TOEFL LISTENING EXERCISE FOR SKILL 1-3

TOEFL EXERCISE SKILL 1

In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and quetion in the recording, and then choose the best answer to the question. You should focus carefully on the second line.

1.     a. He is leaving now

b. he has to gout of this way

c. he will not be leaving soon

d. he will do it his own way

2.     a. He locked the door

b. he tried unsuccessfully to get into the house

c. he was able to open the door

d. he left the house without locking the door

3.      a. She doesn’t like to listen to turkeys

b. she thinks the dinner sounds special

c. she especially like the roast turkey

d. she’d prefer a different dinner

4.      a. He will be busy with her homework tonight

b. he can’t help her tonight

c. he is sorry he can’t ever help her

d. he will help her with her physics

5.      a. Her eyes hurt

b. she thought the lecture was great

c. the class was boring

d. she didn’t want to watch Professor Martin

6.      a. Not all the bills have been paid

b. they don’t have enough credit to pay the bills

c. what she said on the phone was not credible

d. he used a credit card to pay some of thye bills

7.      a. She will call back quickly

b. she will definitely be back by 04.00

c. she will give it back by 04.00

d. she will try to return fast

8.      a. She hasn’t seen Tim

b. Tim was there only for a moment

c. Tim was around a short time ago

d. Tim will return in a minute

9.      a. She doesn’t like the place he chose

b. she doesn’t want to get into the car

c. she’s glad he spot is reserved

d. they can’t park the car there

10.  a. There’ s plenty to eat

b. the refrigerator’s broken

c. the food isn’t in the refrigerator

d. he is not sure if there’s enough

TOEFL EXERCISE SKILL 2

In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and question in the recording program, and then choose the best answer to the question. You should look for synonyms for keywords in the second line.

1.     a. The final exam was harder than the others

b. there were two exams rather than one

c. he thought the exam would be     easier

d. the exam was not very difficult

2.      a. He is not feeling very well

b. he is rather sick of working

c. he is feeling better today than yesterday

d. he’d really rather not answer the question

3.      a. The company was founded about a year ago

b. it was just established that he could go into business

c. the family is well established

d. the business only lasted a year

4.      a. He didn’t look at the right schedule

b. the plan landed in the right place

c. th plane arrived on time

d. he had to wait for the plan to land

5.      a. she’d rather go running

b. she doesn’t want to go into the pool

c. she’ll change clothes quickly and go swimming

d. she needs a sweatsuit to go running

6.      a. The firefighter saved the homes for last

b. A firefighter saved the hillside lastnight

c. the homes on the hillside were burned

d. the houses weren’t destroyed

7.      a. There’s enough soup

b. the spices are adequate

c. she thinks the soup’s too salty

d. the man should add more salt and pepper

8.      a. He was lucky to receive a grant for his studies

b. he used his fortune to pay his fees

c. he is a scholar at a college with low fees

d. he paid to get a scholarship

9.      a. It profited from previous mistakes

b. it earned a lot of money

c. this was the last year that it would make a profit

d. it was not so successfull

10.  a. Chuck’s bank account has too much money in it

b. he thinks Chuck has the wrong kind of bank account

c. he thinks that Chuck is on his way home from the bank

d. there isn’t enough money in Chuck’s account

TOEFL EXERCISE SKILL 3

 In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and question in the recording program, and then choose the best answer to the question. You should be careful to avoid with similar sounds.

1.     a. She has to wait for some cash

b. the waiter is bringing a glass of water

c. the lawn is too dry

d. she needs to watch out for a crash

2.      a. The sweater’s the wrong size

b. the man’s feet aren’t sweating

c. the sweater makes the man seem fat

d. the sweet girl doesn’t feel right

3.      a. he has been regularly using a computer

b. he communicates with a boston company

c. he regularly goes to communities around Boston

d. he has been traveling back and forth to Boston

4.      a. He thought the lesson didn’t matter

b. he couldn’t learn the lesson

c. he learned a massive number of details

d. he didn’t like most of the lesson

5.      a. Some animals started the first fire

b. animals are killed by forest fires

c. in the first frost animals die

d. frost can kill animals.

6.      a. Twenty pairs of shoes are on sale

b. the shoe salesclerk spent twenty dollars on pears

c. the shoes cost twenty dollars

d. the shoes could be repaired for twenty dollars

7.      a. Tom tended to dislike biology lab

b. attendance wasn’t necessary at biology lab

c. tom went to biology lab

d. there was a tendency to require biology lab

8.      a. The meal will be served at noon

b. the males should be driven there by noon

c. he’s expecting the ice to melt before noon

d. the letters ought to be delivered at 12.00

9.      a. The weather will probably get worse later

b. the newspaper headlines describes a bad storm

c. there was news about a headstrong man

d. he had a new bed

10.  a. If she could do the grocery shopping

b. if she prefers cooked vegetables or salad

c. if she could help prepare the salad

d. if she minds shopping for vegetables

TOEFL EXERCISE (skill 1-3)

In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and question in the recording program, and then choose the best answer to the question.

1.      a. He would like some iced coffee

b. he wants to stop drinking coffee

c. a drink seems like a good idea

d. he needs to drnk something to stop his cough

2.      a. She would prefer a sunny day

b. the park is too crowded

c. she would like a place that is not so loud

d. she cannot walk because she’s too old

3.      a. He should open an account

b. he should take a ride on a ship

c. he should try to keep the cost cheap

d. he should try something monotonous to get to sleep

4.      a. The department is not changing the requirements

b. he hasn’t heard anything about the change

c. the changes are believable

d. what has happened is incredible to him

5.      a. The wait has taken close to an hour

b. they were stranded in their car

c. most of the people have been in line for hours

d. they made a line in the sand

  

6.      a. The instructor is selecting several passages

b. the conductor is fair to the passangers

c. the stamp collector is conducting his business

d. the riders are paying for the train trip

7.      a. the managers will take the train to the program

b. a program to develop new managers will commence soon

c. the new management program is very weak

d. the program will be maintained to the letter

8.      a. The fire started to attack the building

b. the firefighter stared at the attacker

c. the fire probably began at the top of the building

d. the firefighter started to attack the fire

9.      a. He assured the woman that he knew the truth

b. he is sure that it isn’ new

c. he thought that the woman was aware of what happened

d. he soon will know the truth

10.  a. The art professor is not one of his fans

b. his drawing were amazing

c. the catches that he made were fantastic

d. his sketches showed a fantasy world