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TOEFL Listening Class Unit 1 Passage 12
First of all, you need to know what is TOEFL listening Pattern. Second, in the course of listening, just pay attention on what you know, if you missed something, just let it go . don't try to figure out what you missed . Finally, after finishing the passage, don't go answers immediately. use about 5 seconds to review the passage specially last two sentence. then go answers one by one. don't saty in one question for a long time.
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Ready ? Click to start listening 106. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
Valuable objects found at prehistoric sites The location of prehistoric villages The origin of farming in prehistoric times Reasons for population growth in prehistoric times
107. According to the old theory, what happened when the prehistoric population grew?
Fighting over food supplies became common in prehistoric villages. Many people could no longer survive just by hunting and gathering wild plants. Some villages were threatened by disease. Hunting techniques improved.
108. What important information can the archaeologists' new technique provide?
Why villages were established How to locate early farming tools The kinds of seeds first cultivated The ages of tiny objects
109. What conclusion did archaeologists reach concerning early villages?
There were more prehistoric villages than previously thought. The grain found in villages is not as old as they had thought. Population growth in prehistoric villages made new farming methods necessary. Village life arose from a need for protection against outsiders.
110. What can be inferred about the first prehistoric people to live in villages?
Many of them survived by hunting and gathering wild plants. Most of them did not eat meat. They seldom used charcoal for cooking. There were fewer of them than previously thought.
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