The passive listening represents someone who is listening to a sentence, but does not make any interruption, does not try to understand the meaning of the phrase, does not question. That is, the listener does nothing, just listen to what is being spoken. As you can see in the phrase "Your aunt is telling you about how cute her new dog is over the telephone." There is no interruption, which means that the listener is only listening to the phrase without doing anything, so we can conclude that this situation requires a passive listening.
