TOEFL ITP Sample Test 1 (Structures and Writing)

Since the early 1950's, _____ throughout the world has more than doubled.

• the demand for food

• there is demand for food

• if food is in demand

• food, a demand that

Even though he did not attend school until he was twelve, Dr.Samuel C.C.Ting was _____ The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976.

• won

• the winning

• the winner of

• to be won

Gas particles move _____ when the gas is hot than when it is cold.

• fast

• faster

• as fast

• fastest

The different colors of _____ the different temperatures of the stars' surfaces.

• the stars indicate

• indicating stars

• the indication that the stars

• stars indicating that

As a country develops from an agricultural to an industrial economy, the attitudes, values, structures, and functions of the family _____

• the change

• which change

• change

• changing

Only a few sounds produced by insects are heard by humans _____ most of the sounds are pitched either too low or too high.

• in spite of

• because

• as the result of

• instead of

The ordinary chair _____ in countless shapes, sizes, styles, and materials

• has been made

• to be made

• is making

• been making

For 125 years after _____ initial use at Harvard in 1642, the Bachelor of Arts degree was the only degree awarded by colleges in the United States.

• its

• it was

• being

• when

Since the Sun illuminates half the surface of the Moon, only half the surface _____ can be seen from the Earth.

• most

• much

• with more

• at most

The novels of Constance Fenimore Woolson, _____, have special interest for their regional settings.

• in a nineteenth-century writer

• a nineteenth-century writer

• the nineteenth-century writing

• wrote about the nineteenth century