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98 年 5 月托福语法试题
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1. a major role in future planetary exploration.
(A) Robots will surely play
(B) Robots, which will surely play
(C)Because robots will surely be playing
(D) Surely robots, which will be playing
2. Unlike the owl, bats cannot see very well, but they do have
(A) it hears very well
(B) very good to hear
(C) tearing very well
(D) very good hearing
3. Comparatively few clues in the United Slates have competing newspapers today, a major
change from 1900 more than two newspapers.
(A) because then most large cities having
(B)when did most large cities have
(C) then most large cities that had
(D) when most large cities had
4. Witch hazel extract, distilled from the bark and twigs of the witch hazel shrub, has been
utilized in medicine.
(A) is
(B) when to be
(C) which is
(D) has been
5. touching in O. Henry's stories is the gallantry with which ordinary people struggle to
maintain their dignity.
(A) Most is
(B)It mostly is
(C)Is it most
(D) What is most

6. The face of the Moon is changed by collisions with meteoroids, new craters to appear.
(A) cause
(B) causing
(C) caused
(D) have cause
7. Social scientists believe that from sounds such as grunts and barks made by early ancestors
of human beings.
(A) the very slow development of language
(B)language developed very slowly
(C)language which,, was very slow to develop
(D) language, very slowly developing
8. substances include various forms of silica, pumice, and emery.
(A) Natural abrasives occur
(B)Abrasion occurs in natural
(C)Naturally occurring abrasive
(D) A natural occurrence of abrasion
9. in the upper part of their long1 thin legs all9w deer to run swiftly and jump far.
(A) Muscles are powerful
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(B) There are powerful muscles
(C)The powerful muscles that
(D) Powerful muscles
10. Geophysicists have collaborated with archaeologists and anthropologists to study the
magnetic properties of pottery and fireplaces at sites by early humans.
(A) occupied
(B) occupying
(C) which occupy
(D) were occupied
11. technically proficient; it also explores psychological questions.

(A) Not only is Barbara Astman's artwork
(B) Not only Barbara Asiman's artwork
(C) Barbara Astman1s artwork,, which is not only
(D) Barbara Astman's artwork not only
12. Although Canada's Parliament can neither administer or enforce laws initiate policy, it does
have the power to make laws and vote on the allocation of funds.
(A) not
(B) nor
(C) and
(D)either
13. Willa Cather considered her novel of life in nineteenth-century Nebraska, My Antonia,
(A) was her best work
(B)her best work
(C)her best work it was
(D) being her best work
14.First designated in 1970, Earth Day has become an annual international event concerns
about environmental issues such as pollution.
(A) dedicated to raising
(B) dedicated raising
(C) dedicates to raise
(D) that dedicates to raising
15. In 1992 Albert Gore, Jr., the son of a former United States senator, became Vice President
of the United States.
(A) who was the forty-fifth
(B)and the forty-fifth
(C)the forty-fifth
(E) he was the forty-fifth
16. Although Christopher Columbus failed in his original goal, the discoveries he
A B
did make were as Important than the route to Asia he expected to find.

C D
17. Martha Graham, a leading figure in modern dance, made she debut in
A B C
1920 with the Denishawn School.
D
18. In the United States, the federal government is responsible to regulating the
A B
working conditions in factories.
C D
18. Jupiter is a gaseous planet with. an atmosphere composed most of
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A B C
hydrogen and helium.
D
20.Throughout her career Georgia O'Keeffe paid meticulous attention to her craft;
A B
her brushes were always clean, her colors fresh and brightness.
C D
21. Hydrogen the nine most abundant element in the Earth's crust, is an odorless,
A B C
colorless, and tasteless gas.
D
22.Salamanders are frequently to be find in moist, wooded areas.
A B C D
23. Steam engines have been replaced in most cases by more economical and
A B C
efficiency devices, such as the electric motor.
D
24.Traditionally, the Fourth of July is celebrated in the United States with political

A B
speeches, picnics, and most important of all, a displayed of fireworks at night.
C D
25. The style of used in cartoon animation range from relatively realistic
A B C
representations of everyday life to the most romantic and impossible fantasy.
D
26. Ordinary beaver dams vary in length from a few feet to a hundred feel or
A B C
more than.
D

27. In the United State, presidential elections are held once every four year.
A B C D
28.Except of the freehand toe, the feet of the gull are fully webbed.
A B C D
29. Teaching machines are devices that can store instructionally information,
A
present displays, receive responses from a learner, and act on those responses.
B C. D
30. Challotte Perkins Gilman Is known primarily as an author of short stories,
A B
but she also wrote an influential book argued for equal economic opportunities for
C D women.

31. In some areas of the United States, unfavorable climate or soil make farming
A B C
an impossible task.
D
32. Naturalists have identified at least four hundred of species of mammals and

A B
six hundred types of birds in the state of California.
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C D
33. Instead of tooth, the blue whale has a row of bony plates in its mouth
A B C
that functions as a food-collecting device.
D
34. Murres are black-and-white driving birds that mate every five or six years and
A
lay only a single egg at time.
B C D
35. A bar code consists a pattern of lines and bars that a computer can translate
A B C
into information.
D
36. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly to backwards.
A B C D
37. Fluorine, a greenish-yellow gas that is slightly heavy than air is poisonous
A B C
and corrosive and has a penetrating and disagreeable odor.
D
38. The Everglades, a large swamp area is an unique wilderness extending over
A B C
much of southern Florida.
D
39. Each year millions of tons of fertile topsoil that could produce good crops
A B C
washed away by rains.

D
40. Since the 1950's, folk' music has had a significant influence on many popular
A B C D
vocal and instrumental music.
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