GetTOEFL daily quiz: Thu Jul 2, 2009

1. I walked away as calmly as I could ......... they thought I was the thief.

	(a) or else
	(b) to avoid
	(c) owing to
	(d) in case

2. Maria Callas, .........., assumed directorship of the Philladelphia Opera in 1989.

	(a) be a star soprano
	(b) was a star soprano
	(c) a star soprano and
	(d) a star soprano

3. .......... popular cause stirred Stephanie Simpson's disquiet more than the scaling back of educational facilities for recent arrivals to the United States.

	(a) No
	(b) Nothing
	(c) Not
	(d) None

4. Meteorites are small and therefore very difficult to identify, even when .......... to Earth.

	(a) quite colsely
	(b) are being quite close
	(c) are they quite cosely
	(d) they are quite close

	(a)
	(b)
	(c)
	(d)

6. .......... tributaries of the Potomar River system were navigated by steamboats during the period before the outbreak of the Mexican War.

	(a) More than forty
	(b) More than forty were
	(c) Forty more than
	(d) There were more than fory

7. I was just ......... to go out when you telephoned.

	(a) around
	(b) about
	(c) thinking
	(d) planned

8. Wilt Chamberlain, .......... to gain entry into the Basketball Hall of Fame, began his career with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959.

	(a) the Black American who first
	(b) the first Black American
	(c) was the first Black American
	(d) the first and a Black American who

9. I ................. this letter around for days and haven't even looked at it.

	(a) carry
	(b) have been carrying
	(c) am carrying
	(d) was carrying

10. In her time, Pattie Smythe was ___ today a liberated woman.

	(a) calling what we would
	(b) who would be calling
	(c) what we would call
	(d) she would call it

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