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Listening comprehension

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SKILL 27: LISTEN FOR ANSWERS IN ORDER

Focus: Listening to the opening lines of Mini-Talks and answering overview
questions about the main ideas, speakers and audiences, settings, and so on.
Directions: Listen to the introductions and the questions about them. Then mark
the answer choice-(A), (B), or (C)-that correctly completes the sentence. The first
one is done as an example.

Now start the audio.

1 _____ (A) A teacher.
_____ (B) A tour guide.
_____ (C) A photographer.

2 _____ (A) A description of the wildlife preserve.
_____ (B) Advice about outdoor photography.
_____ (D) The scientific classification of buffaloes.

3 _____ (A) To explain the traditions of handball.
_____ (B) To give information about the rules of tennis.
_____ (C) To discuss the rules of handball.

4 _____ (A) At the end of a tournament.
_____ (B) Before an exhibition game.
_____ (C) During a game.

5 _____ (A) Factory workers.
_____ (B) Visitors to a factory.
_____ (C) Management trainees.

6 _____ (A) The process of canning soft drinks.
_____ (B) Management-labor teamwork.
_____ (C) The life cycle of plants.
(D)
7 _____ (A) The physical rewards of dancing.
_____ (B) The importance of the program to the university.
_____ (C) The disadvantages of being in the program.

8 _____ (A) Director of a dance program.
_____ (B) Professor of psychology.
_____ (B) Athletics coach.

9 _____ (A) A host at a party.
_____ (B) The president of a society.
_____ (C) The captain of a ship.

10 _____ (A) The role of the State Historical Society.
_____ (B) The history of New England.
_____ (D) The story of some shipwrecks.

11 _____ (A) Composition.
_____ (B) Fine arts.
_____ (C) Architecture.

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