UNIT TEST 5 ● ANSWER KEY
Dictation, Listening and Reading
Group A
Dictation
Exercise 1
Can write from dictation using correct spelling.
Supervolcanoes are extremely powerful volcanoes / which
are capable of / very large eruptions. / One supervolcano in
the US, / whose last eruption / was over 27,000 years
ago, / has the power / to cover up to 5,000 square
kilometres / with hot rocks and ash.
Listening
Exercise 2
Can follow main points of recorded material on familiar
topics if relatively slow and clear.
1 A: The speaker says that in the southern USA
temperatures were 20 degrees lower than usual, and
this is extreme.
2 B: The speaker mentions record-breaking cold weather in
the USA and record-breaking dry weather in Australia,
but she doesn’t mention record-breaking hot weather.
3 C: The speaker says that we will all be affected by
extreme weather in one way or another.
4 A: The speaker says that the climate in Britain might stay
about the same.
5 B: The podcast discusses different examples of extreme
weather around the world and tries to decide if they are
more common nowadays.
Reading
Exercise 3
Can scan a longer text or different texts in order to locate
specific information.
1 D: The sentence before the gap mentions winter months,
and this sentence continues this idea by referring to the
time of year when more coal is burned.
2 F: The sentence before the gap mentions people
watching the sunrise. This sentence refers back to this,
saying they did this on TV screens.
3 B: This sentence refers to one particular advert. The
sentence after the gap mentions this advert again as
‘the same advert’.
4 E: This sentence mentions old polluting cars. The
sentence after the gap continues this idea, saying that
other forms of transport will be used in their place.
5 A: The sentence before the gap mentions other methods
to reduce pollution. This sentence gives an example of
one method.
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Group B
Dictation
Exercise 1
Can write from dictation using correct spelling.
Supervolcanoes are extremely powerful volcanoes / which
are capable of / very large eruptions. / One supervolcano in
the US, / whose last eruption / was over 27,000 years
ago, / has the power / to cover up to 5,000 square
kilometres / with hot rocks and ash.
Listening
Exercise 2
Can follow main points of recorded material on familiar
topics if relatively slow and clear.
1 C: The speaker says that in the southern USA
temperatures were 20 degrees lower than usual, and
this is extreme.
2 B: The speaker mentions dry weather in Australia and
California.
3 A: The speaker says that we will all be affected by
extreme weather in one way or another.
4 C: The speaker says that the climate in Britain might stay
about the same.
5 B: The environmentalist discusses different examples of
extreme weather around the world and suggests that it
is increasing.
Reading
Exercise 3
Can scan a longer text or different texts in order to locate
specific information.
1 B: This sentence mentions the winter months. The
sentence after the gap continues this idea by talking
about this time of year.
2 E: This sentence mentions residents watching the
sunrise. The sentences after the gap refer back to this,
saying that residents couldn’t watch ‘the real one’, but
watched the sunrise on TV screens.
3 A: This sentence mentions adverts. The sentence after
the gap mentions one particular one that people were
watching that morning.
4 D: The sentence before the gap mentions old polluting
cars. This sentence continues this idea, saying that
other forms of transport will be used in their place.
5 C: This sentence mentions that other methods were used
to reduce pollution. The sentence after the gap
continues this idea and gives an example of one
method.
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