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Building
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Beginning
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Introduction to TOEFL ® Listening - - - - 6
Chapter 1 Short Passage Skill Practice Skill A Understanding Main Ideas and Organization - - - - 15
Skill B Understanding Details and Facts - - - - 25
Skill C Determining Reasons, Purposes, and Attitudes - - - - 35
Review A -C: Vocabulary Review - - - - 46
Skill Review - - - - 48
Skill D Matching Words and Categories - - - - 53
Skill E Making Inferences and Predictions - - - - 63
Skill F Placing Steps in a Sequence - - - - 73
Review A -F: Vocabulary Review - - - - 84
Skill Review - - - - 86
Chapter 2 Long Passage Skill Practice Skill A Understanding Main Ideas and Organization - - - - 93
Skill B Understanding Details and Facts - - - - 101
Skill C Determining Reasons, Purposes, and Attitudes - - - - 109
Review A -C: Vocabulary Review - - - - 118
Skill Review - - - - 122
Skill D Matching Words and Categories - - - - 131
Skill E Making Inferences and Predictions - - - - 139
Skill F Placing Steps in a Sequence - - - - 147
Review A -F: Vocabulary Review - - - - 156
Skill Review - - - - 160
Chapter 3 Focus: Note-taking Focus A Note-taking with Tables - - - - 172
Focus B Note-taking with Diagrams - - - - 174
Practice Test for Listening - - - -177
Transcripts - - - -185
Answer Key - - - - 207
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1 What are the people mainly discussing?
(A) Eating (B) Girlfriends (C) A good diet (D) Doctors
2 What is the woman’s main point?
(A) Eat right to stay slim
(B) Don’t skip meals
(C) Don’t eat chips and drink cola
(D) Listen to your boyfriend
3 What does the man’s girlfriend usually eat?
4 Fill in the blanks to complete the organizer.
Campus Life
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skip (v):
to avoid; to not do
binge (v):
to eat or drink in an uncontrolled, excessive manner
ruin (v):
to destroy; to damage
grain (n):
a food that comes from grass, like wheat, rice, and corn
regular (adj):
following a set schedule; at the same time every day
Eat when you are
Don’t
Eat fruit, , meats, and grains How to stay healthy and slim
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1 What is the talk mainly about?
(A) Geology (B) Biology (C) History (D) Nature
2 What is the main idea of the talk?
(A) What happens when we sneeze (B) Why people say “Bless you”
(C) How the plague started (D) How many germs are in sneezes
3 Which two statements are correct? Choose 2
answers
(A) Sneezing caused the plague
(B) Responding “God bless you” to a sneeze began in Europe
(C) A pope died from sneezing too often (D) Each sneeze releases thousands of germs
4 Listen again to part of the conversation and
answer the question
What does the professor imply when he says
(A) Pope Gregory knew a lot about medicine
(B) Pope Gregory didn’t like doctors
(C) Pope Gregory was dying because of the plague
(D) Pope Gregory was concerned about the plague
Culture
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customary (adj):
the normal way; a usual habit
response (n):
an answer to a question; a reply
theory (n):
an idea explaining something
superstition (n):
a belief in luck or the influence
of magic
custom (n):
a normal or common action for
a particular culture
elect (v):
to choose by vote
plague (n):
a deadly, serious, widespread disease
get rid of (v):
to remove; to destroy; to make
go away
order (v):
to command; to tell to do
immediately (adv):
right away; very soon after
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1 History
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words.
3 Political Science
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words
forms basis of _ opinion _ of ideas
how _ works _ needed to make it work
2 Computer Science
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words.
a faster way is a _ connection people looking for faster ways to get _
a VSDL connection has a greater _
gives around 52 _ per second
Words
Concerned with Ideology
Spain
1490s - Spanish people brought from America
Spain became _
Made new colonies: and _
1588 - War with
Began to lose _
1898 - in Spanish-American War
location - S of _, W of _
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(A) Not having enough fun (B) The university’s money problems (C) Getting money from a student activity fee (D) A plan for the summer holidays
2 What kinds of programs will the student
activity fee pay for?
(A) Scientific research (B) An exchange student program (C) Plays, art fairs, and dances for students (D) A new sports program
3 Why do the two students want to get some
of the money?
(A) To make a film (B) To start an arts and crafts fair (C) To do plays in their drama club (D) To do modern dance performances
4 Listen again to part of the conversation and
answer the question
What does the man remember when he says this: ?
(A) A time with his girlfriend (B) Last summer’s theater class (C) An idea for a special program (D) A play he saw
5 The woman explains how they can get the
money Summarize the process by putting the steps in the correct order
(A) Fill out a form on the web site (B) Get $3,500 more
(C) Present their plan to do plays as a special program
(D) Get $500 after registering the club
6 Listen again to part of the conversation and
answer the question
What does the woman mean when she answers the man?
(A) She remembered what the man and her boyfriend did
(B) She remembered what they did last summer
(C) She had forgotten about this
(D) She remembered the idea to do the plays before the man did
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(A) Embroidery (B) The Bayeux Tapestry (C) The Bradford Carpet (D) Needlework
8 According to the professor, what is the
definition of embroidery?
(A) Needlework that makes clothes (B) Needlework that creates designs and pictures
(C) Paintings that show famous scenes from history
(D) Stitching strands of thread or wool
9 Why does the professor mention the Battle
of Hastings?
(A) To test the students’ knowledge of history (B) As part of a story about the Bradford Carpet
(C) As part of a story about his father (D) It’s shown on a famous embroidery
10 Match each of the examples with the
appropriate category
(A) Uses silk thread
(C) Has 58 scenes (D) Colors made with vegetable dyes
11 Why does the professor says this: ? (A) To show the students how clever he is (B) To remind the students of something they know
(C) To explain the story of the Bradford Carpet
(D) To correct something he had said earlier
12 What does the professor imply when he says
this: ? (A) He likes machines
(B) He wants new clothes
(C) He doesn’t like hand embroidery (D) He likes hand embroidery
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