TOEFL iBT Listening Practice Questions

But the formula for a well-crafted play required that some of these elements be included in a certain order, and—most importantly—that. Exposition is the background information you need to reveal to the audience so they understand what is going on. The next key element of a well-crafted play is called “the inciting incident.”

Now, the plot of a well-made drama is usually driven by secrets—er, things that the audience knows but the characters often don't. And before the secrets are revealed to the main characters, the plot of the show continues as a series of up and down moments. Thus, as I said, the well-made drama—this form of playwriting—became the basis for realism in drama and for many very popular plays of the nineteenth century—and also a model we find in the plots of many later plays. and even the movies we see today.

According to the professor, why do some playwrights write the end of a play before the beginning. According to the professor, what dramatic elements are typically included in a well-made play to move the plot forward. C Information known to the audience, but not to the main characters. D The movement of main characters from one setting to another.

B To indicate that his point is unrelated to the main topic of the lecture C To emphasize one element of the performance above all others.

What is the conversation mainly about?

What does the professor imply about the upcoming test?

Based on the conversation, indicate whether each of the following is offered by health clubs. Choose the correct boxes

What does the professor imply about public libraries?

Why does the student say this

Listening Practice Set 3 Answers

Listening Practice Set 4

What is the lecture mainly about?
The professor discusses the process of basal slip. Put the steps in the correct order
What factors are involved in the amount of deformation a glacier undergoes? Choose 2 answers
What does the professor say about the speed of glaciers?

Now there are a few factors that affect the amount of deformation that occurs or the speed of the, er, glacier's movement. For example, deformation is more likely to occur the thicker the ice - due to the gravity of the weight of the ice. And temperature plays a role here too, in that cold ice doesn't move as easily as ice closer to its melting point - in fact, it's not too different from, uh, the way oil, uh, is thicker , at low temperatures not. .

So if you have a glacier in a slightly warmer region, it will flow faster than a glacier in a cooler region. Your textbook includes these as types—as a distinct type—of glacial movement, but you'll find that there are as many textbooks that leave it out as one type of movement as it includes it. But, ah, basically, the upper parts of the glaciers have less pressure on them, so they don't deform as easily, they tend to be more fragile.

And fissures can form in these upper layers of the glacier when the glacier comes into contact with rock faces or, ahem, is otherwise under some kind of stress, but can't deform fast enough. So the ice will expand or contract, and this can cause large fissures, large cracks that form in the surface layers of the ice. And that brittle surface ice moving is sometimes considered a type of glacial movement, depending on which source you consult.

Such speeds are now quite unusual, hundreds of times faster than the ordinary movement of glaciers—. B Landscape changes caused by glacial movement C Climate changes affecting glacial movement D Causes of glacial formation. If you e.g. leaving an ice pole supported at only one end, the end—the unsupported end—will.

A A characteristic of ice associated with glacier movement B How scientists first discovered that glaciers can move C That factors such as temperature can affect the strength of ice D Why deformation is the most common type of glacier movement.

Listening Practice Set 5

What point does the professor make about Julian when he mentions that Julian’s art school offered some classes only for women?
What does the professor emphasize as one benefit of competition in women’s classes?
According to the professor, what were two ways that the situation of women artists had changed by the end of the nineteenth century in Paris? Choose 2 answers
What does the professor imply about Bashkirtseff’s painting In the Studio?
What does the professor mean when he says this

Professor Well, as I said, Julian was a brilliant businessman with progressive ideas—he saw that another small private art school, where all the students were women, was very popular at the time, and maybe that's why he adopted classes for women only. And the teacher would rank the art of all the students in the class, from best to worst. She thought her classmate's art was much better than hers, and this gave her an incentive to do better.

And even though Bashkirtseff could not study in the same classes as men, she had an impact as an artist. Female student It was a big exhibition, um, a big art show that they had every year in Paris. Professor You can have a painting or sculpture in the Salon and go back to your home country and say you were a success in Paris.

And by the last two decades of the nineteenth century, one-fifth of the paintings in the drawing room were of women—far more than in the past. Interestingly, this masterpiece, called In the Studio, is a painting of the interior of Julian's art school. In fact, Bashkirtseff actually followed Julian's clever suggestion and painted his classmates in a school class with the artist only on the far right - a great advertisement for the school, when the picture ended up hanging in the Salon, it never was for the women's studio.

A Why the Salon exhibitions became popular among women artists in Paris B Why French society did not approve of art schools for women. C How opportunities for women artists improved in Paris D How women artists collaborated with each other in Paris. What point is the professor making about Julian when he mentions that Julian's art school offered some classes only for women.

According to the professor, what were two ways in which the situation of women artists changed in Paris towards the end of the nineteenth century. Professor If you wanted to be an artist, Paris was not a good place to go - Paris was the place to go.

Listening Practice Set 6

What are the speakers mainly discussing?
Who is buying new jackets for the team?
Why is the woman surprised to learn that she has been chosen as the new team captain?
What does the man mean when he says this

It's great that former players still care so much about our school and our basketball program. And the next thing is that Mary is transferring to another college next week, so we will need someone to take over her role as captain for the second half of the season. And you've been unanimously chosen by the other players to take over as captain when Mary leaves.

I think one of the first things I need to do as captain is to make sure we get a thank you card out to the lady who buys the jackets for us. A How the woman should prepare for the next match B The woman's responsibilities as team captain C Things that happened while the woman was away D The style of the new team uniforms. Why is the woman surprised to hear that she has been chosen as the new team captain.

Listening Practice Set 7

In what way is The Moonstone different from earlier works featuring a detective?
According to the professor, what do roses in The Moonstone represent?
Why does the professor mention a smeared bit of paint in a doorway in The Moonstone?
Narrator What can be inferred about the professor when he says this?
Narrator What does the professor imply when he says this?

Inspector Lestrade, this well-meaning idiot, is always opposed by Sherlock Holmes, who is a genius. Cuff is the man who comes to solve the mystery, and again he has many of the characteristics that future detectives will have in the history of this genre. He is a fanatic of rose breeding; and think here of Nero Wolfe and his orchids, Sherlock Holmes and his violin; many of those later classic detective heroes have this kind of outside interest.

And most importantly, from a kind of existential point of view, these detectives see things that other people don't. And that's why the detective is such an important figure, I think, in our modern imagination. In the case of The Moonstone—I don't want to say too much here and spoil it for you—but the clue to which is the key.

Of course, the regular police missed this smear or made some unwarranted assumption about it. Cuff sees this smear of paint—this paint, the place where the paint was smeared—. B Ways in which detective novels have changed over time C The Moonstone as a model for later detective novels D Flaws that can be found in the plot of The Moonstone.

A In its unusual ending B In its unique characters C In its focus on a serious crime D In its greater length. A A key clue leading to the solution of the mystery B A relief and comfort to the detective. B To show how realistically the author describes the crime scene C To illustrate a pattern repeated in many other detective stories D To illustrate the superior techniques used by the police.

Male Professor Uh, it's hard at this point to read this novel and realize that no one has ever done this before, because everything seems so familiar.