Đề ngữ pháp Toefl itp 1992-01

1.In the textile industry, the term “gunny” refers to —burlap that is not of the best quality.

2.The skyscraper, —,is an architectural form that originated in the United States.

3.— were stones piled at intervals.

4.Some procedures used for laboratory analysis of archaeological specimens are — procedures conducted in crime laboratories.

5.The windmill, which has been used for hundreds of years to pump water and grind grains, — redesigned to produce electricity.

6.In 1938, when Benny Goodman’s orchestra presented a concert at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, — was clear that jazz had at last been fully accepted.

7.— a continuous mass of water on the Earth’s surface, all continents are islands in the strictest sense of the word.

8.The spiral threads of a spider’s web have a sticky substance on them — insects.

9.— in 1635, the Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the United States.

10.According to anthropologists, the earliest ancestors of humans that stood upright resembled chimpanzees —, with sloping foreheads and protruding brows.

11.The kettledrum produces different tones depending on whether — with sticks that have felt or sponge heads.

12.— in the latter part of the fifteenth century as a substitute for richly embroidered tapestries.

13.— was the first fully successful transatlantic cable finally laid.

14.Many of the Zuni people in the southwestern United States earn their livelihoods and achieve — as professional artists.

15.The flatter a hair appears under a microscope, — wavier it is.

16.The word “shore” can be used rather of “coast”to mean the land bordering the sea

17.A radio telescope is an instrument that collects and measured faint radio waves given off by objects in space.

18.The private satellite industry sprang up in the mid-1960’s to relay not only television broadcasts but too phone calls and computer data.

19.Yosemite National Park it has many spectacular natural attractions, including Yosemite Falls,One of the world’s highest waterfalls.

20.During the Colonial days, the Iroquois had an agricultural economy basing mainly on corn with supplementary crops of pumpkins, beans, and tobacco.

21.Before the retina of the eye can be examined, the pupil must to be artificially dilated.

22.The most widely writer praised of the 1960’s in the United States was probably Joyce Carol Oates, who published many novels and short stories.

23.Unlike animals such as cows or horses, human beings are neither able to digest cellulose, the fibrous carbohydrate found in grass.

24.At the age of 94, composer, conductor, arranger, and acting Eva Jessye led her choral group in the first production of the opera Porgy and Bess, written in 1935.

25.In 1987 the states of ice cream in the United States amounted to fifteen quarts per year for every persons in the country.

26.The type of precipitation is affected by electrical conditions, air temperature and the percentage of humid in the air.

27.Almost destroy by fire in 1814, the White House was rebuilt and enlarged over the next three years.

28.A flight recorder shows how aircraft systems behave by giving information such as a plane’s high, direction, and rate of descent.

29.It is not unusual for ballet dancers wear out more than one pair of toe shoes during an evening’s performance.

30.A fable is usually a short tale featuring animals or inanimate objects that can talk and think alike humans.

31.The “ashcan”school in American art being a rebellion against traditional subjects and favored the painting of back-street scenes

32.When a magnet is free suspended it becomes a compass

33.Susan Sontag’s aversion to the traditional critical practice of extracting morals meaning from art is reflected in her novels

34.Best known for his research in statistical mechanics and meson physics, Chen Ning Yang shared the Nobel Prize in 1957 to another physicist from the United States, Tsung-dao Lee

35.Those electrons most closely to the nucleus are held there by electromagnetic force

36.Its tremendous output of dairy products have earned the state of Wisconsin the title of America’s Dairyland

37.The early use of a complete steel frame for towering buildings appeared in the first skyscraper, built on Chicago in 1883

38.Some cities have a fire regulations that requires people to put smoke detectors in their houses

39.Since flounders have markings that blend with their surroundings, it can lie camouflaged on the bottom of the ocean.

40.The determination of the path of Mars’s orbit in1609 became the unifying link among the two formerly separate realms of physics and astronomy.