TOEFL Listening Practice 1 Iroquois Tree (Best my Test)

​Iroquios and Huron People

Multiple Choice

What is the lecture mainly about?

• • Different kinds of trees used for building canoes

• • Various methods of Native American transportation

• • The value of birch trees to some Native American groups

• • The trading of birch wood products by Europeans in North America

Multiple Select

2 According to the professor, what characteristics of birch bark made it useful to Native Americans?

Choose 2 answers.

• • It repels water

• • It can be eaten

• • It is easy to fold.

• • It has a rough texture

Multiple Select

3 According to the professor, why was the canoe important to some Native American groups?

Choose 2 answers

• There was a network of waterways where they lived.

• • Snowy winters made land travel too difficult

• • Some Native American groups sold their canoes to other groups

• • Canoe travel helped form relationships between groups of Native Americans

Multiple Choice

Why does the professor mention French traders who arrived in the Iroquois region?

• • To illustrate how far news of the Iroquois canoe design had traveled

• • To explain the kinds of objects the Iroquois received in exchange for their canoes

• To support her point about how efficient the Iroquois canoe design was

• • To emphasize that the Iroquois were the first settlers in that region

Multiple Choice

Listen again to part of the lecture. Then, answer the following question.  

Why does the student say this?

• • To share what he knows about birch wood

• • To point out a misprint in the textbook

• • To bring up a point from a previous lecture

• To request more explanation from the professor