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LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Do Pre - Listening Test First. Listening Pre Test is aimed at knowing your early TOEFL Score of Listening and finding out your weakness in Listening section of TOEFL Test.

Read Listening Comprehension Section Info

Read General Strategy For Listening Comprehension

Study Listening Skills that are usually tested in Listening TOEFL Test. There are three Parts (Listening Part A/B/C):

1. Listening Part A (Short Dialogue)

Listening Part A consists of six skills. You must study it one by one.

Listening Part A (short dialogue info)

Strategy for listening Part A (short dialogue)

Skills of Listening Part A:

Skill/Problem 1

Skill/Problem 2

Skill/Problem 3

Skill/Problem 4

2. Listening Part B (Longer Conversation)

Listening part B info

Strategy for listening Part B

Skill 7: Questions

Skill 8 : The Topics

Skill 9 : Order of Answer

3. Listening Part C

STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Do Structure Pre - Test first. Structure Pre-Test is aimed at knowing your early score of structure as well as finding our your weakness in English Grammar.

Structure and Written Expression info

General Strategy for Structure and Written Expression

Study the skills that are usually tested in TOEFL Test. There are two types: Structure Questions and Written Expression.

1. Structure Questions

Structure Questions info

Strategy For Structure Questions

Structure Questions:

2. Written Expression

Written Expression info

Strategy For Written Expression

Written Expression:

Structure and Written Expression POST TEST

READING COMPREHENSION

Do the Reading Pre - Test first to find our your early score of reading comprehension.
Read Reading Comprehension Section
Read Strategy for Reading Comprehension Question
Study the skills usually tested in reading Comprehension

Skills

5. Do the Reading Post - Test.

(Reading Post - Test is done after doing all skills and complete all exercise).

TOEFL POST TEST

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TOEFL Exercise 2 (Structure Questions)

Previous TOEFL Exercise: TOEFL Exercise 1 (Structure Question)

TOEFL Exercise 2 focuses on Problem with Coordinate Connector, Problem with Adverb clause connector, Noun clause connector and Noun clause connector/subject.

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

1. A spacecraft is freed from friction ____ launched into space.

(A) it

(B) it is

(D) after it is

2. ____ with their surroundings, or they hide in crevices for protection.

(A) Lobsters

(B) Lobsters blend

(D) Because lobsters blend

3. _____ a ball-and-socket joint, the elbow is a simple hinge joint.

(A) While the shoulder

(B) While the shoulder is

(D) The shoulder

4. A car has several sections with moving parts, ......... of those parts is essential.

(A) good lubrication

(B) well lubricated

(D) and well lubricated

5. Bears cannot see well _____ small eyes.

(A) bears have

(B) because having

(D) because of bears

6. _____ at the Isthmus of Panama, so animals were able to migrate between North and South America.

(A) A land bridge existed

(B) When a land bridge existed

(D) With a land bridge

7. ...........mostly made of granite, it also contains some human-made materials.

(A) The Empire State Building

(B) The Empire State Building is

(D) Although the Empire State Building is built

8. Pressure differences make the eardrum vibrate _____ the ear.

(A) enters the sound waves

(B) as sound waves

(D) as sound waves enter

9. An optical microscope magnifies as much as 2,000 times, but an electron microscope ..........as much as a million times.

(A) magnifying

(B) it magnifies

(D) magnify it

10. If scientific estimates are accurate, ___ _ with the Earth about 20,000 years ago.

(A) the Canon Diablo meteorite collided

(B) the collision of the Canon Diablo meteorite

(D) colliding the Canon Diablo meteorite

11. _____ of the Pueblo Indians centered on intensive agriculture.

(A) The economic activity

(B) Because the economic activity

(D) When the economic activity

12. In popular terminology, any long snowstorm with ____ is called a blizzard.

(A) the amount of wind is large

(B) a large amount of wind

(D) very windy

13. Nuclear power can be produced by fusion, _____ produced by fission.

(A) it can also be

(B) it can also

(D) and it can also

14. _____, igneous rocks may be changed into gneisses.

(A) The temperature is high

(B) If the temperature is high

(D) If high temperature

15. In 1905, Henry Flagler _____ his plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railway out across the sea to Key West.

(A) it was announced

(B) announcement

(D) announced

16. The sound ____ from a vibrating object will be high or low depending on the number of vibrations.

(A) Comes

(B) it is coming

(D) coming

17. During the late 1880s, urban streetcars were electrified through ______ large motors.

(A) they used

(B) used

(D) when they used

18. _____ almost 274 square miles, but 96 percent of the park is under water.

(A) Although Biscayne National Park encompasses

(B) Biscayne National Park encompasses

(D) Biscayne National Park

19. Legislation _______ in 1916 and 1917 gave the Wilson administration authority to intervene in the national economy if it proved necessary.

(A) it was passed

(B) was passed

(D) passes

20. Because a family of birds set up housekeeping in Joel Chandler Harris’s mailbox when the birds were in need of a place to stay, ______ the Wren’s Nest.

(A) the home is named

(B) so the home is named

(D) the home’s name

21. Today, the true story of _____ at Little Bighorn remains a mystery.

(A) Happened

(B) it happened

(D) what happening

22. For more than a decade, ____ that certain species are becoming scarce.

(A) the warnings of bird-watchers

(B) warn the bird-watchers

(D) a warning for bird-watchers

23. Early in the eighteenth century, Halley accurately predicted when ____ of 1682 would return.

(A) the comet

(B) was the comet

(D) had the comet

24. No single factor explains why _____ vary so greatly among individuals.

(A) aging affects

(B) the effects of aging

(D) the aging effect

25. Lack of clarity about ____ the party in the coming year will be removed at the party’s convention.

(A) will lead

(B) lead

(D) who will lead

26. We do not ____ the bow drill was first developed for woodworking or fire making.

(A) whether it

(B) know whether it

(D) sure whether

27. Minute Man National Historical Park is a monument to where _____

(A) the beginning of the Revolutionary War

(B) in the beginning of the Revolutionary War

(D) the Revolutionary War began

28. Tests on the colors of cars were conducted at the University of California to determine _____ the safest colors for cars.

(A) which

(B) which were

(D) how were

29. The National Institute of Dental Research estimates _____ in fluoridated areas have about 25 percent less tooth decay than children elsewhere.

(A) for school children

(B) school children’s

(D) that for school children

30. The process of photosynthesis explains how ____ able to use the energy in sunlight to manufacture foods from the simple chemicals in air and water.

(A) green plants
(B) green plants are
(C) planting greens
(D) with green plants are

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TOEFL Exercise 3 (Structure Questions)

Previous TOEFL Exercise: TOEFL Exercise 2

The TOEFL Exercises below focuses on problems about Noun Clause Connector, Noun Clause Connector/Subject, Adjective Clause Connector, Adjective Clause Connector/subject.

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

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

3. ____ quickly after an animal dies.

(A) In the degradation of DNA
(B) Degrading DNA
(C) DNA degrades
(D) For DNA to degrade

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

(A) Improved
(B) It improves
(C) Improvement
(D) They improve

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

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

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

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

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

10. It is not clear whether the subdivisions of the neocortex _____ units.
(A) individual
(B) are individual
(C) they are individual
(D) individually

11. Modern humans, who first appeared about 600,000 years ago, _____ Homo sapiens.

(A) calling
(B) were called
(C) they called
(D) they were called

12. The first writing _____ evidence of is on Mesopotamian clay tablets.

(A) we
(B) that we
(C) has
(D) that we have

13. _____ drought-resistant plants which store water in fleshy tissue.

(A) Succulents are
(B) Succulents
(C) They are succulents
(D) Succulents which are

14. Benjamin Kabelsky, whom ____ as Jack Benny, was a famous comedian in vaudeville and on radio and television.

(A) most people’s knowledge
(B) most people know
(C) knowing most people
(D) the knowledge of most people

15. _____ that hunted other animals tended to have very narrow, sharp, curved claws.

(A) For dinosaurs
(B) Dinosaurs are known
(C) Dinosaurs
(D) Like dinosaurs

16. The first eyeglasses had convex lenses for the aged who ____ farsighted.

(A) had become
(B) they had become
(C) becoming
(D) it became

17. Chimney Rock, ____ 500 feet above the North Platte River, has eroded considerably in the last two centuries.

(A) stands
(B) is standing
(C) it stands
(D) which stands

18. _____ that accompany recurring bouts of severe depression reduce bone density.

(A) It changes hormones
(B) Hormonal changes
(C) The hormones change
(D) The change in hormones is

19. Willa Cather is an author _____ for her evocative and memorable vision of frontier prairie life.

(A) whom readers
(B) the praise of readers
(C) whom praisings
(D) whom readers praise

20. Mars’s tiny moon Phobos is a small mountain of rock that _____ from the asteroid belt by Mars’s gravitational pull.

(A) was probably captured
(B) it probably
(C) the probable capture
(D) probably the capture

21. _____ is famous as the home of the U.S. Naval Academy.

(A) Annapolis
(B) Because of Annapolis
(C) Why Annapolis
(D) Because Annapolis

22. Some scientists think _____ be a planet but a moon of Neptune.

(A) that Pluto does not seem.
(B) not Pluto
(C) Pluto that might not
(D) that Pluto might not

23. With _____ of sophisticated oil lamps, elaborate tools were made to cut the wicks.

(A) appeared
(B) the appearance
(C) the appearance was
(D) it appeared

24. Fort Union was the site of what ____ principal fur-trading post on the upper Missouri River.

(A) the
(B) being the
(C) was the
(D) it was the

25. Since _____ commercial risk, it has to appeal to a large audience to justify its cost.

(A) the face of the movie
(B) moving faces
(C) a movie faces
(D) to face a movie

26. A current of water known as the Gulf Stream comes up from the Gulf of Mexico, and then ____ the North Atlantic toward Europe.

(A) it crosses
(B) crossing
(C) with its crosses
(D) crosses it

27. Systems ____ the two symbols 0 and 1 are called binary number systems.

(A) use
(B) they use
(C) uses
(D) using

28. Genes, _____ the blueprints for cell construction, exist in tightly organized packages called chromosomes.

(A) are
(B) they are
(C) which
(D) which are

29. The Earth’s atmosphere consists of gases _____ in place around the Earth by the gravitational pull of the planet.

(A) held
(B) hold
(C) it holds
(D) the hold

30. Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated with a number of composers including Jerome Kern, whom _____ in writing the musical Show Boat.

(A) joined
(B) was joined
(C) he joined
(D) joining

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TOEFL Exercise 1 (Structure Questions)

The TOEFL Exercise below focuses on TOEFL Test Problem of Subject and Verbs, Object of Preposition, Present Participles and Past Participle.

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

1. Mark Twain _____ the years after the Civil War the “Gilded Age.”

(A) called
(B) calling
(C) he called
(D) his calls

2. Early ____ toes instead of hooves on their feet.

(A) horses
(B) had horses
(C) horses had
(D) horses having

3. ______ grow close to the ground in the short Arctic summer.

(A) Above tundra plants
(B) Tundra plants
(C) Tundra plants are found
(D) For tundra plants

4. In 1867, ____ Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.

(A) purchased the United States
(B) to purchase the United States
(C) the United States’ purchase of
(D) the United States purchased

5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the specialization of _____.

(A) occupations
(B) occupies
(C) they occupied
(D) it occupied them

6. The large carotid artery ____ to the main parts of the brain.

(A) carrying blood
(B) blood is carried
(C) carries blood
(D) blood carries

7. _____ radio as the first practical system of wireless telegraphy.

(A) Marconi’s development
(B) The development by Marconi
(C) Developing Marconi
(D) Marconi developed

8. In 1975, the first successful space probe to ____ beginning to send information back to Earth.

(A) Venus
(B) Venus the
(C) Venus was
(D) Venus it was

9. The two biggest resort _____ Arkansas are Hot Springs and Eureka Springs.

(A) in
(B) towns in
(C) towns are
(D) towns are in

10. NASA’S Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center _________ control center for the Mercury Gemini, and Apollo space flights.

(A) it was at the
(B) it was the
(C) was the
(D) the

11. The first _____ appeared during the last period of the dinosaurs’ reign.

(A) flowers are plants
(B) plants have flowers
(C) plants flowers
(D) flowering plants

12. The earliest medicines _____ from plants of various sorts.

(A) obtaining
(B) they obtained
(C) were obtained
(D) they were obtained

13. Simple sails were made from canvas _____ over a frame.

(A) a stretch
(B) stretched
(C) was stretched
(D) it was stretched

14. Pluto’s moon, Charon, _____ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.

(A) moving
(B) is moving
(C) it was moving
(D) in its movement

15. Techniques of breath control form an essential part of any _____ program to improve the voice.

(A) it trains
(B) train
(C) trains
(D) training

16. Robert E. Lee ____ the Confederate army to General Grant in 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse.

(A) surrendered
(B) he surrendered
(C) surrendering
(D) surrender

17. The pituitary gland, _____ the brain, releases hormones to control other glands.

(A) found below
(B) it is found below
(C) its foundation below
(D) finds itself below

18. At around two years of age, many children regularly produce sentences _____ three or four words.

(A) are containing
(B) containing
(C) contain.
(D) contains planet.

19. Multinational companies ________ it increasingly important to employ internationally acceptable brand names.

(A) finding
(B) are finding
(C) they find
(D) they are finding

20. The cornea is located under the conjunctiva, on ______ of the eye.

(A) the part is exposed
(B) exposed the part
(C) the exposed part
(D) exposes the part

21. _____ first settled the Hawaiian Islands between A.D. 300 and 750.

(A) The Polynesians
(B) The Polynesians arrived
(C) Because of the Polynesians
(D) It was the Polynesians

22. In 1066, a bright comet _____ in the sky attracted much attention.
(A) was appearing
(B) appears
(C) it appeared
(D) appearing

23. In some daguerreotype cameras, _____ through a hole in the back of the box.

(A) the objects view
(B) the object was viewed
(C) from the view of the object
(D) viewed the object

24. In the Stone Age, stone tools _____ with other rock materials.

(A) polishing
(B) they polished
(C) for polish
(D) were polished

25. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic ____ Savannah, in 1819.
(A) was the
(B) it was the
(C) the
(D) in it the

26. The Earth’s plates meet each other at cracks in the Earth _____ faults.

(A) were called
(B) calls
(C) called
(D) it was called

27. The first plant-like organisms probably _____ in the sea, perhaps 3 billion years ago.

(A) life
(B) living
(C) lived
(D) it was living

28. In male pattern baldness, ______strongly influences the degree of hair loss.

(A) heredity
(B) inherited
(C) inherits
(D) heredity has

29. In Watch the Skies, Curtis Peebles ______attempt to explain America’s belief in flying saucers.
(A) makes a fascinating
(B) making a fascinating
(C) fascination with making
(D) fascination made a

30. The irregular coastline of _____ a succession of bays and inlets, with the hook of the Cape Cod peninsula in the southeast.

(A) Massachusetts
(B) Massachusetts is
(C) Massachusetts it is
(D) Massachusetts on

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SKILL 1: Subjects and Verbs

Previous Article: Skills of Structure Questions

You know that a sentence in English should have a subject and a verb. The most common types of problems that you will encounter in the Structure section of the TOEFL test are related to subjects and verbs; perhaps the sentence is missing either the subject, or the verb, or both; perhaps the sentence has an extra subject or verb.

Example I

______was ringing continuously for hours.

(A) Loudly
(B) In the morning
(C) The phone
(D) The bells

Analysis:

In this example, you should notice immediately that there is a verb, was ringing, but there is no subject. Answer (C) is the best answer because it is a singular subject that agrees with the singular verb was ringing. Answer (A), loudly, and answer (B), in the morning, are not subjects, so they are not correct. Although answer (D), bells, could be a subject, it is not correct because bells is plural and it does not agree with the singular verb was ringing.

Example II

Newspapers _______ every morning and every evening.

(A) delivery
(B) are delivered
(C) on time
(D) regularly

Analysis:

In this example, you should notice immediately that the sentence has a subject, newspapers, but that there is no verb. Because answer (B), are delivered, is a verb, it is the best answer. Answers (A), (C), and (D) are not verbs, so they are not correct.

Example III

The plane __________ landing at the airport in five minutes.

(A) it is
(B) it really is
(C) is descending
(D) will be

Analysis:

This sentence has a subject, plane, and has part of a verb, landing; to be correct, some form of the verb be is needed to make the verb complete. Answers (A) and (B) are incorrect because the sentence already has a subject, plane, and does not need the extra subject it. Answer (C) is incorrect because descending is an extra part of a verb that is unnecessary because of landing. Answer (D) is the best answer; will be together with landing is a complete verb.

SUBJECTS AND VERBS

A sentence in English must have at least one subject and one verb. The first thing you should do as you read a sentence in the Structure section of the TOEFL test is to find the subject and the verb.

EXERCISE 1

Underline the subjects once and the verbs twice in each of the following sentences. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect ( I ).

1. My best friend always helpful with problems. ( I )

    Analysis:

The subject of the sentence above is My best friend, but there is no Verb. So, incorrect.
The correct sentence should be My best friend is always helpful and with problems.

2. The bus schedule has changed since last week. (C)

    Analysis:

    The subject is The bus and verb is has changed, so the sentence is Correct.

3. Accidentally dropped the glass on the floor. ( I )

Analysis:

   The sentence doesn't have a Subject. The verb is dropped, so it is incorrect.
   The correct sentence should be Accidentally she or he dropped the glass on the floor.

4. The customer paying the clerk for the clothes. (I)

    Analysis:

    The sentence doesn't have to be, is. So incorrect
    It should be The customer is paying the clerk for the clothes.

5. The professor handed the syllabus to the students. (C)

    Analysis:

    The sentence has subject, the professor and verb, handed. So it is correct

6. Each day practiced the piano for hours. (I)

    Analysis:

     The sentence doesn't have subject. The verb is practiced. So incorrect.
     It should be Each day they practiced the piano for hours.

7. The basketball player tossed the ball into the hoop. (C)

    Analysis:

    The sentence has subject, The basket ball player and verb, tossed. So it is correct

8. The new student in the class very talkative and friendly. (I)

    Analysis:

    The sentence has subject, The new student, but no verb. So incorrect.
    The correct sentence can be The new student in the class is very talkative and friendly.

9. Walking with the children to school.(I)

    Analysis:

    The sentence doesn't have a Subject. It has main verb, walking but without tobe. So incorrect.
    The correct sentence could be She/he is walking with the children to school

10. The whales headed south for the winter. (C)

      Analysis:

     The sentence has a subject, the whales and verb, headed. So, it correct

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