2013年托福考试语法精选精讲3

1. The operating principles of the telephone are ______ they were in the nineteenth century.
(A) the same as today
(B) the same today
(C) the same today as
(D) today what the same.
答案：C 
分析：B, D the same as形式都不完整，先排除；A today与后面的过去时态不符。

翻译参考：当今的电话操作原理和它们在19世纪的时候是相同的。

2. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie used part of his wealth _______ more than 2,500 public

libraries in English-speaking countries between 1881 and 1919.
(A) helped in building
(B) helped him to building
(C) to help build
(D) his help in building
答案：C 
分析：use sth to do …与cause sth(sb) to do…是toefl语法中经常考的。
翻译参考：钢铁大亨Andrew Carnegie用他的部分财产于1881－1919年间在英语国家

帮助修建了2500多个公共图书馆。

3. Not until 1949 _______ Canada's tenth province.
(A) became Newfoundland
(B) did Newfoundland become
(C) Newfoundland did become
(D) Newfoundland became
答案：B 
分析：not until放在句首，谓语部分倒装，这时候只要找到以助动词打头的选项就

可以了。