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PRE TEST TOEFL BEM UNIROW X TEXAS

15 Questions

15 Minutes


This English Online Test consists of 15 multiple-choice questions with 3 types of questions :

  1. Listening Comprehension
  2. Structure and Written Expression, and
  3. Reading Comprehension. 

Before starting the test, please prepare your device with speakers that work properly and headphones for the listening section. You have 15 minutes to finish this test and once it’s done, you will receive the result about your English level.

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Category: Listening TOEFL

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Category: Listening TOEFL

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Category: Listening TOEFL

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Category: Listening TOEFL

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Category: Listening TOEFL

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Category: Structure

6. Abraham Lincoln insisted that … not just on mere opinion but on moral purpose.

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Category: Structure

7. World trade patterns are indicative of the important economic issues … confront the world today.

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Category: Written Expression

8. Quality, price, and located are often considered to be the primary concerns in buying a house.

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Category: Written Expression

9. Migrating butterflies can travel long distant over water.

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Category: Written Expression

10. During a early period in the settlement of the western United States,

pioneers claimed parts of the wilderness by marking trees to establish a boundary

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Category: Reading

11. The piano has always had a special place in music in the United States.
Because one can play on it several notes at once, it can be used in substitution
for a band. This quality has attracted composers; there has been far more music
written for piano, or the keyboards in general, than for any other instrument. And
(Line 5) because a piano can, in effect, accompany itself, for a century it has been the basic instrument for the playing of popular music.
This was especially so during the decades around the turn of the century.
In the years before the First World War (1914-1918), most families in the United
States felt it important to own a piano, no matter how poor they were. People
(Line 10) who could play the piano were welcome visitors and were generally cajoled into
playing the latest popular tunes.
But it was not just in the home that the piano flourished. It was the basic
entertainment tool in cabarets, clubs, and restaurants, just as it is today. The piano,
thus, was central to the social lives of people in the United States, and in the
(Line 15) period between Civil War (1861-1865) and the First World War, there grew up
the considerable industry devoted to it; the popular music business, a huge trade in instructional schools and mail order lessons, and, of course, the selling of pianos
themselves.
Inevitably a large corps of virtuoso professional piano players developed
(Line 20) These “professors” or “ivory ticklers” were not necessarily trained in the classical
European tradition. Most, although not all, either were self-taught or studied with
older ticklers who themselves had little experience with the classical tradition.
Despite the lack of European-style training, many of these players possessed
astonishing technique that, if not well-suited to classical piano compositions,
(Line 25) were exactly right for producing the showy effects with which these professors
impressed audiences and competing pianists. Fast arpeggios, octave runs, and
other great splashes up and down the keyboard were practiced endlessly.
These ticklers were the people who developed and popularized ragtime; it is
no accident that the most populat music of the period was a piano form. And of
(Line 30) course, when jazz came into fashion, they were caught up in this new music.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

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Category: Reading

12. The word “place” in line 1 is closest in meaning to …

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Category: Reading

13. The word “it” in line 2 refers to …

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Category: Reading

14. The word “central” in line 14 is closest in meaning to …

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15. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the piano industry between 1861 and 1914?

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