TOEFL Prediction Test

6. Potential dehydration is ____ that a land animal faces.

(A) the often greatest hazard (B) the greatest often hazard
(C) often the greatest hazard (D) often the hazard greatest

7. By tracking the eye of a hurricane, forecasters can determine the speed at which
____.
(A) is a storm moving (B) a storm is moving
(C) is moving a storm (D) a moving storm

8. The grapes of Wrath, a novel about the Depression years of the 1930’s, is one of
John Steinbeck’s _____ books.
(A) most famous (B) the most famous
(C) are most famous (D) and most famous

9. Technology will play a role in _____ future life-

styles. (A) to shape (B) shaping
(C) shape of (D) shaped

10．The computer has dramatically affected _____ photographic lenses are

constructed.
(A) is the way (B) that the way
(C) which way do (D) the way

11. The early railroads were _____ the existing arteries of transportation: roads,
1. Simple photographic
turnpikes, lenses
canals, and other cannot _____ sharp, undistorted images over a wide
waterways.
field.(A) those short lines connected (B) short lines that connected
(A) to form (B) are
(C) connected by short lines formed (D) short connecting lines
(C) forming (D) form

2.
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in
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farmers thatcreated.
it influences (D) why farmers influence it
(A) Ranks (B) The ranking
(C) To be ranked (D) For being ranked
3. Beverly Sills, ______, assumed directorship of the New York City Opera in 1979.

(A) beRobinson,
13. Jackie a star soprano (B) baseball
______ to play was a star
insoprano
the major leagues, joined the
(C) a star soprano and (D) a star soprano
Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

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as histology. (B) the first Black American
(C) was the first Black American (D) the first and a Black American who
(A) Studying scientific (B) The scientific study
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scientific emergency headquarters in
scientifically
Mississippi, set up temporary shelters for the homeless.
(A) operates (B) is operating
5. With
(C) the
has exeption
operated of mercury, ______
(D) at standard temperature and pressure.
operating
(A) the metallic elements are solid (B) which is a solid metallic element
(C) metallic elements being solid (D) since the metallic elements are solid
15. In bacteria and in other organisms, ______ is the nucleic acid DNA that provides
the genetic information.

(A) both (B) which

(C) and (D) it
21. John Rosamond Johnson he composed numerous songs, including Life Every

A B C

Voice and Sing, for which his brother, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words.

22. Nylon, atosynthetic

16. Twenty done
thirty year from
after a combination
a mature forest is of water,away,
cleared air, and a by-product
a nearly of
impenetrable

A A B B C C

coal,thicket
was first introduced
of trees in 1983.
and shrubs develops.

D D

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birds,Yellowstone
is one of theNational
major scientific fields
Park, was in whichin
established

A B A CB D

amateurs
1872.play a role in accumulating, researching, and publish data.

C D
18. Because it does not have a blood supply, the cornea takes their oxygen directly
24. Animation is a technique for creativity the illusion of life in inanimate things.
A B C D
A B C D
from the air.

25. The nonviolent protest advocated by Dr. Martin Luther King proving highly
19. Magnificent mountains and coastal scenery is British Columbia’s chief tourist
A B
A B C D
effective in an age of expanding television news coverage.
attractions. C D

26. On December 7,1787, Delaware became a first state to ratify the Constitution.
20. Scientists at universities are often more involved in theoretical research than in
A B C D
A B C

27. Nutritionists
practically believe what diet affects how one feels physically and emotionally.
research.

D A B C D
28. Mealii Kalama, creator of over 400 Hawaiian quilts was granted a National

A B

Heritage Fellowship in 1985 for herself contributions to folk and art.

C D

29. A jetty serves to define and deepen a channel, improve navigate, or protect a

A B C

harbor.

30. Minoru Yamasaki is an American architect which works departed from the

A B

austerity frequently associated with architecture in the United States after the

C D

Second World War.

31. Chemical research provides information that is useful when the textile industry in

A B C

the creation of synthetic fabrics.

D
32. Jane Addams, social worker, author, and spokeswoman for the peace and

women’s suffrage movements, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her

B C

humanitarian achievements.

33. Bromyrite crystals have a diamond-like luster and are usually colorless, but they

A B

dark to brown when exposed to light.

C D

34. Stars in our universe vary in temperature, color, bright, size and mass.

A B C D

35. Ice is less denser than liquid from which it is formed.

A B C D

36. The 1983 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Barbara McClintock for her

experiments with maize and her discoveries regardless the nature of DNA.

B C D

37. In 1866 to 1883, the bison population in North American was reduced from
an
A B

estimated 13 million to a few hundred.

C D
38. Most of the damage property attributed to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906

A B C

resulted from the fire that followed.

39. James Baldwin’s plays and short stories, which are to some degree

A B

autobiographical, established them as a leading figure in the United States civil

C D

rights movement.

40. Thunder can be listened from a maximum distance of about ten miles except

A B C

under unusual atmospheric conditions.