2017-06-26 TOEFL:: reading and listening tests

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Write a response to this prompt. Email it to me at [email protected]
Some people learn by reading about things. Others learn by doing things. Which of these methods of learning is better for you? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrXd0NM2y8 - history of the Fahrenheit temperature scale
Why did Rømer set the boiling point of water to be 60 degrees (instead of 100, for example)?
- We use 60 for measurements related to time and angles, both of which would have been comfortable and familiar to Rømer, an astronomer.
What two changes did Fahrenheit make to the scale?
- First he multiplied by 16/15 to make water freeze at 8 and body temperature at 24.
- Later, he multiplied by 4 to make these temperatures 32 and 96.
(The video doesn’t explain how boiling became 212 instead of 256, which it should by this math.)
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7.5 -> 8 -> 32
22.5 -> 24 -> 96
60 -> 64 -> 256? (The actual boiling point is 212.)
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Reading Test (ETS Guide test 1) - Take 20 minutes to answer the questions about each reading
Nineteenth-Century Politics in the United States (1-13)
The Expression of Emotions (1-13)
Geology and Landscape (1-12)
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BREAK
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Listening Test (ETS Guide test 1)
Check your partner’s test and write the total out of 36 points.
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Reading Test p. 244 number 4 - reference question
You need to read the sentence with “them” and the previous sentence to understand that this is about photographs, not people.
- Things aren’t depicted in people. (This requires understanding “depict”.)
- The pronoun would need to be “themselves” if it was about the same people being asked.