Comprehensive Listening Comprehension Answer Key

Listening Comprehension Answer Key

General Topics

• Are insects the future of food? 1.C, 2.A, 3.D, 4.B, 5.B, 6.B, 7.A, 8.A
• Does handwriting have a future? 1.D, 2.C, 3.C, 4.B, 5.D, 6.C, 7.B, 8.D
• Salvador Dalí's cookbook: 1.D, 2.C, 3.A, 4.C, 5.A, 6.D, 7.B, 8.C
• Interview with a scriptwriter: 1.B, 2.B, 3.B, 4.C, 5.C, 6.A, 7.D, 8.C
• Food in space: 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.A, 5.C, 6.C, 7.D, 8.B
• Building for a better world: 1.A, 2.A, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.D, 7.A, 8.C
• An interview with a champion: 1.B, 2.B, 3.B, 4.C, 5.C, 6.D, 7.A, 8.C
• Telepathy: 1.C, 2.D, 3.B, 4.D, 5.C, 6.D, 7.C, 8.A
• Hearing dogs: 1.A, 2.B, 3.D, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.C, 8.D
• Do schools destroy creativity? 1.D, 2.C, 3.B, 4.D, 5.D, 6.D, 7.A, 8.A
• Are we alone in the universe? 1.C, 2.D, 3.A, 4.C, 5.A, 6.A, 7.D, 8.A
• The best advice: 1.A, 2.C, 3.A, 4.C, 5.B, 6.C, 7.D, 8.A
• Smiling Indians: 1.C, 2.D, 3.B, 4.A, 5.C, 6.A, 7.C, 8.B
• Norwich: 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.B, 5.C, 6.B, 7.D, 8.C
• Vegetarianism: 1.C, 2.D, 3.B, 4.B, 5.A, 6.B, 7.D, 8.A
• Is Hollywood in crisis? 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.D, 8.C
• Living in Greenland: 1.B, 2.A, 3.C, 4.A, 5.B, 6.D, 7.D, 8.A
• Interview with Steven Spencer (Detective David Jones): 1.C, 2.D, 3.B, 4.D, 5.B, 6.A, 7.D, 8.D
• Lost… or maybe not? 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.B, 8.D
• John Craven, the best-loved presenter on British television: 1.B, 2.D, 3.D, 4.D, 5.C, 6.D, 7.A, 8.B
• The end of the world train: 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.D, 8.D
• Butter, bread and green cheese… 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.D, 8.B
• VASA – the most expensive and highly decorated warship: 1.C, 2.D, 3.D, 4.B, 5.B, 6.A, 7.B, 8.C
• A journalist in the slaughterhouse: 1.D, 2.B, 3.A, 4.B, 5.C, 6.C, 7.B, 8.A
• Svalbard – the land beyond the North Cape: 1.C, 2.D, 3.D, 4.B, 5.B, 6.A, 7.B, 8.C
• Save the animals: 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.B, 5.A, 6.C, 7.B, 8.D
• Gourmet garbage: 1.D, 2.C, 3.A, 4.B, 5.C, 6.B, 7.B, 8.D
• A champion on two wheels: 1.B, 2.B, 3.A, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.D, 8.C
• Pieces of an ancient culture: 0.C, 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.A, 5.B, 6.C, 7.B, 8.D
• Sound of success: 1.C, 2.C, 3.A, 4.A, 5.A, 6.C, 7.D, 8.A
• Annoying cell phones: 0.D, 2.C, 3.A, 4.B, 5.D, 6.C, 7.B, 8.D
• Da Vinci Code: 0.A, 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.C, 5.D, 6.C, 7.A, 8.B
• Animal rights: 0.A, 1.Q, 2.A, 3.D, 4.D, 5.D, 6.C, 7.C, 8.A

Pending Exercises

• Michael Palin: the travelling comedian
• Ruth Manorama: winner of the alternative Nobel Prize
• A better world
• The best-seller connection
• No longer just child’s play
• Meeting an old friend