ESL LISTENING FINAL

Listening Section Directions

This test measures your ability to understand conversations and lectures in English.
The Listening section is divided into 2 separately timed parts. In each part you will
listen to 1 conversation and 1 or 2 lectures. You will hear each conversation or lecture
only one time.
After each conversation or lecture, you will answer some questions about it. The
questions typically ask about the main idea and supporting details. Some questions
ask about a speaker's purpose or attitude. Answer the questions based on what is
stated or implied by the speakers.
You may take notes while you listen. You may use your notes to help you answer the
questions. Your notes will not be scored.

In some questions, you will see this icon: . This means that you will hear, but not
see, part of the question.
Some of the questions have special directions. These directions appear in a gray box
on the test paper.
Most questions are worth 1 point. If a question is worth more than 1 point, it will have
special directions that indicate how many points you can receive.
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Conversation 1
1. Why does the student go to see the woman?
A. To make sure he has completed enough course work to graduate
B. To find out when his student loan must be paid back
C. To pick up an administrative form
D. To complain about a library fine

2. What is the student's problem?

A. He forgot to return some library books.
B. He cannot start paying off his student loan yet.
C. He paid his graduation fee too late.
D. He owes money to the music library.

3. Who is Professor Williams?

A. The head of the library
B. The director of a play the student was in
C. The student's music professor
D. The person who arranged a job interview for the student

4. What is the most likely reason the student did not receive the notice from the library?
A. He recently moved.
B. He has been out of town.
C. The library just mailed it the day before.
D. The library sent it to Professor Williams.

Listen again to part of the lecture. then answer the question.

5. What can be inferred about the student when he says this: ?

A. He is not sure how to respond to the woman.
B. He feels he has been treated unfairly.
C. He wonders if there is another solution.
D. He does not think the woman's suggestions will work
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Lecture 1
6. What does the professor mainly discuss?
A. The planning and building of imperial villas during the Roman Empire
B. The artistic and economic role of imperial villas during the Roman Empire
C. The reconstruction of a Roman imperial villa from recently discovered drawings
D. The daily lives of architects, artists, and workers who built Roman imperial

7. What does the professor imply about the first excavations of imperial villas?
A. They were carried out primarily by artists and amateur art historians.
B. They led to unexpected discoveries regarding the number of villa inhabitants.
C. They did not provide much information about the purposes the villas served.
D. They uncovered statues made from materials that were not commonly used in
Rome.

8. According to the professor, what does a group of massive sculptures in one imperial
villa reveal about the emperor who owned it?
A. He was interested in exploring new artistic ideas.
B. He preferred to be surrounded by imagines of himself and his family.
C. He hired sculptors to replicate statuary found in Rome.
D. He filled only a small number of the villa's rooms with statuary.

9. According to the professor, what evidence suggests that Diocletian's villa was used as
a factory
Select 2 answers
A. Remnants of textiles in some of the rooms
B. Traces of dyes in empty containers
C. A large aqueduct leading to the villa
D. Sulfur in the local water

10. Why does the professor mention small holes found in the sides of some pools at one
villa?
A. To demonstrate the destructiveness of eighteenth-century treasure hunters
B. To show how archaeologists determined that the villa was once used as a fish
farm
C. To explain how the pools were fed naturally by waters from the nearby sea
D. To show a technique used by one emperor to make his estate more distinctive

11. What is the professor's opinion regarding the economic impact of villas built by
wealthy landowners?
A. Their impact was so localized that they were unaffected by the fall of the empire.
B. The closer they were to Rome, the greater their chances of financial success.
C. They were profitable enough to have played a role in the decline of the empire.
D. Their impact was felt mostly by other nearby landowners rather than in
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Conversation 2
12. Why does the professor criticize the man's efforts on an assignment?
A. He did not follow the professor's earlier advice.
B. He did not get the professor's approval for his paper topic.
C. He did not discuss some material that the professor considers important.
D. He did not read more than one novel by the same author.

13. What is the man's initial reaction to the professor's criticism?

A. He is unhappy that the professor did not read his paper carefully.
B. He is embarrassed because he knows he did not put much time into this
assignment.
C. He did not realize that this assignment was so important to his class grade.
D. He does not think that the problem is as important as the professor does.

14. The professor suggests that the student failed to discuss an important fact about the
main character, Antoinette, in The Wide Sargasso Sea. What fact was it?
A. The novel is told entirely from Antoinette's point of view.
B. Antoinette is based on a character from another novel.
C. Antoinette has been the subject of many literary studies.
D. Antoinette's experiences are based on the life of a famous writer.

15. Why does the professor discuss the setting of The Wide Sargasso Sea?
A. To encourage the man to analyze that aspect of the novel more thoroughly
B. To identify one aspect of the novel that has made it very popular with the public
C. To emphasize that authors often choose places they have lived as settings for
their novels
D. To explain why the author named her novel after a place rather than a character

16. What does the man imply about rewriting his paper?
A. He is not sure that he understands what the professor expects from him.
B. He is not confident that he will be able to produce a better paper.
C. He would like to attend one of the professor's conferences first.
D. He would prefer to discuss Jane Eyre in a different paper.
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Lecture 2
17. What is the main purpose of the lecture?
A. To describe some problems associated with nanomaterial
B. To explain why new materials are needed for making semiconductors
C. To describe properties of a recently developed nanomaterial
D. To describe experiments that measured the strength of graphene

18. What similarity between graphene and diamond does the professor emphasize?
A. Both have a simple atomic pattern.
B. Both are extremely expensive.
C. Both are poorer heat conductors than silicon.
D. Both have natural and synthetic versions.

19. Why does the professor mention adhesive tape?

A. To give an example of a potential application for graphene
B. To explain how the first sample of graphene was obtained
C. To suggests that nanomaterials are sometimes found in unexpected places
D. To make a point about the flexibility of graphene

20. What does the professor imply about silicon?

A. It cannot be replaced by a synthetic material.
B. It can be used in combination with graphene.
C. Its conductivity is similar to graphene's.
D. Its usefulness for new electronics is limited

21. According to the professor, what problems must researchers solve before graphene
can be used commercially?
Select 2 answer
A. How to attach graphene to existing semiconductor
B. How to mass-produce large sheets of graphene
C. How to regulate graphene's electrical conductivity
D. How to prevent graphene from sticking to surfaces

Listen again to part of the lecture. then answer the question.

22. Why does the professor say this ?

A. To suggest that the scientists lacked experience
B. To explain scientists' surprise about graphene's structure
C. To emphasize the difficulty of such a project
D. To encourage students to offer their suggestions
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Lecture 3
23. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. A method is used to determine an animal's diet
B. How scientists determine where migratory birds stop to feed
C. The different forms of carbon that can be found in animals
D. How migratory birds find different types of food at stopover sites

24. How did researchers find out what a bird ate at different times during migration?
A. By taking samples of the bird's breath at different place on the migration route
B. By taking the bird wear a device that records what it eats during its journey
C. By taking samples of the bird's breath and several of its body tissues
D. By observing bird feeders along the migration route

25. According to the professor, what are two possible reasons that white-throated eat corn
on Block island?
Select 2 answers
A. The bird normally eat corn throughout the year.
B. The berries that they usually eat are not available.
C. The corn provides good nutrition for a long flight.
D. The birds can easily locate corn growing on farms.

26. According to the professor, what might be the practical application of studying the
diet of white-throated sparrows?
A. It will help Bock island farmers protect their crops.
B. New methods of determining changes in diet can be developed.
C. Feeding white- throated sparrows will prevent them from migrating in the winter.
D. Migrating white-throated sparrows will be provided with the most appropriate
diet.

27. What do biologists hope to find out by using breath collectors on bears?
A. Whether the diet bears changes when they are nursing
B. How the amount of meat in the diet of bears affects their health
C. How the bear's ability to nurse their young varies
D. Whether the diet of bears affects the carbon signature in their blood

Listen again to part of the lecture. then answer the question.

28. Why does the professor say this: ?

A. To indicate that she would enjoy doing this type of research with bears
B. To indicate that this type of research is easier to do with birds than with bears
C. To encourage students to volunteer for research projects
D. To encourage students to express their opinion