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TOEFL iBT Practice Test 14

AI-generated practice paper in the style of TOEFL iBT — original material, not a reproduction of any real exam paper, following the official task types. Listening audio is read aloud by your browser's voice. For Speaking you can record yourself and compare with a model answer, and Writing tasks include a model answer — neither is scored automatically, since that needs real speech and writing evaluation this site does not offer for this exam.

Reading

Complete the Words

Type the missing letters to complete the words in the paragraph.

The alphabet is one of humanity's most successful inventions. Earlier writing systems, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, required hundreds of symb. Around 1800 BCE, workers in the Sinai region adap a few of these pictures to represent indiv sounds. The Phoenicians spr a simplified version around the Mediterranean, and the Greeks add symbols for vowels. Romans later modi the Greek letters into the alph used for English. Because it needs relat few symbols, ordinary people could mas reading and writing far more eas.

Read in Daily Life

Read the text and answer the questions.

Information card: Wi-Fi at the Harbour Hotel Network: HarbourGuest Password: printed on your room key envelope Free Wi-Fi is available in all guest rooms and the lobby. If your connection is slow, please move closer to the reception area, where the signal is strongest. Streaming in high definition may affect other guests, so we recommend standard quality. For technical help, dial 9 from your room phone.

1. Where can guests find the password?

2. What is suggested for guests with a poor connection?

Notice: Scholarship applications close Friday Reminder: applications for the Global Futures Scholarship close this Friday at midnight. Late submissions cannot be considered under any circumstances. Make sure your reference letter has been uploaded, not just requested — incomplete applications are automatically rejected. Results will be emailed within six weeks of the deadline.

3. What happens to an application missing a reference letter?

4. When will applicants find out the results?

Read an Academic Passage

Read the passage and answer the questions.

As solar and wind power supply a growing share of electricity worldwide, the intermittency of these sources—their output varies with weather and time of day—has made large-scale energy storage an increasingly urgent engineering challenge, since electricity generated when the sun shines or wind blows must often be used later, when demand peaks but generation may be low. Lithium-ion batteries, already familiar from consumer electronics and electric vehicles, currently dominate grid-scale storage deployments, largely because manufacturing costs have fallen dramatically over the past decade as production scaled up, though the technology faces limits: lithium-ion batteries are best suited to storing energy for hours rather than days, and demand for lithium, cobalt, and other constituent minerals raises both supply-chain and environmental concerns tied to their extraction. Researchers are therefore pursuing alternative approaches for longer-duration storage. Pumped hydroelectric storage, which pumps water uphill during periods of excess electricity and releases it through turbines when needed, remains the most widely deployed long-duration method globally despite requiring specific geography. Newer approaches under active development include flow batteries, which store energy in liquid electrolytes that can be scaled up simply by using larger storage tanks, and compressed-air systems that store energy by compressing air in underground caverns. No single technology yet combines the cost, duration, and scalability needed to fully solve the problem, so most analysts expect a mixed portfolio of storage methods across different timescales.

5. According to the passage, why is energy storage becoming increasingly important?

6. As used in the passage, "intermittency" most nearly means

7. What can be inferred about pumped hydroelectric storage from the passage?

8. Why does the author mention flow batteries and compressed-air systems?

9. What is the main idea of the passage?

Listening

Listen and Choose a Response

Listen to each speaker, then choose the best response.

1. Choose the best response.

2. Choose the best response.

3. Choose the best response.

4. Choose the best response.

5. Choose the best response.

6. Choose the best response.

7. Choose the best response.

8. Choose the best response.

Listen to a Conversation

Listen to the conversation, then answer the questions.

9. What is the project about?

10. What has Emma already found?

11. What do Carla and Emma decide to do?

Listen to an Announcement

Listen to the announcement, then answer the questions.

12. What can audience members do after the performance?

13. What warning is given about the show?

Listen to an Academic Talk

Listen to part of a lecture, then answer the questions.

14. What does the professor emphasize biodiversity loss is fundamentally about?

15. How do current extinction rates compare to the natural background rate?

16. What distinguishes the current mass extinction from the previous five?

17. What factor does the professor say is increasingly compounding these pressures?

Writing

Build a Sentence

Click the words and phrases to put them in the correct order.

1. When did you realise you'd lost your wallet?

2. Who is that man with the camera?

3. Why does the museum charge an entry fee?

4. What did the customer want?

5. My roommate says the heating is broken again.

Write an Email

Write an email that responds to the situation.

You have been chosen to give a short speech at a graduation ceremony. Write an email to the organiser, Ms. Sanders. In your email, do the following: - Thank her for the honour. - Ask about the time limit and the audience. - Say what you plan to talk about.
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Model answer: Dear Ms. Sanders, Thank you so much for choosing me to speak at the graduation ceremony. I feel very honoured, and I am looking forward to the occasion. Could you please tell me how long my speech should be? I would also like to know who will be in the audience, for example whether it will be mainly graduates and their families or whether university staff and guests will also attend. I am planning to talk about the friendships I made here and what I learned outside the classroom. I would like to include a few funny stories and to thank our teachers for their support. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Best regards, James Whitfield

Write for an Academic Discussion

Read the discussion and write a post that contributes to it.

Dr. Whitfield: In economics this week, we're discussing universal basic income: a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen regardless of employment. Would this help or harm society? Give your opinion with reasons. Marco: I support it. It would give people security to retrain, start businesses, or leave abusive jobs, and it would remove the shame attached to needing help. Ingrid: I worry it would reduce the incentive to work, and the cost would require enormous tax rises that could hurt the very economy that funds the payment. Write a post that contributes to the discussion (at least 100 words).
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Model answer: I find Marco's argument about security compelling, but Ingrid's concern about cost cannot be dismissed. Small-scale trials in Finland and Kenya did show that recipients mostly kept working, often taking time to study or start small businesses rather than quitting outright, which weakens the laziness argument somewhat. However, funding a basic income for an entire country is a different scale of problem than a trial of a few thousand people, and Ingrid is right to question whether the tax base could support it without damaging growth. My own view is that a modest, partial basic income, combined with existing services like healthcare, is worth testing nationally before committing to Marco's full vision, so we can measure the real economic effect before scaling it up.

Speaking

Listen and Repeat

Listen to each sentence and repeat it exactly.

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Model answer: The seminar starts at half past ten.
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Model answer: The printer is out of paper again.
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Model answer: The findings suggest that sleep quality strongly affects academic performance.
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Model answer: Always read the terms carefully before agreeing to a new subscription.
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Model answer: Rising fuel costs forced the delivery company to raise its prices for the first time in years.

Take an Interview

Answer each interview question. Speak for about 45 seconds.

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Model answer: I visited Portugal last summer for about ten days. I travelled with two friends, and we mainly stayed in Lisbon before taking short trips to nearby coastal towns.
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Model answer: I enjoyed the food most, especially the fresh seafood and pastries. I also loved wandering through the old neighbourhoods, where the narrow streets and colourful buildings felt completely different from home.
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Model answer: Yes, our first hostel cancelled our booking without warning, so we had to find last-minute accommodation the night we arrived, which was stressful after a long flight and very little sleep.
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Model answer: Travelling has made me more comfortable with uncertainty and more curious about how other people live. It's also taught me to appreciate small comforts from home that I used to take for granted.
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