MULTI-LEVEL LISTENING TEST

Part 1

You will hear some sentences. Choose the best reply to each sentence.

A. Send me an email.
1 B. Sorry. I left my watch at home.
C. Don't worry. We've got another hour.

A. OK, but did you had it in yet?

2 B. Sure. She can come to see me then.
C. I wouldn't mind getting out of the office.

A. Yuck. I've got no idea.

3 B. That salad looks delicious.
C. No. I brought a sandwich today.

A. OK. Thursday.
4 B. I've got a lot to do.
C. Not sure yet. Why?

A. Influencers are hard to get.

5 B. Viral marketing is the future.
C. Half of the marketing budget.

A. These look nice.

6 B. I'm pretty sure Sarah's.
C. I didn't know she could draw.

A. Hand me the paper.

7 B. Sorry. Won't do it again.
C. Where is the start button?

A. Yeah, I guess I have.

8 B. No. I don't start until later this week.
C. Congratulations! You must be so proud.

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 Part 2

For each question, write the correct answer in the gap.

Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Hotel Reservation

Four-bed room available in 9_

Room price:
• in high season: € 10
• cheaper if you booked 11 _ in advance
Meal included in price: 12
Must bring your own: 13
Hotel facilities:
• a lounge with a variety of 14

Part 3

You will hear five different people talking about how they felt when they received an
award. For questions 15-18, choose from the list (A -G) how each person felt. Use the
letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.

A. relieved.
B. surprised.
15.Speaker 1
C. proud.
16.Speaker 2
D. exhausted.
17.Speaker 3
E. grateful.
18.Speaker 4
F. confused.
G. worried.

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 Part 4

Label the map below. Write the correct letter, A-H, next to Questions 19-23

19. Reception
20. Mr. Green’s Room _
21.Medical Records Office
22.Surgery Room
23.Manager’s Office

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 Part 5

You will hear three different extracts. For questions 24-29, choose the answer (A, B or C)
which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract.

Extract One
You hear two artists discussing their work.
24. What do they agree about inspiration?
A. An artist has to find their own source of it.
B. Non-artists won’t be able to understand it.
C. It can be difficult to talk about it.
25. The man’s latest project aims to discover if
A. holiday brochures are actually works of art.
B. the visual component of holiday brochures is effective.
C. the image made by holiday brochures is misleading
Extract Two
You hear two club DJs talking about their work.
26. What did the man dislike about his last job as a radio DJ?
A. He lacked the knowledge of the industry.
B. He didn’t have one of the necessary skills.
C. He would often have arguments with the management.
27. What do they agree about being a club DJ?
A. It’s not easy to have it as the only job.
B. You shouldn’t play music you don’t like personally.
C. You have to be receptive to what the audience wants.
Extract Three
You hear part of an interview with a cake shop owner.
28. What does she say about cake making?
A. It’s always been her dream to do it for a living.
B. She found it interesting as it required different skills.
C. It was a skill she picked up at her first job.
29. How does she feel about her new business?
A. confident in her own judgement.
B. relieved that she listened to an expert advice.
C. concerned that the early success might not last.

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 Part 6

Questions 30-35. Complete the notes below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Fish Farming
Local fish farmers are afraid that genetically modified fish
will 30 _ into the sea.
• like to breed fish with special features, like 31 _
• other solutions:
– to build some cages to prevent the fish from 32
– to use 33 nets to support the frames of the cages
Problems facing the local fishermen:
• lack of land on the 34
• lack of 35 _ fish.

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 Part 1

Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere
in the rest of the text.

When an official of a government or business is acting dishonestly, we say that this person
is corrupt. Corruption is a serious problem in many countries around the world. There are
several different kinds of 1 practices, including bribes, kickbacks,
nepotism, and embezzlement.

A bribe is a payment of money or some other benefit, in exchange for a decision that would
not otherwise be made. For example, an accused criminal might 2 a judge
so that the judge would make a decision of “not guilty.” Another example is that a business
owner might bribe a government official so that the official would allow the construction of
very unsafe buildings.

A kickback is similar to a bribe, except that the official receives some part of the money in a
dishonest business deal. For example, governments sometimes decide which company
should build a road. A company might offer money to the government official who makes
the 3 , so that this company will be chosen, even if it is not the best
company for the job.

Nepotism happens when an official unfairly gives advantages to his or her relatives. For
example, a government official might hire a brother or sister to do a job even though other
people would be much better qualified for the 4 _. Of course, all of us want
to help our relatives, but it is wrong to do this at the expense of the public.

Embezzlement happens when an official secretly steals some 5 from a

company or government. For example, a manager at a company might secretly move some
of the company’s money to his or her own bank account, or that manager might lie about
his or her expenses in order to receive more payment from the 6 .

Corruption has very bad effects on people, in several ways. Sometimes it can lead to very
dangerous situations. One example of this is when unsafe construction projects are approved
by officials who have been bribed. Another example is when criminals are freed as a result
of bribes.

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 Part 2

There are descriptions of ten shows & films. Decide which show or film (letters A to J)
would be the most suitable for you described below.

7. You are looking for a cartoon film to watch with your young cousin, Tom. You enjoy films
which make you laugh. It mustn't be longer than an hour because Tom gets bored
quickly.
8. You are interested in history and like watching documentaries which contain parts of
real films showing how people used to live in different parts of the world.
9. You enjoy pop music and for your birthday you want to watch a DVD with your friends.
You are looking for a new musical which has some of the latest songs in it.
10.You want to watch an action film which has won a prize. You don't mind if it's new or old
but it should have a good story and be exciting.
11.You want to find a DVD to watch with your grandfather, who loves old comedy films.
You want to see one which has some famous actors in it.
12.You would like to go to a show that's funny and is about a real person. You are looking
for one with some music in it, but with more speaking than singing.
13.You want to see a musical show which contains lots of special effects and would like to
watch it in an unusual place. You would like to see a love story.
14.You want to go to a show that's a bit frightening. You would like to see a story set in the
past and realistic costumes from the period.

A. Two Weeks and a Day is about a group of students on holiday together in South
America. The students are actually the band Sound Machine and the story is created
using the lyrics of their recent hits. They perform them perfectly but they will never be
famous for their acting.
B. The Last Chance is about a spy who gets discovered but manages to escape. It involves
helicopters, speed boats and a fantastic car chase. Not everything goes as planned and
the two hours will be over before you notice. It came first in the National Film Awards.
C. In the Clouds is a cartoon film about a car which goes on a journey without a driver.
There is plenty of action as the car gets into some very difficult situations. It is exciting to
watch at first but two hours is too long. There is some excellent music written specially
for the film.
D. By the Ocean won a prize when it came out because it showed for the first time what it
was like to live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the first half of last
century. Through interviews and film of daily life as it was then, we see people farming,
fishing, cooking and enjoying themselves.

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E. Up and Away was a very popular film over fifty years ago and it won several prizes. The
main actors were very well known then and the film is still entertaining. It appeals to all
ages and will keep you laughing all the way through.
F. Rabbit Run is another cartoon about a rabbit called Rob. The earlier ones were very
short but this one lasts about 45 minutes. Rob has all kinds of adventures and there are
many amusing moments. You will recognise some of the voices as they are read by some
famous actors.
G. Mary Wright The two well-known lead actors in this 16th-century drama are
surprisingly good dancers, and the music creates quite a scary atmosphere. The clothes
by top designer Jean Luc Filbert are historically accurate and look absolutely wonderful.
H. The Final Whistle If you're tired of serious dramas and dull love stories, why not give
this laugh-a-minute show a try? The true story of basketball player Andy Hammond is
cleverly told. Despite being advertised as a musical show, it actually has very few songs.
You'll love all the brilliant jokes and entertaining conversations.
I. No Exit With its use of film and advanced technology to make it seem like the
characters appear in two places at once, this spectacular musical starts off as an old-
fashioned ghost story but quickly turns into a highly entertaining romantic comedy. The
fact that the show is performed in an old factory building only adds to the enjoyment.
J. Keeping Time Keeping Time is based on the real-life story of the popular group
Marcellous, and includes their best work. We see how having members from three
different continents allowed them to create songs using music from each place.
Unusually, there's ballet in this show, but it goes surprisingly well with their music.

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 Part 3

Read the text and choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings
below. There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them. You
cannot use any heading more than once.

List of headings

I. Travel broadens the mind

II. A working holiday
III. Culture shock!
IV. Earn a salary
V. Forget stereotypes!
VI. How does it work?
VII. Length of stay
VIII. Benefits on both sides

15.Paragraph A
16.Paragraph B
17.Paragraph C
18.Paragraph D
19.Paragraph E
20.Paragraph F

A. For many university students, a long stay in another country can be of much more
benefit than the occasional short trip. More and more young people these days are
opting to study, work and even live abroad. Leonardo da Vinci is a vocational training
programme which funds work placements in thirty-three European countries. Its aim is
to develop young people’s skills and promote cultural exchanges. We went to visit
Stages, one of their organisations based in southern Spain. Stages is run by two young
women, Silvia Delta and Marisa Bravo.
B. They also receive students from non-European countries – Silvia is currently looking
after groups from Italy, Hungary and the USA. She has to find them accommodation,
enrol them in a language school if their Spanish isn’t very good yet, and place them in
companies where they can gain work experience. The students aren’t paid a salary; they
receive an allowance from European funds. When you’re a university student on a low
budget, this is an excellent way to live away from home and ‘try out’ your chosen career

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 to see if it really suits you.
C. “Participating in an international programme is the chance of a lifetime,” says Silvia, who
spent a year in Greece with a similar programme. “It’s a fantastic opportunity to get to
know another country and experience its culture first-hand. You learn that different
ways of life are just as valid as your own. You have the chance to improve and really use
a foreign language, which also gives you an insight into the country. Being with people of
different nationalities really opens up the way you think – you become far more aware
of cultural diversity.”
D. But how do local businesses feel about giving work placements to inexperienced foreign
students? Isn’t it a problem if their language-level isn’t good enough? In fact, most
companies have found that the advantages vastly outweigh the disadvantages. “The
students we’ve received have been enthusiastic and keen to learn,” said one. “Our staff
have enjoyed the cultural diversity of having different nationalities in the workplace, and
of course the fact that we don’t have to pay them a salary is also a plus point.” So it
seems to be a win-win situation!
E. We asked Marisa what students expected when they first came to Seville, and which
aspects of Spanish culture they’ve found most attractive. “Well, some people seem
surprised not to find us all dancing flamenco on every street-corner and going to
bullfights! That image of Spain is still common, but although both those things are
popular, Spaniards are hard-working people and bullfighting is a very controversial
subject. I’d say the ‘tapas’ bars are what students like best. You can try small helpings of
local food, at reasonable prices too.”
F. Of course, other aspects of living abroad can be more challenging. “People find it hard to
get used to the different timetables here, especially for meals. We don’t have lunch till
about 3pm, by which time most of our students are starving! And the usual time to go
out for a ‘tapa’ is 10pm, by which time some are already be getting ready for bed!”
What’s more, many shops close between 2pm and 5pm, which makes it hard to go
shopping. And the level of noise can be hard to deal with; Spain is second only to Italy in
terms of noise pollution in Europe.

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 Part 4

Read the following text for questions 21-29

How to Spot a Liar

However much we may abhor it, deception comes naturally to all living things. Birds do it by
feigning injury to lead hungry predators away from nesting young. Spider crabs do it by
disguise: adorning themselves with strips of kelp and other debris, they pretend to be
something they are not – and so escape their enemies. Nature amply rewards successful
deceivers by allowing them to survive long enough to mate and reproduce. So it may come
as no surprise to learn that human beings- who, according to psychologist Gerald Johnson
of the University of South California, or lied to about 200 times a day, roughly one untruth
every 5 minutes- often deceive for exactly the same reasons: to save their own skins or to
get something they can’t get by other means.

But knowing how to catch deceit can be just as important a survival skill as knowing how to
tell a lie and get away with it. A person able to spot falsehood quickly is unlikely to be
swindled by an unscrupulous business associate or hoodwinked by a devious spouse.
Luckily, nature provides more than enough clues to trap dissemblers in their own tangled
webs- if you know where to look. By closely observing facial expressions, body language
and tone of voice, practically anyone can recognise the tell-tale signs of lying. Researchers
are even programming computers – like those used on Lie Detector -to get at the truth by
analysing the same physical cues available to the naked eye and ear. “With the proper
training, many people can learn to reliably detect lies,” says Paul Ekman, professor of
psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, who has spent the past 15 years
studying the secret art of deception.

In order to know what kind of Lies work best, successful liars need to accurately assess
other people’s emotional states. Ackman’s research shows that this same emotional
intelligence is essential for good lie detectors, too. The emotional state to watch out for is
stress, the conflict most liars feel between the truth and what they actually say and do.

Even high-tech lie detectors don’t detect lies as such; they merely detect the physical cues
of emotions, which may or may not correspond to what the person being tested is saying.
Polygraphs, for instance, measure respiration, heart rate and skin conductivity, which tend
to increase when people are nervous – as they usually are when lying. Nervous people
typically perspire, and the salts contained in perspiration conducts electricity. That’s why a
sudden leap in skin conductivity indicates nervousness – about getting caught, perhaps -
which makes, in turn, suggest that someone is being economical with the truth. On the
other hand, it might also mean that the lights in the television Studio are too hot- which is

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one reason polygraph tests are inadmissible in court. “Good lie detectors don’t rely on a
single sign,” says Ekman, “but interpret clusters of verbal and non-verbal clues that suggest
someone might be lying.”

Those clues are written all over the face. Because the musculature of the face is directly
connected to the areas of the brain that processes emotion, the countenance can be a
window to the soul. Neurological studies even suggest that genuine emotions travel
different pathways through the brain than insincere ones. If a patient paralyzed by stroke
on one side of the face, for example, is asked to smile deliberately, only the mobile side of
the mouth is raised. But tell that same person a funny joke, and the patient breaks into a
full and spontaneous smile. Very few people -most notably, actors and politicians- are able
to consciously control all of their facial expressions. Lies can often be caught when the liar’s
true feelings briefly leak through the mask of deception. We don’t think before we feel,
Ekman says. “Expressions tend to show up on the face before we’re even conscious of
experiencing an emotion.”

One of the most difficult facial expressions to fake- or conceal, if it’s genuinely felt – is
sadness. When someone is truly sad, the forehead wrinkles with grief and the inner corners
of the eyebrows are pulled up. Fewer than 15% of the people Ekman tested were able to
produce this eyebrow movement voluntarily. By contrast, the lowering of the eyebrows
associated with an angry scowl can be replicated at will but almost everybody. “If someone
claims they are sad and the inner corners of their eyebrows don’t go up, Ekman says, the
sadness is probably false.”

Questions 21-25
Choose the correct letter A, B or C.
Write your answers in boxes 21-25 on your answer sheet.

21. All living animals can lie.

A) True B) False C) Not Given
22. Some people tell lies for self-preservation.
A) True B) False C) Not Given
23.Scientists have used computers to analyze which part of the brain is responsible for
telling lies.
A) True B) False C) Not Given
24. Lying as a survival skill is more important than detecting a lie.
A) True B) False C) Not Given
25. To be a good liar, one has to understand other people’s emotions.
A) True B) False C) Not Given

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Questions 26-29

Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.

Write your answers in boxes 26-29 on your answer sheet.

26. How does the lie detector work?

A. It detects whether one’s emotional state is stable.
B. It detects one’s brain activity level.
C. It detects body behavior during one’s verbal response.
D. It analyses one’s verbal response word by word.
27. Lie detectors can’t be used as evidence in a court of law because
A. Lights often cause lie detectors to malfunction.
B. They are based on too many verbal and non-verbal clues.
C. Polygraph tests are often inaccurate.
D. There may be many causes of certain body behavior.
28. Why does the author mention the paralyzed patients?
A. To demonstrate how a paralyzed patient smiles
B. To show the relation between true emotions and body behavior
C. To examine how they were paralyzed
D. To show the importance of happiness from recovery
29. The author uses politicians to exemplify that they can
A. Have emotions.
B. Imitate actors.
C. Detect other people’s lives.
D. Mask their true feelings.

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 Part 5
Elephant Communication

O’ Connell-Rodwell, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, has travelled to Namibia’s

first-ever wildlife reserve to explore the mystical and complicated realm of elephant
communication. She, along with her colleagues, is part of a scientific revolution that started
almost 20 years ago. This revolution has made a stunning revelation: elephants are capable
of communicating with each other over long distances with low-frequency sounds, also
known as infrasounds, which are too deep for humans to hear.

Other aspects of elephant anatomy also support that ability. First, their massive bodies,
which enable them to give out low-frequency sounds almost as powerful as the sound a jet
makes during takeoff, serve as ideal frames for receiving ground vibrations and transmitting
them to the inner ear. Second, the elephant’s toe bones are set on a fatty pad, which might
be of help when focusing vibrations from the ground into the bone. Finally, the elephant
has an enormous brain that sits in the cranial cavity behind the eyes in line with the
auditory canal. The front of the skull is riddled with sinus cavities, which might function as
resonating chambers for ground vibrations.

It remains unclear how the elephants detect such vibrations, but O’ Connell-Rodwell raises
a point that the pachyderms are ‘listening’ with their trunks and feet instead of their ears.
The elephant trunk may just be the most versatile appendage in nature. Its utilization
encompasses drinking, bathing, smelling, feeding and scratching. Both trunk and feet
contain two types of nerve endings that are sensitive to pressure – one detects infrasonic
vibration, and another responds to vibrations higher in frequencies. As O’ Connell-Rodwell
sees, this research has a boundless and unpredictable future. ‘Our work is really interfaced
of geophysics, neurophysiology and ecology,’ she says. ‘We’re raising questions that have
never even been considered before.’

It has been well-known to scientists that seismic communication is widely observed among
small animals, such as spiders, scorpions, insects and quite a lot of vertebrate species like
white-lipped frogs, blind mole rats, kangaroo rats and golden moles. Nevertheless,
O’Connell-Rodwell first argued that a giant land animal is also sending and receiving seismic
signals. ‘I used to lay a male planthopper on a stem and replay the calling sound of a
female, and then the male one would exhibit the same kind of behaviour that happens in
elephants—he would freeze, then press down on his legs, move forward a little, then stay
still again. I find it so fascinating, and it got me thinking that perhaps auditory
communication is not the only thing that is going on.’

Scientists have confirmed that an elephant’s capacity to communicate over long distance is

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essential for survival, especially in places like Etosha, where more than 2,400 savanna
elephants range over a land bigger than New Jersey. It is already difficult for an elephant to
find a mate in such a vast wild land, and the elephant reproductive biology only complicates
it. Breeding herds also adopt low-frequency sounds to send alerts regarding predators.
Even though grown-up elephants have no enemies else than human beings, baby elephants
are vulnerable and are susceptible to lions and hyenas attack. At the sight of a predator,
older ones in the herd will clump together to form protection before running away.

We now know that elephants can respond to warning calls in the air, but can they detect
signals transmitted solely through the ground? To look into that matter, the research team
designed an experiment in 2002, which used electronic devices that enabled them to give
out signals through the ground at Mushara. ‘The outcomes of our 2002 study revealed that
elephants could indeed sense warning signals through the ground,’ O’Connell-Rodwell
observes.

Questions 30-35

Complete the summary below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 30-35 on your answer sheet.

How the elephants sense these sound vibrations is still unknown, but O’Connell-Rodwell, a
postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, proposes that elephants are ‘listening’ with
their 30 by two kinds of nerve endings that respond to vibrations with
both 31 frequency and slightly higher frequencies. O’Connell-Rodwell’s
work is at the combination of geophysics, neurophysiology and 32 It was
known that seismic communication existed extensively within small animals, but O’Connell-
Rodwell was the first person to indicate that a large land animal would send and
receive 33 too. Also, he noticed the freezing behaviour by putting a male
planthopper on a stem and play back a female call, which might prove the existence of
other communicative approaches besides 34 Scientists have determined
that an elephant’s ability to communicate over long distances is essential, especially, when
elephant herds are finding a 35 , or are warning of predators.

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