2018-10-31 TOEFL: reading vocab, listening purpose

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-fascinating-history-of-cemeteries-keith-eggener
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Homework: Finish this exercise
Compare your answers with your partner.
7 B (“notorious” has a negative meaning)
8 C
9 A
10 D (“scores” can also mean points in a game, scratches on something solid, or multiples of 20)
	- You can’t just read the word and pick a synonym you know, because it might not have that meaning in the context of the passage.
11 D (“exploit” means “take advantage of” in a negative or unfair way)
12 B
13 C
14 D
15 B (All these options are things you can do with a horse, but you have to pick the one that makes sense in relation to the text.)
16 C
17 A
18 A (Sometimes two things with “or” explain the same thing, other times they give different alternatives.)
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Handout (Longman) p. 15-17 - Take 8 minutes to skim the text and answer the vocabulary questions about air pollution.
Compare your answers with your partner, and convince them your answer is right if you disagree.
1 B
2 D
3 A (A newspaper or something could announce new settlement, but a car can’t announce anything unless the GPS says “You have arrived at your destination.”)
4 B (Perhaps “blowing” would also work in the original sentence, but it’s not what “poised” means.)
5 A
6 C
7 D
8 B (The word “protocol” in other contexts might refer to laws, but not in this case.)
p. 17-18 - Take another 8 minutes for this passage
Then compare with your partner and convince them of your answers.
9 A
10 D
11 B
“attribute” is a noun and verb, but the stress moves
12 B
13 C
14 B
15 C
16 D
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Don’t use a translator.
Use an English dictionary (http://www.learnersdictionary.com is a good one for American English, which explains the meanings of words in a simpler way than a high-level dictionary might.)
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BREAK
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Kevin’s marketing students made a survey about school activities. Please answer the questions and return your papers to me.
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Listening Question Types:
- detail (like reading fact questions - specific information from what you heard)
- main idea (content or purpose of the whole conversation/lecture/discussion)
- purpose (why the speaker mentions or talks about something)
- inference (conclusions based on what the speakers say, which aren’t stated directly)
- function (why the speaker uses specific words or phrases)
- attitude (how the speaker feels about something)
- organization (how the lecture is organized)
- prediction (what speakers will do later/next)
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Cambridge exercise R21 - Listen and then answer the questions. How do the speakers feel?
1 A D
2 B D
3 B C
4 A C
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Cengage exercise 11.1 (onscreen) - Listen to the conversations. Then answer the questions.
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
Why was the woman surprised when the man talked about diamond?
- Because the man has a (small) diamond in his testing kit.
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Exercise 11.2 - Listen and take notes about the lectures and discussions. Then answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 D (She isn’t interested in participating, but she doesn’t say she disagrees with anything they do.)
4 A (He says it’s fine to preserve the big ones like Gettysburg, but that the minor unimportant battles should be open for development now.)
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 C (He doesn’t compare art from Europe and America, he compares folklorists from Europe and America.)
10 A
11 B
12 D
13 B