TOEFL 6.

__ , Sarah rarely misses her

basketball shots.
grammar / structure skill
(A) An excellent basketball player
1. __ was backed up for miles on the (B) An excellent basketball player is

freeway. (C) Sarah is an excellent basketball

(A) Yesterday player

(B) In the morning (D) Her excellent basketball play

(C) Traffic 7. The child __ playing in the yard is

(D) Cars my son.

2. Engineers __ for work on the new (A) now

space program.
(B) is
(A) necessary
(C) he
(B) are needed
(D) was
(C) hopefully
8. The packages __ mailed at the post
(D) next month
office will arrive Monday.
3. The boy __ going to the movies with
(A) have
a friend.
(B) were
(A) he is (C) them
(B) he always was (D) just
(C) is relaxing 9. The North Platte River __ from
(D) will be Wyoming into Nebraska.
4. With his friend ____ found the (A) it flowed
movie theatre. (B) flows
(A) has (C) flowing
(B) he (D) with flowing water

(C) later 10. __ Biloxi received its name from a

Sioux word meaning "first people."
(D) when
(A) The city of
5. __ , George, is attending the lecture.
(B) Located in
(A) Right now
(C) It is in
(B) Happily
(D) The tour included
(C) Because of the time
(D) My friend
11. A pride of lions __ up to forty lions, (A) the ocean tides are
including one to three males, several (B) of ocean tides is
females, and cubs. (C) of the tides in the ocean
(D) the oceans’ tides
(A) can contain
17. Still a novelty in the late nineteenth
(B) it contains century, ___ limited to the rich.
(C) contain (A) was
(D) containing (B) was photography
12. __ tea plant are small and white. (C) it was photography
(A) The (D) photography was
(B) On the 18. A computerized map of the
(C) Having flowers the freeways using information gathered
(D) The flowers of the by sensors embedded in the pavement
13. The tetracyclines, __ antibiotics, ___ on a local cable channel during
are used to treat infections. rush hours.
(A) are a family of (A) airs
(B) being a family (B) airing
(C) a family of (C) air
(D) theirfamily is (D) to air
14. Any possible academic assistance 19. The three basic chords in __ the
from taking stimulants __ marginal at tonic, the dominant, and the
best. subdominant.
(A) it is (A) functional harmony
(B) there is (B) functional harmony is
(C) is (C) functional harmony are
(D) as (D) functional harmony they are
15. Henry Adams, born in Boston, __ 20. __ Hale Telescope, at the Palomar
famous as a historian and novelist. Observatory in southern California,
(A) became scientists can photograph objects
several billion light years away. erratic
(B) and became orbit around Jupiter.
(C) he was (A) The
(B) With the
(D) and he became (C) They use the
16. The major cause ___ the pull of (D) It is the
the Moon on the Earth.