Advanced Listening Practice

1. What thematic tension drives Sandra's narrative?
    Carrying impossible, prophetic audio anomalies inside a sterile technical job
    The cutthroat politics behind funding local public radio
    Mental decline from working nights without institutional support
    Modern media's failure to investigate municipal corruption

2. How does Sandra view the concept of "dead air"?
    An outdated failure that modern equipment should have eradicated
    Not absolute quiet, but the sound signature of what radio broadcasting is
    An experimental technique used by avant-garde late-night producers
    Something she ignores, focusing only on the news relays she carries

3. What does Sandra believe about maintaining a broadcast signal?
    A frequency is an unspoken promise that demands continuous reliability
    It's largely pointless, since the midnight audience is asleep
    It mainly justifies the station's taxpayer funding
    It's just a federal requirement to keep the broadcasting licence

4. How does Sandra describe the voice predicting future events?
    Emotional, sensationalist language meant to terrify night listeners
    The voices of dead colleagues who once ran the overnight shift
    Maritime jargon only coast guard operators could decode
    The neutral, declarative, affectless cadence of a trained journalist

5. Why won't Sandra share the three troubling broadcasts?
    She doesn't understand the mechanism, so any intervention is a blind gamble
    The broadcasting commission would revoke her licence for spreading rumour
    She's protecting the dramatic evidence for a book deal
    She fears the police would interrogate her over the predicted disasters

6. What is the ultimate psychological toll on Sandra?
    She grows unable to trust the silence she once found comforting
    A spiritual awakening that makes her preach to her audience
    Joyful comfort that consciousness survives death
    She carries the weight of unshareable knowledge with no clear way to act

7. How does Sandra react to the idea her story sounds like isolation talking?
    She embraces it, admitting the voice is likely sleep-deprived hallucination
    She finds it amusing and plans to write a thriller from it
    She resents the assumption that it's just the effect of lonely night shifts
    She ignores it, focused only on gathering evidence of her sanity

8. Which phrase best describes Sandra's tone?
    Enthusiastic and arrogant, eager to capitalise on her discovery
    Confrontational, demanding the listener validate her experience
    Bitterly sarcastic, using dark humour to deflect
    Methodical and rational, weighed down by a duty she can't fulfil