2016-07-25 Pre TOEFL: reading practice test

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all my classes
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handout from Thursday (which starts with “Political Systems of the Twentieth Century)
Answer the questions on p. 39-41 about the second reading (about the sense of smell)
26 B
27 A
28 D
29 B
30 C
31 B
32 B - It is compared to memories, it does stimulate memories, and it can cause strong emotions
33 A
34 C (a common thing in sentence summary questions is that the two parts of a sentence have their order switched without changing the meaning)
35 C
36 B (“Smells can...stimulate learning and retention. The children recalled words on the list more easily and with higher accuracy when the list was given with scents…”
37 A (“One of these structures” = “one of a group of related nervous system structures”, also “central processing unit” refers to the cerebral cortex described in the following sentence)
38 B, C, F (A, D, E give minor or background information that isn’t a key detail of the passage)