SIMULATION 1 5. What does the man prefer to do?

A. He prefers staying at home because he doesn't like to travel.

SECTION 1: LISTENING COMPREHENSION B. He prefers taking a plane because the bus is too slow.
Dialogues-Implications C. He prefers taking a bus because the plane makes him nervous.
In some dialogues in the Listening Section on the Paper-Based TOEFL, you D. He prefers traveling with the woman.
will be asked to draw general conclusions about the speakers or the situation.
Words and phrases and the tone of voice of speakers in the conversation will 6. Where does this conversation most likely take place?
provide information for your conclusions. Choose the best answer. A. On a reservation. C. At a restaurant.
B. At a party. D. In a bakery.
l . What does the man imply?
A. He will not use the book. 7. What conclusion does the man want us to draw from his statement?
B. He will use the book in the library for two hours. A. Sally is serious about Bob. C. Sally is not serious about Bob.
C. He will check the book out before closing. B. Bob is serious about Sally. D. Bob is not serious about Sally.
D. He will reserve the book.
8. What are these people most probably
2. What does the man imply? discussing?
A. The woman cannot get a soda. A. Weights and measurements. C. Employment.
B. He will go downstairs to get the woman a soda. B. Political systems. D. Money.
C. The woman should go downstairs to get a soda.
D. He does not know where to get a soda. 9. What does the man think about Jane?
A. She will go away. C. She will not quit her job.
3. What do we know about the woman? B. She will be sorry. D. She will not buy him a present.
A. She thought she had applied to the right school.
B. She attends an American university now. l0. What do we learn about Betty from this conversation?
C. She does not have to take the TOEFL. A. She does not like plays.
D. She graduated from an American high school. B. She went to see the play with the man and woman.
C. She had not planned to attend the play.
4. What did the man mean? D. She was not at the play.
A. The woman was in line for a long time.
B. The man was in line longer than the woman.
C. The man registered quickly.
D. The woman did not register.

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SECTION 2: STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION (B) than do those (D) ones
Directions: Select the one word or phrase - (A), (B), (C), or (D) – that best
completes the sentence. Then fill in the space on your answer sheet that 8. Exactly _________ humans domesticated animals is not known.
matches the letter of the answer that you have selected. (A) how (C) if
(B) by means of (D) by which
1. _________ dancer Isadora Duncan played a major role in the revolution in
dance that took place in the early twentieth century. 9. Jerome Kern’s most famous work is Showboat, _________, most enduring
(A) Because the (C) She was a musical comedies.
(B) The (D) Being a (A) it is one of the finest (C) the finest one
(B) of the finest one (D) one of the finest
2. Water pressure _________ cracks open small rocks but also breaks great
slabs of stone from the faces of cliffs. 10. _________ snowfield on a mountain slope reaches a depth of about 100
(A) either (B) not only (C) and so (D) moreover feet, it begins to move slowly forward under its own weight.
(A) Whenever a (C) That a
3. _________ types of guitars: acoustic and electric. (B) A (D) Should a
(A) Basically, there are two (C) Basically, two
(B) Two of the basic (D) They are two basic Directions: The items in this part have four underlined words or phrases, (A),
(B), (C) and (D). You must identify the one underlined expression that must
4. Both longitude and latitude _________ in degrees, minutes, and seconds. be changed for the sentence to be correct. Then find the number of the
(A) measuring (C) are measured question on your answer sheet and fill in the space corresponding to the letter.
(B) measured (D) being measured

5. New words are constantly being invented _________ new objects and 11. In an essay writing in 1779, Judith Sergeant Murray promoted
A B
concepts.
the cause of women’s education.
(A) to describe (C) they describe C D
(B) a description to (D) describe
12. A metallic object that is in contact with a magnet becomes a magnet
6. Modern saw blades are coated with a special _________ plastic. A B C
themselves.
(A) reduction of friction (C) friction is reduced D
(B) reduced-friction (D) friction-reducing
13. The change from summer to winter occurs very abrupt in the tundra
7. Bricks baked in a kiln are much harder _________ that are dried in the sun. A B C
regions of North America.
(A) those (C) than those
D

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14. In outer space, spacecraft can be maneuvered by means small steering SECTION 3
A B C D READING COMPREHENSION
rockets.
Question 1 - 10
15. Echoes occur when sound waves strike a smooth surface and bounces (Line)
A B C D According to the best evidence gathered by space probes and
backwards. astronomers, Mars is an inhospitable planet, more similar to Earth's
Moon than to Earth itself – a dry, stark, seemingly lifeless world.
16. A good carpentry must possess a wide variety of skills. Mars' air pressure is equal to Earth's at an altitude of 100,000 feet.
A B C D 5 The air there is 95% carbon dioxide. Mars has no ozone layer to
screen out the Sun's lethal radiation. Daytime temperatures may reach
17. Grover Cleveland was the only American president which served two above freezing, but because the planet is blanketed by the mere wisp
A B C
of an atmosphere, the heat radiates back into space. Even at the
nonconsecutive terms.
D equator, the temperature drops to -50°C (-60°F) at night. Today there
10 is no liquid water, although valleys and channels on the surface show
18. The American soprano Mary Gardner, who had one of the greatest evidence of having been carved by running water. The polar ice caps
A B are made of frozen water and carbon dioxide, and water may be
operatic voices of her era, retired at the height of the career.
frozen in the ground as permafrost.
C D
Despite these difficult conditions, certain scientists believe
19. On nights when is the sky clear and the air calm, the Earth’s surface 15 that there is a possibility of transforming Mars into a more Earth-like
A B planet. Nuclear reactors might be used to melt frozen gases and
rapidly radiates heat into the atmosphere. eventually build up the atmosphere. This in turn could create a
C D "greenhouse effect" that would stop heat from radiating back into
space. Liquid water could be thawed to form a polar ocean. Once
20. Dreams are commonly made up of both visual or verbal images.
A B C D 20 enough ice has melted, suitable plants could be introduced to build up
the level of oxygen in the atmosphere so that, in time, the planet
would support animal life from Earth and even permanent human
colonies. "This was once thought to be so far in the future as to be
irrelevant," said Christopher McKay, a research scientist at the
25 National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "But now it's starting
to look practical. We could begin work in four or five decades."
The idea of "terra-forming" Mars, as enthusiasts call it, has
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 profound understanding of how Earth's ecology supports life, they 7. The word "suitable" in line 20 is closest in meaning to ____
30 have begun to see how it may be possible to create similar conditions (A) resistant (C) appropriate
on Mars. Don't plan on homesteading on Mars any time soon, though. (B) altered (D) native
The process could take hundreds or even thousands of years to 8. According to Christopher McKay, the possibility of transforming Mars ___
complete, and the cost would be staggering. (A) could occur only in science fiction stories
(B) will not begin for hundreds, even thousands of years
1. With which of the following is the passage primarily concerned? (C) is completely impractical
(A) The possibility of changing the Martian environment (D) could be started in 40 to 50 years
(B) The challenge of interplanetary travel 9. As used in line 27, the term "terra-forming" refers to ____
(C) The advantages of establishing colonies on Mars (A) a process for adapting plants to live on Mars
(D) The need to study the Martian ecology (B) a means of transporting materials through space
2. The word "stark" in line 3 is closest in meaning to ____ (C) a method of building housing for colonists on Mars
(A) harsh (C) dark (D) a system of creating Earth-like conditions on other planets
(B) unknown (D) distant 10. The phrase "more profound" in lines 29 is closest in meaning to ____
3. The word "there" in line 5 refers to ____ (A) deeper (C) more up-to-date
(A) a point 100 miles above the Earth (C) Mars (B) more practical (D) brighter
(B) the Earth's Moon (D) outer space
4. Which of the following does the author NOT list as a characteristic of the
planet Mars that would make colonization difficult?
(A) There is little liquid water.
(B) Daytime temperatures are dangerously high.
(C) The Sun's rays are deadly.
(D) Nighttime temperatures are extremely low.
5. According to the passage, the Martian atmosphere today consists mainly of
(A) carbon dioxide (C) ozone
(B) oxygen (D) water vapor
6. It can be inferred from the passage that the "greenhouse effect" mentioned
in line 18 is ____
(A) the direct result of nuclear reactions
(B) the cause of low temperatures on Mars
(C) caused by the absence of green plants
(D) a possible means of warming Mars

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