2017-03-06 TOEFL: reading fact, listening test

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-ghost-ships-real-peter-b-campbell/
https://earth.nullschool.net/ - map of wind and water currents
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Homework: handout p. 35-42 - Read the passages and answer the questions.
Check your answers with your partner. Find the information in the text that supports your own answer if you disagree with each other.
1 B - They domesticated turkeys, so they didn’t need to hunt them.
2 A
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 (usually) classified in the zither family, but zithers are never mentioned as ancestors of the dulcimer.
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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You especially need to pay attention to contrast words when skimming for the answers to fact (and negative fact) questions.
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DELTA p. 535 - Take 20 minutes to do the first reading for practice test 4.
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BREAK
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1 C
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
7 B
8 D
9 C
10 B
11 D
12 B - The sentence after [B] gives more detail about how infants can imitate musical patterns.
13 B C F
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Listening test - ETS guide test 1 (p. 258)
1 B
2 A C (1 point for both correct, 0 points otherwise)
3 D
4 B
5 C
	write the total out of 5 points
6 D
7 C
8 A
9 A C (1 point for both correct, 0 points otherwise)
10 C
	out of 5
11 A
12 C
13 C D (1 point for both correct, 0 points otherwise)
14 D
15 A
16 B
	out of 6
17 D
18 A
19 B
20 B C (1 point for both correct, 0 points otherwise)
21 no, yes, yes (2 points for all correct, 1 point for two correct, 0 points otherwise)
22 A
	out of 7
23 A
24 C
25 A
26 B
27 C
28 D
	out of 6
29 B
30 B
31 C
32 A
33 B
34 functional, project, functional (2 points for all correct, 1 point for two correct, 0 points otherwise)
	out of 7
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Total: 36