2019-07-01 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/there-may-be-extraterrestrial-life-in-our-solar-system-augusto-carballido
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Reading Practice Test - ETS 1.3
When you’re finished, submit your answers online.
3, 4, 6
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BREAK
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Listening Test
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Discuss other difficult reading questions.
7 - negative fact - A (The others are all mentioned in the last two sentences of the paragraph.)
8 - fact - A (The steam engine allowed deeper coal mining, and the availability of coal inspired the new illumination.)
12 - fact - B (The sentence before the sentence with “these ingredients” talks about wagons and stationary steam engines.)
18 - fact - C
20 - paraphrase - B (This is the only answer choice that includes both key parts: rocks differ from region to region AND no rock could be a reliable time marker.)
21 - purpose - D (Quartz is used as one example of a rock, but the point is that all types of mineral remain the same (chemically) over time.)
22 - fact - A
32 - negative fact - D (The paragraph rejects the other three in order. The mention of ordinary memories is part of the rejection of C.)
33 - fact - B (This is the last sentence of the paragraph.)
28 - summary - B C F (The other choices are false statements about the information.)