Inference questions Toefl IBT

From paragraph 2, it can be inferred that a mass extinction ......

• A. is due

• B. coincides with carbon cycling

• C. can wipe out fish species

• D. is common

From paragraph 5, it can be inferred that.....

• A. babies are specially perceptive of physical appearance.

• B. attractive people are more likely to be successful.

• C. our judgment of the others is most often accurate.

• D. girls are more trustworthy than boys

What can be inferred about the US Supreme Court?

• A. It is a comprised of nine judges.

• B. It enabled the Civil Rights Movement to succeed.

• C. It has the power to overrule a state or city law.

• D. It was closely aligned with the NAACP and Martin Luther Kind Jr.

Which of the following can be inferred from the paragraph about the location of the meteorite impact in Mexico? 

• 1. A. The location of the impact site in Mexico was kept secret by geologists from 1980 to 1990.

• B. It was a well-known fact that the impact had occurred in the Yucatán region.

• 1. C. Geologists knew that there had been an impact before they knew where it had occurred.

  
  

• D. The Yucatán region was chosen by geologists as the most probable impact site because of its climate.

In paragraph 2, what does the author say about past theories of how the moai were transported from quarries to their resting places?

• A. The theories claimed that use of natural resources from transporting moai had devastating effects on the land and society.

• B. The theories relied on evidence of log roadway that remained long after the Rapa Nui people had disappeared.

• C. The theories were supported by oral accounts of the use of wood by the Rapa Nui peoples at the time the moai were constructed and transported.

• D. The theories were based on inaccurate estimates of the amount of wood required to transport moai over long distances.

What can be inferred from paragraph 5 about the statues found at their eventual resting places?

• A. They showed signs of having been tipped over on their sides at some point in transit.

• B. The people intended for the to be located elsewhere but were constrained by their transportation methos.

• C. Many were, in fact, created where they were installed rather than at the quarries that were originally assumed to be the place of creation.

• D. They did not have curved front edges.