SOAL TOEFL
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Directions : In questions 1-15 each sentence has four words or phrases underlined. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). You are to identify the one underlined word or phrase that should be corrected.
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Answer (B), the underlined word on is the wrong preposition. Therefore, the sentence should read, “Cubism began in 1907 and became one of the most influential movements in modern art.”
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Answer (A), the underlined word much, would not be accepted in carefully written English; the word many is used with the prular people. Therefore, the sentence should read, “Many retired people moved to Miami from other parts of the United States because of the healthful climate of southeastern Florida.”
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Answer (C), the underlined word was, would not be accepted in carefully written English, the plural from were should be used because substances is plural. Therefore, the sentence should read, “A mineral is made up of substances that were never alive.”
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Answer (C), the underlined word them, the ponoun should be reflexive. Therefore, the sentence should read, “The men and women who pushed the frontier westward across America probably never thought of themselves as brave pioneers.”
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Answer (A), the underlined word noise, an adjective, and is needed to describe “birds”, not a noun. Therefore, the sentence should read, “Parrots are sociable, noisy birds that live chiefly in forested areas in lowlands and mountains.”
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Answer (B), the underlined word most sure, is the correct superlative form. Therefore, the sentence should read, “Horses once provided the fastest and surest way to travel on land.”
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Answer (B), the underlined usually and generally, the two words have the same meaning, used together they are redundant. Therefore, the sentence should read, “The bottom of a valley is called its floor which usually or generally slopes gradually in one direction.”
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Answer (A), the underlined which, who is used with people. Therefore, the sentence should read “Persons who have been hypnotized may not remember what happened while they were in a hypnotic france.”
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Answer (C), the underlined minerals, mineral is acting as an adjective and can’t take the plural form. Therefore, the sentence should read “Idaho’s natural resources include fertile soil, rich mineral deposits, thick forests, and abundant water.
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Answer (C), the underlined them, leisure time is the referent and is singular. Therefore, the sentence should read “Most Americans have a great deal of leisure time and they spend them in a variety of ways.”
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Answer (A), the underlined a, the indefinitearticle an is needed before a vowel sound. Therefore, the sentence should read, “Hibernation is an inactive, sleeplike state that some animals enter during winter.”
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Answer (D), the underlined annually, annual is an adjective and is needed. Therefore, the sentence should read “In the United States, pertunias are cultivated widely as annual garden flowers.”
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Answer (A), the underlined to take, an infinitive never follows a modal. Therefore, the sentence should read “Today, a person can take a picture simly by aiming the camera and pressing a button.”
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Answer (C), the underlined differ, the verb, must agree with the subject, “each “ which is singular. Therefore, the sentence should read “Each of the more than three hundred and fifty thousand species of plants differs from every other species in one or more ways.”
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Answer (B), the underlined for longer time, for a longer time an article is needed. Therefore, the sentence should read “A space station is designed so that many people can live and work in orbit for a longer time than they could in an ordinary, crowded spacecraft.”
SUMBER : Steinberg, Roberta. Precentice-Hall’s Practice Test For The TOEFL. Precentice-Hall, Inc. 1987. New Jersey
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