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Read Aloud
Read the text aloud and record your response.
Repeat sentence
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Repeat the sentence and record your response.
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Describe Image
Describe the image and record your response.
Retell Lecture
Play audio file Re-tell Lecture_Question_Prompt in the Prompts
folder. Re-tell the interview and record your response.
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Answer Short Question
Play audio file Answer Short Question_Prompt in the Prompts folder.
Answer the question and record your response.
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Explanation: This response is incorrect. The speaker says “oil discovery has been falling … despite
amazing technological and geological advances,” and “there is no good reason to think that this trend
is going to change direction.”
Correct: While we are not about to run out of oil, we are certainly past the peak of oil production,
which occurred about 40 years ago. This is despite improvements in technology, geology, and with
tax-subsidized investment in exploration.
Explanation: This response is correct. The speaker asserts, “We’re not running out of oil” at the
beginning of the recording. The speaker then says that the peak of oil discovery was in 1964, and that
the rate of oil discovery “has been falling ever since” despite “amazing technological and geological
advances.” He also mentions that “most of the cost of exploration is written off against tax.”
Incorrect: Oil consumption reached its first peak in 1964. Since that time the world has become
increasingly dependent on oil. It is unlikely that there will be any new major oil discoveries in the
immediate future or at any subsequent time.
Explanation: This response is incorrect because the speaker does not discuss the world’s dependence
on oil.
Multiple Choice, Choose Single Answer
Transcript
I have chronic pain and at times this is severe, but this is managed with opiates. I know the general
public has a very perverted view of opiates because they think street addiction, heroin, drug
smugglers. However, if prescribed correctly by doctors in the right dose for your height and weight
and you manage it well yourself, I haven't increased my dose of 80 milligrams of morphine in the last
18 years. So that's a fairly good illustration, that no you don't double it every ten minutes the way the
general public think. And also it's very well looked after by the government. I have to present myself
to my GPs who all get to know me very well every 30 days, and they have to phone to Canberra to
have authorization, and I get my monthly dose of opiates to keep me going till the next lot.
Answers
Question: What is the main idea that the speaker is trying to convey in her comments?
Incorrect: The dose of opiates needed to treat chronic pain is usually 80 milligrams.
Explanation: This response is incorrect because the speaker states that the dose of opiates needed
varies with height and weight.
Incorrect: The rate of morphine addiction has not increased over the past 18 years.
Explanation: This response is incorrect. The speaker has not increased her morphine dose in 18
years.
Correct: Governments can play a key role in chronic pain management.
Explanation: This response is correct because the details in the recording support this idea. The
speaker also states that her opiate use is “very well looked after by the government.”
Incorrect: Authorization for the prescription of opiates is required every thirty days.
Explanation: This response is incorrect because this detail is a supporting point. Although the
speaker states that her GP must obtain authorization for her prescription every 30 days, this is not the
main idea the speaker is trying to convey.
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Select Missing Word
Transcript
So what, what meiosis does for every species is generate a lot of diverse individuals. Individuals with
different capabilities. In the hope, that by having a population with very diverse individuals that at
least some of them will be competent to survive. And, it's wildly successful, almost, almost every
species on this planet has meio … has, has a way to create genetically diverse gametes, and they use
meiosis to do that. Ok, so ,um, meiosis is extremely important in the evolution of life and the survival
of the (species).
Answers
Incorrect: genetics
Explanation: This response is incorrect because “genetics” is not something that evolves or survives.
Additionally, the sentence requires a countable noun to follow “the” and “genetics” is an uncountable
noun.
Incorrect: diversity
Explanation: This response is incorrect because “diversity” is not a physical thing that can evolve and
survive. Additionally, the sentence requires a countable noun to follow “the” and “diversity” is an
uncountable noun.
Correct: species
Explanation: This response is correct because the speaker refers to the impact of meiosis on species
throughout the recording. Additionally, the sentence requires a countable noun to follow “the” and
“species” is a countable noun.
Highlight Incorrect Words
Transcript
So far in our discussion of chemical reactions we have assumed that these reactions only go in one
direction, the forward direction, from left to right as we read it in an equation. That's why our arrow
points from left to right: reactants react together to make products. However, this is not exactly how
things occur in nature. In fact, practically every chemical reaction is reversible, meaning the products
can also react together to reform the reactants that they were made of. So instead of writing that
single arrow facing from left to right, a more appropriate symbol would be a double arrow, one going
from left to right and one going from right to left. Reactants are continually - continuously - reacting
to form products. But at the same time as those products are formed, they remake the reactants.
They're both going simultaneously, forming each other. This is what we would call a state of
equilibrium.
Answers
So far in our discussion of chemical equations we have assumed that these reactions only go in one
direction, the forward direction, from left to right as we read it in an equation. That's why our
arrowhead points from left to right: reactants react together to make products. However, this is not
exactly how things occur in reality. In fact, practically every chemical reaction is reversible, meaning
the products can also react together to reform the reactants that they were made of. So instead of
writing that single arrow facing from right to top, a more appropriate symbol would be a double arrow,
one going from left to right and one going from right to left. Reactants are continually - continuously -
reacting to form produce. But at the same time as those products are formed, they remake the
reactants. They're both going simultaneously, forming each other. This is what we would call a state of
equality.
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