TOEFL Listening Practice Test Questions

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1. Why does the student visit her professor?
a. To receive the second page of the exam study guide.
b. To make suggestions about which readings should be
covered on the exam.
c. To examine important theories about developmental
psychology in children.
d. To discuss the best ways to prepare for her upcoming exam.
2. Why does the student think reviewing for the test is
especially hard in her psychology class?
a. The course has more readings than other classes she has
taken in the past.
b. The test covers both child psychology and adult psychology.
c. Developmental psychology is not her main academic interest.
d. The study guide lists the most difficult texts that were used in
class.
3. What is the professor’s attitude toward study groups?
a. Professors should make an effort to organize their students
into study groups.
b. They are a very important source for exam preparation.
c. Students should create groups at the start of the semester,
before exams begin.
d. Students in groups can divide the work of reviewing so that it
is faster.
4. What does the professor imply the student should do if she
has any more questions about the exam?
a. Write down a complete list of her questions and arrange them
by subject.
b. Make sure to attend all the group meetings that the professor
organizes.
c. Talk to her classmates to see if they can answer her
questions.
d. Review her study guide carefully to see if she’s missed
anything.
5. Why does the professor say this?
a. He wants the student to understand that Alzheimer’s disease
never affects children.
b. He is offering to lend the student a video that she can watch
before the exam.
c. He is suggesting that the video is more important that the
readings.
d. He is telling the student that the exam will include some
information from a video.
6. What aspect of water erosion does the lecture focus on?
a. A comparison between the effects of water erosion and other
types of erosion.
b. The ways that water erosion shapes the edges of rivers and
streams.
c. The effects of water erosion on specific species of plants
d. The assorted effects of particular stages of erosion.
7. According to the lecture, what are the physical effects of
bank erosion? CHOOSE 2 ANSWERS
a. Plants can fall into the rivers and streams.
b. Soil that touches the running water gets washing away.
c. Large underwater caverns can form beneath the riverbed.
d. A stream can become dry and empty.
8. According to the professor, what is the effect of sheet erosion
on plant life?
a. Plants will be pulled to the bottom of the slope.
b. Plants in affected areas may not survive.
c. Plants in sandy areas will be forced to compete for nutrients.
d. Plants at the base of a hill will be suffocated by deposited
soil.
9. What can be inferred about how rills are formed?
a. The more bumpy a surface is, the more rills it can potentially
develop.
b. Permanent streams and rivers usually start out as rills.
c. Most rills change their paths every time it rains.
d. Rills are less likely to happen if soil contains a lot of rocks
and sand.
10. When does gully erosion happen?
a. During repeated, heavy rainfall.
b. When the surface of the land is exceptionally steep.
c. When a rill follows the same path repeatedly.
d. After the plant life is pulled away from the land in large
strips.
11. What does the professor imply when she says this?
a. Sometimes the effects of sheet erosion are not immediately
noticeable.
b. Sheet erosion affects soil more slowly if the soil is mixed
with sand.
c. All sandy soil is a result of sheet erosion.
d. The sheet erosion process happens in just a few days on a
hill.
12. What aspect of gravitational science is the lecture
mainly about?
a. How theories about gravity changed over time.
b. The experimental methods ancient scientists used when
studying gravity.
c. Newton’s discoveries about gravity.
d. Present-day scientific knowledge about gravity.
13. According to the professor what two important things
did the Indian scientist Brahmagupta realize about the earth?
CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS
a. The earth isn’t the center of the universe.
b. The earth has a gravitational pull over the moon.
c. The earth is round.
d. The earth pulls objects toward it.
14. How did Copernicus’ study of planetary orbits help
scientists understand gravity?
a. Copernicus embraced other scientists’ ideas about gravity.
b. Copernicus discovered the effects of the moon’s gravity on
earth.
c. Copernicus got religious leaders to approve of gravitational
research.
d. His study of orbits helped other scientists realize that larger
objects have a gravitational pull on smaller ones.
15. Why does the professor say this?
a. Because he wants the student to understand why Aristotle
was confused.
b. To suggest that Aristotle’s ideas about gravity are very
different from modern ones.
c. To demonstrate that Aristotle’s ideas cannot be fully
understood.
d. Because other scientists from Aristotle’s time had more
accurate theories.
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