蛙蟆胜负托福听力试题

2021年1月17日发(作者：卞思忠)

托福听力试题


PRACTICE TOEFL iBT LISTENING SECTION
This section measures your ability to
understand conversations and lectures in
English.
You
should
listen
to
each
conversation
and
lecture only one time.

After
each
conversation
or
lecture,
you
will
answer
some
questions
about
it.
The
questions
typically
ask
about
the
main
idea
and
supporting
details.
Some
questions
ask
about
a
speaker’s
purpose
or
attitude.
Answer
the
questions based on what is stated or implied by
the speakers.

You may take notes while you listen. You may
use your notes to help you answer the questions.
Your notes will not be scored.

In
some
questions,
you
will
see
this
icon:
PLAY-Audio This means that you will hear, but
not see, part of the question.
Most
questions
are
worth
1
point.
If
a
question is worth more than 1 point, it will have
special directions that indicate how many points

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you can receive.
You
will
have
55
Minutes
to
listen
to
the
Conversations
and
Lectures
and
to
answer
the
questions.
You
should
answer
each
question,
even if you must guess the answer.

Listen to Track 11 on the CD.
PLAY-Audio
Questions
Directions:
Mark your answer by filling in the
oval next to your choice.
1. Why does the student go to see the
professor?
○ To prepare for her graduate school interview

○ To get ad
vice about her graduate school
application
○ To give the professor her graduate school
application
○ To find out if she was accepted into graduate
school
2. According to the professor, what
information should the student include in
her statement of purpose?

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Choose 2 answers.
□ Her academic motivation

□ Her background in medicine

□ Some personal information

□ The ways her teachers have influenced her

3. What does the professor consider unusual
about the student’s background?

○ Her work experience

○ Her creat
ive writing experience
○ Her athletic achievements

○ Her music training

4. Why does the professor tell a story about his
friend who went to medical school?
○ To warn the student about how difficult
graduate school can be
○ To illustrate a point he is makin
g
○ To help the student relax

○ To change the subject

5. What does the professor imply about the
people who admit students to graduate school?
○ They often lack expertise in the fields of the
applicants.

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○ They do not usually read the statement of
purpose.
○ They are influenced by the appearance of an
application
○ They remember most of the applications they
receive.

Listen to Track 12 on the CD.
PLAY-Audio
Questions
6. What are the students mainly discussing?
○ Drugs that are harmful to the human body

○ B
acteria that produce antibiotics
○ DNA that is related to athletic performance

○ Genes that protect bacteria from antibiotics

7. Listen again to part of the conversation by
playing track 13
Then answer the question.
○ To find out if the man has done his as
signment
○ To ask the man to find out if the library is
open
○ To let the man know that she cannot study
much longer

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○ To ask if the man has ever met her roommate

8. According to the conversation, why are
transposes sometimes called “jumping genes”?

○ They
are able to move from one bacteria cell
to another.
○ They are found in people with exceptional
jumping ability.
○ They occur in every other generation of
bacteria.
○ Their movements are rapid and
unpredictable.
9. According to the conversation, what are two
ways in which bacteria cells get resistance
genes?
Choose 2 answers.
□ The resistance genes are carried from nearby
cells.
□ The resistance genes are carried by white
blood cells.
□ The resistance genes are inherited from the
parent cell
□ The resistan
ce genes are carried by

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antibiotics.
10. What can be inferred about the resistance
genes discussed in the conversation?
○ They are found in all bacteria cells.

○ They are not able to resist antibiotics.

○ They make the treatment of bacterial diseases
more difficult
○ They are essential to the body’s defenses
against bacteria.


Listen to Track 14 on the CD
. PLAY-Audio
Questions
11. What is the talk mainly about?
○ A common method of managing water
supplies
○ The formation of underground water systems

○ Natu
ral processes that renew water supplies
○ Maintaining the purity of underground water
systems
12. What is the professor’s point of view
concerning the method of “safe yield”?

○ It has helped to preserve the environment.


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○ It should be researched in states
other than
Arizona
○ It is not an effective resource policy.

○ It ignores the different ways people use water.

13. According to the professor, what are two
problems associated with removing water
from an underground system?
Choose 2 answers.
□ Pollutants c
an enter the water more quickly.
□ The surface area can dry and crack.

□ The amount of water stored in the system can
drop
□ Dependent streams and springs can dry up.

14.
Listen again to part of the lecture by playing
track 15
PLAY-Audio
Then answer the question.

○ To find out whether the students are familiar
with the issue
○ To introduce a new problem for discussion

○ To respond to a student’s question

○ To encourage the students to care about the
topic

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15. What is a key feature of a sustainable water
system?
○ It is able to satisfy short
-term and long-term
needs.
○ It is not affected by changing environmental
conditions
○ It usually originates in lakes, springs, or
streams.
○ It is not used to supply human needs.

16. What does the professor imply about water
systems managed by the “safe yield” method?

○ They recharge at a rapid rate.

○ They are not sustainable.

○ They must have large storage areas

○ They provide a poor quality of water



Listen to Track 16 on the CD
. PLAY-Audio
Questions
17. Why does the
professor talk about Plato’s
description of society?
○ To explain why societies face certain problems

○ To point out problems with Plato’s ethical


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