UNIT TEST 6 ● ANSWER KEY
Dictation, Listening and Reading
Group A
Dictation
Exercise 1
Tampering with photos is nothing new, / but an
alarmingly high number of people / are now
distorting the truth on a regular basis / every time
they post an airbrushed or retouched photo / on
social media. / If everyone stopped spreading this
kind of fake news, / we would be able to / focus on
the memorable moments in the snaps / rather than
what people look like.
Listening
Exercise 2
1 Degrees: Heather says I’m a member of ‘38
degrees’.'
2 raise awareness: Heather says 'We also raise
awareness using social media and advertising.'
3 pay: Heather says '(…) and membership is free.'
4 Green: Heather says 'A lot of them support the
Green Party ...'
5 forests: Heather says 'We have campaigned hard
against the government’s plans to sell our
country’s forests.'
6 fur farms: Heather says 'Fur farms in the UK were
all closed down over ten years ago.'
. famous online company to stop selling pesticides
. that have been shown to kill bees.'
. 6 petition(s): Heather says 'Members of our group
Reading
Exercise 3
1 (had) worked undercover: He told his fascinated
listeners about how he was sent to France to
work undercover.
2 write a book: A writer, called Quentin Reynolds,
had the idea of writing a book about George. He
interviewed him ...
3 (completely) taken in / tricked: He then tricked
George by making up some names of important
intelligence agents working in France at that
time. George was completely taken in and
claimed he had known the same people.
4 republished as a work of fiction: When the story
broke, the book’s publishers were forced to
republish the story as a work of fiction.
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Group B
Dictation
Exercise 1
Tampering with photos is nothing new, / but an
alarmingly high number of people / are now
distorting the truth on a regular basis / every time
they post an airbrushed or retouched photo / on
social media. / If everyone stopped spreading this
kind of fake news, / we would be able to / focus on
the memorable moments in the snaps / rather than
what people look like.
Listening
Exercise 2
1 public opinion: Heather says 'Our aim is to create
an avalanche of public opinion.'
2 politicians: Heather says 'Once we have support
for our campaigns, we organise petitions, email
politicians directly ...'
3 (political) party/parties: Heather says 'We do not
ask our members which political party they
support.'
4 donations / its/our/their members: Heather says
'Our money comes from donations from our
members.'
5 kill bees: Heather says 'We helped to persuade a
can now set up their own petitions on our website.'
Reading
Exercise 3
1 a good storyteller: George was a good
storyteller and he slowly started to exaggerate
his role in the war.
2 had (arrested and) tortured him: Eventually, he
had been arrested by the Germans (...)They had
tortured him for information ...
3 had been in Winnipeg/Canada: The book caught
the attention of one of his wartime colleagues
who realised that George had been in Winnipeg
at the time many of the book’s events took place.
4 people still enjoyed it / it was a good story:
... surprisingly, sales didn’t suffer. It was such a
good story that people still enjoyed it ...