Isaac+Asimov+Listening

Look at the following example of a listening passage that is part of the integrated speaking task on the author Isaac Asimov.

Listening Passage (professor): Now I'm sure you're all wondering how Asimov managed to write so much. Well, the simple answer is that he did almost nothing except write because that's what he was driven to do. Asimov's normal routine was to spend time, a lot of time, writing every day. He usually got up at six o'clock in the morning; he was at work writing by seven- thirty In the morning, and he wrote until ten o'clock in the evening. That's a lot of time to spend writing. This desire to spend so much time writing prompted Asimov himself to say, "Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.