TOEFL WORKBOOK ETS 5
TITIK NOL ENGLISH COURSE
PRACTICE TEST 3
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Section II: Structure and Grammar
PART A
1. The rock-fill dam, essentially an embankment like the earth -fill dam, uses rock instead of earth-----~,
(A) and providing stability
(B) to provide stability
(C) stability is provided
(D) provides stability
2. The telegraph, invented in the mid-nineteenth century, remained even into the 1970's-------of telecommunication.
(A) a principal system
(B) a system was principal
(C) that was a principal system
(D) a principal system when
3. Royal jelly, a secretion produced by worker bees, is fed to------- destined to become queen bees.
(A) those that
(B) be those
(C) those of
(D) those
4. -------is necessarily limited to areas of productive soils, tillable topography, and adequate moisture, where the
growing season is long enough for plant germination and maturation.
(A) Farm
(B) Farming
(C) When farming
(D) To farm
5. Among the most famous products of the Aesthetic Movement were the Tiffany lamps, first-------in 1899.
(A) had been producing
(B) had been produced
(C) produced
(D) were producing
6. Refrigerating meats-------the spread of bacteria.
(A) retards
(B) retarding
(C) to retard
(D) is retarded
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7. The islands of the Florida Keys are joined to the mainland by an overseas highway-------a railroad destroyed in
the hurricane of 1935
(A) replaces
(B) and replaces
(C) hat replaces
(D) that it replaces
8. The------east of the Mississippi River is made up of the Lumbee people.
(A) Native American nation largest
(B) largest Native American nation
(C) largest nation Native American
(D) Native American largest nation
9. Kim Campbell was the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada,--------.
(A) head the office the first woman
(B) was the first woman to hold the office
(C) the first woman to hold the office
(D) and for holding the office the first woman
10.Type metal used in the printing industry varies in its components -------is generally a combination of lead, tin and
antimony.
(A) as (B) if
(C) why (D) but
11.The author Mark Twain worked as a newspaper reporter in Nevada and California before moving to Hartford,
Connecticut,-------he wrote most of his books.
(A) where
(B) which
(C) in addition to
(D) such as
12.Glaciers begin to form-------more snow falls during the winter than melts and evaporates in the summer
(A) is when
(B) when there are
(C) when
(D) when does
13. The illusion of motion pictures rests on the eyes* tendency-------an image for a fraction of a second after the
image has been withdrawn.
(A) to retain
(B) that retaining
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(C) to be retained
(D) has retained
14. Through reproduction....... the properties of a species,
(A) successive generations that carry on
(B) that successive generations carry on
(C) successive generations carry on
(D) carry on successive generations
15, Four flags have flown over the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico: ------ Spain, Mexico, the
Confederacy, and the United States.
(A) which of
(B) ofthose being
(C) those of
(D) Those that of
PART B
16. Nearly 100 million tons of fish, mollusks, squid, and crustaceans are extracted from the ocean every years.
a b c d
17. In the Missouri Ozark Mountains more than 10,000 springs can be found, some among the most largest in
A b c
theworld.
d
18. The first high school in the United States, which opened in 1821, was the English Classical School, locate in
a b c d
Boston, Massachusetts.
19. Artificial satellites can perform many task and send back data or pictures to Earth.
A b c d
20. By the1880’s, world demand for cotton had begun fall off.
a b c d
21. The early Quakers adopted a distinctive and simply style of dress.
a b c d
22. At present, about 300 different varieties of dinosaur have been identified from bones found on every of the
a b c d
continents.
23. A black hole warps the surrounding space-time fabric as severely that nothing that comes within its event
A b
horizon can escape from its gravitational grip.
c d
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24. By using special equipment, seismologists can determine the size and location of an earthquake and
A B C
the fault to which it originated.
D
25. For most bees, life revolves around the scent, colorful, and nectar of flowers.
a b c d
26. Portrait artists sometimes intentional alter the appearance of their subjects by refining
A B
their images to emphasize or minimize particular physical qualities.
C D
27. May Sarton'sfirst two novels had European settings, but after 1955 New England provided the background for
a b c
most her fiction.
d
28. Methane gas in the upper atmosphere account for the planet Uranus' greenish hue.
a b c d
29. As adolescents gain weight, the amount and distribution of fat in their bodies will change, and so it will the
a b c d
proportion of bone and muscle.
30. Raccoons prefer swampy areas or woods near water; either they avoid very high elevations, very arid regions,
a b c
and purely coniferous forests.
d
31. By 1996, the United States population exceeded 261 million, with a median age of thirty-four, making it one of
a b c
the oldest national population on Earth.
d
32. In medical and dentistry, radiography is invaluable for diagnosing bone
A b
damage tooth decay, and internal disease,
c d
33. Water droplets in clouds are very small; they must coagulate or grow before they falling as rain or snow.
a b c d
34. One of the most powerful tools available to labor unions has been the ability
A b
to strike in order to settle its disputes with management.
C d
35. The velocity of a river is control by the slope, the depth , and the roughness of the riverbed.
a b c d
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36. By selectively breeding plants, researchers have created strains of plants that are more resistance to disease.
a b c d
37. Much governmental and international organizations throughout the world are concerned with the development
a b c
of guidelines for daily nutritional requirements
d
38. When a ray of light passes from one transparent medium, such as air, into other, such as glass, it is bent.
a b c d
39. Logic, whether modem, tradition, or ancient, limits its concern strictly to problems of validity.
a b c d
40. Cable cars in hilly San Francisco are pulled along by an endless cable between the rails, which is driven
a b
by machinery in a centrally powerhouse.
c d
SECTION III: READING
Questions 1-9
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, knowing the age of rocks became
a necessary prerequisite to finding industrial minerals, such as coal, iron, and the other
materials that fueled and sustained the great Western industrialization of the eighteenth
Line and nineteenth centuries. It was in the mining regions where engineers, who
(5) needed a better system for organizing the various types of rock scattered across
Earth's surface, first grappled with scientific approaches to understanding the age of
various rocks—and the age of Earth. They realized that if the various rock units could he
dated by their relative ages, correlations among even widely separated rocks could be
established and from this, some order recognized.
(10) The pioneering European geologists first believed that identifying a rock's type
would give them a strong clue to the age of the rock formation and that one of the most
powerful clues came from the hardness of a given rock. Specific rock types were thus
assumed to have formed at characteristically different rimes, the softest rocks having
formed the most recently. This crude type of dating was first used to understand the way
(15) mountains were formed, In the mid-1700's it was thought that there were three distinct
types of mountains in Europe, each formed by a different type of rock and each created
at a different time. According to this theory, the oldest were the Alps, which had interior
cores composed of very hard, crystalline rocks (such as granite, schist, or basalt). These
mountains were called Primitive. Sitting on the flanks of the Primitive mountains were
(20) younger, smaller, secondary mountains composed of layered sedimentary rocks such as
limestone.
They were often rich with fossils and intermediate in hardness. The youngest
Tertiary mountains were composed of softer mudstones and sandstone. Rock type,
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