TOEFL TEST 5

. Identify the ONE underlined word or phrase A or В that should be corrected or rewritten. Time: 5 minutes.

1. California, with a population of more than 23 million, is the more (A) populous (B)

state in America.

2. The gorilla is much (A) in danger of extinction as is (B) the giant tortoise.

3. Which plant is (A) the hardier (B) to survive a long, dry summer: the ivy, the fern or the cactus?

4. The Empire State Building, though not as high (A), is elder than (B) the World Trade

Center in New York.

5. In man, yellow-blue color blindness is (A) less common as (B) red-green color blindness.

6. The family-sized farm is no longer economically competitive (A) like (B) it was in the 19th century.

7. The area of the United States is divided into 50 states, of which the largest (A) is

Alaska and the most small (B) is Rhode Island.

8. Predators are lesser (A) of a danger than (B) farmers think.

9. The high (A) the rate of inflation, the higher (B) the price of commodities.

10. Los Angeles and San Francisco are two of the more (A) visited cities (B) on the

West Coast.

11. Not as many (A) children read books as a recreational activity than they (B) used to.

12. Drugs sold over the counter are much more better (A) packaged now than (B) they used to be.

13. The electron microscope is a newer (A) and far complexer (B) research tool than the light microscope, magnifying cells up to 200, 000 times.

14. Some animals need more highlier (A) developed sense cells than man (B) to survive in their struggle for existence.

15. Lesser (A) than a decade (B) after the beginning of the 20th century, San Francisco was ruined by an earthquake.

16. The first settlers planted corn, ate pumpkins and squash like (A) the American (B)

Indians did.

17. Computers, a fastly growing (A) industry, are effecting the everyday lives of most people (B) in industrialized countries.

18. General Grant was not an aristocrat like General Lee (A) and did not have the

privileges like (B) Lee had in his life.

19. The yield of grain from a hectare of corn is several times high (A) as that from (B)

a hectare of wheat.

20. The sequoia trees, some of which are more than 3, 000 years old, are among the largest (A) and old trees (B) in the world.