Sách 1000 câu hỏi luyện thi tofic (kèm theo đáp án)

1. The ode was original a ceremonial poem written to celebrate public occasions or exalted subjects.
A B C D

2. Knowledge of the rate at which a ship is traveling through the water is important if the navigator
A B C
need to estimate the time of arrival.
D

3. The earth is the only planet with a large number of oxygen in its atmosphere.
A B C D

4. Robert Frost was not well known as a poet until he reached the forties.
A B C D

cf) The amounts of oxygen and nitrogen in the air almost always remain stable, but the amount of water
A B C
vapor vary considerably.
D

5. Multicolored woodcuts must be printed with as many blocks as _______ colors in the composition. (A) there are (B) many (C) some of (D) it is

6. A painter who lived most of his life in the Middle West, Grant wood has called America's "Painter of
A B C D
the Soil."

7. While ancient times people simply painted inanimate objects, during the Renaissance the painting of
A B C
"still life" developed as an accepted art form.
D

8. The American frontiersman, politician, and soldier Davy crockett is one of the most popular of
A B C
American hero.
D

9. Three months after they have been laid, crocodile eggs are ready hatched.
A B C D

10. Peas require rich soil, constant moistures, and a cool growing season to develop well.
A B C D

11. A dolphin locates underwater objects in its path by doing a series of clicking and whistling sounds.
A B C D


12. The greater an objects's mass, the more difficult it is ____________ . (A)
(A) to speed it up or slow it down
(B) it speeds up or slows down
(C) than speeding it up or slowing it down
(D) than speeding up or slowing down

13. A desert area that has been without water for six years will still bloom when rain will come.
A B C D


14. One of the essential features of the modern skyscraper is being the elevator.
A B C D

15. A rabbit moves about by hopping on its hind legs, which are much longer and more strong than its
A B C D
front legs.

1.A 2.D 3.B 4.D 5.A 6.D 7.A 8.D 9.D 10.B 11.D 12.A 13.D 14.C 15.D


16. The snowy egret is about the size of large crow.
A B C D

17. The grape is the ___________ , juicy fruit of a woody vine.
(A) skin
(B) which is smooth
(C) smooth skin
(D) smooth-skinned

18. In the second half of the nineteenth century, textiles from the southwestern United state, particularly fabrics woven by the Navajo people, _____________________ .
(A) began to be used as rugs
(B) rugs began to be used
(C) as rugs began to be used
(D) began to used them as rugs

19. During adolescence many young people begin to question ------ held by their families.
(A) the values
(B) of the values
(C) the values are
(D) are the values

20. During the Middle Ages, handwriting notices kept groups of nobles informed of important events.
A B C D

21. In her writing, Elimor Wylie often dealt with her own personality as it was, rather than _________ .
(A) as was defines by others
(B) its definitions by others
(C) other's definition
(D) as others defined it

22. Congress chartered the first Bank of the United States in 1791 to engage in general commercial banking and __________ as a fiscal agent of the federal government.
(A) to act
(B) acting
(C) that has acted
(D) having acted

23. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of _____________ reality.
(A) what is conceived
(B) what it is conceived
(C) what is conceived to be
(D) what is being conceived

16.(D) 17.(D) 18.(A) 19.(A) 20.(B) 21.(D) 22.(A) 23.(C)


24. Tenant farmers are those they either rent a farm and work it for themselves or work the farm for the
A B C
owner and receive payment.
D

25. Slightly over half of the population of El Paso, Texas, says both English and spanish.
A B C D


26. Hickories are medium to large trees common in eastern and the central areas of North America.
A B C D


27. Approximately one-third of all persons involved in adult education programs in 1970 were enrolled in
A B C
occupational education course.
D

28. Natural adhesives are primarily of animals or vegetable origin.
A B C D

29. As a glacier melts, rocks, boulders, trees, and tons of dirt deposit.
A B C D

30. The Suwannee River has been never important for transport and no significant hydropower potential.
A B C D

31. American manufacturers depend on ocean shipping for most of trade with other countries.
A B C D

32. The root of the chicory plant is often ground up and added to coffee to elimination its bitterness.
A B C D

33. Some nematodes are very tiny that it Is necessary to view them through a microscope.
A B C D

34. It is estimated that a scientific principle has a life expectancy of approximately a decade before it
A B C
drastically revised or replaced by newer information.
D

35. The more arid the continent, the less the amount of annual precipitation _______________ .
(A) runs off that
(B) runs it off
(C) that runs it off
(D) that runs off

24.A 25.D 26.C 27.D 28.C 29.D 30.A 31.C 32.D 33.B 34.D 35.D

36. He really deserved the award because he performed _______________ was expected of him.
(A) much better from
(B) more better than
(C) much better as
(D) much better than

37. He was stopped each dozen yards by friends who wanted to congratulate him.
A B C D

38. As we have finished the first lesson, now we will read the second one.
A B C D

39. To take pride in what deserves boasting is one thing, and to take good care of it is quite _________ .
(A) others
(B) thing
(C) another
(D) the other

40. The doctor's records must be kept thorough and neatly, so as to insure good book-keeping.
A B C D


41. Why is a man in civil life perpetually slandering and backbiting his fellow men, and is unable to see
A B C
good even in his friends?
D

42. "Do you think that the labor bill will be passed?"
"Oh, yes. It's _________ that it will."
(A) almost surely
(B) very likely
(C) near positive
(D) quite certainly

43. Like a synonym of speech, which is the general term, address implies some degree of formality.
A B C D


44. Rabbits and hares look much like and are often mistaken for each other.
A B C D

45. As every other nation, the United States used to define its unit of currency, the dollars, in terms of
A B C D
the gold standard.

46. The prime minister's conviction for improper campaign practices is likely to result in increasing
A B C
pressure that she resigns.
D

47. When the boulders are made of rock that is different from the bedrock which they or the soil of the
A B C
field rests, they are called erratics.
D

48. It would be difficult for a man of his political affiliation, _______, to become a senator from the south.
(A) though charming and capable is he
(B) even with charm and so capable
(C) charming and having capability
(D) however charming and capable

36.D 37.A 38.D 39.C 40.B 41.C 42.B 43.A 44.B 45.A 46.D 47.B 48.D

49. Penicillin is perhaps the drug ________ more lives than any other in the history of medicine.
(A) what has saved
(B) which saved
(C) which has saved
(D) who saves

50. After his trips to the west between 1860 and 1872, Ralph Alber Bakelock would often painted
A B C
American Indian encampments on brown-and-yellow-toned canvases.
D

51. The city of Boston was settled in 1630 on a hilly, wooded peninsula where the charles River flows
A B C
into a natural harbors.
D

52. Artist Helen Frankenthaler returned home from college on 1949 to her native New York, the city
A B
producing the most art revolutionary of the day.
C D

53. Contralto Marian Anderson became a member permanent of the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1995.
A B C D

54. The fact that half of the known species is thought to inhabit the world's rain forests does not seem
A B
surprising, considering the huge numbers of insects that comprise the bulk of the species.
C D

55. A politician can make a legislative proposal more _______ by giving specific examples of what its effect will be.
(A) to understand
(B) understandably
(C) understandable
(D) when understood

56. Before every presidential election in the United States, the statisticians try to guess the proportion of the population that _________ for each candidate.
(A) are voted
(B) voting
(C) to be voted
(D) will vote

57. The decimal numeral system is one of the ______ ways of expressing numbers.
(A) useful most world's
(B) world's most useful
(C) useful world's most
(D) most world's useful

58. Nebraska has floods in some years, ___________ .
(A) in others droughts
(B) droughts are others
(C) while other droughts
(D) others in drought

59. Many of the recording instruments used in vary branches of science are kymographs.
A B C D

60. In the United States among 60 percent of the space on the pages of newspapers is reserved for
A B C
advertising.
D

49.C 50.C 51.D 52.C 53.B 54.A 55.C 56.D 57.B 58.A 59.B 60.A

61. The spontaneity of children's artwork sets it apart from the regulated uniforming of much of what
A B C
otherwise go on in traditional extraordinary classrooms.