ACA FLEX Listening 15-9

1. What view does the speaker suggest is widely held in the art history community?

2. How can the speaker's main argument be summarized?

3. What does the speaker indicate about the device he describes?

4. What is the female student’s view of psychology?

5. What is the speaker asking the students to do?

6. Which of the following correspond to what the speaker said?

But first, perhaps you've seen pictures of the ________ (7) radio - you know, those radio telescopes in New Mexico, scanning the skies for ________ (8) life in the movie "Contact." Well, radio astronomers have caused to ________ (9) the first phase of a giant new radio telescope array went ________ (10) in Northern California, and it's going to help astronomers study things like black holes and dark ________ (11), all the while scanning the stars for, who knows, radio ________ (12) coming from somewhere else in the universe - maybe E.T. is phoning home.

You know, without getting into the details of ________ (13) how that happened or how she got it out, let's just say it was a bad situation. And she panicked because, like for many of us, her phone is one of the most used and ________ (14) tools in her life. But, on the other hand, she had no idea how to fix it, because it's a completely ________ (15) black box. So, think about it: what would you do? What do you really understand about how your phone works? What are you willing to test or fix? For most people, the answer is, nothing. In fact, one survey found that almost 80 percent of smartphone users in this country have never even replaced their phone ________ (16), and 25 percent didn't even know this was ________ (17).

So even if we were to go with this crowding out idea, which is not even ________ (18) as I said because it doesn’t work that way but even if it did work that way, the net amount of money in the economy would not change. The government would borrow the money then it would spend it right back into the economy. You have the same level of money and ________ (19), those very productive ________ (20) who had all those savings, well they’d be there exactly where they were before in their ________ (21) and being very productive and they’d earn that money and they’d have those funds again to ________ (22).

23. The teacher says that haiku…

24. Which of these countries still use woodblock printing on fabrics?

25. What does the couple think of the farmhouse?

26. What was significant about the rock art found in the Yunnan province and in Western Europe?

27. Which of the countries listed below continue to enforce punishments for failure to vote?

28. Which of the following statements are correct concerning the speaker’s job?

29. Which of the following statements are correct concerning volleyball?

30. How does he feel about the estate where he lived?