زبانشناسی و زبانLinguistics and Language

Parts of Speech

The structure Test (1^st session) - TOEFL

1- It is difficult to -------------- everybody.

    a. please              b. pleasure                c. pleasurable                d. pleasurably

2- They have ----------- studying English for three years.

     a. be             b. were            c. being               d. been

3- You should ------------your experience by traveling.

    a. broad              b. broaden                c. broadly                      d. broadness

4- You have ………………..on a new stage.

    a. enter               b. entered                  c. entry                         d. enterable

5- A -------------- should not be more difficult to understand than the words it defines.

    a. define             b. definable               c. definition                  d. definable

6- It takes a long time to --------------------- all of the letters.

    a. register           b. registering             c. registered                  d. registration

7- Jim --------------- to work hard when he was a child.

    a. has          b. have                  c. had                      d. could

8- The competition is divided into two -------------------.

    a. categorize      b. categories             c. categorical                  d. categorically

9- The number of the students was ---------------- from 60 to 45.

    a. reduced         b. reduce                    c. reduction                   d. reducing

10- The policeman ----------------- the two fighting men.

    a. separate         b. separated                c. separation                   d. separately

11- He used to ----------------- us from the rest of the students in the classroom. .

    a. seperation               b. seperate                     c. seperately                           d. seperating

12- She is interested in the latest -------------- in science.

    a. develop         b. development           c. developmental             d. developmentally

13- They wanted to ----------- their knowledge of word formation.

    a. wide              b. width                       c. widen                          d. widely

14- In reading for gist we read the whole text but only to gain a general idea or impression of it. "It" refers to ----------------.

    a. gist                b. reading                     c. impression                  d. the whole text

15- You had better ---------------- the invitation.

    a. acceptance    b. to accept          c. acceptably          d. accept

16- He has an MA degree. She is a highly ………………man.

     a. educate           b. education                c. educated                      d. educationally

17- Please read the ---------------- in the manual.

     a. instruct           b. instruction               c. instructive                    d. instructively

18- In the sentence "Learning is time-consuming" the word learning is a(n)-----------.

     a. adverb            b. adjective                  c. preposition                    d. gerund

19- The teacher explained the story as ----------------- as he could.    

     a. simple           b. simplify                 c. simply                  d. simplification

20- The color of that flower is a(n) -------------- of red and blue.

     a. combine      b. combination                        c. combinable                             d. combinably

21- Mary's style is not original; it is a(n) ------------- style.

     a. derivation     b. derivational                c. derive                    d. derivatively

22 – Engineers ---------------- for work on the new space program.

    a. necessary             b. are needed    c. hopefully          d. next month

23- She --------------- herself to the change quickly.

    a. adapted                 b. adapt                                     c. adaptation                     d. adaptively

24- His efforts to improve the school have been very --------------------.

    a. effect      b. effective     c. effectively               d. effecting

25- Thanks to the ----------------word stock of English, we can express our ideas clearly.

     a. good-develop                b. good-developing         c. well-developed            d. well-develop

26- In order to -------------- understand the lesson, we should study hard.

     a. full        b. fill              c. fully                         d. filling

The following sentences contain a number of underlined words. Each of the underlined words may or may not be correct. Circle the underlined words that are incorrect and make them correct.

27- The mother was pleasant surprised when her daughter came to visit.

28- He was driving   an  expensively   sports car.

29- The car was not complete ready in the garage at 3:30.

30- It was difficult to believe that what we read in the newspaper was a truly story.

31-  Yesterday  was backed up for miles on the freeway.