Tài liệu Toefl stucture bank part 8 doc

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1993 年 01 月语法题
1. --- that as both birds and mammals become larger, their metabolic rates er unit of tissue decrease,
and they generally live longer.
(A) The truth
(B) If true
(C) It is true
(D) To be true

2. Asteroids are small and therefore very difficult to identify, even when --- to Earth.
(A) quite closely
(B) are being quite close
(C) are they quite closely
(D) they are quite close

3. A number of modern sculptors have rejected --- of minimal and environmental art and developed a
style of extreme realism.
(A) which abstract qualities
(B) there are abstract qualities
(C) the abstract qualities
(D) the qualities are abstract

4. --- tributaries of the Mississippi River system were navigated by steamboats during the period
before the outbreak of the Civil War.
(A) More than forty
(B) More than forty were
(C) Forty more than
(D) There were more than forty

5. Mary Eliza McDowell‘s introduction to social service came ---, when she assisted victims of the
great Chicago Fire of 1871.

(A) was sixteen years old
(B) had sixteen years
(C) at age sixteen
(D) sixteen

6. Young herons are helpless for a few weeks --- they learn to fly.
(A) how
(B) before
(C) despite
(D) since

7. The history of painting is a fascinating chain of events that probably began with ---.
(A) ever made the very first pictures
(B) the ever made very first pictures
(C) the very first ever made pictures
(D) the very first pictures ever made

8. The center of gravity of the human body --- behind the hip joint.
(A) locates
(B) locating
(C) to locate
(D) is located

9. The leaves and stems of the alfalfa plant are the only parts of the plant ---.
(A) the uses for livestock fees
(B) for using livestock feed
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(C) used for livestock feed
(D) they are used for livestock feed

10. --- choose to live in or near metropolitan areas simply because they like the rapid pace of city life.
(A) So large numbers of people to
(B) There are large numbers of people
(C) Large numbers of people
(D) Large numbers of people who

11. --- to space travelers is high acceleration or deceleration forces.
(A) Danger can be
(B) They can be dangerous
(C) What can be dangerous
(D) While danger

12. Organic chemistry has made many new products---.
(A) possible
(B) as possible
(C) are possible
(D) they are possible

13. Perfectly matched pearls, strung into a necklace, --- a far higher price than the same pearls sold
individually.
(A) in order to bring
(B) their bringing
(C) bringing
(D) bring

14. Some metropolitan newspapers would make sizable volumes --- in book form.
(A) than the print
(B) print them
(C) if printed
(D) they are printed

15. Pennsylvania ranks high among the states population --- many areas are sparsely settled.
(A) and yet
(B) so even
(C) if not
(D) except for

16. Since the beginning of this century, the United States government has played an role in the
supervision and use of the nation‘s natural resources.

17. Between 1906 and 1917, political activist Emma Goldma devoted most of her efforts to writing,
traveling and lectured.

18. Height, powerful and speed are attributes that coaches often look for in basketball players.

19. Many of society‘s wealth is controlled by large corporations and government agencies.

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20. Pieces of eighteenth-century porcelain they are frequently dug up in excavations at williamsburg
Virginia.

21. A major purpose of scientific analysis is to identify and examine causal connections between
independent and dependence variables.

22. Vaccines for some rare diseases are given only to persons which risk exposure to the disease.

23. Recause it is a healthful way to exercise aerobic dancing is considered an excellent method for
release tension.

24. Doppler radar can be used to determine the direction which in the particles of a cloud are moving.

25. Applied research aims at some specific objective, such as the development of a new produce,
process, or material.

26. Most of the food what elephants eat is brought to their mouths by their trunks.

27. The highly respect zoologist Ernest Just joined the ruling board of the Marine Biological
Laboratory in the 1930‘s.

28. Clementine Hunter‘s primitive paintings have been exhibited at various galleries, included one at
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

29. Alike a chicken, the grouse has four toes, with the hind one raised above the ground.

30. Membership in labor unions in the United States reached its peak of 17 millions members in 1960.

31. The newer kinds of seeds produce corn it has much greater food value than older kinds.

32. In meteorology, either the formation of clouds and the precipitation of dew, rain, and snow are
known as condensation.

33. Varieties of yellow grapes that have tender skin, rich flavor and high sugar content are especially
suited with making raisins.
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34. Despite resistance in some parts of Canada, the conversion to metric measurement have been
said to be largely successful.

35. The most safest way to watch a solar eclipse is for one to look at it in a mirror while wearing dark
glasses.

36. Chied Joseph La Flesche, a vigorous Omaha leader, worked hardly to make his nation a proud
and progressive one.

37. The diamond is the only gemstone composed with just one chemical element, carbon.

38. In 1941 Orson Welles produced Citizen Kane a film noted for its technical brilliant, structural
complexity, and Literate treatment of a controversial biographical subject.

39. Wildlife conservationists say the cover that foliage provides for animals is equal in importance to
the food supplying.

40. The Leyden jar was one of the earliest form of condensers invented to store an electrical charge.
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1993 年 05 月语法题
1. Before 8000 B. C. wheat did not grow as prolifically --- it does today.
(A) like
(B) as
(C) for
(D) than

2. Both nickel and iron are whitish metals ---.
(A) that are attracted by magnets
(B) that magnets are attracted by them
(C) are attracted by magnets
(D) magnets that attract them

3. The bark of some species of oak trees yields a substance used in --- leather.
(A) treating
(B) to treat

(C) its treatment
(D) it treats

4. Although phosphorus is an essential constituent of all living creatures, ---is among the least
abundant of the mineral nutrients.
(A) what
(B) it
(C) still
(D) however

5. ---- angles of any triangle always add up to 180 degrees.
(A) If three
(B) The three
(C) Three of
(D) Three are

6. The gibbon ranges over ---- other apes do.
(A) than an area wider
(B) wider than the area
(C) a wider area than
(D) an area wider than are

7. Sarah Frances Whiting opened the --- of physics in the United States in 1878.
(A) undergraduate teaching was in a second laboratory
(B) second teaching laboratory of undergraduate
(C) undergraduate teaching laboratory was second
(D) second undergraduate teaching laboratory

8. ---, some of the Earth‘s interior heat escapes to the surface.
(A) A volcano erupts

(B) A volcano whether erupts
(C) A volcano erupts it
(D) If a volcano erupts

9. Sandra Day O‘Connor, the first woman member of the United States Supreme Court, believed that
the courts should interpret the laws --- legislate.
(A) than attempt to rather
(B) rather than attempt to
(C) to attempt rather than
(D) attempt rather than to