TOEFL Questions

---

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.

"............ as well a touching inducement to marry." Here inducement means

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

He claimed that he (have corrected) the ringing on both the clocks.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Glib

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Haggard

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Conflagration

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Chaste

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Back to the drawing board

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Farmland ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility