Structure Diagnostic Pre-Test

This structure Diagnostic Pre-Test below is for PBT (Paper Based Test).

Diagnostic Pre-Test is held to

1. Find out someone's structure or grammar skill before studying the them.
2. Check how far TOEFL Test Takers have mastered grammar.
3. Find out someone's written skill before studying written skill
4. Check how well TOEFL Test Takers have mastered written expression

The pre-test consists of two parts:

1. Structure - 15 numbers (No 1 - 15)
2. Written expression - 25 Numbers (No 15 - 40)

Structure Diagnostic Pre-Test usually takes about 25 minutes. The test also includes the directon on how to do the structure pre-test.

DIAGNOSTIC PRE-TEST

SECTION 2

STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Time - 25 minutes

(including the reading of the directions)

Now set your clock for 25 minutes.

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.

Structure

Directions: These questions are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Look at the following examples.

Example I

The president _________ the election by a landslide.

(A) won
(B) he won
(C) yesterday
(D) fortunately

The sentence should read, “The president won the election by a landslide.” Therefore, you should choose answer (A).

Example II

When _______ the conference?

(A) the doctor attended
(B) did the doctor attend
(C) the doctor will attend
(D) the doctor’s attendance

The sentence should read, “When did the doctor attend the conference?” Therefore, you should choose answer (B).

1. In the early 1 900s, Eastman _____ inexpensive Brownie box cameras.
    (A) it developed
    (B) it was developed
    (C) developed
    (D) developing

2. _____ the discovery of the fossilized remnants of tides in one-billion-year-old rocks.
    (A) Geological reports
    (B) Geologists report
    (C) The reports of geologists
    (D) Geologists’ reports

3. The Brooklyn Bridge _____ took thirteen years to complete.
    (A) in New York
    (B) is in New York
    (C) it is in New York
    (D) which New York

4. Genes control all of the physical _____ we inherit.
    (A) that traits
    (B) that are traits
    (C) traits that
    (D) traits are that

5. Indigo can be extracted from a plant, and then _____ to dye cloth blue.
    (A) it
    (B) using
    (C) using it
    (D) it can be used

6. _____ in the United States spends 900 hours per year in class and 1,170 hours in front of the television.
   (A) The average third-grader
    (B) The third grade is average
    (C) There are three grades
    (D) Three average grades

7. Researchers have begun studying what _____ is on human circadian rhythms.
    (A) it is the effect of light
    (B) the light affects
    (C) is affecting the light
    (D) the effect of light

8. If calcium oxide remains exposed to air, _____ to calcium carbonate.
    (A) turning
    (B) turns
    (C) it turns
    (D) the turn

9. Some early batteries used concentrated nitric acid, ____gave off poisonous fumes.
      (A) they
      (B) then they
     (C) but they
     (D) but they had

10. The sound produced by an object______ in a periodic way involves more than the simple sine wave.
       (A) it vibrates
       (B) vibrating
       (C) is vibrating
       (D) vibrates

11. Prior to the discovery of anesthetics in 1846, surgery was done _____ was still conscious.
       (A) while the patient
      (B) the patient felt
      (C) during the patient’s
      (D) while patiently

12. The drastic decline of the beaver helps to illustrate what _____ to the ecosystems of the North American 

       continent.

       (A) happening
        (B) the happening
        (C) has happened
        (D) about happening

13. The use of shorthand died out in the Middle Ages because of _____ with witchcraft.

       (A) the association was imagined

       (B) associate the imagination

       (C) imagine the association

        (D) the imagined association

14. A yacht is steered with a rudder, _____ the flow of water that passes the hull.

     (A) which deflecting

     (B) deflects

     (C) it deflects

     (D) which deflects

15. For top speed and sudden acceleration, the accelerator pump feeds additional gasoline from the float chamber into _____ above the venturi tube.

      (A) the air flows

      (B) the air flow

     (C) the air is flowing

      (D) flows the air

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