Listening – Magoosh TOEFL Lecture #3 Script Male Professor All organisms need energy, right? All living things have to consume energy-dense, biological materials…otherwise known as foods, heh… in order to function, grow, and maintain healthy cells. The food that is ingested by the organism has to be DIGESTED in order to be absorbed and effectively used for, uh, for whatever bodily processes needed. So let’s compare digestion in humans and something pretty far removed—single-celled organisms called protozoa. Both protozoa and humans ingest substantial amounts of food material and break it down in THREE PARTS of digestion. I mean, they share the same basic phases. The three parts of digestion are mechanical, chemical, and, uh, absorption. First, let’s—let’s take a look at the three different parts of digestion that are common to both protozoa and humans. For many organisms, MECHANICAL DIGESTION involves the breakdown of large food particles into more… I mean
Listening – Magoosh TOEFL Lecture #2 Question & Answers: https://t.me/MagooshTOEFLBreakthrough/16 Script: Narrator: Listen to part of a lecture in a marketing class. Male professor: I’ll assume everyone here has a basic idea of what viral marketing is. Can anyone give me an example of this way of advertising a product? Male student: Viral marketing is, um, when you’re shown an ad, but [sounding annoyed]… they don’t tell you it’s an ad. Male professor: Well, uh, yes… what you’re describing is—it’s a form of viral marketing. Can you give me a more specific example? Male student: Well, the other day, I was reading the news online, and I read a whole article about car safety . The article focused just on one car company that was taking a lot of safety precautions. And when I got to the end of the article, it said in tiny letters that the article was sponsored by that very car company! So it wasn’t really news—it was just a viral advertisement