Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt part 20', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 376 TOEFL ỈBT Question Type 10 Revisited Understanding Coherence There are 3 passages on the Reading section of the TOEFL Each passage is followed by 1 coherence question. You have learned about cohesive devices such as pronouns demonstrative adjectives and transitional phrases. These devices are essential to questions on the TOEFL that require you to indicate where a sentence might best fit in the passage. For the following exercise pay special attention to the transitional phrases. Look at the three sentences that follow and write a sentence that would fit in the space marked by the asterisk . Make sure to use transitional phrases when you write your sentences. The first one has been done as an example 1. In the United States alone more than 40 000 people die every year in car accidents and hundreds of thousands more suffer personal and financial injury. By contrast rail fatalities seldom number more than a few hundred per year worldwide. This is an alarming amount. 2. Teenagers often consider themselves to be adults once they can drive. In fact we have a whole body of popular culture from dating to work to weekend vacations built around the car and nowhere does the train put in an appearance. 3. No matter how efficient they are how safe or how inexpensive trains cannot offer the thrill and satisfaction inherent in the automobile. In sum no teenager dreams about cruising to pick up his or her date on the train. Answers Answers will vary but here are some sample sentences in bold. 1. In the United States alone more than 40 000 people die every year in car accidents and hundreds of thousands more suffer personal and financial injury. By contrast rail fatalities seldom number more than a few hundred per year worldwide. Thiö 5 an alarming amount. 1 Chapter 7 Lesson Set 7 377 2. Teenagers often consider themselves to be adults once they can drive. The re not wrong in thinking that way either. In fact we have a whole body of popular culture from dating to work to .
