Đề toefl itp 15 câu đầu có lời giải năm 2000-10

1． The role of the ear is ____ acoustic disturbances into neural signals suitable for transmission to the brain.

(A) to code

(B) so that coded

(C) coded

(D) it coding

 

2. The imagist movement in poetry arose during the second decade of the twentieth century ____against romanticism.

(A) when a revolt

(B) as a revolt

(C) a revolt was

(D) that a revolt

 

3. Virtually ____ species have biological clocks that regulate their metabolism over a 24-hour period.

(A) all there are

(B) all

(C) all are

(D) they all

 

4. According to United States criminal law, insanity may relieve a person from the usual legal consequences____.

(A) what his or her acts have

(B) of his or her acts are

(c ) of his or her acts

(D) what of his or her acts

 

5. In addition to ____a place where business deals are made, a stock exchange collects statistics, publishes prices quotations, and sets rules and standards for trading.

(A) being

(B) it is

(C ) that which

(D) where is

 

6. The first inhabitants of the territories ____Canada came across the Bering Strait and along the edge of the Arctic ice.

(A) make up that now

(B) make up now that

(C ) that make up now

(D) that now make up

 

 

7.____ need for new schools following the Second World War that provided the sustained thrust for the architectural program in Columbus, Indiana.

(A) Since the

(B) To be the

(C ) The

(D) It was the

 

8. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, ____high percentage of protein.

(A) a

(B) and a

(C ) since a

(D) of which a

 

9. Hail is formed when a drop of rain is carried by an updraft to an altitude where ____ to freeze it.

(A) is the air cold enough

(B) the air cold enough

(C ) the cold enough air

(D) the air is cold enough

 

10. Geometrically, the hyperbolic functions are related to the hyperbola, ____ the trigonometric functions are related to the circle.

(A) just as

(B) same

(c ) similar to

(D) and similar

 

11. ____, Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, having erupted dozens of times since 1952.

(A) The big island of Hawaii’s location

(B) Locates the big island of Hawaii

(C ) Located on the big island of Hawaii

(D) On the big island of Hawaii’s location

 

12. Not until the eighteenth century ____ the complex chemistry of metallurgy.

(A) when scientists began to appreciate

(B) did scientists begin to appreciate

(C )scientists who were beginning to appreciate

(D) the appreciation of scientists began

 

13. ____ 1810, water-powered textile manufacturing arrived in New Hampshire with the founding of a company in Manchester that manufactured cotton and wool.

(A) Early

(B) In the early

(C ) As early as

(D) When early

 

14. The settings of Eudora Welty’s stories may be rather limited, but ____about human nature is quite broad.

(A) exposes

(B) exposes that

(C ) she exposes

(D) what she exposes

 

15. Lichens grow extremely well in very cold parts of the world ____plants can survive.

(A) where few other

(B) few others

(C ) where do few others

(D) there are few others