Structure Question: TOEFL Review Exercise (Skill 1-8)

Artikel Sebelumnya: TOEFL Exercise (Skill 7-8)

Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best completes the sentence.

1. Air near the equator ____ a faster west-to-east motion than air farther from the equator.

   (A) to have

   (B) it has

   (C) has

   (D) having

   Jawaban: (C) has, karena kalimat diatas belum memiliki Verb (kata kerja)

2. About 4000 B.C., humans discovered that ____ obtained from special rocks called ores.

    (A) metals could be

    (B) the ability of metallic

    (C) possibly metallic

    (D) could metals be

   Jawaban: (A), metals could be.

3. ____ quickly after an animal dies.

   (A) In the degradation of DNA

   (B) Degrading DNA

   (C) DNA degrades

   (D) For DNA to degrade

   Jawaban:  (C) DNA degrades

4. ____ aerodynamic design has contributed greatly to reducing resistance to motion.

   (A) Improved

   (B) It improves

  (C) Improvement

  (D) They improve

  Jawaban: (A) improved

5. The southern part of Florida is much warmer in the winter than the northern part, so more _____ to the south.

(A) flocking tourists

(B) touring flocks

(C) flocks of tourists

(D) tourists flock

Jawaban: (D) tourists flock

6. The Moon’s gravity pulls water on the near side of the Earth toward the Moon, and this is what _____ tides to occur.

(A) the cause

(B) causes

(C) causing

(D) the cause of

Jawaban: (D) the cause of tide

7. ____, they pick up fragments of rock which become frozen into the base of the ice.

(A) Glaciers move

(B) Glaciers moving

(C) They were glaciers

(D) As glaciers move

Jawaban: (D) As glaciers move

8. The tape measure first evolved from ____ used by the Egyptians.

(A) the chains measure

(B) the chains are measured

(C) the chains are measuring

(D) the measuring chains

Jawaban: (D) Measuring chains

9. A typical Atlantic hurricane starts as a low pressure system near _____.

(A) Africa coasts

(B) coast to Africa

(C) the African coast

(D) Africa has a coast

Jawaban: (C) African Coast

10. It is not clear whether the subdivisions of the neocortex _____ units.

(A) individual

(B) are individual

(C) they are individual

(D) individually

Jawaban: (B) individual