LISTENING PRACTICE TEST_VOLUME 2

Exercise 1: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

Carl Azuz:  “Haiti’s government says seven of the eight people 1._________ or it from Haiti.”

Miguel Marquez: “The situation on the ground here in capital is sort of a 2.___________. The government has asked all sectors from the schools to the public agencies to businesses to 3.__________ and get back to some 4._________ today. There are rumours and talk about more protests ahead, there appear to be some efforts to block roads in certain parts of the capital and possibly other areas of the country. That is what the police are on 5._________ for now.  A tons of guns have been found in the arrested individuals. Five of them were Americans. All the as the government officials are telling us that there are 6.__________, influences out there that are trying to 7.__________ the country throughout these protests. The protests that we saw over last nine, ten days or last week were not just an expression of popular 8._________ and upset with the government but there was something more at play here. As these individuals are 9._________, we will find out. However certainly another 10.____________ here in the capital.

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xVM5HfwV4    

Exercise 2: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

With sweethearts spending, 1.______________ inside, no two Valentines will be exactly alike but they all share 2.___________. Hallmark cards 3.____________ Samantha Bradbeer says their company Valentines date back more than 100 years. Postcards as early as 1910, cards with 4._____________, 1916. Also in their collection, Valentines that predate Hallmark back to the 19^th century.

CAPPA: “ These are all antique, Victorian Valentines designed by Esther Howland. She was a daughter of a well known bookstore and 5.____________ owner out of 6.__________and she received her first 7.___________ Valentine in 1847 as printed in England. And she thought she could make something very similar.

CAPPA: “ Howland’s handmade Valentines bear a lot of the same icons of today’s cards, hearts and of course Cupid who was long been 8.__________ for holiday.

SAMANTHA: “ Cupid is sort of 9.___________ of Venus in Rome or Aphrodite in Greece. Cupid is often depicted as this kind of 10._____________ .

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnVR4sOgTug

Exercise 3: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

Modern technology is helping the state watch its citizens but that same technology is also letting citizens watch the state. We know that Facebook is spying on us, we know that Google is spying on us but those mediums can also become mediums of 1.____________. We are watching the watchers, we are reversing the 2.____________.

The rise of social media and the 3.__________has made it easier than ever for people to consume news. But not all this information is true, some governments use these platforms to 4._____________ and monitor citizens’ behaviour. Now this technology has also helped to turn the table on the powerful.

Alexa Koenig is a law professor and investigator. She gathers evidence from 5.___________ to investigate some of the biggest human rights abuses in the 21^st century.

“ So many war crimes cases fall apart at fairly early stages of prosecution, one of the big challenges is that prosecutors are over relying on 6.____________ and of course with time and 7._________, the testimony  becomes 8.___________.”

Miss Koenig’s team has helped investigate 9.___________ in Syria and Yemen. Unlike traditional investigators, her team uses open source evidence.

“ So we brought together people doing 10.__________, satellite imagery, remote sensing, people who were thinking through how cellphones could be harnessed.

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM1ZAFcu1Vc

Exercise 4: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

For two years we have heard nothing but 1._____________. What is actually going on. It looks complicated but 2.___________ with us, it’ll be clear by the end. So if all goes to plan, Britain is set to officially leave the EU on the 29^th of March 2019. 3.__________ will then carry us through into the end of 2020. During this period, British MEPs will leave the European Parliament, but most other things will probably just carry on as normal: trade, 4.________, 5.__________. They’ll stay pretty much the same and yes, there is no getting out of it. British taxpayers will have to carry on paying EU bills but the real 6.__________ comes after the transition period and what happens next well that all depend on our politicians and what kind of deal they manage to make. So that’s where we are now still waiting for politicians to reach a deal what actually are their options first. Let’s look at No Deal if an agreement is not reached in time, Britain could immediately crash out of the EU with no transition period and end up just using standard 7.__________. In a no deal 8._________, British laws would be separated from the EU ones and 9._________ and border checks would potentially kick in straight away. It’s hard to say exactly what the effects of that would be but a lot of experts think it would cause 10._________ across Britain and the EU.

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eoDwvl0QGk

Exercise 5: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

For decades, DNA has been used in criminal justice to identify suspects or clear people who’ve been 1.__________. Now, a type of technology called 2.__________ could take crime scene analysis to another level. In DNA 3.____________, which investigators have used for years, they try to match DNA from a crime scene to 4.___________ they already have in their system. With the new technology, genetic information does not need to be matched or compared. It uses the DNA on its own to 5.___________ what someone could look like. The process is not cheap and there are 6.___________ about it. If you are listed in 7.________ for instance, your relationship to a suspect could be discovered. But this is changing the way some investigators are carried out.

The technology is call DNA Phenotyping, developed by Parabon Nanalabs. From just a small sample of DNA, they can create a 8.__________ of what someone could look like. “ What kind of impact do you think that this technology will have on the forensics long-term?”. “Here we have another 9._________ we can explore if we run into dead ends along the way.” “ We are 10.________ bringing in an entirely new ways to analyze forensic DNA. Traditional forensic DNA analysis looks just at chemist DNA from a crime scene being matched to a suspect we’ve already identified or to a database.”

Your answers:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCXJB-SeR8