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Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL*5 Test: Volume B — Practice Tests, Second Edition contains five paper-format TOEFL tests, tapescripts, answer keys, scoring information, and a chart to record progress. | 142 LISTENING In the lecture the professor mentions the following June of 1783 and a large smoke-filled cloth balloon without any passengers only a few months later in the same year and the first person to go up in a balloon two years later and the first balloon flight across the English Channel and 1793 and the first balloon ascent in the United States. From this it can be determined that first there was an unmanned smoke-filled balloon then there was the first manned balloon ascent next there was the first balloon trip across the English Channel and finally there was the first balloon ascent in the United States. 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 part of a lecture in a geography class. The lecture is on major rivers of the world. professor Today I ll be talking about the major rivers and river systems of the world. The four longest are the Nile River in Africa which is 4 145 miles long the Amazon River in South America which is 4 007 miles long the Mississippi River system in North America which is 3 710 miles long and the Yangtze River in China which is 3 436 miles long. You think This passage classifies information about different rivers. It also orders the rivers by length. You see the question The professor discusses major rivers of the world. Put these rivers in order from longest to shortest. Click on a name. Then click on the space where it belongs. Use each name one time only. The Mississippi River The Yangtze River The Amazon River The Nile River 1 2 3 4 ACADEMIC LECTURES Computer 143 In the lecture the professor mentions the Nile River. which is 4 145 miles long the Amazon River. which is 4 007 miles long the Mississippi River system. which is 3 710 miles long and the Yangtze River. which is 3 436 miles long. From this it can be determined .