Soal TOEFL (grammar)



SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN
EXPRESSION
40 QUESTIONS
25 MINUTES

PART A
DIRECTIONS : In this part each problem consists of an incomplete sentence. Below the sentence are four choices, marked (A), (B), (C), (D). You should find the one choice which best completes the sentence. Mark your choice on the answer sheet
1.      The handyman _____ an excellent job on that broken rockin chair
A.    Are
B.     Do
C.     Does
D.    Has done

2.      We _____ a lot of souvenirs for friends and relatives when we were on vocation.
A.    Buy
B.     Bought
C.     Have been bought
D.    Have been buying

3.      The refrigenerator is empty. We _____ to get some food to refill it
A.    Need
B.     Will need
C.     Are needing
D.    Have needed

4.      The school board _____ a meeting and they _____ to discuss the problems tonight
A.    Is organizing, will
B.     Was organized, are about
C.     Was organizing, were going
D.    Has organized, are going

5.      His response to my ideas _____ great
A.    Am
B.     Was
C.     Were
D.    Are

6.      _____ milk do you need to bake that cheese cake?
A.    How much
B.     How many
C.     What bottle
D.    What glass

7.      Does _____ sister know you are using her stereo?
A.    Her
B.     Hers
C.     Your
D.    Yours

8.      A lot of workers, _____ in that company, _____ public transportation to reduce traffic
A.    Who work, choose
B.     Who are working, is choosed
C.     Who is working, is choosing
D.    Who were working, are choosing





9.      That candy is one of the _____ food I have ever eaten!
A.    Sweet
B.     Sweeter
C.     Sweeten
D.    Sweetest

10.  Ben is three years _____ than his little brother
A.    Younger
B.     Youngest
C.     Older
D.    Oldest

11.  Many areas of tropical rainforest _____ to provide farmland
A.    Burn
B.     Burned
C.     Are burning
D.    Are burned

12.  The last time the san andreas fault slipped, _____
A.    Was causing the worst disaster in san fransisco’s history
B.     Had been causing the worst disaster in san fransisco’s history
C.     It caused the worst disaster in san fransisco’s history
D.    Was the cause of the worst disaster in san fransisco’s history

13.  Gravity force keeps the earth _____
A.    From fly off into space as it orbits the sun
B.     From flying off into space as it orbits the sun
C.     From fleeing off into space as it orbits the sun
D.    From fled off into space as it orbits the sun



14.  Helicopters _____ into the air by their large rotating propellers
A.    Are lifting
B.     Are lifted
C.     Were lifting
D.    Were lifted

15.  The chemical reactions _____ the bodies of animals work best at farmer temperatures
A.    That power
B.     That powers
C.     That powered
D.    Have powered
PART B
DIRECTIONS : in each of the following sentences, four words or phrases have been underlined. You should choose the one word or phrase which could not be appropriate in standart written english
16.  The goverment recently forbidden all television stations in the country to broadcast
                              A                B                                                                         C
 television programs which contain violence.
                                             D
17.  Some of the students choose to go to library rather than participate in the football
       A                                B                                    C                D
rally.
18.  One of the reason I move out of my old apartment was the noise of a neighbor’s dog
A                                                                      B
who constantly barking even in the middle of the night.
                C            D
19.  Mary designing hat that will protect our heads from the sun, the rain, or bad fashion.
               A                       B                     C                                            D
20.  Nina has a lot of things to tell us after arrival from his aunt’s beach house in hawaii
A                            B                    C
and that is why we are gathering here.
                                        D
21.  The lunch menu consists from mashed potato, union rings, roasted beef and peas,
                                      A                                                                             B
which are already served on the dining table.
        C                       D
22.  If you can’t see the letters on that billboard then you needed a new prescription for
A             B                                                                        C                      D
new glasses.
23.  How much did you say you spent on that scarf you are now wear?
A                  B               C                                              D
24.  Should I leave now that yours husband has returned from his bike-riding?
       A                                  B                      C                                     D
25.  The new car better be good since I have been spending almost all of my saving for the
                        A           B                            C                                                   D
 past five months!
26.  He was thingking of getting a new job since the one he is doing right now does not
                A                     B                                                      C                           D
expressing who he really is.
27.   One of the man’s ex wives claim that he owes her the house they bought when they
                                   A                              B                                         C
get narried.
         D
28.  Some of the food here are making by the chef in the bakery down town whose pastries
                                            A                                                                         B
are extremely delicious.
C                         D
29.  I recommended the book shop nearly the university to you because the prices there are
                                                      A                                                                               B
far more affordable than that large bookshop at the town square.
                      C                                                  D
30.  I used to have plenty of stuffed animals when I were a little girl, but now I dont have
       A                                        B                            C                                                 D
 them anymore.


31.  Sound can be reflect from certain surfaces, such as rock or the side of a building, and
                    A                                      B           C
create an echo.
D
32.  The earlier known writing was recorded in the form of picture symbols on clay tablets
A          B                         C
by the ancient sumerians in around 3500 B.C.
                                           D
33.  Electric eels are well known, and they can stun their prey with a powerfully shock.
                       A              B                            C                                       D
34.  Plants stores food and water over the winter in a storage organs develop from roots,
A                                   B                                                         C
stems, or leaf bases.
D
35.  Henry VII was the first powerful line of tudor monarchs who greatly strengthening
                    A                      B                                                C                     D
england’s power in europe and the rest of the world.
36.  You might think of iceland as a land of snow and ice, but it is also a land of volcanic
A                                                                                                               B
activity and hot springs because the people live there were builded underground
                                                                       C                        D
greenhouses.
37.  The ancient greeks developed philosophy as a way of thoughts about life and the
                                       A                                                      B
world we live in, and they also developed the rules of mathematics that are still used
                     C                                                                                                         D
today.
38.  Hair originally helped prevent heat losing from our body although it is no longer have
                              A                            B                                                                   C
that function but it does help to protect your head.
                                          D
39.  Although there is little real evidence of his existence, king arthur probably did live on
                               A                                         B                                            C          D
the 6th century.
40.  Microscopic diatoms, which means sometimes called “jewels of the sea”, are tiny
                                                A                                                                      B
algae floating in almost all waters.
               C                              D

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