2006年考试新辅导之托福写作题库新增试题十四(1)

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1.Portland,Maine,is _____ the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his early years.

(A)where

(B)it where

(C)where is

(D)which is where

2.As consumers'response to traditional advertising techniques declines,businesses are beginning _____ new methods of reaching customers.

(A)the development that

(B)it developing

(C)develop

(D)to develop

3.The knee is _____ most other joints in the body because it cannot twist without injury.

(A)more likely to be damaged than

(B)likely to be more than damaged

(C)more than likely to be damaged

(D)to be damaged more than likely

4.The quince is an attractive shrub or small tree _____ closely related to the apple and pear trees.

(A)is

(B)that is

(C)that it is

(D)is that which

5.Many gases,including the nitrogen and oxygen in air,_____ color or odor.

(A)have no

(B)which have no

(C)not having

(D)they do not have

6.The American Academy of Poets,_____ the 1930's,provides financial assistance to support working poets.

(A)when it was founded

(B)was founded

(C)which was founded in

(D)was founded in

7.During the Pleistocene glacial periods _____ portions of the Earth where plant and animal life flourished making it possible for people to subsist.

(A)the

(B)it was

(C)there were

(D)have there been

8.The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems,in which she often makes her family members _____,are an affectionate and incisive representation of the African American experience.

(A)are her subjects

(B)her subjects

(C)are subjects

(D)which her subjects.

9.Hubble's law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies,_____ is their relative speed of separation.

(A)the greatest

(B)the greater

(C)greater than

(D)as great as

10.The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil,_____ the vegetable's strong taste.

(A)which the source of

(B)that the source is

(C)the source of

(D)of the source is

11.A regional writer with a gift for dialect,_____ her fiction with the eccentric,comic,but vital inhabitants of rural Mississippi.

(A)and Eudora Welty is peopling

(B)Eudora Welty peoples

(C)because Eudora Welty peoples.

(D)Eudora Welty,to people.

12.Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor the air contains at a certain temperature _____ with the amount it could hold at that temperature.

(A)to compare

(B)compared

(C)comparing

(D)compares