SOAL TEST TOEFL Apdf
SOAL TEST TOEFL Apdf
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1. (A) he will cut the bread for the woman
(B) he doesn’t have a better knife
(C) he is too full to eat another slice of bread
(D) the drawer is so full that he can’t find a knife
19. (A) ask the woman where to get the bus to Worthington Heights
(B) wait for the next bus to Worthington Heights
(C) walk to a bus stop around the corner
(D) apologize for taking the wrong bus
20. (A) she didn’t see the sign for the class
(B) she didn’t want to take Business Law
(C) she regrets not taking Business Law
(D) she is sorry she didn’t see Professor Lux
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3. The scent glands of the skunk help …………… this unusual animal from its enemies
(A) Protecting
(B) Being protected
(C) Protect
(D) Protection
4. Critics of the American educational system claim that schools ………. character traits and
basic values necessary for leadership
(A) Apparently fail to teach
(B) They fail apparently to teach
(C) To fail apparently to teach
(D) Apparently failing to teach
6. Snow blindness is impaired vision caused by sunlight …………. from snow surfaces
(A) That was refection
(B) The reflection
(C) Reflected
(D) Is reflected
7. ………… a lever is just as important as the amount of effort you apply to it.
(A) Where you move
(B) Which you move
(C) Having been moved
(D) For moving
8. Writing home in 1711, the governor of Quebec stated that war with the Iroquois ………….
at all costs.
(A) Should avoid
(B) Should have avoided
(C) Should be avoiding
(D) Should be avoided
9. Even though a compute is capable of storing ………. in memory devices, one of its main
tasks is to print words and results on paper.
(A) A lot of information
(B) Masses of information
(C) An information
(D) Many information
10. Because ………. long tail, the cat possesses an excellent sense of balance.
(A) With a
(B) Having a
(C) Its
(D) Of its
11. The electrical field produced by a single wire is not very strong, so to increase it, ………..
into a coil
(A) The wire is wound
(B) The wire wound
(C) To wind the wire
(D) By winding the wire
12. Biologist Wynne Edwards believed that animals often did things to help the group ……..
(A) They lived
(B) That they lived
(C) Which they lived
(D) In which they lived
13. In 1870, …………. , John D. Rockefeller and others created the Standard Oil Company.
(A) That oil prices fluctuated
(B) Despite fluctuating oil prices
(C) But the oil prices fluctuated
(D) Oil prices were fluctuating
14. Although the weather there is not ……… to have a year-round tourist season, British
Columbia is popular as a summer destination.
(A) Warm enough
(B) Warmly enough
(C) Enough warm
(D) As warm enough as
15. A robot’s movements can be directed with much precision, enabling it to repeat actions
exactly and ……… boring or dangerous tasks.
(A) For relieving humans
(B) To relieve humans of
(C) Which relieves humans of
(D) Therefore, it has relieved humans of
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
16. The mallard duck, widespread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, it is recognizable
A B
because of its brilliant green head and white collar
C D
In the United States, the number of deads due to heart attack and related conditions fell
A B C
by 25 percent between 1985 and 1990
D
17. The synthetic functions of the human brain, such as imagining, visualizing, and dreaming, is
A B
largely associated with the right half of the rain
C D
18. Less women than men are attracted to careers in the physical sciences, even though there are
A B C
now more women in the sciences than ever before
19. While some pirate ships deprived early American colonists of many needed supplies, others
A B C
smuggled in goods, subverted British taxes, and help in the Revolutionary War
20. Flannery O’Connor, which wrote novels and stories about the American South, was best known
A B
for her portrayals of social and religious fanaticism
C D
21. Plato believed that if we rely on our senses, we would not be able to acquire true knowledge of
A B C
the universe.
22. Good research involves much more merely gathering information; it is essentially a thinking
A B C D
activity.
23. The main boyhood interesting of psychologist Jean Piaget was observation of animals in their
A B C D
natural habitat.
24. There are a number of reason why population is concentrated in temperate regions, but the
A B
wide variety and availability of animal and vegetable life may be the most important
C D
25. After the development of the steam engine by James Watt in the late 1700s, the Industrial
A B C
Revolution progressed forward rapidly
26. Economist Adam Smith published his book The Wealth of Nations in 1776, a year also notably
A B C D
for the Declaration of Independence.
27. Birds whose coloring blends in with the leaves do not seen as easily as those with brighter
A B C D
feathers.
28. An American expects his or her conversation partner to respond a statement immediately, but
A B C
in some other cultures, people leave silence between each statement.
29. A cartel is an association of producers in a given industry whose purpose is restrict competition.
A B C D
30. In the early grades, the academic performance of girls are equal to that of boys in math and
A B C
almost equal to boys in science.
31. Thunderstorms occur most frequently during the warm months of the year, except along the
A B
pacific coast, where they formation in connection with winter storms.
C D
32. A recent survey showed that teachers considered giving children computers more important
A B
than to reduce class size, improving teachers salaries, and expanding hours of instruction.
C D
33. In Western societies, an individual’s status social is typically defined in terms of education,
A B C D
income, or occupation.
34. All parts of a plant contribute to the human food supply, but perhaps no is as important as the
A B C
seed from which all our cereals are derived.
35. Gospel music has its origin in the ornate vocal style of African American spirituals and of the
A B C D
impassioned speaking of Baptist preachers.
36. A microchip, or integrate circuit, is an electric component containing many tiny
circuit that can
A B C
process or store electric signals.
37. It was while the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a
A
document that changed the course of the war.
B C D
38. Marriage is associated not only with an increase in life satisfaction and also with a shift toward
A B C
more traditional gender roles.
39. Rarely the Park Service allows dogs to visit the national parks, except those kept on a leash at all
A B C
times.
D
READING
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Questions 1-10
If we believe that clothing has to do with covering the body, and costume with the choice of a
particular form of garment for a particular use, then we can say that clothing depend primarily on such
physical conditions as climate, health, and textile manufacture, whereas costume reflect social factors
such as religious beliefs, aesthetics, personal status, and the wish to be distinguished from or to emulate
our fellows.
The ancient Greeks and the Chinese believed that we first covered our bodies for some physical
reason such as protecting ourselves from the weather elements. Ethnologists and psychologists have
invoked psychological reasons: modesty in the case of ancients, and taboo, magical influence and the
desire to please for the moderns.
In early history, costume must have fulfilled a function beyond that of simple utility, perhaps through
some magical significance, investing primitive man with the attributes of other creatures. Ornaments
identified the wearer with animals, gods, heroes or other men. This identification remains symbolic in
more sophisticated societies. We should bear in mind that the theater has its distant origins in sacred
performances, and in all period children at play have worn disguises, so as to adapt gradually to adult
life.
Costume helped inspire fear or impose authority. For a chieftain, costume embodied attributes
expressing his power, while a warrior’s costume enhanced his physical superiority and suggested he was
superhuman. In more recent times, professional or administrative costume has been devised to
distinguish the wearer and express personal or delegated authority; this purpose is seen clearly in the
judge’s robes and the police officer’s uniform. Costume denotes power, and since power is usually
equated with wealth, costume came to be an expression of social caste and material prosperity. Military
uniform denotes rank and is intended to intimidate, to protect the body and to express membership in a
group. At the bottom of the scale, there are such compulsory costumes as the convict’s uniform. Finally,
costume can possess a religious significance that combines various elements: an actual or symbolic
identification with a god, the desire to express this in earthly life, and the desire to enhance the wearer’s
position of respect.
7. Why does the author mention the police officer’s uniforms in line 21?
(A) To illustrate the aesthetic function of costume
(B) To identify the wearer with a hero
(C) To suggest that police are superhuman
(D) To show how costume signifies authority
Questions 11-18
Psychologists who study information processing have identified and described several memory
structures that clarify how our memory works. They include the sensory register, short-term memory,
and long-term memory. Each structure varies as to how much information it can hold and for how long.
A description of how human process information typically begins with environmental stimuli.
Our sense receptors are constantly stimulated by visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory
stimuli. These experiences are initially recorded in the sensory register, so named because information is
thought to be encoded there in the same form in which it was perceived. The purpose of the sensory
register is to hold information one to three seconds. Information not recognized or otherwise selected
by us disappears from the system. The sensory register can hold about twelve items of information at a
time. Typists make extensive use of the sensory register in order to remember words just long enough
to get them typed. If no further processing takes place, a typist’s ability to recall that information later
is minimal. Similarly, most of us have had the experience of reading an entire page of text, only to
discover when we got to the bottom of the page, we couldn’t say anything about it except that we had
indeed “read” every word.
Once information has been recognized as meaningful, it is sent to short-term memory. In this
case, short-term is approximately 20 seconds. While this may seem surprising, it can be easily
demonstrated. If you were asked to dial an unfamiliar phone number, received a busy signal, and were
then distracted by something or someone else for 15 to 20 seconds, chances are you would have
forgotten the number at that point. Short-term memory is often referred to as “working” memory.
Most cognitive psychologists believe that the storage capacity of long-term memory is unlimited
and contains a permanent record of everything an individual has learned and experienced. Information
is encoded there to enhance its meaningfulness and organization so that it can be easily retrieved when
necessary.
14. According to the passage, typists are unable to recall information they type if
(A) They do not recognize it as meaningful enough to remember
(B) They are distracted by something or someone
(C) They have too much work to be able to process it all
(D) They are tired
15. According to the passage, which type of information is sent to shot-term memory?
(A) Information we need for three second or less
(B) Information that is relevant to us
(C) Information that suorises us
(D) Environmental stimuli we do not perceive
16. It can be inferred that shot-term memory is called “wprking” memory because
(A) We use it extensively when we are working
(B) It is very difficult to use effectively
(C) It holds information we are working on at a given moment
(D) We must work hard to retrieve information from it
18. Which of the following would we most easily retrieve from long-term memory?
(A) The birth date of our child
(B) A wrong telephone number we dialed
(C) The face of a stranger on the street
(D) Voices from the television in the background
Questions 19-30
Adolphus Busch came to prominence during the Gilded Age, a time when barons of industry left
an indelible mark on the United States. And the brewing industry, Adolphus Busch was the undisputed
baron. Adolphus Busch was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S at the age of eighteen. He
worked first as a clerk on the Mississippi river front and then decided to sell brewery supplies. One of his
costumers was Eberhard Anheuser, owner of a struggling brewery. Busch married Anheuser’s daughter
Lilly in 1861, and three years later he was operating his father-in-law’s brewery. Within five years, he
more than doubled the brewery’s output, from 6000 to 16000 barrels. Deciding that brewing was his
calling, he became a full business partner in 1869.
Busch decided business would be even better if the market could be expanded. Production was
limited by the amount of available storage space. In the days before refrigeration, brewers relied n caves
to store their beer. Anheuser’s caves were completely full. Expanding the market woul also mean
shipping beer to the locations, which took time and resulted in spoilage for the highly perishavle
product. That is why brewing had always been a local business. Busch saw the problems of finite cave
space and long-distance shipping simply as obstacles to be overcome.
So, with little more than conviction to sustain him, he set out to overcome these hurdles. He
traveled to Europe to learn about the latest advances in brewing. While there, he heard about
pasteurization, a process that kept beverages from spoiling.. at the 1876 World’s Fair in Philadelphia, he
got his first glimpse of the newy invented refrigerated railcar. He ordered five. And so, through
persistence and experimentation, Busch found a way around spoilage and storage constraints,
revolutionizing an entire industry. He was the first to introduce pasteurization and to use artificial
refrigeration, ultimately shipping his beer all over the country in a fleet of 850 refrigerated railcars.
Busch was a flamboyant promoter, recognizing early on that making the world’s best beers did
not good unless people knew about them. His marketing acumen became legendary in the brewing
industry. He was a dapper man who wore a white carnation and, in place of calling cards, gave his
business associates pocket knives featuring his portrait.
By the time he died in 1913 at the age of seventy-four, Busch had amassed tremendous wealth
and attained great position. Few people at that time could dispute the accomplishments of this self-
made man.
19. It can be inferred from lines 1-3 that the Gilded Age
(A) Caused war among prominent barons
(B) Was a time of industrial activity
(C) Was marked by economic hardship and ruin
(D) Occurred in the early twentieth century
21. Busch realized that expanding the market of beer would involve
(A) Completely filling the brewery’s
(B) Increasing the amount of local business
(C) Shipping the beer to nearby cities
(D) Both increasing output and shipping long distances
22. The phrase “the highly perishable product” in line 14 refers to
(A) The market
(B) Business
(C) Beer
(D) Cave space
30. The author’s attitude toward Adolphus Busch could best be described as
(A) Complimentary
(B) Sarcastic
(C) Persuasive
(D) Neutral
Questions 31-41
The initial contact between American Indians and European settlers usually involved trade,
whereby Indians acquired tools and firearms and the Europeans obtained furs. These initial events
usually pitted Indian tribes against each other as they competed for the European trade and for the
lands containing fur-producing animals. When the furs had been depleted, the Europeans began a
campaign to obtain the lands the Indians occupied. The Indians often formed confederations and
alliances to fight back the Europeans; however, the Indians’ involvement in the white people’s wars
usually disrupted these confederations. Indians resisted the attempts by the whites to displace them.
They fought defensive wars such as the Black Hawk War in 1832. Indian uprisings also occurred, like the
Sioux uprising in the 1860s.
Despite the resistance of the Indians, the Europeans were destined to win the conflict. After
Indian resistance was crushed, the whites legitimized the taking of Indian lands by proposing treaties,
frequently offering gifts to Indian chiefs to get them sign the treaties. Once an Indian group had signed a
treaty, the whites proceeded to remove them from their land. Often the Indians were forced west of the
Mississippi into Indian Territory-land the whites considered uninhabitable. If only a few Indians
remained after the conquest, they were often absorbed by local tribes or forced onto reservations.
No aspect of American history is more poignant than the accounts of the forced removal of
Indians across the continent. As white settlers migrated farther west, Indians were forced to sign new
treaties giving up the lands earlier treaties had promised them. Some Indian tribes, realizing
the futility of resistance, accepted their fate and moved westward without force. The Winnebagos, who
offered little resistance, were shifted from place to place between 1829 and 1866. About half of them
perished during their perpetual sojourn. Other tribes, however, bitterly resisted. The Seminoles signed a
treaty in 1832 but violently resisted removal. Hostilities broke out in 1835 and continued for seven
years. The United States government lost nearly 1,500 men and spent over $50 million in its attempts to
crush Seminole resistance. Most of Seminoles were eventually forced to Indian Territory. However,
several hundred remained in the Florida Everglades, where their descendants live today.
35. The author makes the point that Indian Territory was
(A) Considered undesirable by European settlers
(B) In the western part of Mississippi
(C) Where a few Indians remained
(D) Where several battles between Indians and whites took place
36. According to the passage, which of the following did NOT happen?
(A) Indian tribes formed alliances with other tribes
(B) Treaties allowed Indians to live where they wanted
(C) Indians were forced to live on reservations
(D) Indians rebelled against European settlers
40. According to the passage, which tribe did NOT fight against removal
(A) Sioux
(B) Black Hawk
(C) Winnebago
(D) Seminole
41. Where in the passage does the author mention the costs associated with removal?
(A) Lines 9-10
(B) Lines 12-14
(C) Lines 19-20
(D) Lines 27-28
Questions 42-50
All North American canids have a doglike appearance characterized by a little body, long muzzle,
erect ears, slender legs, and bushy tail. Most are social animals: wolves travel in packs with a clearly
established hierarchy of dominance, coyotes hunt in smaller groups or pairs, and only foxes are solitary.
As a result of years of persecution, most canids have decreased greatly. The coyote, however, has
thrived alongside man, increasing in both numbers and range.
Its common name comes from coyotl, the term used by Mexico's Nahuatl Indians, and its
scientific name, canis latrans, means "barking dog" . The coyote's vocalizations are varied, but the most
distinctive are given at dusk, dawn or during the night and consist of a series of barks followed by a
prolonged howl and ending with short, sharp yaps. This call keeps the band alert to the locations of its
members. one voice usually prompts others to join in, resulting in the familiar chorus heard at night
throughout the west.
The best runner among the canids, the coyote is able to leap fourteen feet and cruise normally
at 25-30 miles per hours. It is a strong swimmer and does not hesitate to enter water after prey. In
feeding, the coyote is an opportunist, eating rabbit, mice, ground squirrels, birds, snakes, insects, many
kinds of fruits, and carrion. To catch Large prey, such as deer or antelope, the coyote may team up with
one or two others, running in relays to tire prey or waiting in ambush while others chase prey toward it.
Often a badger serves as involuntary supplier of smaller prey: While it digs for rodents at one end of
their burrows, the coyote waits for any that may emerge form an escape hole at the other end.
Predators of coyote once included the grizzly and black bears, the mountain lion, and wolf, but
with their declining population these are no longer a threat. Man is the Major enemy, especially since
coyote pelts have become increasingly valuable, but the coyote population continues to increase,
despite efforts at trapping and poisoning.
42. The passage supports all of the following statements EXCEPT
(A) Prey
(B) Canids
(C) Rodents
(D) Coyotes
(A) Leader
(B) Choir
(C) Group
(D) Orchestra
(A) Coyotes
(B) Badgers
(C) Rodents
(D) Burrows
47. Which animal sometimes unknowingly helps the coyote catch food?
(A) Wolf
(B) Black bear
(C) Deer
(D) Badger
48. The author makes the point that the chief predators of the coyote is
50. Where in the passage does the author describe coyote communication?
(A) Paragraph 1
(B) Paragraph 2
(C) Paragraph 3
(D) Paragraph 4