2017-06-22 TOEFL: reading fact, listening detail

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: finish the handout (three reading passages, p. 35-42
Check your answers with your partner. Find the parts of the text that support your choice.
1 B - They domesticated turkeys, so they didn’t need to hunt them.
2 A - “Farming was the main business of these people”
3 C
4 B - Paragraph 4 starts with “in the next 300 years” and ends by explaining that this is called the Early Pueblo Period.
5 C
6 B
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C - This looks like an inference question, but it’s really a negative fact question: “It is generally thought that the Anasazi abandoned their settlements because of a prolonged drought, overpopulation, crop failure, or some combination of these.” Earlier, it says “there is no sign of warfare”.
12 D
13 D
14 C
15 A - They may be (sometimes) classified in the zither family, but zithers are never mentioned as ancestors of the dulcimer. The other three answers are mentioned as ancestors.
16 B
17 A
18 C - It happened during the folk music revival, but the text says nothing about these two beginning the revival.
19 A
20 C - “From Tuke, she learned new, more humane methods”
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C - She didn’t become superintendant, but she also didn’t attempt to do so.
25 C
26 D
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ship/sheep/chip/cheap
Worcester, Glaucester
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BREAK
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Listening Question Types (multiple choice):
- detail (Similar content to reading fact questions, but different techniques to answer.)
- purpose (Similar to reading purpose questions.)
- function (Why does the speaker say this?)
- attitude (How does the speaker feel about this?)
- inference (Similar to reading inference questions)
- prediction (What will the student probably do next?)
- main idea (this can be about the content or the purpose of the conversation or talk)
- organization (How is the lecture organized? How is the topic developed?)
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Listening Detail Questions - Usually you’ll need both your memory and good notes to answer these correctly.
Handout (Cambridge) p. 275 exercise L13 - Listen to the statements and choose the option that gives the same information.
1 B
2 A
3 B
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B
8 A
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p. 276 exercise L14 - Listen and take notes, then choose TWO answers to each detail question.
1 A C
2 B D
3 A B
4 B C (A reverses the cause/effect relationship, D is false because it should be abnormal functioning.)
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p. 276 exercise L15 - Listen and take notes, then choose ALL correct answers.
1 A B D
2 A B (C and D are not explained in these instructions)
3 A D
4 B C
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p. 279 exercise L16 - Choose “yes” or “no” for each statement.
1 yes yes no yes no (C and E are steps in racing, but not training)
2 no yes yes yes no
3 no no yes yes yes