Toefl exam Essentials

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Practice Answers
1. c.
2. a.
3. b.
4. c. Because overt is not a positive characteristic in this con-
text, you can eliminate choices a and d, which are posi-
tive words in this setting. Choice b is too negative;
nervous behaviors are not considered obnoxious.
5. a. Because the writer says that money is not important
to him, you can determine the meaning of lucrative has
something to do with money. When you replace lucra-
tive with “highly profitable” in the sentence, it makes
sense.
6. c.
7. b. The author uses the phrases “deliberately obscure” and
“impossible to understand” to give a negative description
of the “new writers” he is addressing. When the author
states that obscure writing is “impossible to understand
except by a small, elite group of other writers,” most likely
he is not putting down the average reader but implying
that most readers are not interested in obscure writing.
8. a. This passage is organized by chronological order.
Note the use of the transitional words next, later, when,
and then.

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