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 are the students going to do in the afternoon?
Hang out with Clark
Meet their junior varsity team members
Go to basketball practice
Try out for the basketball team
Why does the girl mention her younger sister?
To say she wants to introduce her sister to the teacher
To claim that her sister gets good grades at school
To point out her sister to the teacher
To blame her sister for making her late for school
What can be inferred about the boy?
Shakespeare is his favorite writer.
The teacher’s class is fun for him.
Acting is something that he enjoys.
He wants to improve his grade.
What does the girl offer to do for the boy?
Type his paper for him
Go to the hospital with him
Give him her notes
Carry his books to class
What is the subject of the conversation?
What the boy will do tomorrow
The boy’s punishment
Mr. Robinson’s class
Where the boy will serve detention
What are the speakers mainly discussing?
The boy’s back problems
Buying paper books
One of their textbooks
The kinds of books they want
What is the purpose of the announcement?
To provide information on the presentations
To describe the contents of the day’s lecture
To encourage the students to work harder
To assign a new project to the students
What should students coming late do when arriving at school?
Call their parents
Talk to the principal
Speak with their homeroom teachers
Go to the secretary's office
What is the purpose of the announcement?
To advise students to improve the quality of their lunches
To tell the students when to bring food to school for lunch
To acknowledge the complaints about the food in the cafeteria
To warn the students not to enter the cafeteria
Now you will hear longer talks and 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.
Why does the girl mention Mr. Jessie?
To praise him as a band director
To compare him with Mr. Conaway
To express her regret at his departure
To note how he has helped her improve
What instrument does the girl play?
The trumpet
The clarinet
The flute
The violin
What is probably true about the boy?
He invited his family to the spring concert.
He is a better musician than the girl.
He dislikes the music the band is playing.
He prefers Mr. Jessie to Mr. Conaway.
What will the speakers probably do next?
Go to a meeting with Mr. Conaway
Attend band practice
Go to lunch
Return to their classrooms
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the speakers mainly discussing?
The boy’s role on the basketball team this season
How the boy performed on the basketball team last year
When the school’s basketball team is going to practice
The chances of the boy joining the basketball team
What does the coach imply about the boy?
He is going to be named a team captain.
He will be one of the team’s better players.
He needs to improve some aspects of his game.
He prefers playing basketball to studying.
What does the boy say about his parents?
They are looking forward to watching his games.
They are pleased with his school performance.
They prefer that he not play basketball.
They want him to find part-time employment.
Why does the boy mention math and science?
To point out two classes he does not enjoy
To state that his grades in them were low
To say that he has to attend those classes today
To name them as his favorite subjects
Listen and answer the question.
What is the teacher explaining?
How to write a research paper
When the student's work is due
What the student should write about
Why the student rust do the assignment
What does the teacher imply when he says this: “I get spaced out sometimes when I'm grading papers”?
He is disappointed with the quality of the papers.
He is uninterested in speaking to the girl.
He was not paying full attention to the girl.
He dislikes having to grade many papers.
What does the teacher say about the research paper?
It should have five or more sources.
The girl can write it on any topic.
The paper is due in one month.
It is worth thirty percent of each student’s grade.
According to the teacher, how can the girl learn to write a bibliography?
By reading her textbook
By using the handout he gave her
By visiting a website
By consulting a reference book
What is probably true about the teacher?
He is eager to help the girl.
He teaches American history.
He has a small amount of free time.
He is popular with the students.
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the students mainly discussing?
Which teachers they like the most
The classes they are going to take
How they are performing this semester
Their favorite classes at school
What does the boy mention about Spanish?
It is more difficult than French.
He regrets not studying it.
It is his best subject at school.
He is getting better at it.
What can be inferred about the boy?
His favorite subject is math.
He has known the girl for a long time.
He gets low grades in his science classes.
His classes are getting harder.
What does the boy want to major in at college?
Math
Physics
Computer science
Biology
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the teacher mainly discussing?
How the ear keeps people balanced
What the human ear looks like
The roles of the parts of the ear
Why most of the ear is not visible
Why does the teacher mention the students’ textbooks?
To have the students look at a picture in them
To ask the students to read a passage from them
To tell the students about their homework assignment
To make sure the students bring them to class
What is the pinna?
The most important part of the inner ear
The section of the ear connected to the nerves
The part of the ear that collects sound waves
The smallest part of the outer ear
According to the teacher, which part of the ear helps people with their balance?
The tympanic membrane
The vestibule
The cochlea
The auditory canal
Listen and answer the questions.
According to the teacher, where do most marsupials presently live?
South America
North America
Africa
Australia
Why does the teacher mention the opossum?
To name the only marsupial in North America
To compare it with the kangaroo
To describe how it gives birth to its young
To point out that it has very poor eyesight
What does a marsupial female lack?
A womb
A placenta
Eggs
Nipples
What does the teacher imply about marsupials?
There were more of them in the past than in the present.
It is likely that they will go extinct in a few centuries.
Most of them are unable to adapt to their environments.
They are less evolved than the majority of other mammals.
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the main topic of the talk?
The American Southwest
The features of buttes and mesas
The geography of Arizona and Utah
Plateaus, mesas, and buttes
What is probably true about the teacher?
He enjoys spending his time hiking.
He majored in geography at college.
He dislikes being interrupted by students.
He has visited the American Southwest.
According to the teacher, what is a characteristic of a butte?
It must have a flat top.
It has standing water on top.
It has very steep sides.
It is found near a canyon.
What will the teacher probably do next?
Tell the class about plateaus
Show the students some pictures
Talk about his trip to the Grand Canyon
Name some well-known buttes
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the teacher mainly talking about?
The end of Napoleon’s reign
Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington
Napoleon’s most important battles
The last years of Napoleon’s life
Where was Napoleon sent into exile the first time?
Fontainebleau
Elba
Waterloo
St. Helena
When did the Hundred Days begin?
After Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo
When Napoleon escaped from exile
When Napoleon invaded Russia
After Napoleon fought the Duke of Wellington
Why does the teacher mention a map?
To mark the sites of Napoleon’s most famous battles
To show where the Battle of Waterloo took place
To encourage the girl to find the location of Elba