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
Woman: Just as foam has become a cliche among cutting-edge chefs, some cutting-edge men’s wear Designers are trying it in clothing. A coterie of young men’swear Designers in New York are introducing jackets in materials like foam typically used as bicycle seat padding and gold foil polyurethane typically used in emergency blankets. Calvin Klein Collection men’s creative Director Italo Zucchelli used foam to make trousers, a sport coat, and a puffy jacket. Since men are more reluctant than women to try new styles and fashions, unusual fabrics are "one of the few tools you can use to explore new territory," Mr. Zucchelli says.
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Fourteen
Man: Sugar smoothes us when we’re stressed — or at least it calms down stressed-out rats, which are good models for stress in people. But before you race to the vending machine with a license to indulge, know that a little sugar may smoothe rattled nerves, but too much will backfire, playing moody havoc with your blood sugar. We crave bread and other carbohydrates when we’re down. Carbohydrates raise levels of the feel-good brain chemical substance, which lifts our spirits. Think of whole-wheat bread and other whole-grain carbohydrates, they also stabilize blood sugar levels — unlike refined grains.
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Fifteen
Woman: People didn’t discuss and plan industrialization until the 1880s. By the time we finish building cities for the additional 2 billion people who will become urbanites over the next 25 years, we’ll have created a world that looks and works nothing like the cities we know. Our individual cities are already merging into hundred-mile-long agglomerations, crossing municipal, state and national borders. Soon, they will be connected completely into a mega-geography beyond our wildest mega-city imaginings, whose networks and systems shape 21st century markets and politics, as well as the flow of materials, energy and species.
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Sixteen
Man: The lingering pain of 2008’s market meltdown has investors understood the uneasiness about getting back into stocks. They seek the safety and yield of fixed income, but they don’t want to miss a rebound in equities. Convertibles may be the answer. Usually they provide more income than stocks. As the name implies, they can be, sometimes must be, exchanged into common equity. However, if the market should nose-dive again, these hybrid securities won’t fall as much as the company’s stock.
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Seventeen
Woman: Having children instilled not only maternal instincts, but also business instincts as well. Many of the skills needed to run a family also apply to the business world, including scheduling, budgeting, and management. Many moms are taking those skills and launching new businesses. This is especially true in Hollywood, where no one is just an actress or just a singer. And aside from the typical clothing, jewelry, and perfume lines, there are some creative ventures headed by entrepreneurial moms or mompreneurs like bedding collections, kid’s furniture, and even baby supply vending machines.