IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Computer Effects
We are living in a world that is surrounded or entirely dependent on computers. Be it the coffee shop that we go in or the big enterprises that tend to rule the world, computers have made their presence felt everywhere. However, there are many people out there who believe, that computers although have made our lives easier, have made people dumb. This time we are listening to a BBC 6 minute audio that revolves around the question of are computers making us dumb!!
Listen to the audio below and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
- What is the short for application?
- What is the computer program for a specific purpose called?
- Which verb is used to talk about linking or joining one thing to another?
- When was the first desktop presented by Olivetti in New York?
- Which word means that the computer has stopped working suddenty?
- What is the ability to do something well because you have practised it well called?
- What is the natural ability to do something called?
- Which word describes our ability to imagine and understand what other people might be feeling?
- What is the full form of GPS?
- Which software helps in avoiding making spelling mistakes when typing on a computer?
- What was the first digital computer called?
- What was the initial price of the world’s first digital computer?
ANSWERS
- app
- application
- to connect
- 1965
- crash
- skill
- talent
- empathy
- Global positioning system
- spellchecker
- Programma 101
- US$3200