Reading TOEFL

PENGUINS There are eighteen different kinds of penguins, and they all live south of the equator. The largest are the emperor penguins, which live in Antartica. They lay their eggs about lifty miles from the coast. There the penguins have nothing to make a nest out of, but the eggs cannot be lald directly on the ice, or they would freeze. The emperor penguins have to take care of their eggs in a special way. The female produces one egg. As soon as she lays her egg, the male penguins rolls it on top of his feet. A special fold of skin on the bottom of his stomach comes down over the egg to protect it from the cold. For two months the male penguins stand together to protect themselves from the cold with their feet. They cannot move or eat. The female goes to find food as soon as she lays her egg. Finally, after two months she returns and takes the egg from the male. The male penguin, which now has no fold for two months, returns to the sea. After the egg is hatched, the female and the male take turns carrying the baby penguin on their feet. When the weather gets cold, the baby is covered by the fold of skin, which keeps it warm. 1. Where do the emperor penguins live? Answer: the emperor penguins live in Antartica 2. How many eggs does the female emperor produce at the time? Answer: she produces one egg 3. What does the male emperor penguin use to protect the egg from the cold? Answer: he uses special fold of skin on the botton of his stomach 4. Why do the male emperor penguins stand together? Answer: because they protect them selves from the cold with their eggs on their feet 5. Where do the males put their eggs when they stand together? Answer: they put their eggs on their feet 6. Where does the female go? Answer: it goes to find food as soon as she lays her eggs 7. When does she return? Answer: she returns after two months and takes the egg from the male 8. What does the male penguin do after she returns? Answer: the male penguin return to the sea 9. What do the female and the male penguin after the egg is hatched? Answer: they take turns carrying the baby penguin on their feet 10. How many kinds of penguins are live south of the equator? Answer: there are eighteen different kinds of penguins

TOEFL STRUCTURE

1. A dream about falling
a. scary is
b. is scary
c. are scary
d. very scary is

2. Goerge Washington first U.S. President.
a. was the
b. became
c. were the
d. are the

3. Amelia Earhart was to pilot her plane across the Atlantic.
a. the first and a woman
b. the first woman
c. who the first woman
d. the woman who first

4. The Eiffel Tower paris, france.
a. landmarks
b. is landmarked in
c. is a landmark in
d. is in a landmark

5. Young dear
a. are called fawns
b. be fawns
c. is fawns
d. are fawns called

6. Not Until a dog is several months old does it begin to exhibit signs of independence
a. its mother from
b. from mother
c. to mother
d. from its mother

7. The repair shop
a. keep my cassete player for six weeks before
b. returning it,
c. nevertheless
d. it still does not work properly

8. To score a goal in soccer you
a. must kick the ball
b. must kicks the ball
c. may kick them ball
d. must kick them balls

9. The observations deck at the sears tower in Chicago.
a. is highest than any other one
b. is highest than any other one
c. is higher than any other one
d. is higher that any other one

10. If it so cloudy, we would plan on having the fair outside.
a. was
b. was not
c. weren’t
d. had not

11. At the 1984 Democratic National Convention in san Francisco, Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman for the vice presidency.
a. to being nominated
b. to has been nominated
c. to have been nominated
d. to will be nominated

12. The main purpose
a. of this class is to
b. help you better understand the
c. history of there country, and how
d. it came to be

13. Pearl Buck, a
a. Recipient of the Nobel Peace prize
b. For Literature in 1938
c. Strove to bring understanding and peace
d. On everyone

14. In most circumstance
a. the person that owns the property
b. can claim the rights
c. as money made
d. from drilling oil on their property

15. chocolate will give you a tummy ache.
a. Eat too much
b. Eating to much
c. Eating too much
d. Eating too many

16. If she to advance her clock one hour, she wouldn’t have been late for work.
a. should have remembered
b. could remembered
c. remembered
d. would have remembered
17. The treasury Department
a. is take a new look at regulations limiting
b. number of interest that bank
c. savings, and loan assocations
d. can play on deposits

18. The main purpose
a. of this class is to
b. help you better understand the
c. history of

19. The flexibility of film allows the artist __________ unbridled imagination to the animation of cartoon characters.
a. to bring
b. bringing
c. is brought
d. brings

20. Traditionally, __________in New England on Thanksgiving Day.
a. when served is sweet cider
b. when sweet cider is served
c. is served sweet cider
d. sweet cider is served

21. Juan Quietly watches the bird perches on his windowsill so he will not scare it away.
a. that
b. who
c. the which
d. whom

22. Walking along the side of the roud
a. the car nearly hit me as went by
b. i was nearly hit by a car as it went by
c. the car, the which nearly hit me, went by
d. that it was the car nearly hit me as it went by me
23. Egyptian pyramids were regulary robbed despite their intricate passageways, byzantine mazes , and
a. walls which were false
b. they had false walls
c. false walls
d. walls of falsity

24. Despite the appearance of being merely pests, ants can serve a garden by eliminating other bothersome insects and ________.
a. a recognition of stability that was domestic
b. to stabilize the domestic situation
c. which was domestically stable
d. a sense of domestic stability

25. The undergirding of cars is adversely affected ________ and excessive jostling.
a. in extremely salty
b. by extreme salinity
c. which is extremely salty
d. with salt that is extreme