2020-10-13 TOEFL: tests

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: read the sample responses to the professors on TV integrated writing task, and decide what score (1 to 5) each one should receive, based on the official score descriptions
A - 3 - “There is imprecision [or vagueness], omission [third point from the lecture isn’t clear or complete].” The idea that the university loses money is not connected to the idea that TV takes away from a professors’ time.
B - 1 - “Although the language in this response is relatively clear, the response can receive only a score of 1 because it does not present any information from the lecture.”
C - 5 - The language isn’t perfect but the errors are all minor. “The errors in this response do not interfere with meaning or disrupt the flow of the response.”
D - 2 - The grammar is worse than in response B, but this response does include some details from the lecture (in particular the second point from the lecture).
E - 4 - This talks about all three points, but there are some minor problems and omissions. It’s typical of 4-point responses to include all of the necessary main ideas, but have enough problems with grammar, connections, and minor details, that it’s sometimes distracting or a little confusing.
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Reading Practice Test (ETS 1.5)
Submit your answers online when you’re finished.
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Listening Practice Test
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Reading questions you got wrong
6 - paraphrase - B (A is true but incomplete, C is not the topic of the highlighted sentence, and D is false, because it says “their species” instead of “other species”)
13 - sentence insertion - B (“Yet” means this sentence contrasts with the previous sentence, and the best option for that contrast is the sentence between A and B.)
22 - negative fact - C (The text mentions answering signed questions, but not spoken questions.)
29 - paraphrase - B (The model was supposed to be descriptive, not prescriptive. It tries to explain why and how cities really grow, not how they should grow.)
33 - inference - B (They don’t want to live near the factories where they work, so we can infer that there aren’t factories in the third zone, because that’s where they live.)
39 - sentence insertion - D (“Typical of this kind of urban growth” means Gary is an example of the type of growth described in the previous sentence. Gary is a “nearby satellite city” of Chicago.)
40 - summary - B D E (A is too specific, it’s not just about Chicago but about cities “like Chicago”.)
Listening
4 - prediction - A E (He’s already a student at Hooper, and needs to have his information added to City College.)
5 - function/replay - C (He would be out of luck if he weren’t going to Hooper, but since he is, he can do what he wants to do.)
9 - prediction - D (She’s talking about the model of how different cultures interact and affect each other.)
10 - complete a chart - C A B
11 - function/replay - B (She knows it fulfills their requirement, and wants to know what other reasons they had for picking the class. This is because she hopes something actually interested them.)