TOEFL TEST

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SECTION 1
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Tune—approximately 35 minutes
(including the reading of the directions for each part)

In this section of the test, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to understand conversations and talks in English. There are three parts to this section, with special directions for each part. Answer all the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied by the speakers you hear. Do not take notes or write in your test book at any time. Do not turn the pages until you are told to do so.

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Part A

Directions: In Part A you will hear short conversations between two people. After each conversation, you will hear a question about the conversation. The conversations and questions will not be repeated. After you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Here is an example.

(man) That exam was just awful. (woman) Oh, it could have been worse. (narrator) What does the woman mean?

Sample Answer (A) (B) (C) (D)

On the recording, you will hear:

In your test book, you will read:

(A). The exam was really awful. (B). It was the worst exam she had ever seen. (C). It couldn’t have been more difficult. (D). It wasn’t that hard.

You learn from the conversation that the man thought the exam was very difficult and that the woman disagreed with the man. The best answer to the question, “What does the woman mean?” is (D), “It wasn’t that hard.” Therefore, the correct choice is (D).

1.	A. Her concerns were expressed. B. She wonders if the concert was good. C. The music was fantastic. D. She wandered about during the night.

2.	A. In a bus station. B. In a post office.. C. In an airport. D. In a travel agency.

3.	A. He spends half his time with his daughter. B. His daughter’s under a year old. C. His daughter will start school in a year and a half. D. His daughter’s eighteen months old.

4.	A. He’s on the basketball team. B. He doesn’t even like to play basketball. C. He’s too short to make the team. D. He thinks he’s tall enough.

5.	A. She’s thinking about her grade in the seminar. B. The seminar is quite realistic. C. The seminar will take a great deal of time. D. She agrees with the man about the seminar.

6.	A. The location of the meeting. B. The purpose of the meeting. C. Who will attend the meeting. D. The time the meeting starts.

7.	A. Preparing dinner later.. B. Going to a restaurant. C. Cooking a full dinner. D. Eating dinner outside in the garden.

8.	A. She is fond of Joe. B. Joe is not lost anymore. C. She visits Joe regularly. D. The call was already made.

9.	A. He was quite fortunate. B. He lacked the opportunity to play the game. C. He didn’t actually win the game. D. He came sometime after Luke.

10.	A. It’s quite clean. B. It doesn’t move. C. It’s clearly better. D. It’s rather dirty.

11.	A. bus driver. B. An art teacher. C. A flight attendant. D. A travel agent.

12.	A. His desk is made of metal. B. He never meddles with his office workers. C. His desk is on the right side of the office. D. He works in the center of the office.

13.	A. Learning something about golf. B. Taking fewer lessons than he has in the past. C. Letting her play golf instead of him D. Going to play golf together.

14.	A. He does not live nearby. B. They will go later. C. It is not time to deliver the paper. D. He does not have time to read.

15.	A. She will assign the homework tomorrow. B. The man can do the homework next week. C. She will return the homework next week. D. The assignment must be turned in tomorrow.

16.	A. The woman is really beautiful. B. The woman should repeat what she said. C. He shares the woman’s opinion. D. He has time this year to travel.

17.	A. In a shoe store. B. In a motel. C. In a clothing store. D. In a storage facility.

18.	A. She’s going to the supermarket. B. She works in a grocery store. C. She’s not going out. D. She doesn’t have enough money for groceries.

19.	A. He didn’t really get the highest grade. B. He’s rather intelligent. C. He’s not done with the exam. D. He’s not even in the class.

20.	A. Resting for a few minutes. B. Studying a bit longer. C. Taking a five-hour break. D. Studying for shorter periods of time.

21.	A. She needs a new suitcase. B. She’s putting on a suit. C. She’s preparing for a trip. D. She just received a package.

22.	A. It was the last game. B. The dream was really bad. C. The man never lets her talk. D. She feels the same way as the man.

23.	A. He’s a bit too strong. B. He’s bitter about the accident. C. He’s still weak. D. He feels the accident was not his fault.

24.	A. There seems to be a problem with the motor. B. He doesn’t want to be an engineer. C. The music on the car stereo is good. D. He likes the sound of the engine.

25.	A. An artist. B. A tour guide. C. A teacher. D. A pilot.

26.	A. Buying some cream for coffee. B. Cleaning out the garage. C. Painting the apartment walls green. D. Putting the apartment in order.

27.	A. He was happy to write the check. B. He received a large sum of money. C. He was working in a huge factory. D. He found some hidden bones.

28.	A. She doesn’t need to store anything. B. She prefers shopping nearby. C. The stores are all too far away. D. She doesn’t want to go shopping.

29.	A. The door was closed really hard. B. Alice left because she was hungry. C. The door was smoothly sanded. D. Alice went out through the door on the left side.

30.	A. Take a bike ride. B. Take the high road. C. Go for a walk in the forest. D. Look for firewood.

This is the end of the Listening Comprehension Test. Turn off the recording.

Part B

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear longer conversations. After each conversation, you will hear several questions. The conversations and questions will not be repeated.
After you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Remember, you are not allowed to take notes or write in your test book.

31.	A. A new bicycle. B. An inexpensive bicycle. C. A fast bicycle. D. A stationary bicycle.

32.	A. A half mile. B. A mile. C. Two miles. D. Four miles.

33.	A. He doesn’t like it. B. It doesn’t work very well. C. TwoIt’s broken. D. He got a new one.

34.	A. Go see his friend’s bicycle. B. See her new apartment. C. Walk to school. D. Buy a new bicycle.

35.	A. Planning a trip. B. Camping in the woods. C. Putting up a tent. D. Looking at photos.

36.	A. It looks comfortable. B. It doesn’t seem very big. C. It looks funny. D. It’s full of fish.

37.	A. Standing in a river. B. Putting up a tent. C. Sitting in front of the tent. D. Swimming in the river.

38.	A. Lots. B. A few. C. One. D. None

Part C

Directions: In Part C of this section, you will hear several talks. After each talk, you will hear some questions. The talks and questions will not be repeated.
After you hear a question, you will read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Here is an example.

On the recording, you will hear:

(narrator) (man)

Listen to an instructor talk to his class about painting. Artist Grant Wood was a guiding force in the school of painting known as American regionalist, a style reflecting the distinctive characteristics of art from rural areas of the United States. Wood began drawing animals on the family farm at the age of three, and when he was thirty-eight one of his paintings received a remarkable amount of public notice and acclaim. This painting, called American Gothic, is a starkly simple depiction of a serious couple staring directly out at the viewer

Now listen to a sample question.

(narrator) What style of painting is known as American regionalist?

In your test book, you will read:

(A) Art from America`s inner cities. (B) Art from the central region of the United States. (C) Art from various urban areas in the United States. (D) Art from rural sections of America

The best answer to the question, “What style of painting is known as American regionalist?” is (D), “Art from rural sections of America.” Therefore, the correct choice is (D).

Now listen to another sample question.

(narrator) What is the name of Wood’s most successful painting?

In your test book, you will read:

(A) American Regionalist (B) The Family Farm in Iowa. (C) American Gothic. (D) A Serious Couple.

The best answer to the question, “What is the name of Wood’s most successful painting?” is (C), American Gothic. Therefore, the correct choice is (C).

Remember, you are not allowed to take notes or write in your test book.

39.	A. Only three chapters. B. Three chemistry books. C. Lecture notes and part of the book. D. Only class notes from the lectures.

40.	A. Only multiple choice. B. Short and long essays. C. Three short essays. D. Essays and multiple choice.

41.	A. Half an hour. B. Fifty minutes. C. An hour. D. Ninety minutes.

42.	A. Listen to a lecture. B. Study for the exam. C. Read three chapters. D. Take an exam.

43.	A. in a zoo. B. On a boat. C. In a prison. D. In a lecture hall.

44.	A. A type of rock. B. A Spanish explorer. C. A prison in San Francisco. D. A kind of bird.

45.	A. Five. B. Ten. C. Twenty-four. D. Thirty-nine.

46.	A. It is open to visitors. B. It is still in use as a prison. C. It is closed to the public. D. It contains few prisoners.

47.	A. Artificial plants. B. Plants in plastic containers. C. Plants that resemble plastic. D. Plants that produce a usable substance.

48.	A. It lasts longer. B. It is more artificial. C. It is easy to make in a laboratory. D. It is good for the environment.

49.	A. It biodegrades slowly. B. It kills plants. C. People never throw it away. D. It is not very strong.

50.	A. Engineering. B. Art. C. Botany. D. Geology

SECTION 2
STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Time - 25 minutes
(including the reading of the directions)

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standardwritten English. There are two types of questions in this section, with special directions for each type.

Structure

Directions: These questions are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four wordsor phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes thesentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Look at the following examples.

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1.In the early 1 900s, Eastman _____inexpensive Brownie box cameras.

A. it developed B. it was developed C. developed D. developing

2._____ the discovery of the fossilized remnants of tides in one-billion-year-old rocks.

A. Geological reports B. Geologists report C. The reports of geologists D. Geologists’ reports

3.The Brooklyn Bridge _____ took thirteen years to complete.

A. in New York B. is in New York C. it is in New York D. which New York

4.Genes control all of the physical _____ we inherit.

A. that traits B. that are traits C. traits that D. traits are that

5.Indigo can be extracted from a plant, and then _____ to dye cloth blue.

A. it B. using C. using it D. it can be used

6._____ in the United States spends 900 hours per year in class and 1,170 hours in front of the television.

A. The average third-grader B. The third grade is average C. There are three grades D. Three average grades

7.Researchers have begun studying what _____ is on human circadian rhythms.

A. it is the effect of light B. the light affects C. is affecting the light D. the effect of light

8.If calcium oxide remains exposed to air,_____ to calcium carbonate.

A. turning B. turns C. it turns D. the turn

9.Some early batteries used concentrated nitric acid, ____gave off poisonous fumes.

A. they B. then they C. but they D. but they had

10.The sound produced by an object______in a periodic way involves more than the simple sine wave.

A. it vibrates B. vibrating C. is vibrating D. vibrates

11.Prior to the discovery of anesthetics in 1846, surgery was done _____ was still conscious.

A. while the patient B. the patient felt C. during the patient’s D. while patiently

12.The drastic decline of the beaver helps to illustrate what _____ to the ecosystems of the North American continent.

A. happening B. the happening C. has happened D. about happening

13.The use of shorthand died out in the Middle Ages because of _____ with witchcraft.

A. the association was imagined B. associate the imagination C. imagine the association D. the imagined association

14.A yacht is steered with a rudder, _____the flow of water that passes the hull.

A. which deflecting B. deflects C. it deflects D. which deflects

15.For top speed and sudden acceleration, the accelerator pump feeds additional gasoline from the float chamber into _____above the venturi tube.

A. the air flows B. the air flow C. the air is flowing D. flows the air

Written Expression

Directions: In these questions, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.

Look at the following examples.

Example I
The four string on a violin are tuned A B C D
in fifths.
The sentence should read, “The four strings on a violin are tuned in fifths.” Therefore, you should choose answer (B).
Example II Sample Answer The research for the book Roots taking A B C Alex Haley twelve years D The sentence should read, “The research for the book Roots took Alex Haley twelve years.” Therefore, you should choose answer (C).

16. In 1732, coach travelers	could got	from New York to	Philadelphia in about two days.
A	B	C	D

17. Some of the	District of Columbia are	on low-lying,	marshyground.
A	B	C	D

18. Georgia’s	economy is based	main	on agriculture
A	B	C	D

19. The Paul Revere House was built	in 1676, and today its	the oldest	wooden	building in Boston
A	B	C	D

20. Conifers such as	cedars, firs, and pines bear	its	seeds in	cones
A	B	C		D

21. A dome is a	semispherical	structures	on top of	abuilding
	A	B	C	D

22. Succulents	suck up	water in just a few	hour	but they can	store	it in	their stems	for months.
	A		B		C		D

23. Flying buttresses	enabled	builders	to put	up tall but	thinnest	stone	walls
	A		B		C		D

24. Weather forecasters	monitor	barometric	pressures	and record	they	on charts	as	isobars
	A		B		C		D

25. In	many languages	the forms of a word	varies	to express	such	contrasts as number, gender, and	tense
	A		B		C		D

26. A Milky Way object	that	erupted in the constellation Scorpius has	provides	information to	astronomers	since	July
	A		B		C	D

27. Much	fossils are	found	in	coal-bearing	rocks
A		B		C	D

28. When salt is	added	to ice,	this	mixture becomes	coldly	enough	freeze	ice cream
	A		B		C		D

29. During the eighteenth and nineteenth	centuries	Long Island was	chiefly	an	agricultural	region with fishing, whaling, and	build ships	as the important industries
	A		B		C		D

30. No one	who	has studied the Battle of Little Bighorn	know	the exact route that Custer and	his	detachment	took
	A		B		C		D

31. The folktales	which	the brothers Grimm had	collecting	were	translated	into English	in	1823
	A		B		C		D

32. In	our	solar system, nine planets, fifty-seven moons,	several dozen	comets, several million asteroids, and billions of meteorites have	so far	been	discover
	A		B		C		D

33. From the 1 850s until after the turn of the century,	many	of America’s super-rich	families	made	Newport	his	favorite summer resort.
	A		B	C		D

34. Mars may	looks	red because	it is	covered	with a	layer	of soft red iron oxide.
	A		B	C		D

35. The radioactive substances	that pose	the greatest harm to humanity have neither	very short	or	very long half	lives
	A		B	C		D

36. A robin cocks	its	head to peer at	a worm	with one	eyes	and not to hear it, as was	once	thought
	A		B		C		D

37. Film	sound	is often	record	by an analog system	which	like the compact disc,	uses	light
	A		B		C		D

38. The scribes of the Middle Ages	used	quill pens	to produce	their	high	decorated manuscripts
	A		B	C	D

39. The principles of physics	described	by Christian Doppler in 1842 for the movement of stars	has	been	adapted	to evaluate the movement of	blood	within the heart.
	A		B		C		D

40. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft	were	the	first	vehicles of humankind to venture beyond the	limits	of	ours	solar system
	A		B		C		D

This is the end of the Structure and Written Expression Test.

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SECTION 3
READING COMPREHENSION
Time—5 5 minutes
(including the reading of the directions)
Now set your clock for 55 minutes.

This section is designed to measure your ability to read and understand short passages similar in topic and style to those that students are likely to encounter in North American universities and colleges. This section contains reading passages and questions about the passages

Directions: In this section you w read several passages. Each one is followed by a number of questions about it. You are to choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each question. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Answer all questions about the information in a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Read the following passage:

John Quincy Adams, who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829, is today recognized for his masterful statesmanship and diplomacy. He dedicated his life to public service, both in the presidency and in the various other political offices that he held. Throughout his political career he demonstrated his unswerving belief in freedom of speech, the antislavery cause, and the right of Americans to be free from European and Asian domination

Example I Sample Answer To what did John Quincy Adams devote his life? (A) Improving his personal life (B) Serving the public D (C) Increasing his fortune (D) Working on his private business According to the passage, John Quincy Adams “dedicated his life to public service.” Therefore, you should choose answer (B)

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