Toefl stucture bank part 3

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(B) The eliminated problems
(C) Eliminating problems
(D) Problems are eliminated

16. Sea turtles date back 100 million year and are the only ancient sea reptiles to survive the present
Day.

17. At a first, the scientific method may appear to be a narrow and restrictive way of gaining
understanding.

18. Since prehistoric times, artists have portrayed subjects that representative their culture.


20. Mammals lose body heat to them environment in cold weather more quickly than in hot weather.

21. Mahogany is often considered the finest cabinet wood because they has most of the qualities
desired for furniture making.

22. The situation comedy has proved to a remarkably durable commercial television format.

23. Calcium, the most abundantly mineral in the body works with phosphorus in maintaining bones
and teeth.

24. Soil science begun with the formulation of the theory of humus in1808.

25. Scholars tend to cite 1831 as the started of the United States abolitionist movement.

26. Mary McDowell shared Jane Addam‘s interest in social work also was a loyal supprter of the
League of Nations.

27. In adolescence, a young person may experience some stress emotional due to conflicting and
confusing social demands.

28. Situated in the heart of a grain-farming and livestock-raising region, Abilene, Kansas, is a
prosperous trading and distribute center.

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29. A hologram is a pattern usually made on film in that can create a three-dimensional image of a
scene.

30. The general sales tax has been a major source of income for state governments, much of which
derive more than half of their budgets from it.

31. Principal known for his dictionary, Noah Webster was also the first epidimiologist in the United
States.

32. Liquid lubricants contrast widely in weighing, thickness, and boiling point.

33. Interest with major social events led to a period of growth in journalism after 1945.

34. Saint Elmo‘s fire is a luminous blue discharge of electricity sometimes seen when a thunderstorm.

35. Almanacs in simple form have been known from the invention of writing.

36. If laid out in straight line, the human digestive tract would measure approximately thirty foot in
length.

37. The relationship of Latin American music to Black music in the United States is clearly evident in
the unaccented beats that are common to either.

38. Today it is generally recognized as the primary function of the Federal Reserve System is to foster
the flow of credit and money that will eventually facilitate a balance in
international payments.

39. Pure flint is too hard and even-grained that it chips in smooth curved flakes.

40. The typical Georgian-style house is rectangular in shape, at less two stories high, and designed
around a central stairway.
1990 年 01 月语法题
1. ---ratchet is a wheel or bar that can move in only one direction.
(A) A
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(B) It is a
(C) Although a
(D) There is a

2. Thomas Jefferson‘s achievements as an architect rival his contributions ---a politician.
(A) such
(B) more
(C) as
(D) than

3. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on ---best in its climate and soil.
(A) it grows
(B) what grows
(C) does it grow
(D) what does it grow

4. Possibly the greatest advance in ---materials came with the invention of a cheap way to make steel.
(A) bridge-building

(B) building of bridges
(C) building a bridge
(D) bridges are built

5. ---, snakes frequently subdue their prey without injecting poison.
(A) Contrary to general belief
(B) General belief contrary to
(C) Belief contrary to general
(D) Contrary belief general to

6. Two years after she was chosen president of the Texas State Senate, ---successfully for a seat in
the United States Congress.
(A) Barbara Jordan‘s campaign being
(B) Barbara Jordan campaigned
(C) Campaigning for Barbara Jordan
(D) Barbara Jordan campaigning

7. The values of a people, their customs, and their perceptions of the world ---their language.
(A) are influenced
(B) be influenced
(C) influencing
(D) influence

8. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event‘s ---is equal to the probability that it
will not occur.
(A) occurs
(B) will occur
(C) can occur
(D) occurring

9. ---fashioned from a wick floating in a bowl of oil functioned according to the principle of capillary
action.
(A) All lamps early
(B) Lamps all early
(C) All early lamps
(D) Early all lamps

10. Annie Jump Cannon, ---discovered so many stars that she was called ―the census taker of the
sky.‖
(A) a leading astronomer who
(B) who, as a leading astronomer,
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(C) was a leading astronomer
(D) a leading astronomer,

11. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of the body of a runner, ---to the body.
(A) the stress it is greater
(B) greater is the stress
(C) greater stress is
(D) the greater the stress

12. And ideal is a standard ---people judge real phenomena.
(A) how
(B) of
(C) by which
(D) for it

13. Maine has ---weather than most of the other states in the continental United States.
(A) coolest
(B) the coolest

(C) cooler
(D) the cooler

14. Amoebas are ---small to be seen without a microscope.
(A) far too
(B) far and
(C) so far
(D) as far as

15. Graphite conducts electricity ---does not burn.
(A) because
(B) if
(C) when
(D) and

16. The methods of spectrum analysis vary according to the wavelength region were studied.

17. Hurricanes are severe cyclones with winds over seventy-five miles an hour who originate over
tropical ocean waters.

18. A great proportion of the seeds of desert flora they possess germination-inhibiting substances.

19. Window treatment, furniture arrangement and color combine all contribute to the overall
impression of a room.

20. Harvesting of grains is affected by annual changes in temperature or in the amount of moisture,
but both.

21. Due to its excellent tensile strength, acetate rayon is an important material for products so as
balloons, parachutes, fire hoses, and webbing.

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22. It has not been determined how years sea turtles can live in their natural environment, but they will
reach a very old age if left undisturbed by humans.

23. A footnote is characteristically employed to give information that is too long or too detailed be
included in the body of a text.

24. Watercolors dry more faster than other paints.

25. In mathematical terms, modern algebra is set of objects with rules for connecting or relating those
objects.

26. Alike most fruit trees, the quince is normally propagated from shoots or cuttings.

27. A patent gives inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for a fix period of time.

28. In 1981 the fossil jaw of a previously unknown small mammal was found onto a Navaho
reservation in Arizona.

29. The wild carrot, knew as Queen Anne‘s lace, gave rise to the cultivated carrot in its domesticated
form.

30. A statue, a monumental, a building, or a park may be dedicated to commemorate a distinguished
individual.

31. The Earth‘s magnetic poles are not stationary, but slowly shift its position.

32. A emotion is not necessarily aroused by something in the outside world.

33. The elbows are joints that connected people‘s up arms with their forearms.

34. Ants have an elaborate structure social, and enjoy a longevity far greater than that of most
insects.

35. Municipal planners deal chiefly for the physical layout of communities.