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TOEFL iBT Practice Test 15

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.

Children learn their first language without formal lessons. By the age of one, most bab can recognise the sounds and rhythm of the speech around them. They begin to bab, then produce single words, and by two years they comb words into short phra. Researchers disagree about the explan. Some believe that humans are born with an inb grammar, while others empha the role of interaction and imita. Both views agree that rich, regu conversation with caregivers speeds up vocab growth.

Read in Daily Life

Read the text and answer the questions.

We missed you! Our courier tried to deliver your parcel today at 11:15 a.m., but nobody answered the door. Your package has been left at the Greenway Pharmacy, 22 Mill Road. Please collect it within seven days and bring a photo ID and this card. If you would like a second delivery attempt instead, call us before 4 p.m. tomorrow and we will come between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

1. Where is the parcel now?

2. What must the recipient bring to collect the parcel?

Poster: Community Plant Sale — Saturday Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., outside the community centre. Tomato and herb seedlings, $2 each. Larger potted plants, $5-$15. All proceeds support the centre's youth programs. Cash only — no card machine on site this year. Arrive early; popular varieties sell out fast in previous years.

3. What is being done with the money raised?

4. What is different about payment this year?

Read an Academic Passage

Read the passage and answer the questions.

Utilitarianism, most closely associated with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, holds that the morally right action is the one that produces the greatest overall happiness or well-being, aggregated across everyone affected by it, rather than the action that follows a fixed rule or reflects a particular virtue in the person acting. Bentham proposed a strikingly literal version of this idea, suggesting that pleasure and pain could in principle be measured and compared using a shared unit, allowing moral decisions to be calculated much like a sum, weighing the intensity, duration, and likelihood of pleasure or pain produced by different possible actions. Mill, while broadly accepting the utilitarian framework, revised it in an important respect, arguing against Bentham's assumption that all pleasures are equivalent in kind and differ only in quantity; Mill instead distinguished "higher" pleasures, associated with intellectual and aesthetic activity, from "lower" bodily pleasures, and argued that a small amount of a higher pleasure could outweigh a larger amount of a lower one. Critics have long challenged utilitarianism on several grounds: some argue that aggregating happiness across many people can justify severely harming a minority if it produces a larger benefit for the majority, a conclusion many find morally unacceptable regardless of the arithmetic; others question whether happiness can meaningfully be measured or compared between different people at all. Despite these persistent objections, utilitarian reasoning remains influential in fields such as public health policy and economics, particularly in cost-benefit analysis, where decisions are still often evaluated by weighing aggregate benefits against aggregate costs across a population.

5. According to the passage, how did Mill's view of pleasure differ from Bentham's?

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

7. What can be inferred about a critic who objects that utilitarianism could justify harming a minority?

8. Why does the author mention cost-benefit analysis in public health policy?

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 change is Ben considering?

10. Why does Ben prefer this change?

11. What benefit does David point out about switching?

Listen to an Announcement

Listen to the announcement, then answer the questions.

12. Why is the gymnasium closing on Saturday?

13. Which facilities remain open during the closure?

Listen to an Academic Talk

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

14. How did work change with the rise of factories?

15. Why was child labor common in early factories, according to the lecture?

16. What eventually resulted from these harsh conditions?

17. What is the main focus of this lecture excerpt?

Writing

Build a Sentence

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

1. I heard the bakery is under new management.

2. The manager seems annoyed this afternoon.

3. Are you going to join the gym?

4. What does the term "habitat" mean?

5. Where should we eat tonight?

Write an Email

Write an email that responds to the situation.

You have been offered two internships and need more time to decide on one of them. Write an email to the company that made the first offer. In your email, do the following: - Thank them for the offer. - Explain why you need more time. - Ask for a new deadline.
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Model answer: Dear Ms. Ivanova, Thank you very much for offering me the internship in your design department. I was delighted to receive your email, and I greatly enjoyed meeting the team last week. I am writing to ask if I could have a little more time to decide. I have another offer, and I am waiting for a final answer about the conditions, including the working hours and the location. I want to make a choice that is fair to both companies. Would it be possible to extend the deadline until Friday, 21 June? I will let you know my decision as soon as I can. Thank you again for your patience and understanding. Best regards, Diego Alvarez

Write for an Academic Discussion

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

Professor Osman: In labour economics, does immigration generally help or harm a country's labour market for existing workers? Consider wages, job availability and economic growth, and share your view. Katarzyna: It helps overall. Immigrants often fill labour shortages in sectors like agriculture, healthcare and construction, pay taxes, and studies generally show minimal long-term wage effects on native workers. Diallo: I think it depends heavily on the sector and skill level. In some low-wage industries, a sudden increase in available workers can genuinely push wages down for the most vulnerable local workers. Write a post that contributes to the discussion (at least 100 words).
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Model answer: I think Katarzyna's broad economic picture is well supported by research, and I don't dismiss it, but Diallo's more targeted concern shouldn't be waved away as simply wrong either, since the overall national effect can hide real, localised harm in specific low-wage sectors or regions. My view is that the general benefits Katarzyna describes, filling shortages and supporting growth, are real at the national level, but that doesn't mean every worker experiences immigration the same way. I'd support immigration policy that expands the labour market as Katarzyna argues, combined with targeted protections, like enforced minimum wages and support for retraining, specifically in the sectors Diallo mentions, so the overall national gain doesn't come at the expense of the most vulnerable local workers.

Speaking

Listen and Repeat

Listen to each sentence and repeat it exactly.

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Model answer: How long does it usually take to get a visa?
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Model answer: Our department is hosting a guest lecture on artificial intelligence.
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Model answer: The gallery invited local artists to display their work this month.
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Model answer: The research team spent three months collecting data before they began analysing the results.
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Model answer: The university announced that final exams would be held online this semester due to the renovations.

Take an Interview

Answer each interview question. Speak for about 45 seconds.

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Model answer: I check social media several times a day, mostly during short breaks between classes or before bed, though I try not to spend more than an hour on it total.
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Model answer: I use a photo-sharing app the most, mainly to keep up with friends who live far away and to follow a few accounts related to photography, which is one of my hobbies.
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Model answer: Yes, I deleted the apps from my phone for about two weeks last semester before final exams. It was surprisingly hard at first, but it definitely helped me focus better on studying.
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Model answer: I think it has both effects. It helps people stay connected and find communities with shared interests, but the constant comparison to others' curated lives can also seriously harm self-esteem if used carelessly.
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