- You will hear a report once. It is about 3 minutes long.
- Then 6 questions will appear.
- Choose the best way to answer each question from the drop-down menu.
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Correct Answer: Keep tradition, evidence and safety apart, with community members telling their own history.
Why this is correct: The speaker wants three separate headings and says the roles must stay clearly distinct. Under the first heading, a community member explains history in their own words.
Tips: Listen for how the speaker would organise the event, and for who speaks under each part.
Why the other options are wrong:
- Keep tradition, evidence and safety apart, with a pharmacist telling each family's history.: The three separate parts are right. But the history comes from a community member, not from a pharmacist.
- Keep tradition, evidence and safety apart, with the gardener judging each product claim.: The gardener describes cultural practice. The report says her approach does not prove what a product can do.
- Keep tradition, evidence and safety apart, with the facilitator telling each family's history.: The facilitator works under the second heading, on evidence. The history comes from a community member in their own words.
Correct Answer: Include the family stories, and examine each product claim separately.
Why this is correct: The pharmacist supports including the stories. But the pharmacist wants each product claim examined separately.
Tips: More than one person or group talks about the NPN. Check which view belongs to the pharmacist.
Why the other options are wrong:
- Leave the family stories out, and examine each product claim separately.: Checking each claim is right. But the pharmacist supports including the stories, not leaving them out.
- Include the family stories, and treat an NPN as settling each claim.: Including the stories is right. But the idea that an NPN settles everything belongs to another group.
- Leave the family stories out, and treat an NPN as settling each claim.: Both parts are wrong. The pharmacist wants the stories included and each claim checked.
Correct Answer: approval for one use and dose does not cover every claim online.
Why this is correct: An NPN covers one recommended use and dose. It is not a general approval for every claim made online.
Tips: Listen to the sentence that comes right after the phrase and ask why the speaker says it.
Why the other options are wrong:
- an NPN shows a product is safe in whatever way it is used.: This is the opposite. The safety applies only when the product is used as the label says.
- approval for one use and dose does not cover products showing leaves.: Pictures of leaves come from the next point about labels. The qualification is about online claims.
- an NPN shows a product is natural, but not that it is safe.: This mixes in a different point. An NPN does mean the product is considered safe when used as directed.
Correct Answer: Caring, but unwilling to treat long use as proof of benefit.
Why this is correct: The speaker says the residents' concern deserves care. Still, respect does not mean treating long use as proof of clinical benefit.
Tips: When a speaker answers a worry, notice both the feeling shown and any limit the speaker adds.
Why the other options are wrong:
- Caring, but doubtful that communities need clear credit.: The speaker wants clear credit for communities. A community member should explain history in their own words and receive clear credit.
- Impatient, seeing the worry as a way to block safety advice.: The speaker is not impatient with the worry. The speaker says it deserves care.
- Caring, and willing to let long use count as evidence.: The speaker says the opposite. Respect does not require treating long use as proof of clinical benefit.
Correct Answer: a Natural Product Number settles every question about a product.
Why this is correct: Another group assumes an NPN settles every question. The speaker says this goes too far, because people may use several products or take prescription medicine.
Tips: When a speaker gives reasons, ask which view each reason is meant to answer.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a focus on safety will make families ashamed of their traditions.: The residents' worry is answered differently: long use is not proof of benefit or safety.
- dismissing every tradition as superstition would erase history.: This is the gardener's view, and the speaker does not argue against it.
- labels should be judged by pictures of leaves or the word pure.: The speaker does reject this, but with a different point. Labels should guide attention to directions and risk information.
Correct Answer: help her list questions to take to a pharmacist about her situation.
Why this is correct: The speaker says the event should not recommend a herb for a visitor's symptoms. Instead, it should teach people which questions to take to a pharmacist.
Tips: Think about the rules the speaker gives for the event. Then apply them to this visitor.
Why the other options are wrong:
- suggest an authorized herb, since an NPN shows it is safe and effective.: Even with an NPN, the event should not recommend a herb for someone's symptoms.
- invite a community member to share a family remedy for headaches.: Community members explain the history of a tradition. They are not there to treat a visitor's symptoms.
- suggest she stop her prescribed medicine and try herbs.: The speaker says the event should not tell anyone to stop prescribed treatment.
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