TOEFL STRUCTURE REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-4)

TOEFL STRUCTURE REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-4): Choose the letter of the word or group of word that best completes the sentence.

1.   _____ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 and 750.

(A) The Polynesians

(B) The Polynesians arrived

(C) Because of the Polynesians

(D) It was the Polynesians

2.   In 1066, a bright comet _____ in the sky attracted much attention.

(A) was appearing

(B) appears

(C) it appeared

(D) appearing

3.   In some daguerreotype cameras, _____ through a hole in the back of the box.

(A) the objects view

(B) the object was viewed

(C) from the view of the object

(D) viewed the object

4.   In the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.

(A) polishing

(B) they polished

(C) for polish

(D) were polished

5.   The first steamship to cross the Atlantic ____ Savannah, in 1819.

(A) was the

(B) it was the

(C) the

(D) in it the

 

6.   The Earth’s plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth _____ faults.

(A) were called

(B) calls

(C) called

(D) it was called

7.   The first plant-like organisms probably _____ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years ago.

(A) life

(B) living

(C) lived

(D) it was living

8.   In male pattern baldness, ______strongly influences the degree of hair loss.

(A) heredity

(B) inherited

(C) inherits

(D) heredity has

9.  In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles ______attempt to explain America’s belief in flying saucers.

(A) makes a fascinating

(B) making a fascinating

(C) fascination with making

(D) fascination made a

10.  The irregular coastline of _____ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the Cape Cod peninsula in the southeast.

(A) Massachusetts

(B) Massachusetts is

(C) Massachusetts it is

(D) Massachusetts on

Key:

1. A
2. D
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. A
10. B

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