Listening Part 4: Lecture on Restoring Coral Reefs
An academic lecture with note completion and multiple choice. Follow the signposts to keep your place. 10 questions.
Use headphones if you can. Read the questions before you press play: in the real test you have time to look at each section before you hear it.
Recording
Plays once, as in the real test. Read the questions first.
Questions 1–6
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Reefs support about a ________ of marine species.
Reefs protect coasts by reducing the force of ________.
Bleaching: corals lose the ________ that give them colour.
Coral gardening: fragments grow in underwater ________.
Young corals raised in tanks are called ________.
Breeding from heat survivors is known as assisted ________.
Questions 7–10
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
What is the main advantage of the reproduction method?
What does the lecturer say about assisted evolution?
According to the lecturer, the biggest limitation of restoration is
What is the lecturer's view of restoration?