2018-02-14 TOEFL: reading fact, listening gist

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-inca-empire-gordon-mcewan/
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Homework: finish the handout (Cengage)
Check your homework with your partners and convince them they’re wrong if you disagree.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 B “In the next 300 years” (C is not unreasonable - the given years are 550 and 1100 AD)
5 C
6 B
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C
12 D
13 D (2, 3, 4 strings = course, each course = 1 note, 12-22 courses = 12-22 notes)
14 C
15 A (Negative fact questions often require scanning the whole passage.)
16 B
17 A
18 C
19 A
20 C
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 D
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In the listening section, you have 10 minutes to answer the questions for each set of three listenings. (This timer only counts down when you see a question and answer choices.)
Listening Question Types:
- detail
- attitude
- function
- purpose
- main idea (content or purpose)
- inference
- prediction
- organization
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DELTA p. 197 - Listen to the conversation and answer the question.
- The correct answer is B, this is the main topic.
All the other answers are similar or sound like things they talked about.
p. 199 exercise 2.1.A - Listen and take notes on the conversations. Then answer the questions.
1 C
2 C
3 B
4 A
5 D
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DELTA p. 200 - Do the same for lectures.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 D
5 A
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Handout (Cambridge) p. 265 exercise L9 - In your own words, what will each lecture be about.
1 the UK (and countries in it)
2 an architecture award
3 Irish linen
4 Human- and animal-shaped figures carved in hillsides
5 (a talk about the) geology of Mars
exercise L10 - Choose the correct topic of the first statement.
1 C
2 B
3 D
4 D
5 A - He compares influenza and the cold, but it sounds like he’ll go on to focus on influenza.
6 D - Lack of animal protein is one cause of malnutrition, but there’s no evidence that the talk will include any other causes.
exercise L11 - Does the first sentence mention the main topic (and what is the topic)?
1 Yes - magic squares
2 No - public zoos
3 No - the Pony Express
4 Yes - the Malaysian butterfly farm
5 No - gargoyles
exercise L12 - Listen and write the main topic in your own words. (It will NOT be in the first sentence.)
1 how to represent dance movements
2 reasons for settling in the Americas
3 the (lack of) reliability of historical information in contemporary photographs
4 Official status of English in the US
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“Take it with a grain of salt.” = Don’t trust it completely.
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DELTA p. 201 - Listen to the lectures and answer the main idea questions.
1 A
2 D
3 B
4 C
5 A
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Homework: Cengage p. 261-270 (1-10 of the pdf on the Google drive) - Listen to the conversations and lectures (just the first 5 lectures) and answer the main idea questions.