Tài liệu Toefl stucture bank part 11 ppt

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1995 年 01 月语法题
1. An underlying assumption of most market research is that people are continually _____ financial
decisions based on their desire for goods that give them the most satisfaction.
(A) making
(B) and make
(C) being made
(D) having made

2. _____ tempera paint, the artist mixes dry pigments with water until the mixture resembles a stiff
paste.
(A) In preparation
(B) The preparing of
(C) To prepare
(D) Prepared

3. When two straight lines meet, _____ an angle.
(A) it is formed
(B) formed
(C) they form
(D) to form

4. Madge Macklin promoted the expansion of medical training to include genetics _____ supported
the founding of genetics departments in North American medical schools.
(A) nor
(B) and
(C) while
(D) if

5. _____ mammals have hair at some time in their lives, though in certain whales it is present only
before birth.

(A) Most
(B) The most
(C) Most of which
(D) In most of the

6. The digestive enzyme pepsin breaks down proteins into components _____ readily absorbed by
the human body.
(A) that can be
(B) and are
(C) which they
(D) are to be

7. _____ the precise qualities of the hero in literary works may vary over time, the basic exemplary
function of the hero seems to remain constant.
(A) Whatever
(B) Even though
(C) In spite of
(D) Regardless

8. Not until the dedication of Yellowstone Park in the late nineteenth century _____ a national park.
(A) the United States had
(B) did the United States have
(C) when the United States had
(D) the United States having

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9. Daniel Ken Inouye, Hawaii‘s first Congressman, was elected to the United States Senate in 1963,
where _____ known for his unbiased views on civil issues.
(A) being
(B) it is he

(C) he became
(D) having become

10. Because caricature tends to emphasize the peculiarities of a subject, _____ an effective vehicle
for pictorial satire.
(A) which is often
(B) and often seen as
(C) it is often
(D) many of which are

11. In the nineteenth century, Samuel Gridley Howe founded the Pekins School for the Blind, _____
for children in Boston, Massachusetts.
(A) that institutes
(B) while instituted
(C) was an institution
(D) an institute

12. Early forms of life on Earth, _____ in the absence of oxygen, required elements such as sulfur
instead.
(A) which lived
(B) whose life
(C) lived
(D) were living

13. People in prehistoric times created paints by grinding materials such as plants and clay into
powder _____.
(A) water to be added
(B) for adding water then
(C) and water added
(D) and then adding water

14. Often very annoying weeds, _____ and act as hosts to many insect pests.
(A) that crowd out less hardy plants than goldenrods
(B) crowding out less hardy plants by goldenrods
(C) the goldenrod‘s crowding out of less hardy plants
(D) goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants

15. Starting around 7000 B. C., and for the next four thousand years, much of the Northern
Hemisphere _____ temperatures warmer than at present.
(A) with experience of
(B) experienced
(C) experiencing
(D) experience

16. The chief goal of biochemistry is for to understand the structure and behavior of the carbon-
containing compounds that make up various components of a living cell.

17. According to entomologists, pollinating insects are attracted to flowers by scent else by color.

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18. The American writer Alex Haley traveled more than a half million mile to authenticate his novel
Roots.

19. Research by physician Alice Hamilton on industrially ailments and poisons led to greatly improved
health conditions for workers in the early 1900‘s.

20. It was in the late 1930‘s where Dixieland jazz was appreciated by the general public for the first
time.

21. Since 1920 women have been able to participate actively in the government the United States.

22. The architectural floor plan for a building is primarily a diagram of the location and function of area
each of the building.
area.
23. Clocks not only measure and tell time but also serve as decorated in homes and other buildings.

24. Commercial prices for gems are based in several factors including beauty, durability, rarity,and the
current fashion.

25. Candle are made by dipping a wick into wax, to pour wax into a mold containing a suspended
Wick, or rolling wax around a wick.

26. Avalanches occur why particles of sand, rock, or snow are dragged down a slope by gravity.

27. The average annual solar radiation received by the atmosphere varies strongly with latitude it is
four times great at the equator than at the poles.

28. Peggy Guggenheim was none so much attracted to contemporary art itself as she was to the
bohemian art world.

29. Radon-invisible, tasteless, and has no odor-is released into the atmosphere from soil and rocks.

30. Sparrows, small birds of the finch family, have stout beaks adapted seed eating and are useful to
farmers in destroying weed seeds.

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31. The poems of Sara Teasdale are noting for their simplicity and purity of form.

32. Charlotte Pekins Gilman was a leading intellectual in the women‘s movement while its early
decades in the United States.

33. The Canadian province of Newfoundland has a rocky coast, a moisture climate, and probably the
best cod-fishing areas in the world.

34. Among the favorite attractions at the National Air and Space Museum in Wahington D. C. Are the
film presented on the five-story-tall screen.

35. Alchemists had the idea which by applying chemical vapors to base metals they could create gold.

36. The most often flour is made from wheat, but it may also be made from the seeds of other cereal
plants.

37. Lacrosse, the oldest organized sport in North America, originally played by the Iroquois Indians
throughout upper New York and lower Ontario.

38. Although most house plants are acquired already potted, they also can be grown from seeds or
leaf cuttings from mature plant.

39. The unique ability of the horseshoe crab detected bacterial endotoxins was a chance discovery in
the 1970‘s at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

40. Although experimental television had been available since the 1920‘s, many people in United
States did not see a broadcast until was the New York World‘s Fair of 1939.
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1995 年 05 月语法题
1. _____ Henry Ford first sought financial backing for making cars, the very notion of farmers and
clerks owning automobiles was considered ridiculous.
(A) How
(B) Even
(C) When

(D) Despite

2. The first president of Cornell University, Andrew White _____ the concept of a university
unaffiliated with any religious sect or political party.
(A) develop
(B) developing
(C) develops
(D) developed

3. In order for information to be easily communicated, _____ must be organized in an understandable
way.
(A) there
(B) and
(C) it
(D) how

4. Because of record snowfalls in the mountains surrounding Utah‘s Great Salt Lake, there is more
water in the lake and its salt content is _____ it once was.
(A) least as
(B) much less than
(C) the least what
(D) less

5. Home movies began to become popular as a hobby in the United States during the 1920‘s, _____
of low-cost film.
(A) the invention followed
(B) the invention to follow
(C) following the invention
(D) invention the following

6. Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor who studied at Oberlin College, was _____ by Hrriet ffosmer.
(A) tutored in the neoclassical aesthetic
(B) the neoclassical aesthetic tutored in
(C) aesthetic in the neoclassical tutored
(D) the aesthetic neoclassical tutored in

7. Even though rhubarb is a vegetable, _____ as a dessert.
(A) popular also
(B) it is popular
(C) but it is popular
(D) which is popular

8. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, _____ of Radeliffe College, had worked as both an educator and a
naturalist.
(A) the first president
(B) was the first president
(C) she was the first president
(D) which she was the first president

9. _____ ever developed was celluloid, a combination of natural camphor and cellulose nitrate.