TOEFL 2026 Listening

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• ☐ ☐ ☐ a turbine n. - a machine that turns to produce electricity
• ☐ ☐ ☐ store v. - keep for later use
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a reservoir n. - a large artificial lake for storing water
• ☐ ☐ ☐ demand n. - the amount of something people need or want
• ☐ ☐ ☐ generate v. - produce (energy or power)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ efficient adj. - working without wasting energy or resources
• ☐ ☐ ☐ make sense exp. - be logical or reasonable
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a limitation n. - a weakness; something that restricts what is possible
• ☐ ☐ ☐ the landscape n. - the natural features of an area, such as hills and rivers
  
  
• ☐ ☐ ☐ natural selection n. - the process by which the best-adapted organisms survive and reproduce
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a trait n. - a characteristic passed from parents to offspring
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an antibiotic n. - a medicine that kills bacteria
• ☐ ☐ ☐ genetic adj. - relating to genes
• ☐ ☐ ☐ multiply v. - increase greatly in number
• ☐ ☐ ☐ resistance n. - the ability to survive a drug or harmful substance
• ☐ ☐ ☐ take over phv. - gain control; become dominant
• ☐ ☐ ☐ prescribe v. - (of a doctor) order a medicine for a patient
• ☐ ☐ ☐ overuse n. - too much use
• ☐ ☐ ☐ reproduce v. - produce offspring
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a millennium (pl. millennia) n. - a period of a thousand years

n. - noun,    v. - verb,    phv. - phrasal verb,    adj. - adjective,    exp. - expression

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Directions: What expressions from the video have the same meaning as the highlighted expressions in the sentences below?

Instrucciones: ¿Qué expresiones del video tienen el mismo significado que las expresiones destacadas en las oraciones siguientes?

Instruções: Quais expressões do vídeo têm o mesmo significado que as expressões destacadas nas frases abaixo?

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Інструкції: Які вирази з відео мають те саме значення, що й виділені вирази в реченнях нижче?

1. And electricity is surprisingly hard to [ keep for later ] in large amounts.

   [ store ]

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2. It uses two [ water storage lakes ], one at the bottom of a hill and one at the top.

   [ reservoirs ]

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3. Then, when [ the need for power ] rises, the water is released back down through turbines, [ producing ] electricity again.

   [ demand ] [ generating ]

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4. Now, the process isn't perfectly [ free of waste ].

   [ efficient ]

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5. The bigger [ weakness ] is geography.

   [ limitation ]

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6. Today I want to look at natural selection, the idea that individuals best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their [ characteristics ].

   [ traits ]

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7. But in any large population, a few bacteria may carry a small [ related to genes ] difference that lets them survive the drug.

   [ genetic ]

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8. Those survivors then [ increase in number ], and they pass that [ ability to survive a drug ] on.

   [ multiply ] [ resistance ]

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9. The drug simply removes their competition, giving them room to [ gain control ].

   [ take over ]

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10. This is one reason doctors stress taking antibiotics exactly as [ ordered by a doctor ].

    [ prescribed ]

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11. And because bacteria reproduce so quickly, sometimes in less than an hour, this process can unfold within a few years instead of [ thousands of years ].

    [ millennia ]

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