tailieunhanh - Toefl preparation for the computer and paper test part 14

Longman Complete Course for the TOEFL® Test — User's Guide includes an answer key with answers to all questions and a recording script with a transcription of all listening comprehension exercises and tests included on the audio cassette tapes or CDs accompanying the text. | 112 LISTENING In the discussion the students state that first the main engines and the boosters work together to lift the shuttle off the ground that the boosters separate from the shuttle and parachute back to Earth that the main engines power the shuttle until it is almost at orbital velocity and that the smaller engines. .push the shuttle into orbit. From this it can be determined that first the main engines and boosters lift the shuttle next the boosters separate and parachute to Earth then the main engines put the shuttle almost into orbit and finally the smaller engines push the shuttle into orbit. Now look at an example of a part of a lecture with both classification and chronological organization followed by both a matching question and an ordering question. Example 3 from the Computer TOEFL Test On the computer you hear narrator Listen to a part of a discussion by a group of students taking a music class. The discussion is on early periods of music. woman 1 There are four periods of music that we need to be familiar with. The first period was the Medieval period from 1100 to 1300. The Medieval period was the period when organized instrumental music began. man And after the Medieval period was the Renaissance period which was the age of polyphonic church music. This period lasted for 300 years. woman 2 So the Renaissance period lasted from 1300 to 1600. Then which period was next woman 1 After the Renaissance period there was the Baroque period from 1600 to 1750 followed by the Classical period from 1750 to 1850. man And what type of music was featured in each of these periods woman 1 The Baroque period featured the beginnings of opera and oratorio. woman 2 And the Classical period was the age of symphonies and concertos. You think This passage presents types or classifications of music in chronological order. ACADEMIC DISCUSSIONS Computer 113 You see the question The students discuss a number of periods of music. Put the periods of music into the order in