This document contains 10 conversations between a man and woman. Each conversation is followed by a question about what one of the speakers meant. The conversations use conditional sentences with "if" and conditional perfect tense ("would have") to imply missing information or assumptions. The document tests the reader's ability to understand implied meaning from conditional statements.

1. TOEFL
EXERCISE
15
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2. Number 1
Woman : I’m glad I called and told you about
the meeting.
Man : If you hadn’t called me, I wouldn’t
have known.
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?
Answer : B. The woman called to let him
know about the meeting.

3. Number 2
Man : I always seem to get stopped by the
police.
Woman : If you drove more slowly, the police
would not stop you so often.
Question : WHAT DOES THE WOMAN
MEAN?
Answer : A. The man often drives too
quickly.

4. Number 3
Man : Do you know that some officers are
closed next Friday?
Woman : Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have
to work on Friday?
Question : WHAT DOES THE WOMAN
MEAN?
Answer : D. It’s too bad they must work on
Friday.

5. Number 4
Woman : I don’t think that the letter that I
mailed last week arrived.
Man : If you had put enough postage on it,
the letter would’ve arrived.
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?
Answer : A. She did not put enough
postage on the letter.

6. Number 5
Woman : Do you have a pet dog?
Man : I would like to have one if it didn’t
require so much attention.
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?
Answer : C. He wishes he had a dog.

7. Number 6
Man : Did the other students know we
were having a psychology exam
today?
Woman : Had they known about the exam,
they would’ve prepared for it.
Question : WHAT DOES THE WOMAN SAY
ABOUT THE OTHER STUDENTS?
Answer : B. They didn’t prepare for the
exam.

8. Number 7
Woman : We’re all going out to a great
restaurant tonight. Do you want to
come with us?
Man : If it didn’t cost so much, I would.
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?
Answer : A. It costs too much for him to
go.

9. Number 8
Woman : Do you think Joe saw the car
coming around the corner so fast?
Man : Had he seen the car coming, he
would’ve been able to get out of
the way.
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN MEAN?
Answer : D. Because Joe didn’t see the car
coming, he couldn’t get out
of the way.

10. Number 9
Woman : I really don’t want to be here now.
Man : If you didn’t want to be here, then
why are you here?
Question : WHAT DOES THE MAN ASSUME?
Answer : B. The woman wanted to be
there.

11. Number 10
Man : Kathy couldn’t have known that the
first prize in the contest was a trip to
Hawaii.
Woman : She would’ve worked harder on her
art project if she had known what first
prize was.
Question : WHAT DOES THE WOMAN
MEAN?
Answer : A. Kathy didn’t work as hard as
possible because she didn’t
know what the reward was.