Level TOEFL lesson 27 ppsx

Level TOEFL lesson 27
1. ________ owe much of their success as a group to their
unusual powers of migration.
D
(A) That birds
(B) A bird
(C) The bird
(D) Birds
2. Even if the unemployment rate ________ sharply, the
drop may still be temporary.
D
(A) to drop
(B) dropping
(C) have dropped
(D) drops
3. June was very angry that her mail from home
________.
C
(A) had opened
(B) was opening
(C) had been opened
(D) opened
4. His wife ________ told that he had had an accident.
A
(A) was
(B) had to
(C) is
(D) had
5. The freshman read an advertisement ________ the
newspaper about an apartment to rent.
A

(A) in
(B) from
(C) on
(D) out of
6. They went to the store to buy knives, forks, spoons and
________.
A
(A) glasses
(B) cutlery
(C) eating tools
(D) silverware
7. Many of the current international problems we are now
facing ________.
B
(A) linguistic incompetencies
(B) are the result of misunderstandings
(C) are because of not understanding themselves
(D) lacks of intelligent capabilities of understanding
each other
8. The crime rate has continued to rise in American cities
despite efforts on the part of both government and private
citizens to curb ________.
D
(A) them
(B) him
(C) its
(D) it
9. ________ of commodities by air began in the 1920s at
the same time as airmail service.
A

(A) The shipping
(B) A ship
(C) The shipped
(D) To ship
10. Thirty-eight national sites are known as parks, another
eighty-two as monuments, and ________.
B
(A) the another one hundred seventy-eight as
historical sites
(B) the other one hundred seventy-eight as historical
sites
(C) seventy-eight plus one hundred more as historical
sites
(D) as historical sites one hundred seventy-eight