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SECTION TEST - LISTENING
(Time: 30 minutes)
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Section 1
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WOMAN: Hello . . . motor insurance department. . . MAN: Oh hello ... I’d like to ask about insurance for my car. WOMAN: Yes, of course. I’ll just take a few details. What’s your name? MAN: Patrick Jones. WOMAN: And your address? MAN: It’s 27 Bank Road. WOMAN: 27 Bank Road. Is that in Greendale? MAN: Yes. WOMAN: And what’s your daytime phone number? MAN: My work number is 730453. WOMAN: And could I ask what your occupation is? MAN: Dentist. WOMAN: OK . . . now a few details about your car. . . What size is the engine? MAN: It’s 1200 ccs. WOMAN: Thank you . . . and the make and model? MAN: It’s a Hewton Sable. WOMAN: Could you spell the model name please? MAN: Yes . . . S-A-B-L-E. WOMAN: Ah yes . . . thanks. And when was it made? MAN: 1997. WOMAN: Lovely . . . right... I presume you’ve had a previous insurer? MAN: Yes. WOMAN: Right... we need to know the name of the company. MAN: Yes ... it was Northern Star. WOMAN: Thank you, and have you made any insurance claims in the last five years? MAN: Yes . . . one in 1999. WOMAN: And what was the problem? MAN: It was stolen . . . but... WOMAN: That’s fine, Mr Jones . . . that’s all we need to know at the moment. . . (pause). And will there be any other named drivers? MAN: Just the one . . . WOMAN: And his name? MAN: Simon Paynter. WOMAN: Could you spell the surname please? MAN: P-A-Y-N-T-E-R. WOMAN: OK thank you . . . And what relationship is he to you? MAN: He’s my brother-in-law. WOMAN: And what will you or Mr Paynter be using the car for? MAN: Well... mainly for social use... WOMAN: Social use (murmuring). Will you be using it to travel to work? MAN: Yes . . . sometimes. WOMAN:. . . Anything else? MAN: No. That’s it. . . WOMAN: And finally . . . when would you like to start the insurance? MAN: I’ll need it from the 31st of January. WOMAN: Right. . . Mr Jones . . . I’m getting a couple of quotes coming up on the computer now ... and the best bet looks like being with a company called Red Flag. MAN: Yeah. WOMAN: And that comes out at $450 per year. . . MAN: Well. . . that seems OK . . . it’s quite a bit lower than I’ve been paying up to now . . . WOMAN: Great... so would you like me to go ahead with that? MAN: Sure . . . why not? WOMAN: How would you like to pay? Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS ANDIOR A NUMBER for each answer. CAR INSURANCE | Name: (1)............... Address: (2) ............... , Greendale Contact number: 730453 Occupation: (3) ............... | Size of car engine: 1200cc | Type of car: Manufacturer: Hewton Model: (4) ............... Year: 1997 | Previous insurance company: (5) ............... | Any insurance claims in the last five years? x Yes No If yes, give brief details: Car was (6) ............... in 1999 | Name(s) of other driver(s): Simon (7) ............... Relationship to main driver: (8) ............... | Uses of car: - social - (9) ............... | Start date: 31 January Recommended Insurance arrangement Name of company: (10) ............... Annual cost: (11) $............... |
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Paynter
Red Flag
brother-in-law
27 Bank Road
Northern Star
work/ travelling to work/ traveling to work
450
Patrick Jones
Sable
stolen
dentist/ a dentist
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Section 2
Script:
You will hear a man who owns a holiday home talking on the phone to a woman who is staying there. MAN: Hello? WOMAN: Hi. It’s Laura Carlton here. We’ve just arrived at the holiday flat, but I can’t get the hot water and heating to work. MAN: Oh right! That’s easy. Don’t worry. In the upstairs cupboard, you’ll find the water heater. You’ll see three main controls on the left at the bottom of the heater. The first one - the round one on the far left - is the most important one for the heating and hot water. It’s the main control switch. Make sure it’s in the ‘on’ position. The switch itself doesn’t light up, but the little square below will be black if the switch is ‘off’. That’s probably what’s happened - it’s got switched off by mistake. The middle one of these three controls - you’ll see it’s slightly larger than the first one - controls the radiators. If you feel cold while you’re there and need the radiators on, this needs to be turned to maximum. The last of the three controls - the one on the right - is usually on about a number four setting which for the water in the taps is usually quite hot enough. Below the heating controls in the middle is a small round plastic button. If there isn’t enough water in the pipes, sometimes the heater goes out. If this happens you’ll need to press this button to reset the heater. Hold it in for about five seconds and the heater should come on again. Then there’s a little square indicator under the third knob that’s a kind of alarm light. It’ll flash if you need to reset the heater. WOMAN: It sounds complicated... MAN: I’m sure you won’t have any problems with it. There should be some more instructions on the side of the heater. Call me back if you can’t make it work. WOMAN: Okay. Label the diagram below.Choose one correct answer choice for each question. 
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WOMAN: While you’re on the phone, we haven’t managed to find a few things we need, like extra pillows for the beds and some washing powder. Is there any here? MAN: Pillows ... yes. If you look in the cupboard, the large white one upstairs - to the left of the bathroom door - there should be four or five on the top shelf. And if you want to do some washing, there’s some powder for that ... probably by the back door. There’s a kind of shelf there above the sink. In fact, I’m sure there’s some there, in a large blue box. You need about half a cup full for each wash. And that reminds me, the spare key to the back door is hanging on a hook on the wall by the sitting room window. Please make sure to put it back when you’ve used it. The previous guests lost it in the garden and I had to get another one made! And if you have any trouble with the lamps, you’ll find some spare bulbs in a large cardboard box. It’s on top of the washing machine with all kinds of useful things in it. Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention when we last spoke... WOMAN: Yes? MAN: I’ve left you a local map, so you’ll be able to find your way around easily. It shows the whole area. I put it in the top drawer of the chest under the TV in your bedroom. There’s a whole file of local information in there too. Choose one correct answer choice for each question. Where can each of the following items be found?
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2. washing powder
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WOMAN: Thanks. What about visiting the town? Can you give us any advice? MAN: Yes. You’ll need to take the car. It’s too far to walk from the flat really. You have to pay to leave your car in all the car parks now I’m afraid ... I like the one that’s by the station best and you can walk to the town centre from there in five minutes. That’s where all the best restaurants are. But if you want a takeaway, the Italian one does really good pasta and pizzas. Call 7-3 double 2, 8-1 for that one, or 7 double 6, double 1, 9 for the Chinese. They’re both good and they’ll both deliver to the flat. As for places to visit, yes, do go and see the railway museum. The exhibition is small but really good. It gets very crowded on Sundays, so I suggest you visit it on a quieter day, later in the week, but not on Thursdays which is market day - you won’t find anywhere to park and it’s also the only day of the week when they’re not open! Anything else? WOMAN: Not for the moment. Thanks! Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR NUMBERS for each answer.
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Thursday/ Thursdays
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Section 3
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Anna: Hi, Robert. Robert: Hi. Sorry I'm late. I was just printing off some pages about food waste in Britain. Anna: Do you want to include Britain in the presentation? I thought we were concentrating on the USA? Robert: Well, it is a global problem, so I thought we ought to provide some statistics that show that. Anna: Fair enough. What did you find out? Robert: Well, I was looking at a British study from 2013. It basically concluded that 12 billion pounds' worth of food and drink was thrown away each year - all of it ending up in landfill sites. Over eight million tons - and that wasn't including packaging. Anna: An incredible amount. Robert: Yes, and they were only looking at what households threw away, so there's no information about restaurants and the catering industry. But one thing the study did investigate was the amount of milk and soft drinks that were wasted, and I think it was probably quite unique in that respect. Anna: Interesting. You know, in the other European reports I've read - there's one thing they have in common when they talk about carbon dioxide emissions. Robert: I know what you are going to say. They never refer to the fuel that farms and factories require to produce the food, and the carbon dioxide that releases? Anna: Exactly. We could really cut down on carbon emissions if less food was supplied in the first place. To my mind, the reports talk too much about the carbon dioxide produced by the trucks that deliver the fresh goods to the shops and take the waste away. They forget about one of the key causes of carbon dioxide. Robert: Absolutely. If the reports are actually going to be useful to people, they need to be more comprehensive. Anna: Who do you mean by 'people'? Robert: Well, the government, industries ... people making television programmes. Have you seen any documentaries about food waste? Anna: Not that I remember. Robert: My point exactly. These days they all seem to be focusing on where your meat, fruit and vegetables are sourced from. We're being encouraged to buy locally, not from overseas. That's probably a good thing but I'd still like to see something about waste. Anna: Yes, it's the same with magazine articles - it's all about fat and sugar content and the kind of additives and colouring in food - but nothing about how it reaches your table and what happens after it ends up in the bin. Robert: Well, we've only got 15 minutes for this presentation, so I think we'll have to limit what we say about the consequences of food waste. What do we want to concentrate on? Anna: Well, I know some of the other presentations are looking at food and farming methods and what they do to the environment, so I think we'll avoid that. And the fact that in some countries, people can't afford the food grown on their own farms - that was covered last term. Robert: OK. We don't want to repeat stuff. Anna: What concerns me above all else is that in a recession governments should be encouraging business to find ways to cut costs. Apparently supermarkets in the USA lose about 11% of their fruit to waste. That's throwing money away. Robert: All right - we'll focus on that problem. It should get the others' attention, anyway. Now, how do you want to begin the presentation? Let's not start with statistics, though, because that's what everybody does. Anna: I agree. How about we give the other students a set of questions to answer - about what they suspect they waste every day? Robert: I'm fine with that. Probably a better option than showing pictures of landfill sites. It'll be more personalised, that way. Anna: All right, now let's start ... Choose correct answer about “Food Waste”.
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1. What point does Robert make about the 2013 study in Britain?
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2. The speakers agree that food waste reports should emphasise the connection between carbon dioxide emissions and
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3. Television programmes now tend to focus on
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4. For Anna, the most significant point about food waste is
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5. Anna and Robert decide to begin their presentation by
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Robert: OK, shall we now have a look at the projects that different researchers and organisations are working on? Anna: For me, the project I really liked was the one at Tufts University - you know, where they've invented tiny edible patches to stick on fresh foods that show you what level of bacteria is present, and so whether you can still eat it. Robert: It's a great idea as it tells you if you need to hurry up and eat the food before it goes off. The other good thing about the patches is that apparently they'll be cheap to manufacture. Anna: Good. Then the other thing I thought was great was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project. Robert: I hadn't seen that. Anna: Well, they've developed these sensors that can detect tiny amounts of ethylene. Ethylene is the natural plant hormone in fruit that makes them turn ripe, apparently. The researchers think that they can attach the sensors to cardboard boxes - and then supermarkets can scan the sensors with a portable device to see how ripe the fruit inside is. That's got, to be a quicker wav to check for ripeness than taking each box off the shelf and opening it. Robert: Definitely. And I thought that Lean Path was worth mentioning, too. Their waste tracking technology means that caterers can see how much food is being wasted and why. That'll increase profits for them eventually. Anna: Yes. And did you read about Zero PerCent? They've produced this smartphone application that allows restaurants to send donation alerts to food charities. The charities can then pick up the unwanted food and distribute it to people in need. Robert: In the long run, that'll definitely benefit poorer families in the neighbourhood. No kid should go to school hungry. Anna: I agree. And I read that quite a few local governments in the USA are thinking about introducing compulsory composting in their states - so you can't put any food waste into your rubbish bins, just the compost bin. Robert: Well, I guess that means a bit more work for people. I mean, they have to separate the organic and inorganic waste themselves before they take it out to the compost bin, and you know how lazy some people are! But I guess if we all start composting, we'd be doing something positive about the problem of food waste ourselves, rather than relying on the government to sort it out. Having said that, not everyone has a garden so ... What advantage do the speakers identify for each of the following projects?
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2. ripeness sensor
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3. waste tracking technology
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4. smartphone application
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5. food waste composting
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Section 4
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Well, good morning everyone. As you know, we've been looking at different kinds of art and craft that were practised by the Maori people of New Zealand - at least before the Europeans began to arrive in the 18th century. So, the focus of this lecture is kite making; how the kites were made, their appearance and the purposes they served. Well, let's start with the way they were made. As with other Maori artistic traditions, kite-making involved certain rituals. So, firstly, only priests were allowed to fly and handle the largest, most sacred kites. There were rules, too, for the size and scale of the kites that the priests had to follow, and during the preparation of both small and large kites, food was strictly forbidden. In terms of appearance, kites were frequently designed in the image of a native bird, or a Maori god, and sometimes, perhaps less often, a well-known hero. You can imagine that when Maori first arrived in the new country, in New Zealand, it may have taken some time to find suitable materials for their kites - but through trial and error no doubt, they found plants and trees that provided bark and even roots that they could use to make the frames and wings of their kites. And after the frame had been constructed, the kite then had to be decorated. For this the priests used long grasses, and these - when the kite was in the air - would stream along behind it. They also used a variety of feathers to add, um, colour to their creations. Well, all this meant it was easy to see a kite in the sky but you could also hear Maori kites. They could be quite noisy indeed, and this was because some priests liked to hang a long row of shells from the kite. You can imagine how they'd rattle and clatter in the wind - how they might completely capture your attention. As I said before, the most common image was probably a bird, and that's the same for other kite-making cultures, but the kites were designed in particular shapes - so there were kites that were triangular, rectangular and also shaped like a diamond. And some of them were so large, it would actually require several men to operate them. Um, some of the kites were also covered in patterns, and to make these patterns, the Maori used different pigments of red and black, and these were either made from a charcoal base or from red-brown clay which had been combined with oil obtained from a focal species of shark. Now, before I forget, if you have a chance, do visit the Auckland Museum because they have the last surviving 'birdman' kite on display. This is the kind of kite that has a wooden mask at the top of the frame - it's a mask of a human head - and you can clearly see it has a tattoo and also a set of teeth. Quite impressive - and a good example of Maori craftsmanship and symbolism. Right, turning to the purpose and function of the kites, they certainly had multiple uses. Primarily, the flying of kites was a_ way of communicating with the gods and when the kites rose into the air, the Maori used them to deliver messages - perhaps requesting a good harvest, good fortune in war, a successful hunting expedition. So, these kites were incredibly valuable to a community - treasured objects that one generation would pass to the next. People would also fly kites for other reasons, for example, to attract the attention of a neighbouring village. This was done when a meeting was required between Maori elders a convenient method, indeed. And finally, when it comes to war, there are traditional stories that describe how when a Maori warrior found himself surrounded by his enemies, a kite could actually provide the possibility of escape - the kites were powerful enough to take a man up into the air; and for this reason, they could also be used to lower him into enemy fortifications so that an attack could begin from the inside. Well, I'm happy to say there seems to be a revival and growing interest in kite-making, and... Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD for each answer. KITE-MAKING BY THE MAORI PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND
Making and appearance of the kites - The priests who made the kites had rules for size and scale - (1)……… was not allowed during a kite’s preparation Kites: - often represented a bird, a god, or a (2)………… - had frames that were decorated with grasses and (3)………… - had a line of noisy (4)………… attached to them. - could be triangular, rectangular or (5)………… shaped. - had patterns made from clay mixed with (6)………… oil. - sometimes had human-head masks with (7)………… and a tattoo. Purpose and function of kites: - a way of sending (8)………… to the gods - a way of telling other villages that a (9)……… was necessary - a mean of (10)……… if enemies were coming.
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teeth
hero
messages
meeting
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shark
diamond
escape
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