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老托福语法题(198908)2-1
摘要： 老托福语法题(1989.08)2-1，为助力考生顺利通过考试，小编为各位同学汇总整理了1989年8月份的老托福语法题，希望能为各位托福考生提供实质性的帮助。
正在准备考试的 托福 考生，可以参考下面的老托福语法题，或许可以帮助你提升托福语法。
1. The Cubists were concerned with how a given subject from different points of view simultaneously.
(A) represented
(B) do the represent
(C) to represent
(D) representing
答案：C
测试点：不定式。
分析：how 后加从句或不定式，而 4 个答案中无相应从句，故选不定式 to represent。
2. Sometimes to place physics and chemistry into separate categories. (A) difficult
(B) is difficult
(C) it is difficult
(D) that it is difficult
答案：C 测试点：主谓结构。 分析：本句主、谓语俱缺，应在答案中选择完整的主谓或主系表结构，即(C)。
(A)主语、动词均缺;(B) 缺主语;(D)多了 that，是从句。
3. Martha Graham, , has run her own dance company for half a century. (A) is the great modern choreographer
(B) one of the great modern choreographers (C) that the great modern choreographers (D) the modern
choreographers were great
答案：B 测试点：同位语。 分析：接在主语后面、两边由逗号隔开的成份，可能是主语的同位语，即一说明身份的名词性结构。答 案中只有(B)是名词性的。(A)、(D)都有系动词;(C)以 that 开头，是从句的一部分。 解题要点：同位语结构是中国学生不甚熟悉而 TOEFL 考题中常出现的结构。见到主语和谓语动词/系 动词之间的，两边用逗号隔开的形式，应首先考虑同位语的可能性，选择名词性结构。
4. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, communicate through facial expressions and by making noises.
(A) however
(B) they
(C) furthermore
(D) who
答案：B
测试点：主语。
分析：communicate 是谓语动词，前面缺主语。应在答案中选择名词或代词作主语。(B)代词 they 可作
主语。(A)、(C)既非代词也非名词，不能作主语;(D)用在疑问句或从句中。
5. The seating of musicians in an orchestra is arranged to produce the desired blend of sounds from the various musical sections .
(A) the conductor of
(B) from the conductor (C) the conductor and (D) by the conductor
答案：D
测试点：介词短语/被动语态。
分析：看到被动语态的 is arranged ，应想到后面可能接 by…的结构。在 4 个答案中选择以 by 开头的介词短语，即(D)。
6. The worldwide race to develop an affordable synthetic fuel has so far consumed billions of dollars and few results.
(A) yielded (B) yielding (C) yield ha
(D) has a yield of
答案：A
测试点：并列结构。
分析：and 前后两部分，应同形式、同性质。此处 and 连接两个谓语部分，前面是 consumed…，后面
应也是一过去式的动词，即(A)yielded。
7. Experiments in the photography of moving objects in both the United States and
Europe well before 1900.
(A) have been conducting
(B) were conducting
(C) had been conducted
(D) being conducted
答案：C
测试点：时态。
分析：本句有主语而缺谓语动词，应选择时态正确的动词作谓语。句中 well before l900 说明时间是
“过去的过去”，时态应用过去完成时，故选(C)。(A)是现在完成时;(B)是过去进行时;(D)不能作谓
语动词。
8. The University of Georgia, in 1785, was the first state supported university in the
United States.
(A) chartered
(B) was chartered (C) it was chartered (D) to be chartered
答案：A
测试点：分词短语作后置定语。
分析：此句是 TOEFL 常考句式。分词短语作定语放在它所修饰的名词后面(A)，相当于被动式的定语从
句省掉关系代词 which/that 及系动词 be。(B)若改为 which was chartered，(C)用 which 代替 it，(D)去
掉 to be，亦可。
9. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once cacti and sagebrush could live.
(A) nor
(B) not the
(C) none other
(D) nothing but
答案：D
测试点：短语。
分析：Nothing but 是固定的短语。(A)nor 通常不单独使用，应与 neither 连用;(B)not 用于否定动词或
形容词;(C)是错误说法。
10. , in the late 1800’s, some libraries had to keep as many as twenty to thirty copies of each of Mary Jane Holmes’s books on hand.
(A) Inventories showing (B) That show inventories (C) Inventories show that (D) Showing the inventories
答案：C
测试点：复合句。
分析：本句中 some 后的部分为从句，前面缺少主句，及连接词。应在答案中选择完整的主谓结构，即(C)。
11. The scholarly interest in perception stems largely from questions about the sources and validity of what .
(A) it is known as human knowledge (B) is known as human knowledge (C) known human knowledge
(D) is human knowledge known
答案：B
测试点：what 引导的名词从句。
分析：介词 of 应后接名词性成份作介词宾语。What…结构的作用相当于一个名词，它要么是 what+不
定式，要么是 what 从句，即名词性从句。答案中无不定式形式，只有(B)能与 what 组成完整的从句，
故选 (B)。(A)it 与 what 重复。
12. Because of the Aleuts’ constant exposure to cold weather, they have long recognized.
(A) and body needs to be fat
(B) body needs the fat
(C) how fat the body needs
(D) the body’s need for fat
答案：D
测试点：宾语。
分析：recognize 是及物动词，其后应接名词性的成份作宾语。(D)是名词词组，故选(D)。(B)看似省掉
that 的宾语从句，但 fat 前的定冠词 the 是错误的。(C)如改为 how much fat 则在句子结构上亦是正确
的。
13. Almost all economists agree by trading with one another. (A) nations that are gained
(B) nations they gain (C) gaining nations (D) that nations gain
答案：D
测试点：宾语从句。
分析：请注意动词 agree 的几种句型结构：(1)agree 十宾语从句; (2)agree with/to 十名词结构。
14. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for with which to regulate them.
(A) more accurate than sundials
(B) more accurate sundials
(C) sundials more accurately
(D) more accurately than sundials
答案：B
测试点：介词宾语。
分析：介词 for 后面应接名词性的成份作其宾语。4 个答案中只有(B)是以名词 sundials 作中心词的词
组，可作介词宾语。
15. Anthropology is a science anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked by others.
(A) in that (B) that in (C) that (D) in
答案：A
测试点：习语。
分析：空格后面的部分说明 Anthropology is a science 的原因，而并非修饰它。答案中只有(A)in that 表
示“因为”，故选(A)。(C)that 是错误的。从句子结构上分析这个 that 无法引导出定语从句，因句中既
有主语(anthropologists)又有宾语(asetof…); 从句意上分析，that 后面的部分并不是前面 Science 的同
位语从句。
解题要点：当 4 个答案中有 in that 这个短语时，首先要考虑选择它。
16.A liquid is similar to a gas because has molecules are not fixed to each other in any specific way.
答案：B
测试点：代词。
分析：在 because 从句中，主语 molecules 前应当是代词，不能用动词 has。正确的词是 its。
17.The Conestoga wagon, used for to carry heavy loads over long distances, originated around 1725 in a region of Pennsylvania occupied by the Conestoga Indians.
答案：A
测试点：词形/介词宾语。
分析：介词 for 后面要接名词性的成份作宾语。如动名词，不能接动词不定式。此处 tocarry 应为
carrying。
18.Providence, Rhode Island, is a busy manufacturing city and seaport, as well the state capital.
答案：C
测试点：习语。
分析：As well as 是固定短语，此处缺一 as。
19.The young of most bird species are totally dependence on parental care after hatching.
答案：B
测试点：词性。
分析：dependence 是名词，此处要用形容词 dependent 作表语。be dependent on 是固定用法。
20.During most of this century, A. Philip Randolph struggled for Black rights in the United States and becomes an important figure in the labor movement.
答案：C
测试点：并列结构/时态一致。
分析：看到连词 and，应想到它所连接的两部分关系对等、性质相同。句中 and 连接两个谓语部分，其
时态应一致。becomes 应为 became，用过去式与 straggled 并列。
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智课网TOEFL 备考资料
老托福语法题(198908)2-1
摘要： 老托福语法题(1989.08)2-1，为助力考生顺利通过考试，小编为各位同学汇总整理了1989年8月份的老托福语法题，希望能为各位托福考生提供实质性的帮助。
正在准备考试的 托福 考生，可以参考下面的老托福语法题，或许可以帮助你提升托福语法。
1. The Cubists were concerned with how a given subject from different points of view simultaneously.
(A) represented
(B) do the represent
(C) to represent
(D) representing
答案：C
测试点：不定式。
分析：how 后加从句或不定式，而 4 个答案中无相应从句，故选不定式 to represent。
2. Sometimes to place physics and chemistry into separate categories. (A) difficult
(B) is difficult
(C) it is difficult
(D) that it is difficult
答案：C 测试点：主谓结构。 分析：本句主、谓语俱缺，应在答案中选择完整的主谓或主系表结构，即(C)。
(A)主语、动词均缺;(B) 缺主语;(D)多了 that，是从句。
3. Martha Graham, , has run her own dance company for half a century. (A) is the great modern choreographer
(B) one of the great modern choreographers (C) that the great modern choreographers (D) the modern
choreographers were great
答案：B 测试点：同位语。 分析：接在主语后面、两边由逗号隔开的成份，可能是主语的同位语，即一说明身份的名词性结构。答 案中只有(B)是名词性的。(A)、(D)都有系动词;(C)以 that 开头，是从句的一部分。 解题要点：同位语结构是中国学生不甚熟悉而 TOEFL 考题中常出现的结构。见到主语和谓语动词/系 动词之间的，两边用逗号隔开的形式，应首先考虑同位语的可能性，选择名词性结构。
4. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, communicate through facial expressions and by making noises.
(A) however
(B) they
(C) furthermore
(D) who
答案：B
测试点：主语。
分析：communicate 是谓语动词，前面缺主语。应在答案中选择名词或代词作主语。(B)代词 they 可作
主语。(A)、(C)既非代词也非名词，不能作主语;(D)用在疑问句或从句中。
5. The seating of musicians in an orchestra is arranged to produce the desired blend of sounds from the various musical sections .
(A) the conductor of
(B) from the conductor (C) the conductor and (D) by the conductor
答案：D
测试点：介词短语/被动语态。
分析：看到被动语态的 is arranged ，应想到后面可能接 by…的结构。在 4 个答案中选择以 by 开头的介词短语，即(D)。
6. The worldwide race to develop an affordable synthetic fuel has so far consumed billions of dollars and few results.
(A) yielded (B) yielding (C) yield ha
(D) has a yield of
答案：A
测试点：并列结构。
分析：and 前后两部分，应同形式、同性质。此处 and 连接两个谓语部分，前面是 consumed…，后面
应也是一过去式的动词，即(A)yielded。
7. Experiments in the photography of moving objects in both the United States and
Europe well before 1900.
(A) have been conducting
(B) were conducting
(C) had been conducted
(D) being conducted
答案：C
测试点：时态。
分析：本句有主语而缺谓语动词，应选择时态正确的动词作谓语。句中 well before l900 说明时间是
“过去的过去”，时态应用过去完成时，故选(C)。(A)是现在完成时;(B)是过去进行时;(D)不能作谓
语动词。
8. The University of Georgia, in 1785, was the first state supported university in the
United States.
(A) chartered
(B) was chartered (C) it was chartered (D) to be chartered
答案：A
测试点：分词短语作后置定语。
分析：此句是 TOEFL 常考句式。分词短语作定语放在它所修饰的名词后面(A)，相当于被动式的定语从
句省掉关系代词 which/that 及系动词 be。(B)若改为 which was chartered，(C)用 which 代替 it，(D)去
掉 to be，亦可。
9. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once cacti and sagebrush could live.
(A) nor
(B) not the
(C) none other
(D) nothing but
答案：D
测试点：短语。
分析：Nothing but 是固定的短语。(A)nor 通常不单独使用，应与 neither 连用;(B)not 用于否定动词或
形容词;(C)是错误说法。
10. , in the late 1800’s, some libraries had to keep as many as twenty to thirty copies of each of Mary Jane Holmes’s books on hand.
(A) Inventories showing (B) That show inventories (C) Inventories show that (D) Showing the inventories
答案：C
测试点：复合句。
分析：本句中 some 后的部分为从句，前面缺少主句，及连接词。应在答案中选择完整的主谓结构，即(C)。
11. The scholarly interest in perception stems largely from questions about the sources and validity of what .
(A) it is known as human knowledge (B) is known as human knowledge (C) known human knowledge
(D) is human knowledge known
答案：B
测试点：what 引导的名词从句。
分析：介词 of 应后接名词性成份作介词宾语。What…结构的作用相当于一个名词，它要么是 what+不
定式，要么是 what 从句，即名词性从句。答案中无不定式形式，只有(B)能与 what 组成完整的从句，
故选 (B)。(A)it 与 what 重复。
12. Because of the Aleuts’ constant exposure to cold weather, they have long recognized.
(A) and body needs to be fat
(B) body needs the fat
(C) how fat the body needs
(D) the body’s need for fat
答案：D
测试点：宾语。
分析：recognize 是及物动词，其后应接名词性的成份作宾语。(D)是名词词组，故选(D)。(B)看似省掉
that 的宾语从句，但 fat 前的定冠词 the 是错误的。(C)如改为 how much fat 则在句子结构上亦是正确
的。
13. Almost all economists agree by trading with one another. (A) nations that are gained
(B) nations they gain (C) gaining nations (D) that nations gain
答案：D
测试点：宾语从句。
分析：请注意动词 agree 的几种句型结构：(1)agree 十宾语从句; (2)agree with/to 十名词结构。
14. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for with which to regulate them.
(A) more accurate than sundials
(B) more accurate sundials
(C) sundials more accurately
(D) more accurately than sundials
答案：B
测试点：介词宾语。
分析：介词 for 后面应接名词性的成份作其宾语。4 个答案中只有(B)是以名词 sundials 作中心词的词
组，可作介词宾语。
15. Anthropology is a science anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked by others.
(A) in that (B) that in (C) that (D) in
答案：A
测试点：习语。
分析：空格后面的部分说明 Anthropology is a science 的原因，而并非修饰它。答案中只有(A)in that 表
示“因为”，故选(A)。(C)that 是错误的。从句子结构上分析这个 that 无法引导出定语从句，因句中既
有主语(anthropologists)又有宾语(asetof…); 从句意上分析，that 后面的部分并不是前面 Science 的同
位语从句。
解题要点：当 4 个答案中有 in that 这个短语时，首先要考虑选择它。
16.A liquid is similar to a gas because has molecules are not fixed to each other in any specific way.
答案：B
测试点：代词。
分析：在 because 从句中，主语 molecules 前应当是代词，不能用动词 has。正确的词是 its。
17.The Conestoga wagon, used for to carry heavy loads over long distances, originated around 1725 in a region of Pennsylvania occupied by the Conestoga Indians.
答案：A
测试点：词形/介词宾语。
分析：介词 for 后面要接名词性的成份作宾语。如动名词，不能接动词不定式。此处 tocarry 应为
carrying。
18.Providence, Rhode Island, is a busy manufacturing city and seaport, as well the state capital.
答案：C
测试点：习语。
分析：As well as 是固定短语，此处缺一 as。
19.The young of most bird species are totally dependence on parental care after hatching.
答案：B
测试点：词性。
分析：dependence 是名词，此处要用形容词 dependent 作表语。be dependent on 是固定用法。
20.During most of this century, A. Philip Randolph struggled for Black rights in the United States and becomes an important figure in the labor movement.
答案：C
测试点：并列结构/时态一致。
分析：看到连词 and，应想到它所连接的两部分关系对等、性质相同。句中 and 连接两个谓语部分，其
时态应一致。becomes 应为 became，用过去式与 straggled 并列。
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