tailieunhanh - How to prepare for the toefl part 7

Through these observations and experiences, teachers have concluded that (1) students need to work toward their own goals, (2) students need some lime to focus on accuracy as well as on flu-ency, and (3) students need an opportunity to practice taking a standardized test in order to alle-viate anxiety and develop test strategies. | DIRECTIONS AND EXAMPLES FOR LISTENING QUESTIONS 55 In this example you will listen to part of the conversation again. Then you will answer a question. To choose your answers you will click on an oval. The oval next to the answer will darken. The correct answer is indicated on the screen below. 28 11 Listening 3 of 6 Why does the professor say this So then you could find a geology class . a class that fits your schedule and works in your degree program. To encourage Marty to refine his plan. O To show Marty that the plan is not good. O To demonstrate approval for Marty s plan. O To give Marty an alternative plan. 56 REVIEW OF LISTENING Sometimes the screen changes several times during a conversation or talk as in the next example. Here is an example of a talk and some questions narrator Listen to part of a talk in an English class. DIRECTIONS AND EXAMPLES FOR LISTENING QUESTIONS 57 professor So today we ll talk about Earnest Hemingway. But before we actually read and discuss his works I d uh I d like to look at his life . . . how the writing fits into it. Okay first we ll talk about the years he spent as a newspaper reporter because that experience was very influential uh for his writing career as a novelist. Um . . . after he graduated from high school he chose not to go to college accepting a job instead for the Kansas City Star. Later he would say that he learned how to write fiction in the newsroom because the style required for the newspaper contained short sentences and active verbs and uh he learned synthesis and clarity by writing news copy. So Hemingway was quoted as saying Those rules were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. Later he worked for other newspapers and . . but the Toronto Daily Star offered him an overseas correspondent s assignment and so he really began his writing career as an ambitious young American newspaperman in Paris after the First World War. His early books were published in Europe before they were released in