You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is giving. Write one letter(A-H)next to

You will hear five short recordings.
For each recording, decide what the speaker is giving.
Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording.
Do not use any letter more than once.
After you have listened once, replay the recordings.
You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.
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Now listen, and decide what the speaker is giving.
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Thirteen
Man: The Nature Conservancy in Maine was tackling some of the most pressing threats of our time: destroyed wetlands, polluted waterways, fragmented forests, a rapidly changing climate and depleted ocean fisheries. I was busy growing Tom’s of Maine at that time, so I had little free time. But I wanted to know more. I soon discovered that the St. John River Forest was the lead part of one gutsy project which sought to raise $50 million, twice as much as the Conservancy had ever risen for a single project. The goal was to purchase riverfront and forest from pulp and paper mills. I had to get involved. The Conservancy’s values were very much aligned with my own. After all, protecting the diversity of all life was my goal, too.
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Fourteen
Woman: Brewster Kahle is an unpretentious millionaire who does not "wear his money on clothes", as one acquaintance graciously puts it. But behind his disheveled demeanor is a skilled technologist, an ardent activist and a successful serial entrepreneur. Having founded and sold technology companies to American On Line(AOL)and Amazon, he has now devoted himself to building a non-profit digital archive of free materials — books, films, concerts and so on —to rival the legendary Alexandrian library of antiquity. This has brought him into conflict with Google, the giant Internet company which is pursuing a similar goal, but in a rather different and more commercially oriented way.
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Fifteen
Man: For years leaders in continental Europe have been told by the American, the British and even the newspaper that their economies are too state-dominated, and that to prosper in true Anglo-Saxon style they need a dose of free market reform. But the global economic meltdown has affirmed their important role in the State’s economy. At the April G20 Summit in London, France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel stood shoulder-to-shoulder to insist pointedly that this recession was not their responsibility. Gordon Brown is ushering in new financial rules and higher taxes, and Barack Obama is suggesting that America could copy some things from France. Indeed, a new European pecking order has emerged, with France on top.
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Sixteen
Woman: Imagine you are the research director of a high-tech colossus, given the task of transforming your company by devising some game-changing new products, then where in the world would you locate a skunk work to foster the radical thinking needed? In short, where are the most productive centres of innovation? The simplest way to measure a region’s potential for innovation is to look at the number of patents granted to its residents. Over the past decade, a great deal of progress has been made in harmonizing the rules of patenting in different jurisdictions, making it easier to compare one country with another.
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Seventeen
Woman: The computer industry makes more antitrust headlines than others, and seems unlikely to shake off these problems. Technology heavyweights are often dominant in their respective markets. Ask any of the bosses of these firms why they are so dominant, and they will probably respond that it is a result of billions spent on research and development. But they also operate in markets that allow a winner to take all or most. Mainframes and operating systems benefit from strong network effects: the more applications run on them, for instance, the more users they attract, which encourage programmers to write more applications for them. With microprocessors, ever-increasing capital requirements mean only the biggest firms can afford to build their own factories. The markets for search and online advertising exhibit similar effects: the bigger a firm’s market share, the greater its ability to attract advertisers, thus bringing in the money to build ever bigger data centres. In each case it is difficult for an upstart to break in.