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TOEFL iBT Practice Test 30

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.

For centuries, nobody could read Egyptian hieroglyphs. The breakthrough came in 1799, when French sold found a large stone near the town of Rashid. The stone carried the same dec written in three scripts: hieroglyphs, a simpler Egyptian script, and anci Greek. Scho could read the Greek, so they comp it line by line with the others. Jean-François Champollion finally real in 1822 that the symbols represented sou as well as ideas. His disco opened Egypt's writ history to modern read.

Read in Daily Life

Read the text and answer the questions.

Text message: Riverton Bank Security alert: A card payment of $249.00 at TechZone Online was attempted on your account ending 3381. If this was you, reply YES. If you do not recognise this payment, reply NO or call us on the number on the back of your card. We will never ask for your PIN or full password by text or email.

1. What should the customer do if they did not make the payment?

2. What is the bank telling customers at the end of the message?

Notice board: Class cancelled Tuesday's 6:00 p.m. spin class is cancelled this week only because the instructor is unwell. All other Tuesday classes will run as normal. Members who booked a spot will not be charged for the session, and the booking app has already been updated. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope to see you at Wednesday's class instead.

3. Why has the spin class been cancelled?

4. What does the notice suggest members do instead?

Read an Academic Passage

Read the passage and answer the questions.

In 1957, the social psychologist Leon Festinger proposed that people experience genuine psychological discomfort when they hold two contradictory beliefs, or when their behaviour conflicts with their stated beliefs, and that this discomfort, which he termed cognitive dissonance, motivates people to reduce the inconsistency, often by changing their beliefs rather than their behaviour. Festinger tested this idea in a now-famous experiment in which participants performed a deliberately tedious task and were then paid either one dollar or twenty dollars to tell a waiting participant that the task had been enjoyable. Counterintuitively, participants paid only one dollar later rated the task as more enjoyable than those paid twenty dollars. Festinger explained this by arguing that the well-paid group had ample external justification for lying—twenty dollars was a reasonable incentive—so they felt little dissonance and did not need to revise their genuine opinion of the task. The poorly paid group, in contrast, lacked a sufficient external reason for their dishonesty, so to resolve the resulting dissonance between "I said it was fun" and "I don't actually think it was fun," they unconsciously adjusted their actual attitude toward the task, coming to believe it really had been somewhat enjoyable. This finding has been replicated across many contexts since, and the general principle—that insufficient external justification for a behaviour tends to produce internal attitude change—has influenced fields from advertising to public health, where interventions sometimes deliberately create mild dissonance to encourage healthier behaviours.

5. According to the passage, why did the one-dollar group rate the boring task more favourably than the twenty-dollar group?

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

7. What can be inferred about the twenty-dollar group's experience of dissonance?

8. Why does the author describe the specific details of Festinger's 1957 experiment?

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 Jack planning?

10. What rule does Carla mention about the lounge?

11. What does Carla offer to do?

Listen to an Announcement

Listen to the announcement, then answer the questions.

12. What is happening between two and four o'clock?

13. What should residents do if they hear the alarm during this window?

Listen to an Academic Talk

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

14. What was one major effect of the printing press mentioned in the lecture?

15. How does the professor connect the printing press to Martin Luther?

16. What modern comparison does the professor mention?

17. What is the professor's overall attitude toward the printing press's impact?

Writing

Build a Sentence

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

1. Nobody can find the meeting room.

2. What will you do if the weather is bad?

3. Did the museum reopen?

4. Why did the plane turn back?

5. How long will the repairs take?

Write an Email

Write an email that responds to the situation.

You are unhappy because your class is too crowded to learn well. Write an email to the head of the language department. In your email, do the following: - Describe the situation in your class. - Explain how it is affecting your learning. - Suggest a possible solution.
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Model answer: Dear Dr. Lindgren, I am a student in the Advanced English class on Mondays, and I would like to raise a concern about class size. There are now thirty-eight students in a room designed for twenty-five, and some students have to sit on the floor. This makes it hard for us to learn. The teacher cannot give attention to everyone, and we rarely have a chance to speak in the discussions. It is also difficult to hear the teacher from the back of the room. I suggest that the department opens a second section on another day, or moves the class to a larger room with a microphone. Even a small change would help a lot. Thank you for considering this. Sincerely, Lucia Bianchi

Write for an Academic Discussion

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

Dr. Prentiss: In communications training, should universities require every student, regardless of major, to take a public speaking course before graduating? Consider career benefits and course overload, and share your opinion. Aditi: Absolutely require it. Nearly every career eventually demands presenting ideas clearly, whether to a client, a classroom or a boardroom, and many students currently graduate having never practised this properly. Callan: I'd leave it optional. Some careers genuinely require little public speaking, and forcing an already overloaded engineering or nursing student to fit in another course could push out something more directly relevant to their field. Write a post that contributes to the discussion (at least 100 words).
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Model answer: I lean towards Aditi's position, mainly because public speaking anxiety, in my observation, rarely resolves itself without deliberate practice, and students who avoid it because it's optional often reach their careers still struggling with exactly the skill Aditi describes as nearly universal. Callan's concern about course overload is legitimate, though, so rather than adding an entirely separate course, universities could embed structured public speaking practice, like a graded presentation, within existing required courses in every major, which would deliver the benefit Aditi wants without demanding the extra credit hours Callan is worried about. That way, the skill becomes unavoidable without necessarily crowding out the more field-specific content Callan values.

Speaking

Listen and Repeat

Listen to each sentence and repeat it exactly.

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Model answer: She's allergic to peanuts and shellfish.
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Model answer: Make sure you save your work before closing the programme.
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Model answer: Why do smartphones seem to lose battery faster after each update?
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Model answer: It took almost an hour to find a parking space near the hospital.
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Model answer: The travel agency offered us a refund after the resort cancelled our reservation.

Take an Interview

Answer each interview question. Speak for about 45 seconds.

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Model answer: Yes, my secondary school history teacher had a huge influence on me. She made historical events feel relevant to today rather than just dates to memorise for a test.
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Model answer: She often connected historical events to current news stories and encouraged us to debate different interpretations, rather than simply presenting one official version of what happened.
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Model answer: It taught me to question sources and consider multiple perspectives, a habit that has carried over into how I approach research and assignments now at university.
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Model answer: I think an inspiring teacher can completely change a student's relationship with a subject. I went from finding history boring to choosing it as a minor, purely because of how she taught it.
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