New TOEFL PBT Practice Test 2020 ( Structure and Written )

TOEFL PBT Practice Test Structure and Written Expression 

SECTION II: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Time: 25 Minutes

40 Questions

DIRECTIONS Each sentence in Part A is an incomplete sentence. Four words or phrases, marked (1), (2), (3), (4), are given beneath each sentence. You are to choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer.

1. Overexposure to the sun causes____ health problems.

A. Various

B. Among

C. But

D. Of

2. Beard head south to warmer climates when............

A. Is cold weather

B. Does cold weather come

C. Cold weather comes

D. Comes cold weather

3. the city council is empowered not only to enact new laws,............. select a new mayor between elections should the need arise.

A. And to

B. But also to

C. And

D. So that

4. drying of meats and vegetables is no longer considered one of ...... ... of preserving food.

A. The ways are useful

B. Useful ways

C. The most useful ways

D. Most are useful ways

5. A giant kind of grass, bamboo may reach a height of 120 feet and ......

A. A diameter of 1 foot

B. Its diameter is 1 foot

C. There is a diameter of 1 foot

D. Which is a diameter of 1 foot

6. Somerset Maughan, a novelist, ........ about a restless man’s quest for inner understanding in The Razor's edge.

A. Who wrote this

B. Who wrote

C. When he wrote

D. Wrote

7. Aspirin is used .............. a constriction of the blood vessels.

A. The contraction

B. To counteract

C. Counteract

D. Counteracting

8. The nuthatch ............ six inches long.

A. Grows seldom more than

B. More than seldom grows

C. Seldom grows more than

D. Grows more than seldom

9. Composing more than 40 percent of the diet, fats are ......... by the body for energy.

A. Using specifically 

B. Used specifically

C. Specific use

D. The specific use

10. the sea mammal medusa is popularly called a jellyfish because it ..... jelly.

A. Looks rather like

B. Looks like rather

C. Likes looking rather

D. Rather likes looking

11. Therapists are currently using mental imagery in the hope that it might prove ...... in the treatment of cancer.

A. Helpful

B. For help

C. Helpfully

D. With the help

12. by praying outside saloons, throwing rocks in saloon windows, and destroying saloons with her hatchet.

A. Alcohol was prohibited by Carrie Nation

B. Carry Nation worked to prohibit alcohol

C. Prohibiting alcohol by Carrie Nation

D. Carrie Nation’s work for the prohibition of alcohol 

13. More drugmaker is changing their target market from physician to patient ............... the patient as the key to increasing market share.

A. That they see

B. See them

C. They see

D. In that they see

14. .............cockroach is the most in need of eradicating is generally agreed upon by housing authorities everywhere.

A. When the

B. It is the

C. That the

D. The

15. ............., the jaguar used to roam freely in the southwestern United States.

A. It is now found only in central and southwestern United States.

B. Finding in central and South America

C. To be found in Central and South America

D. Now found only in Central and South America

DIRECTIONS Each sentence in Part B has four words or phrases underlined. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A),(B),(C),(D). You are to identify the one underlined word or phrase that should be corrected or rewritten. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer.

16. The larger of forty-eight continental states in the United States is Texas.

17. According to the experts, genetic inheritance is probability the most important factor in determining a person’s health.

18. The railroad was one of the first methods of transportation to be use extensively in early American history.

19. Often when the weather is extremely hot, people have very thirsty but are not terribly hungry.

20. Pioneers on the plains sometimes living in dugouts , sod rooms cut into hillsides.

21. Ballon have been used in various wars not only to direct artillery fire and report troop movements however to carry boombs and protect against low-flying planes.

22. The National Wilds flower Research Center which was established in 1982 by Lady Bird Johnson on sixty acres of land east Austin.

23. The idea that artistic achievements rank in importance with scientific achievements has been upheld by painters, writers, and musicals for centuries.

24. To improvement the stability of the building , a concrete foundation two feet thick must be installed.

25. In 1786 Benjamin Franklin first suggested daylight savings time as a means of cutting down on the consumes of candles.

26. An alligator is an animal somewhat like a crocodile , but with a board , flatten snout.

27. An extremely dangerous forms of cocaine, crack attacks the nervous system, brain , and body in a sharper fashion than cocaine.

28. It is the role of the National Bureau of Standards to establish accurate measurements for science , industrial , and commerce.

29. Into among the five Great Lakes, only Lake Michigan is located Entirely within the territorial boundaries of the United States.

30. Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated his competitive spirit and tireless energy in 1905 what he led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill.

31. The “ Fairness Doctrine” of the FCC requires that radio and television stations give equal time to opposing sides of issues controversial.

32. Marry Harries Jones, known as “Mother Jones,” was a prominence figure in the labor movement at the turn of the century.

33. Consequently the kit fox is an endangered species , wildlife experts in the California desert are using various methods to protect it.

34. In addition to serving as members of the president’s cabinet, the attorney general is the head of the Justice Department.

35. The need to improve technique motivates ballerinas exercising and rehearse for hours daily.

36. The narwhal can be easily to recognize by the long spiraled tusk attached to the left side of its head

37. The poet Ogden Nash often used a comic style to do a serious point.

38. The water in the Great Salt Lake is a less four times saltier than seawater.

39. On February 20, 1962, Friendship 7 has orbited the Earth in a manned flight that lasted just under five hours.

40. it has been suggested that the battleship Missouri be brought back to active duty, at cost of $475 million. 

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