Toefl stucture bank part 4

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1990 年 08 月语法题
1. Resin is a substance that ---in water.
(A) does not dissolve
(B) do not dissolve
(C) not dissolving
(D) not dissolved

2. ---hardiness, daylilies can be cultivated particularly easily.
(A) Their
(B) Since their
(C) It is their
(D) Because of their

3.A biologist does not merely describe organisms, but tries to learn ---act as they do.
(A) what cause them to
(B) causes them to what
(C) what to cause them
(D) what does to them

4.Vaporization in connection with general --- has a marked effect on long – term climate.
(A) atmospheric conditions that
(B) conditions are atmospheric
(C) are atmospheric conditions
(D) atmospheric conditions

5. The oldest city in the state, --- .
(A) the Hudson‘s Bay Company founded Vancouver, Washington, in the early nineteenth century
(B) the founding of Vancouver, Washington, by the Hudson‘s Bay Company in the early nineteenth
century
(C) Vancouver, Washington, was founded by the Hudson‘s Bay Company in the early nineteenth

century
(D) In the early nineteenth century with the founding of Vancouver, Washington, by the Hudson‘s Bay
Company

6. --- raw materials into useful products is called manufacturing.
(A) Transform
(B) Transforming
(C) Being transformed
(D) When transforming

7. Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of
the deaf ---of the telephone.
(A) than inventing
(B) than as the inventor
(C) the invention
(D) as the inventor

8. Because its leaves remain green long after being picked, rosemary --- associated with the idea of
remembrance.
(A) and becomes
(B) became
(C) becoming
(D) to become

9. --- that of iron construction, the technology for constructing buildings with reinforced concrete
developed rather rapidly.
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(A) Dissimilar
(B) Different
(C) Not likely

(D) Unlike

10. Although adult education in the United States began in colonial times, --- chief growth has taken
place since the 1920‘s.
(A) its
(B) so it
(C) but its
(D) it is

11. Hot objects emit --- do cold objects.
(A) rays more than infrared
(B) rays are more infrared than
(C) more than infrared rays
(D) more infrared rays than

12. An Olympic marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards, approximately --- from Marathon to Athens.
(A) the distance is
(B) that the distance is
(C) is that the distance
(D) the distance

13. Although --- rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to withstand
considerable impact.
(A) apparently
(B) are apparently
(C) apparently their
(D) are they apparently

14. One of the oldest types of aesthetic theory is that of formism, --- .
(A) reference to the imitation theory is popular

(B) the imitation theory is popularly referred to
(C) is the reference to the popular imitation theory
(D) popularly referred to as the imitation theory

15. A panda‘s primary activity is sleep, --- its waking hours looking for food.
(A) that it spends
(B) for spending
(C) and it spends
(D) will spend

16. The unit of measurement known as a ―foot‖ has originally based on the average size of the human
foot.

17. Social reformer Florence Kelly played a role in the 1893 decision of the Illinois legislature to
prohibition child labor.

18. The term ―technology‖ refers to the discoveries and inventions that help people improve its way of
life.

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19. Brooklyn, New York, had a population of about 23,000 when it becomes a city in 1834.

20. People can remember more information for higher periods of time when they use more than one
sense in the process of learning.

21. Jazz first flourished in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then spread at cities all across the country.

22. Flower have long been cultivated and bred for their beauty and their fragrance.

23. When a spinning ball bounces, some of the energy contained in its rotation can transferred to its

energy of forward motion.

24. One values product of a musk deer is musk, which comes from a gland near the male‘s abdomen
and is used in medicines and perfumes.

25. The economy of Little Rock, Arkansas, is basis primarily on manufacturing, wholesale and retail
trade, and government functions.

26. The first United States citizen to become a professional sculptor was Patience Lovell Wright,
which works were executed in wax.

27. A electric current can consist of charges that are positive, negative, or both.

28. Progress in the field of optically and new kinds of glass have made it possible to construct
photographic lenses with a minimum number of materials.

29. In nature, the distributive of plants is obviously related to climate.

30. The United States Constitution requires that the President be a natural-born citizen, thirty-five
years of age or be older, who has lived in the United States for a minimum of fourteen years.

31. How many people realize that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The yearling is a minor literary classic
and an important contribute to regional literature?

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32. Ensuring an adequate water supply have been a concern ever since people began to live in towns
and cities.

33. The most substances expand in volume when they are heated.

34. Due to sophisticated transportation networks, people can now buy the same types of perishable
goods in Toronto like in New York City.

35. Glaciers that develop nearly the North and South Poles advance into the sea, break into pieces,
and become icebergs.

36. As inevitably as human culture has changed with the passing of time, so does the environment.

37. For some purposes it is convenient to think of a surface as the locus generated when a line
straight or a curve moves through space in a prescribed manner.

38. A significant proportions of the plants and animals of Hawaii exists nowhere else in the World

39. Mass advertising is employed when person – to – person selling is impractical, impossible, or
simply inefficiency.

40. Mexican jumping beans are actually seeds in which contain moth larvae whose activity causes the
seeds to ―jump.‖

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1990 年 10 月语法题
1. The significance of mythology within a culture is reflected in ---, the amount of time devoted to this
activity, and the relevance of mythology to ceremonials.
(A) Storytellers have prestige
(B) The prestige of storytellers
(C) Telling stories is prestigious
(D) Prestige comes with storytelling

2. Although --- some textile products, it imports many as well.
(A) the exports of the United States

(B) exporting of the United States
(C) exporter of the United States
(D) the United States exports

3. Economic goods may take the form --- of material things or of services.
(A) either
(B) because
(C) as
(D) or

4. Ragtime is a kind of music --- a strongly syncopated melody and a regularly accented
accompaniment.
(A) has
(B) that it has
(C) that has
(D) it has

5. Historically, --- chief material for making furniture has been wood, but metal and stone have also
been used.
(A) It was the
(B) That the
(C) There was a
(D) the

6. All gases and most liquids and solids expand --- heated.
(A) in
(B) how
(C) when
(D) about

7. Abstraction goes into the making of any work of art, --- or not.
(A) whether the artist being aware of it
(B) the artist is being aware whether
(C) whether the artist is aware of it
(D) the artist is aware whether

8. --- often added to sauces and soups, is plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
(A) Parsley, an herb that is
(B) For parsley, an herb to be
(C) An herb, parsley is
(D) Parsley, is that herb

9. Emily Post‘s book Etiquette, --- in 1922, was an immediate success.
(A) published
(B) was published