You got 10 correct out of 10.
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1. What are the four sections on the TOEFL iBT?
Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking
Reading, Writing, Grammar, Speaking
Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Grammar
2. You must speak with an American accent to do well on the Speaking section of the TOEFL iBT.
true
false
3. What skills are important to do well in the TOEFL iBT writing section?
grammar
spelling
vocabulary
all of the answers are correct
4. To scan means:
to look for specific information while reading quickly
to get a general idea while reading quickly
5. Paraphrasing means:
expressing the same ideas in the author's original words.
expressing the same ideas in your own words
6. To synthesize, you:
should write out all the information in points like an outline
should combine information from different sources
7. When you read a long passage and write about the main ideas in your own words, you are __________.
summarizing
plagiarizing
8. Note-taking skills are:
not necessary to do well on the TOEFL iBT
necessary to do well on the TOEFL iBT
9. Skimming involves reading quickly to get a general idea of the content.
true
false
10. If you plagiarize on the TOEFL iBT, ____________________
you will get a higher score.
you will get a lower score.
Another "Kafkaian Image"-Translated from Pavel Campeanu
The predilection towards the tragic comedy relies in the contrast between lucid rationality and the scarcity of action. The artist sees the monstrosity of the world but not the possibility to change it. He is strong enough not to adapt to it, but too weak to change in resonance with his human demands. The situation is at the same time tragic and comic too, as the artist is dominated on the plane of reality by what he tends to determine on the ideal one. It is because of that that he feels the need to detach himself from his own condition by distancing himself and to reconsider it with a relentless lucidity. Kafka was born in a period when the last remains of the political credibility of the Jew community living in Böhmen were destroyed as a social unity in the course of the chauvinistic chase. The respect for oneself disappeared entirely, too. There was a real anti-Semitic feeling even among the Jewish people. The absurdity in Kafka’s short-prose writing marks its...
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