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TOEFL iBT Practice Test 35

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.

Gothic cathedrals rise above medieval European cities like stone mountains. Their builders solved a difficult problem: how to construct very tall walls filled with large wind. The answer was the pointed arch, which dire weight downward more efficiently than a round ar. Outside the building, flying buttresses supp the walls against outw pressure. Because the walls no longer carried the whole lo, craftsmen could ins vast panels of coloured glass. The result was an interior floo with light, which was meant to insp a sense of the div.

Read in Daily Life

Read the text and answer the questions.

Notice to passengers: Flight BX 302 to Lisbon Due to late arrival of the aircraft, the departure of this flight has been delayed by approximately 90 minutes. The new departure time is 6:40 p.m. Passengers are advised to remain in the departure lounge. Meal vouchers worth 12 euros are available at Gate 14. We apologise for the inconvenience.

1. What can passengers get at Gate 14?

2. What was the original departure time?

Job listing: Freelance proofreader needed Small publishing company seeks a freelance proofreader for children's books, approximately 4 hours per week, remote. Pay: $25 per hour, invoiced monthly. Ideal candidate has proofreading experience and a careful eye for detail; experience with children's fiction specifically is a bonus, not a requirement. Apply with a short writing sample.

3. What is described as a bonus rather than a requirement?

4. How should someone apply for the job?

Read an Academic Passage

Read the passage and answer the questions.

Long before electronic calculators existed, several civilisations independently developed manual counting devices to perform arithmetic more reliably than mental calculation alone. The Chinese suanpan, a frame strung with rods of movable beads, likely reached its familiar form by the fourteenth century, though counting boards using loose pebbles date back much further, including a Roman version and the ancient Mesopotamian sexagesimal counting systems that influenced how we still divide hours into sixty minutes today. What made the abacus more than a simple counting aid was its capacity to encode a positional number system physically: each column of beads represented a different place value, so shifting beads according to fixed procedural rules allowed a skilled operator to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even division far faster and more reliably than manipulating written numerals, particularly in societies that had not yet adopted a convenient written place-value system like the one based on Hindu-Arabic numerals. Skilled abacus users could, and in some cases still can, outperform electronic calculators in raw speed for certain operations, since the physical, muscle-memory-based technique avoids the cognitive step of reading and re-entering numbers between each intermediate calculation. Abacus instruction remains part of primary education in several East Asian countries not merely as a practical calculating skill but because researchers argue it strengthens working memory and spatial reasoning, benefits that appear to transfer, to some degree, to other kinds of mathematical problem-solving.

5. According to the passage, what made the abacus more useful than simple counting pebbles?

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

7. What can be inferred about societies that had not adopted a convenient written place-value system?

8. Why does the author mention that skilled abacus users can outperform electronic calculators in speed?

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 are Ben and Emma deciding on?

10. What does Emma suggest?

11. What will Emma do before the presentation?

Listen to an Announcement

Listen to the announcement, then answer the questions.

12. What does the new exhibit feature?

13. How much do non-students pay for admission?

Listen to an Academic Talk

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

14. Who introduced the concept of cognitive dissonance?

15. What example does the professor give of dissonance?

16. What happened to the cult members after their predicted date passed uneventfully?

17. What does the professor conclude about people's pull toward consistency?

Writing

Build a Sentence

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

1. What's happening on the high street?

2. Why did you take the train?

3. Is nuclear power safe?

4. What are the benefits of bilingual education?

5. What is the new library like?

Write an Email

Write an email that responds to the situation.

You want to apply for a scholarship and need a reference letter. Write an email to Professor Ahmed, who taught you last year. In your email, do the following: - Remind him who you are. - Explain what the scholarship is and why you are applying. - Ask whether he can write the letter by a certain date.
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Model answer: Dear Professor Ahmed, I hope you are well. I was in your Modern History seminar last spring, where I wrote my final essay on trade routes in the Ottoman Empire. I am applying for the Global Futures Scholarship, which funds a year of study abroad. I would like to spend the year at a university in Istanbul, and the topic fits my research interests very well. Would you be willing to write a reference letter for me? The deadline for submission is 15 February, so I would need it by the first of the month. I can send you my CV and a short summary of my plans to make things easier. Thank you very much for considering my request. Sincerely, Hannah Cole

Write for an Academic Discussion

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

Dr. Halvorsen: In developmental psychology, the age-old question: is our personality shaped more by genetics or by upbringing and environment? Consider twin studies and your own experience, and share your opinion. Iben: I lean towards genetics. Studies of identical twins raised apart still show striking similarities in personality, career interests and even political views, which is hard to explain through environment alone. Ruben: I lean towards environment. I have a twin brother, and despite sharing genes and a home, our personalities are quite different because of the friends we made and the experiences we each chose. Write a post that contributes to the discussion (at least 100 words).
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Model answer: I think the honest answer, based on what we've studied, is that both matter enormously and interact rather than compete, though I find the twin-study evidence Iben mentions particularly persuasive for broad temperament, things like how outgoing or anxious someone tends to be by default. Ruben's personal example doesn't really contradict this, though; even identical twins raised together have different friendships, teachers and small daily experiences that genetics can't predict, which is exactly the kind of environmental variation that shapes the details of personality on top of a genetic baseline. My view is that genetics sets a range of likely traits, while environment decides where within that range, and in what specific direction, a person actually develops.

Speaking

Listen and Repeat

Listen to each sentence and repeat it exactly.

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Model answer: I need to charge my laptop before the meeting.
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Model answer: Employees will receive additional training before the new system launches.
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Model answer: Keep your passport somewhere safe while you're travelling through the region.
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Model answer: The conference brought together researchers from more than thirty countries this year.
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Model answer: The biology department received funding to study how coral reefs adapt to rising ocean temperatures.

Take an Interview

Answer each interview question. Speak for about 45 seconds.

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Model answer: A trip I remember well is a family road trip along the coast when I was around fifteen. We drove for a week, stopping at small towns and beaches we'd never heard of before.
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Model answer: What made it memorable was how unplanned it was. We didn't book most of the accommodation in advance, so every day felt like a small adventure deciding where to stop next.
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Model answer: Yes, our car broke down on a quiet stretch of highway, and we had to wait almost three hours for a tow truck. At the time it was stressful, but now it's one of our favourite stories.
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Model answer: I think it's stayed with me because it showed how enjoyable spontaneity can be. Most of my trips since then have been carefully planned, but that one taught me the value of leaving room for surprises.
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