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86 STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-8): Choose the letter of the word or
group of words that best completes the sentence.

1. Air near the equator a faster 6. The Moont gravity pulls water on the
west-to-east motion than air farther near side of the Earth toward the
from the equator. Moon, and this is what tides to
occur.
(A) to have
(B) it has (A) the cause
(C) has (B) causes
(D) having (C) causing
(D) the cause of
2. About 4000 e.c., humans discovered
that obtained from special 7 . the5r pick up fragments of rock
rocks called ores. which become frozen into the base of
(A) -metals could be -,
the ice.
(B) the ability of metallic (A) Glaciers move
(C) possibly metallic (B) Glaciers moving
(D) could metals be (C) They were glaciers
(D) As glaciers move
3. quickly after an animal dies.
(A) In the degradation of DNA 8' The tape measure first evolved from
-(B) Degrading DNA
used by the Egyptians'
(C) DNA degrades (A) the chains measure
(D) For DNA to degrade (B) the chains are measured
(C) the chains are measuring
4. aerodynamic design has (D) the measuring chains
contributed greatly to reducing
-resistance to motion. 9. A tvpical Atlantic hurricane starts as a
low pressure system near
(A) Improved
(B) It improves (A) AFrica coasts
(C) Improvement (B) coast to Africa -.
(D) They improve (C) the African coast
(D) Africa has a coast
5. The southern part of Florida is much
warmer in the winter than the 10. It is not clear whether the
northern part, so more to the subdivisions of the neocortex
south. units.
(A) flocking tourists
- (A) individual
(B) touring flocks (B) are individual
(C) flocks of tourists (C) they are individual
(D) tourists flock (D) individually

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