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Practice Listening: Select Missing Word ID: #35433 Short Cognitive Therapy
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You will hear a recording about a topic. At the end of the recording the last word or group of words has been replaced by a beep. Select the correct option to complete the recording.

Transcript:

The first study that used mindfulness-based cognitive therapy with depression it was pretty spectacular. It was done at Oxford University and it was done with people whose depression is so severe that nothing helps, no medication helps, electric shock doesn't help, and medicine psychiatry doesn’t know what to do. People get depressed very deeply, they recover and then they get depressed again. So with that group they use mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and they found that it cut the rate of relapse (of having depression again) by 50 percent. If this were a drug, some pharmaceutical company would be making billions of dollars, but it’s not a drug. It's free basically. So mindfulness-based cognitive therapy works very well for..
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Option 4: "depression"

Explanation: This option is correct as it directly relates to the main idea of the text, which discusses the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in treating depression. The text emphasizes that this therapy is beneficial for individuals suffering from severe depression.

Option 1: "companies"

Explanation: The term 'companies' does not fit the context of the sentence, which discusses the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. The sentence is focused on the condition being treated, not the entities involved in its production.

Option 2: "relapse"

Explanation: While 'relapse' is mentioned in the text, it does not complete the sentence meaningfully. The sentence is about what mindfulness-based cognitive therapy works well for, which is not relapse itself but rather the underlying condition.

Option 3: "drugs"

Explanation: The word 'drugs' is related to the context of pharmaceutical companies, but it does not accurately complete the sentence. The focus is on the mental health condition being treated, not on the medications.

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