TOEFL® Intergated writing : Topic_3

[Konstantin]

Hello!
You know than the TOEFL iBT writing section consists of 2 different tasks:Free writing (our usual essays) and integrated writing : you have to read passage than listen to a small lecture and finally answer on the question. Now I've started to prepare for such exam's part and I will publish examples of questions and my responses. Please, check up them.
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Reading part:
Dodgson College, a small private institution of higher education, received a huge bequest from one of its former students. The only stipulation on this tremendous bequest was that the money should be spent to make the college an even nicer place to study. A committee of college administrators and faculty was formed to determine the best way to put the bequest into use.

At the first committee meeting, the committee quickly split into two factions, with one faction led by a representative of the administrators and the other faction led by the head of the faculty. After considerable wrangling, the two factions decided to go their separate ways to come up with separate plans for dealing with the bequest. The committee would meet in one week so that the factions could present their plans.

A week later, the committee came together, and the administrators' faction began presenting its plan for the bequest. The administrators felt that there were many worthy uses for the money. First of all, they recognized that a new classroom building was necessary because the campus did not have enough space for all the classes it wanted to offer and was turning away additional students—and much-needed additional tuition money—because of a lack of classroom space. In addition to the new classroom building, the administrators also wanted to spend part of the bequest on a new gymnasium because the gymnasium they had was more than 70 years old. Finally, the administrators wanted to spend any money remaining in the bequest on pay raises for the administration, citing the fact that administrative pay at this campus was ten percent below the national average.
Listening part:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23660989/AMW05.MP3
Question:
What information does the listening passage provide to supplement what is presented in the reading passage?
Answer:
Dodgson College was granted a huge bequest from its former student and then two groups thought about spending money. The propositions of the first group, which consisted of college administrators, were described in the reading passage and the reaction of another group, which is formed from the faculty, was presented in the listening.

At first the college administrators wanted to exist a new building for current and prospective students and they believed that the college will be able to study more students in the future. The faculty agreed with the offer but the contradiction was about the purpose of a new building. The last ones disagreed with the increasing of students’ amount and made instead an offer about the decreasing of the students’ quantity in the each class.

The next proposal was about existing of a new gymnasium because the today’s gym is too old. But the faculty tried to prove that it’s possible to repair the current gym instead of building a new one. The last administrators’ suggestion was about the increasing their own wages since they are lower than the middle wage for such workers.The faculty also disagreed with the last offer because of the same situation among them and they guessed to spend the remaining money to provide scholarships for students.

TOEFL listening lectures: Which is a characteristic of realistic landscape paintings?

[Wowersca]

Dear Konstantin,

Is it your answer or is it a standard answer?

Thanks,

W

[Konstantin]

My answer. I have hoped that some native speaker revises it.