LONGMAN COMPLETE COURSE FOR THE TOEFL TEST TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 33-36)

LONGMAN COMPLETE COURSE FOR THE TOEFL TEST

TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 33-36): Choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct.

1	In several of his paintings (A), Edward Hicks depicted the Quaker farm in Pennsylvania where (B) he spends (C) his (D) youth.
2	Florida has become (A) the twenty-seventh (B) state (C) in the (D) United States on March 3, 1845.
3	After last week’s (A) meeting, the advertising department quickly realized (B) that the product will (C) need (D) a new slogan.
4	John F. Kennedy’s (A) grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, serves (B) two terms as the (C) mayor of Boston in the beginning (D) of the twentieth century.
5	Fort Ticonderoga, a strategically important fortification during the revolution, had (A) since been (B) reconstructed (C) and turned (D) into a museum.
6	In making (A) their calculations, Institute researchers assume that the least costly (B) form of energy would (C) be used (D).
7	A twenty-one-year-old man became (A) the second casualty yesterday when (B) he loses (C) control (D) of his truck.
8	Most people had (A) written (B) with quill pens until pens (C) with metal points become (D) popular in the middle of the nineteenth century.
9	In a determined (A) drive to Pare its debt, (B) Time Warner is launching a stock offering (C)plan that would potentially raise (D) $2.8 billion.
10	The formula used (A) in the study calls for either (B) peroxide or metaldehyde, but (C) metaldehyde was (D) not always available.

 

ANSWER KEY

1	C	spent
2	A	became
3	C	would
4	B	served
5	A	has
6	C	will
7	C	lost
8	D	became
9	D	will potentially raise
10	D	is