Listening Test – 03

Occupational English Test

Listening Test
This test has three parts. In each part you’ll hear a number of different extracts. At the start of
each extract, you’ll hear this sound: --beep--

You’ll have time to read the questions before you hear each extract and you’ll hear each extract
ONCE ONLY. Complete your answers as you listen.

At the end of the test you'll have two minutes to check your answers.

Part A
In this part of the test, you’ll hear two different extracts. In each extract, a health professional is
talking to a patient.

For questions 1-24, complete the notes with information you hear.

Now, look at the notes for extract one.

Extract 1: Questions 1-12
You hear a General surgeon talking to a new patient called Hansion. For questions 1-12,
complete the notes with a word or short phrase.

You now have thirty seconds to look at the notes.

Patient Name: Hansion

Date of Birth: 21-02-1968

Description of initial symptoms:

 Have severe (1)
 worsened last week
 developed yesterday at (2)
 while watching TV
 pain is more (3)
 felt nausea from morning
 Reported no fever yesterday, but feels now
 Periods stopped (4) years ago
 Had no other (5) problems
 Sexually active
Medications:
 takes (6)
 no aspirin
 no allergies to medication
 no family history of (7) infections
 lightly give (8) on stomach
 muscles are (9)
Diagnosis:
 Bowl sounds are (10)
 Gases are going through properly
 Pressing (11)

Follow-up or checkup:
 Advised rectal examination
 Diagnosed with (12)
Extract 2: Questions 12-24
You hear a hospital Head nurse talking to a new patient called Christine May. For questions 13-
24, complete the notes with a word or short phrase.

You now have thirty seconds to look at the notes.

Patient Name: John Freidman

Age: 62 years

Examination:
 Asked to lay down
 Suspect with problem in (13)
 Decided to do (14) examination
 Suspect with vascular disease
 Dermal pauses are (15)
 No blue is heard
 Then would like to check (16)
 Horrifying sometimes
 Now, move on to peripheral blood circulation
 And are (17)
 Both pulses present, equal and
(18)
 Moved to examine (19)
insufficiency
 Looking for changes in (20)
 Skin looks normal, hair normal and good capillary vessel
 Lifted leg to examine (21) elevation
 pain increases, when lying down
 and examine for about (22)
 looking for (23)
 and again checked for a while
 Before I see (24)
 Part B
In this part of the test, you’ll hear six different extracts. In each extract, you’ll hear people talking
in a different healthcare setting.

For questions 25-30, choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear.
You’ll have time to read each question before you listen. Complete your answers as you listen.

Now look at question 25.

25. You hear part of a morning briefing on a hospital ward.

What do you think from this talk?

A. The patient was satisfied with the care provided by the doctor
B. The patient is willing to take faster medication course
C. She is feeling discomfort with hospital staff care

26. You will hear a report of a patient surgery?

What is the concerned point for the patient?

A. Her return to the home

B. Failure of surgery
C. Her problem started again

27. You will hear a Doctor-Patient carer conversation?

What do you understand about the lady?
A. She is feeling ambiguity in projecting the problem
B. She is unable to express the problem
C. She overstressed the common problem
 28. You hear a Superior doctor telling her clients

What problem does the nursing staff face to cause the problem?

A. There were unable to come to a conclusion on baby sex

B. They failed to meet the aspirations of the parents
C. They were disappointed with the nursing staff of the hospital

29. You will hear a conversation about a patient between two staff nurses

What for the patient hospitalized?

A. She is suffering from abdominal pain

B. She admitted for a general checkup
C. She has a mental disorder

30. You will hear a conversation between a staff nurse and a bed patient

What do you anticipate her work towards that patient?

A. She needs to transfer him to home

B. She is reporting of his care plan
C. She needs to transfer him to a chair

That is the end of Part B. Now look at Part C.

 Part C
In this part of the test, you’ll hear two different extracts. In each extract, you’ll hear health
professionals talking about aspects of their work.

For questions 31-42, choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear.
Complete your answers as you listen.

Now look at extract one.

Extract 1: Questions 31-36

You hear a patient-Doctor interaction on Smoking addiction You now have 90 seconds to read
questions 31-36.

31. Why does the nurse raise a question on smoking?

A. to educate the young women not to smoke

B. to know whether she likes smoking
C. to confirm what led her to smoke

32. The patient makes the point that someone drinks alcohol to relax in cope with?

A. her addiction towards smoking

B. to gain relaxation form heavy stress
C. to form a popular notion thereby to decrease the burden

33. What made her decide to quit smoking when she is pregnant?

A. fear of spreading any disease from parent to child

B. decided to quit it like normal thing
C. her husband wanted her to quit it

34. What do you understand that the patient-rated 5/10 on quitting scale?

A. She feels she can do it

B. it is very difficult for her to do
C. she needs more confidence to go on
 35. What does the patient be feeling now about quitting smoking?

A. she is unwilling to do so
B. she is hesitating to do now
C. she cannot do it for one's sake

36. What are the options does the nurse advised the patient at the end?

A. speech therapy classes

B. motivational classes
C. different medications and support group classes

Now look at extract two.

Extract 2: Questions 37-42

You hear an occupational therapist called John Ioannidis a presentation to a group of News
Reporters in TV Channel.
You now have 90 seconds to read questions 37-42.

37. Why John Ioannidis arguing nutritional research did requires radical reform?

A. because they don't follow high standards of credibility

B. that involved bad scientists
C. because of low productivity

38. Did the speaker is willing to reveal some bizarre conclusions in his paper?

A. no, not exactly, as all those are unproven finding

B. not sure because they're all are experimental finding
C. yes but after clear results from peoples eating habits

39. What led the speaker to find bizarre conclusions?

A. because of multiple levels of unreliability

B. difficult to understand observational studies
C. to prove nutritional methods are wrong

40. What word does the speaker use in finding the major difference in smoking?

A. turbulent
B. tremendous
C. trailing
 41. What the speaker cannot use to study a relative risk of 1.01?

A. epidemiology
B. nutritional studies
C. clinical trails

42. What was the second problem that the speaker quoted in the last?

A. extreme nutritional complexity

B. acute shortage of food nutrients
C. operational problems

That is the end of Part C.

You now have two minutes to check your answers.

THAT IS THE END OF THE LISTENING TEST