Reading practice TOEFL

 Fill in the missing letters in the paragraph

Healthy eating habits contribute significantly to long-term physical and mental well-being. Balanced die_ _ provide essen _ _ _ _ nutrients th_ _ support ene_ _ _ levels, immu_ _ function, a_ _ overall he _ _ _ _. Excessive consu_ _ _ _ _ _ of proce_ _ _ _ foods, su_ _ _, and unhealthy fats can lead to chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart conditions. Awareness of nutrition helps individuals make informed food choices. Developing consistent healthy eating routines reduces health risks and improves quality of life. Proper nutrition also supports concentration, mood stability, and productivity in daily activities.

Read a Campus Cafeteria Notice

Due to a temporary shortage of staff, the cafeteria will provide a limited menu this week. Popular items like pasta bowls and custom sandwiches will still be available, but several specialty dishes will not be offered. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we expect to return to the full menu next Monday once additional staff members complete their training.

What is the cafeteria administration expecting to happen next week?

(A) More specialty meals will be added gradually.

(B) Food prices will increase.

(C) The cafeteria will return to its usual menu.

(D) The cafeteria will close for maintenance.

Read an Online Shipping Update

Your package has left the distribution center and is currently making its way to the destination. According to the latest estimate, it should arrive sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. You can monitor its progress using the tracking link below. While most deliveries arrive on schedule, severe weather conditions or transportation disruptions may occasionally cause delays. If you expect to be unavailable during the delivery period, you may choose to have the package to a nearby pickup location instead.

What does the notice suggest about the package?

(A) It has not yet been processed.

(B) It is currently being transported.

(C) It has already been delivered.

(D) It is being returned to the sender.

Answer Key:

1 ts

2 tial

3 at

4 rgy

5 ne

6 nd

7 alth

8 mption

9 ssed

10 gar

11 B

12 C

Check Your Vocabulary

 Complete the sentences.

carjack

cattail

fender

scaffolding

shove

slew

stammer

SWAT team

unsub

1. Is the ___ recent?

2. Starting out pleased and approving, he rounded the hood and drew up short when he came upon the left ___.

3. The unsub, described as twentysomething, tall Hispanic man, was believed to have ____ a woman on a street nearby -taking off with the victim's vehicle and her child, who was in a car seat in the back.

4. I was ____ to the ground, but I'm okay.

5. After a perimeter had been established by the Merced County Sheriff's Echo 1 helicopter was deployed to help in the search for the suspect and rescue of young Gabriel Dunne.

6. While the ____ was nowhere to be found, Gabriel was left unharmed, still his car left.

7. When Lex stopped at the water's edge, barking vociferously, Isaih caught up to him and spotted what looked to be a person, almost totally underwater, amidst blackberry bushes and ____.

8. "We have Alphonse Olivarez in custody," Isaih reported to her satisfyingly, while noting that the suspect faced a ____ of serious charges, including murder, robbery, carjacking and the kidnapping of a child.

9. Westnick Hall really was magnificent even covered in ____ as the work Lorenti's recent investment had made possible got underway.

Key: 1. stammering; 2. fender; 3. carjacked; 4. shoved; 5. SWAT team; 6. unsub; 7. cattail; 8. slew; 9. scaffolding

Check Your Vocabulary

 Fill in gaps.

agile

deploy

fluster

gingerly

mundane

on pins and needles

safe and sound

vociferous-vociferously

1. Thank goodness for that much, Isaih told himself, ____ at the thought of the carjacking.

2. After a perimeter had been established by the Merced County Sheriff's Office, working with the Lodren Creek Police Departments, a SWAT team was called in and an Airbus H-125 Echo 1 helicopter was ___ to help in the search for the suspect and rescue of young Gabriel Dunne.

3. Isaiah had voluntarily joined the mission with his canine partner, intent on doing whatever could be done to bring Gabriel back to his mother ___.

4. As Isaiah lifted him from the car, he asked the frightened little boy ____, to be sure, "Are you okay, buddy?"

5. Sensing the armed suspect was hiding somewhere, Isaih took out his weapon and then le Lex loose, believing that the ___ and skilled Begian Malinois would have the element of surprise and fear on his side.

6. When Lex stopped at the water's edge, barking ____, Isaiah caught up to him and spotted what looked to be a person, almost totally underwater, amidst blackbeery bushes and cattails.

7. After being ____ with worry, Tamara was happily reunited with Gabriel at her sister's house.

8. By writing about the admittedly ____ details of my subjects' daily lives -when they slept and ate and worked and worried - I hoped to provide a novel angle on their personalitties and careers, to sketch entertaining small- bore portraits of the artist as a creature of habit.

Key: 1. flustered; 2. deployed; 3. safe and sound; 4. gingerly; 5. agile;6. voceferously; 7. on pins and needles; 8. mundane 

Check Your Vocabulary

 Complete the gaps.

accost

acquiesce

antsy

assailant

at gunpoint

carjack-v

falter

fender

frantic

frizz out

on what grounds

slate (for)

stammer

unsub

1. You don't ____ so you talk normally.
2. She patted down her bangs where they tended to ____ like a forelock.
3. This time the ____ moved, not for but enough to clear the tire, and she stood up and dusted off her hands.
4. What time was this meeting ____?
5. ____ didn't you make breakfast?
6. "All right," Stella ___, "but I want details tomorrow."
7. It was only after she closed the door and went around to the driver's side door that Tamara found herself being ____ by a tall and well-built, dark-haired, dark-eyed Hispanic man in his twenties.
8.  Unfortunately, neither of those was enough to prevent whatever it was her that ___ had in mind.
9. Lex sat quietly nearby in the great room but seemed ____, while Isaih sipped coffee and saw on the television news that a local convenience store clerk had been killed in an armed robbery.
10. The ____ , described as twentysomething, tall Hispanic man, was believed to have carjacked a woman on a street nearby - taking off with the vistim's vehicle and her child, who was in a car seat in the back.
11. She was ___.
12. I was ____ outside my sister's house.
13. He voice ___.
14. Gabriel was inside the car when the man stole it ___.    

Key:1. stammer; 2. frizz out; 3. fender; 4. stated for; 5. on what gorunds;6. acquiesced; 7. accosted; 8. assailant; 9. antsy; 10. unsub; 11. frantic; 12. carjacked;13.faltered; 14. at gunpoint

Check Your Vocabulary

 Enjoy this task and check your vocabulary knowledge!

conjure up

decrapulate

dignified

disarray

divulge

embezzlement

impeccable

rebate

1. Set in autum and winter, Miss Plum and Miss Penny allows the author to ___ evocative scenes of Greeth transformed by snow, where "every window framed a frozen picture of the most perfect artistry", of a Christmas  Eve carol - singing expedition, and of the whole village forsaking their daily tasks to ice-skate on the frozen Tarn.
2. Have you looked into Director Jin's ____?
3. Let's ____!
4. He is also charged with receiving ____ from businesses of two million dollars. 
5. The hospital is in ____.
6. People say I'm _____ and charismatic.
7. She pictured Stanley to herself, ______ dressed as always, and looking more like a retired bank manager than any retired bank manager had ever looked, sitting in Daddy's wing chair, his well- kept hands folded upon his stomach, his handsome grey head politely inclined toward the television screen, calmly and dispassionately evaluating the worth of the performers.
8. Be secret not to ____ secret information today.

Key: 1. conjure up; 2. embezzlement; 3. descapulate; 4. rebates; 5. disarray; 6. dignified; 7.impeccably; 8.divulge.

Check Your Vocabulary

 Hello guys! Enjoy these new words!

alienated 

bullion

cochlear

corral

fumble

implication

recracement

scrutinize

1. There can be a ____ within a trend.

2. ETFs that track silver prices or futures could be a better bet versus physical ____, as they can be sold quite easily if investors think prices are too frothy.

3. But we must ___ not only unnecessary actions but unnecessary thoughts, too, so needless acts don't tag along after them.

4. Her romantic life consists of an annual Christmas card from her old flame George, and her social swirl involves Stanley, a prissy neighbour who keeps her in wind for a future wife, and Hubert, a neurotic widowed priest with an ____son. 

5. Until he'd met Bethany, he'd never heard of  ____ implants.

6. he wanted to believe her, but the ___ were grim if he did.

7. She ___ with her phone and heldit out to him.

8. But when someone suggested that he take up biking, Thorp ____ the number  of "deaths per hundred million passenger miles for cycling" and "decided that the risk was too high."

Key: 1. retracement; 2. bullion; 3. corral; 4. alienated; 5. cochlear; 6. implications; 7. fumble; 8. scrutinize.

Check Your Vocabulary

 Hello guys! Some new words for you to enjoy! Enjoy!!!

bole

brocade

cheesy

clog

condescendng

craggy

flatulence

flog-flogger

fradulent

grimoire

impasse

intimidate

islet

kick ass

nick

pandemonium

petty

plunder

putrefy

ravine

remit

slammer

slumber

sombre

squander

swag

turd

twat

1. Our food ____ our bodies, and then, because we're clogged, we start to feel bad and we take measures to feel better, but, at the same time, we're still eating foods that are clogging up the system.
2. Therefore, both proteins ___ in the system.
3. You may be eating fruit absolutely correctly and still develop this gas and ____.
4. According to the legend, John the Baptist himself set foot on the ___.
5. She worked all week, and every Saturday she went to the market to sell her ____.
6. The vines stopped their fall, but it was a long way down to the bottom of the ____.
7. I'm ____
8. She's still very ____.
9. You take the money and just ____ it and have us fool ourselves.
10. You're so ____.
11. Valiant men lie ____, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.
12. Now as we move inexorably into the twenty first century, we are delighted to be widening out ____ even more.
13. Then, among the wet grey shapes of the trees, ___ rocks began to appear.
14. The honey is black as night, thick as sin, and sweet as ____.
15. The bees of Death are big and black, they buzz low and ____, they keep their honey in combs of wax as white as altar candles.
16. The scythe that had done the work leaned against the gnarled ___ of a pear tree.
17. ___ will always exist.
18. I've been ____ for this guy since I can ever remember.
19. This is so ____.
20. But I'd forgotten to take a flashlight with me, and it turned out that the clothes I'd ___ were a bunch of babies' bibs and toddlers' underpants.
21. I might as well have tried to sell a ___.
22. I was just lying there in this ditch full of nettles, feeling like a ____.
23. The cops came to my house a few days later and found the gloves and my pile of  ____.
24. Ankh- Morpork gradually awoke from its ____.
25. In the Library above, the ____  creaked and rustled their pages in astonishment as the invisible runner passed straight through the books he lives and disappeared, or rather, disappeared even more.
26. As the VBB approached, I' d reached an ____.
27. I couldn't truthfully present my vision, not did it seem wise to craft a ____ board.
28. Winson Green was an old Victorian ____ that had been built in 1849.
29. It was ____.

Key: 1. clogged; 2. putrefy; 3. flatulence; 4. islet; 5. brocade; 6. ravine; 7. intimidate; 8. condescending; 9.squander; 10. petty; 11.plundered; 12. remit; 13. craggy; 14. treacle; 15. sombre; 16. bole; 17. floggers; 18. kick ass; 19. cheesy; 20. nicked; 21. turd; 22.twat; 23. swag; 24. slumber; grimoires; 25. impasse; 26. fraudulent; 27. slammer; 28. pandemonium.