TOEFL语法大全1995年05月语法题
1. _____ Henry Ford first sought financial backing for making cars, the very notion of farmers and clerks owning automobiles was considered ridiculous.
(A) How
(B) Even
(C) When
(D) Despite
答案：C
测试点：从句连接词。
分析：逗号后为主句，逗号前状语从句缺连接词。(C)when可引导时间状语从句。(B)Even为副词，(D)Despite为介词，均不可引出从句。(A)How虽为连词但与句意不符。
2. The first president of Cornell University, Andrew White _____ the concept of a university unaffiliated with any religious sect or political party.
(A) develop
(B) developing
(C) develops
(D) developed
答案：D
测试点：谓语／时态。
分析：本句有主语Andrew White而缺谓语，应在答案中选择谓语动词的形式，即(A)(C)或(D)。主语是第三人称单数，谓语不能用动词原形，故排除(A)。Cornell是著名的大学，历史悠久，其first president自然是历史人物，故排除现在时的(C)而选过去时(D)。
3. In order for information to be easily communicated, _____ must be organized in an understandable way.
(A) there
(B) and
(C) it
(D) how
答案：C
测试点：主语。
分析：空格后有谓语动词must be organized而缺主语，应在答案中选择名词或代词。(C)是代词，可做主语。句中be后应是动词而不是名词，不可用there be句型，故(A)错。
4. Because of record snowfalls in the mountains surrounding Utah's Great Salt Lake, there is more water in the lake and its salt content is _____ it once was.
(A) least as
(B) much less than
(C) the least what
(D) less
答案：B
测试点：比较句式。
分析：句中关键词more表明这是mole…than比较句型。在4个答案中首先寻找含than
的形式，即(B)。此句含有两个比较项目：more water和less salt content。
解题要点：句中出现比较词mole，应首先寻找含than的答案。
5. Home movies began to become popular as a hobby in the United States during the TOEFL语法大全1920's, _____ of low-cost film.
(A) the invention followed
(B) the invention to follow
(C) following the invention
(D) invention the following
答案：C
测试点：分词短语。
分析：逗号前为句子，逗号后应为从句或短语。空格后紧接of，说明所缺部分最后一词为名词。答案中无从句，只有(C)是分词短语，且最后一词为名词invention，可后接。of…，故选(C)。
6. Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor who studied at Oberlin College, was _____ by Hrriet ffosmer.
(A) tutored in the neoclassical aesthetic
(B) the neoclassical aesthetic tutored in
(C) aesthetic in the neoclassical tutored
(D) the aesthetic neoclassical tutored in
答案：A
测试点：词序／被动语态。
分析：助动词was后应紧接过去分词，其后接介词短语(介词+冠词+形容词+名词)，(A)是正确语序。
7. Even though rhubarb is a vegetable, _____ as a dessert.
(A) popular also
(B) it is popular
(C) but it is popular
(D) which is popular
答案：B
测试点：主谓结构。
分析：逗号前为Even though引导的从句，逗号后应为主句。空格后只有短语，主、谓语均缺，应在答案中选择主语+动词…的形式，即(B)。(A)不是主谓结构，(C)but不与Even though
连用：(D)为从句。
8. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, _____ of Radeliffe College, had worked as both an educator and a naturalist.
(A) the first president
(B) was the first president
(C) she was the first president
(D) which she was the first president
答案：A
测试点：同位语。
分析：本句主、语俱全，主、谓之间有一逗号隔开的部分，这是典型的同位语试题。故选名词词组(A)作同位语。
9. _____ ever developed was celluloid, a combination of natural camphor and cellulose nitrate.
(A) The first plastic and
(B) Being the first plastic
(C) The first plastic
(D) It was the first plastic
答案：C
测试点：主语。
分析：句子有系动词was而缺主语，应在答案中选择名词或名词词组。(C)为名词词组，可作主语。
10. Often the design of a scholarly investigation _____ by the question it is addressing.
(A) to affect
(B) affects
(C) affected
(D) will be affected
答案：D
测试点：被动语态。
分析：空格前有主语，空格后出现by，说明句子缺谓语动词，且为被动语态。答案中(D)是被动语态的谓语动词。(A)不能作谓语；(B)(C)不是被动式。
11. Though once quite large, _____ population of the bald eagle across North America has drastically declined in the past forty years.
(A) it is the
(B) there is the
(C) as the
(D) the
答案：D
测试点：冠词。
分析：空格后句子主、谓语完整，句首名词population前缺冠词。应在答案中选择冠词，即(D)。
解题要点：几个答案均含冠词，其中有一个是单独的冠词形式，应首先考虑选择它。
12. Plywood was originally manufactured from logs _____ for other purposes.
(A) were not suitable
(B) that were not suitable
(C) which they were not suitable
(D) and suitable were not
答案：B
分析：定语从句。
测试点：空格前句子主、谓完整，名词logs后接修饰成分，(B)为语从句。
13. Aerobic exercises create a _____ oxygen in the body without seriously disrupting normal body functions.
(A) demand
(B) demanding
(C) demanding of
(D) demand for
答案：D
分析：A demand for是固定短语，不用其他形式。
14. A protagonist of a play is _____ in tragedy as the suffering main character.
(A) what known
(B) known as
(C) what it is known
(D) what is know
答案：D
测试点：what引导的名词从句。
分析：系动词后缺表语。what引导的从句是名词性从句，可作表语，故选(D)。
15. The beaver chews down trees to get food and material _____ its home.
(A) builds
(B) it can builds
(C) that it builds
(D) with which to build
答案：D
测试点：介词+which结构／不定式。
分析：介词+which后面可接从句，亦可接不定式结构，即介词+which+to do。
16. The architect rural style of Mannerism used unbalanced proportions nor arbitrary arrangements of decoration.
答案：B
测试点：连词。
分析：nor用于否定句中，与neither或not连用，而句中无neither或not。应为and。
17. The theater is perhaps the most complex of the arts, requiring a number large of people for a play's performance.
答案：C
分析：number large改为large number
18. Some comets are visibly to the unaided eye, but only for several months, when they pass closest to the Sun. 答案：B
测试点：词性。
分析：visibly是副词，但此处作表语需要用形容词。应为visible。
解题要点：见到以-ly结尾的副词，应注意它是否错用，是否应为形容词。
TOEFL语法大全19. Singer, comedienne, and creating of the radio character Baby Snooks, Fanny Buice had an engaging personality that delighted audiences for nearly half a century.
答案：A
测试点：并列结构。
分析：and两边应同词性、同性质。and前为说明身份的名词Singer和comedienne，and后也应用表示身份的creator。
20. Saccharin is about 300 times as sweeter as table sugar but has no carbohydrates and no food value.
答案：B
测试点：as…as的用法。
分析：as…as表示同级的比较，两个as之间用原级的形容词或副词，不能用比较级的sweeter。应为(as) sweet as。
21. One of the s to the survival of any animal is its ability adapts to changes in the environment.
答案：D
测试点：习语/词形。
分析：Ability to do…是固定短语。应为不定式to adapt。
22. The element bromine is not found in nature in the free state because of their strong tendency to take up electrons and form compounds.
答案：C
测试点：代词／数的一致。
分析：代词的数应与其所代名词一致。此处代词指代的是单数的The element bromine,不能用复数的their。应为its。
23. During dives that may reach depths of almost 5,000 feet, an elephant seal can holds its breath for an hour or more.
答案：D
测试点：词形。
分析：情态动词can应后接动词原形。holds应为hold。
24. The development of the boiler is closely related to those of the steam engine, to which it is a necessary adjunct.
答案：C
测试点：代词数的一致。
分析：代词的数应与其所代名词一致。此处代词指代的是单数的development，不能用复数的those。应为that。
25. The Rodeo Association of America, formed in TOEFL语法大全1929, set up a system points for determining the national rodeo champions.
答案：B
测试点：数的一致。
分析：points为复数，而冠词a应后接单数名词。应为system point。
26. As the late TOEFL语法大全1940's, Jackson Pollock's art has been considered the pivotal manifestation of Abstract Expressionism, as his form of it is known.
答案：A
测试点：介词。
分析：表示年代，应用介词in或during。这是TOEFL常考介词问题。
27. Stars differ fundamental from planets in that they are self-luminous whereas planets shine by reflected light.
答案：A
测试点：词性。
分析：fundamental是形容词，而此处修饰动词differ应当用副词，应为fundamentally。
28. In TOEFL语法大全1973 and TOEFL语法大全1974 Dr. Sylvia Mead was selected chief scientist and aquanaut for diving projects involved the underwater laboratory Hydrolab.
答案：C
测试点：分词／词形。
分析：分词的主动与被动的区别是TOEFL常考题型。projects后接分词短语作后置定语，意义上是主动的，应用现在分词involving。
29. An electromagnet is a device which magnetism is produced by an electric magnet. 答案：B
测试点：介词+which结构。
分析：介词+which结构中后接定语从句，从句主语为magnetism，而且此句为被动式，不需要宾语。因而which在从句中无法作主语和宾语，故应改为with which作状语。
30. Almost all human activity alters water quality somewhat, but not necessity as a result of pollution by human materials.
答案：D
测试点：习语/词性。
分析：not necessarily是固定短语，不用necessity。
31. During periods of heavy rains, a swamp can become a naturally flood controlling device if excess runoff can be temporarily stored in its basin.
答案：B
测试点：词性。
分析：naturally是副词，而此处修饰名词词组controlling device应当用形容词natural。
32. With the advent of power-driven machinery, home industry began toward give way to production in mills and factories.
答案：C
测试点：习语／不定式。
分析：begin to do…是固定短语。此处began后接不定式，不用toward，应当用to。
33. Liquefied natural gas is the most volatile
chemistry explosive in common use today. 答案：C
测试点：词性。
分析：chemistry是名词，而此处修饰名词explosive需要形容词。应为chemical。
34. Historian have been able to calculate the dates of events from long ago by tracing references to eclipses that took place at the same time.
答案：A
测试点：主谓数的一致。
分析：助动词为复数的have，说明主语不应是单数，而应为复数Historians。
35. In a small community, behavioral norms are more universally understood and accepted, and are therefore more likely being homogeneous than in a large city.
答案：C
测试点：习语／词形。
分析：be likely to do…是固定短语。being应为不定式to be。
36. Anthropologists face complex problems of analysis and synthesis when they go about the task of description the culture of a group of people.
答案：C
测试点：词性
分析：description是名词，不能后接the culture作其宾语。应当用动名词describing。
解题要点：见到划线的以-tion结尾的名词，应注意其是否应为动词的形式。
37. The guilds of the Middle Ages began as associations in merchants established for the purpose of regulating the rules of commerce.
答案：A
测试点：习语／介词。
分析：association with是固定短语，不用in。
38. Booker T. Washington viewed as one of the ablest public speakers of his time. 答案：A
测试点：被动语态。
分析：view是及物动词，此处后面无宾语，应用被动语态view应为was／is viewed。
39. The Alaskan wilderness is filled of wildlife, including wolves, foxes,and such waterfowl as wild geese.
答案：A
测试点：习语／介词。
分析：be filled with是固定短语，不用of.
40. Historically, no artists have presented clearer or the more complete records of the development of human culture than sculptors have.
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