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© She is describing the fighting during a Civil War battle

© She is describing the re-enactment of a Civil War battle

© She is describing the lack of interest in learning history

© She is describing the difficulty of saving Civil War battlefields

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13 What does Professor Nugent mean when he says this? G)

© He disagrees with Ms Adams’s viewpoint and wants to express his own

© He wants to respond to what David said before Ms Adams does

© He agrees with what David said and wants to add his own comment

© He wants David to clarify his comment before Ms Adams responds

(Questions 14 and 15 are from the lecture in Lesson 11 about Emily Dickinson.)

» Listen again to part of the lecture Then answer the question

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14 What does the professor mean when she says this? G)

© She has talked about Whitman's life, now she wants to discuss his poetry

©) She now wants to talk about the other great voice in nineteenth-century American poetry

©) She is now going to continue her discussion of Walt Whitman

©) She momentarily forgot what she was going to say about nineteenth-

century poetry

» Listen again to part of the lecture Then answer the question

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15 What does the professor mean when she says this? @)

© The poems are not difficult to understand

©) The students don't have to read all of the poems

© The poems are not very long

©) The students have already read the poems

LESSON 13

ORDERING AND MATCHING QUESTIONS

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Ordering questions and matching questions require a general understanding

of the lecture or at least a major section of the lecture These two types of questions are asked only about the lectures and academic discussions, not about

conversations

(A) Ordering Questions

Ordering questions require you to put four (sometimes three) events or steps ina process into the correct order Anytime a speaker presents events in chronological order (the order in which they occurred), a biography of a person, the steps of a process, or a ranking of things according to their importance, there will probably

be an ordering question Listen for time words (years, dates) and words that signal

a sequence

before that afterwards first earlier than next second

As you take notes, use numbers to keep track of the order of events or steps in the sequence You can circle these numbers to make them easier to find

Remember: The order in which the speaker mentions events or steps is not nec- essarily the order in which they happened

To answer ordering questions on the computer, first click on one of the four words, phrases, or sentences in the top half of the screen and then drag and drop it into the appropriate box (labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4) in the lower half of the screen The expression from the top will then appear in the box that you dropped it into Do this for all four boxes If you change your mind, click on the answer that you wish

to change and your original choice will disappear from the box

You need to figure out the correct positions for only three answers because the fourth answer must go in the remaining blank

Sample Item 1 Here is a section of a presentation from the Listening Preview Test and an ordering question about it Sample notes on this section of the lecture are also provided

(You can see a script of this lecture in the Answer Key/Audioscript book or online

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Important Space Probes:

(4)Magellan—’90—4 years—radar maps—volcanoes Mariner 2—=62—1st — (Mariner 1 blew up)

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The speaker mentions the space probe Magellan first This was launched in

1990 He then goes on to mention the first probe sent to Venus, which was

launched in 1962 He next discusses the Soviet Union's probe Venera 4, which was

launched in 1967 The last probe he mentions is the Venus Pioneer, launched in

1978 Except for the first probe, Magellan, the speaker lists the probes in chrono-

logical order Magellan is actually the most recent Therefore, the correct order is A

Mariner 2, D Venera 4, B Venus Pioneer 2, and C Magellan

You will probably see one or two ordering questions in each Listening Section

(B) Matching Questions

Matching questions require you to connect three words, phrases, or sentences with

three categories somehow related to them If the lecturer or speaker lists three or

more general concepts and then gives definitions, examples, characteristics, or

uses of those concepts, you will probably see a matching question

As you take notes, you should normally list specific characteristics of a general

concept under that concept You can then use your notes to answer the questions

To answer a matching question on the computer, click on one of the three

expressions in the top half of the screen and then drag and drop it into the box

below the expression that you think is related to it That word or phrase will then

appear in the box you dropped it into Do this for all three boxes If you change

your mind, click on the item again and the choice will disappear

For these questions, you really need to find only two correct choices because

the third choice must obviously go in the remaining empty box

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Here is a section of a lecture from the Listening Preview Test and a matching

question about it Sample notes are also provided (You can see a script of this

conversation in the Answer Key/Audioscript book or online at http://elt.thomson

com/toefl.)

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» Listen to part of a lecture in a biology class GP

Sample Notes:

Taiga: 3 sub-zones

1 open forest—needle-leaf (= evergrn = connif.)

small, far apart sim to tundra w/ few sm trees

2 closed forest—bigger needle-leaf, closer together

feels like real forest not much var’ty _ doz spec

3 mixed zone—even bigger trees some broadlf (=decid.) trees esp bu

rivers, etc

e.g larch, aspen

CE more like temperate forests

Sample Question:

The professor discussed three sub-zones of the taiga Match each sub-zone with its characteristic

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B Closed forest C Mixed forest

The professor describes open forest as having only needle-leaf trees that grow far apart, so choice A should be placed in the third box He describes closed forest

as having needle-leaf trees larger than those in an open forest He says it feels more like a real forest and lacks variety Choice B should therefore be placed in the first box The professor says that mixed forest contains even bigger trees and some broad-leaf trees, especially along rivers and creeks Therefore, you should place C

in the second box (Besides, this is the only empty box, so you have to put choice

C here!) You will probably see one or two matching questions per Listening Section

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EXERCISE 13.1

Focus: Answering ordering and matching questions about lectures and academic

discussions

DIRECTIONS: Listen to the lectures and discussions and the questions about them

You may take notes on the lectures in the space allowed in the book or on another

sheet of paper As you take notes, try to decide what ordering and matching ques-

tions might be asked about the lectures You may use your notes to help you

answer the questions

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1 The lecturer discusses the steps involved in the creation of coal Summarize

this process by putting the steps in the proper order

During the decomposition process, plants lose oxygen and hydrogen

Layers of sand and mud put pressure on the peat

Plants grow in swampy areas

Plants die and fall into swampy waters

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4 The lecturer mentions four types of crops that are grown in Harrison County Rank these four types of crops in their order of economic importance, begin- ning with the most important

A Heirloom crops

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5 Match the type of wheat with the product that is most often made from it

A Soft white wheat B Hard red wheat C Durum wheat

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6 The professor discusses some of the history of Antarctic exploration

Summarize this history by putting these events in the correct chronological

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A Shackleton’s expedition approaches the South Pole

B Scott’s party reaches the South Pole

C Byrd flies over the South Pole

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