Listening Practice Test # 4.10

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Part 1: Questions 1-6

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY.

                                          THORNDYKE’S BUILDERS

Customer heard about Thorndyke’s from a friend

Name: Edith (1)

Address: Flat 4, (2) Park Flats, 

(Behind the (3) )
Phone number: 875934

Best time to contact customer: during the (4)

Where to park: opposite entrance next to the (5)

Need full quote showing all the jobs and the (6)

Questions 7-10

Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY.


Area

Work to be done

Notes

Kitchen

Replace the
7  .................                            

In the door

Fix tomorrow

Pain wall above

the 8 .............

Strip paint and plaster

approximately one

9 .............. in advance

Garden

One 10 .......... needs

replacing (end of garden)

 
Q 7.

Q 8.

Q 9.

Q 10.

Part 2: Questions 11-15




Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

MANHAM PORT
11. Why did a port originally develop at Manham?

12. What caused Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?

13. Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?

14. What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?

15. What did the Manham Trust hope to do?

Questions 16-20

Questions 16-20
Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

Tourist attractions in Museum

Place

Features and activities

Advice

Copper mine

Specially adapted miners’

16 .................    take visitors into the mountain

The mine is
17 .............. and enclosed unsuitable for children and animals

Village school

Classrooms and a special

exhibition of
18 ................

a 19 ..................   is recommended

 

‘The George’ (old sailing ship)

The ship’s wheel (was lost but has now been restored)

Children should not use the

20 ............
Q 16.

Q 17.

Q 18.

Q 19.

Q 20.

Part 3: Questions 21 and 22




Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Which TWO skills did Laura improve as a result of her work placement?

Questions 23 and 24

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Which TWO immediate benefits did the company get from Laura’s work placement?

Questions 25-30

What source of information should Tim use at each of the following stages of the work placement?

Choose SIX answers from the box by selecting correct letter, A-G, for the questions 25-30.

                                             Source of information
A         company manager
B         company’s personnel department
C         personal tutor
D         psychology department
E         mentor
F          university careers officer
G         internet

                       Stages of work placement procedure
25. obtaining booklet 

26. discussing options 

27. getting updates 

28. responding to invitation for interview 

29. informing about outcome of interview

30. requesting a reference

Part 4: Questions 31-33



Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

                    Nanotechnology: technology on a small scale
31. The speaker says that one problem with nanotechnology is that

32. According to the speaker, some scientists believe that nano-particles

33. In the speaker’s opinion, research into nanotechnology

Questions 34-40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY.

                                                    Uses of Nanotechnology

Transport
• Nanotechnology could allow the development of stronger (34)  

• Planes would be much lighter in weight.
• (35)  travel will be made available to the masses.

Technology
• Computers will be even smaller, faster, and will have a greater (36)

• (37)  energy will become more affordable.

The Environment
• Nano-robots could rebuild the ozone layer.
• Pollutants such as (38)  could be removed from water more easily.

• There will be no (39)  from manufacturing.

Health and Medicine

• New methods of food production could eradicate famine.
• Analysis of medical (40)  will be speeded up.
• Life expectancy could be increased.

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