Selasa, 10 Mei 2011

skill 16-19

SKILL 16 PAST PARTICIPLES AFTER HAVE
EXERCISE 16 : Each of the following sentences contains a verb formed with have. Underline the verbs. Then indicate if the sentences are correct ( C ) or incorrect ( I ).

I 1. We have already hearing the good news.
C 2. She has ridden her bicycle to school every day.
I 3. I have always believe you.
I 4. He has find the missing car keys.
C 5. They have put their money in a savings account.
C 6. Their parents have allowed them to stay up late.
I 7. She has never ran away from home before.
I 8. Have you ever saw a ghost?
C 9. They have taken three tests already thia week.
I 10. He has offer me a high-paying job.

SKILL 17 PRESENT PARTICIPLES OR PAST PARTICIPLES AFTER BE
EXERCISE 17 : Each of the following sentences contains a verb formed with be. Underline the verbs. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

I 1. She was study the textbooks all nigth long.
C 2. The pie was cut into six equal pieces.
I 3. Today the teacher is allow the students to leave class a few minutes early.
I 4. The class is teach every other semester.
C 5. Tom is bringing some drinks to the party.
C 6. The sick child was taken to see a doctor.
I 7. The children are swim in the backyard pool.
I 8. The diamond jewelry is always keep in a safe place.
C 9. The teacher is preparing a difficult exam for the students.
C 10. Dinner is served from 6:00 t0 8:00.

SKILL 18 BASE FORM AFTER MODALS
EXERCISE 18 : Each of the following sentences contains a verb formed with modal. Underline the verbs. Then indicate if the sentences are correct ( C ) or incorrect ( I ).

C 1. You should try to respond politely.
I 2. Everyone must leaves the room immediately.
I 3. I could sat on the beach for hours.
I 4. She will asking you many difficult questions.
C 5. You can look at the book, but you cannot borrow it.
I 6. He may lies to you because he is not very truthful.
I 7. He knew that he would forgot the phone number.
I 8. The weatherman said that it might snowing tonight.
I 9. Perhaps we could bought a new car this year.
C 10. This course will satisfy the garduation requirement.

EXERCISE (Skiil 16-18) : Each of the following sentences contains a verb formed with several parts.. Underline the verbs. Then indicate if the sentences are correct ( C ) or incorrect ( I ).

I 1. We have became good friends in the last year.
C 2. Your name will be list in yhe new directory.
I 3. The new movie is receive good reviews.
C 4. She must have feel story about her bad behavior.
C 5. They must always given their family many presents.
I 6. We may be taking a vacation next week.
I 7. We could have taking a vacation last week.
I 8. The package might have been deliver by an express mail service.
I 9. I have not wrote very many letters to my friends.
C 10. The car should not have be drive anymore yesterday.

TOEFL EXERCISE (Skills 16-18) : Choose the letter of the underline word or group of words that is no correct.

A 1. By the 1920s, many radio transmitters had been build.
A B C D

C 2. Fish farming has rose in the United Stated in recent years.
A B C D
C 3. In areas of volcanic activity, beach sand may contains dark minerals and little
A B C D
quartz.
A 4. Cro-Magnon man was names after the caves I southwest France where the first
A B
remains were discovered.
C D
B 5. Lassie, the famous collie who made her first screen appearance in 1943, has
A B
always be played by a male dog.
C D
B 6. A blue bigwig lizard stakes out a territory and will defending females within it
A B C
againts courting males.
D
C 7. President George Washington was inaugurates on the steps of the Federal
A B C
Buliding in New York City.
D
A 8. By 1627, Plymouth had became a viable and growing communinty of fifty
A B C
families, twenty-two goats, fifteen cows, and more than fifty pigs.
D

A 9. Tobacco was the crop on which the eminence of Williamsburg and the
A B
prosperity of Virginia were base.
C D
C 10. Because there may be scores of genes in each suspect DNA region, scientists
A
must identifying and sequance the actual genes contributing to type I diabetes.
B C D

TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-15) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that the best completes the sentences.

1. The Pasific Ocean has the deepest valleys and canyons on the Earth.
2. In the United States, yhe participation of females in the labor force jumped from 37 percent in 1965 to 51 percent in 1980.
3. Some composers, such as Richard Wagner, have felt that areas of interrution the action of the opera too much and have written operas without them.
Choose the letter of the underline word or group of the words that is not correct.

A 4. Water stored behind a dam can used to drive turbines.
A B C D
C 5. Our universe may continue to expand as it gets colder, empty, and deader.
A B C D
D 6. Every form of matter in the world are made up of atoms.
A B C D
C 7. The lens and cornea are supply with nutrients and oxygen by the aqueous fluid.
A B C D
D 8. Dodge City, laid out in 1872, owed both its prosperity and its famous to the
A B
buffalo in its early years.
C D
D 9. The amount of the two kinds of cholesterol in the blood have been shown to
A B C
have an effect on the risk of heart attack.
D
B 10. By the time North Webster reached his mid-twenties, he had already publish
A B C
an elementary speller.
D

SKILL 19 SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS
EXERCISE 19 : Each of the following sentences contains at least one key word to tell you if a noun shuold be singular or plura. Bold the key words to the nouns they describe. Then indicate if the sentences are correct ( C ) or incorrect ( I ).

I 1. She talked to each people in the room.
C 2. There is not a single bit of food in the refrigerator.
I 3. You need two piece of identification to cash a check.

skill 13-15

TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-13) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that the best completes the sentences.

1. The constitution of pictograms the earliest system of writing.
2. At temperatures approach absolute zero, substances possess minimal energy.
3. The Earth’s one-year revolution arround the Sun changes how sunlight in the fall on one hemisphere or the order.
4. Though sporadic interest in regional dialects has existed for centuries, the first large-scale systematic studies did not take place until the nineteenth century.

Choose the letter of the underline word or group of the words that is not correct.

A 5. The waters of the Chattahoochee River fills Lake Lanier.
A B C D
B 6. The first set of false teeth similar to those in use today it was made in France
A B C D
In the 1780s.
B 7. The term “Yanke” was originally a nickname for people from New England,
A
but now anyone from the United States are referred to as a Yankee.
B C D
B 8. A network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched between the skin and the
A
underlying muscles, supply blood to the face and scalp.
B C D
C 9. Mesquite is a small tree in the Southwest who can withstand the severest
A B C D
drought.
D 10. At the end of the Revolution, most of the army units of the young nation was
A B
almost entirely disbanded, leaving a total national military force of eighty
C D
men in 1784.










SKILL 14 PARALEL STRUCTURE WITH COORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
EXERCISE 14 : Each of the following sentences contains words or group of words that should be parallel. Bold the word that indicates that the sentences should have parallel parts. Underline the parts that should be parallel. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

I 1. The pastries in that shop are very expensive but quite deliciously.
C 2. You can find some change to buy a paper in the drawer, on the top the dresser, or in the jar.
I 3. The living room was decorated with expensive painting and elegance lamps.
I 4. He knew that the financial problems were serious, that the situation was not going to improve, and the needed to get a job.
C 5. All day along during the trip to the mountains, they were sikiing, sledding, or played in the snow.
C 6. The car needs new tires but not a new engine.
C 7. He stop working when he gets too tired to continue or when he has finished.
I 8. To get to the office, you should go through this door, turn to the left, and continuation down the hall.
C 9. For dessert we could serve lemon pie, fruit tarts, chocolate cake, or butter cookies.
I 10. The sick child needs some medicine, some juice, and to rest.

SKILL 15 PARALLEL STRUCTURE WITH PAIRED CONJUNCTIONS
EXERCISE 15 : Each of the following sentences contains words or group of words that should be parallel. Bold the words that indicate that the sentences shoukd have parallel parts. Underline the parts that should be parallel. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

I 1. He either lied or telling an unbelievable story.
C 2. The muisc the concert was neither weel played nor well liked.
I 3. He regularly studies but in the morning or in the evening.
C 4. The play the we saw last night was not only rather delightful but also quite meaningful.
C 5. He married her neither for her ability to cook nor he ability to clean house.
C 6. The discussion was both exciting and interest.
C 7. He withdrew all the money not only from the checking account but also from the savings account.
I 8. Neither the teacher or the students are ready to leave the classroom.
I 9. You can meet with me either in the next few minutes or at 4:00.
I 10. John is an adventurous parson who enjoys not only skydiving but also goes parasailing.

EXERCISE (14-15) : Each of the following sentences contains words or group of words that should be parallel. Bold the words that indicate that the sentences shoukd have parallel parts. Underline the parts that should be parallel. Then indicate if the sentences are correct (C) or incorrect (I).

C 1. The advertisement appeared in the newspaper and on the radio.
C 2. She is trained as both an accountant and in nursing.
I 3. We can take either my car or yours to the party.
C 4. The coffe is too hot, too bitter, and too strenght.
I 5. He not only passed the test but also receiving the highest score in the class.
I 6. Your ideas are neither more important or less important than the iedas of the others.
I 7. The meeting lasted only an hour but still seeming too long.
C 8. The novel was both emotional and description.
I 9. Either the counselor or her secretary can help you with that problem.
C 10. The leaves from the tree fell in the yard, in the pool, the driveway, and on the sidewalk.

TOEFL EXERCISE ( Skills 14-15 ) : Choose the letter of the underline word or group of words that is no correct.

C 1. Ballpoint pens are less versatile but more population than fountain pens.
A B C D
A 2. Riddles vary greatly in both grammatical and phonology form.
A B C D
C 3. Blood pressure is measured by feeling the pulse and apply a force to the arm.
A B C D
A 4. The Moon has no atmosphere, no air, and no watery.
A B C D
C 5. The first matches were too hard to ignite, a mess, or too dangerously easy to
A B C D
ignite.
B 6. A 1971 U.S. government policy not only put warning on cigarette packs but
A B
also banning television advertising of cigarettes.
C D
D 7. Demand, beauty, durabilty, rare, and perpection of cutting determine the value
A B C D
of a gemstone.
A 8. The Harvard Yard, which was Harvard’s original campus, is still a major
A B C
attraction for both students and visiting.
D
D 9. In 1862, the American Confederacy raised the Merrimack, renamed it Virginia,
A B
covered it with iron plates, and an outfit it with ten guns.
C D
B 10. The liquid crystals in a liquid crystal display (LCD) affect the polarized light
A B C
so that is either blocked and reflected by the segments of the display.
D

TOEFL REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1-15) : Choose the letter of the word or group of words that the best completes the sentences.

1. Most cells in multicelled organisms perform specialized functions.
2. The big island of Hawaii, in the middle of the Pasific Ocean, it was created by five volcanoes.
3. The Sun uses up over four miilion tons of hydrogen per second, it does not still has enough hydrogen to last for the next five billion years.
4. For Katherinr L. Bates, who she was reaching the top Pikes Peak in 1893, the view provided the inspiration for her hymn “ America the Beatiful.”

Choose the letter of the underline word or group of the words that is not correct.

C 5. Coal, petroleum, and natural gaseous are all fossil fuels.
A B C D
B 6. The mass of neutron stars generaly range from one-tenth to twice the mass of
A B C D
the Sun.
D 7. Grasses grow in ways that help them to survive being nibble, chilly, or dried.
A B C D

A 8. Most of Hemingway’s novels glorifies heroic exploits such as bullfighting or
A B C
boxing.
D

D 9. Paleographers study ancient and medieval handwriting in order to establish not
A B C
only its age and also its background.
D
B 10. The sounds produced by bullfrogs and toads vary greatly because each species
A B
have its own particular call.
C D