toefl quiz part 1

A three-foot octopus can crawl through a hole ------ in diameter.

• than one inch less

• less than one inch

• one less inch than

• than less one inch

----adopted the decimal system of coinage in 1867.

• Canada

• When Canada

• Canada, which

• There was Canada

( In cases of ) minor injury ( to ) the brain. Amnesia is (likely )to be a ( temporarily ) condition.

• in case of

• to

• likely

• temporarily

The system of chemical symbols, first devised about 1800. gives a concise and instantly recognizable description of a element or compound.

• system

• instantly

• a

• or

The Actor’s Studio, a professional actors’

workshop in New York City, provides

------where actors can work together without the

pressure of commercial production.

• a place and

• a place

• so that a place

• a place is

---- that life began billions of years ago in the

water.

• it is believed

• in the belief

• the belief

• believing

The fact that white light is light composed of various wavelengths may be demonstrating by dispersing a beam of such light through a prism.

• the fact

• composed

• demonstrating

• such

Over the course of history, much civilizations developed their own number systems.

• over

• much

• their own

• systems

by 1872 the United States had 70 engineering

colleges, ------ astonishing expansion credited

largely to the Morrill Act of 1862.

• because

• an

• to which

• was

The most important chemical catalyst on this

planet is chlorophyll, -------carbon dioxide and water react to form carbohydrates.

• whose presence

• which is present

• presenting

• in the presence of which