2016-05-02 Pre TOEFL: reading sample test

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: Read the passage and answer the questions
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Do it now if you didn’t. (20 minutes)
Then take 5 minutes to check with a partner.
15 c (“some historians doubt their accuracy”)
16 b (“set eyes on” = look at; Bjarni Herjolfsson looked at North America but never walked on it)
17 b (Bjarni never walked on it, Thorfinn was 1004, Helge Ingstad was in the 20th century)
18 a
19 d (The sentence said they made a colony and its location is unknown.)
20 c (“evidently with a longer stay in mind” <- the “women and cattle” clause follows this one to explain it)
21 b (first they made a colony, then bad things happened, then they left -> the bad things ended their attempt at colonization)
22 d (“Greenlanders continued to make occasional visits there in later years, using it as a fishing camp.”)
23 c
24 a/c
25 a
26 b (“first”, “then”, “finally”)
27 a c f