2020-01-27 TOEFL: tests

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-cotton-in-everything-michael-r-stiff/
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Reading Test - Take 60 minutes to answer all the questions.
Submit your answers online when you’re finished.
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13 - sentence insertion - C (A “stream” is a small, fast-moving river. The new sentence explains how the steam engine “liberated industry from dependence on running water.”)
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BREAK
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Listening Practice Test
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Other difficult reading questions
24 - vocabulary - A (“virtually” almost always means “nearly” when it’s used to modify an adjective)
26 - purpose - B (Limestone [a type of rock] can be found in the Cambrian and the Jurassic, but a trilobite [a type of fossil animal] will never be found in the Jurassic and a dinosaur [another type of fossil animal] will never be found in the Cambrian. = If you find a trilobite in one rock layer and a dinosaur in the other, you know that the trilobyte layer is older than the dinosaur layer, even if they’re both sandstone.)
36 - vocabulary - D
40 - purpose - C (They’re not mutually exclusive, which means more than one can be true. The rest of the paragraph explains how each explanation can be part of the whole story.)
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The overall organization can help you with purpose questions as well as the final summary question.
1 Introduction - explains what infantile amnesia is
2 Wrong theories - explains why three possible theories don’t work
3 First plausible theory
4 Second plausible theory
5 Third plausible theory
6 Research supporting third theory
7 Conclusion - the three plausible theories may all be true together