Listening Practice 13

Listening Section

This section measures your ability to understand conversations and lectures in English.

Listen to each recording only one time. Next, answer the questions. The questions typically ask about the main idea and supporting details. Some questions ask about a speaker’s purpose or attitude. Answer the questions based on what is stated or implied by the speakers. Answer each question before moving on. Do not return to previous questions.

You have 10 minutes to answer all the questions in the Listening section.

Now begin the Listening section.

Listening Section

This section measures your ability to understand conversations and lectures in English.

You have 10 minutes to answer all the questions in the Listening section.

Now begin the Listening section.

What are the speakers mainly discussing?

Abook that the man is trying to find in the library.

A book that the man already returned to the library.

Abook that the man using to write his senior thesis

A book that the man lent to his sociology professor.

What does the woman offer to do for the man?

Let the man know when a book he needs is returned to the library.

Photocopy a chapter of a book for him.

Ask a professor to return a book the man needs.

Find a copy of a book for him at another library.

What is the woman trying to explain when she mentions students who have lost their borrowing privileges?

Why the man should not photocopy part of the book.

The reason for one of the library's policies

What will happen if the man does not return the book

The reason the man has to fill out a form

How does the man probably feel at the end of the conversation?

Annoyed that he has a fine on the book

Upset that he will lose his library privileges

Glad that he can keep the book for two more weeks

Appreciative that the woman is helping him

Listen again part of coversation. Then answer the question. Why does the woman say this.

To make sure she understands what the man's problem is

To encourage the man to return the book to the library soon

To check whether the man has already returned the book

To explain to the man a change in the library's policies

What is the lecture mainly about?

Reasons that geologists study lake fossils in desert regions

A comparison of ancient and present-day lakes in desert environments

Geological evidence for the formation of ancient sand dunes

A hypothesis for how some ancient desert lakes formed

What is the professor's opinion about the conclusions of the recent study of the limestone formations in the Empty Quarter?

They have changed the way geologists study desert environments.

They contradict findings about similar desert lakes.

They explain the causes of monsoons in the desert.

They need to be confirmed by additional studies.

According to the professor, what feature of the sand dunes made the formation of the lakes possible?

The degree of slope of the sides of the dunes

The presence of clay and silt particles in the dunes.

The position of the dunes relative to the wind and rain

The narrowness of the valleys between the dunes

How is it possible to determine in which rainy period a lake was formed? Click on two answers.

By examining the location of the lake bed

By measuring the amount of sand covering the lake bed

By examinig the color of the limestone formation

By identifying the types of fossils found in the limestone

What does the professor imply about the lack of water buffalo and hippotamus fossils in the more recent lakes?

The level of water in the lake was not sufficient for these animals.

The buttoms of the lakes were too sandy for these animals to stand in.

The location of the lakes made them too difficult of these animals to reach.

The vegetation near the lakes did not attract these animals.

What does the professor mainly discuss?

The findings of a study on prairie dog communication

The way that mammals learn to make warning cries

Features that distinguish language from animal communication systems

Various types of signal used by animals to communicate with each other

Why does the student mention a research project she studied in a biology class?

To point out similarities in the behavior of rodents and monkeys

To explain how she first became interested in animal communication

To introduce an instance of an animal species that might have language

To show how she applied her knowledge of linguistics in another course

What is the professor's opinion of a recent study of prairie dogs?

She finds the study interesting but is not convinced that prairie dogs can communicate.

She thinks that some claims made by the researchers are not supported by their findings.

She sees the study as proof that mammals other than humans possess a form of language

She thinks the researchers misinterpreted the high-pitched barks as warming signals.

What does the professor say about the individual units that make up human languages?

They can be combined to create an infinite number of new messages.

They are not capable of being reproduced by members of any other species.

They function in the same way as the signals use to communicate.

They are acquired instinctively without having to be learned.

Why does the professor say this?

To see if anyone knows the answer to the student's question

To suggest that the student is using the wrong terminology

To express frustration because she has already answered a similar question

To determine whether she has been speaking clearly enough

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