TOEFL EXERCISE 4
- CHOOSE THE INCORRECT ANSWER! Give correction and also give the explanation.
- None
of the students in this class has finished the exam yet.
A B
C D
Answer : C
Reason
: Because “None of the students”, it is plural and must “have”
- If Jordan
had not attended the conference, he never would meet his old friend
A B
Monique, whom
he had not seen in years.
C D
Answer : B
Reason
: Because after would we must put “have” and verb 3, and become “never would
have met”
- No one in
our office wants to drive to work any more because of there are
always
A B
C
traffic jams at rush hour.
D
Answer : B
Reason : Because if we want to use “because of” it must be noun after it.
- The
political candidate talked as if she has already been elected to the presidency.
A B C D
Answer : B
Reason : The sentence above using past perfect
tense and we have to change has to be had.
Correct Answer : The political candidate talked
as if she had already been elected to
the presidency
- When an
enemy scares a porcupine fish, it enters a hole in a rock
and to fill its
A B C
stomach with water to
make its spines stick out.
D
Answer : C
Reason : Because no need
to use "to"
Correct Answer : When an enemy scares a porcupine fish, it enters a hole in
a rock and fill its stomach with water to make its
spines stick out.
- Children’s
ears are able to detect a wide variety of pitches than adults.
A B C D
Answer : C
Reason : Because Children's ears are able to detect more tone variations than adults, so wide is replaced with a wider
Correct
Answer : Children’s ears are able to detect a wider variety of pitches than
adults.
- Fewer babies born with birth defects because of advances in prenatal care during this
A B
C D
decade.
Answer
: D
Reason
: Because the advances in prenatal care happened in the past decade. And the
past decade means the previous 10 years from today.
Correct
Answer : Fewer Babies born with birth defects because of advances in prenatal
care during the past decade.
- CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER!give explanation.
- The
Ponderosa pine is ________ of most of the timber used by forest-product
firms in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
a.
The source c.
the source which
b.
As source d.
because the source
- Computers
that once took up entire rooms are now_________ to put on desktops and
into wristwatches.
a.
Small enough c.
so small
b.
Smaller than d.
as small as
- Mango trees,
_________ densely covered with glossy leaves and bear small fragrant
flowers, grow rapidly and can attain heights of up to 90 feet.
a.
Whose c.
are when
b.
Which are d.
which
