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Listening comprehension

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Skill 16: LISTEN FOR TWO-AND THREE-PART VERBS

TOEFL EXERCISE 16: In this exercise, listen carefully to each short dialogue and
question on the recording, and then choose the best answer to the question. You
should be particularly careful of two- and three-part verbs.

1 (A) Phone their neighbors 6 (A) She gets along with lots of
(B) Call to their neighbors over the people.
fence (B) She gets back at people who
(C) Help the neighbors move in cross her.
(D) Visit their neighbors (C)She gets rid of people she
doesn't want to spend time with.
(D) She tries to get ahead of
everyone else.

2 (A) The course is becoming more 7 (A) He must try to find the
interesting. children.
(B) The course used to be more (B) It is necessary for him to clean
interesting. up after the children.
(C) The course is about the same (C) The children need to be
as it was. watched.
(D) He's not as bored in the class (D) He's going to see what the
as the woman. children have done.

3 (A) Her headache is getting worse. 8 (A) They are going on strike.
(B) She felt better this morning (B) They are lying down on the
than now. job.
(C) She seems to be feeling better (C) They are being released from
now. their jobs.
(D) She is just getting another (D) They are relaxing too much at
headache now. the factory.

4 (A) The man should stop breaking 9 (A)He is betting that the football
his cigarettes in half. team will win.
(B) The man should decrease the (B)He really wants to succeed.
number of cigarettes he smokes. (C)It is not so difficult to play on
(C) The man should cut the ends the football team.
off his cigarettes. (D)He pulled a muscle while
(D) The man should stop smoking playing football.
completely.

5 (A) The client presented his case to 10 (A)She's unsure why she tolerates
the lawyer. the man.
(B) The client was upset about the (B)She doesn't know where she
lawyer's rejection. put her keys.
(C) The client was annoyed because (C)She is actually the one who put
the lawyer returned the suitcase. the keys in the car.
(D) The client made the lawyer (D)She can't understand why the
unhappy about the case. man did what he did.

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