TOEFL LISTENING – ANSWERING DETAIL QUESTIONS ABOUT EXTENDED CONVERSATIONS 13.2 Br

Focus: Answering detail and inference questions based on specific points in complete extended conversations.
Directions: You will hear four extended conversations. After each conversation, there will be a number of questions based on it. Mark the best answer choice-(A), (B), or (C)-for each question. The first one is done as an example.
Now start the audio.
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Questions 1-5: Listen to two students talk about a trip to California.
M1  : So, Rebecca, what did you do for spring break?
F2   : I went to southern California. I was in Los Angeles and San Diego. Oh, and I stopped in San Juan Capistrano. That's south of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. I happened to be there just about the time the swallows returned.
M1  : Oh, I've heard about that-they always return on the same day, don't they?
F1   : That's right, on March 19th. And they always flyaway on the same day, October 23rd. In the meantime, they migrate over 7,000 miles to get to their winter homes.
M1  : Seven thousand miles-imagine! And always coming back on the same day!
F1   : Yes, except for one year, a long time ago-they were delayed for a day by a storm at sea.
M1  : So, what's the town of San Juan Capistrano like?
F1   : Oh, it's a pleasant little town. Once there was a famous mission church there.
M1  : Once? What happened to it?
F1   : It was destroyed by an earthquake almost two hundred years ago. But there is an old adobe church that survived. The swallows build their nests in the walls and towers of that church.
M1  : You sure were lucky to be there on the one day of the year when the swallows return.
F1   : Well, I wasn't there exactly on that day. I got to town a couple of days later-but I did see the parade celebrating the swallows' return.
M1  : They have a parade? The people there must really like those swallows. F1: Sure-they bring lots of tourists to town, and besides, the swallows eat insects including mosquitoes!

1. Where is the town of San Juan Capistrano?

M1  : I'm here for the campus tour.
F2   : I'm sorry. We only offer a guided tour during the first week of classes.
M1  : Oh, really? That's too bad. I was really hoping to get a good orientation. Last week, I spent nearly an hour trying to find a classroom in the Fine Arts Building.
F2   : You know what you can do-you can take the self-guided tour. This pamphlet tells you exactly what to do, where to go, and what to look for, and it has a complete map of the campus.
M1  : Sounds easy enough-where do I start?
F2   : The first stop is right here, in the Student Center Building. Then you go next door to the Science Building-there's a great planetarium there, by the way and from there you go to the University Recreation Center. After that, just follow the directions in the pamphlet and you can't go wrong.
6. When is the guided tour of the campus given?

M2  : Hi, Helen. How did your driving test go? Did you get your driver's license yet?
F1   : So far, I've just taken the written test. I did well enough on that, but I still have to take the road test.
M2  : I remember when I took the road test a few years ago. The first time I took it, I failed.
F1   : You failed! But you're such a good driver! What happened?
M2  : Well, I took a left-hand turn from the right lane, and the examiner told me just to turn around and go back to the testing center. It was pretty embarrassing.
F1   : My big problem is parallel parking. I just can't seem to get a car into those little spaces.
M2  : If you like, we can go out in my car before you take the road test and practice parallel parking.
F1   : That would be great. I've just got to get my license. I can't believe that I have a car that my parents gave me just sitting in my garage, and I can't even drive it.

9. What did Helen recently pass?