TOEFL Mock Test 80: Short Talks
Read the conversations below and choose the best answers for the following questions.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
1. Narrator: Let us continue with the economic status of Senegal. This French-speaking in West Africa is one of the most economically advanced countries in Africa. The people’s main source of living is based on agriculture for this country is primarily an agricultural one. The major sectors aside from agriculture are fishing and livestock raising. When it comes to their cash crop, peanut is the principal source. The cultivated area for peanuts is about 40 percent. Most of them are for export earnings. Along with that, they also encourage the people to nurture rice, sugarcane, cotton and other vegetables as not to be highly dependent on peanut. Aside from planting, we mentioned livestock right? Well, this is more prevalent in the northern part of the country. Others tend goat, sheep, cattle and pigs. Fishing is widely done as well and so they started exporting tuna and shrimp in the 1980’s. And, uh, their economic status is highly affected by their phosphate production too. Question: What kind of animal do they tend in livestock?
- A.
Horses and cattles
- B.
Cows and sheeps
- C.
Chickens and other birds
- D.
Chickens and eggs
Correct Answer
C. Chickens and other birds -
- 2.
The word prevalent in the passage is closest in meaning to
- A.
Recognizable
- B.
Powerful
- C.
Predominant
- D.
Well-known
Correct Answer
C. Predominant -
- 3.
What is a cash crop?
- A.
It is a crop that is common to a country
- B.
It is an agricultural plant locally
- C.
It needs huge amount for planting wide lands
- D.
It is a crop grown for profit
Correct Answer
D. It is a crop grown for profit -
- 4.
Narrator: The plants reproduction is produced by seed plants. The male sex cells which are formed in the male apparatus of the seed-bearing plants are produced by pollen grains. These serve as the fertilizing bodies. The process by which these grains are transferred to the flowers pistil and unite with the female egg is called pollination. The ovary contains the potential ovules and a stalk with a pollen perceptive tip called stigma. This swollen base is consisted by the pistil. It forms a pollen tube that grows down through the pistil and into the tube fuses with the egg cell of the ovule, fertilization takes place. The ovule will then develop into a seed. Other plants have flowers with both stamen and pistils are proficient of self-pollination. Some of the plants are called universal; they have either the stamen or the pistil. Fertilization in this kind of plants can be achieved by cross-pollination. They mainly rely on external agents though to transport pollen. Question: The word potential in the passage in closest in meaning to
- A.
Struggling
- B.
Healthy
- C.
Capable
- D.
Well developed
Correct Answer
B. Healthy -
- 5.
The word proficient in the passage is closest in meaning to
- A.
Competent
- B.
Able
- C.
Designed
- D.
Poor
Correct Answer
B. Able -
- 6.
What are the best examples of external agents in this passage?
- A.
Water, insects and female egg
- B.
Insects, water and wind
- C.
Wind, sex cell and insects
- D.
Egg cell, wind and insects
Correct Answer
B. Insects, water and wind -
- 7.
1. Narrator: We tend to think about emotionally charged situations as the simplest idea, maybe negative as well as positive more than we think about neutral ones. We rehearse and organize exciting memories more than we do with the blander ones. The best example is when you know, sometimes, you may forget where you saw a movie you watched some time. However, an incident will dominate your thoughts if a fire breaks our while you are in the theater. That is why they say that through rehearsing and organizing our thoughts that we may describe a certain setting over and over to our friends. Same with thinking it all along to yourself. They say that we are already aware that rehearsing and organizing can improve retrieval from long-term memory. According to Neisser and Rapaport, memory is at its best during emotional situations and is better for emotional people than those who are unemotional or let us say people who convey diminutive emotion. Question: The word blander in the passage is closest in meaning to
- A.
Plain
- B.
Extreme
- C.
Worse
- D.
Irritating
Correct Answer
A. Plain -
- 8.
The following statements are NOT true except
- A.
We care more about sad moments
- B.
We usually remember stimulating events
- C.
Organizing is the only solution to improving long-term memory
- D.
Rehearsing is better for emotionally equipped people
Correct Answer
B. We usually remember stimulating events -
- 9.
The word retrieval in the passage is closest in meaning to
- A.
Loss
- B.
Rescue
- C.
Restor
- D.
Back up
Correct Answer
C. Restor -
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