TOEFL iBT · full test
TOEFL iBT listening practice set 2
Forty-seven practice items in the four task types of the updated TOEFL iBT Listening section: Listen and Choose a Response (15 short remarks), Listen to a Conversation (five campus conversations), Listen to an Announcement (five announcements) and Listen to an Academic Talk (three talks, on urban heat islands, the decoy effect in pricing and autumn leaf colors). This is the second easiest of the four listening sets: a step up from set 1, with more replies that depend on what a speaker means rather than what they say. The real section also has about 47 items, and each recording is played only once, so listen once and take notes. This set uses American voices; the real test can also use British, Australian and New Zealand accents. It is untimed; the real Listening section is timed and adaptive, so the questions you meet depend on how you answer earlier ones, and it is reported on a 1 to 6 scale.
Exam mode: timed, answers at the end, like the real test. Practice mode: untimed, the answer and explanation after each question.
What is in this test
| Multiple choice, one answer | 47 questions | instant marking |
Covers: listen and choose a response (15) · listen to an academic talk (12) · listen to a conversation (10) · listen to an announcement (10)
A sample question
Why does the editor mention sports reporting?
- To suggest the student write about sports instead
- To show that the student's experience is still useful
- To explain that the paper needs sports writers
- To criticize the student's high school paper
Marked when you take the test; the explanation appears in your review.