LISTENING ( 9 /8/ 2021)

Exercise 1: Listen to a piece of news about trade conflict and complete the summary using NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR NUMBER for each gap. Write your answers in the
corresponding boxes provided.
Trade war means higher price on a variety of products. For example, costs of imported
production materials such as steel and aluminum will be raised, but actually this will probably take a
toll on 1. ________. The resulting effects for involved countries are market 2. _______ and
unemployment.
Trade war can be started with the introduction of tariffs which aim to defense and 3. ________;
however, their 4. ________ remains in question while 5. _______ may accompany. The levy on
imported Canadian steel and aluminum by the US is considered 6. ________ and _________ as quoted
with strong disapproval from the female speaker.
Despite seemingly bright prospects in the G7 summit, Trump’s statement came as a 7.
________, which abandoned all the previous efforts to solve the trade conflict. Subsequently, Canada
and EU countries have planned to take revenge on America with 8. ________.
In fact, trade war can only cause 9. ________ and the issue should come up for further
discussion until an agreement on 10. ________ has been reached.
Exercise 2: Listen to the recording and fill in the missing information with NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
What is education for?
Education is so important because it is supposed to help us get prepared for the challenges in our life.
That’s why in most of schools of all kinds (11) ______ with challenges in life is widely studied.
However, things such as talent, energy, goodwill, and (12) ______ seem to disappear. In order to
improve education it is claimed that what we need is not money but that we must pay more attention to
the real purpose of education, which is aimed to help us with: working and (13) ______. To address
these needs two crucial subjects must be included in the curriculum. The first one is (14) ______ since
we don’t fully understand how the economy works. To help to study this subject, maths is taught to
help students how to deal with money. It is hoped that students can get more understanding the global
economy together with other terms such as leadership, marketing and competition, HR, and (15)
______. Secondly students really need to study themselves since we usually misunderstand ourselves.
They should be taught a number of concepts and helped towards their personality maps with particular
attention paid to their (16) ______ so that they can understand, among with other issues, what type of
people they are best suited to go out with.
It is essential that they should also be taught (17) ______ so that they can understand which job they
are fit for. Regarding the study of relationships, there must be lessons on techniques such as (18)
______ and on kindness and forgiveness as well.
Education must not be restricted to classrooms or schools. Other forms or fields such as media and arts
are also used to help students learn what they really need to. However, the real problem is that we fail
to identify the (19) ______ of the problems that we are now facing in education that is we have got the
(20) ______.
Exercise 3: Listen to a piece of news about the formation of young planets. WRITE NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in the spaces provided.
21. Astronomers are now observing and photographing a baby planet in the
_____________________________ of formation for the first time.
22. The group of young planets orbiting the star LkCa 15 are ______________________________
away.
23. The recently found planets are at least as massive as ___________________________________
and probably several times more massive than that.
24. _______________________________ is something that happens at the same time as stars are born.
25. Analysis showed that _______________________________________is being pulled in from
space, which could mean the planets still have not finished forming.
26. The findings of this observation will give astronomers a ________________________________ of
how planets and planetary systems form.
27. Knowing the processes of planet formation tells you how likely it is to find a planet that has the
____________________________________ for life.
28. When a planet is hundreds of millions years old, they'll be regarded as
____________________________.
29. The number of Earth-like planets which have been found is up
to_____________________________.
30, The discovery proves that planets can and do form readily within the ________________________
of a star.