2019-09-04 TOEFL: reading fact

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Other test questions
18 - fact - C (He collected the data while working “similar jobs across the length and breadth of England”.)
22 - fact - A (He could distinguish different types of rocks, but the rocks in different strata were often the same type, so were hard to tell apart.)
26 - purpose - B (The point is that you can always know a rock with a trilobyte is older than a rock with a dinosaur, even if it’s the same type of rock.)
32 - negative fact - D (A, B, and C are, in order, the ideas rejected in this paragraph. Ordinary events are only mentioned to explain why C is the wrong explanation.)
37 - reference - A (The correct answer choice is the one that best summarizes the previous paragraph.)
38 - fact - B (The third factor in paragraph 6 talks about categories of events, or in other words types.)
28 - summary - B C F (A and E are factually incorrect and D isn’t mentioned directly but is probably false because it was “not only” for his maps.)
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Fact Questions
Cengage p. 181-182 - Take a few minutes for each passage and identify whether the statements are true or false.
1
A T
B F
C T
D T
E F
F F
G F
H T
2
A T
B F - The animal they come from is probably this size, but the fossils themselves are smaller, because they are only parts of the head.
C F
D T
E T
F F
G T
H T - “The separation of these bones” means the right and left ear bones are isolated.
3
A T
B F
C F
D T
E T
F F
G T
H T
4
A F (unmatched = Other violins can’t match a Stradivarius. = They are not as good as a Stradivarius.)
  (In this context, “match” means “be as good as”, so “not match” means “be not as good as”, which is worse.)
B T
C T
D F
E F (The color is mentioned but it’s not the source of the quality.)
F T
G F
H T
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Longman p. 51 - Take 5 minutes to answer the questions about Lake Baikal.
1 D (The other answer choices all don’t match the numbers given for length and width.)
2 A
3 D
4 C
5 B
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p. 52 - Take 5 minuutes.
6 C (The 19th century was 1800-1899 or 1801-1900, because the 1st century was 1-100AD.)
7 A
8 D
9 B
10 C
p. 53 - 5 minutes
11 A
12 D (On the real TOEFL, the answer about Mexico would probably not be included because you’re not expected to know that New Mexico is a US state.)
13 C
14 B
15 D
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Oxford p. 210-213 - Take 10 minutes to answer the fact and inference questions (4R6) about nanotechnology.
1 c
2 c
3 b
4 a / b (At present, the cap is 1016, which means “they are limited” is true.)
5 a (It will increase as we boost the speed inside the brain, but the paragraph doesn’t directly link creativity to transfering information between brains. d is probably true and b and c are definitely true, but they aren’t implied by the paragraph.)
6 d
7 b (The Singularity will happen because of positive feedback, but that’s not what it is.)
8 a (We could as easily cooperate as compete to bring about new technologies, especially if everyone is sharing information between brains. “The impact of which is impossible to fathom” means that it will be unpredictable and very different from now.)
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https://www.wordandphrase.info/analyzeText.asp - Type words and hit “search”.
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p. 215-217 - Take 10 minutes for this reading.
1 b
2 b
3 d (In the specific case of intercultural business relationships, ‘a’ is the form that mindfulness usually takes, but mindfulness in general is “the practice of objective observation” and it “necessitates letting go of who is right or wrong”.)
4 a (The author specifices that the following description is just for the case of business relationships, which implies that there are other cases where mindfulness could be used.)