Thursday 28 July 2016

TOEFL EXERCISE 3



1.                  Irving Berlin wrote (A) “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” while serving (B) in a (C) U.S. Army during (D) World War I.
2.                 Banks are rushing (A) to merge because consolidations enable them (B) to slash theirs (C) costs and expand (D).
3.               That (A) water a very high specific heat means (B) that without large temperature change water can add or lose (C) a large number (D) of heat.
4.               Benny Goodman was equally (A) talented as both a jazz performer (B) as well as (C) a classical musician (D).
5.             The state seal still used (A) in Massachusetts designed by (B) Paul Revere, who (C) also designed the first (D) continental currency.
6.               Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth – century Virginia to race (A) on courses short (B) of about a quarter of a mile (C) in length (D).
7.               No longer (A) satisfied (B) with the emphasis (C) of the Denishawn School, Martha Graham has moved (D) to the staff of the Eastman School in 1925.
8.             William Hart was an act (B) best known (B) for his (C) roles as (D) western heroes in silent films.
9.                 Prior ro (A) an extermination program earlier (B) this century, alive (C) wolves roamed across nearly (D) all of North America.
10.            During (A) the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to (B) national attention as a result (C) its radical political (D) activity.
11.          Artist (A) Gutzon Borglum designed the Mount Rushmore Memorial and worked on project (B) from 1925 until (C) his (D) death in 1941.
12.             It is proving less costly (A) and more profitably (B) for drugmakers to market (C) directly (D) to patients.
13.               Sapphires weighing (A) as (B) much as two pounds (C) have on occasion mined (D)
14.               Like (A) snakes, lizards can be found (B) on all others (C) continents except (D) Antarctica.
15.            Banks, savings and loans, and finance companies have recently (A) been doing (B) home equity loans with greater frequency (C) than ever before (D).


ANSWER KEY
 

1.                   C
2.                   C
3.                   D
4.                   C
5.                   B
6.                   B
7.                   D
8.                   A
9.                   C
10.               C
11.               B
12.               B
13.               D
14.               C
15.               B

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