2016-10-03 TOEFL: biology reading, listening test

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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*My pencil didn’t broken.
-> My pencil didn’t break. / My pencil isn’t broken.
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http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rosalind-franklin-dna-s-unsung-hero-claudio-l-guerra
“She would have been recognized by a Nobel Prize, if only they could be awarded posthumously.”
What does “posthumously” mean? - after death
What is an “unsung hero”? - a hero without recognition
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Read the article about plants and answer the questions.
Comprehension
1 Photosynthesis is a reaction that plants use sunlight to turn CO2 and water into carbohydrates and oxygen.
	(The root “photo” means “light”. A photograph is “light-writing” or “light-drawing”.)
2 Crops are economically used plants. / Crops are plants that are used economically.
  Crops are plants cultivated for some kind of economic use.
3 food, structural material (such as wood or bamboo), medicine, clothing
4 Plants rely on wind or animals for pollination.
Vocabulary
1 edible
2 aesthetic
3 germinate (this does not mean “bloom”, flowers bloom and seeds germinate)
4 absorb
5 textiles
6 landscaping (landscaping is more general than gardening)
7 by-product (especially an “accidental” product which isn’t the main purpose of something)
8 specimens
  (“of every stripe” = of every type)
9 vast
10 cultivated
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Grammar: adjective clauses (clauses that describe nouns)
*Photosynthesis is a reaction that plants use sunlight to turn CO2 and water into carbohydrates and oxygen.
This information can be in two sentences:
	Photosynthesis is a reaction.
	Plants use sunlight to turn CO2 and water into carbohydrates and oxygen.
To put them together with an adjective clause, there needs to be something that’s mentioned in both sentence. If we want to use the second sentence to give more information about “reaction”, we need to mention “reaction” in the sentence.
	-> In this reaction, plants use sunlight to turn…
Now the full sentence can be, “Photosynthesis is a reaction in which plants use sunlight to turn…”
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BREAK
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Remember, there are 3 or 4 reading passages and 6 or 9 listening passages on the test. (If you have more of one, you have less of the other.)
For listening you have 10 minutes to answer the questions for each set (which has three passages in it). The time only counts between when they read the question and when you click “next”.
After you click “next”, you cannot return to that question again.
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Listening quiz - 2 sets (DELTA practice tests, test 2)
Check your classmates' tests.
part 1
1 A
2 D
3 C
4 B, C
5 B
6 D
7 C
8 B
9 A
10 A
11 C
12 A
13 D
14 C
15 B
16 C
17 A, D
part 2
1 C
2 B
3 A
4 A, D
5 D
6 B
7 B, D
8 C
9 A
10 D
11 B
12 B
13 D
14 C
15 B
16 D
17 A
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Questions with 2 answers are worth 2 points.