Section B  Audio-visual Tasks

Task3  Spot Dictation

        Listen to a passage three times and while listening, you are to put the missing word in each numbered blank according to what you hear. 

Asthma happens when tissue that lines the airways to the lungs begins to expand or swell. This swelling makes the airways smaller. The (1)      ________  in the airways tighten. Cells in the airways begin to produce a lot of mucous. This thick, (2) ________ substance causes the airways to close even more. This makes it difficult forair to flow in and out of the lungs.

As asthma sufferers (3) _______ to get air into their lungs, they may begin to cough alot. They may also make a whistling or breathy sound called (4) ________. Some asthma sufferers have tightness or pain in the chest. They say it feels as ifsomeone is (5) ________ on them. When asthma is most severe, the person ma yhave extreme difficulty breathing. The disease can severely (6) ________ aperson’s activity, and even lead to death.

Doctors do not know what causes asthma. Researchers believe a combination of (7) ____________and genetic conditions may be responsible.

Spot Dictation Answer:

1. muscles
   

2. sticky

3. struggle

4. wheezing

5. sitting

6. limit

7. environmental

8. Seventy

9. immune

10. major

11. fresheners

12. attack