1) You hear an announcement on the radio. What kind of programme is being advertised?
a documentary
a drama series
a quiz show
2) You hear part of a talk on the radio. What is the woman talking about?
a guided walk
a history expert
a local celebration
3) You hear a man talking about a restaurant he runs on a Caribbean island. What is he doing when he speaks?
advising on how to avoid a problem
asking for help with a continuing problem
explaining how a problem occurred
4) You overhear a woman talking to her colleague. Where does the woman work?
in a bookshop
in a publisher’s office
in a school
5) You hear a scientist talking about a slimming diet which is used by people who want to lose weight. What does she say about the diet?
It can have useful results.
It may have harmful effects.
It might get scientific approval.
6) You overhear a woman talking on the phone. Who is she speaking to?
a builder
a hotel manager
a shop assistant
7) You hear someone talking about the work he does supplying fruit and vegetables. When does he receive most of the orders?
in the afternoon
in the evening
in the morning
8) You overhear a woman talking to a friend. What is she doing?
complaining about something
offering him something
suggesting something
You will hear part of a recorded guided tour which is given to people visiting a wildlife park. Complete the sentences.You can listen to the recording twice.
1. Burton Safari Park is one of the wildlife parks in Europe.
2. If you have a problem, stay in your car and call for help using the and horn.
3. As the animals have specially planned , visitors shouldn't feed them.
4. The name 'white rhino' comes from the shape of the animal's .
5. Some of the rhinos have lived at Burton for as long as years.
6. The rhinos are able to recognise Anne because their sense of is extremely good.
7. An important job for the keepers is checking that the rhino's are not damaged.
8. One of the park's male rhinos is described as getting rather occasionally.
9. The rhinos sometimes use part of the car as a place to themselves.
10. The rhinos in the park eat a combination of .
You will hear five careers advisers talking to young people who are preparing for their first interview for a job. Decide which piece of advice each speaker gives. Each sentence can be used only once. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.You can listen to the recording twice.You have 30 seconds to read the questions. Then start the recording.
A Think of why you want to work for that company. B Avoid concentrating on your free-time interests. C Find out all you can about the company. D Make a list of all your strengths. E Give full answers to all the questions. F Think about how to improve your weak points.
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Speaker 4
Speaker 5
You'll hear an interview with Colin Browne, a representative of the Youth Hostel Association or YHA. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer, A, B or C.You can listen to the recording twice.You now have one minute in which to look at the questions. Then start the recording.
1) According to Colin, the quality of YHA accommodation
has risen over the years.
is better than most people say.
should generally be improved
2) Colin says that the YHA decides what changes to make by
asking for the views of customers.
looking at other organisations.
trying out different ideas.
3) Colin says that in the early years of the YHA,
it was more common for young people to travel without parents.
parents generally had lower incomes.
the typical visitors were interested in the countryside.
4) What does Colin say about YHA regulations?
He disagrees with some of them.
Most of them have not changed.
They used to be stricter.
5) Colin says that the majority of people who write to him
are experienced travellers.
have old-fashioned ideas about the YHA.
support the changes that have been made to hostels.
6) According to Colin, a YHA building may be closed down if
a lot of money is needed to repair it.
a visitor complains about it.
nobody can be found to run it.
7) Colin fears that in the future there may be
less demand for hostels.
more hostels needed in certain areas.
too many hostels
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Part 2
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S3 f
S4 a
S5 e
Part 4
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4 c
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The elephant has some distant relatives called mammoths, which lived in the Stone Age. More than 15,000 years ago people painted pictures of them on cave walls. Then, astonishingly, in 1799, a man walking along the banks of the River Lena in Siberia did/ had/ made/ took a startling discovery.
Peering into a wall of ice, he could just/ quite/ rather/ well see the shape of a massive,
hairy mammoth, apparently looking after/ looking out/ watching out/ watching over at him.
He immediately ran across/ away/ out/ pass in terror,
but several days later he experienced/ felt/ found/ grew the courage to return and cut the mammoth’s tusks – its two enormous teeth – out of the ice to sell them.
Mammoth tusks are the biggest teeth of any known creature, some completing/ expanding/ increasing/ reaching a length of five metres.
These tusks were held/ kept/ put/ set to good use, protecting the mammoths' young from other animals, and brushing away snow.
To most of us, mammoths are probably the most familiar/ frequent/ regular/ usual of the elephant’s extinct relatives, but thousands of years earlier, in the woodlands of eastern North America, lived another of the elephant’s relatives called the mastodon.
Like mammoths, mastodons may also have had a hairy coat, but as/ even/ when/ while mammoths mainly ate grass on the plains, mastodons desired/ enjoyed/ preferred/ selected to eat twigs and leaves.
We do not know why mastodons became/ came/ turned/ went extinct.
However, computer studies of the decrease in mammoth amounts/ numbers/ quantities/ totals suggest that it was a particular addition/ attachment/ combination/ connection of over-hunting by humans, and adjustments/ changes/ diversions/ transformations in the climate at that time which caused/ guided/ influenced/ led to their disappearance.
Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning.
People have been diving without mechanical aids since ancient times. In those days, divers mainly went underwater to search pearls or sponges. Various ways of supplying divers with air, and so permitting them to stay underwater for long periods of time, have been tried for well two thousand years. Alexander the Great said to have gone underwater in an early of diving machine, and Aristotle talked about apparatus permitted divers to breathe underwater.
It was not the beginning of the 18th century that more advanced equipment was developed. In 1717, the first practical diving machine, or 'diving bell' it was called, was invented. This was a small wooden room with an open bottom, glass windows at the top to in light, and a supply of air coming through leather tubes. Something similar, made of steel, is use today for underwater work, as building the foundations of bridges. However, divers want to move freely underwater, they require a suit. Early suits were made up a leather jacket with a metal helmet over the head into which air was pumped down from the surface through tubes. Divers gained even freedom of movement when they could rid of these tubes and carry own air with them in cylinders.
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