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Table of Contents
Introduction to TOEFL® Listening --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Chapter 1 Short Passage Skill Practice
Skill A Understanding Main Ideas and Organization --------------------------------------- 15
Skill B Understanding Details and Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 25
Skill C Determining Reasons, Purposes, and Attitudes ----------------------------------- 35
Review A---C: Vocabulary Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46
Skill Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 48
Skill D Matching Words and Categories ----------------------------------------------------------------- 53
Skill E Making Inferences and Predictions ------------------------------------------------------------- 63
Skill F Placing Steps in a Sequence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73
Review A---F: Vocabulary Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84
Skill Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 86

Chapter 2 Long Passage Skill Practice

Skill A Understanding Main Ideas and Organization --------------------------------------- 93
Skill B Understanding Details and Facts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 101
Skill C Determining Reasons, Purposes, and Attitudes ----------------------------------- 109
Review A---C: Vocabulary Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 118
Skill Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 122
Skill D Matching Words and Categories ----------------------------------------------------------------- 131
Skill E Making Inferences and Predictions ------------------------------------------------------------- 139
Skill F Placing Steps in a Sequence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 147
Review A---F: Vocabulary Review --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 156
Skill Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 160

Chapter 3 Focus: Note-taking

Focus A Note-taking with Tables ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 172
Focus B Note-taking with Diagrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 174

Practice Test for Listening --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 177

Transcripts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 185
Answer Key -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 207
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Skill A 01 Campus Life

Notes
_____________________________________________________________________ skip (v):
to avoid; to not do
binge (v):
_____________________________________________________________________ to eat or drink in an uncontrolled,
excessive manner
_____________________________________________________________________ ruin (v):
to destroy; to damage
grain (n):
_____________________________________________________________________ a food that comes from grass,
like wheat, rice, and corn
regular (adj):
_____________________________________________________________________ following a set schedule; at the
same time every day
_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

1. What are the people mainly discussing? 3. What does the man’s girlfriend usually eat?
(A) Eating (A) (B)
(B) Girlfriends
(C) A good diet
(D) Doctors

2. What is the woman’s main point? (C) (D)

(A) Eat right to stay slim.
(B) Don’t skip meals.
(C) Don’t eat chips and drink cola.
(D) Listen to your boyfriend.

4. Fill in the blanks to complete the organizer.

How to stay healthy and slim

Don’t ________ Eat when you are Eat fruit, ________,

Eat ________ meals
meals ________ meats, and grains

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Skill A 01 Culture

Notes
customary (adj):
_____________________________________________________________________ the normal way; a usual habit
response (n):
_____________________________________________________________________ an answer to a question; a reply
theory (n):
an idea explaining something
_____________________________________________________________________ superstition (n):
a belief in luck or the influence
of magic
_____________________________________________________________________
custom (n):
a normal or common action for
_____________________________________________________________________ a particular culture
elect (v):
to choose by vote
_____________________________________________________________________ plague (n):
a deadly, serious, widespread
disease
_____________________________________________________________________
get rid of (v):
to remove; to destroy; to make
_____________________________________________________________________ go away
order (v):
to command; to tell to do
_____________________________________________________________________ immediately (adv):
right away; very soon after
_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

1. What is the talk mainly about? 3. Which two statements are correct? Choose 2
(A) Geology answers.
(B) Biology (A) Sneezing caused the plague.
(C) History (B) Responding “God bless you” to a sneeze
(D) Nature began in Europe.
(C) A pope died from sneezing too often.
(D) Each sneeze releases thousands of
2. What is the main idea of the talk? germs.
(A) What happens when we sneeze
(B) Why people say “Bless you”
(C) How the plague started 4. Listen again to part of the conversation and
(D) How many germs are in sneezes answer the question.
What does the professor imply when he says
this: ?
(A) Pope Gregory knew a lot about
medicine.
(B) Pope Gregory didn’t like doctors.
(C) Pope Gregory was dying because of the
plague.
(D) Pope Gregory was concerned about the
plague.

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Focus B - Completing Note Diagrams 01 Words

1. History
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words.

Spain location - S of _____, W of _____

16th Century - ___________________ in world

1490s - Spanish people brought ________________ from America

Spain became _________
Made new colonies: ________ and _______

1588 - War with ____________

Began to lose ___________

1898 - ______ ______ in Spanish-American War

2. Computer Science
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words.

people looking for faster ways to get _______________

a faster way is a _______________ connection

a VSDL connection has a greater _______________

gives around 52 _______________ per second

3. Political Science
Directions: Listen and fill in the note diagram with the correct words.

_______________ of ideas
Ideology
forms basis of _______________ opinion

how _______________ works

Concerned with
_______________ needed to make it work

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1. What are the people mainly discussing? 5. The woman explains how they can get the
(A) Not having enough fun money. Summarize the process by putting the
(B) The university’s money problems steps in the correct order.
(C) Getting money from a student activity fee
(D) A plan for the summer holidays 1.

2.
2. What kinds of programs will the student
activity fee pay for? 3.
(A) Scientific research
(B) An exchange student program 4.
(C) Plays, art fairs, and dances for students
(D) A new sports program
(A) Fill out a form on the web site
(B) Get $3,500 more
3. Why do the two students want to get some (C) Present their plan to do plays as a special
of the money? program
(A) To make a film (D) Get $500 after registering the club
(B) To start an arts and crafts fair
(C) To do plays in their drama club
(D) To do modern dance performances 6. Listen again to part of the conversation and
answer the question.
What does the woman mean when she
4. Listen again to part of the conversation and answers the man?
answer the question.
(A) She remembered what the man and
What does the man remember when he says her boyfriend did.
this: ? (B) She remembered what they did last
(A) A time with his girlfriend summer.
(B) Last summer’s theater class (C) She had forgotten about this.
(C) An idea for a special program (D) She remembered the idea to do the
(D) A play he saw plays before the man did.

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BAYEUX
TAPESTRY

5. What is the topic of the lecture? 10. Match each of the examples with the
(A) Embroidery appropriate category.
(B) The Bayeux Tapestry
Bayeux Tapestry Bradford Carpet
(C) The Bradford Carpet
(D) Needlework

8. According to the professor, what is the

definition of embroidery?
(A) Uses silk thread
(A) Needlework that makes clothes (B) Made in 17th Century
(B) Needlework that creates designs and (C) Has 58 scenes
pictures (D) Colors made with vegetable dyes
(C) Paintings that show famous scenes from
history
(D) Stitching strands of thread or wool 11. Why does the professor says this: ?
(A) To show the students how clever he is
9. Why does the professor mention the Battle (B) To remind the students of something
of Hastings? they know
(A) To test the students’ knowledge of history (C) To explain the story of the Bradford
(B) As part of a story about the Bradford Carpet
Carpet (D) To correct something he had said earlier
(C) As part of a story about his father
(D) It’s shown on a famous embroidery
12. What does the professor imply when he says
this: ?
(A) He likes machines.
(B) He wants new clothes.
(C) He doesn’t like hand embroidery.
(D) He likes hand embroidery.

Practice Test 181