TOEFL Written Expression16. The earliest successful sewing machines were powered by turn a hand crank)
(A) earliest successful
(B) machines
(C) turn
(D) hand crank

17. Texas leads the United States in the production of cotton, although its yield per hectare is lower when that of the other major cotton-producing states.
(A) leads
(B) its yield
(C) when
(D) other major

18. Essentially all minerals possess attributes that can be determined of sight or simple tools.
(A) Essentially all
(B) of
(C) or
(D) tools

19. The economic depression of the 1930's was especially severe in those communities in Massachusetts already disturbed by earlier the closing of textile and shoe factories.
(A) especially severe
(B) those
(C) by earlier the
(D) of

20. Though most widely knownbfor her short stories, Cynthia Ozick is also the author of essays, poetry, criticism, translates, and novels.
(A) Though
(B) known
(C) also
(D) translates

21. The rings of the planet Uranus consists primarily of boulder-sized chunks of solid material, averaging about one meter in diameter.
(A) consists
(B) of
(C) averaging
(D) diameter

22. Statistics indicate that approximate every 22 years-within a range of 3 to 4 years a major drought occurs in the United States.
(A) indicate
(B) approximate
(C) a major
(D) occurs

23. Among the first workers to form labor unions in the United States were being the A B skilled shoemakers, printers, carpenters, tailors, and bakers.
(A) first
(B) to form
(C) were being
(D) carpenters

24. As a turkey grows and exercises, their muscles enlarge because of an increase in the number actomyosin filaments in the muscle fibers.
(A) as
(B) their
(C) increase in
(D) number

25. The oarfish is very rarely and probably lives in upper or intermediate layers of the ocean.
(A) rarely
(B) probably
(C) or
(D) layers

26. The formation and development Mercury's large iron core is that primarily distinguishes the evolution of Mercury from that of the Moon.
(A) large
(B) that
(C) evolution
(D) of

27. In the nineteenth century, moving from crowded Britain to relatively sparsely populated North America were seen by many British as an act of partiotism.
(A) crowded
(B) relatively sparsely
(C) were
(D) an act

28. For thousands of years, powerful rulers collected exetic animal muse l themselves, to display nature's work and impresif foreign visitors.
(A) for
(B) rulers
(C) themselves
(D) impresif

29. Dryland farming is system or method of crop production in of scarce rainfall such as the North American Plains.
(A) is system
(B) crop production
(C) scarce rainfall
(D) such as

30. The Hubble Space Telescope was built to send data from space or Earth via radio waves.
(A) was built
(B) from
(C)
(D) waves

31. Today, Acoma, New Mexico, is the oldest inhabited continuously town in the United States; people have dwelt there since about 1150.
(A) Today
(B) inhabited continuously
(C) have dwelt
(D) since about

32. Table salt occurs as a cube-shaped crystal that, depending of its purity, may be colorless, transparent, or translucent.
(A) as
(B) that
(C) of
(D) or​