2016年托福考试语法题题库及答案 - 托福

1. Barges which carrier most of the heavy freight on rivers and canals are usually propelled by towing. 答案：A

测试点：词性。

分析：carrier是名词，而此处需要谓语动词。应为carries。

解题要点：名词后缀-er,-or,-tion,-sion等形式出现在TOEFL改错题中，应引起特别注意。

2. Although afflicted by serious eyesight problems, Alicia Alonso was one the principal stars of the American Ballet Theater and later formed her own dance company.

答案：C

测试点：习语。

分析：One of the+复数名词/名词词级是固定说法，此处缺of.

3. The ritual combat of animals are triggered by precise signals. 答案：B

测试点：主谓数的一致。

分析：主语是单数的combat,系动词要用心

解题要点：介词短语of animals是名词combat的定语，这类以of引接的定语后置结构要特别注意主谓的数是否一致。

4. It is more difficult to write simply, directly, and effective than to employ flowery but vague expressions that only obscure one’s meaning.

答案：B

测试点：并列结构/词性。

分析：and的前后部分应同词性、同性质，此处应用副词effectively与and前的simply和directly并列，不用形容词effective。

5. Different species of octopuses may measure anywhere from two inches to over thirty feet in long. 答案：D

测试点：词性

分析：表示“在长度方面”固定的说法是in length，不用long。从词性考虑，介词诅后要加名词(1ength),不能加形容词(1ong)。

解题要点;TOEFL考题中表示长(1ong，length),高(high，height),深(deep，depth)等词的名词及其形容词形式常常混淆。

6. According to some theories derived from psychoanalysis, life is supposedly easier and mo re pleasant when inhibitions overcoming.

答案：D

测试点：词形。

分析：inhibitions前有连接词when，说明其后应为主谓完整的从句。overcoming不是谓语动词的形式，应为are overcome。

7. When rainbows appear, they are always in the part of the sky opposite directly the Sun. 答案：D

测试点：词序。

分析：介词和它的宾语之间不要加入副词。此处副词directly应在介词opposite之前。

8. Benjamin Franklin drew a political cartoon that is credited raising 10,000 volunteers for the American Revolutionary War.

答案：C

测试点：习语。

分析：Be credited with是固定短语，表示“被认为取得某种成就”。

9. The begins of the modern chemistry laboratory go back to the workrooms of medieval lchemists.

答案：A

测试点：词性。

分析：此处要求名词作主语，而begins则是动词形式。应为beginnings.

10. In many pieces of music there is a dominant theme on which the restful of the composition is centered.

答案：C

测试点：习语/词性。

分析：The rest of是固定短语。从词性的角度来分析，冠词the后面应接名词。

11. Luminescence refers to the emission of light by means another than heat. 答案：C

测试点：other和another的用法。

分析：遇有划线的another或other要加以注意，这两个词常被相互错用。此处应为other。Other than是固定说法，表示“除了，不同于”。

a representative democracy, the people election delegates to an assembly. 答案：C 测试点：词性。

分析：此处需一动词作谓语，而election是名词。解题要点;参见本套考题的第(21)题。

ge Washington Carver found hundred of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean and thus stimulated the cultivation of these crops.

答案：A

测试点：习语。

分析：表示不确定数目的短语，如hundreds of，thousands of，millions of等，均用复数。

14. A citadel, a fortress designed for the defense of a city, usually standed on top of a hill. 答案：D

测试点：不规则动词的词形变化。

分析：这类考题数量虽不多，但考的是最基本的`知识，不应做错。stand的过去式是stood，standed是个错字。解题要点;stand-stood·stood及begin-began-begun等不规则动词变化形式要记牢。

15. Conservative philosophers argue that the very structure of society is threatening by civil disobedience, while humanists stress the primacy of the individual conscience.

答案：B

测试点：被动语态。

分析：系动词 (be)和介词by同时出现是被动语态的信号，它们之间的动词要用过去分词。此处threatening应为threatened.

16. Since 1971 the regional corporations set up in Alaska by Congress managing everything from fishing to banking. 答案：C

测试点：词形。

分析：此处需要谓语动词形式have managed。句中set up为过去分词短语，修饰前面的名词主语corporations。另外注意 (D)banking为名词，意为“银行业”。

17. A rocket burns propellant rapidly and most rockets carry a supply that last just a few seconds.

答案：D

测试点：主谓数的一致。

分析：that为从句主语，后接动词作其谓语。而that代指单数的a supply故其谓语也应用单数形式的lasts。

18. Textile art is known for both its tactile and vision qualities. 答案：C

测试点：词性/并列结构。