Skill 9-10 Review
Skill 9-10 Review
Skill 9-10 Review
EXERCISE (Skills 9-10): Each of the following sentences contains more than one clause.
Underline the subjects once and the verbs twice. Circle the connectors. Then indicate if the
sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).
_____ 1. My sisters prefer to eat food that have cooked themselves.
_____ 2. The boat that hit the underwater rock sank.
_____ 3. The car which he was driving could not possibly be his.
_____ 4. The children built a house in the tree that in the backyard.
_____ 5. The cost of the trip which we wanted to take.
_____ 6. The children are playing with the toys which their mother told them to put
away.
_____ 7. The guests who were seated around the dinner table.
_____ 8. The students have to read all the chapters which are on the test.
_____ 9. I really do not like the artists which you like.
_____ 10. The stones that they were set in the ring were quite valuable.
TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 9-10): Choose the letter of the word or group of words that best
completes the sentence.
5. _____ that hunted other animals 8. _____ that accompany recurring bouts
tended to have very narrow, sharp, of severe depression reduce bone
curved claws. density.
(A) For dinosaurs (A) Succulents are
(B) Dinosaurs are known (B) Succulents
(C) Dinosaurs (C) They are succulents
(D) Like dinosaurs (D) Succulents which are
6. The first eyeglasses had convex lenses 9. Willa Cather is an author _____ for
for the aged who _____ farsighted. her evocative and memorable vision
(A) had become of frontier prairie life.
(B) they had become (A) whom readers
(C) becoming (B) the praise of readers
(D) it became (C) whom praisings
(D) whom readers praise
7. Chimney Rock, _____ 500 feet above
the North Platte River, has eroded 10. Mars's tiny moon Phobos is a small
considerably in the last two centuries. mountain of rock that _____ from the
(A) stands asteroid belt by Mars's gravitational
(B) is standing pull.
(C) it stands (A) the chains measure
(D) which stands (B) the chains are measured
(C) the chains are measuring
(D) the measuring chains
TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-10): Choose the letter of the word or group of words
that best completes the sentence.
1. _____ is famous as the home of the 3. With _____ of sophisticated oil lamps,
U.S. Naval Academy. elaborate tools were made to cut the
(A) Annapolis wicks.
(B) Because of Annapolis (A) appeared
(C) Why Annapolis (B) the appearance
(D) Because Annapolis (C) the appearance was
(D) it appeared
2. Some scientists think _____ be a
planet but a moon of Neptune. 4. Fort Union was the site of what _____
(A) that Pluto does not seem principal fur-trading post on the
(B) not Pluto upper Missouri River.
(C) Pluto that might not (A) the
(D) that Pluto might not (B) being the
(C) was the
(D) it was the