2016-11-18 TOEFL: reading insertion, listening details

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 132-135 exercise 1.7.B
Compare your answers with your partner. Explain why you picked those answers if your partner disagrees.
1 C
2 A
3 C (The prior sentence talks about some of the different objects, the inserted sentence explains why they might be different, and the following sentence gives an example of status and occupation.)
4 B (“The larger the fish the faster it can swim” - this kind of double comparative structure tells how two quantities are related to each other / how they change together)
5 D
6 B (not A because it’s more specific than the following explanatory sentence, not D because it interrupts the logical flow of the previous and following sentence, not C because the following sentence describes the components of the force described in the previous sentence)
7 B
8 C
9 D (“However, this was a long, slow process” means it is about a process described in the previous sentence. “depending on the individual trader” means the process from the previous sentence is something that might differ from one trader to another. “long, slow” reinforces “gradually”)
10 A (This sentence introduces the idea of paper money. It’s not B, because the following sentence is another advantage from the previous sentence.)
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Oxford p. 76-78 - Do the reading and answer the questions. Then compare your answers with your partner’s. Refer to the text to find the correct answer if you disagree.
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1 d
2 c (“Furthermore” means it adds more information about the previous sentence’s topic; not D because putting the sentence here would interrupt the connection between the last sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second)
3 d
4 a
5 c (The single portion, which includes 2000kcal and a cup of sugar and 84g fat, meets the full daily…)
6 b (“This heavy dosage” refers back to the dosage mentioned in the paragraph before (B).)
7 b (beta-endorphins are just one example of opioids, and it’s the opioids that are naturally occurring painkillers)
8 d
9 b
10 d (In every other position, it interrupts the discussion of dopamine.)
11 a
12 c (“This” usually refers to something from the previous sentence, often the whole content of the sentence itself.)
13 b (What they would require is fat and sugar in general, not the specific liquid used in the experiment.)
14 b
15 d (It refers to the fact that more obese people have fewer dopamine receptors.)
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Fortunately for most of you, the real TOEFL only has 1 sentence-insertion question and 0-1 reference question for each reading passage.
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Listening question types
purpose (why is the interaction or lecture happening)
detail
main idea / gist
inference
function (what is the specific function of a particular word or phrase)
attitude
prediction
organization
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Detail questions are the most common.
- There are no paraphrase questions on the listening section, but you do need to understand how to paraphrase to get many of the detail questions.
- Detail questions can be organized many different ways: choose 1 of 4, choose 2 of 4, choose T/F for several statements, categorize information in a table, or put events in order
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Cambridge p. 275 - Identify which statement restates the same information from the listening.
1 B
2 A
3 B (It’s the name of *a* beautiful bird, but it’s not the word for “beautiful bird”, which would be a translation of that phrase.)
4 B
5 A
6 B
7 B (The explorers are recent, the log is from 1783.)
8 A
p. 276 - Choose TWO answers for each question.
1 A C
2 B D
3 A B
4 B C (A has the causation in the wrong direction, D is wrong because it’s the ABnormal functioning that can cause disorders.)
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Homework: bring your book on Monday, Giulia