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The rule
Follow the order of the recording. Predict answer types from context.
Keep in mind
- Answers come in order
- Watch word limits carefully
Part 1 · Questions 31–35
Sentence completion
- Researchers now treat sound as a measurable 31______ of biodiversity.
- Biophony is the sounds produced by living 32______ — birds, frogs, cicadas.
- Geophony includes natural sounds like wind, rain, and moving 33.
- Anthrophony is dominated by road traffic and increasingly by 34.
- Ecologists deploy small, weatherproofed recording 35______ across a site.
Part 2 · Questions 36–40
Sentence completion
- Software converts sound into visual 36______ — spectrograms.
- The daily dawn 37______ peaks around sunrise and indicates habitat quality.
- Loss of high-frequency 38______ sound indicates declining populations.
- Traffic noise reduces songbird breeding 39______ in urban parks.
- Long-term archives track climate-driven shifts in species 40.
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