Question

(Newsweek, 1998)

Most colleges and universities in the United States require

international students to take the TOEFL –or Test of English as a

Foreign Language– before they can be granted admission. Written

and administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS), a private,

non-profit company based in Princeton, New Jersey, the TOEFL is

designed to test your ability to understand standard North American

English. It was developed specially to help American and Canadian

schools make sure that their international applicants could follow

courses taught in English. TOEFL scores range from 200 to 667.

Since the test is a measure of proficiency and not of knowledge, no

one passes or fails a TOEFL. Instead, minimum scores are

determined by each college and university. A top-tier university

usually requires a score of 600 or better.

Computer Testing

ln all but 16 countries and territories, the test is now given in a

computer-based version (CBT). The CBT is quite different from the

paper-and-pencil version. lnstead of filling in ovals on paper,

students answer questions on the screen of their computer,

by using either a keyboard or a mouse. ln some of the reading

passages, students respond to questions by clicking on words in

the text. There is a new range of scores, too, in the computer

version – from 40 to 300.

Some parts of the exam will also be “computer-adaptive”, which

means that the computer will select questions based on your

performance, rather than giving you questions in a

prearranged sequence. If you answer many questions correctly,

you will be given more difficult questions and your score will go up.

lf you answer too many incorrectly, the computer will choose easier

questions for you and your score will go down.

QUESTÃO 01

We may say that this text is:

a) argumentative.

b) imaginative.

c) persuative.

d) informative.

e)controversial​

Answer 1

Resposta:

Letra (D) informative