WIB · Listening — September 26, 2026

🎯 Instructions:

Listen to the audio track(s) below.
Complete the interactive exercises on this page.

🎧 Senior Listening

Two tracks with comprehension exercises

Track 1: "The Enhanced Games"

7 min · british · standard

🎯 Gist Check Listen and choose the best answer.

1. What is the main topic of the programme?

The history of the Tour de France A sporting event that allows performance-enhancing drugs How to improve at swimming and sprinting Why people share Netflix passwords

✅ B. 节目主要讨论允许使用兴奋剂的“增强运动会”及其引发的争议。

2. Why are The Enhanced Games controversial according to critics?

Because they are held in Las Vegas Because they allow athletes to use banned performance-enhancing drugs Because they only include former Olympians Because they do not offer prize money

✅ B. 批评者认为允许使用禁药越过伦理底线，可能使 doping 正常化，损害体育诚信并危害健康。

3. What is Neil's opinion of The Enhanced Games?

He thinks it is fair and exciting He thinks it is unfair and sees no point if sport is not fair He does not care because he does not watch sport He thinks it should only include weightlifting

✅ B. Neil 说“I really don't think that's fair”，并认为如果体育不公平，那就没有意义。

🔍 Detail Hunt Listen for specific information.

1. Where did The Enhanced Games take place?

✅ Las Vegas, Nevada

2. Which three sports are included in The Enhanced Games?

✅ swimming, sprinting, weightlifting

3. What nickname is given to The Enhanced Games?

✅ The Doping Olympics

4. Which organisation has spent decades fighting performance-enhancing drugs in sport?

✅ World Anti-Doping Agency

5. How many times did Lance Armstrong win the Tour de France?

✅ seven

Track 2: "Children in warzones"

7 min · british · standard

🎯 Gist Check Listen and choose the best answer.

1. What is the programme mainly about?

The experiences of children in warzones The history of BBC reporting How to treat PTSD The life of Fergal Keane

✅ A. 节目主要讨论儿童在战区的经历和创伤恢复。

2. According to Fergal Keane, what do researchers agree on?

Children cannot recover if they continue to live with trauma. Children should confront death and massacre. Children should sleep with their parents. Children are not affected by war.

✅ A. 研究人员一致认为，如果儿童持续生活在创伤中，就无法从战争创伤中恢复。

3. What does Fergal Keane say is the big lesson from reporting on children in warzones?

Children are phenomenally resilient. Children are always terrified. Children need to be hyper-vigilant. Children cannot sleep alone.

✅ A. Fergal说最大的教训是，儿童具有非凡的韧性。

🔍 Detail Hunt Listen for specific information.

1. How many children were living in conflict zones in 2024?

✅ 520 million

2. What does the prefix 'hyper-' express?

✅ too much

3. What is the noun form of 'hyper-vigilant'?

✅ Hypervigilance

4. What simple thing are children encouraged to learn to do?

✅ Sleep alone

5. What does PTSD stand for?

✅ Post-traumatic stress disorder

🔄 Compare & Contrast Think about both listening passages together.

Compare how the two BBC 6 Minute English listening passages present serious or controversial issues. One passage discusses The Enhanced Games and doping in sport; the other discusses children living in warzones. In 3–5 sentences, explain at least one similarity and one difference in their topic, tone, and purpose, using evidence from both tracks.

Guiding Questions:

What is the main topic and purpose of each listening passage?
How does the tone of each passage differ, and why?
What evidence or examples does each passage use to support its points?
How might each passage make the listener feel or think differently about its issue?