2016-09-26 TOEFL: detail questions, reading test

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-spotty-fruits-and-vegetables-safe-to-eat-elizabeth-brauer
The word roots “vore”, “troph”, and “phage” all mean something like “eat”.
bio = life / alive
necro = death / dead (sometimes “nectro”)
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http://aschmann.net/AmEng/index_collection/AmericanEnglishDialects.png - dialects of North American English
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Listening question types: main idea, purpose, function, detail, prediction, inference, attitude
Detail questions are the most common
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Handout (Cambridge 275-281) p. 275 - Listen to the statements and choose the one that gives the same information.
1 B (“The dialect spoken in Karpathos” could mean present or past, but “date back to the time of Homer” means the words are used now, because “date” is present tense.)
2 A (“first manned flight”, not the first hot-air balloon)
3 B (It’s the Aztec word for “tail feather”, which is also the name of the bird, but it’s not the Aztec word for “beautiful bird”.)
4 B (They were men from Mao’s army, and they captured the bridge for Mao’s forces.)
5 A (Centers were set up in drought-stricken areas, but we don’t know that the areas were the ones who set them up.)
6 B (“have revolutionized our concept of the human past”)
7 B (“recent explorers” means the explorers were not active in 1783, that’s the year the description was written)
8 A (The executive director is “the authorities”, and the dead animals “have been spotted”, but we dont’ know by whom.)
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Passive voice is much more common in academics than in conversation, and you have to pay close attention to who did what.
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p. 276 - Detail quesitons often involve choosing two answers.
1 A, C
2 B, D
	mint (verb) = make coins
3 A, B
4 B, C
	(not A because the cause goes in the other direction)
	(not D because it’s abnormal functioning that can cause disorders)
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BREAK
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Handout p. 277 - Chose ALL correct answers.
1 A, B, D
2 A, B (She talks about C and D, but she doesn’t include that information in her instructions.)
3 A, D
4 B, C
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Reading Test - Factors that Influence Tides (1-14)
Political Systems (15-26)
Trickster Figure (41-52)