Level TOEFL Lesson 16

Level TOEFL lesson 16 
1. That plant is ________ big that it should really be 
moved outside. 
A (A) so 
(B) too 
(C) such 
(D) very 
2. Generally speaking, people should have ________ as 
their desires will allow. 
B (A) much education 
(B) as much education 
(C) education 
(D) for education 
3. ________ strength of 70 horses, a forklift toils all day 
long in a warehouse lifting great weights. 
B (A) Because the 
(B) With the 
(C) Some 
(D) The 
4. Jan Malzeliger’s invention, the “shoe-lasting” machine, 
________ production but it also cut the cost of shoe 
production by half. 
A (A) not only increased 
(B) not increased only 
(C) increased only 
(D) only have increased 
5. Goddard developed the first rocket to fly faster 
________. 
D (A) than sound is 
(B) does sound 
(C) sound 
(D) than sound 
6. Some students are frightened the university ________ 
tuition fees to meet the rise in the cost of living. 
D (A) have raised 
(B) raise 
(C) raising 
(D) will raise 
7. It is very difficult to stop the cultivation of marijuana 
because ________. 
C (A) it grows very carelessly 
(B) of it’s growth without attention 
(C) it grows well with little care 
(D) it doesn’t care much to grow 
8. Automobile production in the United States ________. 
B (A) have taken slumps and rises in recent years 
(B) has been rather erratic recently 
(C) has been erratically lately 
(D) are going up and down all the time 
9. On the slope of Long’s Peak in Colorado ________ the 
ruin of a gigantic tree. 
B (A) that lies 
(B) lies 
(C) where lies 
(D) lie 
10. ________ that the English settled in Jamestown. 
D (A) In 1607 that it was 
(B) That in 1607 
(C) Because in 1607 
(D) It was in 1607 
11. Agronomists work to improve the quality of crops, 
increase the yield of fields, and ________ of the soil. 
B (A) the quality is maintained 
(B) maintain the quality 
(C) the maintenance of the quality 
(D) maintaining the quality 
12. Nitric acid ________ copper to give off brown fumes of 
nitrogen dioxide. 
C (A) on reacting with 
(B) reacting to 
(C) reacts with 
(D) is reacting with 
13. Although the name was not popularized until the 
Middle Ages, engineering ________ civilization. 
B (A) as old as 
(B) is as old as 
(C) that is old as 
(D) as old as that 
14. Penguins, the most highly specialized of all aquatic 
birds, may live ________ twenty years. 
C (A) before 
(B) since 
(C) for 
(D) from 
15. A desert receives less than twenty-five ________ of 
rainfall every year. 
C (A) centimeter 
(B) a centimeter 
(C) centimeters 
(D) of centimeters 
16. Most beekeepers have observed ________ at the 
approach of a thunderstorm. 
B (A) enraging the bees 
(B) that bees become enraged 
(C) that bees enraging 
(D) become enraged the bees 
17. The jaw structure of a snake permits it to eat and 
digest animals much larger than ________ . 
B (A) it 
(B) itself 
(C) its 
(D) it has 
18. When a woman becomes pregnant ________ in life, 
she encounters additional risks in delivering a healthy 
baby. 
D (A) lately 
(B) lateness 
(C) latest 
(D) late 
19. ________ of Country-Western singers may be related 
to old English ballads. 
A (A) The music 
(B) Music 
(C) Their music 
(D) Musics 
20. The United States is ________ that there are five time 
zones. 
C (A) much big 
(B) too big 
(C) so big