LANGUAGE CENTER

LOW ADVANCED - ADVANCED COURSE

AURAL COMPREHENSION TEST 4 (25%)

FULL NAME: TILSA ISABEL PÉREZ LOAIZA UPB ID: 000004031

PROGRAM: Professional Development DATE: 12/03/2019

I. AURAL COMPREHENSION (25%). Listen to the following audios and answer the questions. Double
click on the icon to play the audio.

A. (Audio 6.1.) (10 points)

1. What is the talk about? (4 points)

a. How the Internet has changed crowdfunding.
b. How the Statue of Liberty was crowdfunded in 1885.
c. The pros and cons of crowdfunding.

2. Answer the following questions. (6 points)

1. What is crowdfunding?
It is getting funding for a specific goal from a large number of people or the general
public

2. What evidence is given to show that crowdfunding isn’t a new concept?

The statue of Liberty’s pedestal was famous crowdfunded by more than 160000
donors

3. How do websites like KickStarter and Kiva work?

Kickstarter: People have to loggin onto the website, identify a creative project which
they feel a connection and with a few clicks send their money to help to finance this
initiative.
Kiva: people scroll through pages to contribute their money to loans that would help
specific people, to help them to build and grow their businesses, and they get
updates on how it’s spent.

B. (Audio 6.5.) (15 points)

1. What does the man want to do before making a purchase? (4 points)

a. Check an app to find out more about the product.

b. Post a comment about the product on social media.
c. Check out all the retail stores that carry the product

2. Circle the best answer.

Which of these is NOT TRUE about the app? (4 points)

a. It shows the price on the product.

b. It gives recommendations from other buyers.
c. It gives information about the manufacturer.
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LOW ADVANCED - ADVANCED COURSE
AURAL COMPREHENSION TEST 4 (25%)

Which is each product’s rating based on? (4 points)

a. The amount of people that have bought the product.

b. Recommendations from users.
c. Number of comments from users.

3. Which do you think will have a wider impact on consumers: labels on products (such as a
Fairtrade label) or apps (like the one used by the speaker? Why? (3 points)
In my opinion Fair trade helps make the right choices the easiest ones, but buying using
apps , It’s easier, There is a wider selection, You save money (discounts and offers), it takes
less time, and you can use different search engines to find out information about the
product you want to buy