2020-01-22 TOEFL: fact and detail questions

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 210-217 - exercises 4R6 (212-3) and 4R12 (217)
exercise 4R6
1 c
2 c
3 b
4 a
5 a
6 d
7 b (Not ‘c’, because the Singularity happens after nanobots begin to upgrade our intelligence.)
8 a (Its impact is “impossible to fathom”, so we can’t predict anything about it except that things will be very different from now.)
exercise 4R12
1 b
2 b (“Any failure to understand the nuances of another culture can result in damaged business relationships and reduced profits.” - The cause in this sentence can be paraphrased as “cultural misunderstanding”.)
3 d
4 a (“In the case of intercultural business relationships” implies that there are other cases where mindfulness can also be used. - Some inference questions require you to notice that the text is about a specific application or example, and that there must be others.)
5 a
6 c (“awareness of the conflicting values across cultures” is knowledge)
7 c (“Conflicts can easily arise” is in the discussion of the individual versus group scale. The other three answer choices are only briefly mentioned and explained.)
8 d
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Note that in the Oxford book, especially for reading, the differences between correct and incorrect answers can be very small.
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Cengage exercise 1.1 - Scan the passages to locate where you could find the answers to these fact and negative fact questions. (Underline and/or label where you could find the answers.)
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Listening Question Types
- detail/fact
- inference
- purpose
- attitude
- function/replay
- prediction
- main idea (content or purpose)
- complete a chart
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Cambridge exercise L13 - Which sentence is a correct restatement of the sentence you hear?
1 B (The dialect is old now, and uses many words from Homer’s time.)
2 A (First manned flight, not first balloon.)
3 B
4 B
5 A (The original sentence is passive. We don’t know who set them up.)
6 B
7 B (The explorers were recent, the description was from 1783.)
8 A (The original sentence doesn’t tell us who spotted them. Authorities reported that dead animals “have been spotted”.)
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exercise L14 - Choose the two correct answers. Listen and take notes on another piece of paper before reading the questions.
1 A C (He gives some examples of the cultures where it was practiced.)
2 B D
3 A B
4 B C
- When you choose two answers, you have to get them both correct to get the point.
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exercise L15 - There are not TOEFL questions that look like this (where you click on answers but you don’t know how many to choose.) However, this is basically the same as L16.
(On this exercise, each question has 2 or 3 answers.)
1 A B D (We know something about the journal, but not the name.)
2 A B
3 A D
4 B C
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exercise L16 - Which answer choices are “yes”?
1 A B D (C and E are parts of racing, not training)
2 B C D (The ERA was never passed, and would have helped women if it had.)
3 B C D
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Homework: exercise L17