Đề ngữ pháp Toefl itp 2003-10

1.The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it encouraged others to attempt_________

2.Despite its fishlike form, the whale is_________ and will drown if submerged too long.

3.The saguaro, found in desert regions in the southwestern United States, _______ cactus in the world.

4.It is said that United Stales literature _________ individuality and identity in the twentieth century, after long imitation of European models.

5.Lucy Stone, __________first feminists in the United States, helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

6.__________ including climate, mineral content, and the permanency of surface water, wetlands may be mossy,grassy, scrubby, or wooded.

7.Duke Ellington’s orchestra, __________his own often complex compositions, made many innovations in jazz.

8.The term “ice age” refers to any of several periods of time when glaciers covered considerably more of Earth’s surface__________.

9.From colonial times, United States property owners agreed to tax themselves on the theory__________ directly from services that the government could provide.

10.Helium is not flammable and, next to hydrogen, is__________.

11.Wild eagles that survive to adulthood are believed __________ from 20 to 30 years.

12.Portland, __________, is located primarily on two hilly peninsulas overlooking Casco Bay and its many islands.

13._________ widely used in the chemical industry, sodium carbonate is principally consumed by the glass industry.

14.Cells, first identified by the early microscopists, began to be considered _________ in the nineteenth century.

15.Like Jupiter, Saturn is a large, gaseous planet composed _________ of hydrogen and helium.

16.Bacterial cultures are used commercially in the preparation of food products such that yogurt,sour cream,and vinegar

17.Anyone with absolute, or perfect, pitch are able to identify by ear any note at some standard pitch or to sing a specified note at will

18.Sea horses usually live along the shore among seaweed and other plants to which they cling to by their tails

19.Babies have soft spots between the bones of their skulls, which allowing for further growth.

20.T.S.Elot, who a poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, was a leader of the Modemist movement in poetry

21.The Pacific Ocean comprises almost the entire boundary western of North and South America

22.Established in 1948, the State University of New York is the singly largest university system in the United States.

23.Photography disseminates information about humanity and nature, records the visible world, and extension human knowledge into areas the eye cannot penetrate

24.Because of their rapidly changing economically fortunes, many frontier towns of the American West underwent spectacular fluctuations in population in the nineteenth century

25.Virtually no disease exists today for which there is no drug that can be given, neither to cure the disease or to alleviate its symptoms

26.Calcium is essential for blood clotting, for the action of certain enzymes, and for the normal contraction and relax of muscles

27.The large collection of the Williams College Museum of Art includes ancient and medieval art, but much exhibits are modern or contemporary

28.The large collection of the Williams College Museum of Art includes ancient and medieval art, but much exhibits are modern or contemporary.

29.Today, fifty years after its construction, the Alaska Highway conveys 40,000 vehicles in normal year.

30.Since prehistoric times, artists have been arranged colors on surfaces in ways that express their ideas about people,the world,and religion

31.Few substances look less alike than coal and diamonds, yet both are fashioned from same elemental carbon

32.Meteorologists can program their computes to scan for a specific set of weather criteria, such as falling barometric pressure, increase cloud cover, and rising humidity

33.Obsidian is formed when siliceous lava cools too rapidly to crystallized into rock-forming minerals

34.European settlers in North America moved from the Atlantic coast across 3,000 miles forests, grasslands, deserts, and mountains until they reached the Pacific Ocean.

35.Philosophy tries to discover the nature of true and knowledge and to find what is of basic value and importance in life.

36.In this world of high technology, it is easy to forget that the most important tools ever developed for learning is still the book.

37.The element potassium makes up less than one half percentage of the human body.

38.Twenty thousand years ago a sheet of ice a thousand meters thick covered the coastal region which the cities of Vancouver and Juneau now are located.

39.The Crow, Blackfoot, and Sioux tribes traditionally adorned they dwellings and costumes with colorful and highly valued beaded decorations.

40.In the late 1800’s, United States painter Thomas Eakins develop a broad, powerful Realist style that became almost expressionistic in his later years.