2000年1月TOEFL试题
16. The outer layer of the heart, called the pericardium, forms a sac in what the heart lies.
17. Wood from the ash tree becomes extremely flexibly when it is exposed to steam.
18. The ability to talk is one of the skill that make humans different from the rest of the animal world.
19. In plane geometry, the sum of the internal angles of any triangle has always equal to 180 degrees.20. Polar bears are bowlegged and pigeon-toed, adaptations that enable this massive animals to maintain their balance as they walk.
21. Caves are formed by the chemical or action mechanical of water on soluble rock, by volcanic activity, and by earthquakes.
22. Celery, an edible plant is having long stalks topped with feathery leaves, grows best in cool weather.
23. The first fiction writer in the United States to achieve international fame was Washington Irving,who wrote many stories, included " Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
24. Three fundamental aspects of forest conversation are the protection of immature trees, the use of proper harvesting methods, and provide for an environment that supports reproduction.
25. For each enzyme reaction there is an optimum temperature which maximum efficiency is achieved.
26. Adolescence is a transitional stage in human development from the beginning of puberty to the attainment of the emotion, social, and physical maturity of adulthood.
27. The people native to the northwest coast of North American have long be known for woodcarvings of stunning beauty and extraordinary quality.
28. Colonial efforts to manufacture glass at Jamestown---- and later attempts near Philadelphia and Boston---failed despite the abundant of fuel and good raw materials.
virgin road29. The orbit of a celestial body is usually in the shape of ellipse.
30. Chicago is the third largest publishing center in the United States, exceeding only by New York City and San Francisco.
31. North American bison differ from domestic cattle in have 14 rather than 13 pairs of ribs.
32. Female sea turtles, before laying her eggs, swim as much as 2,000 kilometers to return to the beaches where they themselves were hatched.
33. Water is the only substance that occur at ordinary temperatures in  all three states of matter: solid,liquid and gas.
34. Despite the growth of manufacturing and other industries, the economy of the state of Texas has remained heavily dependence on  oil  and gas.
35. Lyndon B. Johnson was the only United States President who oath of office was administered by a woman Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes.
36. It took more than fourteen years to carve the faces of four United States Presidents into the granite cliffs to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
37.Charles Bullfinch was the architect who design the original red brick core of the State House in Boston.
38.Rarely has a technological development had as great an impact on as much aspects of social,economic, and cultural development as the growth of electronics.
39. Lowell, Massachusetts, known as the "Spindle City" since1822 when its first textile mills were built, attracted worldwide attention as  textile center.
40.Strange Victory, Sara Teas dale's smallest and most perfect collection of poems, appear in print in1933.
答案:DBBDB 21 ABDCC CBCDD 31 CAADB DBBDD
2000年5月TOEFL试题苏丽柯
16. More and 90 percent of the calcium in the human body is in the skeleton.
17. Perhaps the most popular film in movie history, Star Wars was written and direction by George Lucas.
18. Some animal activities, such as mating, migration, and hibernate have a nearly cycle.
19. Geographers were once concerned largely with exploring areas unknown to them and from
describing distinctive features of individual places.
20. In his animated films, Walt Disney created animals that talk and act like people while retaining its animal traits.
21. The first city in the United States that put into effect major plan for the clustering of government buildings was Washington,
22. In a microwave oven, radiation penetrates food and is then absorbed primarily by water molecule, caused heat to spread through the food .
23. The cultures early of the genus Home were generally distinguished by regular use of stone tools and by a hunting and gathering economy.
24.Dolphins are sleek and powerful swimmers that found in all seas and unlike porpoises, have well-defined beaklike snouts and conical teeth.
25.The velocity of a river is controlled by the slope, the depth, and the rough of the riverbed.
26.The phonograph record was the first successful medium for capturing, preservation, and reproducing sound.
27. Generally, the pattern of open space in urban areas has shaped by commercial systems, governmental actions, and cultural traditions.
28. A liquid that might be a poor conductor when pure is often used to make solutions that readily transmits electricity.
29.The initial discovery by humans almost 10,000 years ago that they could exploit metallic mineral deposits was an important milestone in the development civilization.
30. In 1989 Tillie Fowler, a Republican, became the first member of her party to serving  as president of the city council of Jacksonville, Florida.(serving  as 作为两项)
31.General anesthesia, which is usually used for major surgery, involves a complete loss
consciousness and a relaxed of the muscles.
32.After first establishment subsistence farms along the Atlantic seaboard, European settlers in North  America developed a maritime and shipbuilding industry.
33.The legs of a roadrunner are enough strong that it can run up to 24 kilometers per hour to catch  lizards and small rodents.(can run 与up to 两项)
34. For the immune system of a newborn mammal to develop properly, the presence of the
thymus gland is essentially.
35. Physicians working in the field of public health are mainly concerned with the environmental causes of ill and how to eliminate them.
36. By 1850, immigration from distance shores, as well as migration from the countryside, had caused New York City’s population to swell.
37. By identifying similar words or structures in different languages, we find evidence that those
languages are related and may be derived from same ancestor.
38. Astronomers use photography and sighting telescopes to study the motions of all of the bright stars and many of the faint one .
39. In the nineteenth century a number of Native American tribe, such as the Comanches, lived a nomadic existence hunting buffalo
40.The average elevation of West Virginia is about 1,500 foot above sea level.( average elevation是两项)
答案:ADCCD 21 BCABD CCDDB 31 CAADC ADDAC
2000年8月TOEFL试题
16. Painters of the early twentieth century who were known primarily for they colorful landscapes, the Group of Seven changed is name to the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933.
17.  Most animals have nervous systems, sense organs, and specialized modes of locomotion, and are  capable of securing ingesting, and to digest food.
18. The cork oak tree has a layer of cork several inches thickness that can be stripped every ten years.
19. Inflation, interest rates, and overall economic active can be governed by the United States Federal Reserve’s decision to adjust the supply of money to the economy.
20. Free radicals of oxygen, which common by-products of metabolic processes in the body, are capable of causing tissue damage.
21. By 1830 the glass industry in the United States had become too well established that the country no  longer needed to depend on imported glass.
22. Free land, cheaply transportation, and powerfully persuasive railroad advertising all helped flood the western part of the United States with farmers in the nineteenth century.
23. Coral formations have known as fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land only  by shallow water.
24. For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessels, the clipper ship was remarkably
fast.(remarkably fast两项你懂的)
25. Visibly only through large telescopes, Pluto has a yellowish color, which indicates that there is very little atmosphere.
26. Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamonds can be cut only by another diamonds.
27.The International Monetary Fund was created in a effort to stabilize exchange rates without
interfering with the healthy growth of trade.
28. Butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis, them changing from caterpillar to adult via one intermediate stage, the pupa.(them changing 和from caterpillar两项)
29. Thousands of meteorite hit Earth each year, but most fall into the sea or in remote areas and are never recovered.
30. Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959, and Hawaii became the fiftieth state lately that
year.
31. A sponge feeds itself by drawing water through tiny pores on its surfac e, filtering out food particles, and then expel the water through larger vents.
32. Toward the end of his life, john Singer Sargent returned to the painting of landscapes and the use of watercolors, of which he excelled.
33. Pythons differ than most other snakes by having two well-developed lungs rather than a much smaller left lung or no left lung at all.
34. Weighing among two to five kilograms in adults, the skin is the largest organ of the human body.(Weighing among double)
35. Rodents dwell in various habitat, some species being aquatic, some terrestrial.
36. The nectar of flowers are ingested by worker bees and converted to honey in special sacs in their digestive systems.
37. Lucid dreaming, the ability dreamers to become aware of and to control their dreams while
dreaming, is the focus of some current psychological research.
38. The sensation of sound is produced how vibrations transmitted through the air strike the eardrum.
39. The musical tone of an electric guitar is created not by the resonance of the body of the guitar but by electronically amplification.
40. Considered one of the most beautiful of the fine art, ballet is a combination of dance and mime performed to music.
答案:CDBCA 21 BAABA DBBAD 31 CDABB AACDB
2000年 10月 TOEFL试题
16.The pear tree has simple, oval leaves that are smoother and shinier than them of the apple.
蒙面达虎插曲17.In the orbit of a planet around the Sun, the point closest to the Sun is called it the perihelion.
18.In the early 1900’s, Roy Harris created and promoted a distinctly American style of classical music and greatly influenced a number of composer in the United States.
19.The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of North American ports,
particular Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, as major commercial centers within the British empire.
20.Guitar like instruments have exist since ancient times, but the first written mention
of the guitar itself is from the fourteenth century.
21.The law of biogenesis is the principle what all living organisms are derived from a
parent or parents.
22.Onyx is a mineral that can be recognized its regular and straight parallel bands of white, black,
or brown.
23.There are as many as 200 million insects for every human beings, and in fact their
total number exceeds that of all other animals taken together.
24.Native to South America and cultivated there for thousands of years, the peanut
is said to have introduced to North America by early explorers.
25.Originally canoes were made by the hollowing out of logs and used were for combat
as well as transport.
26.Among the symptoms of measles, which takes about twelve days to incubate, are a high fever, swelling of glands in the neck, a cough, and sensitive to light.
27.Ice crystals in a glacier tends to melt and recrystallize within a brief moment of travel
on a downhill glide.
28.Photograph was revolutionized in 1851 by the introduction of the collodion process
for making glass negatives.
29.The piano is a stringed musical instrument in which the strings are strike by
felt-covered hammers controlled by a keyboard.
30.The sounds used in human languages to create meaning consist of small variation in
air pressure can (^_^)be sensed by the ear.
31.The mountains, especially the Rocky Mountains, formerly constituted a seriously
barrier to east-west trade in British Columbia.
32.Telescope are frequently used in astronomy to collect light from a celestial object,
bring the light into focus, and producing a magnified image.
33.Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamond can be cut only by another diamonds.
夏天的尾巴34.There are about 350 species and subspecies of birds in danger of become extinct,
with a large number of them, 117 in all, found on oceanic islands.
35.The nineteenth-century romantic movement in art was partially a reaction to what
was perceived as overemphasis on reasonable and order in neoclassicism.
36.Like triglycerides, cholesterol is a type of fat that is both consumed in the diet but manufactured by the body.
马伊琍和高虎结婚照37.Both the United States silver dollar and half-dollar, first minted in 1794, had a figureif i were a boy邓紫棋
of Liberty on one side and a eagle on the reverse side.
38.For an advertisement to be effective, its production and placement must to be based
on a knowledge of human nature and a skilled use of the media.
39.While photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert
water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds.
40.The Democratic Party, the most oldest existing political party in the United States,
has played a vital role in the nation’s history.
答案:BDCDA 21 CCAAA ACCAB 31 DBDCC DCADB
1. Parents will always accompany with their kids during the childhood. 错误原因
1accompany是及物动词去掉with
2. Teachers usually help children to gain knowledge about science, math and language, which are a regular part of daily life.  错误的原因:2 gain knowledge去替代acquire more common sense  后面定语从句的谓语动词应该是单数which is important to their day-to-day decision making. 用单数
3. If children live in a family full of violence and conflicts they can be very easy to get angry.  错误的原因:人不能说easy, 应该说they can be temperamental
4. This means that they can save much time and allocate this time  to company with (应该是accompany)their families or focus on their work to make more money.
5.shopping online sometimes may mislead people make some unwise decisions (两个动词)
6.It is because that children in cities can receive more information. 错误的原因:去掉