Task 5 Question TOEFL

1 . __........was backed up for miles on the freeway.
    (A)      Yesterday
    (B)      In the morning
    (C)      Traffic
    (D)      Cars

2 . Engineers ......for work on the new space program.
    (A)     necessary
    (B)     are needed
    (C)     hopefully
    (D)     next month

3 . Fitzgerald_______ the society of the 1920's in his novel, The Great Gatsby.
    (A)     reflect
    (B)     reflects
    (C)     are reflecting
    (D)     have reflected

4 .  With his friend________ found the movie theater
    (A)    has
    (B)    he
    (C)    later
    (D)    when

5 . ....... 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

6 . _______ 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

7 . 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

8.  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

9 . 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

10 . 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

11 . 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  

12.  The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting, 
                                                     A                   B         C
       and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
                   D

13 .... a bee colony gets, the more the queen's egglaying capability diminishers.

      A. It is more overcrowded.

      B. The more overcrowded.

      C. More overcrowded than.

      D. More than overcrowded.

14.  The chairwoman requested that ....

      A. the participants studied more careful the problem.

      B. the participants study the problem more carefully.

      C. the participants studied  the problem with more careful.

      D. the problem be studied more carefully.

15.  Unlike the earth, which rotates once every twenty-four hours ... once every ten hours.

      A. the rotation of Jupiter

      B. Jupiter rotates

      C. Jupiter rotation

      D. Jupiter rotate

16  Jackson,... capital of Mississippi, is the largest city in the state.

      A. the

      B. it is the

      C. is the

      D. where the

17 The various types of bacteria are classified according to...shapes.

      A. whose

      B. how they are

      C. have

      D. their

18  _________, George, is attending the lecture.
    (A)    Right now
    (B)    Happily
    (C)    Because of the time
    (D)    My friend

19 __________ , Sarah rarely misses her basketball shots.
    (A)    An excellent basketball player
    (B)    An excellent basketball player is
    (C)    Sarah is an excellent basketball player
    (D)    Her excellent basketball play

 20 The child_________  playing in the yard is my son.
    (A)    now
    (B)    is
    (C)    he
    (D)    was

Answer

1 C

2 B

3 B

4 B

5 C

6 D

7 D

8 B

9 B a nearly -> nearly

10 B  the more -> more

11 B visible remains -> remains visible

12 D farmer -> farming

13 B

14 B

15 B

16 A

17 D

18 D

19 A

20 A