2017-09-07 TOEFL: reading vocab, listening detail

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Handout p. 52-56 - Finish describing terms in your own words for passages 3 and 6, and then begin exercise 2.2, the multiple choice section.
12 group (close together)
13 haze, fog
14 bright, shining, radiant
15 fragments, pieces, junk
16 a few
17 showing sadness, grieving, expressing sorrow
29 cut
30 final, last
31 very small
32 understand
33 magnify, expand, enlarge
34 unclear, blurry, indistinct
exercise 2.2
1 B
2 C
3 C
4 D
5 A
6 D (“nothing if not accommodating” means the government was very accommodating)
7 B
8 B
9 A
10 A
11 A
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Reading Question Types:
- vocabulary
- fact
- negative fact
- inference
- paraphrase
- reference
- purpose
- sentence insertion
- summarize
- organize/categorize
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Listening section: second part of the test, after reading
- 60-90 minutes, 2 or 3 sets of 3 listenings, you have 10 minutes to answer the questions from each set
Listening Question Types
- detail/fact
- attitude
- inference
- main idea/gist
- prediction
- purpose
- function
- organization
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Detail Questions - Listen to the DELTA audio (1.5) and answer the questions.
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Handout (Cengage) p. 282 exercise 10.1 - Listen to the conversation and take notes. Then answer the questions.
1 A
2 D
3 C
4 B
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Continue to listen to the conversations and answer the questions.
5 C
6 D
7 A
8 B C
9 A
10 B
11 C
12 A D
13 A
14 B
15 B D
16 D
17 A or D (the seminars are in the library but the Study Center office is in Staunton Hall)
18 D
19 A
20 C
21 A B
22 D
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exercise 2.2 - Do the same with academic lectures and discussions.
1 A C
2 B
3 C
4 B
5 A D
6 D
7 A
8 C - This question is about the total number of pieces that are monitored. (Not about how many are hypothesized, or how many are still active, or how many are in different levels of orbit.)
9 A
10 A D E
11 B
12 D
13 A
14 A
15 B
16 B
17 A C
18 C