Hackers Listening Chapter 5 Practice

Hackers Listening Chapter 5 Practice

[1-3] Listen to a conversation between a professor and a student.

Multiple Choice

1. Why does the student visit the professor?

• A. To discuss changing his major to theater.

• B. To get advice about acting opportunities.

• C. To request a bigger role in a class play.

• D. To inquire about a new club policy.

Multiple Choice

2. What does the student say about the drama club?

• A. It puts on several performances each semester.

• B. It gets no financial support from the university.

• C. It is only open to students with specific majors.

• D. It does not attract large audiences to its shows.

Multiple Choice

3. Why does the professor mention a scene on a train?

• A. To recommend a play that the student should watch

• B. To indicate that the student can have a speaking role

• C. To explain why a theater production needs extras

• D. To demonstrate the importance of set design

[4-6] Listen to a conversation between a student and an employee at the Campus Security Office.

Multiple Choice

4. Why does the student visit the campus security office?

• A. To get advice on locating a missing device

• B. To report a theft from her dormitory

• C. To check if an item has been dropped off

• D. To turn in a laptop she found on campus

Multiple Choice

5. What does the student say about the Facilities Management Office?

• A. It provides computers for students to use.

• B. It is not well-known among the students.

• C. It has the only lost and found on campus.

• D. It is not open during the summer vacation.

Multiple Choice

6. Why does the employee discuss the university's online community?

• A. To suggest a solution to the student's problem

• B. To confirm that the student knows the website

• C. To explain why the student's plan is unwise

• D. To urge the student to buy a new computer

[7-9] Listen to part of a lecture on history.

Multiple Choice

7. What is the lecture mainly about?

• A. The various types of Restoration comedies

• B. The influence of religion over English plays

• C. The characteristics of 18th century comedy in England

• D. The distinguishing features of English play wrights

Multiple Choice

8. Why does the professor mention the Puritans?

• A. To show that England preferred coarse comedies

• B. To make a point about the common people's need for entertainment

• C. To explain why theater was prohibited

• D. To contrast theater during the reign of Charles I and Charles II

Multiple Choice

9. Why does the professor discuss Cibber's play Love's Last Shift?

• A. To describe a prototypical sentimental comedy from the 17th centurry

• B. To identify the inappropriate themes often found in Restoration comedies

• C. To emphasize the sustained popularity of the sentimental comedy genre

• D. To provide an example of a work with themes from two styles of comedies

[10-12] Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class.

Multiple Choice

10. What is the main topic of the lecture?

• A. The development of Uranus' rings

• B. The characteristics shared by all gas giants

• C. The ways planetary movements are measured

• D. The discovery of a planet in the solar system

Multiple Choice

11. Why does the professor mention ships on the horizon?

• A. To explain how astronomers tracked Uranus' orbit

• B. To provide an example of a comet's movements

• C. To describe the orbital path taken by 34 Tauri

• D. To demonstrate an effect created by distance

Multiple Choice

12. According to the professor, why did Herschel name the new planet George's Star?

• A. He was asked to do so by Great Britain's ruling king.

• B. He wanted to acknowledge an astronomer's contribution.

• C. He was making a political statement against America.

• D. He felt it would be helpful for dating the discovery.