2019-06-25 TOEFL: reading fact questions

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Other problems from yesterday’s test
8 - The adverb “indefinitely” is used the same way. It’s a period that possibly will end, but we don’t know when that will happen. It will continue as long as other conditions are more or less the same.
9 - Be careful with sentences that make judgments or comparisons. Make sure the same judgment or comparison can really be found in the text.
19 - One clue could be that the walls are totally “bare”, meaning there’s nothing else on them.
22 - It’s important to know that “game” means “animals for hunting”. The final sentence of the paragraph is meant to support the previous sentence, which introduces the idea that paintings were to increase the supply of animals.
24 - The sentence about deer and reindeer explains (“that is”) the previous sentence, which is about painting feared animals more. If they paint deer less, they therefore probably fear them less.
28 - A, D, and F are summaries of paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 of the reading passage.
29 - There are many words that start with ‘a’ and a double consonant that come from the root “ad-” meaning “to” or “onto”.
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Reading Fact Questions
Cambridge p. 181 - Decide if each statement about the paragraphs is true or false.
1 A T
  B F
  C T - “military risks” = “security threat”
  D T
  E F
  F F - There was no construction of the tunnel in 1930, “the construction of the tunnel” as the subject of a sentence implies that the construction happened.
  G F
  H T
- We have the adjective “cost-prohibitive” to describe something that’s too expensive to do.
2 A T
  B F - The animal was probably this size, but the fossils weren’t.
  C F
  D T
  E T
  F F - They can do this because of the separation of the bones, not because of anything vestigial.
  G T - “isolated from each other” means they’re separated
  H T
3 A T
  B F - There are hundreds of varieties, but only one hairy variety was mentioned.
  C F
  D T
  E T
  F F
  G T
  H T
4 A F
  B T
  C T
  D F
  E F - The color is mentioned as a detail, but isn’t a source of the quality.
  F T
  G F - That’s not the total cost, that’s a cheap one.
  H T
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Longman p. 51 - Answer the fact questions about Lake Baikal
1 D - You should be able to eliminate the other answers based on the numbers in the text. Also, “crescent” is the shape of a moon that is less than half illuminated.
2 A - It’s the ninth largest in area, meaning eight other lakes are larger.
3 D
4 C
5 B
p. 52 - Answer the questions about the postage stamp.
6 C
7 A - “collected in advance” means the person sending the letter has to pay the fee
8 D (14g is ½ oz, which in 1840 was still the measuring system England used)
9 B
10 C
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1 stone = 14 pounds = 6.35 kg
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p. 53 - Take 5 minutes to answer the questions.
11 A
12 D - We don’t know when it was founded. Remnants were found in 1932.
13 C
14 B - “the Clovis spread rapidly throughout the North American continent”
15 D
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There are three similar words:
find - found
found - founded
fund - funded
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Cengage p. 38-40 passage 2
12 D
13 D
14 C - “The hammered dulcimer is usually categorized as belonging to the zither family…, although some musicologists challenge this classification.”
15 A - If they can’t agree whether it’s even in the zither family, then the zither isn’t an ancestor. In addition, the other three are mentioned but you have to scan the entire passage to find them.
16 B
17 A
18 C
- For negative fact questions, you sometimes have to scan through the whole text to eliminate incorrect answers.
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Homework: finish the Cengage passages (1 - mesa verde, 3 - dorothea dix)