#TOEFL Longman (green) Test 3

About three-fourths of books published in the U.S. are put out by publishers ______ in NYC

The Stanley brothers built their first steam car in 1897, and 200 were sell by the first year

Not until about 8,000 year ago _____ come into use.

Most asteroids are located in _______ called the asteroid belt.

______ on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs.

Only a few mineral can resist weathering by rain water, which is a weak acid.

The physical phenomenon _____ use to obtain water from the soil is osmosis.

Rubber came to the attention of Europeans ______ found Native Americans using it.

Today, the glaciers of the world occupies about 10 percent of the Earth´s surface

Of the more than 1,300 volcanoes in the world, only about 600 can classify as active.

The White House was designed by James Hobar, an Irishman whom the proposal won $500.

Fuel cells, alike batteries, generate electricity by chemical reaction.

B.F., needing a pair of lenses for distant vision and other for near vision, devised bifocals

More books have been written about the Civil War ______ any other war in history.

Overlooking the Hudson, the Cloisters includes parts a few medieval monastries brought from EU.

In 1890, Pasadena has started sponsorship of the Tournament of Roses on New Year´s morning

The V Company, which founded colony at Jamestown, sent glassmakers to develop the industry.

_____ cut away, the wheel could be strengthened with struts or crossbars.

An understanding of latent heat became importantly in the improvement of the steam engine.

Hamilton´s program included a central bank to provide a depository and regulation of currency

Chicago is home to more than 4 million people ____ as many as 54 languages and dialects.

Despite the Civil War, the relative new game of "base-ball" attracted great numbers of fans

A sheet of clear glass, _____ with a film of metal, results in a luminously clear mirror.

Most of the vertebrae have two flanges, wings, one on each side, calling transverse processes

The Indiana 500 race is run each week on the two-and-a-half-miles Speedway outside of Indiana

_____ glacial sediment, the moister the surface soil becomes.

The state of MI can rightfully claim to be a "Water Wonderland" ____ has a 3,121-mile shoreline

Polystyrene comes in both a hard form or a lightweight foam.

The Louisiana state legal system is based with the legal system established by Napoleon.

When Mexico ceded CA to the U.S. in 1848, treaty signers did not know _____ had been discovered

Key West traces its modern settlement to an American business who purchased the island in 1882.

The Liberty Bell, _____ its own pavilion, hung for nearly a century at Independence Hall

All of the Great Lakes is in the U.S. and Canada except Lake MI, which is entirely in the U.S.

The streets of SLC were laid out wide enough for a cart to do a turn without brushing the curb

Top management must took a hard look at its product lines to see if assets can be reallocated

Anyone who takes the Rorschach test for personalities are asked to interpret a series of blots.

Kangaroos sometimes rest or groom themselves while they are sitting on them hind legs.

Various chemical element have more than one isotope.

According to ____ quantum mechanics, it is impossible to pinpoint the orbit of an electron bond

The bow was first invented in Mesolithic era, yet its was used for hunting in the Neolithic.