You will hear another five recordings. For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to give. Write one letter(A

You will hear another five recordings.
For each recording, decide what the speaker is trying to give.
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 trying to give.
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Eighteen
Man: Medicine is likely to be transformed by the introduction of electronic health records that can be turned into searchable medical databases. Developing countries have already used mobile phones to put a doctor into patients’ pockets. Devices and diagnostics are also going digital. A recent report from MIT says that physical science has already been changed by their adoption of information technology, advanced materials, imaging nanotechnology and sophisticated modeling and simulation. Philip Sharp, a Nobel Prize Winner at that university, believes that those tools are about to be brought to bear on biology, too. The convergence of biology and engineering is turning health care into an information industry. That will be disruptive but hugely beneficial to patients.
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Nineteen
Woman: One shift comes from the companies’ attempts to reconcile their desire to cut costs now with their need for talent later. One solution, popular in many industries, is to offer deferred start dates to new hirers, giving them six months or a year to travel or do public service. This approach has been embraced by consulting firms, law firms and banks. Some, like Credit Suisse, offer around six months’ salary to new employees who agree to start a year later. Others, including several consulting firms, offer the option without any pay incentive. New hirers may be reluctant to accept such an offer, however, in case the economy sinks further and new lay-offs are announced while they are on the beach.
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Twenty
Man: Waste also presents an opportunity in a grander sense: as a potential resource. Much of it has already been burned to generate energy. Clever new technologies to turn it into fertilizer or chemicals or fuel are being developed all the time. Visionaries see a future in which things like household rubbish and pig slurry will provide the fuel for cars and homes, instead of dirty fossil fuels. Others imagine a world without waste, with rubbish being routinely recycled.
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Twenty-one
Woman: Funny thing about Amazon.com. The book industry is more than 500 years old. Yet by adding a dash of technology and a little hustle, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has found a way to turn dead tree media into a spry online business. Through unveiling the kindle DX, Amazon will sell for $489 and will ship sometime over the summer. Bezos also announced partnerships with struggling newspaper publishers to put their content on the Kindle DX’s 9.7-inch display. Some observers are more cautious in their assessment of the role of the new device. It’s an important in-between step in delivering books digitally to a mass marketplace, even if it is a black and white device in a colour world.
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Twenty-two
Man: Whether it is for affordable homes or cheap goods, Americans are peering through the wreckage of the credit crunch and starting to buy again. After falling sharply in the second half of last year, consumer spending rises in the first quarter, and even sales of homes and cars have edged up from deeply depressed levels. But do not mistake the bottom for a vigorous rebound. Consumption may be growing again, but there is every chance it will remain depressing in coming years because of weak income growth, depleted wealth and tightened credit.