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You mustnotcirculate this bookinany otherbinding orcover and you mustimpose this same condition on anyacquirer Anywebsites referred to in this publication are in the public domain and theiraddresses areprovided by Oxford University Press for information only. Oxford UniversityPress disclaims any responsibilityforthe content. Printed in China The authorand publisherwould liketothank Corels for use of royalty-free images. 1 Contents Introduction page4 PracticeTest 1 page7 PracticeTest 2 page 43 PracticeTest 3 page79 PracticeTest4 page 115 Tapescripts page 151 Test I page 153 Test 2 page 158 Test 3 page 163 Test4 page 168 Answerkey page 173 Test 1 page 175 Test 2 page 187 Test 3 page 199 Test 4 page 211 Answersheets page 223 Test 1 page 225 Test 2 page 227 Test3 page 229 Test4 page 231 Conversion table INTRODUCTION TheTestofEnglishforInternational than one meaning (e.g.,a bottleoJportwine Communication(TOEIC)was originallydesigned ratherthan aship inport). There maybe asuitable to testthe Englishproficiencylevels ofpeople wordincludedwhich is usedinappropriately(e.g., engagedininternational business. However,the He isopeningthe window. There is a window in TOEIC® testhasproven to besuch areliable thephoto,butnobodyisopeningit). measure ofa test-taker's Englishlanguageskills Strategies thatit is nowusedfor academic admissions,for Scanthepicturequicklyandtryto identiJ:1'as placementpurposes,and for measuring much asyou can. Askyourselfquestions: Who achievement. Over 1,500,000people take the (gender,description,occupation)isin the photo' TOEIC testeachyear. Whatis happening?Wherewas thephoto taken' Whenlistening,focus onthewords that are easier to hear,the stressedwords,as theycarrythe TOEIC test format overallmeaning. Part 11 Question-response TheTOEIC testis dividedinto two sections.These In thispart,youwillhearaquestionandthree are ListeningComprehensionandReading. Each possible responses. You must choose the response sectioncontains 100 questions. Youwillneed that bestanswers the question. You will hearthe approximately 2Yz hours to take the test. question and eachresponse once. ListeningComprehension 45 minutes The question,nayask aboutpeople,location,time, PartI Photographs 20questions an activity, an event,elllotions,reasons,or PartII Question~response 30questions opinions. In short,the question could be on ParrIH Shortconversations 30questions almostanysubject. PartN Shorttalks 20questions Traps Reading 75 minutes As in PartI,wordsmaysoundsimilarorbe used PartV Incompletesentences 40questions outofcontext. Wordsfrom the question maybe PartVI Errorrecognition 20questions repeated in the response,but be usedinaccurately. Part\Ill Readingcomprehension 40questions In addition,there is apotentialtrap withgrammar. Youwillheardifferent types ofquestions:wh Listening Comprehension questions(tuho, tuhal, Luhen, wbere, wby, and how),yes/no questions andtag questions. 'When Part I Photographs you hearayes/no ora tag question,youmay assume thatthe responsewillbeginwith Yes or In this part,youwill seea photographandyouwill No. IntheTOEIC test,as in reallife,the response hearfour sentencesaboutit. You must choose the Inayan::,'Vi,Terthe questionindirectlyinstead. For sentence that most closelymatcheswhatyou see. example: Youwillhearthe sentencesonce. Is thereany cake left? Youwillidentifywhatyou see inthephoto. This mayinclude people,objects,actionsand locations (A) Iate tbe lastpiece. bothgeneralandspecif1c. Youwillalso make (B) Yes, thelake is on theleJl. assumptions; youmaynotbeable to determineif (C) No, Ilejtearly somethingis actuallytakingplace,butfrom the (A) is the correctoption. The respondent doesn't cluesinthe photo,youcanassume thatitis. answerwithyes/no aswouldbeexpected. Traps Ho\vever,weknowtheans\veris110,because the The three incorrect sentences will contain vvords respondent ate tbe lastpiece. that maymake them appearcorrect. Awordmav Strategies have asimilarsoundto somethingin thephoto' Youwill have to exerciseyourshort-termmemory. (e.g.,asheep ratherthan theship pictured).The Youmustrememberthe question untilyouhave sentencefilaycontain a\vardwhichhasluore 4 Inlroduction ______________........ -"4 pickedthe appropriate response. Ifyoureally announcements,weatherforecasts,special don'tknowthe answer,thenguess. Choose the bulletins,etc. The questionswill askyou to response that sounds mostnaturaltoyou,don't determine the location,the speaker,the time,the leave anyquestions unanswered. event,orareason. Part III Short conversations Traps The traps thatwere setforyouinParts I,II andIII Inthispart,youwillhearashort dialog. Youwill are setonceagain. readaquestion andfouranswerchoicesinyour testbooklet. Youmust choose the option thatbest Strategies answers the question. Youwillonlyhearthe Thisis averydifficult section becauseyou have to dialog once. listencarefullyandrememberspeciflcdetails. Itis importantthatyou tryto readthe questionsbefore The questionwill ask aboutthe generalidea ofthe conversation;usuallyitwillnotfocus onspecific youhearthe talk. Ifyouhave time,tryto readthe answerchoices aswell. However,youshould details. Youwillbe asked toidentifyanactivity,an listento thewholetalkbeforeattemptingto emotion,arelationship,orthelocation ofthe answeranyofthe questions. Timingis crucialin speakers. In some instancesyou mayhave to do this part. Ifyou cannotread and answer the someminorcalculations basedonmeasurements questioninthe 8 secondpause thendon'tworry, inthe dialog. but move onto thenextone. Don'tgetleft behind Traps on the tape. As inParts Iand II,wordsmaysoundsimilarorbe usedoutofcontext. Words mayberepeated in the Reading options,butbeusedinaccurately. In addition, listen outforwords that canadd to orchange PartY Incomplete sentences meaning. Listencarefullyforwords thatindicate In thispart,youwillread asentence with one time (e.g.,before, until, while, afterwards, etc.) word orphrasemissingandfourpossiblechoices andwords that indicate negation(e.g.,not, hardly, tofill the blank. You will choosethe bestword or seldom, by no means, etc.). phrase. The dialogmaycompare two ormore things so Bothyourknowledge ofvocabularyandyour listenforwords thatshowdegrees of knowledge ofgrammarare tested.Youwill have to comparisons. understand the meaning ofthe sentence to choose Modals(e.g.,can, could, oughtto, etc.)indicate avocabularyitem. Youmayhavetoapplyyour possibilityandadVisability. Listen carefullyfor knowledge ofphrasalverbs andsetexpressions. modals to determine the intent ofthe speakers. Youwill,insomeinstances,have to understandthe grammaticalfunction ofthe blankto choose the Word orderis also apotentialtrap. Asentence. correctgrammaticaiform ofaword. The grammar suchasNeverhasthe weatherbeenso forms testedmostfrequentlyareverbtense, unpredictablemeans Tbe weatheris usually pronouns,prepositions,conjunctionsand predictable. comparisonswith adjectives and adverbs. Strategies Traps Try to readthe question beforeyouhearthe In theitems that testgrammar,manyofthe choices dialog. Ifyou have time,readthe answerchoices are attractive because theyseemto completethe as well. Look at allthe options,before choosing meaning ofthe sentence. However,theymaynot youranswer. Asyoulisten,imagine the speakers begrammaticallycorrect. You havetopayclose and theirlocation. attention to tl,ewordendings andmake sureyou Part IV Shorttalks choose the correctgrammaticalform required. In thispart,you willhearashortmonologue about Strategies whichyouwillread two orthree questionsinyour You must develop aquickpacefor theReading test booklet. For each question,youmust choose section. Youhave 75 minutesfor 100items. There the correctanswerfrom four options. Youwill are 60 itemsin PartsVandVI. Youshouldsave onlyhearthe monologue once. mostofyourtimefor thereadingpassages inPart VII. Tryto amweraquestionin 30seconds. Ifthe The talks can beintheform ofrecorded Introduction 5 answerisnotapparenttoyou,quicklymove on. thepassage quicklyto get ageneralidea. Don't Returnto theunansweredquestions afteryou worryaboutwordsyoudon'tunderstand.Then reachthe endofPartVII. Alwaysgo backand readitagain more carefullyandtryto1lndthe checkyouranswers atthe endifthere is time. answers to the questionsasyouread. Afterthat, choosefrom the options. Thequestions uSU<llly PartVI Errorrecognition matchthe orderinformationispresentedinthe Inthispart,youwillreadasentencewithfour passage. words orphrases underlined. Youmust choose the Befamiliarwiththetype ofpassagesthatwillbe underlinedword orphrasewhichisincorrectly presented. written. Onlygrammaris tested. Thefocus is mainlyon errorswithsubject/verbagreement,pronmill StUdying for theTOEIC test agreement,andwordfamily distinctions. Errors Asyou take apracticetest,payattentionto the withprepositionsare commonandoccasionally wayyouworkthrough the test. Keep trackofyour therewill be mistakeswithverbtense andverb time. Note howlongyou spendonapart;estimate form. howlongyouspendon anitem.Askyourselfhow The words that are notunderlinedare always you canimproveyourspeed. Tryto develop your own test-takingrhythm. correct. Use the cassette tape to developyourmemory. Traps Afteryou take atest,go backto the Listening Acommon trap is toinsert aword thatdoesnot sectionandplaythe tape again. Tryto repeat each belong. Thisisusuallyapronouninthesubject sentenceyouhearinyourheadandholditinyour ':.!!!!:l positione.g.,The workers are onstrike,ora memory.You canalso trythis inyourown pronounwhich is incorrectlyusede.g.,She is languagewhenyoulistento theradio or goingto interview111r.Robinson itself television. Tryto repeatexactlywhat the Strategies announcersays. Itispossible toimproveyour Checkeachunderlinedsectionfor an error. IfnO abilitytoremember. FortheTOEIC test,agood errorisapparent,take each optionandseeifthat memoryis anecessity. word orphrase tits the sentencegrammatically. Use the explanatoryanswers in the backofthis Donottake time to correctan error(eveninyour book. Usethemtolearnwhyyou made anerror head). and howthe test triedto trapyou. There willbea PartVII Reading lot ofnewwords,phrasesandideasin thisbook. TakingthesepracticeTOEIC tests will notonly Youwillread apassagefollowed by2-5 questions. help youbecomecomfortablewith the test,but Youwillhave to answerthe questions basedon will de11nitelyhelp you improveyourEnglish. theinformationin thepassage. Each questionhas fouroptions. Answer sheets and Conversion table Youwillhave to interpret theinformationin Inthe examyouwillhave toputyouranswers on advertisements,forms,reports,correspondence, anAnswersheet,andyou canpractisedoing this tables,graphs,announcements,articles,and byusing theAnswersheetsprovidedat the backof schedules. the book. Traps Ascoreconversion table isincluded on the inside Manyofthe answeroptions repeatinformation backcover. This convertsthe scoresofthe Oxford thatisfound inthepassage,butinadifferent practice tests and does notcorrelatewith the context. Make sure the optionyou choose directly actualTOEIC tests. The table providesyouwithan answersthe question. approximation ofyour totalactualscorefor the Strategies practice tests,and canbe usedto assessyour Read overthe questions beforeyou readthe performanceasyouworkthrough them. passage. Don'tlook at the answeroptions. Read 6 Introduction - PracticeTest One LISTENING COMPREHENSION Inthis section ofthetest, you will havethe chance to showhowwell you understandspoken English. There arefourpartstothis section, with special directions foreach part. PART I Directions: Foreach question, you will see apicture in yourtest bookand you will hearfourshort statements.The statementswill be spokenjustone time.Theywill notbe printed in yourtestbook, I so you mustlistencarefullyto understand whatthe speakersays. When you hearthefourstatements, lookatthe picturein yourtestbook and choose the statementthat bestdescribeswhatyou see inthe picture.Then, on youranswersheet, find the numberofthe question and markyouranswer. Lookatthe sample below. SampleAnswer ®e©@ Now listentothefourstatements. Statement(6), "They're having ameeting," bestdescribes whatyou see in the picture.Therefore, you should choose answer(6). I I PracticeTestOne 7 1. 2. 8 PracticeTestOne 3. 4. PracticeTestOne 9 5. 6. 10 PracticeTestOne +