9/18 今天大家考完的感覺? - 英檢

※ 引述《alan0311 (彥倫)》之銘言：
: S和W等下班回來打吧！

Here is a brief outline.

Test taken
at Banqiao, New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.
on September 18, 2011


I. Reading (? = order of appearance uncertain)

Part A
Memory strategies of preschool children

Part B
1. The wheel (and related inventions prior to it)
2. The evolution of flightless birds


II. Listening (? = order of appearance uncertain and rearranged)

A. Problem-solving conversations
1. Office meeting: On Goldilock planet
Plus an opportunity to be a program assistant
2. Office meeting: About a term paper on birds migration
3. Service encounter: Fee for local and overseas trips

B. Lectures
1. Geology: Plate tectonics
2. Geology: Hoodoo
3. Botany: The classification of Rafflesia
4. ______ (?): The collapse of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
5. Art (?): Photography
6. Music: Ragtime


III. Speaking

Part A
1. The abilities you admire most: athletic; linguistic; artistic
(? = statement incomplete)
2. To agree or disagree:
High school students learn economics.
(? = statement incomplete)

Part B
1. Art space in the dormitories
(pros)
2. Autogenic succession in ecosystems e.g. pine and oak trees
(? = concepts uncertain)

Part C
1. Ordering a book as a gift to the professor
(solution choice)
2. Testing of advertisement
(? = concepts uncertain)


IV. Writing

Part A
Beached whales

1. Theories in the reading passage:
a. Sickness from parasites, poison, and disease,
confusing their sense of direction
b. Sound waves from the military sonar,
misleading them
c. Changeable magnetic fields of the earth
(especially before earthquakes)
disturbing navigation

2. Doubts by the lecturer:
a. Lack of solid evidence from their dead bodies
(? = viewpoint uncertain)
b. Different ranges of frequency:
middle by the sonar; low by whales
c. Not closely related
i. Beaching does not coincide with
the yearly number of earthquakes.
ii.Beaching also occurs
not right before earthquakes.

Part B
To agree or disagree:
The rapid growth of cities is mostly positive in society.
(? = statement incomplete)


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Comment:


Having taken the TOEFL iBT for the first time,
I am reluctant to admit that
the brief outline created after the test seems better
than the notes I took and the content I composed during the test.

I shall retake the test for improvement. T_T

I'd welcome any kind of revision or supplement.

Thank you.


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