That's why it is the most highly regarded and widely accepted test in the world. More than 6,000 colleges, universities, and agencies in 130 countries accept TOEFL scores, so students have the flexibility to use their TOEFL test scores worldwide. | TOEFL iBT Practice Test 2 4. The word associated in the passage is closest in meaning to obvious significant expected connected 0 0 0 0 5. The author mentions the cow and the horse in paragraph 2 in order to O distinguish the functioning of their digestive systems from those of East African mammals O emphasize that their relatively large body size leads them to have feeding practices similar to those of East African mammals O illustrate differences between ruminants and nonruminants through the use of animals likely to be familiar to most readers O emphasize similarities between the diets of cows and horses and the diets of East African mammals 348 Reading 6. According to paragraph 2 which of the following herbivores has to eat large quantities of plant stems because it gains relatively little energy from each given quantity of this food O The gazelle O The wildebeest O The zebra O The topi 7. Paragraph 2 suggests that which of the following is one of the most important factors in determining differences in feeding preferences of East African herbivores O The availability of certain foods O The differences in stomach structure O The physical nature of vegetation in the environment O The ability to migrate when food supplies are low 8. According to paragraph 2 all of the following are true of East African gazelles EXCEPT O They digest their food very quickly. O Microorganisms help them digest their food. O They are unable to digest large food particles unless these are chewed down considerably. O They survive well even if food supplies are not abundant. IThe other part of the explanation is body size. Larger animals require more food than smaller animals but smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate. Smaller animals can therefore live where there is less food provided that such food is of high energy content. That is why the smallest of the herbivores Thomson s gazelle lives on fruit that is very nutritious but too thin on the ground to support a larger animal. .
