TOEFL (Structure Test) Part A

1. After the funeral, the residents of the apartment building __________.

(a) sent faithfully flowers all weeks to the cemetery.
(b) sent to the cemetery each week flowers faithfully.
(c) sent flowers faithfully to the cemetery each week.
(d) sent each week faithfully to the cemetery flowers.

2. Because the first pair of pants did not fit properly, he asked for __________.
(a) another pants (c) the others one
(b) other pants (d) another pair.

3. The committee has met and __________.

(a) they have reached a decision.
(b) it has formulated themselves some opinions.
(c) its decision was reached at.
(d) it has reached a decision.

4. Alfred adams has not __________.

(a) lived lonelynessly in times previous.
(b) never before lived sole.
(c) ever lived alone before.
(d) before lived without the company of his friends.

5. John’s score on the test is the highest in the class; __________.

(a) he should study last night.
(b) he should have studied last night.
(c) he must have studied last night.
(d) he must had to study last night.

6. Henry will not be able to attend the meeting tonight because __________.
(a) he must to teach a class. (c) of he will teach a class.
(b) he will be teaching a class. (d) he will have teaching a class.

7. Having been served lunch, __________.

(a) the problem was discussed by the members of the committee.
(b) the committee members discussed the problem.
(c) it was discussed by the committee members the problem.
(d) a discussion of the problem was made by the members of the committee.

8. Florida has not yet ratified the equal rights amendment, and __________.
(a) several other states hasn’t either.
(b) neither has some of the others states.
(c) some other states also have not either.
(d) neither have several other states

9. The chairman request that __________.

(a) the member studied more carefully the problem.
(b) the problem was more carefulnessly studied.
(c) with more carefulness the problem could be studied.
(d) the members study the problem more carefully.

10. California relies heavily on income from fruit crops, and __________.
(a) florida also. (c) florida is as well
(b) florida too. (d) so does florida

11. The professor said that __________.

(a) the student can turn over their report on the monday.
(b) the report on monday could be received form the students by him.
(c) the students could hand in their reports on monday.
(d) the student will on monday the reports turn in.

12. This year will be difficult for this organization because __________.
(a)they have less money and volunteers than they had last year.
(b) it has less money and fewer volunteers than it had last year.
(c) the last year it did not have as few and little volunteers and money.
(d) there are fewer money and volunteers that in the last year there were.

13. The teacher have had some problem deciding __________.

(a)when to the students they shall return the final papers.
(b) when are they going to return to the students the final papers.
(c) when they should return to the final papers to the students.
(d) the time when the final papers they should return for the students.

14. She wanted to serve some coffee to her guests; however, __________.
(a) she hadn’t many sugar.
(b) there was not great amount of the sugar.
(c) she did not have much sugar.
(d) she was lacking in amount of the sugar.

15. There has not been a great response to the sale, __________?
(a) does there (b) hasn’t there (c) hasn’t it (d) has there

Part B

1. A microscope can reveal vastly _____

detail than is visible to the naked eye.
(A) than
(B) than more
(C) more than
(D) more

2. Narcissus bulbs _____ at least three

inches apart and covered with about four
inches of well-drained soil.
(A) should be planted
(B) to plant
(C) must planting
(D) should plant
3. Industrialization has been responsible for
_____ most radical of the environmental
changes caused by humans.
(A) a
(B) the
(C) some of which
(D) which are the

4. In many areas the slope and topography

of the land _____ excess rainfall to run off
into a natural outlet.
(A) neither permit
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting
(D) do not permit

5. Color and light, taken together, ______

the aesthetic impact of the interior of a
building.
(A) very powerfully influence
(B) very influence powerfully
(C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very

6. _____ that Rachel Carson's 1962 book

Silent Spring was one of the chief sources
of inspiration for the development of
nontoxic pesticides.
(A) There is likely
(B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely

7. Total color blindness, _____, is the result

of a defect in the retina.
(A) a rare condition that
(B) a rare condition
(C) that a rare condition
(D) is a rare condition

8. _____ no conclusive evidence exists,

many experts believe that the wheel was
invented only once and then diffused to
the rest of the world.
(A) Even
(B) But
(C) Although
(D) So

9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the

growing season, life is _____ in various
forms.
(A) abundant
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant
(D) it abundant

10. Most of _____ archaeologists know about

prehistoric cultures is based on studies of
material remains.
(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their

11. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____

today a liberated woman.
(A) calling what we would
(B) who would be calling
(C) what we would call
(D) she would call it

12. _____ around stones that are sun

warmed, even the smallest of stones
creates tiny currents of warm air.
(A) The cool air
(B) If the air is cool
(C) That the air cools
(D) The cooler the air

13. According to some critics, the novels of

William Burroughs demonstrate the major
hazard of absurd literature, _____
tendency toward overembellishment and
incoherence.
(A) notwithstanding
(B) besides
(C) is a
(D) its

14. Despite its wide range of styles and

instrumentation, country music has
certain common features _____ its own
special character.
(A) give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
(D) that gives it to

15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in

New Orleans in the 1920's _____ in blues
music.
(A) was one of the greatest periods
(B) one of the greatest periods
(C) was of the greatest periods
(D) the greatest periods