Fung Kai No.

1 Secondary School
English Language
Listening Quiz (blank-filling) *2016 DSE Paper 3 Part A Task 3

Name: __________________ Class: _______ ( ) Date: __________________

Marks: ______________/15
Fill in the blanks while you’re listening to the conversation between the guide and the family.

Guide Hello everyone. My name is Sokari Douglas and I’ll be your guide for this
section of the museum. Today, I’ll be showing you the exhibition on young
inventors and I hope you enjoy the (1)tour.

Mother It sounds really interesting. Do you think it will (2)inspire you to try some
inventions of your own, Angela?

Daughter Not likely! I’m no good at (3)science.

Father But I don’t think all the inventions are about (3R)science. Let’s have a look at
them.

Guide So our first exhibit is the shoe (4)battery (5)charger. This was invented by Juan
Domingo from the (6)Philippines and he was only 14 when he invented it. The
inventor walks five kilometres to school every day. I know this seems a lot but
in the countryside in the (6R)Philippines many school children have to do the
same. Anyway, the inventor thought that this is a lot of wasted energy.

Father Wow. A five kilometre walk to school every day. That’s pretty far. Would you
like to walk that far to school, Angela?

Daughter Not likely! I’m not going to waste all that energy!

Guide Well, actually, according to the inventor on average, people take 7,000
(7)footsteps a day.
Mother That seems a lot. So how does the shoe work?

Guide Well, there are different stages to the process and let me show you. Here is
the shoe and inside each shoe are two (8)electrical discs. First, the person
wearing the shoe (7R)steps on the (8R)electrical discs every time they take a
(7R)footstep. Second, each (7R)footstep generates pressure on the (8R)disc. And
third, this pressure is then converted to electricity.

Mother So how do you store the electricity?

Guide You need a (4R)battery and you attach it to the outside of your shoes.

Daughter I’ve got a question.

Guide Yes?

Daughter How much electricity do the shoes generate?

Guide That’s a good question, actually. At the moment not so much but this is the
first model. The inventor gave an example of when he played basketball for
an hour and a half, he managed to generate 15 minutes of (4R)battery power
for a mobile phone.

Daughter That’s not very much!

Guide That’s right. But there is one other application that the inventor has
suggested. This electricity can be used to power a light and this doesn’t need
so much power. Any other questions?

Mother What do you think, Angela?

Daughter Well I wouldn’t like to do all the walking but it certainly is useful. What do you
think, Dad?

Father I think it’s great.

Mother I worry that it’s not (9)practical and you won’t be able to produce enough
electricity. Surely, (10)traditional (4R)batteries are better.
Guide OK. Let’s move on to our next invention. Just over here. Can everybody see?
This invention is the smelly (11)alarm clock. The inventor of this is Jean Paul
Moncoeur and he’s from (12)Canada. This 17-year-old invented the device for
his father, who is deaf, or hard of hearing, I should say. Jean Paul invented
this to help his father who couldn’t hear the sound of an (11R)alarm clock. As a
result of this, very often his father was late for work and almost lost his job.
Jean Paul had the brilliant idea of using the sense of smell instead of sound
to wake people up.

Mother Sorry to interrupt, but what smell did Jean Paul find was the most (13)effective

to wake people up?

Guide That’s a good question. And the answer is (14)peppermint.

Mother (14R)Peppermint?

Guide Yes. (14R)Peppermint.

Father So how does the device work then?

Guide Well, first you place some (14R)peppermint tablets inside the (11R)alarm clock
and then you set the (11R)alarm. When the (11R)alarm goes off, a fan blows air
towards the sleeper.

Daughter But does it really work?

 Guide Oh yes. And you know that most people hate getting up early in the morning?
Well, the inventor reckons that most people wake up in a good mood.

Mother Really? That sounds good to me.

Father Mmm... Sounds too good to be true to me.

Guide And one more thing. Apparently, you also wake up feeling (15)refreshed.

Father No. I’m not convinced.

Mother I am. I think it sounds fantastic. What do you think, Angela?

Daughter I think I agree with Dad on this one.

Remarks:
1. Underlined: answers in this task
2. * : difficult words
3. (R): the word will appear elsewhere as the answer, so it’s hidden in the student’s version