Building vocabulary

Answer 95 (also accepted: ninety-five)

Four numbers arrive in the opening half-minute — 500, 1,000, 95 and 100. This one is the percentage, and the gap says so by printing "per cent" after it.

Answer story

"Situation" is printed after the gap because it is the other half of what the speaker says. The list is what the advice is against, so writing "list" turns the sentence upside down.

Answer passive

Said twice — here, and again as the last line of the whole talk. The speaker's closing words are almost always a repeat of something earlier, which is a free second chance if you missed it the first time.

Answer five (also accepted: 5)

A range, "three to five", with the first half printed. The gap wants the second of the two, not the first — writing "three" is copying what is already on the page.

Answer teacher

The advice is repeated immediately for the case where you have a study partner, so the word is said twice in two lines. Repetition inside one piece of advice is the speaker underlining it.

Answer two (also accepted: 2)

Three numbers in one example: 12 birds, then two or three at a time. The gap is followed by "or three", which leaves only one of them possible — grammar settles this before the recording reaches it.

Answer B

"Memorize the word and its preposition together as one unit instead of two separate words." The examples — "amused by", "happy with" — come first, and a student who answers from the examples alone cannot choose between these three.

Answer C

The speaker says music helps, then adds "but make sure that you can remember the new vocabulary without the music, too". The answer is after the "but", which is where the answer usually is when a question asks for a warning.

Answer A

"It is hard to learn about tone by yourself. The best way … is to ask native speakers about it." The question says "best way", and so does the recording — when a question borrows the speaker's own words, it is pointing at the sentence.

Answer B

The recording says seven times in one day when the word is new, then once a week afterwards. A and C are those same two figures with the time words swapped — the commonest way a multiple-choice distractor is built, and the reason you should hear the whole option before choosing.