Đề thi Toefl tháng 10 - 1998

Đề thi Toefl tháng 10 - 1998

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TWE Essay Question

Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience Compare the advantages of these two different ways of learning about life Which do you think is preferable? Use Specific examples to support your preference

Notes Use his space for essay notes only Work done on this worksheet will not be scored Write the complete final version of your essay on the TWE answer sheet.

Section One: Listening Comprehension

1 (A) Go to the basketball game

(B) Try to postpone the game

(C) Go to work

(D) Change her work schedule

2 (A) The man should consider changing jobs

(B) The style of the suit is out-of-date

(C) The color of the suit is not appropriate

(D) The man should buy the suit

3 (A) He thinks they should study at the woman’s

apartment

(B) He won’t have much time to study

(C) His apartment is messy

(D) His apartment is in a noisy area

4 (A) He lost Pam’s notes

(B) He tried to call Pam yesterday

(C) He wants the woman to call Pam

(D) He forgot to return the notes to Pam

5 (A) Speak to his teacher about the presentation

() Record himself practicing the presentation

{C) Listen to a tape of her presentation

(@) Ask someone else to do the presentation

6 (A) Stop bothering the woman

(B) Take the woman’s book with him

(C) Show the woman how to get to the library

(D) Ask someone else to go to the library

7 (A) He isn’t very hungry right now

(B) He regularly eats at this restaurant

(C) The selection on the menu is limited

(D) He doesn’t want salad with his lunch

8 (A) She’s still looking for an apartment

(B) She was told the dorm was full

(C) She doesn’t plan to move

(D) She wants to move out of the dorm

9 (A) She knows the man’s sister

(B) She wants to watch her sister play

(C) She thinks the man is a good soccer player

(D) She isn’t interested in soccer

10 (A) He'll schedule the woman for an afternoon : appointment

(B) He can’t schedule an appointment for the woman

(C) Dr Anderson will call the woman back

soon

(D) Dr Anderson’s schedule is full

11 (A) She-often spends time in the sun

(B) The sun has already gone down

(C) Too much sun makes her dizzy

(D) Her skin is sensitive to the sun

12 (A) She’s a very popular teacher

(B) She assigns too much work

(C) She only teaches one class

(D) She wants to change the class schedule

- 13 (A) He needs the woman to drive him

somewhere

(B) He wants to sell the car to the woman (C) He has to bring the car in for repairs (D) He’s satisfied with the car

14 (A) He’s been helping Bill with his studies (B) The woman is being unfair about Bill (C) Bill should consider quitting the track

(D) Walk downtown with the new students

16 (A) The assignment will be time-consuming

(B) She won’t do the assignment

(C) She wants to write a longer paper

(D) She’s not interested in social issues

17, (A) The man will easily find a place to live (B) Apartments will be less expensive next

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year before

(C) The man should move graduation

(D) Her lease ends after graduation

18 (A) He pians to get his hair cut

(B) He has a new hairstyle

(C) He works in a hair salon

(D) He decided to grow his hair fonger

19 (A) She'll put on a scarf fight away

(B) She doesn’t need a scarf

(C) She'll bring a scarf for the man

(D) She doesn’t have a scarf with her right

now

20 (A) He’s anxious to leave

(B) His watch doesn’t work

(C) He’s fate for an appointment

(D) He can’t see the clock

21 (A) Wait until his books arrive

(B) Go to the volleyball tournament

(C) Discuss the new with the woman

(D) Refuse the woman’s invitation

22 (A) He’ ll repay the woman soon

(B) He hasn’t received his financial statement

yet

(C) He can’t lend the woman any money

(D) His loan isn’t due yet

23 (A) Bill is waiting to hear the results of the

(D) The man should tell Bill to call Julie

24 (A) She doesn’t care much for jazz

(B) She doesn’t like to borrow things

(C) She doesn't have any audio equipment

(D) She doesn’t have much leisure time

25 (A) Dr Smith usually sees patients promptly

(B) Dr Smith is very busy on Mondays

(C) Dr Smith didn’t put thé man or his

(D) The man should have been more careful (A) John has been forgetful lately

(B) John is a wise leader

(C) Running for election has taken too much

of John’s time

(D) John now acts less friendly

(A) They get along with each other

(B) They look a lot alike

(C) They started fighting right away

(D) They used to be good friends

(A) Sally doesn’t know where the class is held

@) Sally might not have left for class

(C) Sally is waiting for the man in the lobby (D) Sally isn’t going to class.today

(A) They need to phone the hospital for an appointment

(B) They haven’t decided when to make the calls

(C) They hope the club will vote to help the

(D) They don’t need to make any more phone calls today

(A) It’s only open to poetry majors

(B) It requires another class first

(C) It’s already full

(D) It’s only offered in the morning

(A) The class meets during his working hours (B) the class is too far away

(C) He has another class at the same time () He’s already familiar with the material (A) All the other work schedules conflict with his classes

(B) He doesn’t want to ask his boss for another favor

(C) He wants to work the same schedule as his- friends

(D) He likes to do his homework in the evenings

34, (A) Its courses cost less

(B) It has a pool

(C) The class size is smaller

@) It may offer the class he needs during the

day

35 (A) An experiment in Antarctica

(B) The breaking off of part of the Larsen Ice

Shelf

(C) The formation of the Larsen Ice Shelf

(D) An expedition in Antarctica

36 (A) They could be a sign of global warming

®) They are disturbing Antarctic bird habitats

(C) They have destroyed research facilities

(D) They refute current scientific theories

37 (A) No melting has been observed

(B) The past several winters have been

unusually severe

(C) Nothing unusual has happened in other

parts of Antarctica

(D) The ice shelf had remained intact for

centuries despite the weather

38 (A) Warmer water temperatures

(B) Less aquatic life

(C) A rise in ocean level

(D) Colder winds

39 (A) How most species of spiders reproduce

(B) How one species of spider feeds its young

(C) How spiders defend their territory

(@) How Darwin experimented with spiders

40 (A) They eat one another

(B) They eat insects that they catch

(C) They build a new nest

(D) They are attacked by other species of

(D) The survival of the strongest in a species

contributes to the survival of that species

42, (A) Early newspapers in England

(B) The early history of magazines

(C) The life of Daniel Defoe

(D) Differences between newspapers and magazines

43 (A) Its publication was banned by the British

government

(B) It was the first weekly newspaper

(C) It caused a prison revolt

() It was the first magazine ever published

44 (A) It had many more pages than newspapers (B) It was given away for free

(C) It dealt with issues rather than events (@®) It was more widely available than newspapers

45 (A) He wrote articles critical of the Church of England

(B) He refused to stop publishing The Review (C) He refused to pay publishing taxes

(D) He refused to join the Church of England

46, (A) It was not really a magazine

(B) It featured a variety of articles and stories (C) It was praised by readers of poetry

() It was unpopular with politicians

47, (A) How artists gained fame

(B) A schedule of art exhibits

(C) One form of folk art

(D) The preservation of old paintings

48 (A) Very few were produced

(B) Most were kept only a short time

(C) Most were printed on delicate paper (D) Many have been acquired by collectors

49, (A) The excitement of hunting (B) The beauty of nature

(C) The relaxation of fishing

(D) The protection of endangered species

50 (A) To let many people see their works

@B) To earn money from the sale of calendars (C) To portray the cruelty of hunting

(@) To create gifts for people who bought their paintings

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Section Two: Structure and Written Expression

The socialization process explains — -of

societies through successive generations but

also the ability of a society’s members to have

meaningful interactions

(A) that continuity, only not

(B) continuity, only not that

(C) the only continuity not

(D) not only the continuity

Heat transfer takes place when with a

warmer substance

(A) is there a colder substance

(B) a colder substance comes into contact

(C) does the colder substance contact

(D) contacts a colder substance

Formerly called natural philosophy, physics has

retained of understanding the structure of

the natural world and explaining natural

Some bird species have a song that is totally

uninfluenced environment during their

development, whereas other species learn from

other birds while young

(A) the

(B) yet the

(C) since the

(D) by the

Prior to the eighteenth century, storms

formed and died out at the same location:

(A) a common belief that

(B) that a common belief

(C) it was commonly believed that

(D) because it was commonly believed

6 Grown widely in Iowa and Illinois, the soybean

provides one of the world’s sources of

protein.”

(A) useful and cheaper mostly

(B) cheapest and most useful

(C) cheapest and useful mostly

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(®) most cheaply and usefully

7 Copper used by humans and is second only

to iron in its utility through the ages

(A) the first metal (B) was the first metal (C) the first metal that (D) being the first metal are inert outside living cells, but within the appropriate cells they can replicate, causing viral diseases in the host organism

(A) Viruses

(B) That viruses

(C) Viruses, which

(D) Despite viruses The United States Constitution provides for a count of the population a census, every ten years

(A) that it is called (B) when called (C) called (D) as called

10 Digital recording has made -—- a significantly wider dynamic range, in recorded music (A) for the possibility

(B) the possibility is (C) it is possible () possible

11 Not only people to send words, music, and codes to any part of the world, it can also be used to communicate far into space

(A) enabled by radio (B) radio enables (C} does radio enable (D) radio has enabled

12 Allegory is a literary device — another level

of meaning is concealed within what is usually

a story

(A) which (B) by which (C) which is (D) which it is

13 The fact that —- was discovered in 1923 by

the astronomer Edwin Hubble

(A) the expansion of the universe

(B) the universe is expanding

(C) the universe, which is expanding

(D) when the universe expands

14 Today little fossil ivory remains comes

and lunar events

25 Neuropsychologist Marilyn Albert is looking beyond brain functions for

26 Incorporated in 1828, Louisville, Kentucky, was named from King Louis XVI of France in

any ceint on the Earth’s surface

30 Mercury and Venus are the only planets in the solar system where do not have moons

31 Carbohydrates, which include celtulose, sugary, and starches, % the most abundant class of opggnie

32 During the pre-Revolutionary period, the press in Britain’s North American colonies was subject to

of the Works Progress Administration known as Federal One

36 Essential a nineteenth-century instrument the calliope was usually played outdoors and was a part of

37, Winter broccoli has large, white heads similar to those of cauliflower, whereas sprouting broccoli

produces numerous small purplish, green, on white Sung,

D

38 Greenpeace, an international organization of environmental activists founded by Canadians, uses

A nonviolent means to protest and block activities it considers environmentally harm

Section Three: Reading Comprehension

The geology of the Earth’s surface is dominated by the particular properties of

water Present on Earth in solid, liquid, and gaseous states, water is exceptionally

reactive It dissolves, transports, and precipitates many chemical compounds and is

Line constantly modifying the face of the Earth

5 Evaporated from the oceans, water vapor forms clouds, some of: which are

transported by wind over the continents Condensation from the clouds provides the

essential agent of continental erosion: rain Precipitated onto the ground, the water

trickles down to form brooks, streams, and rivers, constituting what is called the

hydrographic network This immense polarized network channels the water toward a

18) single receptacle: an ocean Gravity dominates this entire step in the cycle because

water tends to minimize its potential energy by running from high altitudes toward the

reference point that is sea level

The rate at which a molecule of water passes through the cycle is not random but is

a measure of the relative size of the various reservoirs If we define residence time as

15) the average time for a water molecule to pass through one of the three reservoirs—

atmosphere, continent, and ocean—we see that the times are very different A water

molecule stays, on average, eleven days in the atmosphere, one hundred years on a

continent and forty thousand years in the ocean This last figure shows the importance

of the ocean as the principal reservoir of the hydrosphere but also the rapidity of water

20) transport on the continents

A vast chemical separation process takes places during the flow of water over the

continents Soluble ions such as calcium, sodium, potassium, and some magnesium are

dissolved and transported Insoluble ions such as aluminum, iron, and silicon stay

where they are and form the thin, fertile skin of soil on which vegetation can grow

25) Sometimes soils are destroyed and transported mechanically during flooding The

erosion of the continents thus results from two closely linked and interdependent

processes, chemical erosion and mechanical erosion Their respective interactions and

efficiency depend on different factors

1 The word “modifying” in line 4 is closest in 3 According to the passage, clouds are primarily

(B) traveling (B) changing from a solid to a liquid state

2 The word “which ”in line 5 refers to 4 The passage suggests that the purpose of the

(C) continents @) prevent soil erosion caused by flooding

@®) compounds (C) move water from the Earth’s surface to the

oceans

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(D) regulate the rate of water flow from 7 The word “they” in line 24 refers to

streams and rivers (A) insoluble ions

(B) soluble ions What determines the rate at which a molecule (C) soils

of water moves through the cycle, as discussed (D) continents

in the third paragraph?

8 All of the following are example of solublg

(A) The potential energy contained in water ions EXCEPT

(B) The effects of atmospheric pressure on (A) magnesium

(C) The amounts of rainfall that fall on the (C) potassium

(D) The relative size of the water storage areas

9 The word “efficiency ” in line 28.is closest in The word “rapidity ” in line 19 is closest in meaning to

(C) swiftness (D) effectiveness

(D) reliability

Questions 10-19

Among the species of seabirds that use the windswept cliffs of the Atlantic coast of

Canada in the summer to mate, lay eggs, and rear their young are common murres,

Atlantic puffins, black-iegged kittiwakes, and northem gannets Of all the birds on

Line these cliffs, the black-legged kittiwake gull is the best suited for nesting on narrow

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ledges Although its nesting habits are similar to those of gulls that nest on flat ground,

there are a number of important differences related to the cliff-nesting habit

The advantage of nesting on cliffs is the immunity it gives from foxes, which

cannot scale the sheer rocks, and from ravens and other species of gulls, which have

difficulty in landing on narrow ledges to steal eggs This immunity has been followed

10) by a relaxation of the defenses, and kittiwakes do not react to predators nearly as

fiercely as do ground-nesting gulls A colony of Bonaparte’s gulls responds to the

appearance of a predatory herring gull by flying up as a group with.a clamor of alarm

calls, followed by concerted mobbing, but kittiwakes simply ignore herring gulls, since

they pose little threat to nests on cliffs Neither do kittiwakes attempt to conceal their

15) nests Most gulls keep the nest area clear of droppings, and remove empty eggshells

after the chicks have hatched, so that the location of the nest is not given away

Kittiwakes defecate over the edge of the nest, which keeps it clean, but this practice, as

well as their tendency to leave the nest littered with eggshells, makes its location very

conspicuous

20) On the other hand, nesting on a narrow ledge has its own peculiar problems, and

kittiwake behavior has become adapted to overcome them The female kittiwake sits

when mating, whereas other gulls stand, so the pair will not overbalance and fall off the

ledge The nest is a deep cup, made of mud or seaweed, to hold the eggs safely,

compared with the shallow scrape of other gulls, and the chicks are remarkably

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25) immobile until fully grown They do not run from their nests when approached, and if

they should come near to the cliff edge, they instinctively turn back

10 What aspect of the kittiwake gull does the

passage mainly discuss?

(A) Its defensive behavior

(B) It interactions with other gull species

(C) Its nesting habits

(D) Its physical difference from other gull

(A) The kittiwakes can see the ravens

approaching the nest

(B) The ravens cannot jand on the narrow

ledges where kittiwakes nest

(C) The kittiwakes’ eggs are too big for the

16 According to the passage, it can be inferred that which of the following birds conceal their nest?

(A) Bonaparte’s gulls (B) Atlantic puffins (C) kittiwake gulls () Northern gannets

17 The word “it” in line 17 refers to (A) location

(B) edge (C) nest

‘D) practice

18 The word “conspicuous” in line 19 is closest

in meaning to (A) disordered (@) suspicious (C) noticeable (D) appealing

"19 The phrase “On the other hand ” in line 20 is closest in meaning to

(A) therefore (B) however (C) for example (D) by no means

Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, citizens of the United

States maintained a bias against big cities Most lived on farms and in small towns and