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TOEFL Listening Class Unit 2 Passage 18
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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1. What is the main topic of the talk?
Fashion throughout history
Uses of the bobby pin
The history of hairpins
The origin of the phrase "bobby pin?
2. What is the purpose of the talk?
To illustrate the importance of fashion
To give an example of human ingenuity
To demonstrate the usefulness of the hairpin
To show people's connection to the past
3. Why were Roman hairpins sometimes hollow?
To serve as a hiding place for poison
To be used as a musical instrument
To follow a fashion begun by Cleopatra
To make pinning hair easier
4. According to the professor, why did people often wear
bobby pins in France in the seventeenth century?
They made a person's hair look longer.
They made wearing a wig easier.
They helped women imitate Cleopatra's hairstyle.
They were a sign of wealth.
5. What happened to hairpins in the nineteenth century?
They almost disappeared.
They were mass-produced.
People in England stopped using them.
They were mostly made of ivory.
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