After finishing the TOEFL, you will receive a score from 0 to 30 for each of the four sections. You will also receive a total score on a 0 TO 120 scale. Each score corresponds to a percentile ranking. | by unweaving the rainbow. His colleague Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously remarked that the souls of 500 Newtons would be needed to make 1 Shakespeare. And yet. from another perspective. Newton did not diminish the beauty of the rainbow he enhanced it. In his quest to uncover the secrets of the rainbow Newton demonstrated the wonder creativity and inspiration of an artist. And he gave the world another opportunity to experience the sublime. Newton s discovery paved the way for the development of the science of spectroscopy a way of analyzing the chemical makeup of light. Now scientists can look at the stars and discern their composition. The sense of wonder this ability creates is not much different from the wonder the poet or artist feels when gazing at those same stars. Here s the passage again with the direction changes indicated. The same-direction words arc bolded whereas the opposite-direction words arc italicized. Art has always occupied a special place in society. Many people consider artists to be the ultimate authorities on aesthetics the nature and expression of beauty. For much of history the practice of art was inscrutable and artists were viewed as being somewhat strange and often mad. Even the word most commonly associated with artists inspiration has its own magical overtones. Literally inspiration is the breathing in of a spirit. Artists were thought of as people who were divinely inspired to create. Of course artists contributed to this mythology. Many artists ascribed their talents to the presence of some supernatural agent or muse. Whole movements of art have centered on the supposedly otherworldly nature of art. For example the Romantic poets believed that art was the search for the sublime a term for them that meant an ultimate expression of beauty and truth. The search for this ideal led them to explore both natural and supernatural themes in their works. Another persistent view of art regarded its divorce from rationality. Reason and logic .
