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15 Question multiple choice TOEFL practice test

1. A microscope can reveal vastly _____ detail than is visible to the naked eye.

(A) than
(B) than more
(C) more than
(D) more

2. Narcissus bulbs _____ at least three inches apart and covered with about four inches of well-drained soil.

(A) should be planted
(B) to plant
(C) must planting
(D) should plant

3. Industrialization has been responsible for _____ most radical of the environmental changes caused by humans.

(A) a
(B) the
(C) some of which
(D) which are the

4. In many areas the slope and topography of the land _____ excess rainfall to run off into a natural outlet.

(A) neither permit
(B) without permitting
(C) nor permitting
(D) do not permit

5. Color and light, taken together, ______ the aesthetic impact of the interior of a building.

(A) very powerfully influence
(B) very influence powerfully
(C) powerfully very influence
(D) influence powerfully very

6. _____ that Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring was one of the chief sources of inspiration for the development of nontoxic pesticides.

(A) There is likely
(B) Likely to be
(C) It is likely
(D) Likely

7. Total color blindness, _____, is the result of a defect in the retina.

(A) a rare condition that
(B) a rare condition
(C) that a rare condition
(D) is a rare condition

8. _____ no conclusive evidence exists, many experts believe that the wheel was invented only once and then diffused to
the rest of the world.

(A) Even
(B) But
(C) Although
(D) So

9. Wherever there is plenty of rain during the growing season, life is _____ in various forms.

(A) abundant
(B) the abundance
(C) an abundant
(D) it abundant

10. Most of _____ archaeologists know about prehistoric cultures is based on studies of material remains.

(A) these
(B) what
(C) which
(D) their

11. In her time, Isadora Duncan was _____ today a liberated woman.

(A) calling what we would
(B) who would be calling
(C) what we would call
(D) she would call it

12. _____ around stones that are sun warmed, even the smallest of stones creates tiny currents of warm air.

(A) The cool air
(B) If the air is cool
(C) That the air cools
(D) The cooler the air

13. According to some critics, the novels of William Burroughs demonstrate the major hazard of absurd literature, _____ tendency toward overembellishment and incoherence.

(A) notwithstanding
(B) besides
(C) is a
(D) its

14. Despite its wide range of styles and instrumentation, country music has certain common features _____ its own special character.

(A) give it that
(B) that give it
(C) give that
(D) that gives it to

15. Coinciding with the development of jazz in New Orleans in the 1920's _____ in blues music.

(A) was one of the greatest periods
(B) one of the greatest periods
(C) was of the greatest periods
(D) the greatest periods

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