1
Why does Anna approach Jonathan at the beginning?
Listening Practice Sets
六组补充听力练习，每组单独提交。听后可打开 script 核对。
Set 1
Budget Cuts
2
Why does Anna object when Jonathan says that “people” have discussed budget cuts?
3
Why do Amelia and Kaveh mention their former jobs?
4
What is the real purpose of the meeting?
Set 2
Run Away with the Circus
1
What is Pete's initial view of circus performers?
2
Why does Pete mention Michelangelo and Rembrandt?
3
Before Kate and Piper speak, which point do Anna and Pete both explicitly accept?
4
What finally leads Pete to accept Anna's position?
Set 3
Run! Bees!
1
What does Kaveh infer from Anna's behaviour around the first bee?
2
Why does Kaveh recommend that Anna contact Caroline?
3
Why was Anna stung when she was a child?
4
What is true of Anna at the end of the conversation?
Set 4
5 Interesting AI Tools Announced in 2022
1
Put the five developments in the order in which the speaker presents them. Write the five letters.
A. Tool to interpret pig emotions
B. Speech-to-speech translation
C. Tool to repair ancient writings
D. Method to identify Parkinson's disease
E. System to identify and predict smells
2
Complete the notes. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS in each gap. Hokkien is mainly a ________ and does not have a widely used ________.
3
Complete the method. Meta trained its models on written text from ________, then used an encoding tool to compare spoken Hokkien with similar ________.
4
Why is early identification of Parkinson's disease difficult?
5
Complete the results. One night of data: ________% accuracy. Twelve nights of data: ________% accuracy.
6
Complete the pig-emotion study notes: more than ________ recordings; more than ________ pigs; ________% correct emotion identification.
7
Note TWO expected benefits of the pig-emotion tool for farmers.
8
Match each tool (1–5) to its function (A–E).
1. Hokkien translation
2. Parkinson's system
3. Pig-emotion tool
4. Smell model
5. Ithaca
9
Why does the speaker mention mosquitos?
10
Complete the comparison. Historians working alone repaired inscriptions with about ________% success; humans working with Ithaca reached ________%.
11
Which description best fits the speaker's attitude toward the five developments?
12
Which AI development seems most useful? State your position and support it with THREE accurate details or examples from the report.
Set 5
Is a Motorbike Ban in Vietnam's Future?
1
Put the four parts of the report in order. Write the four letters.
A. Possible alternatives to a full ban
B. The everyday role of motorbikes
C. The proposed restrictions and central debate
D. Equity concerns and one limited restriction that worked
2
Complete the note. Google Maps created a motorbike feature that gives ________ and ________ specifically for two-wheel commuters.
3
According to supporters, what TWO problems would motorbike restrictions reduce?
4
Complete the opponents' argument: cars are too ________, while public transportation is ________.
5
What is Nguyen Ngoc Dong's position on the proposal?
6
Complete the city note. Ho Chi Minh City has about ________ people, and its pollution sometimes exceeds levels in ________ and ________.
7
Why does Piaggio argue that a motorbike ban might fail?
8
Match each source (1–3) to its proposal (A–C).
1. Enrico Bruni
2. Other proposed experiments
3. The city restriction plan
9
Why does the report consider a complete motorbike ban unlikely?
10
Which group would be hurt most by a full ban, and why?
11
Select the correct word and complete the reason: The limited restriction on Nguyen Hue has failed / worked because ________.
12
Should the cities adopt a full ban or targeted restrictions? State your position and support it with THREE accurate details or examples from the report.
Set 6
One Billion Tons of Food Wasted Each Year
1
Put the three main parts of the programme in order. Write the three letters.
A. A California farm and social-media solution
B. Global scale, causes and policy responses
C. Introduction previewing the two reports
2
Complete the global picture: wealthy countries throw away about ________% of food; ________ people are hungry; about ________ people are obese.
3
Complete the comparison. In developing countries, waste is linked to poor ________. In wealthy countries, people buy too much and may follow ________ on food containers too strictly.
4
Complete the organisation note. FAO = United Nations ________ and ________ Organization. It estimates that more than ________ tons of food are wasted each year.
5
According to the quoted description, note THREE areas addressed by the Milan Protocol.
6
What does Danielle Nierenberg identify as the main reason people still go hungry?
7
Why does the programme move to the California farm report?
8
Complete the USDA finding: more than ________ of small farms in California do not make ________.
9
What problem led Nick Papadopoulos to create his first social-media sale?
10
Complete the first advertised deal: ________ pallets of organic vegetables at $________ per pallet.
11
Match each response (1–3) to its function (A–C).
1. Milan Protocol
2. Bloomfield Farms' Facebook status
3. CropMobster
12
Which response to food waste should receive priority? State your position and support it with THREE accurate details or examples from the programme.