This document provides instructions and examples for two sections of a grammar test: Structure and Written Expression. The Structure section contains incomplete sentences with four options to complete each one. Test takers must choose the best completion. The Written Expression section contains sentences with underlined portions, one of which must be corrected to make the sentence right. Test takers must identify which underlined part needs changing. The document aims to demonstrate the format and expectations of the grammar assessment.
This document provides instructions and examples for two sections of a grammar test: Structure and Written Expression. The Structure section contains incomplete sentences with four options to complete each one. Test takers must choose the best completion. The Written Expression section contains sentences with underlined portions, one of which must be corrected to make the sentence right. Test takers must identify which underlined part needs changing. The document aims to demonstrate the format and expectations of the grammar assessment.
This document provides instructions and examples for two sections of a grammar test: Structure and Written Expression. The Structure section contains incomplete sentences with four options to complete each one. Test takers must choose the best completion. The Written Expression section contains sentences with underlined portions, one of which must be corrected to make the sentence right. Test takers must identify which underlined part needs changing. The document aims to demonstrate the format and expectations of the grammar assessment.
This document provides instructions and examples for two sections of a grammar test: Structure and Written Expression. The Structure section contains incomplete sentences with four options to complete each one. Test takers must choose the best completion. The Written Expression section contains sentences with underlined portions, one of which must be corrected to make the sentence right. Test takers must identify which underlined part needs changing. The document aims to demonstrate the format and expectations of the grammar assessment.
This section tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage suitable for standard written English. This section is divided into two parts, each with its own directions.
Structure Directions: Items in this part are incomplete sentences. Following each of these sentences, there are four words or phrases. You should select the one word or phrase-(A), (B), (C), or (D)-that best completes the sentence. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of the answer that you have selected.
Example!
Pepsin ____ an enzyme used
in digestion.
(A) that (B) is (C) of (D) being
This sentence should properly read "Pepsin is an enzyme used in digestion." You should fill in (B) on your answer sheet.
Example II
____ large natural lakes are found
in the state of South Carolina.
(A) There are no
(B) Not the (C) It is not (D) No
This sentence should properly read "No large natural lakes are found in the state of South Carolina." You should fill in (D) on your answer sheet.
As soon as you understand the directions, begin work on this part.
Section 2: Structure and Written Expression
Grammar for TOEFL 1: Practice Test A
❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ 1. The North Pole __________ a latitude of 90 7. Experiments _____ represent a giant step degrees north. into the medicine of the future.
(A) it has (A) using gene therapy
(B) is having (B) use gene therapy (C) which is having (C) they use (D) Has (D) gene therapy uses
2. The city of Beverly Hills is surrounded on 8. ______ off the Hawaiian coastline are living, ________ the city of Los Angeles. others are dead.
(A) its sides (A) While some types of coral reefs
(B) the sides are (B) Some types of coral reefs (C) it is the side of (C) There are many types of coral reefs (D) all sides by (D) Coral reefs
3. _______ greyhound, can achieve speeds up 9. Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark gray to thirty-six miles per hour. clouds _______ forebode rain.
(A) The (A) what
(B) The fastest (B) which (C) The fastest dog (C) what they (D) The fastest dog, the (D) which they
4. Marmots spend their time foraging among 10. Some economists now suggest that home meadow plants and flowers or _______ on equity loans are merely a new trap to push rocky cliffs. consumers beyond _______.
(A) gets sun (A) they can afford
(B) sunning (B) they can afford it (C) the sun (C) what is affordable (D) Sunny (D) able to afford
5. The greenhouse effect occurs ______ heat 11. People who reverse the letters of words radiated from the Sun. _______ to read suffer from dyslexia.
(A) when does the Earth's atmosphere trap (A) when trying (B) does the Earth's atmosphere trap (B) if they tried (C) when the Earth's atmosphere traps (C) when tried (D) the Earth's atmosphere traps (D) if he tries
6. The Rose Bowl, _____ place on New Year’s 12. Featured at the Henry Ford Museum ______ Day, is the oldest postseason collegiate of antique cars dating from 1865. football game in the United States. (A) is an exhibit (A) takes (B) an exhibit (B) it takes (C) an exhibit is (C) which takes (D) which is an exhibit (D) took
Section 2: Structure and Written Expression
Grammar for TOEFL 1: Practice Test A
❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ 13. Rubber _______ from vulcanized silicones 15. According to the World Health with a high molecular weight is difficult to Organization, _________ any of the six most distinguish from natural rubber. dangerous diseases to break out, it could be cause for quarantine. (A) is produced (B) producing (A) were (C) that produces (B) they were (D) produced (C) there were (D) were they 14. ________ appears considerably larger at the ~......... horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion.
(A) The Moon
(B) That the Moon (C) When the Moon (D) The Moon which
Section 2: Structure and Written Expression
Grammar for TOEFL 1: Practice Test A
❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ Written Expression Directions: In questions 16-40, 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, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Look at the following examples.
The sentence should read, "The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths." Therefore, you should choose (B).
The sentence should read, "The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years." Therefore, you should choose (C).
Now begin work on the questions.
Section 2: Structure and Written Expression
Grammar for TOEFL 1: Practice Test A
❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ ❷ 16. On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile beneath sea level. A B C D
17. Because of the flourish with which John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, his name become A B C synonymous with signature. D
18. Segregation in public schools was declare unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954. A B C D
19. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude about twenty-three times A B C that of the Sun. D
20. Killer whales tend to wander in family clusters that hunt, play, and resting together. A B C D
21. Some of the most useful resistor material are carbon, metals, and metallic alloys. A B C D
22. The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy's Store. A B C D
23. Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in various types of coins. A B C D
24. J. H. Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought tuberculosis patients together to discuss A B C its disease. D
25. The United States has import all carpet wools in recent years because domestic wools are too fine and soft A B C D for carpets.
26. Irving Berlin wrote "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in a U.S. Army during A B C D World War I.
27. Banks are rushing to merge because consolidations enable them to slash theirs costs and expand. A B C D
28. That water has a very high specific heat means that without a large temperature change water can add or lose A B C a large number of heat. D
29. Benny Goodman was equally talented as both a jazz performer as well as a classical musician. A B C D
Section 2: Structure and Written Expression
Grammar for TOEFL 1: Practice Test A
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30. The state seal still used in Massachusetts designed by Paul Revere, who also designed the first Continental A B C D currency.
31. Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century Virginia to race on courses short of about a quarter A B of a mile in length. C D
32. No longer satisfied with the emphasis of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham has moved to the staff of A B C D the Eastman School in 1925.
33. William Hart was an act best known for his roles as western heroes in silent films. A B C D
34. Prior to an extermination program earlier this century, alive wolves roamed across nearly all of North A B C D America.
35. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national attention as a result A B C its radical political activity. D
36. Artist Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on project from 1925 until his A B C D death in 1941.
37. It is proving less costly and more profitably for drugmakers to market directly to patients. A B C D
38. Sapphires weighing as much as two pounds have on occasion mined.
A B C D
39. Like snakes, lizards can be found on all others continents except Antarctica. A B C D
40. Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently been doing home equity loans with A B greater frequency than ever before. C D
This is the end of the Structure and Written Expression Test.
