PART 1

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

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PART 2

You will hear someone giving a talk. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. Write ONE WORD and / or A NUMBER for each answer.

Museum director

• Carl says that the museum was last renovated in the year 1973.
• Carl says that improvements in the (1) in museums often goes unnoticed.
• There are now a total of 421 exhibits which visitors can see in the museum.
• The exhibits are now arranged according to their (2) .
• One of Carl’s favourite pieces is a 4,500-year-old cup with a design of a (3)  on the bottom.
• Carl describes a strange farm model in the museum that features cows and a farmer.
• Some visitors to the museum are frightened by the (4) of one large statue.
• Carl also describes a vase which shows a man fighting with a (5) .
• Carl finds it surprising that one of the coins in the museum has such (6) decoration.
• One simple exhibit that Carl likes is a plain stone with a picture of a fish on it.

PART 3

You will hear five different people talking about holidays they have had. For questions 1–5, choose from the list (A–F) how each person feels about the holiday. Use the letters only once. There is ONE EXTRA letter which you do not need to use.

Options:

A) spent a long time planning the holiday

B) regrets spending a lot of money

C) was disappointed with the hotel

D) had a very long holiday

E) enjoyed a very luxurious hotel

F) went somewhere interesting

PART 4

You will hear someone giving a talk. Label the places (1–5) on the map (A–H). There are THREE extra options which you do not need to use.

1.Brown Hall    2.Blake Residence    3.Queens Building    4.Parkway Flats    5.Temple Rise

PART 5

You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1–6, choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Extract One

1. What point does the tutor make about a teacher’s attitude?

2. What is Susanna doing?

Extract Two

3. Sam is trying to

4. In Sam’s opinion, what makes the performer stand out?

Extract Three

5. Staff have been planting trees in order to

6. The company was surprised that its remote working initiative resulted in

PART 6

You will hear someone giving a talk. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. Write ONE WORD and / or A NUMBER for each answer.

Bees do a special dance to communicate where to find food. Although parrots seem to speak, they are only (1) the human sounds.

Primates can communicate a few basic (2) using simple sounds.

Monkeys have not been observed to use any kind of (3) .

Although dolphins can make vowel sounds, they cannot accurately imitate our (4) .

Amazingly, dolphins demonstrate (5) of when phrases should be used.

The songs of the bottle-nosed whale have many of the characteristics of human speech.

Indeed, a young child needs enough (6) with other people to develop speech.