In this section of the test, you will hear talks and conversations. Each talk or conversation is followed by one question. Choose the best answer to each question. You will hear each talk or conversation only one time.
What is probably true about the speakers?
They are working on a school project.
They are currently at an art gallery.
They are on a field trip.
They are taking pictures of the objects.
What are the speakers mainly talking about?
The recent history test that they took.
How much they enjoy Mr. Warren’s class.
The chances of having a pop test in class.
The failure of one of the boys to do the reading.
What is the student’s problem?
He is not paying close attention in class.
He is speaking with his friends in class too much.
He has gotten low grades on his recent assignments.
He finds the material they are studying to be hard.
What can be inferred about the boy?
He intends to have a science club meeting in a week.
He thinks being the president of the science club is too hard.
He is no longer interested in the science club.
He enjoys working together with Mr. Kipley.
What does the girl imply when she says this: “That’s smart thinking”?
She wants to give the boy some help.
She has come up with a good idea.
She knows how to solve the problem.
She supports the boy's action.
What is probably true about the teacher?
She enjoyed the girl’s presentation.
She is going to prepare for the projector.
She will give the girl an extension.
She forgot about the girl’s assignment.
What is the main topic of the announcement?
Why the students need to listen to the teacher.
How to be safe in the laboratory.
Which experiment they will conduct.
The clothes students should wear.
What does the teacher ask the students to do?
Read a passage in their books
Name some figures of speech
Write a short poem
Think of some similes
Why does the teacher talk about the slippery floor?
To explain how long the floor will be slick
To give some rules on how to behave while at school
To warn the students so that they do not get hurt
To tell the students what happened to the receptionist
Now you will hear longer talks or conversations. Each talk or conversation is followed by three or more questions. Choose the best answer to each question. You will hear each talk or conversation only one time.
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the principal explaining?
The work that the girl is expected to do
How he expects the girl to behave
The type of studying the girl must do
Where the school’s facilities are located
According to the principal, what will happen to a student who cheats two times?
The student will get detention.
The student will fail the class.
The student will get suspended.
The student will be expelled.
What is probably true about the girl?
She is attending her second school of the semester.
She is going to graduate at the end of the year.
She gets higher grades than most of her classmates.
She has been misbehaving in her classes lately.
What will the girl probably do next?
Ask the principal some questions
Go to her first class
Study at the library
Stay after school for detention
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the students mainly discussing?
The boy's interest in politics
Why the girl wants to be a doctor
A field trip they will go on
A project they are working on
How does the girl probably feel when she says this: “You've got to be kidding me”?
She is amused.
She is concerned.
She is pleased.
She is surprised.
What will the boy probably do tomorrow?
Make a visit to the hospital
Stay home from school
Attend a city council meeting
Ask the mayor a question
What does the boy say about hospitals?
He volunteers at them sometimes.
He dislikes them a great deal.
He avoids them whenever he can.
He hopes to work in one someday.
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the speakers mainly talking about?
The boy’s recent contributions to class
How the boy did on his last assignment
The boy’s grade in the teacher’s class
How the boy can improve his study methods
According to the boy, why is he talking more in class?
He wants to improve his participation grade.
The teacher is calling on him more often.
He is confident since he knows the answers.
The teacher previously asked him to speak more.
Why does the teacher mention the boy’s other instructors?
To warn the boy that some of them dislike him
To claim that they are pleased with his improvement
To say that he is getting A’s in all of their courses
To praise them for helping the boy improve his work
What does the teacher imply about most of her students?
They rarely speak in her class.
They have behavioral problems.
They study less than they should.
They envy the boy’s accomplishments.
What will the boy probably do next?
Return to his homeroom
Eat lunch in the cafeteria
Go to his gym class
Meet one of his friends
Listen and answer the questions.
What does the boy mean when he says this: “You’re telling me”?
He wants the girl to repeat herself.
He agrees with the girl’s comment.
He does not like being told what to do.
He heard what the girl said.
Where does the boy work?
At a gas station
At a clothing store
At a drugstore
At a supermarket
When did the girl quit her job?
At the beginning of summer vacation
Before the start of the semester
One month into the semester
Two weeks ago
Why does the boy suggest that the girl wait to get a job?
To make sure that her grades do not go down
To enable her to find a high-paying job
To avoid having to quit the girls’ volleyball team
To let her enjoy her free time a little longer
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the purpose of the discussion?
To explain how a person can run for president
To talk about the American Founding Fathers
To describe the role of the Electoral College
To review the history of colonial America
According to the teacher, what kind of government does the United States have?
A republic
A capitalist government
A democracy
A dictatorship
Why does the boy mention the Electoral College?
To describe how it functions
To express his dislike for it
To discuss the number of electors in it
To ask the girl a question about it
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the teacher mainly discussing?
The military conquests of Genghis Khan
The life of Genghis Khan
Why Genghis Khan fought many battles
The strategies of Genghis Khan
According to the teacher, how did Temujin increase the size of his tribe?
By encouraging his men to take several wives
By paying Mongols to become members of his tribe
By defeating other Mongol tribes in battle
By inviting foreigners to join his tribe
Why does the teacher mention China?
To describe its location with regard to Mongolia
To discuss a famous battle that Genghis Khan fought there
To name it as the first foreign land captured by Genghis Khan
To explain why Genghis Khan wanted to defeat it
What will the teacher probably do next?
Let the students go to lunch
Talk more about Genghis Khan
Show the class a video
Have a student give a presentation
Listen and answer the questions.
What does the teacher say about polio?
It once killed many people.
It still infects people today.
It is more serious than smallpox.
It paralyzes some people.
Why does the teacher talk about when people get vaccines?
To explain why children get so many of them
To answer a question asked by a student
To note why some vaccines last many years
To advise the students to get vaccinated when young
What is probably true about vaccines?
Some of them are too expensive for most people.
They can occasionally make people sick.
They are not always effective at stopping viruses.
Different ones are given to different people.
Who was Edward Jenner?
An early American scientist
A British government official
The creator of the smallpox vaccine
An opponent of childhood vaccines
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the main topic of the talk?
The animals that live in estuaries
The locations of estuaries
The sizes of most estuaries
The characteristics of estuaries
What feature of estuaries does the teacher mention?
The presence of landforms in them
Their usage by animals as breeding grounds
The amount of time they take to form
The number of aquatic animals living in them
What can be inferred about estuaries?
They can get extremely high and low tides.
Saltwater animals tend to live in them.
They often look different from one another.
They have more life in them than bays do.
What does the teacher say about estuaries formed by glaciers?