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TOEFL ITP Test di Pekanbaru
 CONTENTS

Test Stuff .............................................................. 4

Section of the Test ............................................... 5
Sample Answer Sheet........................................... 6

Practice Test
Section 1 .............................................................. 8
Section 2 .............................................................. 12
Section 3 .............................................................. 14

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 Test Stuff

1. Pencil No.2, HB or 2B
2. Eraser
3. Sharpener
4. Exam Writing Board (optional)
5. Participant/ Test Taker Card

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 KINDS OF TOEFL
BY ETS ( EDUCATIONAL TESTING SYSTEM)

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 SECTION OF THE TEST
Section Number of Administration Score
Question time Scale
Listening Comprehension 50 35 Minutes 31-68
Structure And Written Expression 40 25 Minutes 31-68
Reading Comprehension 50 55 Minutes 31-67
Total 140 115 Minutes 310-667

 Short Conversation
 1 conversation for 1 question
 30 Questions

 Long Conversation
 1 conversation for 2-3 questions
 9 Questions

 Several talks
 1 talk for 2-4 question
 11 Questions

 Structure
 Completing Sentences
 15 Questions

 Written Expression
 Identify the underlined
INCORRECT word/phrase
 25 Questions

 Reading
 Answering questions based on
the text
 1 text for 10 questions
 50 Questions

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 PRACTICE TEST

SECTION 1 PART A 3 QUESTIONS

PART B 4 QUESTIONS
PART C 3 QUESTIONS

SECTION 2 PART A 4 QUESTIONS

PART B 6 QUESTIONS

SECTION 3 10 QUESTIONS

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 SECTION 1
Listening Comprehension
Part A : Short Conversation
Direction: 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.

(Narrator) : Question 1.
(Man) : Should I lock up the computer lab now before I go home?
(Woman) : Don't bother. I'm not leaving for a while—I can check it on my way out.
(Narrator) : What will the woman probably do?
1. A. Lock the computer lab later
B. Leave with the man
C. Buy a new lock for the computer lab
D. Show the man where the lab is

(Narrator) : Question 2.
(Man) : Do you mind if I turn the television off?
(Woman) : Well, I'm in the middle of watching a program.
(Narrator) : What does the woman imply?
2. A. The man should watch the program too.
B. The man should leave the television on.
C. The program will be over soon.
D. She will watch television later.
(Narrator) : Question 3.
(Woman) : I heard the math requirements for graduation are being charged.
(Man) : Yes. And I may be short one course.
(Narrator) : What does the man mean?
3. A. He is not sure what course to take.
B. He may not meet the graduation requirements.
C. The math course is too short.
D. The graduation date has been changed.

Part B : Long Conversation

Directions: In Part B, 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.

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Questions 4–7. Listen to part of a conversation between a student and a professor.

(Man) : Hi, Professor Adams. My name is Larry.

(Woman) : Hi, Larry. How can I help you?
(Man) : I was told that you place students in internships for various university
programs.
(Woman) : Yes.
(Man) : Well, I'm interested in the internship at the university art museum… what
responsibilities interns have, what qualifications they need to have...
(Woman) : Sorry, those positions are all filled for this year...
(Man) : Oh! But I just saw the announcement on the museum Web site this morning.
(Woman) : Unfortunately, the Web site is out of date.
(Man) : I want to do museum work after I graduate, and the job experience would look
great on my résumé. Plus it's the only paid internship on campus.
(Woman) : I understand. However, there are some other ways to get some work
experience, even if it's not exactly what you want. For instance, the library is
looking for student volunteers.
(Man) : The library? But...
(Woman) : Well, they're planning an exhibition of photographs documenting the history of
the university. And they're looking for student volunteers to help go through the
archives and select images that'll show how the university's changed over the
last hundred years.
(Man) : Hmm...
(Woman) : Now that's only a four-week project, I think. And, of course, it's unpaid.
(Man) : But it would be something to put on my résumé...
(Woman) : Exactly. Why don't you read the job description—it's posted on the library's
Web site. If you're interested, let me know, and I'll put in a good word for you
with Emily Peterson. She's the library's exhibitions director and will be
interviewing applicants.
(Man) : OK, I'll do that right away.

(Narrator) Question 4. What do the speakers mainly discuss?

4. A. Work opportunities for students
B. The professor's work at the museum
C. The man's qualifications for a job
D. Possible careers for the man after he graduates

(Narrator) Question 5. Why is the student disappointed?

5. A. He has to quit his job at the library.
B. The professor will not allow him to take her class.
C. The university recently closed its museum.
D. The internship he wants is unavailable.

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(Narrator) Question 6. What will be displayed in the exhibition at the university library?
6. A. Rare books
B. Paintings
C. Photographs
D. Historical reports

(Narrator) Question 7. What can be inferred about the library's exhibitions director, Emily
Peterson?
7. A. She will select the library's volunteers.
B. She studied art with the student's professor.
C. She used to work at the art museum.
D. She joined the library staff recently.

Part C : Talk Question

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short talks. After each talk, you will hear
some questions. The talks and the questions will not be repeated. After you hear a question,
read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer

(Narrator) : Questions 7–9. Listen to a talk in an animal behavior class.

(Man) : Today's discussion is about a common animal reaction—the yawn. The
dictionary defines a yawn as "an involuntary reaction to fatigue or boredom."
That's certainly true for human yawns, but not necessarily for animal yawns. The
action can have quite different meanings in different species.
For example, some animals yawn to intimidate intruders on their territory. Fish
and lizards are examples of this. Hippos use yawns when they want to settle a
quarrel. Observers have seem two hippos yawn at each other for as long as two
hours before they stop quarreling.
As for social animals like baboons or lions—they yawn to establish the pecking
order within social groups, and lions often yawn to calm social tensions.
Sometimes animals yawn for a strictly physiological reason—that is, to increase
oxygen levels. And curiously enough, when they yawn for a physical reason like
that, they do what humans do—they try to stifle the yawn by looking away or by
covering their mouths.

(Narrator) Question 8. What is the speaker's main point?

8. A. Animals yawn for a number of reasons.
B. Yawning results only from fatigue or boredom.
C. Human yawns are the same as those of other animals.
D. Only social animals yawn.

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(Narrator) Question 9. According to the speaker, when are hippos likely to yawn?
9. A. When they are swimming
B. When they are quarreling
C. When they are socializing
D. When they are eating

(Narrator) Question 10. What physiological reason for yawning is mentioned?

10. A. To exercise the jaw muscles
B. To eliminate fatigue
C. To get greater strength for attacking
D. To gain more oxygen

Nb: The scripts doesn’t show on the real test but only as a recorder

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 SECTION 2
Structure and Written Expression
Part A : Structure
Direction : Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1. Refrigerating meats ________ the spread of bacteria.
A. slows
B. slowing
C. to slow
D. is slowed
2. Throughout the animal kingdom, ________ bigger than the elephant.
A. whale is only the
B. is the whale only
C. only whale is the
D. only the whale is
3. The fact ________ credit cards are widely available has made them a popular form of payment.
A. of
B. that
C. is that
D. which is
4. The Constitution gave the legislative branch of government ________ to pass laws.
A. the power
B. has the power
C. the power is
D. of the power
Part B : Written Expression
Direction: Identify the one highlighted word or phrase that must be changed in order for the
sentence to be correct.
5. The use of videodisc in the classroom, a potentially powerful educational tool, it will not be
A B C D
widespread until prices come down.

6. Recent studies done by the Department of Labor have shown that nonsmoking are more
productive
A B C
than those who smoke.
D
7. The new more stringent requirements for obtaining a driving license has resulted in a decrease
A B C D
in traffic accidents.

8. We all thought the office manager had gone too far, but his staff did supported him.

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 A B C D

9. Hearing the fire alarm sound, the librarian requested those reading to leave their books
A B C
headed for the nearest exit.
D

10. The scientific experiments conducted by the class was placed on the center table for the judges
A B C D
to evaluate.

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 SECTION 3
Reading Comprehension

Direction : Answer all questions about the information in a passage on the basis of what is
stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1–10
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward
across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free
seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely
complicated to operate.

The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops
the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over
rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers
and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of
crude oil can be pumped through it daily.

Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a
zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy
or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down
route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the
tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently
frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The
remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and
the properties of the soil.

One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far
the biggest and most expensive construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In
fact, no single business could raise that much money, so eight major oil companies formed a
consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular shares
of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its
holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment
breakdowns, labor disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement,
and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating.

1. The passage primarily discusses the pipeline's

A. operating costs
B. employees
C. consumers
D. construction

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2. The word "it" in line 5 refers to the
A. pipeline
B. ocean
C. state
D. Village

3. According to the second paragraph, 84 million gallons of oil can travel through the
pipeline each
A. day
B. week
C. month
D. year

4. The phrase "Resting on" in line 15 is closest in meaning to

A. Consisting of
B. Supported by
C. Passing under
D. Protected with

5. The author mentions all of the following in the third paragraph as important in
determining the pipeline's route EXCEPT the
A. climate
B. lay of the land itself
C. local vegetation
D. kind of soil and rock

6. The word "undertaken" in line 31 is closest in meaning to

A. removed
B. selected
C. transported
D. attempted

7. According to the last paragraph, how many companies shared the costs of constructing
the pipeline?
A. three
B. four
C. eight
D. twelve

8. The word "particular" in line 35 is closest in meaning to

A. peculiar
B. specific
C. exceptional

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 D. equal

9. According to the last paragraph, which of the following determined what percentage of
the construction costs each member of the consortium would pay?
A. How much oil field land each company owned
B. How long each company had owned land in the oil fields
C. How many people worked for each company
D. How many oil wells were located on the company's land

10. Where in the passage does the author provide a term for a layer of soil that always
remains frozen?
A. Line 4
B. Line 15
C. Line 23
D. Line 37

end of the test

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