Complete TOEFL Part A: Practice Test A

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Structure and Written Expression

Time: 25 minutes

This section tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage suitable for standard written
English. This section is divided into two parts, each with its own directions.

Structure
Directions: Items in this part are incomplete sentences. Following each of these sentences, there
are four words or phrases. You should select the one word or phrase-(A), (B), (C), or (D)-that
best completes the sentence. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that matches the letter of
the answer that you have selected.

Example!

Pepsin ____ an enzyme used

in digestion.

(A) that
(B) is
(C) of
(D) being

This sentence should properly read "Pepsin is an enzyme used in digestion." You should fill in (B)
on your answer sheet.

Example II

____ large natural lakes are found

in the state of South Carolina.

(A) There are no

(B) Not the
(C) It is not
(D) No

This sentence should properly read "No large natural lakes are found in the state of South
Carolina." You should fill in (D) on your answer sheet.

As soon as you understand the directions, begin work on this part.

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1. Martha Graham, ________ of the pioneers of 7. ____ often raise funds from the sale of stock.
modern dance, didn't begin dancing Until she
was twenty-one. (A) For corporations to operate
(B) The operations of corporations
(A) who, as one (C) Corporations operate by
(B) she was (D) To operate, corporations
(C) one
(D) was one 8. While all birds are alike in that they have
feathers and lay eggs, ____ great differences
2. Tiger moths ______ wings marked with among them in terms of size, structure, and
stripes or spots. color.

(A) have (A) there are

(B) with (B) but are
(C) their (C) if there are
(D) whose (D) to be

3. Platinum is harder than copper and is almost 9. There were _____ federal laws regulating
as pliable _______ mining practices until 1872.

(A) gold (A) none

(B) than gold (B) not
(C) as gold (C) no
(D) gold is (D) nor

4. Most of Annie Jump Cannon's career as an 10. The Masters, one of the most important of all
astronomer involved the observation, golf tournaments, ______ every year in
classification, and ______ Augusta, Georgia.

(A) she analyzed stars (A) has held

(B) the stars' analysis (B) being held
(C) stars were analyzed (C) is held
(D) analysis of stars (D) holding

5. Many communities are dependent on 11. Not only ___________ places of beauty;
groundwater _____ from wells for their they serve scientific and educational
water supply. purposes as well.

(A) that obtained (A) are botanical gardens

(B) obtained (B) botanical gardens to be
(C) is obtained (C) botanical gardens are
(D) obtain it (D) to be botanical gardens

6. ____ experimental studies of the aging 12. _______ quicksand can be found all over the
process, psychologist Ross McFarland world, little was known about it composition
determined that people could work until recently.
productively much longer than had
previously been thought. (A) Except
(B) Although
(A) In that (C) Even
(B) Through (D) Despite
(C) Since
(D) Into

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13. In 1791 Quebec was divided into two 15. Designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,
sections, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, __________
_______ were ruled by elected assemblies.
(A) the United States was given the Statue
(A) they both of Liberty by the people of France
(B) both of them
(C) in which both (B) the people of France gave the Statue of
(D) both of which Liberty to the United States

(C) the Statue of Liberty was given to the

14. ________ are a form of carbon has been United States by the people of France
known since the late eighteenth century.
(D) the French people presented the
(A) Diamonds United States with a gift, the Statue of
(B) Because diamonds Liberty
(C) That diamonds
(D) Diamonds, which

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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.

Look at the following examples.

The sentence should read, "The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths." Therefore, you should
choose (B).

The sentence should read, "The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years." Therefore, you
should choose (C).

Now begin work on the questions.

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16. There are thousand of different types of roses.
A B C D

17. Since 1908 breeders set out to produce chickens that could survive Canada's cold climate.
A B C D

18. From 1865 to 1875, a remarkable various of inventions was produced.

A B C D

19. The simplest kind of plant, alike the simplest kind of animal, consists of only one cell.
A B C D

20. The first recorded use of natural gas to light streetlamps it was in the town of Frederick,
A B C D
New York, in 1825.

21. A museum in Denver, Colorado, chronicles black cowboys and his role in the history of the
A B C D
American West.

22. Bluegrass music is a kind of country music who was pioneered by Bill Monroe of Rosine,
A B C D
Kentucky.

23. A number of the materials used in manufacturing paint are potential dangerous if mishandled.
A B C D

24. There are several races of giraffes, but there are only one species.
A B C D

25. Chestnuts were once the most common tree in the eastern United States, but almost of them
A B C

were destroyed by a disease called chestnut blight.

D

26. Despite they are small, ponies are strong and have great stamina.
A B C D

27. Physical therapists help patients relearn how to use their bodies after disease or injure.
A B C D

28. Liquids take the shape of any container which in they are placed.
A B C D

29. The Sun supplies the light and the warmth that permit life on Earth existing.
A B C D

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30. For seventeen years, between 1932 to 1949, Fred Allen was one of the most popular comedians
A B C
on radio.
D

31. Boolean algebra is most often used to solve problems in logic, probability, and engineer.
A B C D

32. Attorney Clarence Darrow is knowing for his defense of unpopular persons and causes.
A B C D

33. Phi Beta Kappa is a honor society that encourages scholarship in science and art.
A B C D

34. The French Quarter is the most famous and the most old section of New Orleans.
A B C D

35. There was once a widespread believe that all lizards were poisonous.
A B C D

36. In the late nineteenth century, many public buildings, especially that on college campuses, were
A B C

built in the in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture.

D

37. Sponges have neither heads nor separate body organs.

A B C D

38. A wooden barrel is made from strips of wood called staves holding together with metal hoops.
A B C D

39. Salt was once too scarce and precious that it was used as money.
A B C D

40. Sharks acquire many sets of tooth during their lifetimes.

A B C D

This is the end of the Structure and Written Expression Test.

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