Category: IELTS Listening

THREE PARENT BABY

The audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. It talks about the concept of three parent baby.

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AUDIO

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. The What is the chemical structure that defines somebody’s characteristics called? DNA
2. Which word describes the situation in which something does not works?
3. What is the science of how living creatures pass their characteristics to their offspring called?
4. Which animal do the humans have their DNA similar to?
5. The speaker speaks about the similarity between the DNA of humans and bananas. How much are they similar?
6. The speaker uses a word to describe the technique never used in the past? Which phrase is it?
7. What are the structures that work like energy factories in our cells called?
8. What are the babies whose characteristics like height, sex, hair and eye color are created in order called?
9. The speaker uses an expression to express that something is amazing. What is it?

ANSWERS

1. DNA
2. faulty
3. Genetics
4. monkeys
5. 50%
6. pioneering
7. mitochondria
8. designer babies
9. mind-boggling

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CAUSES OF DIABETES

The audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. The audio talks about the causes of diabetes.

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AUDIO

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. How many spoons of sugar is in a can of Cola?
2. In which is the body not able to control the amount of glucose or sugar in the blood?
3. The speaker uses a phrase to refer to something that is increasing at an alarming rate. What is it?
4. Which kind of diabetes causes diseases like obesity?
5. How many people suffer from diabetes all over the world?
6. There exists a food that gets changed from its natural state by either freezing it or re-hydrating. What is it?
7. The speaker uses a term for the growth of cities and towns. Which term is it?
8. What is something that changes over time called?
9. Which is the point where making small changes does not make a big impact?
10. How much money is being spent in present time over diabetes?

ANSWER

1. 6
2. Diabetes
3. on the rise
4. diabetes 2
5. 413 million
6. Processed food
7. Urbanization
8. Continuum
9. tipping point
10. $827 bn

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