TOEFL Error-recognition questions set 2

On the huge (A) Ferris wheel constructed (B) for a world exhibition in Chicago in 1893, each of (C) the thirty-six cabs could held (D) sixty people.

• A

• B

• C

• D

To overcome (A) rejection of a skin graft, a system for matching (B) donor and recipient (C) tissues has be (D) developed.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Nails are (A) commonly make (B) of steel but also can (C) contain (D) substances such as aluminum or brass.

• A

• B

• C

• D

A patient suffering (A) from amnesia may (B) had (B) partial or total loss (D) of memory.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The idea of using (A) pure nicotine to help (B) smokers stop (C) was first tries (D) in the mid-1980s with the nicotine-laced chewing gum Nicotette.

• A

• B

• C

• D

In making (A) their calculations, Institute researchers assume that the least costly (B) form of energy would (C) be used (D).

• A

• B

• C

• D

A twenty-one-year-old man became (A) the second casualty yesterday when (B) he loses (C) control (D) of his truck.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Most people had (A) written (B) with quill pens until pens (C) with metal points become (D) popular in the middle of the nineteenth century.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The formula used (A) in the study calls for either (B) peroxide or metaldehyde, but (C) metaldehyde was (D) not always available.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The report could not be (A) turned (B) in on time because all the needed (C) work lost (D).

• A

• B

• C

• D