IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Sighing
Often in life, we sigh! According to dictionary, sighing is when you emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar. So, yes, whenever you want to show sadness or may be relief you sigh! This time let us listen to a BBC 6 minutes audio on what exactly it is and why people do it!
Listen to the audio below and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
- How many times does a mouse sigh in an hour on an average?
- Which term is used to depict that sighing helps us in living?
- What word refers to the system of behaviour?
- What does returning something back to its original position called?
- The tiny sacs of air in our lungs are called what?
- Which type of action is sighing?
- Which feeling do we get when things aren’t going well, when things are annoying us and they don’t work?
- What is the feeling we get when we finally accept that something bad has happened, that we can’t change?
- How many times does a human sigh in an hour on average?
ANSWERS
- 40
- survival mechanism
- mechanism
- reset
- alveoli
- reflex
- frustration
- resignation
- 12