PETERSON TOEFL PBT PRACTICE TEST 3 PART 4

PETERSON TOEFL PBT PRACTICE TEST 3

PART 4

1.       The sculptors (A) of Louise Nevelson typically (B) consisted of complex arrangements (C) of large black wooden (D) boxes.

2.       Engineering (A) is a profession who (B) puts scientific (C) knowledge to (D) practical use.

3.      Fire bright, a common (A) disease of apples (B) and pear trees, can sometimes be controlled (C) with (D) an antibiotic spray.

4.        Radio stations at which (A) broadcast only news (B) first appeared (C) in the (D) 1970s.

5.       Newspaper editor (A) James G. Bennet believed that the journalist’s task was not merely (B) to inform (C) readers but to startle them as well as (D).

6.    In the (A) tundra regions of North America, the change (B) from summer to winter (C) occurs very sudden (D).

7.        Natural bridges of stone (A) are formed the (B) action of water or (C) wind-driver (D) sand.

8.     In Babbitt and other novels (A), Sinclair Lewis presented critical (B) portraits of middle-class Americans who thought (C) of them (D) as model citizens.

9.        Quite logically (A), nearly all (B) early roads followed course of (C) river valleys (D),

10.  The plants of the desert are so spaced widely (A) because of (B) a scarcity of water that there is little or no (C) competition for water among them (D).

11.    Drowsiness is one symptom of (A) hypothermia, the extreme (B) lost (C) of body heat (D).

12.    A globe presents (A) a picture of the earth (B) with practically (C) not (D) distortions.

13.    It is (A) about 125 years for (B) the cedar tree to reach its full (C) height (D).

14.    Compared to (A) those (B) of animals, the fossil record for plants (C) is quite (D) sketchy.

15.    Life that (A) we know it (B) is based on (C) the element (D) carbon.

  

ANSWER KEY

1.        A

The noun sculptures should be used in place of the noun sculptors. (a sculptor is a person who makes a sculpture)

2.        B

The relative pronoun who is properly used to refer only to a person; the relative pronouns that or which should be used to refer to a profession)

3.        B

The word apples should not be pluralized; it is part of a compound noun. (Apple and pear trees means apple trees and pear trees)

4.        A

The preposition at is unnecessary and should be omitted.

5.        D

At the end of a clause, this phrase should be as well, not as well as. (The correct patterns are A as well as B and A and B as well.)

6.        D

The adverb suddenly is needed in place of the adjective sudden.

7.        B

The preposition by is omitted; the phrase should read formed by the …

8.        D

The reflexive pronoun themselves should be used in place of the personal pronoun them.

9.        C

The definite article the has been omitted; the phrase should correctly read the course of.

10.    A

The correct word order is adverb + participle (widely spaced)

11.    C

The noun loss should be used in place of the verb/participle lost.

12.    D

Before a noun (distortions) the negative word no should be used in place of not.

13.    A

In this sentence, the verb takes should be used in place of the verb is. (The correct pattern is it + takes + time period + infinitive.)

14.    B

The singular pronoun that should be used, because it refers to the singular noun phrase fossil record.)

15.    A

The word as should be used in place of that. (As in this sentence means in the way that …)