laten yang dilepaskan ketika ____.

• does water vapor condense

• condensed water vapor

• water vapor condenses

• the condensation of water vapor