2006年考试新辅导之托福写作题库新增试题十七(1)

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1.Portland,Maine,is _____ the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his early years.

(A)where

(B)it where

(C)where is

(D)which is where

2.As consumers'response to traditional advertising¹ techniques declines,businesses are beginning _____ new methods of reaching customers.

(A)the development that

(B)it developing

(C)develop

(D)to develop

3.The knee is _____ most other joints² in the body because it cannot twist without injury.

(A)more likely to be damaged than

(B)likely to be more than damaged

(C)more than likely to be damaged

(D)to be damaged more than likely

4.The quince is an attractive shrub³ or small tree _____ closely related to the apple and pear trees.

(A)is

(B)that is

(C)that it is

(D)is that which

5.Many gases,including the nitrogen and oxygen in air,_____ color or odor.

(A)have no

(B)which have no

(C)not having

(D)they do not have

6.The American Academy of Poets,_____ the 1930's,provides financial assistance to support working poets.

(A)when it was founded

(B)was founded

(C)which was founded in

(D)was founded in

7.During the Pleistocene glacial periods _____ portions of the Earth where plant and animal life flourished making it possible for people to subsist⁴.

(A)the

(B)it was

(C)there were

(D)have there been

8.The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems,in which she often makes her family members _____,are an affectionate and incisive⁵ representation of the African American experience.

(A)are her subjects

(B)her subjects

(C)are subjects

(D)which her subjects.

9.Hubble's law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies,_____ is their relative speed of separation.

(A)the greatest

(B)the greater

(C)greater than

(D)as great as

10.The onion is characterized by an edible⁶ bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent⁷ oil,_____ the vegetable's strong taste.

(A)which the source of

(B)that the source is

(C)the source of

(D)of the source is

11.A regional writer with a gift for dialect,_____ her fiction with the eccentric,comic,but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

(A)and Eudora Welty is peopling

(B)Eudora Welty peoples

(C)because Eudora Welty peoples.

(D)Eudora Welty,to people.

12.Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor⁸ the air contains at a certain temperature _____ with the amount it could hold at that temperature.

(A)to compare

(B)compared

(C)comparing

(D)compares

13.Scientists believe the first inhabitants of the Americas arrived by crossing the land bridge that connected Siberia and _____ more than 10,000years ago.

(A)this is Alaska now

(B)Alaska is now

(C)is now Alaska

(D)what is now Alaska.

14.Fibers⁹ of hair and wool are not continuous and must normally be spun¹⁰ into thread _____ woven into textile fabrics¹¹.

(A)as are they

(B)when to be

(C)that they are

(D)if they are to be

15.Margaret Brent,because of her skill in managing estates,became _____ largest landholders in colonial Maryland.

(A)what the

(B)one of the

(C)who the

(D)the one that

16.Eleanor Roosevelt set

the standard against which the wives

of all

United States

A B C