Grammar -- TOEFL Review Sheet
Choose the most appropriate response.
1. The Census Bureau for years used the completion of fourth grade as __________________standard of literacy.
a. its***
b. it's
c. their
d. there is
2. For every ton of grain______________________, American farmers were losing six tons of their top soil.
a. they produced***
b. which produced
c. that were producing
d. they are producing
3. The first large-scale migration from the Old World to the New________________during the last ice age, around 11,500 years ago.
a. have been happening
b. happened***
c. was happened
d. happening
4. Forestry researchers speculate that trees communicate in some fashion.
a. prove
b. guess***
c. predict
d. deny
5. Body language conveys shades of meaning that words alone cannot express.
a. convenes
b. determines
c. transmits***
d. hides
6. Acid rain presently threatens many major forests of the northeastern United States.
a. currently***
b. usually
c. continually
d. accidently
7. The child charged down the steps.
a. ran***
b. fell
c. tiptoed
d. slid
8. The travel agent tried to tantalize me with details of a proposed trip to the islands.
a. tempt***
b. dissuade
c. inform
d. fool
9. After_________________, the supernova hurls its mass into the black void of space.
a. explode
b. exploding***
c. explosive
d. explodes
10. The static interference on the radio_______________________an airplane.
a. was caused by***
b. was causing
c. has caused
d. caused by
11. It was the impact of the railroad_____________________________
agriculture in the West.
a. it expanded
b. expanded
c. that it had expanded
d. that expanded***
12. _____________________I get your call, I will leave.
a. As soon as***
b. As though
c. By the time
d. Now that