FINAL SEMESTER EVALUATION
TOEFL Structure (10 minutes)
DIRECTIONS Questions 18-21 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four
words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes
the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, fi nd the number of the question and fi ll in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Fill in the space so that the letter inside the
oval cannot be seen.
Now begin work on the questions.
18. _____ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture,
aengineers, are creating exotic new metallic substances.
(A) Meet
(B) Being met are
(C) To meet
(D) They are meeting
19. _______ James A. Bland, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was
adopted is the state song of Virginia in 1940.
(A) Was written b
(B) His writing was
(C) He wrote the
(D) Written by
20. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900’s was considered one of the
best singing actresses of her time.
(A) a soprano was popular
(B) in a popular soprano
(C) was a popular soprano
(D) a popular soprano in
21. In the realm of psychological theory Margaret F. Washburn was a
dualist _____ that motor phenomena have an essential role in
psychology.
(A) who she believed
(B) who believed
(C) believed
(D) who did she believe
TOEFL Written Expression
DIRECTIONS In questions 22-26 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four
underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word
or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, fi
nd the number of the question and fi ll in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you
have chosen.
22. On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consist of
a nearly hundred
A B
large stumps scattered on an exposed coal bed.
C D
23. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the
Earth’s than are
A
B C
those of any other planet in the solar system.
D
24. The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible
remains in the sky
A
B C
for twenty-four hours or longer.
D
25. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing,
lumbering, hunting,
A
B C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
D
Reading Comprehension
15 Minutes; 15 Questions
DIRECTIONS
In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by
several questions about it. For questions 26-35, you are to choose the
one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each question. Then, on your
answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Answer all
questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or
implied in that passage.
Now begin work on the questions.
Questions 1-5
A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright,
who had taken to heart the admonition that form should follow
function and who thought of buildings not as separate architectural
entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the
community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial
New England and some of the southern plantations had been
functional, but Wright was the first architect to make functionalism
the authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings.
As early as 1906 he built the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the
first of those churches that did so much to revolutionize ecclesiastical
architecture in the United States. Thereafter he turned his genius to
such miscellaneous structures as houses, schools, office buildings,
and factories, among them the famous Larkin Building in Buffalo, New
York, and the Johnson Wax Company building in Racine, Wisconsin.
26. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to
which of the following?
(A) Taken seriously
(B) Criticized
(C) Memorized
(D) Taken offence
27. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those
built by earlier architects?
(A) They were built on a larger scale.
(B) Their materials came from the southern United States.
(C) They looked more like private homes.
(D) Their designs were based on how they would be used.
28. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it
(A) was Wright’s first building
(B) influenced the architecture of subsequent churches
(C) demonstrated traditional ecclesiastical architecture
(D) was the largest church Wright ever designed
29. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were
built by Wright EXCEPT
(A) factories
(B) public buildings
(C) offices
(D) southern plantations
30. Which of the following statements best reflects one of Frank Lloyd
Wright’s architectural principles?
(A) Beautiful design is more important than utility.
(B) Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional
designs.
(C) A building should fit into its surroundings.
(D) The architecture of public buildings does not need to be
revolutionary
Questions 31-40
There are two basic types of glaciers, those that flow outward in all
directions with little regard for any underlying terrain and those that
are confined by terrain to a particular path.
The first category of glaciers includes those massive blankets that
cover whole continents, appropriately called ice sheets. There must
be over 50,000 square kilometers of land covered with ice for the
glacier to qualify as an ice sheet. When portions of an ice sheet
spread out over the ocean, they form ice shelves.
About 20,000 years ago the Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered nearly all
the mountains in southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western
United States. It was about 3 kilometers deep at its thickest point in
northern Alberta. Now there are only two sheets left on Earth, those
covering Greenland and Antarctica.
Any domelike body of ice that also flows out in all directions but
covers less than 50,000 square kilometers is called an ice cap.
Although ice caps are rare nowadays, there are a number in
northeastern Canada, on Baffin Island, and on the Queen Elizabeth
Islands.
The second category of glaciers includes those of a variety of shapes
and sizes generally called mountain or alpine glaciers. Mountain
glaciers are typically identified by the landform that controls their
flow. One form of mountain glacier that resembles an ice cap in that it
flows outward in several directions is called an ice field. The
difference between an ice field and an ice cap is subtle. Essentially,
the flow of an ice field is somewhat controlled by surrounding terrain
and thus does not have the domelike shape of a cap. There are several
ice fields in the Wrangell. St. Elias, and Chugach mountains of Alaska
and northern British Columbia.
Less spectacular than large ice fields are the most common types of
mountain glaciers: the cirque and valley glaciers. Cirque glaciers are
found in depressions in the surface of the land and have a
characteristic circular shape. The ice of valley glaciers, bound by
terrain, flows down valleys, curves around their corners, and falls over
cliffs.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Where major glaciers are located
(B) How glaciers shape the land
(C) How glaciers are formed
(D) The different kinds of glaciers
32. The word “massive” in line 3 is closest in meaning to
(A) huge
(B) strange
(C) cold
(D) recent
33. It can be inferred that ice sheets are so named for which of the
following reasons?
(A) They are confined to mountain valleys.
(B) They cover large areas of land.
(C) They are thicker in some areas than in others.
(D) They have a characteristic circular shape.
34. According to the passage, ice shelves can be found
(A) covering an entire continent
(B) buried within the mountains
(C) spreading into the ocean
(D) filling deep valleys
35. According to the passage, where was the Cordilleran Ice Sheet
thickest?
(A) Alaska
(B) Greenland
(C) Alberta
(D) Antarctica
36. The word “rare” in line 12 is closest in meaning to
(A) small
(B) unusual
(C) valuable
(D) widespread
37. According to the passage (paragraph 5), ice fields resemble ice
caps in which of the following ways?
(A) Their shape
(B) Their flow
(C) Their texture
(D) Their location
38. The word “it” in line 16 refers to
(A) glacier
(B) cap
(C) difference
(D) terrain
39. The word “subtle” in line 17 is closest in meaning to
(A) slight
(B) common
(C) important
(D) measurable
40. All of the following are alpine glaciers EXCEPT
(A) cirque glaciers
(B) ice caps
(C) valley glaciers
(D) ice fields
