1. What does the report say about floodwater?

a) It´s good for your hair

b) It contains vitamins
c) It could be harmful to your health
d) It´s being studied

2. What is the research about?

a) Diabetes in old people

b) People who live longer
c) Albert Einstein´s genius
d) Jeans for old people

3. Which statement is true about this dialogue?

a) The man wants to smoke in his room

b) His room is on the 5th floor
c) He is offered coffee
d) He booked a double room

4. What do we learn about the London Dungeon?

a) It´s an exhibition that proves the existence of ghosts

b) It used to be a prison for criminals
c) It holds an exhibition focused on people who were tortured
d) It used to be a secret shelter for villains

5. What information are we given about handwriting?

a) It´s only taught to 1 to 3 year-old kids

b) Some people think it´s on its way out
c) Keyboards are changing very fast
d) It´s been dead for the past fifteen years

6. What is true about this dialogue ?

a) Melissa was born in the US

b) Chuck used to be an actor
c) Melissa is a native English speaker
d) Melissa want to be a hairdresser
1. Floodwater
People can get sick if they eat food touched by floodwaters. Floodwater may contain
human and animal wastes, and other pollutants like agricultural and industrial
chemicals.
After a flood, throw away anything not stored in a waterproof container if there was a
chance of contact. That is the advice of food safety specialists at the United States
Agriculture Department.

2. Longevity
Scientists continue to search for genetic answers to why some people live a long time.
One study has now examined more than four hundred fifty people between the ages of
ninety five and one hundred ten.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New
York recently reported the latest findings. The study looked at changes in genes that
govern an important cell-signaling pathway.
These genes are involved in the action of a hormone that affects almost every kind of
cell in the body. The hormone is called insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-one.

3. Hotel check-in
A: Hello, good evening
B: Good evening Sir, how can I help you?
A: Erm…I have a reservation for a double room for three nights
B: Ok, I´m sorry, your name again?
A: Yes, sorry, it´s Collin Smith
B: Ok, yes I have that. If I could just take a few details, could you note down your
address on paper Sir?
A: Sure
B: And while you´re doing that; could you give your ID? I just need to know the
number
A: Of course, here´s my passport
B: Thank you, was that a smoker or non-smoking room Sir?
A: Non-smoking please
B: Ok, then, here´s your key card Sir
A: Thank you
B: Breakfast will be from 6 o´clock in the morning till 9 o ´clock.
A: Uh huh
B: And the lifts are just round on the left hand side,
A: Uh huh
B: Next to the coffee table, and your room is on the 8th floor Sir, if you need anything
give me a call.

4. The London Dungeon

P: Amy Goodheart is fascinated by villains, her interest has taken to a cold dark cellar,
full of some of the most horrible faces in history, she´s been to the London Dungeon.
Tell us what you found there Amy.
Amy: Well, the dungeon is an exhibition of British Medieval History, but actually it
concentrates on torture, punishment, disease and death.
P: So, you saw some pretty major villains there
Amy: Not specific villains, no, but people who were punished for crimes, whether they
were real or imaginary, people who were tortured because they didn´t believe in the
right things, so in lots of ways it´s not the villains who were there but the victims.

5. Handwriting
This is the BOA Special English Education Report.
Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In this age of the keyboard
some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. We asked the
literacy professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee, Steve Graham says
he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years, so is it still
being taught?
Steve Graham: if the results of a survey that we had published this year are accurate, it
is being taught by about ninety percent of the teachers in grades 1 to 3.

6. Nationalities
Man: Where you born in the US Melissa?
Melissa: No, I wasn´t, I came here in 1992.
Man: How old were you?
Melissa: I was seventeen
Man: So, did you go to college right away?
Melissa: No, because my English wasn´t very good; I studied English for two years first
Man: Wow! your English is really fluent now
Melissa: thanks, your English is pretty good too
Man: Yeah, but I was born here
Melissa: How about you Chuck? Where did you grow up?
Chuck: Well, I was born in Ohio, but I grew up in Texas
Melissa: And when did you come to Los Angeles?
Chuck: In 1978, I went to college here
Melissa: oh… what was your major?
Chuck: Drama, I was an actor for five years after college
Melissa: That´s interesting, so why did you become a hairdresser?
Chuck: Because I needed the money, and because I was good at it, look! What do you
think?

ANSWERS

1. C
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. B