TOEFL 1

UTS

SEMESTER V

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1. (MAN) WHY DO YOU THINK PETER SAID THAT?

(WOMAN) I THINK HE WAS REALLY ANGRY

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE WOMAN SAY ABOUT PETER?

(A) HE SEEMED TO BE RATHER HUNGRY

(B) SHE WAS QUITE ANGRY AT HIM

(C) HE WAS TRYING TO HANG THE POSTERS

(D) SHE BELIEVES HE WAS MAD

2. (MAN) WHY IS HANNAH SO HAPPY?

(WOMAN) HER PARENTS HAVE ALLOWED HER TO STAY UP LATE

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE WOMAN MEAN?

(A) THE PARENTS ARE GOING TO STAY UP LATE

(B) THE PARENTS HAVE GIVEN HANNAH HER ALLOWANCE

(C) LATELY, THE PARENTS HAVE NOT BEEN SO LOUD

(D) HANNAH DOES NOT HAVE TO GO TO BED EARLY

3. (WOMAN) I’D LIKE SOME UNLEADED GAS, PLEASE.

(MAN) WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO FILL IT UP?

(NARRATOR) WHERE DOES THE MAN PROBABLY WORK?

(A) AT THE DEPARTEMENT STORE

(B) AT THE SERVICE STATION

(C) AT A COLLECTION AGENCY

(D) IN A DELIVERY ROOM

4. (MAN) WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST FOR BREAKFAST?

(WOMAN) WELL, YOU COULD HAVE CEREAL OR EGGS, OR BOTH

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE WOMAN MEAN?

(A) SHE JUST BROKE SOME EGGS

(B) THEY NEED TO EAT FAST

(C) SHE IS SERIOUS ABOUT THE BOAT

(D) HE HAS A CHOICE TO MAKE

5. (WOMAN) DID ELLEN HELP YOU A LOT WITH YOUR TRAINING?

(MAN) SHE REALLY URGED ME TO DO MY BEST

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?

(A) IT WAS URGENT THAT ELLEN DO HER BEST

(B) HE REALLY URGED ELLEN TO DO MORE

(C) HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY ELLEN TO TRY HARDER

(D) ELLEN TOLD HIM THAT SHE WAS TRYING TO DO BETTER

6. (MAN) DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO ROB’S CAR LAST NIGHT?

(WOMAN) YEAH, I HEARD THAT IT WAS STOLEN

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE WOMAN MEAN?

(A) THE CAR STALLED ON THE ROAD

(B) SOMEONE TOOK THE CAR

(C) ROB SOLD HIS CAR

(D) ROB HEARD SOMEONE STEAL HIS CAR

7. (WOMAN) WE NEED TO GET SOME MILK FOR TOMORROW MORNING. WHAT

ABOUT THIS CARTON?

(MAN) MAYBE WE SHOULD GET THE LARGE ONE INSTEAD OF THE SMALL ONE

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE MAN SUGGEST?

(A) BUYING THE BIGGER CONTAINER

(B) PUTTING THE MILK IN THE CART

(C) TAKING A CARTON THAT IS SMALLER

(D) GETTING THE MILK TOMORROW INSTEAD

8. (MAN) WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE BUSINESSPEOPLE ARRIVED IN THE

OFFICE?

(WOMAN) WELL, FIRST THEY WERE GREETED BY THE RECEPTIONIST

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE WOMAN MEAN?

(A) THE RECEPTIONIST WELCOMED THE BUSINESSPEOPLE

(B) THE MAN CREATED A SHIPPING AND RECEIVING BUSINESS

(C) THE BUSINESSPEOPLE WERE RATHER GREEDY

(D) THE BUSINESSPEOPLE GREETED THE RECEPTIONIST

9. (WOMAN) DID YOU SEE THAT? THE POLICE OFFICER WAS TALKING TO THE
TOURIST

(MAN) YES, AND THEN HE MADE THE TOURIST COME TO THE STATION

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?

(A) THE POLICE OFFICER WAS STATIONED NEAR THE TOURIST

(B) THE TOURIST WAS FORCED TO ACCOMPANY THE POLICE OFFICER

(C) THE TOURIST BECAME MAD AT THE POLICE STATION

(D) THE TOURIST STATED THAT THE POLICE OFFICER NEVER CAME

10. (WOMAN) DO YOU WANT TO GO UP TO CARMEL FOR THE WEEKEND?

(MAN) THAT SEEMS LIKE A TERRIFIC IDEA TO ME!

(NARRATOR) WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?

(A) HE HASN’T SEEN HER IDEAS

(B) IT WAS A TERRIBLE DEAL

(C) HE DOESN’T LIKE THE IDEA

(D) IT SOUNDS MAGNIFICENT TO HIM

TOEFL 3

UTS

SEMESTER VII

Choose the best answers!

Hurricanes generally occur in the North Atlantic from May through November, with the
peak of the hurricane season in September; only rarely will they occur from December through
April in that part of the ocean. The main reason for the occurrence of hurricanes during this
period is that the temperature on the water’s surface is at its warmest and the humidity of the air
is at its highest.

Of the tropical storms that occur each year in the North Atlantic, only about five, on the
average, are powerful enough to be called hurricanes. To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical
storm must have winds reaching speeds at least 117 kilometers per hour, but the winds are often
much stronger than that; the winds of intense hurricanes can easily surpass 240 kilometers per
hour.

1. The passage mainly discusses

(A) Hurricanes in one part of the world.
(B) How many hurricanes occur each year?
(C) The strength of hurricanes.
(D) The weather in the North Atlantic.

2. The best title for the passage would be

(A) The North Atlantic Ocean.
(B) What Happens from May through November?
(C) Storms of the Northern Atlantic.
(D) Hurricanes: The Damage and Destruction.

Common types of calendars can be based on the Sun or on the Moon. The solar calendar
is based on the solar year. Since the solar year is 365.2422 days long, solar calendars consist of
regular years of 365 days and have an extra day every fourth year, or leap year, to make up for
the additional fractional amount. In a solar calendar, the waxing and waning of the moon can
take place at various stages of each month.

The lunar calendar is synchronized to the lunar month rather than the solar year. Since the
lunar month is twenty-nine and a half days long, most lunar calendars have alternating months of
twenty-nine and thirty days. A twelve-month lunar year thus has 354 days, 11 days shorter than a
solar year.

3. What is the main idea of the passage?

(A) The solar calendar is based on the Sun.
(B) All calendars are the same.
(C) The lunar month is twenty-nine and a half days long.
(D) Different calendars have dissimilar bases.
4. How is the information in the passage organized?
(A) Two types of calendars are described.
(B) Characteristics of the solar calendar are outlined.
(C) The length of each existing calendar is contrasted.
(D) The strengths and weakness of the lunar calendar are described.

Ice ages, those periods when ice covered extensive areas of the Earth, are known to have
occurred at least six times. Past ice ages can be recognized from rock strata that show evidence
of foreign materials deposited by moving walls of ice or melting glaciers. Ice ages can also be
recognized from land formations that have been produced from moving walls of ice, such as U-
shaped valleys, sculptured landscapes, and polished rock faces.

5. According to the passage, what happens during an ice age?

(A) Evidence of foreign materials is found.
(B) Rock strata are recognized by geologist.
(C) Ice melts six times.
(D) Ice covers a large portion of the Earth’s surface

6. The passage covers how many different methods of recognizing past ice ages?
(A) Two
(B) One
(C) Four
(D) Three

7. According to the passage, what in the rock strata is a clue to geologists of a past ice age?
(A) Melting glaciers
(B) Ice
(C) Substances from other areas
(D) U-shaped valleys

Blood plasma is a clear, almost colorless liquid. It consists of blood from which the red
and the white blood cells have been removed. It is often used in transfusions because a patient
generally needs the plasma portion of the blood more than the other components.

Plasma differs in several important ways from whole blood. First of all, plasma can be
mixed for all donors and does not have to be from the right blood group, as whole blood does. In
addition, plasma can be dried and stored, while whole blood cannot.

8. All of the following are true about blood plasma EXCEPT

(A) Blood cells have been taken out of it.
(B) It is a deeply colored liquid.
(C) It is generally more important to the patient than other parts of whole blood.
(D) Patients are often transfused with it.

9. Which of the following is NOT stated about whole blood?

(A) It cannot be dried
 (B) It is different from plasma
(C) It is a clear, colorless liquid.
(D) It is impossible to keep it in storage for a long time.

The full moon that occurs nearest the equinox of the Sun has become known as the
harvest moon. It is a bright moon which allows farmers to work late into the night for several
nights; they can work when the moon is at its brightest to bring in the fall harvest. The harvest
moon of course occurs at different times of the year in the northern and southern hemisphere. In
the northern hemisphere, the harvest moon occurs in September at the time of the autumnal
equinox. In the southern hemisphere, the harvest moon occurs in March at the time of the vernal
equinox.

10. The pronoun “IT” in line 2 refers to

(A) The Sun
(B) The equinox
(C) The night
(D) The harvest moon.
English I

UTS

SEMESTER I

A Puma at large

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into
London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not
taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt
obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma
were extraordinarily similar.

The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw
‘a large cat’ only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and
experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search
proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another
place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer
and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was
found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of ‘cat-like noises’ at night and a business
man on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the
animal was a puma, but where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from
any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and
somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught.
It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

(Developing Skills by L.G. Alexander)

Answer the following questions!

1. What sorts of reports were received by London Zoo?

2. Were the reports similar in nature or not?
3. Who saw it first?
4. Did it stay in one place, or did it move from place to place?
5. What did it leave behind it?
6. Were paw-prints and puma fur found as well or not?
7. What was heard at night?
8. Was the animal seen up a tree or not?
9. Were experts now sure that the animal really was a puma or not?
10. What is the meaning “still at large”?
English III

UTS

SEMESTER III

Thirteen Equals One

Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to
get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the
hours day and night was damaged during the war and has been silent ever since.

One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours!
Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o’clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it
stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In
the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our
local grocer.

‘Whatever are you doing up here Bill?’ asked the vicar in surprise.

‘I’m trying to repair the bell’ answered Bill. ‘I’ve been coming up here night after night
for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.’

‘You certainly did give me a surprise!’ said the vicar. ‘You’ve probably woken up
everyone in the village as well. Still, I’m glad the bell is working again.’

‘That’s the trouble, vicar,’ answered Bill. ‘It’s working all right, but I’m afraid that at one
o’clock it will strike thirteen times and there’s nothing I can do about it.’

‘We’ll get used to that Bill,’ said the vicar. ‘Thirteen is not as good as one, but it’s better
than nothing. Now let’s go downstairs and have a cup of tea.

(Developing Skills by L.G. Alexander)

Answer the following questions!

1. What woke the vicar up?

2. What was the time?
3. How many times did the clock strike?
4. Where did the vicar go?
5. What did he take with him?
6. Whom did he see in the clock tower?
7. What did Bill Wilkins say he was trying to do?
8. Had Bill Wilkins succeeded in repairing the clock or not?
9. Was the vicar pleased or angry?
10. What did he offer the grocer?