Mock Test # 8 Listening

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Hilary Lodge Retirement Home

Example

The name of the manager is Cathy

                                                                   Activities programme involving volunteers

Monday evenings: computer training

  • Training needed in how to produce 1

Tuesday afternoons: singing

  • The home has a 2  and someone to play it

Thursday mornings: growing 3

  • The home doesn’t have many 4  for gardening

Once a month: meeting for volunteers and staff

Interview

  • Go in on 5 , any time

  • Interview with assistant called 6

  • Address of home: 73 (7)  Road

‘Open house’ days

  • Agreed to help on 8

  • Will show visitors where to 9

Possibility of talking to a 10  reporter

Section 2 Questions 11-20




Questions 11-15
Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A-H, next to Questions 11-15.

11. Newspapers

12. Computers

13. Photocopier

14. Café

15. Sports books 

Questions 16-20

Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

New staff responsibilities

Name New responsibility
Jenny Reed Buying 16 ....... for the Centre
Phil Penshurst Help with writing 17 ........... for courses
Tom Salisbury Information on topics related to the 18 .....................
Saeed Aktar Finding a 19 ...................
Shilpa Desai Help with 20 ......................
Q 16

Q 17.

Q 18. 

Q 19.

Q 20.

Section 3 Questions 21-30




Questions 21-27

What helped Stewart  

What helped Stewart with each of the following stages in making his training film for museum employees?

Choose SEVEN answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-I, next to Questions 21-27.

What helped Stewart

  • A. advice from friends
  • B. information on a website
  • C. being allowed extra time
  • D. meeting a professional film maker
  • E. good weather conditions
  • F. getting a better computer
  • G. support of a manager
  • H. help from a family member
  • I. work on a previous assignment

 

Stages in making the training film for museum employees

21. Finding a location

22. Deciding on equipment

23. Writing the script

24. Casting

25. Filming

26. Editing

27. Designing the DVD cover

Questions 28-30

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Stewart’s work placement: benefits to the Central Museum Association

  • His understanding of the Association’s 28

  • The reduction in expense • increased co-operation between 29

  • Continuous 30  which led to a better product
  • Ideas for distribution of the film

Section 4 Questions 31-40




New Caledonian crows and the use of tools

Examples of animals using tools

  • Some chimpanzees use stones to break nuts.
  • Betty (New Caledonian crow) made a 31 out of wire to move a bucket of food.
  • Barney (New Caledonian crow) used sticks to find food.

New Zealand and Oxford experiment

  • Three stages: crows needed to move a 32  in order to reach a short stick; then use the short stick to reach a long stick; then use the long stick to reach food.

Oxford research

  • Crows used sticks to investigate whether there was any 33  from an object.

  • Research was inspired by seeing crows using tools on a piece of cloth to investigate a spider design.
  • Barney used a stick to investigate a snake made of 34

  • Pierre used a stick to investigate a 35
  • Corbeau used a stick to investigate a metal toad.

  • The crows only used sticks for the first contact.

Conclusions of above research

  • Ability to plan provides interesting evidence of the birds’ cognition.
  • Unclear whether this is evidence of the birds’ 36

Exeter and Oxford research in New Caledonia

  • Scientists have attached very small cameras to birds’ 37

  • Food in the form of beetle larvae provides plenty of 38  for the birds.

  • Larvae’s specific 39  composition can be identified in birds that feed on them.

  • Scientists will analyse what the birds include in their 40

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