Đề ngữ pháp Toefl itp 2000-01

1.Amanda Way’s career as a social reformer____ in 1851 when, at an antislavery meeting

in Indiana, she called for a state woman’s rights convention.

2.The celesta, an orchestral percussion instrument, resembles___

3.Thomas Paine, _____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that identified the American colonies with the cause of liberty.

4.Although beavers rarely remain submerged for more than two minutes, they can stay underwater ___fifteen minutes before having to surface for air.

5.Protein digestion begins in the stomach ____ends in the small intestine.

6.When natural gas burns, its___ into atoms of carbon and hydrogen.

7._____ ballet dancers learn five basic positions for the arms and feet.

8.Some colonies of bryozoans, small marine animals, form ___with trailing stems.

9.Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued six women’s rights cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1970’s,____

10.Natural selection is defined as the process ___the course of evolution by preserving those traits best adapted for an organism’s survival.

11.____ 363 miles between the cities of Albany and Buffalo in New York State, the Eric Canal helped link the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.

12.The chief sources of B12,a water-soluble vitamin ____ stored in the body, include meat, milk and eggs.

13.____ is rooted in experiments in iron and steel conducted in the nineteenth century.

14.The primary source of energy for tropical cyclones is the latent heat released when ____

15.Maufacturing is Canada’s most important economic activity, ____17 percent of the workforce.

16.The outer layer of the heart, called the pericardium, forms a sac in what the heart lies.

17.Wood from the ash tree becomes extremely flexibly when it is exposed to steam.

18.The ability to talk is one of the skill that make humans different from the rest of the animal world.

19.In plane geometry, the sum of the internal angles of any triangle has always equal to 180 degrees.

20.Polar bears are bowlegged and pigeon-toed, adaptations that enable this massive animals to maintain their balance as they walk.

21.Caves are formed by the chemical or action mechanical of water on soluble rock, by volcanic activity, and by earthquakes.

22.Celery, an edible plant is having long stalks topped with feathery leaves, grows best in cool weather.

23.The first fiction writer in the United States to achieve international fame was Washington Irving, who wrote many stories, included “ Rip Van Winkle” and

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

24.Three fundamental aspects of forest conversation are the protection of immature trees, the use of proper harvesting methods, and provide for an

environment that supports reproduction.

25.For each enzyme reaction there is an optimum temperature which maximum efficiency is achieved.

26.Adolescence is a transitional stage in human development from the beginning of puberty to the attainment of the emotion, social, and physical maturity of

adulthood.

27.The people native to the northwest coast of North American have long be known for wood carvings of stunning beauty and extraordinary quality.

28.Colonial efforts to manufacture glass at Jamestown—- and later attempts near Philadelphia and Boston—failed despite the abundant of fuel and good raw

materials.

29.The orbit of a celestial body is usually in the shape of ellipse.

30.Chicago is the third largest publishing center in the United States, exceeding only by New York City and San Francisco.

31.North American bison differ from domestic cattle in have 14 rather than 13 pairs of ribs.

32.Female sea turtles, before laying her eggs, swim as much as 2,000 kilometers to return to the beaches where they themselves were hatched.

33.Water is the only substance that occur at ordinary temperatures in all three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.

34.Despite the growth of manufacturing and other industries, the economy of the state of Texas has remained heavily dependence on oil and gas.

35.Lyndon B. Johnson was the only United States President who oath of office was administered by a woman Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes.

36.It took more than fourteen years to carve the faces of four United States Presidents into the granite cliffs to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.

37.Charles Bullfinch was the architect who design the original red brick core of the State House in Boston.

38.Rarely has a technological development had as great an impact on as much aspects of social, economic, and cultural development as the growth of

electronics.

39.Lowell, Massachusetts, known as the “Spindle City” since 1822 when its first textile mills were built, attracted worldwide attention as textile center.

40.Strange Victory, Sara Teas dale’s smallest and most perfect collection of poems, appear in print in 1933.