2020-11-23 TOEFL: R and L practice

remember: no class on Thursday or Friday this week (Wednesday class online)
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Reading Practice - ETS Guide, test 2, passage 2

Questions everyone got incorrect
5 - vocabulary - C (In general “engaged” means busy or occupied, so in this context it means “employed”.)
12 - fact/detail - A (The answer choices come from three different paragraphs, so make sure to look for all of them. C and D are not Fuller’s dances. (C is a film and D was by a different person.) Only A is mentioned as being set to music.)
13 - sentence insertion - D (The key part of the sentence is “beyond it into newly emerging artistic media”. This refers to new types of art other than dance. The only new type of art mentioned in the paragraph is movies, which are mentioned in the last sentence.)

Questions ⅔ of you got incorrect
4 - paraphrase - A (A compares two things, B only states one thing, C and D talk about cause and effect. The highlighted sentence is about her level of interest, which is the subject of A.)
6 - vocabulary - D (“synthesize” fundamentally means put together. That’s a more basic sense than “make” or “make artificially”, which is often how it’s used today.)
8 - fact - C (“This” at the beginning of the sentence refers to “underlighting”, and the reason Fire Dance is mentioned at all is as an example where underlighting was “particularly effective”.)
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Listening practice
29 - inference - A (The professor says we need to examine their roles as symbols in order to understand why a society would build something so costly.)

17 - main idea - D (About halfway through the conversation, the student says he has a permission form for the class that is all filled out except for the professor’s signature.)
27 - function - B (“What were they thinking?” expresses that he doesn’t understand why filmmakers made the people green. This is a criticism of the filmmakers, not a question for the professor.)