TEST 54

Part 1: Listen to Thomas and Elise talking about their work/ life habits and decide
the best answer to each question.
1. What made Thomas change his lifestyle?
A. he received an important email.
B. He couldn’t enjoy Rome because he was obsessed with work.
C. He went to the coast and fell in love with the sea.
2. What has Thomas learned from living by the sea?
A. That human actions and money aren’t so important.
B. That you can’t make much money there.
C. That he should have left his city job much earlier.
3. What do Elise’s friends think of her working life?
A. They think it’s making her ill.
B. They think she is too competitive.
C. They think Elise never has enough time.
4. Why does Elise carry around so much technology?
A. Because she doesn’t have an office.
B. Because she travels a lot and doesn’t want an office.
C. Because she travels a lot and the technology gives her confidence.
5. What does she believe about her future?
A. She won’t do the same job for more than three and a half years.
B. She will never have a completely relaxing lifestyle. She doesn’t want one.
C. Her lifestyle will probably get worse, especially her health, so she will slow
down.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: Listen to a lecture about how language is learnt and then decide whether the
statements are true (T0 or false (F).
1. There are very few facts known about how language is learnt.
T F
2. Subliminal language learning can only take place overnight.
T F
3. You learn your first language quickly because you were exposed daily to new
words.

T F
4. Watching TV or playing the radio in a foreign language is useless.
T F
5. The author thinks that learning a new language in six weeks is possible. T
F
Part 4: Listen to a lecture about the behavior of primates-the group of animals that
includes monkeys and humans and fill in the gaps with missing information. Write
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question.
Date: 6th November
Lecture Topic : Primate Behaviour
Review – Last lecture we talked about how physical features apply to:
 living primates
 classification
 ___1___________________
 Human evolution is not just about how people have __2________________ but also abou
how our behavior evolved.
 The most notable thing about humans is not just that they walk on two legs but that they c
__3______________

Primate Cognitive Abilities

Cognitive = the amount of __4________________ that goes into a behavior. It’s difficult to come
up with __5___________ to measure cognition.
How sentient are the ___6_______________ ?
Sentient = there is ____7___________________ conscious thought.

Behaviour that support the presence of conscious thought in primates:

 Various sorts of ___8_______________ (helping others without benefit).
 ‘Machiavellian Intelligence’ or deliberate ___9_________________.
 Chimps can be language trained – highly intelligent.
 Cognition and intelligence in primates has deep ___10__________________ ramification.