STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 43-45)

LONGMAN COMPLETE COURSE FOR THE TOEFL TEST

STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 43-45): Choose the letter of the underlined word or group of words that is not correct.

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1	Superman made (A) their (B) comic debut (C) in 1938 in (D) Action Comics.
2	Commercial letters of credit are often used (A) to finance export (B) trade, but them (C) can have other uses (D).
3	When children experience (A) too much (B) frustration, its (C) behavior ceases (D) to be integrated.
4	On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot (A) as (B) his (C) was leaving (D) a Washington hotel.
5	Although the destruction that it causes (A) is often terrible, cyclones benefit (B) a much wider (C) belt than they (D) devastate.
6	President Andrew Jackson had an official (A) cabinet, but him (B) preferred (C) the advice of his (D) informal advisors, the Kitchen Cabinet.
7	After Clarence Day’s book (A) Life with Father was rewritten (B) as a play, they (C) ran for six years (D) on Broadway.
8	Almost (A) half of the (B) Pilgrims did not survive theirs (C) first (D) winter in the New World.
9	There was (A) no indication (B) from the Senate that he (C) would agree with the decision made (D) in the House.
10	A baby learns the meanings of the words as they (A) are spoken by others (B) and later (C) uses him (D) in sentences.

ANSWER KEY

1	B	his
2	C	they
3	C	their
4	C	he
5	A	they cause
6	B	he
7	C	it
8	C	their
9	C	it
10	D	them