BARON TOEFL PRACTICE EXERCISES Exercise 55: Sentences – Comprehensive Structures PART 2

BARON TOEFL PRACTICE EXERCISES

Exercise 55: Sentences – Comprehensive Structures

PART 2

In the Structure Section of the Paper-Based TOEFL, the items will be organized into two parts completion sentences and correction sentences. The test will include a comprehensive selection of structures. This exercise is an example of the Paper-Based TOEFL format. Choose the correct answer in the incomplete sentences. Choose the incorrect word or phrase in the underlined choices.

16	A swarm of locusts is responsible (A) the consumption of enough plant material (B) to feed (C) a million and a half (D) people.	29	Even (A) a professional psychologist may have difficulty talking calm 9B) and logically about (C) his own (D) problems.
17	Oyster farming (A) has been practice (B) in most (C) parts of the world for (D) many years.	30	The more the relative humidity reading rises (A), the worst (B) the heat affects (C) us (D).
18	Those (A) of us who (B) smoke should have their (C) lungs x-rayed regularly (D).	31	Because correlations are not causes,(A) statistical data which are (B) extremely easy (C) to misuse (D).
19	After the team of geologists had drawn diagrams in their (A) notebooks and wrote (B) explanations of the formations which (C) they had observed, they returned to their campsite to compare (D) notes.	32	Lectures for (A) the week of March 22-26 will include (B) the following (C): The Causes of the Civil War, The Economy of the South, Battle Strategies, and The Assassinate (D) Lincoln.
20	If Robert Kennedy would have lived (A) a little longer (B), he probably (C) would have won (D) the election.	33	Despite of (A) many (B) attempts to introduce (C) a universal language, notably Esperanto and Idiom Neutral, the effort has met with very little (D) success.
21	It (A) was Shirley Temple Black which (B) represented (C) her country in the United Nations and later (D) became an ambassador.	34	As (A) every other (B) nation, the United States used to define (C) its (D) unit of currency, the dollar, in terms of the gold standard.
22	The prices at (A) chain stores are (B) as reasonable, if not more (C) reasonable, as (D) those at discount stores.	35	It is necessary that one met (A) with a judge before signing (B) the final papers (C) for a divorce (D).
23	It is (A) extremely (B) important for (C) an engineer to know (D) to use a computer.	36	Until recently (A), women were (B) forbidden by law (C) from owning (D) property.
24	Historically (A) there (B) has been (C) only (D) two major factions in the Republican Party the liberals and the conservatives.	37	According (A) to the graduate catalog, student housing is (B) more cheaper (C) than (D) housing off campus.
25	Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass as a tribute to the Civil War soldiers who had laid (A) on the battlefields and whom (B) he had seen (C) while serving (D) as an army nurse.	38	John Dewey thought that children will learn (A) better (B) through participating in experiences rather than (C) through listening to (D) lectures.
26	One of the first and ultimately (A) the most important purposeful (B) of a reservoir is to control (C) flooding (D).	39	In England (A) as early as (B) the twelfth century (C), young boys enjoyed to play (D) football.
27	The Chinese (A) were the first and large (B) ethnic group to work (C) on the construction of (D) the transcontinental railroad system.	40	Some (A) methods to prevent (B) soil erosion are (C) plowing parallel with the slopes of hills, to plant (D) trees on unproductive land, and rotating crops.
28	The range of plant life on a mountainside is (A) a results (B) of differences (C) in temperature and precipitation at varying (D) altitudes.

ANSWER KEY

16	A	29	B
17	B	30	B
18	C	31	B
19	B	32	D
20	A	33	A
21	B	34	A
22	D	35	A
23	D	36	D
24	C	37	C
25	A	38	A
26	B	39	D
27	B	40	D
28	B

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