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LESSON 30

LISTENING

Part 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations.

For questions 1-8, choose the best answer (A, B or C).

1. You hear a man talking about a ceramics course he attended.

What aspect of the course did he find unsatisfactory?
A. the level of support from the staff B. the quality of the materials
C. the cost for students
2. On a radio programme, you hear some information about a future guest.
What will he be talking about?
A. organising a mountain holiday B. learning mountain-climbing skills
C. buying mountaineering equipment
3. You hear part of a talk about how to look fit and healthy. What is the speaker’s advice?
A. check your weight regularly B. build up your muscles
C. avoid certain foods
4. You overhear two college students talking about applying for a weekend job.
What do they agree about?
A. It would be an enjoyable thing to do.
B. It would be useful experience for the future.
C. It would help them with their college expenses.
5. You overhear two people talking about transport.
Why has the woman decided to use a bike instead of a car?
A. She hopes the exercise will improve her health.
B. She is concerned about the environment.
C. She can no longer afford the cost.
6. On the radio, you hear a woman talking about a sport. What is she doing?
A. explaining something to us B. warning us about something
C. recommending something to us
7. You hear the weather forecast on the radio. How will the weather change tomorrow?
A. It will get colder. B. It will get sunnier. C. It will get windier.
8. You hear a radio presenter talking about a theatre. What does he say about it?
A. It is offering an impressive programme.
B. It will be closed down in the near future.
C. It has received a grant for improvements.

Part 2: You will hear a talk on the radio about the Loch Ness Monster. For questions 9-18,
complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

The mysterious monster

The head of the Loch Ness Monster has been compared to that of a (9) ____________________ .
The first published photographic image of the monster is known as the (10)
_____________________ picture.

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People argued that a picture taken in 1960 actually showed a (11) _________________________,
but experts have proved them wrong.
Tim Dinsdale realised that most monster sightings occurred on days when the weather was (12)
_____________________________.
Most eyewitnesses say they have no interest in getting (13) _________________________ when
they report their sightings.
In 1968, an underwater investigation used sonar equipment instead of (14)
________________________ to try and find the monster.
An attempt to find the monster by using a (15) ______________________ failed in 1969 because
the Loch Ness water is so dirty.
The idea of using a group of (16) _______________________ to help with the search proved to
be too complicated.
Dr Rines’ underwater picture of 1972 seemed to show the (17) __________________________ of
a large sea animal.
The aim of the latest research project is to study all the (18) ____________ and ___________
living in Loch Ness.
Part 3: You will hear five different people talking about concerts they went to. For questions 19-23,
choose from the list (A-F) what each speaker expresses about the concert. Use the letters
only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.

Speaker 1 19.
A. The performers got a better reception than they deserved.
B. These musicians are at their best in live performances. Speaker 2 20.
C. The concert improved after a disappointing beginning. Speaker 3 21.
D. I enjoyed the band’s choice of material for the concert.
E. I’d like to have seen more bands for the price I paid. Speaker 4 22.
F. I was pleased the concert was raising money for a good cause. Speaker 5 23.

Part 4: You will hear an interview with Patrick Shaw, who works as a pilot for a company that
organises hot-air balloon trips. For questions 24-30, choose the best answer (A, B or C).

24. According to Patrick, what worries people most when they take a balloon trip?
A. how far the wind will take them
B. whether they will hit some obstacle
C. what the experience of landing will be like
25. Why does Patrick recommend joining the ground crew?
A. It’s the best way of learning about balloons.
B. It provides some experience of flying a balloon.
C. It can be a fun way of earning extra income.
26. What makes the job of the ground crew particularly difficult?
A. poor communication with the pilot B. unpredictable weather conditions
C. the nervousness of the passengers
27. Patrick says that all members of the ground crew must
A. be physically strong. B. have good social skills. C. know their area well.
28. Patrick finds it unsatisfactory when new crew members
A. fail to cooperate with each other.
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 B. distract him with unnecessary questions.
C. don’t accept the way things should be done.
29. What does Patrick say about balloon competitions?
A It is often difficult to determine who has won.
B The finishing target area is often unmarked.
C Some competitors are requesting clearer rules.
30. Patrick thinks his particular skills as a pilot result from
A. the way in which he was trained. B. the fact that he’s adventurous by nature.
C. the amount of experience he has.

READING

You are going to read a magazine article in which five people talk about railway journeys. For
questions 16-30, choose from the people (A-E). The people may be chosen more than once.
When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order.
Which person or people

found on returning years later that nothing had changed? 16.

was unsure of the number of passengers on the train? 17.
enjoyed the company of fellow passengers? 18.
found the views from the train dramatic? 19. 20.
welcomed a chance to relax on the trip? 21.
was never disappointed by the journey? 22.
has a reason for feeling grateful to one special train? 23.
travelled on a railway which is no longer in regular service? 24.
regretted not going on a particular train trip? 25.
used to travel on the railway whenever possible? 26.
learnt an interesting piece of information on a train journey? 27.
took a train which travelled from one country to another? 28.
says that the railway had been looked after by unpaid helpers? 29.
was once considered not old enough to travel by train? 30.

On The Rails
Five celebrities tell Andrew Morgan their favourite memories of railway journeys.
A. Andrea Thompson - Newsreader

I fell in love with the south of France a long time ago and try to get back there as often as I can.
There's a local train from Cannes along the coast which crosses the border with Italy. It takes you
past some of the most amazing seascapes. It never matters what the weather is like, or what time
of the year it is, it is always enchanting. Out of the other window are some of the best back
gardens and residences in the whole of France. You feel like someone peeping into the property
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of the rich and famous. The travellers themselves are always lively because there is an interesting
mix of tourists and locals, all with different itineraries but all admirers of the breathtaking journey.
B. Raj Patel - Explorer

I have enjoyed so many rail journeys through the years, but if I had to pick a favourite it would be
the Nile Valley Express, which runs across the desert of northern Sudan. The one misfortune in
my youth, growing up in South Africa, was missing out on a family train journey from Cape Town
to the Kruger National Park. I was regarded as being too young and troublesome and was sent off
to an aunt. When I came to live in England as a teenager, I still hadn't travelled by train. London
Waterloo was the first real station I ever saw and its great glass dome filled me with wonder.
C. Betty Cooper - Novelist

I am indebted to one train in particular; the Blue Train, which took my husband and me on our
honeymoon across France to catch a boat to Egypt. It was on the train that my husband gave me
a pink dress, which I thought was absolutely wonderful. Someone happened to mention that pink
was good for the brain, and I've never stopped wearing the colour since. What I remember about
the journey itself, however, is how lovely it was to travel through France and then by boat up the
Nile to Luxor. It was, without a doubt, the perfect way to wind down after all the wedding
preparations.
D. Martin Brown - Journalist

We were working on a series of articles based on a round-the-world trip and had to cross a desert
in an African country. There wasn’t a road, so the only way we could continue our journey was to
take what was affectionately known as the Desert Express. The timetable was unreliable - we
were just given a day. We also heard that, in any case, the driver would often wait for days to
depart if he knew there were people still on their way. When it appeared, there was a sudden
charge of what seemed like hundreds of people climbing into and onto the carriages - people were
even allowed to travel on the roof free. During the night, the train crossed some of the most
beautiful landscapes I have ever seen, it was like a dream, like travelling across the moon.
E. Arisu Mezuki - Actress

I imagine most people’s favourite impressions of trains and railways are formed when they are
young children, but that's not my case. I was brought up in Singapore and Cyprus, where I saw
very few trains, let alone travelled on them. It wasn't until I was a teenager that trains began to
dominate my life. I made 3 film which featured a railway in Yorkshire. Most of the filming took
place on an old, disused stretch of the line which had been lovingly maintained by volunteers.
That's where my passion for steam trains began. When we weren't filming, we took every
opportunity to have a ride on the train, and, when I went back last year, it was as if time had stood
still. Everything was still in place, even the gas lights on the station platform!

GRAMMAR

A. Circle the correct word.

Local News In Brief
Thresham Valley under water?
Plans to turn much of the Thresham Valley into a large (1) puddle / reservoir to provide drinking
water for the local area have received mixed reactions. Local councillors have praised the
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scheme, arguing that the environmental and economic benefits of (2) flooding / pouring the
valley will far outweigh the disadvantages. Several small (3) rural / urban communities - two
villages, three hamlets and two farms - in the valley will disappear, however.

Lucky escape for farmer

A farmer was struck by (4) lightning / thunder on Thursday evening, while mending a fence in
one of his (5) plains / fields The farmer, Jack Dobson, received treatment for slight burns at
Meldew Hospital. Talking about the incident later, he said: It was (6) drizzling / showering slightly
when I went out, but I'd checked the weather (7) prediction / forecast and it hadn’t said there was
going to be a thunderstorm. It was lucky I was wearing my wellington boots!’
Save bags and save money
Shoppers at a local supermarket are being urged not to throw away the supermarket’s plastic
shopping bags. A spokesperson for Asdo said: ‘For every new bag we make, the factory has to
pump out industrial (8) waste / litter and that’s increasing pollution in the (9) suburban /
surrounding area. We want to reduce the number of bags we make each year. We’re offering a
financial incentive to our customers to (10) reuse / repeat their bags by bringing them with them
every time they shop with us rather than getting new ones each time.'

Local academic causes a stir

An academic from Davington University has caused controversy by claiming that (11) global /
worldwide warming is not caused by human disregard for the (12) weather / environment In her
new book entitled Are We to Blame?, Professor Angela Lucini argues that large-scale changes in
the Mediterranean (13) land / climate, for example, have taken place ever since the world was
formed. ‘People weren't responsible for the Ice Ages, or their coming to an end, and we certainly
weren’t responsible for the fact the dinosaurs became (14) extinct / endangered so it's a bit
presumptuous of us to think we’re responsible for all the problems were facing now, isn’t it?’ she
said.

Councillor calls for an end to the fireplace

Local councillor Davina Forrest is calling for a ban on the use of coal fires at home. ‘There's no
doubt that if domestic chimneys stopped pumping out (15) smoke / fog into the atmosphere, the
(16) air / wind we’d all be breathing would be much (17) cleaner / clearer,’ she said.

B. Complete using the correct form of the phrasal verbs in the box.
call for • call off • clear up • cut off • die down • do up • face up to • put out

cleared up
1. The weather should have _____________________ by this evening, shouldn't it?
2. Do you think the wind has _____________________ enough for us to go sailing without any
danger? died down
3. Environmentalists are _____________________
calling for stricter controls on the use of leaded petrol.
4. Why can’t they _____________________
face up to the fact that their products are bad for the
environment?
5. Firefighters managed to _____________________
put out the forest fire before it destroyed any
houses.
6. We’ll have to ___________________
call off the demonstration if the weather's really bad, won't we?
7. The town was totally _____________________
cut off for three days because of the floods.
8. It didn't take us long to _____________________
do up the old barn, did it?
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C. Write one word in each gap.
1. away
Don't throw those batteries _____________________. They're not biodegradable!
2. get
Rainy days always _____________________ me down.
3. for
Could you tell me what the letters 'CJD' stand _____________________ ?
4. down
They're planning to tear _____________________ the old cinema and build a new shopping
centre on the land.
in
5. I think the rain’s set _____________________ for the day, don’t you?
6. Some scientists put the extinction of the dinosaurs down _____________________
to3 changes
in the world's climate.

D. Complete each second sentence using the word given, so that it has a similar meaning
to the first sentence. Write between two and five words in each gap.
1. Josh isn't feeling very well today. (weather)
under the weather
Josh is feeling a bit ________________________________________________ today.
2. CFC's have badly affected the ozone layer. (effect)
CFC's have ________________________________________________
had a bad effect on the ozone layer.
3. Would you mind quickly looking at the engine? (look)
having a quick look at
Would you mind ________________________________________________ the engine?
4. Cleaning the beach took ages. (long)
took a long time to
It ________________________________________________ clean the beach.
5. It's Carl's job to read the barometer every morning. (responsibility)
Carl ______________________________________________
has the responsibility for the barometer every morning.
6. There's no point trying to persuade him to recycle bottles and paper. (waste)
It ________________________________
is a waste of time trying to persuade him to recycle bottles and paper.
7. We'll soon be able to see land, won't we? (sight)
in sight of
We'll soon be ______________________________________________ land, won't we?
8. I couldn't steer the boat because the waves were so high. (control)
I _____________________________________
lost control of the boat because the waves were so high.

E. Circle the correct word.

1. The days of Athens being one of the most polluted cities in the world have come / gone to an
end.
2. Their office is at / on the fifteenth floor.
3. The government’s made / done a complete mess of its environmental policy.
4. It’s so hot, I think I'm going to do / have a cold shower to cool down.
5. As usual, so-called nature lovers are making / taking a fuss about nothing.
6. i can't believe there's anyone in the complete / whole world who wants the hole in the ozone
layer to get any bigger.
7. It looks like / as a large number of species will become extinct over the next decade.
8. You used to believe there really was a pot of gold at / in the end of every rainbow, didn't you?

F. Write one word in each gap.

San Francisco

Tourists to San Francisco are rarely disappointed (1) ____________ the famous range of cultural
and artistic attractions the city has to offer. But San Francisco is more famous (2)
______________ being on the San Andreas fault, a notorious source of earthquakes. Over seven
hundred people died in San Francisco in the great earthquake of 1906, and more than 70 perished
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in another large quake in 1989. It’s hard (3) _____________ imagine why anyone would want to
live in such a dangerous area, but millions of people choose to do so. They are all familiar (4)
_____________ the faultline, and are aware (5) _______________ the potential danger if there's
another powerful quake. Yet nothing, it seems, will prevent people (6) _______________building
in San Francisco. A quick glance (7) ______________ a photo of the city shows a large number of
modern skyscrapers, many of them completely covered (8) _______________glass.
Seismologists are constantly warning residents (9) _______________the possibility of 'the next
big quake’. They expect it (10) ______________ happen sooner rather than later. But San
Franciscans are not short (11) ________________ courage Except (12) _______________
making doubly sure that their buildings are built to the highest safety standards, they carry on with
their daily lives as if nothing could ever disrupt them.

G. Each of the words in bold is in the wrong form, Rewrite them correctly.
global
1. Most scientists accept that globe warming is a reality. ____________________
2. The weather was freeze. I was wearing two pairs of gloves and my fingers were still cold!
freezing
____________________
endangered
3. What can we do to protect danger species like the giant panda? ____________________
4. Meteorologists can forecast tomorrow's weather with incredible accurate these days.
accuracy
____________________
5. Develop are planning to build a water park on the site of the old airport.
____________________
developers
environmentally
6. Al! our products are environment friendly. ____________________
7. Everyone should be extreme worried about the hole in the ozone layer.
____________________
extremely
8. We live in a resident area about twenty minutes from the town centre.
residential
____________________
9. There's not much likely of environmental groups stopping the building of the new factory, is
likelihood
there? ____________________
harmless
10. Don't worry! This snake is completely harm. ____________________
11. Let's go outside and enjoy the sunny while it lasts. ____________________
sun
12. What kind of neighbour did you grow up in? ____________________
neighborhood
lower
13. I hope they don't low the price of petrol. ____________________
14. The great of solar power lies in its simplicity. ____________________
greatness
15. A number of different pollute in the river have caused the death of all the fish.
____________________
pollutants
16. It’s nature dark for this time of day. They didn't say there was going to be an eclipse, did
they? ____________________
unnaturally

TOTAL LISTENING 30; READING 15; GRAMMAR 75

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