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TOEFL, Bài số 20
1. Some methods to prevent soil erosion are plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to
plant trees on unproductive land, and rotating crops.
(A) Some
(B) to prevent
(C) are
(D) to plant
2. Chicago, is called the Windy City because of the winds coming down across the lake
from Canada, is never very hot in summer.
(A) Chicago, is called
(B) because of
(C) is
(D) never very
3. Disease is not as widespread than before because of better preventive medicine and
vastly improved nutrition.
(A) Disease
(B) than before
(C) better
(D) vastly
4. When scientists discovered how soap works, it became possible to do synthetic
detergents out of petroleum.
(A) discovered
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(B) how
(C) it
(D) to do
5. Electric telegraph, invented in 1835 by Samuel Morse, was first used in 1844.
(A) Electric telegraph
(B) by Samuel Morse
(C) first
(D) used
6. Every scientist knows that gravity is the force that maintains the earth and the planets
in its orbits around the sun.
(A) knows

(B) that
(C) maintains
(D) its
7. After studying all the new materials, the student was able to rise his test score by
twenty-five points.
(A) After studying
(B) all the new
(C) was able
(D) rise
8. Mr Anderson used to jogging in the crisp morning air during the winter months, but
now he has stopped.
(A) jogging
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(B) crisp morning
(C) during
(D) winter months
9. The tongue is the principle organ of taste, and is crucial for chewing, swallowed, and
speaking.
(A) principle
(B) of taste
(C) is
(D) swallowed
10. Clare Boothe Luce wrote and productioned her first play while she was in high
school.
(A) wrote
(B) productioned
(C) her
(D) play
11. Gamma globulin, a protein found in blood plasma, it is used to prevent such infectious
disease as measles and viral hepatitis.
(A) found in
(B) it is
(C) such

(D) as
12. The plants that they belong to the family of ferns are quite varied in their size and
structure.
(A) they
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(B) belong
(C) are
(D) their
13. Vasco da Gama, accompanied by a large crew and a fleet of twenty ships, were trying
to establish Portuguese domination in Africa and India during the sixteenth century.
(A) by a large crew
(B) were
(C) to establish
(D) in Africa and India
14. Scientists had previously estimated that the Grand Canyon in Arizona is ten million
years old; but now, by using a more modern dating method, they agree that the age is
closer to six million years.
(A) previously
(B) is
(C) by using
(D) six million years
15. In 1950 it was naively predicted that eight or ten computer would be sufficient to
handle all of the scientific and business needs in the United States.
(A) In 1950
(B) naively
(C) eight or ten computer
(D) to handle
16. George Ellery Hale and his colleagues designed the two-hundred-inch telescope on
Mount Palomar study the structure of the universe.
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(A) his
(B) two-hundred-inch
(C) on Mount Palomar
(D) study
17. There is about 600 schools in the United States that use the Montessori method to

encourage individual initiative.
(A) There is
(B) in the United States
(C) use
(D) to encourage
18. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades [GATT] is an international agreement
designing to increase trade among member nations.
(A) international
(B) designing
(C) among
(D) member nations
19. J. Edgar Hoover has served as director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972.
(A) has served
(B) as director
(C) from
(D) his death
20. I put my new book of zoology here on the desk a few minutes ago, but I cannot seem
to find it.
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(A) book of zoology
(B) the desk
(C) ago
(D) I cannot seem to find it
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