ACA FLEX Listening 10-9

1. What point does the lecturer make about whales and sound pollution?

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5. In the speaker's opinion, which of the following is true of editors who are also novelists?

6. Which of the following is not mentioned as being a type of genre fiction?

Have you ever wanted to turn down the volume at a deafening ________ (7) or noisy bar? Envy the whale: a new study finds that toothed whales can reduce their own auditory sensitivity when they expect a loud sound. The work is presented at this week's Acoustics 2012 meeting. Whales and dolphins rely on their responsive hearing to interpret returning echolocation clicks. Previous research suggested that these marine mammals could dull their hearing before uttering outgoing echolocation ________ (8), which are very loud. Could they use the same coping mechanism for ________ (9) noises? To find out, researchers trained a false killer whale that a loud noise would always follow a brief warning ________ (10). Then, they attached suction cup sensors to the outside of the whale's head and played the signal. The sensors ________ (11) brainwaves that indicated the whale did reduce its hearing sensitivity in expectation of a clamour. The researchers hope to test other species as well. Loud noises from ships can disturb whales. To accommodate ________ (12) life, perhaps vessels could emit signals before making a ruckus, warning whales to tune us out.

Adidas ________ (13) up with an organization called Parley for the Oceans. Parley goes out and collects plastic waste from the ocean. Adidas uses the plastic waste to make shoes. Shoes made with plastic from the ocean: good for the ________ (14) and good for business. Because if you know that rapidly growing consumer ________ (15) known as hipsters — and I know you know hipsters — then you know that a hipster faced with the ________ (16) between a no-name shoe and an Adidas made with plastic from the ocean will pick the Adidas every day of the week and twice on Sunday, and then walk around like it's no big deal but look for every ________ (17) to talk about them.

What I'm trying to understand, and what other ________ (18) of mine are trying to understand, is how we moved from that cold climate condition to the warm climate condition that we enjoy today. We know from ice core research that the ________ (19) from these cold ________ (20) to warm conditions wasn't smooth, as you might predict from the slow increase in solar radiation. And we know this from ice cores, because if you drill down into ice, you find annual bands of ice, and you can see this in the iceberg. You can see those blue-white layers. Gases are ________ (21) in the ice cores, so we can measure CO2 that's why we know CO2 was lower in the past and the chemistry of the ice also tells us about ________ (22) in the polar regions.

23. What does the speaker say about the names of Indian restaurants?

24. What is the art critic’s opinion of Fitzgerald’s work?

25. The speaker feels that…

26. What does the author suggest?

27. Which of these countries use electronic voting machines?

28. Which of the following technological advances have had an effect on the economics and distribution of music?

29. Which of the following statements are correct according to the speakers?

30. Which of the following statements are correct concerning the couple?