LISTENING POST-TEST fee Section Directions This section tests your ability to understand English conversations and lectures. ‘You will hear a conversation and a lecture. You will hear each conversation and lecture onee, ‘After each conversation of lecture, you will answer some questions. The questions might be about the main idea and supporting details or about a speaker's purpose or attitude. Answer the questions based on what the speakers state or imply, While you listen, you can take notes. You can use your notes to help you answer the questions, but you will not receive a score for your notes. Ifyou want to increase or decrease the volume while listening, click on the Volume icon at the top of the screen, You wil see the icon: ( ) in some questions. This means that you will hear part of the question, but you wil nt see ‘You will now start this part of the Listening section, LISTENING SKILLS 77Questions 1-6 Listen as a student consults with a professor. Consultation The Music Project 178 LISTENING x1. Why is the student talking with the professor? ® To explain why she missed a class $8 To clarify an assignment he gave in class © To find out which composer she should choose © To let the professor know what she thinks of the assignment 2. Listen again to part of the passage. Then answer the question. O Why does the professor say this: O 3% He wants to find out what the student already knows. He is not sure exactly what the project is. © He would like to know which class the student is talking about. @ He does not remember what he said in class. 3. Which of these are part of the assignment? This question is worth 2 points (2 points for 3 correct answers, 1 point for 2 correct answers, and 0 points for 1 or 0 correct, answers). Click on 3 answers. Choosing a composer to study ‘Learning about the life of a composer the professor has selected JA studying the writing style of a composer ‘'D Performing a composition written by a certain composer 1 Writing a piece of music in he style of a composer 4, What does the student say about a ‘composer for her project? Glick on 2 answers. Jk She has already selected one. She would like to choose a different one. Jt is not one that was covered in class. D She has already done some research on one. How does the student seem to feel about the assignment? @ It seems quite boring and unreasonable. She thinks it will be extremely easy. &X It seems interesting but challenging to her. © She seems quite unconcerned about it. 6. What conclusion can be drawn about the assignment? @ lt requires students to develop their own style of musi ® It will most likely result in very similar projects from students. © ltis something that can be completed quickly and easily. QA it involves both research and production from students. LISTENING POST-TEST 179180 Questions 7-12 Listen as an instructor leads a discussion of some material from a geography class. Geography The Great Lakes LISTENING7. What is the instructor's main point? §R{ That there are reasons to support the idea that Lake Superior is not the largest of the Great Lakes That certain arguments support traditional ideas about the Great Lakes © That there are reasons to support the idea that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are acting as two distinct lakes @® That scientific data demonstrate that the Great Lakes are actually one large lake 8. Why does the instructor say this: OO @ To confirm that the answer the students believe is really correct To trick the students into thinking that it is a really easy question © To encourage the students to answer quickly 3&{ To show that the answer the students believe is correct is not Which of the Great Lakes has traditionally been considered the largest? @® Lake Michigan 3 Lake Superior © Lake Ontario © Lake Huron 10. Listen again to part of the passage. Then answer the questi How does the professor seem to feel about the student's response? @ Itneeds further explanation, Nothing was correct in it & It was exceptional. © He hopes the other students can do better. 11. Is each of these true about Lakes Michigan and Huron? This question is worth 2 points (2 points for 4 correct answers, 1 point for 3 correct answers, and 0 points for 2, 1, or 0 correct answers). For each place, click in the YES or NO column. [ves | no Their elovaton isthe same, The flow of water between them can go back and forth, x ‘They are each individually larger than x Lake Superior. They are each 3 to 5 miles wide. x! 12. What can be inferred from the discussion? 3X{ That a common conception is not necessarily scientifically accurate That two lakes can never act as one © That Lake Superior is inarguably the world's largest freshwater lake ® That traditional beliefs are never wrong ‘Turn to pages 558-561 to diagnose your errors and record your results. LISTENING POST-TEST 181