Grammar -- Past tense review--TOEFL questions
- A. he revolutionized
- B. there was a revolution in
- C. revolutionized***
- D. in revolutionizing
2. During the period of the Enlightenment, most philosophers _______________________ learning truth by reasoning.
- A. were stressed
- B. stressing
- C. stressed***
- D. have been stressed
3. ___________________, people used beads, cocoa, beans, salt, shells, stones, tobacco, and many other objects as money.
- A. The past
- B. Although past
- C. That in the ast
- D. In the past***
4. Albert Camus, a French journalist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, _______________ about individual freedom and alienation from society.
- A. and wrote passionately
- B. writing passionately
- C. he wrote passionately
- D. wrote passionately***
5. A caricature is a form of art involving a picture ______________ the physical nature of an important person.
- A. exaggerated
- B. that exaggerates***
- C. having exaggerated
- D. exaggerating that
6. Rarely____________________primitive tribes of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Isles practice cannibalism today.
- A. have
- B. are
- C. do***
- D. is it
7. Geographers________________where people, animals, and plants live and their relationship with earth features.
- A. they study
- B. study***
- C. studying
- D. are studying
8. Woodie Guthrie had many personal misfortunes in his life, ______________his music expressed a hopeful view of life.
- A. but***
- B. therefore
- C. which
- D. so
9. The New Frontier, __________________, got off to a slow start.
- A. the name of the program which John F. Kennedy gave
- B. the name John F. Kennedy gave to his programs***
- C. John F. Kennedy named his programs
- D. while the program named by John F. Kennedy
10. In an area first explored by Samuel de Champlain, ________________.
- A. establishment of the city of Halifax in 1749.
- B. in 1749 the city of Halifax established.
- C. in 1749, establishing the city of Halifax.
- D. the city of Halifax was extablished in 1749.***