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 \n2.(woman)Would you like to go skiing this  \nweekend?  \n(man)So you can ski!  \n(narrator)What had the man assumed?  \n(man)Ijust got this letter from my  \nsister.  \n(woman)So the mail has come already.  \nTOEFL EXERCISE 13:In this exercise,listen carefully to the short conversation andquestion in the recording program,and then choose the best answer to the question.Youshould be particularly careful of expressions of emphatic surprise.  \n# Now BEGIN THE RECORDING PROGRAMAT TOEFL EXERCISE 13.\n\n1.(A)Greg always comes to parties.  \n(B)Greg would come to the party later.  \n(C)Greg was unable to attend the  \nparty  \n(D)Greg would stay at the party for  \nonly a moment.  \n2.(A)The woman always rode her  \nmotorcycle to school.  \n(B)The woman was not coming to  \nschool today.  \n(C)The woman was an expert  \nmotorcycle rider.  \n(D)The woman did not know how toride a motorcycle.  \n3.(A)The man was not a very good cook.  \n(B)The man never invited friends over  \nfor dinner.  \n(C)The man would never invite himover for dinner.  \n(D)The man was an excellent cook.  \n(narrator)What had the woman assumed?  \n(B)He would like the woman to repeatwhat she said.  \n(C)He says that he would like to takethe class again.  \n(D)He's happy the class is over,too.  \n(B)He doesn't believe what the womansaid.  \n(C)He was able to finish some of theproblems.  \n(D)Both he and the woman were  \n8.(A)The man had mailed the package.  \n(B)The man had forgotten to go to thepost office.  \n(C)The man had given the package tothe woman to mail.  \n(D)The man remembered the packageafter he went to the post office.  \n9.(A)They should take both cars.  \n(B)The woman should try not to beafraid.  \n(C)The woman should buy a bigger car.  \n(D)They should go together in his car.  \n10.(A)He wants to know if the muffinstaste good.  \n(B)He thinks the muffins were  \n(C)The muffins are not really fresh.(D)He's sure that the muffins werejustmade.  \n(A)The man had not passed.  \n(B)The man would pass easily.  \n(C)The man had already passed.  \n(D)The man got the score he was  \nexpected to get.  \n(A)The woman was a good skier.  \n(B)The woman was going skiing this  \n(C)The woman did not know how toski.  \n(D)The woman did not intend to goskiing.  \n(A)The man's sister never wrote to  \n4.(A)The woman had run more thanthree miles.  \n(B)The woman always got lots of  \nexercise.  \n(C)The woman ran for three hours inthe morning.  \n(D)The woman had not gotten muchexercise.  \n5.(A)He had been somewhere else.  \n(B)He had been in the library.  \n(C)He had been working on his  \nresearch project.  \n(D)He would start working on his  \nproject in five hours.  \n6.(A)He had changed apartments.  \n(B)He did not like his new apartment.  \n(C)He was stillin his old apartment.  \n(D)He had moved from a house to anapartment.  \n45  \nLISTENING PARTA  \n9.(A)She had registered in physics.  \n7.(A)The woman did not like desserts.  \n(B)She would go to physics class later.  \n(B)The woman ate sweets regularly.  \n(C)She had already taken a physics  \n(C)The woman would not share herchocolate cake.  \n(D)She had not enrolled in physics.  \n(D)The woman had eaten his piece ofcake.  \n10.(A)The pipes were not clear.  \n(B)The plumber would be late.  \n8.(A)The man was going to study hard.(B)The man already had a driver'slicense.  \n(C)The plumber had already clearedthe pipes.  \n(D)The pipes did not need to be  \n(C)The man would not take the test.  \n(D)The man had already taken the test.  \ncleared.  \nTOEFLEXERCISE(Skills11-13):In this exercise,listen carefully to the short conversation  \nand question in the recording program,and then choose the best answer to the question.  \n(B)She has a lot to say about the  \nphone ","cbCair3SHwksWvRZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair3SHwksWvRZ","pdf",1020466,"English","# TOEFL Exercise 13\n## Instructions and recording prompt\n## Conversation questions and answer choices","[{\"question\":\"What skill does TOEFL Exercise 13 practice?\",\"answer\":\"It practices identifying expressions of emphatic surprise in short conversations and using them to answer what was assumed.\"},{\"question\":\"How should you approach each question in the exercise?\",\"answer\":\"Listen carefully to the conversation and the question, then choose the answer that best shows surprise based on what the speaker assumed.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the questions typically ask in Exercise 13?\",\"answer\":\"They usually ask what a speaker had assumed, based on the preceding short exchange.\"}]","TOEFL EXERCISE 13 - Emphatic Surprise Practice | PDF",1790911021]