TOEFL/Cambridge Skills: Use of English | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

English 30 Public

Choose the letter of the word or group of words that is NOT correct, the group is usually ONE word or small phrase BEFORE each letter and provide a possible alternative answer.

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Correct or Incorrect: She admitted that she made mistake but said that she had made a honest effort.

Incorrect. (mistake should be mistakes, should be an honest effort... sound of "o")

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Correct or Incorrect: His absence from the board meeting was a strong indication of his desire to leave the company.

Incorrect. (indications should be indication)

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Correct or Incorrect: The car needed gas, so the driver stopped at a service station.

Correct

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Correct or Incorrect: Anyone taking group tour to the Hawaiian Islands must pay fee before a first of the month.

Incorrect. (should be A group tour, there should be A fee, should be THE first of the month)

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Amelia Earhart, the first (A) woman to fly solo across (B) the Atlantic, disappeared on (C) June 1937 while attempting to fly around (D) the world.

C. disappeared IN instead of on

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The occurrence edema (A) indicates (B) the presence of (C) a serious illness (D).

A. occurrence OF edema

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Atomic nuclei are (A) believed (B) to be composed by (C) protons and neutrons in (D) equal numbers for the lighter elements.

C. composed OF not by

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According legend (A), Betsy Ross designed and sewed (B) the first (C) American flag (D).

A. According TO legend

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The middle ear (A) is attached for (B) the back of (C) the throat by (D) the Eustachian tube.

B. attached TO not for

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Plants that sprout, grow, bloom, produce seeds (A), and die within (B) one year (C) are classified for (D) annuals.

D. classified AD not for

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A marionette is controlled by (A) means strings (B) connected (C) to (D) wooden bars.

B. means OF strings

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In (A) July of (B) 1861, Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid in a (C) house close Fort Summer (D).

D. close TO Fort Summer

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Many comfort heating systems using (A) steam as (B) working fluid operate (C) at (D) the convection principle.

D. according to instead of AT

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Mars’s two small (A) moons are irregularly (B) shaped (C) and covered for (D) craters.

D. covered OF (instead of cover for)

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