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Ebook Sharpening skills for TOEFL IBT 4 Practice tests provides students preparing to take the TOEFL iBT test with four comprehensive, accurate practice tests to hone their test-taking ability. Each of the four tests includes reading, listening, speaking, and writing sections of the same style found on the actual TOEFL iBT test. In addition, each section is designed to provide students with the look and feel of a real TOEFL iBT test in order to increase familiarity and confidence when taking the actual test. | Reading Section Directions This section measures your ability to understand an academic passage in English. The Reading Section is divided into two separately timed parts. Most questions are worth 1 point but the last question in each set is worth more than 1 point. The directions indicate how many points you may receive. Some passages include a word or phrase that is underlined in blue. Definitions or explanations for underlined words are provided at the end of the passage. You can skip questions and go back to them later as long as there is time remaining. You may now begin the Reading Section. In this part you will read two passages. You will have forty minutes to read the passages and answer the questions. When you are ready to continue go to the next page. TOEFL iBT Practice Test Ji- Review aểẾk jttp Reading c nue ff Hr Ệr If 00 40 00 2L Living Roofs Creative urban planners continually seek new ways to make cities more satisfying places to live. A One versatile tool in this pursuit is the green roof which draws from fundamental precepts in architectural design horticulture and urban development. At its most basic a green roof system transforms a conventional roof into a living roof by adding a waterproof membrane. B The membrane is then covered with drainage and filter layers a growth medium . soil and live plants. C A green roof can be built on a flat or graded surface can be thick or thin and can feature a wide range of plant cover from common lawn grasses to edible vegetables to delicate flowering plants. Familiar rooftop gardens have plants in pots or planters. A green roof goes further. It is an integral part of a building and one that offers ecological and economic benefits as well as aesthetic appeal. D Roofs covered in living plants were used in ancient Mesopotamia for aesthetic purposes the famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Viking settlements and on the American Great Plains for basic shelter and insulation sod houses . The green roof as we know