Listen and Choose a Response
Response 1
0.5sWasn't the anthropology review session supposed to be in Carter Hall?
1. Choose the best response.
TOEFL iBT Listening Practice
2026-09-07 · 5 Listen and Choose a Response + 1 Academic Talk · 9 questions
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Listen and Choose a Response
Response 2
0.2sIf you're heading to the print shop anyway, could you pick up my poster too?
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Response 3
0.4sI'm not sure I'm reading the professor's comment the way she intended.
3. Choose the best response.
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Response 4
0.8sYou can try emailing him again, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
4. Choose the best response.
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Response 5
0.3sHow did I manage to leave my calculator at home on the one day we need it?
5. Choose the best response.
Listen to an Academic Talk
Academic Talk — Reconstructing Site History from Broken Pottery
0.2sArchaeologists often learn as much from where broken pottery pieces are found as from the pottery itself.
6.8sOne useful technique is refitting: researchers try to join fragments, or sherds, that once belonged to the same vessel.
14.9sNow, if two matching sherds are found several meters apart, that does not automatically mean the pot was used in both places.
23.1sThe pieces may have been moved after the vessel broke.
25.9sImagine a house floor with a hearth near one wall and a refuse pit outside.
31.6sSuppose several sherds lie beside the hearth, but matching pieces from the same pot are found in the pit.
37.9sA reasonable possibility is that someone swept part of the broken vessel out of the house during cleaning.
44.2sIn that case, the pit contains what archaeologists call a secondary deposit: material that was discarded or deposited somewhere other than the place where it first entered the archaeological record.
55.8sRefitting can therefore reveal how a site changed after objects were broken—through cleaning, trampling, rebuilding, or dumping.
63.8sBut a successful fit does not tell researchers exactly when that movement happened.
69.0sThey still need evidence such as soil layers, building phases, and the position of nearby artifacts.
75.1sSo refitting is most powerful when it is combined with other evidence about the sequence of activity at a site.
6. What is the main point of the talk?
7. Why does the professor describe pottery fragments found beside a hearth and in a refuse pit?
8. According to the professor, what is a secondary deposit?
9. Why does the professor say that a successful fit does not show exactly when the fragments were moved?
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