tailieunhanh - The complete guide to the toefl test part 44

In the Listening Section of the test, the lectures and conversations have gotten longer and more involved as well. However, note taking is now permitted. There are also some new question types in Listening. The second section of the book, Guide to Listening, offers tips and help with note taking as well as experience with answering all types of questions about the lectures. | 276 Section 2 Guide to Listening SW Sample Item 1 Listen to a discussion from the Listening Preview Test and a factual question about it. Sample notes on this lecture are also provided. You can see a script of this lecture in the Answer Key Audioscript bock or online at http toefl. Now start the Audio Program. Q Sample Notes Cases . actual bus sits. . . 10 20 pp. of text describing real bus prob. . 5-10 pp. of exhibits . Exhibits- statist docs . spreadshts . .sales reports . . . .mktg. proj tions @ center of case problem analyze data. . . sometimes collect mo re data from Int net etc. Then make decision Sample Question What does the professor say about exhibits O They are the center of every case. O They consist of ten to twenty pages of text describing a business situation. O They are generally obtained from the Internet. O They consist of statistical information about a company. Factual Negative Factual and Inference Questions The first choice is not correct. The professor says that at the center of evencase is the problem to be solved not the exhibits. The second choice is not correct. The professor says that there are typically ten to twenty pages of text describing the problem but that exhibits consist of five to ten pages of statistics. The third choice is not correct. The professor mentions that sometimes it will be necessary to go to the Internet to get more information about a case but he does not say that the exhibits themselves are taken from the Internet. The best answer is the last one. The professor says that exhibits are documents . statistical documents really that explain the situation. They might be oh spreadsheets sales reports . . umm marketing projections anything like that. Some questions will have two correct answers and a few questions will have five answer choices three of which will be correct. Here is an example of a multiple-answer question based on part of a lecture from the Listening Preview Test. Sample Item 2