Listening › Listening — Multiple Choice, Single Answer
Exercise 10
Task reminder: Listen then select the one best answer. No negative marking.
1. Sample Text 1 — Soil Health
What does the speaker say is the most urgent threat to global food security related to soil?
A. The erosion of topsoil from river flooding events.
B. Soil acidification caused by acid rain.
C. The degradation of agricultural soils by industrial farming practices.
D. Competition between food crops and bioenergy crops for productive land.
Show Answer 2. Sample Text 2 — The Economics of Happiness According to the speaker, what does the Easterlin Paradox show? A. Poorer countries are generally happier than wealthier ones. Show Answer
B. Increasing national income does not consistently increase average happiness.
C. Individual happiness is determined entirely by relative income.
D. Economic growth is the least reliable predictor of national wellbeing.