Toefl Exercise 1 Main Idea Questions

The main idea of the passage is that

• the Earth is a cold planet

• most of the Earth's ice is found in Antarctica

• it snows more in Antarctica than in any other place on Earth

• Antarctica is only two miles wide but is 90 percent ice

The best title for the passage is

• snowfall in Antarctica

• the Icy earth

• The Cold, Cold Snow

• The Causes of Antarctica's Ice Pack

The topic of this passage is

• how dogs like to play during the summer

• the causes of hot and humid weather

• why the hot summer days are known as the "dog days"

• the days that dogs prefer

The main idea of this passage is that

• the name for the summer days came from Sirius, the Dog Star

• dogs generally prefer hot summer days

• the hottest days occur in the summer because of the movements of the Sun and stars

• Sirius rises at almost the same time as the Sun during the summer months

the subject of this passage is

• an example of one of the types of primitive art

• Grandma Moses's life on the farm

• how primitive art differs from formal art

• Grandma Moses's primitive lifestyle

which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

• Grandma Moses spent her life on a farm.

• Art critics cannot come to any agreement on a definition of primitive art.

• Grandma Moses is one type of primitive artist because of her lack of formal training

• Many artists receive little professional training

Which of the following best states the topic of the passage?

• A nineteenth-century discovery on the moon

• The New York Sun

• A hoax and its effect

• The success of a newspaper

The main point of the passage is that

• the New York Sun was one of the earliest American newspapers

• the Sun increases sales when it tricked the public with a false story

• a newspaper achieved success by writing about the moon

• in 1835 some amazing new discoveries were made about the moon