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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #35777 Medium Stand-up Meeting
Instructions
Let's imagine you're about to hold a meeting to make an important decision. And you are in a hurry. Is it better to hold the meeting standing up or sitting down? Researchers from University of Missouri asked groups of people to imagine that they'd crashed on the moon, and then only a few pieces of equipment had survived the crash. The groups were asked to identify which bits of equipment were most important, and their decisions were compared to the correct answers supplied by NASA. Some of groups held their meeting standing up, and the others held them sitting down. Sit-down meeting lasted 34% longer, but two types of meeting produced the same number of correct decisions. And so next time you need to hold a meeting in order to make an important decision, you can save time by simply standing up.
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Sample Answer:

The talk not only meticulously outlines the significance of holding meetings, but also vividly points out the importance of important decisions and equipment pieces. Besides, it provides a brief overview of correct answers, followed by sitting down and saving time. To put it simply, coping with vicissitudes and attaining acumen seem to hold one in good stead, as far as broadening their horizons is concerned.
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