Test #8 – Listening Passages

1. Why does the student stay after class to talk to the professor?

2. Why is the student worried about waiting until the last minute to do his assignment? ​Select two​.

3. Why won’t the professor give the student recommendations of people to interview? ​Select two​.

4. What is the student implying when he says this?​

5. Listen again to a part of the passage. Why does the professor say this?​

1. What is the professor mainly discussing?

2. What is meant by the term ​determinants​?

3. What does the professor imply when she says this?​

4. How is the lecture organized?

5. What generally happens when the price of a product is above equilibrium? ​Select two​.

6. What generally happens when the price of a product is below equilibrium? ​Select two​.

1. What is the lecture mainly about?

2. How does the professor organize the lecture?

3. How did the automation of manufacturing negatively affect the worker? ​Select two​.

4. Why does the professor say this?​

5. What does the professor imply about the quality of life before the Industrial Age?

6. How did working conditions continue to get even worse a few years after the introduction of automated manufacturing? ​Select two​.

1. What problem is the student having?

2. Why does the student mention to the campus worker that she is a grad student?

3. How can the student finish printing all the pages she needs by the end of the day?

4. Why does the IT worker think the student should buy her own printer?

5. What will the student most likely do after this conversation?

1. What does the professor mainly discuss?

2. What point does the professor make about sonnets?

3. What is the professor’s attitude when he mentions the artist Michelangelo?

4. What does the professor say about Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets? ​Select two​.

5. What is the main difference between English sonnets and Italian sonnets?

6. Listen again to part of the talk. What does the professor imply when he says this?