Toefl Grammar Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Toefl Grammar – Quiz 17
1. R. M. Bartlett of Philadelphia _____ the first private business college in the United States in 1843.
A) Founding.
B) Was founded.
C) Founded.
D) Founds.
2. Which of the following is an example of a noun clause?.
A) I don't know where to go.
B) I don't know when to start.
C) I don't know what to do.
D) I don't know how to swim.
3. If we _____ a practical point of view, then the most important property of the rays is the production of physiological effects on the cells of the human organism.
A) Take.
B) Are taking.
C) Takes.
D) To take.
4. _____ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture, aengineers, are creating exotic new metallic substances.
A) To meet.
B) Being met are.
C) Meet.
D) They are meeting.
5. Can you heat water for _____ ?.
A) The .
B) A.
C) An.
D) None of above.
6. _____ being the last question in the test, this isn't the easiest one to answer.
A) Despite.
B) However.
C) Because.
D) Despite the fact that.
7. Located the cranial cavity in the skull, the brain is the larger mass of nerve tissue in the human body.
A) The brain.
B) Larger.
C) Human body.
D) In.
8. It was the invent of the hand-held electronic calculator that provided the original technology for the present generation of small but powerful computers.
A) The invent.
B) Was.
C) The present.
D) It.
9. Cro-Magnon man _____ where the first remains were discovered.
A) Was names after the caves in southwest France.
B) Was named after the caves in southwest France.
C) Were named after the caves in southwest France.
D) Named after the caves in southwest France.
10. Singer Marian Anderson trained _____ in the United States and abroad.
A) Both.
B) Not just.
C) And.
D) Not only.
11. Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence _____ he cannot afford a car, he rides a bicycle.
A) Unless.
B) Because.
C) Whereas.
D) Though.
12. TOEFL Grammar Review (Count and Noncount Nouns) _____ Sorry, I'm late. I had (trouble / troubles) with the car this morning.
A) Troubles.
B) Trouble.
13. _____ with their surroundings, or they hide in crevices for protection.
A) Lobsters.
B) Lobsters blending.
C) Lobsters blend.
D) Because lobsters blend.
14. When we woke up, everywhere was _____ snow.
A) Covered with.
B) Covered by.
C) Covering.
D) Covered.
15. Melisa was so excited _____ her new doll house that she didn't even want _____ anything.
A) To be enjoying / being eaten.
B) Enjoying / to eat.
C) Having enjoyed / eating.
D) To enjoy / to eat.
16. All the elements _____ such radiation I have termed radioactive.
A) Emitting.
B) Are emitting.
C) Emission.
D) Have emitted.
17. I don't want to have my tooth _____ , I hate dentists.
A) Being extracted.
B) Extracted.
C) To be extracted.
D) Having extracted.
18. Identify the adjective clause in the sentence:The girl who won the competition is my sister.
A) Who won the competition.
B) The girl.
C) Is my sister.
D) The competition.
19. We will find out soon enough _____ he lied to us about _____ from college.
A) In case / being graduating.
B) In case / having graduated.
C) Whether / being graduated.
D) Whether or not / having graduated.
20. Tom _____ TV at midnight.
A) Watches.
B) Watch.
C) Watch.
D) None of above.