TOEFL 2 PART A

1.  The hard palate _____ between the mouth and nasal passages.

• (A) forming a partition

• (B) a partition forms

• (C) forms a partition

• (D) a form and a partition

Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Cassablanca ­­­_____ of Humphrey Bogard’s most famous roles.

• (A) they are two

• (B) two of them are

• (C) two of them

• (D) are two

3.  _____, the outermost layer of skin, is about as thick as a sheet of paper over the most of the skin.

• (A) It is the epidermis

• (B) The epidermis

• (C) In the epidermis

• (D) The epidermis is

4. During the Precambrian period, the Earth’s crust formed, and life _____ in the seas.

• (A) first appeared

• (B) the first to appear

• (C) the first appearance

• (D) appearing first

When fluid accumulates against the eardrum, a second more insidious type of _____.

• (A) otitis media may develop

• (B) developing otitis media

• (C) the development of otitis media

• (D) to develop otitis media

Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States, newspapers invited the public to help determine where _____ placed after its arrival.

• (A) should the statue be

• (B) the statue being

• (C) it should be the statue

• (D) the statue should be

A stock _____ at an inflated price is called a watered stock.

• (A) is issued

• (B) issued

• (C) it is issued

• (D) which issued

Acidic lava flows readily and tends to cover much larger areas, while basic lava _____.

• (A) viscous

• (B) more viscous

• (C) is more viscous

• (D) it is more viscous

Seismic reflection profiling has _____ the ocean floor is underlined by a thin layer of nearly transparent sediments.

• (A) reveal that

• (B) revealed that

• (C) the revelation of

• (D) revealed about

_____ and terrifying, coral snakes can grow to 4 feet (1.2 meters) in length.

• (A) They are extremely poisonous

• (B) The poison is extreme

• (C) Extremely poisonous

• (D) An extreme amount of poison