12A: Week 1 Quiz

Water, love, rice, and traffic are ______ nouns.

• uncountable

• countable

• abstract

• proper

• plural

The contraction "he'd" could mean "he had" or "he _____".

• did

• would

• should

• mad

• has

What is a group of letters at the beginning of a word that usually changes the meaning of a word?

• prefix

• suffix

• word

• antonym

• collocation

Use _____ to talk about facts, habits and routines.

• prepositions

• present continuous

• present simple

• the definite article

• adverbs

Many scientific _____ take place in university research laboratories, and then the resulting knowledge is used by companies to make profits.

• breakthroughs

• groundbreaking

• upbringings

• cutting-edges

Your ______ relates to your physical and emotional environment while you were a child.

• upbringing

• genetic code

• breakthrough

• cutting edge

Cutting-edge is a _____ adjective.

• possessive

• compound

• double

• comparative

• pronoun

The TOEFL Reading Comprehension section is 55 minutes long. How many questions is it?

• 35

• 100

• 40

• 50

Which section of the TOEFL exam will we be focussing on this term?

• reading

• structure

• listening

• speaking

• structure + listening

The patterns in your DNA are called your _____.

• genetic code

• breakthroughs

• gene therapy

• cutting-edge