Help me please. Toefl questions.

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Anonymous  #170817  Sat, 17 Dec 05 01:31 PM

I don't know how to correct.

1. A chunk of uranium the size of a softball can release more energy than a trainload of coal that weighs 3 million times so much.
2. The piano as it is known today represents a long series of experiments extended back to the year 1711, or perhaps even earlier.
3. Education in the United States is overseen by local school districts, which follow regulations mandated by their respective state government.
4. Today’s fashion designers must consider both how much a fabric cost and how good it wears
5. An audience is different from a crowd in that it refers to people who gather for the purpose of listening or observing some proceedings in accordance with a program set in advance.
6. Timothy Shay Arthur did so poor in school but became an avid reader and in the process seriously damaged his eyesight.
7. Yearning for a truly representative art form of the Americas, the art world of the 1920’s looked hopeful to the three popular Mexican mural artists of the day.
8. No matter how cautious snowmobiles are driven, they are capable of damaging the land over which they travel.
9. Elaine Kim’s study creates an insight on the contributions of Asian-American women to the economic and cultural development of the U.S.
10. A possible first step in developing a nonsexist vocabulary with which to discuss about the works of the nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Gaskell would be to cease referring to her as “Mrs. Gaskell”.
11. An ingenious system for carrying mail, the Pony Express was existing only briefly before the telegraph system made it obsolete.


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

  
pieanne  #170863  Sat, 17 Dec 05 04:18 PM

Why don't you give it a try first?

 

  
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Clive  #170866  Sat, 17 Dec 05 04:25 PM

Hi,

I agree with you, except for these two.

4. C.  'how well'    'wears' as a verb is OK in this context, it means 'endures, lasts'.

10. B.  You don't 'discuss about' something, you 'discuss' it.

Best wishes, Clive

  
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pieanne  #170923  Sat, 17 Dec 05 05:58 PM
Oh, so sorry, Anon, I hadn't seen your last line... Embarrassed [:$]
  
Eager-to-learn  #171413  Sun, 18 Dec 05 06:13 PM
Anonymous, I am not a native speaker, but in my humble opinion the following are suspect and should be double-checked:

1. so much
2. extended
6. so poor
7. hopeful
8. cautious
9. an insight on
11. was existing


  
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