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SECTION TEST - LISTENING
(Time: 30 minutes)
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Section 1
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You will hear a man asking for information about health services in the place where he’s living. WOMAN: Can I help you? MAN: Yes, I’ve just moved to this area with my wife and children and I’d like to know where we can all register with a doctor at a Health Centre. WOMAN: Okay. Well, there’s Doctor Green at The Harvey Clinic. We always recommend her for babies, because she’s very good with them and she runs a special clinic. MAN: Oh ... actually my youngest child is five, so that wouldn’t be any good for us. WOMAN: Right. MAN: Is there anywhere else I could try? WOMAN: Yes, the Eshcol Health Practice is the next one on my list. MAN: How do you spell that? WOMAN: E-S-H-C-O-L. And it’s Doctor Fuller, who has space on his list. The clinic only opened a year ago, so the facilities are all very modern. MAN: That sounds good. WOMAN: And it’s particularly good if you’re busy during the day, because they also do appointments in the evening. They’re closed on Saturday, though. The only other place on the list is the Health Centre on Shore Lane. You can register with Doctor Gormley, that’s G-O-R-M-L-E-Y. He’s new there, but the centre has a very good reputation. MAN: Oh yes, I think I know the road. That would be the best one. Thanks. Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. Health Centres | Name of centre | Doctor’s name | Advantage | The Harvey Clinic | Dr (1) ........... | especially good with (2) ........... | The (3) ........... Health Practice | Dr Fuller | offers (4) ........... appointments | The Shore Lane Health Centre | Dr (5) ........... | |
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MAN: Could you tell me, will all their services be free? WOMAN: Erm ... there are usually some small charges that doctors make. Let me see what it says about the Shore Lane Centre. If you need to be vaccinated before any trips abroad, you won’t have to pay for this. Erm, what else? The sports injury treatment service operates on a paying basis, as does the nutritional therapy service. Some health centres do offer alternative therapies like homeopathy as part of their pay-to-use service. Shore Lane are hoping to do this soon - I think they may start with acupuncture. And finally, if you need to prove you’re healthy or haven’t had any serious injuries before a new employer will accept you, you can get a free fitness check-up there, but you’d most likely have to pay for insurance medicals though. MAN: Okay, thanks. Choose TWO correct answer choices.
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1. Which TWO of the following are offered free of charge at Shore Lane Health Centre?
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Section 2
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Welcome to Green Vale Agricultural Park. As you know, we have only been open a week so you are amongst our first visitors. We have lots of fascinating indoor and outdoor exhibits on our huge complex, spreading hundreds of hectares. Our remit is to give educational opportunities to the wider public as well as to offer research sites for a wide variety of agriculturists and other scientists. Let’s start by seeing what there is to do. As you can see here on our giant wall plan, we are now situated in the Reception block ... here. As you walk out of the main door into the park there is a path you can follow. If you follow this route you will immediately come into the Rare Breeds section, where we keep a wide variety of animals which I shall be telling you a little more about later. Next to this ... moving east... is the large grazing area for the rare breeds. Then further east... in the largest section of our Park is the Forest Area. South of the grazing area and in fact just next to the Reception block is our Experimental Crop Area. In the middle of the Park ... this circular area is our lake .... These two small rectangular shapes here ... are the Fish Farms where we rear fish for sale. To the east of those is the marsh area which attracts a great many migrant birds. In the south-eastern corner, beyond the marsh, is our Market Garden area, growing vegetables and flowers. Label the plan below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
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Forest/ the Forest
Fish Farm/ Fish Farms
Market Garden
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All these areas can be visited by the general public for almost all the year... although ... please take note of the large signs at the entrance to each area which tell... which tell you when certain areas are being used for particular controlled experiments and are therefore temporarily out of bounds to the public. You can see for yourself what a huge area the park covers and a key question is always, how can we move around? Well you have a choice of means ... all environmentally friendly ... cars are banned in the park. We have bicycles which you can hire behind the Reception block ... here ... the healthy ones of you can go on foot and finally there’s our electric tram, powered from solar cells. You find more information about this at the front entrance. A good place to start on your tour is the Rare Breeds section. We keep goats, sheep and hens and other kinds of poultry. We are also thinking of bringing in cows and horses but we do not, as yet, have facilities for these bigger animals. The animals are fed in public twice a day and a short lecture given on their feeding habits and nutritional needs. These are very popular with the public but of course we mustn’t lose sight of the main purpose of having this section, not as such to preserve rare animals but to maintain the diversity of breeds to broaden the gene pool for agricultural development. Green Vale changes with the seasons with different events happening at different times of the year. May will be perhaps our most spectacular month with the arrival of the Canada geese and when our fruit trees will be in full blossom, but there are interesting events on all year round ... for example John Havers, our expert fly fisherman, is currently giving displays on the lake. Each of the sections has its own seasonal calendar... please consult the summary board at the main entrance. And the final section, as we return to the Reception blocks, is the orchard. Do take time to browse round our shop ... there is a wide selection of books on wildlife, some of them written by local authors, and the history of farming, including organic farming, something which the park will be diversifying into in the coming months. Choose the correct answer.
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1. When are the experimental areas closed to the public?
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2. How can you move around the park?
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3. The rare breed animals kept in the park include
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4. What is the main purpose of having the Rare Breeds Section?
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5. What can you see in the park at the present time?
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6. The shop contains books about
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Section 3
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TUTOR As you know, this week you choose your modules for the first year of study, so this introductory meeting is aimed at helping you make informed choices. I think the best way to do this is on a question-and-answer basis, so who’d like to start? Pat? PAT Yes, there’s something I’ve been wondering about: will my choice affect my career opportunities? TUTOR Well, for most students the choice of Level One modules won’t be crucial in terms of a later career. In fact, many graduate level jobs will accept graduates from a range of degree courses. Employers will often be at least as interested in how well a student has performed academically, and how the whole experience of university has developed the student as a person, as in the detail of the course options chosen. Selecting modules that will interest you and in which you think you will be particularly successful is therefore also likely to make good sense in career terms. On certain degree courses, though, module choice can be important. This applies mainly to vocational courses where the degree confers an accredited professional training as well as university education. Usually the modules students are required to take will include all those needed to meet those professional requirements. Your academic department, in this case Chemical and Process Engineering, and the university’s Careers Service will be able to advise you, and will be pleased to help you sort out anything you’re not certain about. PAT Right. Complete the summary below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided. To many employers, academic success and personal development as a result of being at (1)………… can be as important as course content, so choose (2)…………… modules that you may do well in. You should, however, think more carefully about your choice if your course is (3) …………… In this case the course normally includes all the modules necessary for professional training, but if you are in any doubt check with your academic department or the (4) …………… at the university.
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vocational
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RAJAV I’d like to ask a few things about the Applied Chemical Engineering module. TUTOR Fine. What would you like to know? RAJAV Well, apart from the work on practical engineering, what other topics are covered? TUTOR Some that might surprise you. One that students always seem to like includes interviewing techniques, presentation skills and producing written reports. RAJAV Hmm ... they sound interesting. How are they taught? TUTOR Through lectures, practical classes and personal tutorials. Applied Chemical Engineering lasts all year of course, so there’s plenty of time. RAJAV And what about assessment? TUTOR Through project work, usually, or dissertation. Not exams as such. RAJAV Is that the same for the Information Technology part of the module? TUTOR Yes, things like word processing and learning to create spreadsheets are tested in a similar way on this module. SONIA That’s not the case in some other modules, is it? TUTOR No, it isn’t. Are you thinking of any in particular? SONIA Yes, I’m considering doing fluid Mechanics. The work on flow analysis looks interesting and I like the look of some of the other topics, too. So how is that module tested? TUTOR That’s one of those which still uses written exams. The sit-down, formal type I’m afraid! SONIA Oh that doesn’t matter. I quite like that kind as it happens. TUTOR Pat, you’ve got a question. PAT Yes, I was wondering about Science 1 in Chemical Engineering. How is that organized? It’s a bit different from other modules isn’t it? TUTOR Yes, it aims to give the necessary basis of physics and biology for those students who haven’t studied the relevant subject at A level or equivalent. In practice it means that students who have already studied physics are excused the physics lectures, while those who’ve done biology are exempt from attending the biology lectures. In the second part of the module you’re assessed on your project work in one of those subjects. PAT And does the teaching approach differ, too? TUTOR Yes, particularly in one respect: you are encouraged to learn by working out the solutions to problems for yourself. PAT I like the sound of that. TUTOR OK, anything else? SONIA Yes, I believe it’s possible to do a modern language as part of the course. Can you tell me a bit about the Spanish 1A module? TUTOR Certainly. The main emphasis in 1A is on understanding and speaking, but students also learn to carry out some straightforward reading and writing tasks. Basic aspects of grammar are also introduced and practised. The module comprises thirty-six hours of class contact, mainly in tutorial groups of sixteen to twenty, and students are expected to do approximately sixty-four hours of private study. SONIA It sounds interesting. I did some Spanish at the Cervantes Institute last year. Passed an exam, in fact. TUTOR Ah, I’m afraid that means you can’t do 1A. The regulations say ‘this module may NOT be taken by students with a qualification in Spanish’. Though you could do 1B ... Which modules have the following features?
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1. developing computer skills
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2. exemption from part of a module
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3. assessment by formal examination
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4. developing speaking and writing skills
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5. learning through problem solving
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Section 4
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TUTOR: Right. Are we all here? OK. As you know, today Vivien is going to do a presentation on the hat-making project she did with her class during her last teaching practice. So, over to you, Vivien. VIVIEN: Thanks. Um . . . Mr. Yardley has asked me to describe to you the project I did as a student teacher at a secondary school in London. I was at this school for six weeks and I taught a variety of subjects to a class of fourteen-year-old pupils. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. HAT-MAKING PROJECT Project Profile | Example Name of student | Answer Vivien | Type of school: (1)………………… | Age of pupils: (2)…………………… |
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14 / fourteen / 14 year olds / 14 years old / fourteen year olds / fourteen years old
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VIVIEN: The project I chose to do was a hat-making project and I think this project could easily be adapted to suit any age. So, to explain the project... After we’d done the research, we went back to the classroom to make two basic hat shapes using rolls of old wallpaper. We each made, first of all, a conical hat by ... er ... if I show you now . . . cutting out a circle and then making one cut up to the centre and then ... er ... overlapping the cut like this ... a conical hat that sits on your head. The other hat we made was a little more complicated ... er ... first of all we cut out a circle again . . . like this . . . then you need a long piece with flaps on it - I’ve already made that bit which I have here - you bend the flaps over and stick them . .. with glue or prittstick . . . to the underside of the circle . .. like this. Again, I’ve prepared this so that I don’t get glue everywhere. The pupils do, of course, so you need plenty of covers for the table. And there you have a pillbox hat as in pill and box. Now variations and combinations of these two hat shapes formed the basis of the pupils’ final designs. Label the diagrams. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
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overlap / overlapping / over-lap / over-lapping
underside / underneath / bottom
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VIVIEN: The next stage of the project was the design phase and this involved, first of all, using their pages of research to draw a design of their hat on paper. That’s the easy part. They then had to translate their two-dimensional design into a form to fit their head. I encouraged them to make a small-scale, three-dimensional hat first so that they could experiment with how to achieve the form they required and I imposed certain constraints on them to keep things simple. For example, they had to use paper not card. Paper is more pliable and easier to handle. They also had to limit their colours to white, grey or brown shades of paper which reflected the colours of the buildings they were using as a model for their hats and they had to make sure their glue didn’t show! Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. DESIGN PHASE | Stage A | Refer to research and design a hat (1)……………… | Stage B | Make a small-scale (2)……………… hat | Constraints: | | + Material | Paper | + Colours | (3)………………… | + Glue | Must not show |
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3 dimensional / three dimensional / 3-dimensional / three-dimensional / 3D / 3-D
on paper / in two dimensions
white, grey, brown / white, gray, brown / white, brown, grey / white, brown, gray / grey, white, brown / gray, white, brown / grey, brown, white / gray, brown, white / brown, grey, white / brown, gray, white / brown, white, grey / brown, white, gray
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VIVIEN: Well, it was very enjoyable and just to give you an idea of what they produced, I’ve brought along three hats to show you. This one here is based on a circular stairway in an old building in London. It uses three pillbox hats one on top of the other. This was designed by Theresa. Here’s another one that has a simple strip going round the base of the hat but has then gone on to add strips of paper that come out from the base and that meet at the top of the hat -rather like a crown - making a fairly tall hat. This was made by Muriel. And lastly there’s a combination of the pillbox or single strip around the base and then the conical hat shape on top to form a castle turret. This was made by Fabrice, and there are many more that I could have brought. TUTOR: Thank you, Vivien. That was most interesting. Now what we can learn from this is that... Choose the correct answer choice for each question.Which hat was made by…
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