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TOEFL Listening 1
TOEFL Listening 1
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Listening Comprehension Section Test
1. * I really enjoyed that article
* Me, too
1. In a Laundromat.
2. On a farm.
3. In a grocery store.
4. At a restaurant.
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4. * I heard you’re not feeling well.
* I just seem to be going from bad to worse.
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8. * Professor Carvellas, would it be possible for me to take my exam
a few days ahead of schedule
* Sure thing.
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11. * I went skiing yesterday
* Oh, so there was snow after all.
1. She is hungry.
2. She will show the man where to go.
3. The cafeteria is too far away to walk to.
4. She has never been to the cafeteria before.
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14. * Can you hear the birds singing?
* I could if the traffic weren’t so heavy.
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What does the woman mean?
18. * I don’t have enough money to pay for these books now.
* Can you send me a bill?
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23. * The project I’m working on will take several months to finish.
* Good thing it’s not due until May!
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29. * Look, we know you’re busy, but you come late to every meeting!
* I’m so sorry!
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Questions 31 through 34. Listen to a conversation between two friends
Yesterday a man came and tested the water in my apartment.
He told me that it was “hard” and that I should have it “softened.”
What did he mean by that?
Well, hard water is water that has a lot of mineral in it.
So, what? What difference does that make?
It is dangerous to my health?
Not usually.
But hard water reduces the cleaning power of some kinds of soap.
The mineral in hard water react with soap to form a substance that sticks to your clothes
and can make them turn gray or yellow.
No wonder my socks are grey!
How do I “soften” my water?
Well, one thing you can do is add a mineral dissolving powder to your washing machine
every time you wash.
But that take a lot of time and it gets expensive.
A better idea is to buy a machine called a water softener that softens all the water in your
house at one time.
Most people prefer to do this. Don’t forget-you’re using hard water every time you shower
or wash dishes, too.
It can leave a residue on your skin, in your hair, and on your dishes.
In that case, I guess I really should buy a water softener for my apartment
Do you know where I can get one or how much they cost?
I’ll bet the man who tested your water yesterday knows that information.
You’re right.
He probably does
Can I borrow your phone to give him a call?
1. Washing clothes.
2. The effects of hard water.
3. How to buy a water softener.
4. How to keep your pipes from freezing.
A. Containing minerals
B. Frozen.
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C. Difficult.
D. Soapy.
33. According to the woman what is the best solution to the man’s problem?
1. Moving to a new apartment.
2. Buying a machine.
3. Using a powder.
4. Heating his home better.
Questions 35 through 38. Listen to a telephone conversation between a students and her
friend.
Hello
Hi, Rick.
This is Amanda
Hi Amanda
Nice to hear from you
What’s up?
Well, I call to let you know when my last day of school is here at Ivy College and to ask
you if I could still take you up on your offer to take me to the airport that day to catch my
flight home.
I’d be happy to help you out if I can, but what are your travel plans?
Well, my last exam is on June 13.
My plane leaves at 11:00 that right.
I guess I should leave here sometime around 9:00 or so if I could.
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Let’s see …
What day of the week is that?
It’s Friday
Friday the thirteenth.
I hope you’re not superstitious!
What do you mean?
Some people think it’s bad luck to do anything important on Friday the thirteenth-like
driving around in cars and things like that.
Oh, I don’t pay any attention to superstitious.
Let me look at my calendar …
I’ll be flying back from a conference in Chicago early that evening.
I should be able to come and get you, but I might not be able to make it until a little after
9:00, depending on when my plane arrives.
It might be closer to 9:30
Will that be too late?
That should be all right, I think.
My flight does leave pretty late, and the airport isn’t far from here.
If you come at 9:00, I’ll also have time to go out for dinner with some friends and finish
my packing without feeling too rushed.
1. By the way, how much stuff do you have?
Should I bring my car, or should I borrow my Dad’s van?
It would probably be easier to fit everything into a van.
Your car is pretty small.
Do you think your Dad would mind lending you his van, though?
I don’t think so.
He doesn’t use it much anymore.
We only need it one in a while for doing things like-well-like helping friends like you
move stuff around.
Great! Thanks a lot Rick.
I’ll see you Friday evening!
See you then. Bye.
36. Why does Amanda think that Rick might not want to help her out?
1. He might be superstitious.
2. He’ll be in Chicago that evening.
3. He won’t be able to borrow his father’s van.
4. He won’t be able to get there on time.
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37. Why does Rick think he might be a little late?
1. He’s having dinner with some friends that evening.
2. He will be driving his father’s van instead of his car.
3. He will be flying in from Chicago earlier that evening.
4. He always drives more slowly on Friday the thirteenth.
38. How does Rick feel about borrowing his father’s van?
1. He would rather take his own car.
2. His father might need it to help a friend move.
3. He is quite sure it won’t be a problem.
4. He doesn’t know if it is big enough to hold all of Amanda’s things.
Questions 39 through 42. Listen to a biology professor give an introductory lecture to his
students.
You are about to begin a course in biology, the study of life.
The focus of this course will be the study of different kinds of organism, or living things.
In the first part of this course you’ll learn to colonize the major groups of organism that
exist today.
To do this, you’ll learn about the physical characteristics which set one type of organism
apart from others.
However, biology is more than just a study which describe the many differences among
living things.
There are nearly two million known kinds of living organism.
You could not possibly learn about all or even most of them in a one-semester course like
this one.
Therefore, during the second part of this course, your study of life will focus on the
similarities among organism.
These similarities most often involve the life processes of organism-their activities and
functions.
By studying these processes, you will see that there are certain features common to all
living things.
In this way, by the time you complete the course with me, you will have a good
understanding of what is meant by the word life.
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40. What will students learn to do during the first part of the course?
1. Categorize major groups of organisms.
2. Write a comprehensive definition of the word life.
3. Study all of the organisms that exist today.
4. Study similarities in the activities and functions of organisms.
41. According to the speaker, why is it impossible to learn about every organism?
1. Because there are too many of them.
2. Because there are too complex to understand.
3. Because there are not easy to find.
4. Because no one knows everything about them.
42. According to the speaker, what is it that usually makes living things similar?
1. Their appearance.
2. Their activities and functions.
3. The means by which they make food.
4. Their methods of communication.
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43. What is the purpose of this talk?
1. To explain the rewards of long distance running.
2. To raise some funds for a sports even.
3. To describe the scarifies necessary to be on the running team.
4. To discuss the first day of team practice.
44. What does the speaker recommend that team members do on Sundays?
1. Rest all day.
2. Work out on their own.
3. Meet with their coach.
4. Participate in a race.
45. What does the speaker say about weekend social activities?
1. Team members will enjoy a busy social life on weekends.
2. Team members won’t have much time for social activities.
3. Friday nights will be free for social activities.
4. Team members will be too tired to do much on the weekend.
Questions 47 through 50. Listen to a college professor speaking to an art history class.
Winslow Homer was an American artist who lived from 1836 to 1910.
He became famous primarily for his dramatic paintings of the sea.
Homer was born in Boston, and as a young man he became apprenticed to a lithographer.
He later became a magazine illustrator, and during the American Civil War, he was hired
by a magazine called Harper‘s Weekly to illustrate battlefield scenes.
He also began painting with oils at that time and depicted rural American life in all of its
simplicity and plainness.
The country people in Homer’s paintings have a charm and, at the same time, a heroic
quality that make them very appealing.
After a trip to a coastal town in England in 1881 and 1882, Homer turned his attention to
the sea.
When he returned to America, he settled in a town on the coast of Maine, and there he
completed many of his paintings of the sea.
These paintings often have a strong romantic quality and are well known for their drama
and subtle use of light.
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During the late 1800s, Homer became fascinated with what he considered to be the
particularly American struggle between humanity and the forces of nature.
This struggle was clearly depicted in his paintings of the sea.
His fishermen and ship captains were not so much individuals as they were symbols of the
courage and strength found in the men who made their living on the sea.
Just as the people in his paintings had a universal quality, so did the sea itself.
The sea in his paintings often has a quality of violence, or near-violence.
In his painting entitled The Gulf Stream, we see a young Black man, alone on a small boat
in a rough sea, surrounded by sharks.
He will clearly face a struggle for survival.
It seems unlikely that he can win.
Homer’s paintings of the sea are romantic yet highly realistic.
During his years on the coast of Maine, he was able to paint many of the changing moods
of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was here that the perfected his ability to portray drama in at and developed his use of
transparent liquids to convey a strong scene of light.
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