Đề toefl itp 15 câu đầu có lời giải năm 1996-10

1. Charlie Parker, _____ was one of the creators of the music style called “bop.”

(A) a great jazz improviser who

(B) to improvise great jazz

(C) a great jazz improviser

(D) improvised great jazz.

 

2. The world’s deepest cave, Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees Mountains, is almost three times as deep _____.

(A) as the Empire State Building is high.

(B) That the Empire State Building is higher.

(C) Is higher than the Empire State Building

(D) And the Empire State Building’s height.

 

 

3. When Columbus reached the New World, corn was the _____ in the Americas.

(A) widely most grown plant.

(B) Most widely grown plant

(C) Most grown widely plant

(D) Plant widely grown most.

 

 

4. Because kaolin shrinks in firing at a different rate than ordinary clay, _____ when creating pottery using both types of clay.

(A) special handling is required

(B) special handling required

(C) a requirement of special handling

(D) the required special handling

 

 

5. The ceremonial Chilcat blanket of the Northwest Tlingit Indians was generally _____ from cedar bark, wool, and goats’ hair.

(A) wove

(B) to weave

(C) weaving

(D) woven

 

 

6. _____ composed traditionally has been a subject of debate among scholars.

(A) Were ballads how

(B) Ballads were how they

(C) How ballads that were

(D) How ballads were

 

 

7. Jupiter, the closest of the giant planets to Earth, has _____ solid surface and is surrounded by zones of intense radiation.

(A) not

(B) nor

(C) no

(D) neither.

 

 

8. The black-billed cuckoo has been known to steal eggs _____ to other birds.

(A) belong

(B) which belonging

(C) which they belong

(D) that belong

 

9. The purpose of phonetics is _____ an inventory and a description of the sounds found in speech.

(A) to provide

(B) provided

(C) which provided

(D) providing that

 

 

10.Earthquakes can damage a tree _____ violently, and it can take several years for the tree to heal.

(A) to cause shaking

(B) when shaking it causes

(C) by causing it to shake

(D) to cause to shake it

 

 

11._____ bacteria in foods are killed, as they are during baking or stewing, decay is slowed down.

(A) What

(B) The

(C) If

(D) So

 

12.The colors and patterns of the wings of butterflies and moths help _____ the organism against predators.

(A) protect

(B) being protected

(C) protecting

(D) protection of

 

 

13.In 1993 the Library of Congress appointed author Rita Dove _____ of the United States.

(A) as was poet laureate

(B) was poet laureate

(C) poet laureate

(D) and poet laureate

 

14.At the South Pole _____, the coldest and most desolate region on Earth.

(A) Antarctica lies where

(B) Where Antarctica lies

(C) Antarctica lies and

(D) Lies Antarctica

 

 

15.Tornados, powerful, destructive wind storms, occur most often in the spring when hot winds _____ over flat land encounter heavy cold air.

(A) which to rise.

(B) that rising

(C) are rising

(D) rising