Toefl Listening Practice - Main Idea Part 2 Questions

6. What is the class mainly discussing?
a) Government regulation and self-regulation in the advertising industry
b) A court decision that affected advertising for children in Sweden
c) The problems that a ban on advertising caused the tobacco industry
d) A negative advertising campaign designed to prevent people from smoking

7. What is the main point of this lecture?
a) To compare the characters of Greek epic poetry and those of modern novels
b) To discuss why the professor enjoys the Iliad more than the Odyssey
c) To contrast the main characters of the Iliad and the main character of the Odyssey
d) To explain why the professor is going to have to change the syllabus

Answers:
6. A
7. C

Toefl Listening Practice - Main Idea Part 2

Toefl Listening Practice - Main Idea Part 1 Questions

Questions:
3. What does this lecture mainly concern?
a) The archaeological record found in New England shipwrecks
b) The rules for a game that the students are going to play
c) The leading causes of shipwrecks off the coast of New England
d) The role of the State Archaeological Society

4. What is the main purpose of this discussion?
a) To compare regressive and progressive taxes
b) To explain the need fo a new sales tax
c) To discuss the concept of income tax
d) To contrast direct and indirect taxation

5. What is the main topic of this discussion?
a) Edward Hopper's early career as a commercial artist
b) A style of movie making called film noir
c) Edward Hopper's realistic, bleak style of painting
d) Edward Hopper's influence on other painters

Answers:
3. A
4. D
5. C

Toefl Listening Practice - Main Idea Part 1

TOEFL - IELTS - Listening Lesson 14-Learn English with Steve Ford

TOEFL what you need to know about choosing answers and recognizing testing points

if you are unsure of what answer to choose, trust your first intution of what sounds rigth or what seems right.

don´t go back and change an answer unless you know that you have made a mistake.

if you have no idea which answer to choose, first try to eliminate the ones that you think are incorrect.

testing points are the categories that are used to develop questions, vocabulary words, idioms and phrases, intonation or stress patterns or particular types of questions,

if you run out of time and have not finished the test, go quickly through the questons, just marking one letter for each.

TOEFL What are testing points?

A testing point is the main point of a TOEFL question. it is the specific area of english on which you are being tested.

an understanding of the mayor testing points of the TOEFL, therefore, will help you organize your study time and help you prepare for many different kinds of questions you will see on the real test. when you study with the idea of learning to recognize testing points rather than simply to answer individual questions, you are using a strategy that will help you take the real TOEFL.

A testing point migth be a grammatical structure, a common vocabulary word, an idiom, an intonation, or a particular type of reading or listening question.