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TOEFL Prep 703 Final Exam Pages: Page 1 of 12
(Longman TOEFL Prep: Speaking Skills 10-14, Listening Skills 5-6)
Student Name: Date (MM/DD/YY):

For Teacher Use

This is an achievement test covering the units mentioned above. There are four Part 1: _____/28
parts to this achievement test, Part 1 and Part 2. The final score will be sum of the Part 2: _____/38
points earned from each part, total of up to 66 points (Part 1: 28 points and Part 2:
38 points). A student will be given Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 on the last day in class. Total: _____/66
Or %

Part 1: This is a scoring sheet for the oral test, which must be submitted to administration. Note that this format
includes space for evaluating each student on their overall performance responding to questions from the
material covered in the class. Complete a table for each student.

Teacher Guidelines:
 Refer to the scoring criteria for Speaking on page 605 in the textbook, but keep in mind the level of the
class and the progress of the Ss when grading.
 Become familiar with the aspects of speaking that the exam measures (i.e., answer to question,
comprehensibility, organization, fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary).
 Ask one question from each section.
 Students may record their answers on the headsets in the TOEFL classroom to be evaluated by the
teacher.
 Provide each student with a copy of the reading passage. Students have 45 seconds to read the
passage. Play the track after the reading passage.
 Students have 30 seconds to prepare after hearing the question and 60 seconds to respond.

The seven areas of evaluation are:

 A: Answer to question = ability to directly and thoroughly answer the question;
 C: Comprehensibility = ability to be understood thoroughly;
 O: Organization = ability to respond with logical organization and well-developed ideas;
 F: Fluency = ability to speak naturally and without many pauses;
 G: Grammar = ability to accurately use correct grammar and sentence structures;
 V: Vocabulary = ability to accurately use advanced vocabulary;
 P: Pronunciation = ability to use correct stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns.

Scoring Example:
For each question, enter the score for each area of evaluation. Enter the total evaluation score of each
question in the Sub Total. Add the Sub Total scores and divide by the number of rows of questions.
Enter result as Grand Total. Record the students who do not take the test as 0.
 TOEFL Prep 703 Final– TOEFL Preparation Course (Speaking)

The question below is from the speaking exercises in the Longman Preparation for the TOEFL iBT textbook.

Question 4: Integrated Reading, Listening, and Speaking

Read the passage about long-term memory. You have 45 seconds to read the passage.

The equity theory of employee satisfaction in business focuses on comparisons between employees; the
basis of this theory is that workers in an organization evaluate their treatment by the organization by
comparing their treatment to other workers in the organization. According to the theory, workers
evaluate their return for contribution, what they contribute to the company and what they receive in
return for it, and compare their return for contribution to what other employees contribute and receive in
return. A worker who receives a return for contribution that is equal to or greater than the return for
contribution of other employees will be content, while a worker whose return for contribution is less will
not be content.

Now listen to a lecture on this topic in a business class.

Now answer the following question. You have 30 seconds to prepare an answer and 60 seconds to give
your spoken response.
Explain how the examples of different employees illustrate the equity theory.

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This exam measures a student’s knowledge and familiarity of the Reading For Teacher Use
and Listening sections of the TOEFL iBT. The final score will be the sum of
the points earned. Part 2: _____ /38 or ______%

Part 2: This exam is to test a student’s listening skills. This portion is to be completed within 50 minutes.
Students will be given the opportunity to read through the questions before playing the tracks. The tracks will
be played for the student to answer the questions. When necessary, a track may be played a second time but
no track should be played more than two times. After playing each track, the student will be given about 20
seconds to respond to each question. The student will receive 1 point for each question answered correctly.
No partial point will be given. Except for questions with three answers will receive 1 point for 2 or 3 correct
answers.

Listening Skills 5-6

(Questions 1-23) Listen to the passages and answer the questions that follow.

Listen to part of a talk in a philosophy course.

1. Listen again to part of the talk. Then answer the question.

Which of the following statements is true? Choose 3 answers.

A. The expression "we take something for granted" means that we assume it will always be there.
B. Everyone believed that all men were equal in Hobbes's and Locke's time.
C. Both Hobbes and Locke assumed that all men are equal.
D. The professor thinks it's natural that both Hobbes and Locke assumed that all men are equal.
E. The professor explains how this assumption about the equality of men influenced Hobbes's and Locke's
ideas.

2. Listen again to part of the talk. Then answer the question.

Which statements does the professor say? Choose 3 answers.

A. Both Hobbes and Locke start with the assumption that all men are equal.
B. Both Hobbes and Locke come to the conclusion that a sovereign is needed to keep order.
C. Both Hobbes and Locke believe that man's natural state is peaceful.
D. People do not fully appreciate the similarities between the two men's ideas.
E. Similarities between the men's ideas are more important than the differences.

3. Listen again to part of the talk. Then answer the question.

What does the professor say about Hobbes' and Locke’s different ideas concerning the state of nature?
Choose 3 answers.

A. He expresses a personal opinion about the views.

B. He believes the ideas are still relevant today.
C. He says one view is more popular today.
D. He believes most students will have an opinion about the ideas.
E. He believes some students will feel strongly about the ideas.

Listen to part of a lecture in an economics class. Students have 20 seconds to read and answer each question,
ONE-minute total.

4. How does the professor organize the lecture?

A. She explains the process of bringing fish to restaurant tables from the sea.
B. She contrasts the differences between businesses that provide a service with those that produce goods.
C. She describes two different situations where proper incentives have led to satisfactory outcomes.
 D. She explains the reasons why incentives that work for private business can fail with government policy.

5. What does the example of restaurant service illustrate?

A. How incentives can be aligned with cultural expectations

B. The reasons why Americans seem to be in a hurry to Europeans
C. The problems that can occur when cultural expectations are not met
D. How businesses can maximize profits by changing incentives

6. In the example, what is the significance of the successive shortening of the fishing season?

A. It illustrates how new technology can make businesses increasingly efficient.

B. It shows how government rules can be applied to conserve a valuable resource.
C. It demonstrates how bad incentives can lead people to destroy their own livelihood.
D. It shows how the government can create incentives for people to break the law.

7. How does the professor illustrate the idea of successfully changing incentives?

A. By contrasting mismatched incentives in restaurants with good ones in the fishing industry
B. By describing the changes that came as fishermen moved from older to more modern fishing
techniques
C. By describing the consequences of moving from a system of limiting the fishing season to limiting the
number of fish caught
D. By describing what happened when the government began to use the knowledge of scientists to
regulate the fishing industry

8. Why does the professor talk about private property?

A. To emphasize that treating fishing quotas like private property changed the incentives for fishermen
B. To remind the students that private fishing boats were responsible for the reduction in fish stocks
C. To assert that permitting private companies to set fishing quotas was destroying the fishing industry
D. To argue that privatization of the national fishing company saved the fishing industry

Listen to a conversation between a student and an office worker

9. Listen again to part of the conversation. Then answer the question.

What is the woman implying about the volunteer positions?

A. It can be considered work experience.

B. There are significant differences between volunteering and work.
C. Most people don’t think of it as work experience.
D. It does not look as good as paid experience on a graduate school application.

10. Listen again to part of the conversation. Then answer the question.
What is the man implying when he says this?
 A. He doesn’t know yet if he can commit to coming every week.
B. The organizations expect too much of students.
C. He cannot promise to come every week.
D. He believes he can commit to coming every week in spite of the difficulty.

11. What can be inferred about the time commitment that volunteer organizations require?

A. It is about the same in each of the organizations.

B. All of the organizations require at least a weekly commitment.
C. It is flexible in most of the organizations.
D. Most of them require more than the man wants to give.

12. What does the woman imply about the coordinator at the international center?

A. Doing what you sign up for is more important to her than it may seem.
B. She does not really care whether volunteers come to sessions they sign up for.
C. She does not like to write recommendations for volunteers.
D. She behaves somewhat unpredictably.

13. What is the man probably going to do?

A. Volunteer at the hospital this semester

B. Wait until another semester to volunteer at the international center
C. Go to the international center to volunteer this semester
D. Use the website to choose an organization to volunteer at

Listen to a lecture in a biology class. Students have 20 seconds to read and answer each question, TWO-minutes
total.

14. Which of these statements does the professor say? Choose 3 answers.

A. His classmate included a reference to pop culture in a presentation.

B. The teaching assistant said that DNA could not survive for millions of years.
C. The teaching assistant criticized the inclusion of pop culture in the presentation.
D. The professor agreed with the teaching assistant’s criticism of the presentation.
E. At the time, the professor did not agree with the teaching assistant about DNA.

15. What does the professor say when he discusses fossil fragments of a Tyrannosaurus Rex? Choose 3
answers.

A. The scientist who made the discovery about DNA also found the fragments.
B. The fragments led to an extremely important discovery.
C. The fragments were obtained when a fossilized dinosaur bone had to be broken to be moved.
D. The colleague of the scientist probably felt bad breaking the fossil that yielded the fragments.
E. The colleague does not understand now why the fragments were so important.

16. What does the professor say about the discovery of biological structures in a fossil? Choose 3 answers.

A. This was thought to be impossible before the discovery.

B. The researchers who made the discovery did not believe their results immediately.
C. Before the discovery, the researchers suspected that everyone else was wrong.
D. The researchers who made it tried to find other explanations for their results.
E. The discovery turned out to be a mistake.

17. Which of the following statements are true? Choose 3 answers.

A. The discovery contradicted basic knowledge about fossilization and decay.

B. The professor says that groundbreaking discoveries should be questioned.
C. The professor says that one set of experiments is enough to change basic knowledge.
D. The professor says that critics questioned the results of the experiments.
E. Critics asked Dr. Schweitzer to repeat her experiments.

18. Which statements are true? Choose 3 answers.

A. The experiments have proven with certainty that DNA can survive millions of years.
B. The results of the experiment may show that some basic knowledge is in doubt.
C. The professor says that there are still many problems with making dinosaurs.
D. The professor says that accepting the results means little change in our thinking.
E. We can extend a similar skepticism to other basic scientific facts.

19. What does the professor imply about the teaching assistant from his introductory biology lab?

A. She did not know how to do her job well.

B. She was unnecessarily critical of a classmate's presentation.
C. The professor always suspected she was wrong about DNA.
D. She was under pressure because she was doing her PhD.

20. What does the professor imply about Dr. Schweitzer's colleague?

A. He is probably happy now that he had to break apart the fossil.

B. He is probably more upset than ever that he had to break apart the fossil.
C. He probably wishes that he had not given the fragments to Dr. Schweitzer.
D. He is probably happy that he did not have to break more fossils apart.

21. What can be inferred about the researchers who made the discovery?

A. From the beginning they knew they had interpreted their results correctly.
B. They had many doubts initially about the results of their experiments.
C. They did not do a good job investigating other explanations for their results.
D. They knew from very early on that they had made a mistake in their conclusions.
 22. Listen again to part of the lecture. Then answer the question.

What does the professor imply about the critics of the experiments?

A. They were being unfairly critical of the experiments.

B. Their prejudices made it impossible for them to accept Dr. Schweitzer's conclusions.
C. They were justified in their skepticism toward the results of the experiments.
D. They encouraged Dr. Schweitzer to try to replicate her experiments in other places.

23. What can be inferred from the results of the experiment?

A. They have brought us much closer to genetically engineering dinosaurs.

B. They show that we must always question and adjust even basic scientific knowledge.
C. They have proven definitively that DNA can survive millions of years.
D. In the end, they have had little effect on what we know about fossilization.

Grammar Skills
Choose the correct modal to complete the conversation, type the letter in the space.

A. may, B. will, C. should, D. might, E. can

Jim: Hi, Kathy. What are you doing this weekend?

1. Kathy: I _________ go to the beach, but I’m not sure.

2. Jim: I love the beach! _________I come with you?

3. Kathy: Sure. It ___________ rain, but let’s hope it doesn’t.

4. Jim: Yeah. What time __________ I meet you? should

5. Kathy: OK. If it doesn’t rain, I _________ meet you at your house at 9:00.

Choose the correct option

6. We should be there by ten.
A. We're talking about the future.
B. We're talking about the present.
C. We're talking about the past.
7. We should be there by ten.
A. There is a small possibility we will arrive by ten.
B. I'm sure we will arrive by ten.
C. It's not absolutely certain but there is a strong possibility that we will arrive by ten.
8. Don't worry, she'll be there.
A. I'm very sure.
B. I'm not sure.
9. This horse might win.
 A. I'm going to put my life savings on it.
B. I'll put a small bet on it.
C. No way I'm risking even a dollar on it.
10. He could be in the library.
A. He goes in there sometimes.
B. I doubt he's read a book in his whole life.
C. He's always in there.

Complete the sentences with the articles a, an, or the. If the sentence shouldn’t have an article, type 0 (zero).

1. Should I make _______ pasta for dinner?

2. All _______ students in the class are doing well.
3. We went on a hiking vacation to ________ Rocky Mountains.
4. I don’t have _____ car, so I went on _______ foot.
5. I’m enrolled in ______ college and I’m taking a class with ______ Professor Garcia.