2020-05-04 TOEFL: tests

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework (optional): for additional feedback, send me a self-evaluation of your writing from today
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/should-we-get-rid-of-standardized-testing-arlo-kempf
What exactly is TOEFL supposed to measure?
Does it do a good job of measuring this?
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Reading Test (ETS 1.4)
Submit your answers online when you’re finished.
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BREAK
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Listening Test
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Difficult reading questions
18 - vocabulary - B (A, C, and D all suggest a particular relationship between the cities that is not mentioned in the text.)
4 - paraphrase - A (Wrong answers often omit or change one of the two main parts of a sentence. The other type of wrong answer changes the relationships in the sentence: who does what to whom? B, C, and D are false statements according to the information from the passage.)
6 - reference - C (We don’t use models to cause what happens in the world (not A or B), and we don’t use models for models (not D). We use models to make predictions.)
9 - vocabulary - A (The adjective “virtual” generally means something is fake or computer-generated, but the adverb “virtually” almost always means “nearly”.)
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Sheet 4 of the uploaded spreadsheet has the answers in an easy-to-read form