TOEIC/ Listening Question

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Speaker 1: When did you leave the office?Speaker 2: A) Before it started to rain.B) After tomorrow.C) While you were speaking.Could I choose both A and B? Please advise.LCChang

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Lcchang
Speaker 1: When did you leave the office?

Speaker 2:

A) Before it started to rain.
B) After tomorrow.
C) While you were speaking.

Could I choose both A and B? Please advise.

LCChang

I had left the office before it started to rain, although it is also possible to say "I left the office before it started to rain" in customary usage.

After tomorrow is obviously future. The question is in the simple past.

CalifJim · Answer

B) is impossible. You can't have already left after tomorrow. It's total nonsense.
You may as well say that while you were in New York you were in London or that you died next month.

CJ

Lcchang · Answer

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Lcchang
Speaker 1: When did you leave the office?

Speaker 2:

A) Before it started to rain.
B) After tomorrow.
C) While you were speaking.

Could I choose both A and B? Please advise.

LCChang

I had left the office before it started to rain, although it is also possible to say "I left the office before it started to rain" in customary usage.

After tomorrow is obviously future. The question is in the simple past.

I am sorry. What I mean is A and C. I think C sounds OK too. Not B, sorry.

LCChang

CalifJim · Answer

Well, that was a big "Whoops!", wasn't it?

Both A and C are fine. But I thought this was a listening test. Doesn't the answer depend on the truth of the answer with respect to what you listened to first? You don't provide a transcription of the listening part.

CJ

Lcchang · Answer

CalifJimWell, that was a big "Whoops!", wasn't it?

Both A and C are fine. But I thought this was a listening test. Doesn't the answer depend on the truth of the answer with respect to what you listened to first? You don't provide a transcription of the listening part.

CJ

Dear CJ

Thank you for your advice. Could you explain what you meant?

Doesn't the answer depend on the truth of the answer with respect to what you listened to first? what I listened to first?

You don't provide a transcription of the listening part. Do you suggest me not provide the transcript? Why?

No offense, but I really hope you can explain more about these. I had a little hard time understanding them. Thank you.

LCChang

CalifJim · Answer

I may be mistaken but I thought that you wrote the header TOEIC/ Listening Question because you were being tested on your ability to understand spoken English.
I thought that you had to listen to a passage and then answer the question, so I was expecting that you would copy out the passage you listened to and place it within your post.

Listening:

There were several apples on the table and a peach on the desk.

Question:

The peach was:

A. on the table
B. through the window
C. falling into the water
D. on the desk

Which is correct?

Note that we can't answer which is correct if we don't know what you listened to before you were asked to answer the question.

Is it more clear now what I was saying in my previous post?

CJ

Lcchang · Answer

CalifJimI may be mistaken but I thought that you wrote the header TOEIC/ Listening Question because you were being tested on your ability to understand spoken English.
I thought that you had to listen to a passage and then answer the question, so I was expecting that you would copy out the passage you listened to and place it within your post.

Listening:

There were several apples on the table and a peach on the desk.

Question:

The peach was:

A. on the table
B. through the window
C. falling into the water
D. on the desk

Which is correct?

Note that we can't answer which is correct if we don't know what you listened to before you were asked to answer the question.

Is it more clear now what I was saying in my previous post?

CJ

I thought that you wrote the header TOEIC/ Listening Question because you were being tested on your ability to understand spoken English.
Oh, yes. I was working on that in order to improve my TOEIC score.

I thought that you had to listen to a passage and then answer the question, so I was expecting that you would copy out the passage you listened to and place it within your post.

Yes, this is it. The passage is only one line spoken by the speaker 1, and I, the testee, has to pretend myself to be the speaker 2. I have to choose the right response to what speaker 1 said to me. The given answer is A, but I thought C could be a good answer too. Your advice will help me a lot to answer the question. I regret that I didn't give you enough background on this test question. I took it for granted that everyone should know about it. I am terribly sorry.

LCChang

CalifJim · Answer

No need to be sorry. I was mistaken about the basics of the listening test. I thought the listening passages were much longer!

Thanks for your explanation.

CJ

Lcchang · Answer

No problem, sir.

So, CJ. How do you think about answer C? Please advise.

LCChang

CalifJim · Answer

C is grammatically correct, but not likely as a real event, since people don't usually walk away when being spoken to!

CJ

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