TOEFL Test Sample : Listening Comprehension

Previous TOEFL Test Sample: TOFL Test Sample (Listening)

In this exercise, listen carefully to the short conversation and question on the recording, and then choose the best answer to the question. You should pay particular attention to negative expressions.

1. (A) He was on time.
    (B) He’s sorry he was late.
    (C) He doesn’t know why he was late.
    (D) He hasn’t come there lately

2. (A) She’s sorry she brought the book.
    (B) She remembered to say she was sorry.
    (C) She forgot the book.
    (D) She didn’t remember the ring.

3. (A) The baby’s nodding off.
    (B) The baby’s asleep.
    (C) The baby’s on the way home.
    (D) The baby’s just waking up.

4. (A) He wants to go by himself.
    (B) He isn’t going on the trip.
   (C) He has a large number of friends.
   (D) He isn’t traveling alone.

5. (A) She does not have time to park the car.
    (B) She has some free time.
    (C) She has not been to the park in a while.
    (D) The park is too wild.


6. (A) He closed the windows.
    (B) It didn’t rain.
   (C) The windows were open during the storm.
   (D) He saw the rain through the windows.

TOEFL Test Sample 4 (Structure questions)

 Choose the letter of the word or group of word that best completes the sentence.

1. The first _____ appeared during the last period of the dinosaurs’ reign.

(A) flowers are plants

(B) plants have flowers

(C) plants flowers

(D) flowering plants

2. The earliest medicines _____ from plants of various sorts. 

(A) obtaining

(B) they obtained

(C) were obtained

(D) they were obtained

3. Simple sails were made from canvas _____ over a frame.

(A) a stretch

(B) stretched

(C) was stretched

(D) it was stretched

4. Pluto’s moon, Charon, _____ in a slightly elliptical path around the planet.

(A) moving

(B) is moving

(C) it was moving

(D) in its movement