Đề ngữ pháp Toefl itp 1997-01

1._____ a necessary dimension for measuring astronomical space and the distance of heavenly bodies from the Earth.

2.Jackie Joyner-Kersee, _____ the world record in the heptathlon in the 1988 Olympics, also won the long jump in the year.

3.The fossilized remains of a type of camel _____ a dog have been found in the Bad Lands of South Dakota。.

4.Gorillas are quiet animals, _____ they are capable of making about 20 different sounds.

5.Although the Earth’s chemical composition had been studied for years, only toward the end of the nineteenth century _____ as a discipline in its own right.

6.Because the wood of the dogwood tree is very hard, _____ is used for objects, such as roller skate wheels, in which hardness is desired.

7.In hot, dry regions, the Sun’s heat causes the outer layer of rocks _____, a process called exfoliation.

8.The lower _____ in a room, the more slowly our eyes focus.

9._____ Sarah Orne Jewett, a nineteenth-century writer, read widely in her family’s extensive library.

10.In the early twentieth century, the “Model T” automobile was mass-produced and sold at a price _____ could afford.

11.Not only _____ all the positive charge of an atom, it is also the site of the weight of every atom.

12.The wind-rippled sand at California’s Kelso Dunes resembles _____.

13.Fossil records indicate _____ existing in the past have become extinct.

14.Experiments related to the sense of smell are more easily _____ than those related to perception of color.

15.The Pulitzer Prize has been _____ in American literature for more than seventy years.

16.Those interested in covered bridges can find six of they between Keene and Winchester, New Hampshire.

17.The Sun’s energy is generated deep in the solar core by the synthesis of helium from hydrogen through a sequences of thermonuclear fusion reactions.

18.Using carbon-dating techniques, archaeologists can determine the age of many ancient objects by measurement the amount of radioactive carbon they contain.

19.The evolutionary adaptation of a particular species of animal over time occurs in response to environmental conditions, including others animals.

20.Saturn is the second largest planet after Jupiter, with a diameter nearly ten times those of Earth.

21.Ogden Nash often extended sentences over several lines produce surprising and comical rhymes.

22.By the second month of life, most infant can turn their heads and move their eyes to follow the movements of people and large objects around them.

23.Early movies had appeal immediate and became a means to present contemporary attitudes, fashions, and events.

24.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman and civil rights leader, won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his work toward racially equality in the United States.

25. Leontyne Price ranks among the most celebration sopranos of her time.

26.Carrie Chapman Call was instrumental in passing the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gives women the right to vote.

27.Discovery in 1789 and isolated from other element in 1841, uranium is valued as a source of atomic energy.

28.Ulysses S. Kay was among the United States composers visited the Soviet Union in 1958 to participate in a cultural exchange program.

29.Alaska is fame for tall mountains and beautiful scenery.

30.True ferns have undergone remarkably little change during its long geological history, which extends back to the Devonian period.

31.Diplomatic negotiations generally take place in embassies or in the foreign offices of the countries which in ambassadors are accredited.

32.The novelist Shirley Hazzard is noted for the insight, poetic style, and sensitive she demonstrates in her works.

33.Compare with the jagged estuaries of the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast seems almost uniformly straight.

34.Because of its low cholesterol content, margarine is a widely used substitute from butter.

35.After the Boston Tea Party in 1773, coffeehouses in the North American colonies became centers for gossip, gamble, and political criticism.

36.Studies by B.F. Skinner indicate that reward positively reinforces behavior and makes that behavior likely more to recur.

37.Mathematical puzzles are common into history because they have been used a intelligence tests and amusements.

38.Most authorities consider both dreaming while sleep and daydreaming to be forms of fantasy.

39.Genetic engineering is helping researchers unravel the mysteries of previously incurable diseases so that they can get to its root causes and find cures.

40.The Montessori method of education stresses initiative and self-reliance to permitting pupils to pursue independently whatever interests them, but within disciplined limits.