Đề ngữ pháp Toefl itp 2001-01

1.A three-foot octopus can crawl through a hole —— in diameter.

2.——adopted the decimal system of coinage in 1867.

3.Generally, the representatives —— a legislature are constitutionally elected by a broad spectrum of the population.

4.The Actor’s Studio, a professional actors’ workshop in New York City, provides ——where actors can work together without the pressure of commercial production.

5.—— that life began billions of years ago in the water.

6.By 1872 the United States had 70 engineering colleges, —— astonishing expansion credited largely to the Morrill Act of 1862.

7.The artist Romare Bcarden was —— whose yellows, deep blues, and fuchsias contrasted strongly with photographic gray in his bright collages.

8.The most important chemical catalyst on this planet is chlorophyll, ——-carbon dioxide and water react to form carbohydrates.

9.One theory of the origin of the universe is ——-from the explosion of a tiny, extremely dense fireball several billion years ago.

10.Roads in the United States remained crude, ——- with graved or wood planks, until the beginning of the twentieth century.

11.Portrait prints were the first reproductions of American paintings ——- widely distributed in the United States.

12.Abigail Adams was prodigious letter writer, ——- many editions of her letters have been published.

13.In geometry, an ellipse may be defined as the locus of all points ——-distances from two fixed points is constant.

14..——-at the site of a fort established by the Northwest Mounted Police, Calgary is now one of Canada’s fastest growing cities.

15.An image on a national flag can symbolize political ideals that ——-express.

16.A variation of collodion photography was the tintype, which captured images on a black or dark brown metal plate instead from on glass.

17.In cases of minor injury to the brain. Amnesia is likely to be a temporarily condition.

18.The system of chemical symbols, first devised about 1800. gives a concise and instantly recognizable description of a element or compound.

19.The fact that white light is light composed of various wavelengths may be demonstrating by dispersing a beam of such light through a prism.

20.Over the course of history, much civilizations developed their own Number systems.

21.In the United States during the Second World War, each trade unions and employers avoided federal limits on wages by offering employees

Nontaxable medical benefits.

22.Philosophy is the study of the nature of reality, knowledge, existent, and ethics by means of rational inquiry.

23.Poems vary in length from brief lyric poems to narrative or epic poems, Which can be as broad in scope than a novel.

24.The population of California more than doubled during the period 1940-1960, creating problems in road-building and provide water for its arid southern section.

25.Although based it on feudal models, the colony of Pennsylvania developed a reputation for a progressive political and social outlook.

26.Hard and resistant to corrosion, bronze is traditionally used in bell casting and is the material used widely most for metal sculpture.

27.The Appalachian Mountains formation a natural barrier between the eastern seaboard and the vast lowlands of the continental interior of North America.

28.The United States census for 1970 showed that the French-speaking residents of Louisiana were one of the country’s most compact regional linguistic minority.

29.When used as food additives, antioxidants prevent fats and oils from become rancid when exposed to air, and thus extend their shelf life.

30.liquid will flow and take the shape of their container.

31.Copper was the first metallic used by humans and is second only to iron in its utility through the ages.

32.Despite the fact that lemurs are general nocturnal, the ring-tailed lemur travels by day in bands of four to twelve individuals.

33.The Western world is beset with the range of problem that characterize mature, postindustrial societies.

34.Acrylic paints are either applied using a knife or diluted and spreading with a paintbrush.

35.Some marine invertebrates, such as the sea urchin and the starfish, migrates from deep water to shallow during spring and early summer to spawn.

36.Marshes, wetland areas characterized by plant grassy growth, are distinguished from swamps, wetlands where trees grow.

37.Wampum, beads used as a form of exchange by some Native Americans, was made of bits of seashells cut, drill, and strung into belts.

38.Kangaroos use their long and powerful tails for balance themselves when sitting upright or jumping.

39.Proper city planning provides for the distribution of public utilities, public buildings, parks, and recreation centers, and for adequate and the

inexpensive housing.

40.Most traditional dances are made up of a prearranged series of steps and movements, but modern dancers are generally free to move as they choice.