TOEFL PREPARATION PART 5
The following questions are completed by the answers and
brief explanations.
1.
Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor was _____ to serve on the U.S
Supreme Court.
a.
The woman who first
b.
The first woman
c.
Who the first woman
d.
The first and a woman
The right answer is (b) The
first woman. The is used with
an ordinal number before a noun.
2.
North Carolina is well
known not only for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park _____ for the
Cherokee settlements.
a.
Also
b.
And
c.
But also
d.
Because of
The right answer is (c) But
also. But also is used in
correlation with the inclusive not only.
3.
General Grant had General
Lee ____ him at appromatox to sign the official surrender of the Confederate
forces.
a.
To meet
b.
Met
c.
Meet
d.
Meeting
The right answer is (c) Meet. A
form of have with some one such as General lee expresses a
causative. The blank word should be fulfilled by verb base (verb one).
4.
_____ both men and women
have often achieved their career ambitions by midlife, many people are
afflicted by at least a temporary period of dissatisfaction and depression.
a.
Because
b.
So
c.
A
d.
Who
The right answer is (a) Because.
Because is used before a subject and verb to introduce cause.
5.
If it _____ more humid in
the desert of Southwest, the hot temperatures would be unbearable.
a.
Be
b.
Is
c.
Was
d.
Were
The right answer is (d) were. In contary-to-fact-clause, were is
on the the accepted form of the verb be.
6.
Anthropologists assert that
many of the early native Americans who lived on the Plains did not engage in
planting corps but _____ , living
primarily on buffalo meat.
a.
To hunt
b.
Hunting
c.
Hunt
d.
Are hunted
The right answer is (b) hunting.
Ideas in a series should be expressed by parallel structure. Hunting
provides for parallelism with ing-forms such as planting and living.
7.
For the investor who _____
money, silver or bonds are good options.
a.
Has so little a
b.
Has very little
c.
Has so few
d.
Has very few
The right answer is (b) has
very little. The blank word should be fulfilled by a marker of an uncountable
noun such as money. Very
little are the markers that can be used to express the quantity of a
noncount noun.
8.
Of all cereals, rice is the
one _____ food for more people than any of the other grain crops.
a.
It provides
b.
That providing
c.
Provide
d.
That provides
The right answer is (d) that
provides. An adjective clause modifies a noun in the main clause. That
provides food modifies the one.
9.
To generate income,
megazine publishers must decide whether to increase the subcription price or
_____
a.
To sell advertising
b.
If they should sell
advertising
c.
Selling advertising
d.
Sold advertising
The right answer is (a) to
sell advertising. Ideas in a series should be expressed by parallel
structure. To sell provides for parallelism with the infinitive to
increase.
10.
John Philip Sousa, _____ many people consider the greatest
composer or marches, wrote his music during the era known as the Gay 90s.
a.
Who
b.
Whose
c.
Which
d.
Whom
The right answer is (d) whom
because it is the complement of the clause many people consider.
(The questions are
cited from Barron’s TOEFL with several adaptations.)
