Difficult questions--Please help me

[Meditator]

Hi, I am going to take TOEFL on june 6. I am confused with the following problems. Please help me find the correct answers with short explanations. Thanks in advance.

1. The Hopi, descendants of the prehistoric Anasazi people, are a Pueblo people who of the southwestern United States.
2. The stark, boxy forms of European modernist architectural dominated United States cityscapes in the building boom following the Second World War.
3. The layers of an elephant’s tusk are deposited from the pulp, yet that the innermost layer is the newest.
4. In music, cacophony is discordant sounds, false harmony, or noisily and inharmonious combinations of sounds.
5. Most meteorites are thought to be fragments from asteroids,__________ some may be pieces from the heads of comets.
   • despite
   • either
   • although
   • but if
6. ________ until the twelfth century that the magnetic compass was used for navigation.
   • Its not being
   • It was not
   • Not
   • Was not
7. New York City Ballet has been _________of United States classical ballet companies since its inception in 1946.
   • the consistently creative most
   • consistently creative the most
   • most creative the consistently
   • the most consistently creative
8. Desktop publishing systems are capable of camera-ready pages made up of text and graphics, with text set in different typefaces and sizes.
   • when producing
   • produce
   • to produce
   • producing
9. The femur is the ____________in the body.
   • bone is the largest and longest
   • largest and the longest bone that
   • largest and longest bone
   • bone largest and longest and
10. Spurred by the phenomenal growth of the city of Chicago after the Civil war, Illinois became_________.
    • that a major industrial state
    • to a major industrial state
    • a major industrial state
    • to be a major industrial state
11. Photographer Edward Steichen constantly experimented new techniques and materials in his quest to have photography accepted as a creative art.
12. Light from the Sun can penetrate only a few hundred meters below surface of the ocean
13. Powt Amy Lowell began her career by publishing the conventional volume A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, despite eventually succeeded Ezra Pound as leader of the progressive Imagists.
14. The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lesser elaborate than those of the Navajo in the southwest.
15. In human beings, as in other mammals, hairs around the eyes are ears and in the nose prevent dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.
16. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920’s until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of production.
17. Today modern textile mills can manufacture as much fabrics in a few seconds as it once took workers weeks to produce by hand.
18. Exploration of the Solar System is continuing, and at the present rate of progress all the planets will have been contacted within the near 50 years.
19. Since their appearance on farms in the United States between 1913 and 1920, trucks have changed patterns of production and market of farm products.
20. Despite television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison Keillor’s Saturday night radio show of folk songs and stories is heard by millions of people.
21. …who needed reducing/to reduce their sugar intake…
22. ..very small/little difference…

I hope that someone will come to help me with these problems. These are the problems I found in ETS TOEFL materials.

[Tino]

1. The Hopi, descendants of the prehistoric Anasazi people, are a Pueblo people who of the southwestern United States. D is wrong. Change to "people of" or "people who are of". WHO is an ADJECTIVE CLAUSE CONNECTOR and requires a VERB. So use WHO with VERB or do not use WHO.
2. The stark, boxy forms of European modernist architectural dominated United States cityscapes in the building boom following the Second World War. B. Change to architecture. You need a NOUN, not and ADJECTIVE.
3. The layers of an elephant’s tusk are deposited from the pulp, yet that the innermost layer is the newest. C. "so that" not YET
4. In music, cacophony is discordant sounds, false harmony, or noisily and inharmonious combinations of sounds. C. Noisey. ADJECTIVE not ADVERB.
5. Most meteorites are thought to be fragments from asteroids,__________ some may be pieces from the heads of comets.
   • despite
   • either
   • although
   • but if C
6. ________ until the twelfth century that the magnetic compass was used for navigation.
   • Its not being
   • It was not
   • Not
   • Was not B
7. New York City Ballet has been _________of United States classical ballet companies since its inception in 1946.
   • the consistently creative most
   • consistently creative the most
   • most creative the consistently
   • the most consistently creative D
8. Desktop publishing systems are capable of camera-ready pages made up of text and graphics, with text set in different typefaces and sizes.
   • when producing
   • produce
   • to produce
   • producing ????
9. The femur is the ____________in the body.
   • bone is the largest and longest
   • largest and the longest bone that
   • largest and longest bone
   • bone largest and longest and C
10. Spurred by the phenomenal growth of the city of Chicago after the Civil war, Illinois became_________.
    • that a major industrial state
    • to a major industrial state
    • a major industrial state
    • to be a major industrial state C

That's all I had time for right now! Good luck!

Tino

[Meditator]

Thank you very much. I got 13-30 in structure section.

[asterias]

not so sure but according to me the following shd have had been marked


experimented
below surface
despite
lesser
prevent
during
fabric
near
market
despite

[Kurogane]

Originally Posted by asterias

not so sure but according to me the following shd have had been marked


experimented
below surface
despite
lesser
prevent
during
fabric
near
market
despite

I guess the 2 lasts are to reduce & small (not so sure,pal),and I had the same answers as the 2 people above except for some : what's wrong with experimented, prevent & during.Please explain to me too,thanks