TOEFL Structure Skill 1-10

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

• (A) Annapolis

• (B) Because of Annapolis

• (C) Why Annapolis

• (D) Because Annapolis

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

3.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

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

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

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

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

• (A) use

• (B) they use

• (C) uses

• (D) using

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

• (A) are

• (B) they are

• (C) which

• (D) which are

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

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