incorrect word TOEFL: Lesson 15

Tìm từ sai trong số các từ được gạch chân - Trình độ TOEFL, Bài số 15

1. The equipment in the office was badly in need of to be repaired.
(A) equipment
(B) in the office
(C) was badly
(D) to be repaired
2. Certain pollens are more likely to cause an allergic reaction than another.
(A) Certain
(B) likely
(C) an allergic
(D) another
3. During wedding ceremonies in the United States guests are usually silence.
(A) During
(B) ceremonies
(C) guests
(D) silence
4. An uncultivated tea plant might grow about 30 feet height.
(A) uncultivated
(B) tea plant
(C) about
(D) height
5. When zippers are easy to use, it took almost half a century to perfect the zipper and find a way to manufacture them economically.
(A) When zippers
(B) it took
(C) them
(D) economically
6. The governor has not decided how to deal with the new problems already.
(A) The
(B) has
(C) how to deal
(D) already
7. The professor had already given the homework assignment when he had remembered that Monday was a holiday.
(A) the homework assignment
(B) had remembered
(C) Monday
(D) was
8. John lived in New York since 1960 to 1975, but he is now living in Detroit.
(A) in
(B) since
(C) is now living
(D) in
9. International trade, going traveling, and television have lain the groundwork for modern global life styles.
(A) going traveling
(B) have lain
(C) for
(D) styles
10. A lunch of soup and sandwiches do not appeal to all of the students.
(A) A
(B) of
(C) do
(D) appeal to all of
11. Richard Gattling, an invention best known for the development of the Gattling Gun, actually put most of his effort into improving agricultural methods.
(A) invention
(B) actually
(C) most of
(D) agricultural
12. Perhaps was his own lack of proper schooling that led Horace Mann to struggle for the important reforms in education.
(A) Perhaps was
(B) proper schooling
(C) led
(D) education
13. Anyone reproducing copyrighted works without permission of the holders of the copyright are breaking the law.
(A) reproducing
(B) are
(C) breaking
(D) the law
14. Since lightning was probably significant in the formation of life, understanding it might help us to understanding life itself.
(A) might
(B) help
(C) to understanding
(D) itself
15. Supersonic transport such the Concorde will probably be widely accepted as soon as problems of noise and atmospheric pollution are resolved.
(A) such
(B) widely
(C) as soon
(D) are
16. Too much water makes plants turning brown on the edges of their leaves.
(A) Too
(B) makes
(C) turning
(D) their
17. Some religions have none deity but are philosophies that function instead of religions.
(A) have
(B) none
(C) are
(D) instead of religions
18. The MX is a four-stages rocket with an 8,000-mile range, larger than that of the Minuteman.
(A) is
(B) a four-stages
(C) an 8,000
(D) larger than
19. Astronomers do not know how many galaxies there are, but is it thought that there are millions or perhaps billions.
(A) how many
(B) there are
(C) is it
(D) millions or perhaps billions
20. Mrs. Stevens, along with her cousins from New Mexico, are planning to attend the festivities.
(A) with
(B) her cousins from
(C) are
(D) to attend

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incorrect word TOEFL: Lesson 14

Tìm từ sai trong số các từ được gạch chân - Trình độ TOEFL, Bài số 14

1. Some bumper stickers are very funny and make us laugh, yet another can make us angry because of their ridiculousness.
(A) are
(B) laugh
(C) another
(D) ridiculousness
2. A jellyfish, which isn't really a fish, it has no brain, no bones, and no face.
(A) isn't
(B) a
(C) it
(D) bones
3. "Moby-Dick" is a novel that telling the story of a ship captain's single-minded hatred of a huge white whale.
(A) novel
(B) telling
(C) single-minded
(D) of
4. Smoking is the number one prevent cause of death in the United States.
(A) Smoking
(B) the
(C) prevent
(D) of death
5. Edmund Hillary, a famous climber New Zealand, learned the basics of his sport on the steep cliffs hanging over a rocky bay near his home.
(A) a famous climber New Zealand,
(B) learned
(C) basics
(D) hanging over
6. The problems which beset the first settlers were nothing compared to those which faced the lately ones who landed further north.
(A) beset
(B) nothing
(C) those
(D) the lately ones
7. They are going to have to leave soon, and so do we.
(A) are
(B) to have to
(C) leave soon
(D) so do
8. Dresses, skirts, shoes, and children's clothing are advertised at great reduced prices this weekend.
(A) children's clothing
(B) are advertised
(C) at
(D) great
9. Cotton used to rank first between Alabama's crops, but it represents only a fraction of the agricultural production now.
(A) Cotton
(B) rank
(C) between
(D) represents only
10. The girl whom my cousin married was used to be a chorus girl for the Rockettes in Radio City Music Hall in New York.
(A) The
(B) whom
(C) was used
(D) the
11. The winter storm that raced through the area for the last two day moved east today.
(A) that raced
(B) through
(C) the last
(D) day
12. If you will buy one box at the regular price, you would receive another one at no extra cost.
(A) If
(B) will buy
(C) another one
(D) no
13. When he was a little boy, Mark Twain would walk along the piers, watch the river boats, swimming and fish in the Mississippi, much like his famous character, Tom Sawyer.
(A) was
(B) would walk
(C) watch
(D) swimming
14. It is imperative that a graduate student maintains a grade point average of "B" in his major field.
(A) It is
(B) maintains
(C) of
(D) his
15. They asked us, Henry and I, whether we thought that the statistics had been presented fairly and accurately.
(A) I
(B) thought
(C) had been presented
(D) fairly
16. Some executives require that the secretary is responsible for writing all reports as well as for balancing the books.
(A) that
(B) is
(C) writing
(D) as well as
17. Although the Red Cross accepts blood from most donors, the nurses will not leave you give blood if you have just had a cold.
(A) accepts
(B) leave
(C) give
(D) had
18. The most common form of treatment it is mass inoculation and chlorination of water sources.
(A) The most common
(B) of
(C) it
(D) water sources
19. Despite of the fact that backgammon is easy to learn, it is as difficult to play as chess.
(A) Despite of
(B) it
(C) to play
(D) as chess
20. The influence of the nation's literature, art, and science have captured widespread attention.
(A) nation's
(B) science
(C) have
(D) widespread

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incorrect word TOEFL: Lesson 13

Tìm từ sai trong số các từ được gạch chân - Trình độ TOEFL, Bài số 13

1. Benjamin Franklin was the editor of the largest newspaper in the colonies, a diplomatic representative to France and later to England, and he invented many useful devices.
(A) was
(B) the largest
(C) he invented
(D) many
2. Had we known the traffic would be so bad, we did not drive back from work so early.
(A) Had we known
(B) be
(C) did not drive
(D) so
3. The ATM card the principal means for getting cash quickly is in most countries.
(A) the principal
(B) getting
(C) quickly
(D) is
4. The tornado uprooted all the power lines leading to the town so the inhabitants had to live in darkness until new ones.
(A) the
(B) leading
(C) had to
(D) until new ones
5. The shortest route for the rally drivers was through the mountains whereas if the desert road was much longer though faster.
(A) through
(B) whereas if
(C) much
(D) though
6. West of the Missouri river have vast plains over which the wagon trains labored ignoring them in favor of dreams of gold and richer land further west.
(A) West of
(B) have
(C) labored ignoring
(D) further west
7. The fire began in the fifth floor of the hotel, but it soon spread to adjacent floors.
(A) in
(B) fifth
(C) of
(D) soon spread
8. Before she moved here, Arlene had been president of the organization since four years.
(A) Before
(B) been
(C) of the
(D) since
9. Plants absorb water and nutrients and anchoring themselves in the soil with their roots.
(A) absorb water
(B) anchoring themselves
(C) the soil
(D) their roots
10. It is necessary that one met a judge before signing the final papers for a divorce.
(A) met
(B) before signing
(C) the final papers
(D) for a divorce
11. Authors Samuel Eliot Morison won two Pultizer Prizes, one in 1943 for a biography of Columbus and the other in 1960 for a biography of John Paul Jones.
(A) Authors
(B) won
(C) a biography
(D) the other
12. According to legend, because the Indian Princess Pocahontas said that she loved he, Captain John Smith was set free.
(A) According to
(B) because
(C) he
(D) was
13. Both viruses also genes are made from nucleoproteins, the essential chemicals with which living matter duplicates itself.
(A) also
(B) are
(C) living
(D) itself
14. Agronomists study crop disease, selective breeding, crop rotation, and climatic factors, as well soil content and erosion.
(A) study
(B) crop disease
(C) as well
(D) and
15. The high protein content of various strains of alfalfa plants, along with the characteristically long root system that enables them to survive long droughts, make them particularly valuable in arid countries.
(A) characteristically
(B) enables
(C) make
(D) particularly
16. Columbus, Ohio, the capital of the state, are not only the largest city in Ohio but also a typical metropolitan area, often used in market research.
(A) are
(B) the largest
(C) but also
(D) used
17. Although maple trees are among the most colorful varieties in the fall, they lose its leaves sooner than oak trees.
(A) among
(B) in the fall
(C) its
(D) sooner than
18. Before television became so popular, Americans used to entertain each other in the evening by playing games, saying stories, and singing songs.
(A) so popular
(B) to entertain
(C) each other
(D) saying
19. The value of precious gems is determined by their hardness, color, and brilliant.
(A) precious
(B) gems
(C) their
(D) brilliant
20. Those of you who signed up for Dr Daniel's anthropology class should get their books as soon as possible.
(A) Those of
(B) for
(C) their
(D) as possible

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