REVIEW TEST G; STRUCTURE (PETERSON’S TOEFL SUCCESS)

(PETERSON’S TOEFL SUCCESS)

REVIEW TEST G;

STRUCTURE

Directions: For Sentence Completion items, select the answer choice—(A), (B), (C), or (D)—that correctly completes the sentence. For Error Identification items, select the answer choice—(A), (B), (C), or (D)—that corresponds to the underlined portion of the sentence that would not be considered correct. 1 ______________________________ one of Canada’s greatest engineering projects, is a twenty-seven mile long waterway between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. (A) Because the Welland Ship Canal is (B) The Welland Ship Canal is (C) That the Welland Ship Canal is (D) The Welland Ship Canal, 2 Pikes Peak, named for explorer Zebulon Pike, is Colorado’s most famous (A) but (B) not (C) its most highest (D) mountain. 3 Oceanography is not a single (A) science and (B) rather a group of disciplines with (C) a common focus (D). 4 The art of landscape architecture is ________________ that of architecture itself. (A) almost as old as (B) as almost old (C) almost as old than (D) old as almost 5 The term forgetting refers to (A) the loss, whether temporary and (B) long-term, of material that (C) has previously been learned (D). 6 Early astronomers believed that the fainter a star, _____________________. (A) it was farther away (B) the farther away was it (C) that it was farther away (D) the farther away it was 7 Released in 1915, _________________________________________________________________. (A) D. W. Griffith made an epic film about the Civil War, Birth of a Nation (B) the Civil War was the subject of D. W. Griffith’s epic film, Birth of a Nation (C) D. W. Griffith’s epic film Birth of a Nation was about the Civil War (D) the subject of D. W. Griffith’s epic film Birth of a Nation was the Civil War 8 One way pumpkins and watermelons are like (A) is that both (B) grow on vines trailing along (C) the surface of the ground (D). 9  __________ the reptiles alive today is capable of flight. (A) No (B) None of (C) Not one (D) Not 10 When (A) the female oriole is absent from (B) the nest, the male (C) oriole serves like (D) a sentinel. 11 Elfego Baca, ____________ legendary Mexican-American folk hero, was a lawman in New Mexico in the late 1880s. (A) a (B) who, as a (C) was a (D) and he was a 12 Until the (A) 1940s, a historian’s own era was no (B) regarded as a (C) proper field of (D) study. 13 An operetta has some of the same musical elements as an (A) opera and (B) is much lighter (C) in both (D) subject and style. 14 Properly administered, ________________________________________________________. (A) the symptoms of many mental illnesses can be treated with drugs (B) drugs can be used to treat the symptoms of many mental illnesses (C) doctors can use drugs to treat symptoms of many mental illnesses (D) many of the symptoms of mental illness can be treated with drugs 15 Early explorers (A) in Utah named the cliffs they encountered “reefs” because (B) they thought these (C) cliffs looked alike (D) coral formations. 16 Neither humans or (A) dogs can hear (B) as well (C) as cats (D). 17 _______________ popular child’s toy since 1905, the teddy bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. (A) It has been a (B) A (C) Once a (D) First it became a 18 Just like (A) microscopes have provided (B) access to the world of small objects (C), high-speed cameras have provided access to the world of short-duration events (D). 19 __________ plant has a nervous system, and most respond very slowly to stimuli in their environments. (A) Not a (B) Never a (C) No (D) None 20 Gold topaz is much rare (A) than (B) either (C) white or blue (D) topaz. 21 Vermont is the only state in New England _______________ an Atlantic coastline. (A) without (B) not with (C) which not having (D) doesn’t have 22 The Colorado beetle is a beautiful insect, __________ it causes a great deal of damage to food crops. (A) but (B) what (C) or (D) which 33 Jupiter’s moons can be easily seen through __________ binoculars or a small telescope. (A) either (B) if (C) whether (D) or 24 The Kennedy-Nixon race of 1960 (A) was the most closest (B) U.S. presidential (C) election of the (D) twentieth century. 25 __________ a river on land, an ocean current does not flow in a straight line. (A) Alike (B) Likewise (C) Like (D) Likely

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