TOEFL Questions

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.


The traditional obstacle to


P : the education of girls is

Q : the prejudice against the

R : intellectual potential of girls

In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The insecticide is very powerful and can kill a wide ___________ of insects.

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

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman brain is required. A few simple rules will keep you free, not from all errors, but from silly errors. If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. Thinking that you know when in fact you do not is a bad mistake, to which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles, because I have been told that they do; but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself until I had seen one enjoying this diet. Aristotle, however, was less cautious. Ancient and medieval writers knew all about unicorns and salamanders; not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them.

According to the author, unicorns and salamanders

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

Peer

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

Believe in and follow the practices of

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

“Don’t you know the way to home?” asked the lady.

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".

They (has rented) the premises for fifteen rupees a month, a princely sum, considering that milk was fifty paisa a litre.