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Listen and Respond
Task One Focusing on the Main Ideas
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences
according to the information contained in the listening passage.
1 The philosophy professor began his lesson by ________.
A) asking the students to be well seated
B) playing a game with the students
C) asking the students to do a test on philosophy
D) filling a large and empty glass bottle with rocks
2 The professor put the items into the jar in the order of ________.
A) rocks, beer, sand and pebbles
B) rocks, pebbles, sand and beer
C) sand, rocks, beer and pebbles
D) pebbles, rocks, beer and sand
3 According to the professor the rocks represent ________.
A) different kinds of things in our life
B) the things that matter in our life, like our job or our house
C) the most important things in our life, like our family or our health
D) the small stuff in our life