Academic Lecture Comprehension 1Mid-Termtest

Academic Lecture Comprehension 1Mid-TermTest

Answer Sheet

Student ID / Name

Section I:Note-taking (5 points)

Section II:Lecture Comprehension: content and structure questions(10 points)

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Section III: QA (5 points)

statement
1 / Q
A
statement
2 / Q
A
statement
3 / Q
A
statement
4 / Q
A
statement
5 / Q
A

Section IV: Turning Notes into Passage (5 points)

______

Section IV: Vocabulary (5 points)

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Question Sheet

Section I:Note-taking

Listen to the lecture twice and take notes on the note-taking page (p. 1 of the answer booklet).

Section II:Lecture Comprehension: content and structure questions

Listen to ten questions and their answer options about the content and structure and write the best answer option for each question in the answer section (p. 3).The first6 questions have three answer options a, b, and c, and the last 4 questions have two options: T (true) or F (false). Answer according to the content of the lecture. The questions and their answer options are NOT printed, and will be read only twice.

Section III: QA

For each of the following five statements, write a question that asks the underlined part and an answer to the question. If there is no underlined part in the statement, write a yes/no question and its answer. The answer must be in a complete sentence and be followed by extra information that is in agreement with the lectures covered in class. Look at the examples below.

EXAMPLES

statement: The Titanic disaster happened a long ago.

Q: When did the Titanic disaster happen?

A: The disaster happened a long ago. It was in 1912.

statement: The Titanic was very old when it sank.

Q: Was Titanic very old when it sank?

A: No, Titanic sank in its first voyage.

statement1: The accidents of both the Titanic and the Andrea Doria were very similar.

statement2: Many people died in the Titanic accident.

statement3: The ears of African and Asian elephants are of the same size.

statement4: African and Asian elephants are intelligent animals.

statement 5:It is difficult to train the African elephant.

Section IV: Turning Notes into Passage

From the notes you took when you listened to the lecture, write a multi-paragraph passage that meets the following guidelines:

indentation at the beginning of each paragraph
introductory paragraph + (at least one) supporting paragraph + concluding paragraph
a topic sentence at the beginning of the supporting paragraph(s)
appropriate use of at least three transition expressions (logical connectors)
correctness of information

Underline the logical connectors.

Section V: Vocabulary (10Qs; Chs.10 and 12; List 1)

Choose the wordfrom the table that best completes each sentence and write it in the answer section. Change word forms if necessary.

nouns / adjectives / verbs / adverbs
occasion fact / alike sudden / compare entertain perform remain warn / quite

It defines the physical actions and thought processes which must be undertaken to ( ) a task.
We have talked about the experience of anxiety symptoms as being initiated by the ( ) or gradual build-up of stress.
As a result, it is more difficult to train the African elephant to perform tricks to ( ) people.
It is not possible to hold back a tidal wave, but it is possible to ( ) people that a tidal wave is coming.
These involved being unable to breathe properly, and on ( ) even caused her to faint.
In some cases, ( ) new kinds of source material will become practical.
Today millions of dollars worth of gold, silver, and cash may still ( ) locked inside these two sunken ships.
As I said before, the African and the Asian elephants are ( ) in many ways, but they are also quite different, too.
When the Andrea Doria went down, people ( ) her sinking with the sinking of the Titanic.
Data elements represent ( ) concerning people, objects, events, and so on.