TOEFL listening test 403

Here are the questions and answers (Scroll down to get to them)

12. What is the talk mainly about?
a) The prospectors
b) The gold rush era
c) The forty-niners
d) Sutters mill

13. Why does the professor mention James Marshall
a) To see if anyone connects his name with the Gold Rush
b) To pay tribute to him for discovering gold
c) To compare him with John Marshall
d) To tell the students where gold was discovered

14. What does the professor say about the people who went to California
a) They traveled overland and by ship
b) They came indroves
c) neither of the above
d) Both A and B

15. According to the professor, of what significance was John Studebaker?
a) He was from the East
b) He made money by repairing wagons
c) He got rich by finding gold
d) He was one of the forty-niners

16. What does the professor say about the people who traveled to California by ship
a) Sailing around the tip of South America was the best way to go by water
b) Most stopped in Veracruz
c) They either came entirely by ship or came by ship and land
d) Stopping at the Isthmus of Panama was dangerous

17. Why does the professor say this
a) To spend later class periods on tale of the forty-niners
b) To tell one of those interesting stories
c) To make students think about life in a Gold Rush town
d) To change the focus of the lecture

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Answers
12. b
13. b
14. d
15. b
16. c
17. b

Category:

Education

Tags:

• TOEFL listening test
• English
• sample. complete
• practice

[Dammio]

what does the word "indroves" mean??

[Amirnezam93]

It's a little hard for me to understand british accent. If it was american accent, i would definately perform better.thanks anyway.

[brigitta1810]

only no.14 is wrong because I didn't get what "indroves" means. All the other answers were correct :D Is it possible that listening tasks on TOEFL are as easy as this one? I'm not sure...Can someone who passed TOEFL share his/her experience? :)

[vuxuankhang]

all done

[Miki89ns]

because of the indroves I have 5 out of 6! So gr8! :/

[devilfirst13]

5/6



[pklinh97]

@Amirnezam93 In fact,I've taken IELTS but my dream is to study in the USA:( And I decided to learn TOEFL. American accent is very interesting but I think I need more time to get used to it.

[makme3]

13,17 are wrong. but I cant still get it. might t be possible answers were mistyped?

[biheo0204]

5/6. The one that I got wrong is the question no.13. I still don't get it, the professor does not try to Pay Tribute to James; indeed, it is James who makes the connection between the introduction and the focus of the lecture . I was in two minds when I read this question first time. Even now I still don't really understand it. the choice would be more correct and less controversial if it were " to cite that James was the one who first founded Gold in California ",

[martina1772010]

It's a hard one!!

[Amirnezam93]

@pklinh97: what do you mean???you like american accent and you don't understand it???!!!…by the way did u take the test??