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. 

A stroke is a lossof blood flow in the brain. There are two kinds of stroke. One is an ischemicstroke. It happens when a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked. The otherkind is called a (1) ___________, or bleeding stroke. This happens when a bloodvessel breaks.

Strokes can causedeath or (2) ___________. Bleeding strokes are more likely to kill thanischemic strokes. But ischemic strokes are more (3) ___________—and doctors cantreat them with a drug that breaks up blood clots.

If you thinksomeone is having a stroke, you should seek help immediately. Usually the (4)___________ signs appear suddenly. These include trouble walking, weakness (5)___________ on one side of the body, difficulty seeing and difficulty speaking.Yet a recent study showed that (6) ___________ healthy middle-aged people cansuffer a stroke without immediately knowing it. 

1. hemorrhagic
   

2. disability

3. common

4. warning

5. especially

6. seemingly

7. imaging

8. cerebral

9. blockager

10. silent

11. abnormal

12. diabetes