Get ready for the TOEFL with this lecture listening practice. Below are the questions, and at the bottom of this description, you'll find the answers. Good luck!
Questions (AFTER LISTENING)
Question 1
What is the main topic of the lecture?
(A) The technical definition of EMDR
(B) Differences between different types of therapy
(C) Various non-traditional treatments for trauma
(D) The value and usefulness of EMDR treatment
Question 2
According to the professor, what does “processing” mean?
(A) Explaining the complicated way that EMDR works
(B) Mentally revisiting a traumatic event
(C) Understanding an experience via a healthy state of mind
(D) Talking about a painful experience through EMDR
Question 3
What is the speaker’s attitude toward EMDR?
(A) She believes it is a unique form of therapy with a proven track record and promising future.
(B) She thinks it will require time before EMDR’s benefits can be fully understood by psychologists.
(C) She is unsure of whether or not the results achieved by the method are long-term.
(D) She believes it will one day be considered the preferred form of treatment for most victims of trauma.
Question 4
Listen again to part of the lecture: http://magoosh.com/toefl/files/2014/09/Test-1-Listening-A5-Lect-EMDR.mp3. Then answer the question.
(A) Traumatic experiences feel like they take a long time to reach completion.
(B) Traumatic experiences can haunt the memory and never leave a person’s mind.
(C) Traumatic experiences sometimes occur in repetitious patterns in people’s lives.
(D) Traumatic experiences can seem more debilitating than they really are.
Question 5
Why does the professor say this?: http://magoosh.com/toefl/files/2014/09/Test-1-Listening-A6-Lect-EMDR.mp3
(A) To caution against hurrying through treatment to obtain fast results
(B) To clarify why EMDR is a time-limited treatment approach
(C) To suggest that other forms of therapy are slower and less effective
(D) To warn her students against using EMDR with patients whom they do not know well
Answers:
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. A
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