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 do the students imply about Ms. Reardon?
She is the students’ favorite instructor.
She is the social studies teacher.
She plans to retire soon.
She teaches the students before noon.
When is the Spanish club going to meet?
During lunchtime today
After school today
Tomorrow before school
Tomorrow in the afternoon
Why does the teacher mention the student's parents?
To thank the student for introducing them
To request a meeting with them
To mention they need to sign his permission slip
To say they can help him with his work
Why is the student discussing her homework?
To find out why an answer was wrong
To ask to turn it in at a later time
To determine when she must submit it
To find out her grade on it
What is the girl going to do in the evening?
Call the boy on the telephone
Send the boy an email
Visit the boy at his home
Do a science experiment with the boy
What is the teacher mainly explaining?
When the boy’s performance will be
Why the boy needs to take speech lessons
What type of speech the boy should make
How the boy can raise his grade
What is the purpose of the announcement?
To describe where the crosswalk is
To provide some safety tips
To announce a safety inspection
To warn students about accidents
What will the teacher probably do next?
End class for the day
Answer any questions the students have
Continue speaking to the class
Show the students a map
What is the teacher mainly talking about?
An upcoming exam
The students’ essays
How to type properly
The five-paragraph style
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.
What does the teacher say about the girl’s paper?
It was the best one in the class.
She received a 99 on it.
She made more than one mistake.
It needs to be revised a lot.
What does the girl imply when she says this: “I think I remember hearing something about the competition”?
She knows very little about the competition.
She is interested in learning more about the event.
She wants the teacher to continue speaking to her.
She is going to do some research on the event.
What does the teacher suggest about the student?
She does not need to prepare for the competition.
The other students write better than she does.
It is important that she write in her journal every day.
Her writing qualifies her for the competition.
What is the student going to do after school today?
Submit her essay to the competition
Meet the teacher in the classroom
Go over essays with some other students
Revise the essay that she just wrote
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the students mainly discussing?
Their current majors
Their plans for college
Their graduation ceremony
Their summer jobs
What can be inferred about the girl?
She is going to attend an elite college.
She has already found a summer job.
She gets better grades than the boy.
She cannot afford to travel abroad.
What is the girl thinking about majoring in?
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
Math
When is the boy going to choose his college major?
Before his freshman year
During his freshman year
During his sophomore year
After his sophomore year
Listen and answer the questions.
What are the speakers talking about?
The boy’s sources for his paper
The best websites to use
Reference books in the library
How the boy can improve his grade
What does the teacher say about the boy’s work?
It is not long enough.
It contains factual mistakes.
It makes poor arguments.
It lacks enough sources.
Why does the teacher mention schools and government agencies?
To provide the addresses of their websites
To recommend their websites to the boy
To compare them with magazines, journals, and newspapers
To claim that they always have websites
Why does the teacher talk about the library?
To note that the boy can access the Internet there
To recommend that the boy check out some books from it
To suggest that the boy use the reference books in it
To say that it is a quiet place where the boy can do research
Listen and answer the questions.
What did the girl do during summer vacation?
She learned to play the piano.
She took flute lessons.
She practiced the clarinet.
She played in an orchestra.
What can be inferred about the boy?
He can play a musical instrument.
He is the girl’s best friend.
He belongs to an athletic team.
He does not do any extracurricular activities.
According to the boy, what is true about the school orchestra?
Its director is very unpopular.
It will give a performance in one month.
It has had the same director for ten years.
It has a low number of members.
What is the girl going to do after lunch today?
Audition for the orchestra
Practice with the orchestra
Take a private music lesson
Go to Mr. Spartan’s office
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the main topic of the talk?
The world’s fastest airplanes
The breaking of the sound barrier
Captain Chuck Yeager
The Bell X-1 and the Concorde
Why does the teacher mention the Bell X-1?
To compare it with the B-29 Superfortress
To describe its highly advanced engine in detail
To say it was Captain Chuck Yeager’s favorite airplane
To name the first plane to exceed the speed of sound
What does the teacher suggest about the sound barrier?
It can cause physical pain to people when it is exceeded.
There were many incorrect theories about it before it was broken.
The speed needed to break it depends upon a person’s altitude.
It does not always produce sonic booms when it is exceeded.
According to the teacher, what was the first passenger airplane to break the speed of sound?
The Concorde
The Bell X-1
The Tupolev Tu-144
The B-29 Superfortress
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the subject of the talk?
Different types of plants
Roots, stems, and leaves
The root systems of plants
Nutrients that plants need
What does the teacher say about roots?
Some of them can grow above the ground.
They do not grow deep underground.
Most of them resemble taproots.
They remove nutrients from the ground.
According to the teacher, which plants have taproots?
Desert plants
Pine trees
Bushes
Flowers
Why does the teacher talk about desert plants?
To describe their root systems
To claim they need very little water
To point out that they have unique stems
To discuss their leaves in detail
What will the teacher probably do next?
Start a class discussion
Show some pictures of root systems
Begin talking about stems
Explain the functions of leaves
Listen and answer the questions.
What is the main topic of the discussion?
When modern humans evolved
How people moved to other continents
Why early humans left Africa
Which parts of Africa modern humans lived in
Why does the girl suggest that the Middle East is a desert environment?
To disagree with one of the boy’s statements
To compare it with the region where she lives
To argue that few humans can survive there
To contrast its climate with that of Africa’s
What does the teacher imply about the Middle East?
Modern humans might have evolved there.
It has enough water to support large communities of people.
The first human civilizations were established in it.
Its climate has undergone changes over the years.
What does the teacher say about wars in Africa?
There is little archaeological evidence of them.
They were fought on a fairly large scale.
Most of them lasted for a long period of time.
The losers of them might have left the continent.
Listen and answer the questions.
Why does the teacher mention Beowulf?
To describe the events in the poem
To claim it was written in the Old English period
To point out the difficulty of reading the story
To tell the students how much he likes it
What does the teacher suggest about Middle English?
It resembles modern English very much.
It has more interesting literature than Old English.