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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #33693 Short Industry Pressure
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You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.
* Fill in the missing words into the blank fields
Another  way  in  which  the  industry  exerts  pressure  on  doctors  is  by  offering  us  a  variety  of    services.  In  one  of  these  services,  widely  advertised  to  GPs,  a  company  representative  shows  the  Practice  Manager  how  to  use  a  company  disk  to  ‘trawl’  through  the  practice  database  identifying    with  problems  which  might  be  treatable  with  the  company’s  products.  When  that  has  been  done,  a  company-sponsored  nurse  interviews  the  selected  patients  and  draws  up  a  management  plan  for  the  GP  which,  if  approved  by  the  doctor,  attracts  a  Medicare  item  number.  One  of  these  companies  proudly  announces  that  over  65,000  patients  were    in  this  way  in  2005.  What,  one  may  ask,  is  a  pharmaceutical  company  doing  assessing  patients?  It  is  surprising  that  no  government  or  professional  body  has  stepped  in  to  prevent  this  commercially  sponsored  program.

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Correct answer: professional

Explanation: Listen again to "variety of professional services". After "variety of" you need a word for people who do a job.

Meaning: "professional" means a person who does a job for pay or with training.

Wrong options:

  • proffesional: It adds an extra "f" and it leaves out the "s". The right spelling is "professional". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • professor: "professor" is a close word, but it ends in "or". The speaker says "professional", which ends in "ional".
Correct answer: patients

Explanation: Here you hear "identifying patients with problems". The sentence needs a word for the people in the database.

Meaning: "patients" means people who receive medical care.

Wrong options:

  • patiants: It has "a" where the word has "e". The right spelling is "patients". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • clients: This is a different word. The text talks about people receiving medical care, not customers.
Correct answer: assessed

Explanation: The speaker says "patients were assessed in". The sentence needs a past action word, so it ends in ed.

Meaning: "assessed" means examined or judged for their health needs.

Wrong options:

  • assesed: It leaves out the "s". Write "assessed". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • accessed: This means looked into or reached. The sentence needs a word meaning examined.

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