PRACTICE TEST A (3) SECTION 2: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION TOEFL ITP PRACTICE TEST

 

TOEFL ITP PRACTICE TEST VOLUME 1 PRACTICE TEST A (3) SECTION 2: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

 

Written Expression Directions: In questions 16-40, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. Example 1 A B C D   Guppies are sometimes call (A) rainbow fish (B) because of (C) the males’ bright (D) colors.   The sentence should read, “Guppies are sometimes called rainbow fish because of the males’ bright colors.”Therefore, you should choose (A). Example 1 A B C D   Serving (A) several term (B) in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important (C) United States politician (D). The sentence should read, “Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States politician.”Therefore, you should choose (B).   Now begin work on the questions.   16 While (A) attempting to fly hers (B) plane around (C) the world in 1937, Amelia Earhart mysteriously (D) disappeared. 17 Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children, a collection of short (A) stories, were (B) a critical success (C) when it appeared (D) in 1938 18 The principle on which the boat called a hydrofoil is designed is identically (A) to that demonstrated by (B) an airplane wing moving (C) through air (D). 19 Migrating butterflies (A) can travel (B) long distant (C) over (D) water. 20 During a early (A) period in the settlement of the western United States, pioneers claimed parts (B) of the wilderness by marking (C) trees to establish (D) a boundary. 21 All (A) digital computers use (B) binary, or two-valued, digits instead (C) than decimal, or ten-valued, digits to represent (D) and store data. 22 An (A) ambassador serves as a (B) nation’s highest-ranking diplomacy (C) in another country (D). 23 Early (A) adolescence is a developmental (B) phase consisting of rapid (C) changes in behavior, psychological(D), and hormones. 24 Knowledge (A) from the frontiers of research genetic (B) will increasingly pose difficult (C) problems for policy makers and for society in general(D). 25 Pictures called glass mosaics (A) are made by setting (B) small pieces of colors (C) glass into (D) fresh plaster. 26 Approximately every nineteen month (A) Venus and the Sun reach their (B) greatest angular separation (C) in the (D) solar system. 27 Anthropologists recently have found evidence (A) that, centuries ago, Inuits used to entering (B) their subterranean homes through tunnels, which  helped keep (C) the cold out and the heat in(D).

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