Ielts General Training Volume 6 Listening Practice Test 2 v9 61248

IELTS General Training
Volume 6
Listening Practice Test 2
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Questions 1-5
Complete the Travel agent’s notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer.
SUN TOURS TRAVEL AGENTS
Example Answer
Number of people 4
Customer’s
Mr. George Collins
Name
Other Mrs. Jane Collins

travellers (+ 1 7 years old
ages of
children) Jennifer 2 years old
4 star quality hotel + breakfast; safe, warm, quietish, beach;

Require pref. pool; lots of restaurants near hotel no creche
3 needed
Dates of Holiday
Friday July 8th to 4 , Sunday
Pref. Flight Time Less than 5
Questions 6-10
Complete George’s notes below
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

Possible Holiday Ideas
Top End Prices Italy and France
Bottom End Prices 6 , Greece and Turkey (Turkey

+ Cyprus too far)
Crete Hotel Tropicana
1 mile safe walk on 7 to beach.

Nice pool; only a few beach bars and restaurants.
Really quiet; not near other tourist destinations.
Palm Hotel
2 miles from beach but has 8 service.

Hotel in quite a busy tourist town: lots of bars, restaurants and discos.
Rhodes Ocean Hotel
Right on beach; less than 9 from the rooms.

4 star hotel quite far from main town; eat in hotel; good meals.
Hotel Spiros
10 hotel quite dose to beach (5/10 mins walk) in small village with small
swimming pool.
A few restaurants in small, quiet village; not much to do.
Questions 11-15
Complete the food options information sheet below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village – Food Options
Meal Times
Breakfast: 6.30am and 9.30am every day (Only in Harvest restaurant; English,
American an 11 breakfasts on offer

Lunch: 12.00 noon to 2.30pm
Dinner:7.00pm to 10.30pm
Menus same for lunch + dinner: see 12 for specials
Food Styles
The Harvest Restaurant: Traditional English + popular UK foreign dishes (eg: curry
and spaghetti)
The Dene Restaurant : 13

The Mekong Restaurant : Far Eastern Cuisine

Payment
All restaurants free; 14 needed for some specials

All soft drinks free; pay for alcoholic drinks
Pay any bill at end of meals or put on main bill – pay at end of holiday
Extras
Bar menu available in 15 for pub food

Fast Food available until 2.30am at take away
Questions 16-20
Complete the activities information sheet below.

Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village – Activities
Beaches: main beach
adult beach (17s or over)
16 on duty from 9.00am to 6.00pm on main beach (none on adult

beach)
* Decked area with sun loungers in front of Harvest Restaurant with our 25 metre
swimming pool
* Steps from pool area to beach – wash feet in foot pool to remove sand
* 17 on beach + in pool area.
Sports
8 tennis courts + 3 squash courts
Fully equipped gym (No under 18s)
6 full sized snooker tables + 5 pool tables in games room adjoining the bar.
(only charge for hiring any equipment)
Water Sports
water skiing + jet skis available (extra charge)
snorkelling, infiatables and pedallos (free)
(details from 18 )
Library & Cinemas
Library contains books, magazines + newspapers. See 19 for terms +

conditions
2 cinemas show 3 different films each every day.
Shows at 2.00pm, 5.30pm + 8.30pm (First 2 shows always have a film for kids)
Children under 16 years are not allowed to attend 8.30 20
Questions 21-26
Complete the three tables below.
World’s Most Spoken Languages By Number of Individual Speakers

Rank No. of Speakers Language
1 836 million Mandarin Chinese
2 333 million 21
3 332 million Spanish
4 22 English
World’s Most Spoken Languages

By Number of User Countries
Rank No. of Countries Language
1 115 English
2 35 French
3 24 23
4 24 Spanish
World’s Most Influential Languages – 6 weighing factors
1 Number of primary speakers
2 Number of 25
3 Number and population of countries where languages are used
4 Number of major fields using the language internationally
5 26 of countries using the language
6 Socio-literary prestige of the language
Questions 27-30
Complete the notes below of the second half of Jamie and Rebecca’s
presentation.
Jamie and Rebecca’s Presentation

Large countries currently shifting wortd economic balance of power:
China
Russia
India
27
Reasons for shift size of the populations

cheap labour
prices of 28
Big growing demand for people knowing languages of above countries + for
teachers and English language training
China could be less important than possibly India or 29 due to their

population increase. English will probably remain important though
Number of spoken languages between approx. 2500 and 7000. Hardly any of
these studied by 30
English taught in most countries with structured education program. This trend is
getting stronger.
Questions 31-35
Complete the sentences below.
Mad cow disease attacks the 31 of the affected cows’ brains.
BSE is thought to be caused by infectious forms of 32 known as

prions.
Abnormal prions in BSE infected cattle are found in the small intestines,
33 and the central nervous tissues.
Humans can take in the abnormal prions when they eat infected beef as
the prions are resistant to the usual 34 such as heat.
The one American case of CJD was a woman who caught it in 35

before going to the US.
Questions 36-40

Complete the summary below of the second half of the humanities lecture
on BSE.
SUMMARY
CJD causes gradual loss of mental function and movement due to brain damage
from abnormal prions or it can be possibly 36 CJD usually affects

younger people (between ages 20 to 70) usually showing symptoms in patients’
37 Symptoms include personality changes and problems with
38 Once symptoms appear, the disorderprogresses quickly to disability
and death.
The exact causes of 8SE are unknown but the first UK cases have indicated that it
could come from a prion disease in 39 called scrapie that was fed to
cattle. Dead cattle with scrapie were then fed to 40 making them
cannibals. So, we are in turn infected by the disease that we created when we eat
infected beef.

Solution:
1 Mike 2 four/4
3 facilities 4 24th
5 4 hours 6 Spain
7 (a) path (through fields) 8 minibus
9 5 minutes 10 family run
11 continental (style) 12 blackboards
13 Fish and seafood/fish, seafood 14 extra supplement
15 main bar 16 (two) lifeguards
17 freshwater showers 18 water sports office
19 noticeboard 20 presentations

21 Hindi 22 322 million
23 Arabic 24 20
25 secondary speakers 26 economic power
27 Brazil 28 raw material
29 Bangladesh 30 non-native speakers
31 nervous functions 32 protein
33 tonsils 34 (food) disinfection treatments
35 the UK 36 genetically inherited
37 late 50s 38 coordination
39 sheep 40 young cattle

Review and Explanations
1 Answer: Mike
Note:
the words which lead you to the answer are underlined.
the word/number you must write for the answer is marked.
words which you might wrongly think could be the answer are in italics.
The keyword concerned in Q1 are “children” and the answer is expected to be a name
The Travel Agent’s question “What about your wife and children?’ can be seen as a
suggestion for the answer’s appearance.
The answer for Q1 is quite easy to hear, but the candidate should be used to some
English names, because some common names in English may not be spelled
They have already written the girl’s name Jennifer, so the answer for Q1 isMike.
2 Answer: four/4
The keyword concerned in Q2 should be “year old” and the answer is a number
The answer for Q2 is right after Q1 so the candidate needs to be careful not to miss it
The question “How old are the children?” can be seen as a suggestion for the answer’s
appearance. They have already written “7 years old” for Mike, so we need to answer to
the age of Jennifer. She is said to be 4 years old. Thus, the answer is 4.
3 Answer: facilities
The keyword concerned in Q3 is “crèche”.
The customer’ requirements a safe, little place. A warm climate, a quietish, safe beach,
a pool preferably and lots of small restaurants and bars near the hotel’ suggests that
the answer will soon appear.
The candidates may miss this question as they don’t know the pronunciation of the
word crèche
The answer is facilities.
4 Answer: 24th
The keyword concerned in Q4 should be “holiday” and the answer is a date.
The question “And what time in the summer are you thinking of taking the holiday?”
suggests that the answer will soon appear.
the customer mentioned he needed to be back at work on the 25th, but he needed to
finish the holiday before that so it’s not the answer
so the answer is 24th (do not write “July 24th” because it is not necessary and the
speaker did not mention July a second time in his answer).

5 Answer: 4 hours
The keyword concerned in Q5 should be “flight time”, so you need to listen when the
agent talk about means of transport or the time
The question “And how long would you want to spend on travel”suggests that the
answer will soon appear.
The answer for this question is 4 hours, and it is mentioned twice.
6 Answer: Spain
The keyword concerned in Q6 is “bottom end price” and the answer is a country
The question “What are the different costs involved?” suggests that the answer will
soon appear.
Greece and Turkey have been given, therefore, ‘Spain” is the correct answer.
7 Answer: (a) path (through fields)

The keywords concerned in Q7 is “Hotel Tropicana” and in Q8 is “Palm Hotel”.
The question “Can you tell me a bit about them?” suggests that the answer will soon
appear.
At Hotel Tropicana, she mentioned that there was a safe walk along a path through
some fields to the beach, therefore, the answer for Q7 is path (through fields).
8 Answer: minibus
The keywords concerned in Q8 is “Palm Hotel”.
At the Palm Hotel, we can notice the use of the word b‘ ut’ before the correct answer it
has a minibus service, so for Q8, the answer is minibus.
9 Answer: 5 minutes
The keywords concerned in Q9 is “Ocean Hotel”.
As the equivalent keyword “right on the beach” is heard, we can be sure that the
answer must soon appear after, and we have ‘less than‘ so the answer is five minutes.
10 Answer: family run

The keyword concerned in Q10 is “Hotel Spiros”
As the answer appeared immediately after the keyword, students may miss it if not
paying enough attention
The answer for this question is family run.
11 Answer: continental (style)

The keyword concerned in Q11 must be “breakfast”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a style of food
As the speaker said there are English, American, we can see the answer for Q11 must
be “continental (style)”
12 Answer: blackboards
The keyword concerned in Q12 must be “menu for lunch and dinner”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be something that can be
seen
As the speaker mentioned the menu for lunch and dinner, we can hear the word look at,
which is the synonym of see, so the answer for Q12 must be blackboards.
13 Answer: Fish and seafood/fish, seafood

The keyword concerned in Q13 must be “the Dene”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a kind of food
The speaker said the answer pretty clearly, and it is fish and seafood.
As the speech goes on, candidates may get confused with the dishes of Mekong
Restaurant like Vietnam, Chinese, Thai, Malay and others
14 Answer: extra supplement

The keyword concerned in Q14 must be “restaurant”
Speaker said that customers don’t have to pay, which means free, unless they need
extra supplement for the specials. Therefore, the answer for Q11 must be extra
supplement.
15 Answer: main bar

The keywords concerned in Q15 must be “bar menu” and “pub food”.
It is said that there was a bar menu in the main bar. Therefore, the answer is “main
bar”.
16 Answer: (two) lifeguards

The keywords concerned in Q16 must be “the main beach” and “the adult beach”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a person who can be found
at the main beach but not at the adult beach
As being said, there were two lifeguards on duty from 9.00am to 6.00pm at the main
beach and no lifeguards at the adult one. Therefore, the answer is “(two) lifeguards”.
(do not write "2 lifeguards" because no number is allowed in this answer)
17 Answer: freshwater showers

The keywords concerned in Q17 must be “beach” and “pool area”.
The sentence: There are steps from the pool area to the beach can be seen as a
suggestion for the answer’s appearance.
In the next sentence, it is said thatfreshwater showers were available at 2 places
mentioned before, therefore, the answer for Q17 is “freshwater showers”.
(“freshwater” in this context is an adjective so it needs to be written as 1 word)
18 Answer: water sports office

The keywords concerned in Q18 must be “water sports” and “details”
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a place where you can find
more details about water sports
The answer for this question is quite easy to spot, as it was mentioned twice in the
speech. Therefore, the answer is “water sports office”.
19 Answer: noticeboard
The keywords concerned in Q19 must be “library” and “terms and conditions”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be something that can be
seen with the terms and conditions of the library
And obviously, the answer for Q19 is “notice board”.
20 Answer: presentations
The keywords concerned in Q20 must be “children under 16” and 8:30
And again, the answer is said clearly without any traps, it’s presentations.
21 Answer: Hindi
The keywords concerned in Q21 must be “second” and “333 million”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a language .
The lecturer stated that English was second but it was a few years ago, and we can see
English is the 4th in the table
The answer is suggested with the strong signal word “but”, therefore, the answer for
Q21 must be “Hindi”.
22 Answer: 322 million

The keyword concerned in Q22 must be “English”
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a number
We can hear 3 numbers were mentioned, 333, 332, and 322 million
As we can see from the table 333 is for Hindi and 332 is for Spanish, the answer for Q22
is 322 million

23 Answer: Arabic
The keyword concerned in Q23 and Q24 must be “the number of countries
From the question, we can assume that the answer for Q23 must be a language.
The speaker mentioned English is a massive 115, after that we French, Arabic and
Spanish. French and Spanish have already been written in the question.Therefore, the
answer for Q23 must be “Arabic”.
24 Answer: 20
From the question, we can assume that the answer for Q24 must be a number.
3 numbers 35 24 and 20 could be heard after the 3 countries, and with the word
“respectively, we can know that 35 is for French, 24 is for Arabic and 20 for Spanish.
Therefore, the answer for Q24 must be “20”.
The answer for Q24 is right after Q23 so candidates must be careful not to miss it
25 Answer: secondary speakers

The keywords concerned in Q25 and Q26 must be “most influential languages”, and
“six weighing factors”
From the question, we can assume that the answer for both questions must be a noun.
After hearing the speaker said primary speakers, we can hear she mentioned the
number of secondary speakers Therefore, the answer for Q25 is “secondary speakers”.
26 Answer: economic power

As the speech goes on, we can hear the phrasethe economic power of countries right
after the speaker mention the number of major fields using the language
internationally. Therefore, the answer for Q26 is “economic power”.
27 Answer: Brazil
The keywords concerned in Q27 must be “countries” and “economic power”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a country.
The speaker stated that the countries which shiftworld economic power a r e China,
Russia, India and Brazil.Therefore, the answer for Q27 must be “Brazil”.
28 Answer: raw material

The keyword concerned in Q28 must be “reason”,
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be noun.
The first 2 reasons sizes of the populations and cheap labour can be seen as a
suggestion for the answer’s appearance
After the first 2 reasons, we can hear the phraseraw material prices. Therefore, the
answer for Q28 is “raw material”.
29 Answer: Bangladesh

The keywords concerned in Q29 must be “China”, “India” and “population”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a country
The question So, will China be the major powerhouse as everyone says? can be seen as
a suggestion for the answer’s appearance
It is said in the speech that India’s population will soon surpass China’s, it means the
population of China will soon be less than that of India, and Bangladesh’s population
could too. Therefore, the answer for Q29 must be “Bangladesh”.
Candidates may find this question a problem as they don’t know the answer’s spelling
30 Answer: non-native speakers

The keywords concerned in Q30 must be “The number of spoken languages” and
“hardly”
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a noun.
The speaker said that the numbers of those actually studied by non-native speakers is
tiny. It can be understood that hardly those languages studied by non-native speakers.
Therefore, the answer for Q30 is “non-native speakers”.
31 Answer: nervous functions

The keywords concerned in Q31 must be “mad cow disease”, “attack” and “cows’
brain”.
The lecturer mention the mad cow disease and stated It attacks the nervous functions
of the brain. Hence, The answer for Q31 is “nervous functions”
32 Answer: protein
The keywords concerned in Q32 must be “BSE”, “an infectious form” and “prion”.
The lecturer states that prion is a type of protein. Thus, the answer for Q32 must be
“protein”
33 Answer: tonsils
The keywords concerned in Q33 must be “abnormal prions”, “”,small intestines and
“central nervous tissues”.
The lecturer mentioned these abnormal prions initially occur in the small intestines,
tonsils, and central nervous tissues. Therefore, the answer for Q33 must be “tonsils”.
Candidates may have trouble in this question as they don’t know the wordtonsils
34 Answer: (food) disinfection treatments

The keywords concerned in Q34 must be “humans” and “resistant”
From the lecture, it is said that The abnormal prions in infected cattle products are
consumed by humans as they are resistant to common food disinfection treatments.
Therefore, the answer for Q34 is “disinfection treatments”
35 Answer: the UK
The keywords concerned in Q35 must be “American”, and “woman”.
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be a place.
The lecturer states that The one US case was in a young woman who contracted the
disease while residing in the UK. The American and US are interchangeable. Therefore,
the answer must be the UK.
36 Answer: genetically inherited

The keywords concerned in Q36 must be loss of mental function and “damage done to
the brain by prions”
From the question, we can assume that the answer must be an adj.
The lecturer stated that the in rare cases it can be genetically inherited. Therefore, the
answer for Q36 must be “genetically inherited”.
37 Answer: late 50s

The keyword concerned in Q37 and Q38 must be “symptoms”.
From this question, we can assume that the answer for Q37 must be a time, while the
answer for Q38 must be a noun.
The clues for Q37 and Q38 are nothing apart from the words “symptoms”.
It is said that CJD tends to affect younger people, beginning between the ages of 20
and 70, with average age at onset of symptoms in the late 50s. Therefore, the answer
for Q37 must be “late 50s”.
38 Answer: coordination
The keyword concerned in Q37 and Q38 must be “symptoms”.
As “problems” and “difficulties” are interchangeable in this context, we can be
confident that coordination is the answer for Q38.
39 Answer: sheep
The keyword concerned in Q39 must be scrapie”.
From this question, we can assume that the answer for Q39 must be a noun.
From the lecture, we can see that Scrapie is a sheep prion disease similar to BSE in
cattle. In other words, Scrapie can be found in sheep. Therefore, the answer for Q39
must be “sheep”.

40 Answer: young cattle
The keywords concerned in Q40 must be “dead cattle”, cannibals and “fed”.
From this question, we can assume that the answer for Q40 must be a noun.
From the lecture, we can hear that young cattle with feed derived from older cattle
making them cannibals. In other words, young cattle were fed with dead cattle.
Therefore, the answer for Q40 must be “young cattle”.

Audio Script:
Section 1
You will hear a conversation between a travel agent and a customer discussing
a holiday.
Travel Agent (TA): Good morning sir. Can I help you?
Customer: Yes. I’m thinking of going away on holiday but I’m not sure where to
go.
TA: Well sir. We have a range of destinations that we offer. Are you going alone
sir or with a friend?
Cust: With my family actually.
TA: So, how many people is that sir?
Cust: My wife and I and my young son and daughter . So, Example four.
TA: Fine. Now with a young family can I assume that you’d like to go
somewhere warm?
Cust: Oh yes. A beach holiday. That’s what we are looking for.
TA: Right, I’ll just take some personal details sir. First of all, what’s your name?
Cust: George collins .
TA: Collins? Is that C-O-L-L-I-N-S?
Cust: Yes, that’s right.
TA: Thank you. And what about your wife and children?
Cust: My wife’s name is Jane, my boy’s name is Q1 Mike and my little girl is
Jennifer .
TA: How old are the children?

Cust: Mike’s 7 and Q2 Jennifer’s 4.
TA: Ah, they’re quite small then.
Cust: Oh yes, We just need a safe, little place. A warm climate, a quiet ish ,
safe beach, a pool preferably and lots of small restaurants and bars near the
hotel.
TA: Would you want any creche Q3 facilities in the hotel so you and your wife
can get away when you want?
Cust: No. I work quite hard and I don’t see the kids as often as I want at home
so I’m looking forward to spending all my time with them.
TA: And what eating arrangements do you want?
Cust: Just half board please. We’ll have breakfast at the hotel but we’ll eat
lunch and dinner at a beach café. We’d want about four star quality for the
hotel by the way.
TA: Right. And what time in the summer are you thinking of taking the holiday?
Cust: I finish work on Friday night on July the 8th and I’m off for two weeks. So,
I’ll need to be back at work on the 25th . Q4 I’ll need to finish the holiday then
on the 24th.
TA: And how long would you want to spend travelling?
Cust: Oh, as little as possible of course with the little ones. Not more than a
couple of hours in the car to get to an airport and then not more that 4 hours
on a plane.
TA: That’s fine. You can get to all of the nice resorts on
the mediterranean easily in Q5 less than 4 hours. Right then. Let’s show you
some brochures before the conversation continues you have some time to look
at questions 6:00 to 10:00 now listen carefully and answer questions six to
ten .
TA: As I said sir, most Mediterranean destinations are easily within your

preferred flight time.
You can choose really between Spain, France, Italy, the old
Yugoslavia, greece or Turkey as well as the Mediterranean island's .
Cust: Wow, what a great choice. What are the different costs involved?
TA: With you wanting a 4 star hotel and pool some countries will
be definitely cheaper than others. Price wise, Italy and France will be at the top
end, Q6 Spain, Greece and Turkey will be at the lower end.
Cust: Greece and Turkey sound great actually. I’ve always wanted to go there
and I’ve seen some beautiful photos.
TA: I think that Greece would suit you better as the flight to Turkey is actually
quite long. You’re getting towards five hours there.
Cust: OK, well Greece is fine.
TA: Of course with Greece you have the choice between the islands and
the mainland . It’s the islands that are famous of course but you’ll have to get
there by boat or take a short connecting flight . Some of the bigger islands are
served directly though from UK airports.
Cust: Well, one of the larger islands sounds best then. What about Cyprus? I’ve
heard that a lot of British people go there.
TA: Yes, it’s very popular. The trouble for you with Cyprus though is that it’s
down in the eastern Mediterranean near Turkey and the flight is quite long to
get there. I was thinking more of Rhodes and Crete.
Cust: Let’s have a look at those 2 then.
TA: Here are some brochures. This is the Hotel tropicana and this is the Palm
Hotel. Both of them are in Crete. In Rhodes we have the Ocean Hotel and
Hotel spirits .
Cust: Can you tell me a bit about them?
TA: Of course. The Hotel Tropicana is about 1 mile from the beach and it’s a

safe walk along a Q7 path through some fields to get there. They have a nice
pool which you can see in the photo. There are only a few beach bars
and restaurants though. It’s really quiet, away from all the bustle of other
tourist destinations . The Palm Hotel is further from the beach, about two
miles , but it has a Q8 minibus service that goes to and from the beach all
day. The hotel itself is in quite a busy tourist town that has lots of
bars, restaurants and discos. It’s great for going out.
Cust: I don’t know if either of those suits us. We don’t want noisy and we don’t
want a long way to the beach.
TA: Let’s have a look at the Rhodes hotels then. The Ocean Hotel is right on the
beach. It’s less than Q9 five minutes usually to get to the beach area from the
rooms. The hotel is quite a long way from the main town and people usually
take all their meals in the hotel. The hotel is 4 star though and we know the
food is quite good as we’ve been told so by previous holidaymakers .
Hotel Spiros is a Q10 family run hotel also quite close to the beach –
about five or ten minutes walk. It’s in a small village and has a small swimming
pool as well. There are a few restaurants scattered around the village but
again, it’s not a big tourist village so there’s not much to do.
Cust: To be honest, both of those sound fine. We don’t want a night life as we
won’t be able to leave the kids. Something close to the beach, somewhere to
eat and sit in the evening is all we need. I’ve made some notes. Let me take
the brochure with the details of these two hotels and I’ll take them back and
show my wife and see what she thinks. They both seem just what we want
though.
TA: OK sir. Come in again when you’ve decided or if you want to see some
other places.
Cust: I will. Thanks very much then. Goodbye.
TA: Goodbye.
Section 2
You will hear a man giving an orientation talk to new holidaymakers at the
Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village.

Good morning everyone and welcome to your first morning here at
the solaris Hotel and Holiday Village. This little orientation talk this morning will
just give you an idea of what to find and expect around the grounds.
Let’s begin by looking at meals. We have three different restaurants and you
are at liberty to eat at any of them. They are the Harvest Restaurant, the Dene
Restaurant and the Mekong Restaurant. Let’s begin with breakfast . Breakfast
is only served in the Harvest Restaurant. The other two restaurants are only
open for lunch and dinner . Breakfast is served between 6:30 a.m. and 9.30am
7 days a week. There are English, American and Q11 continental style
breakfasts on offer.
For lunch and dinner all the restaurants have the same opening hours to make
things easier for you. Lunch is served from 12:00 noon to 2.30pm and dinner
is served from 7.00pm to 10.30pm. The menus are the same for lunch and
dinner though look at the Q12 blackboards displayed in the restaurants for
any specials that they are serving for any particular meal. The style of food is
different in each of the restaurants. The Harvest serves traditional English food
though with plenty of the foreign dishes which are popular in the UK such as
curry and spaghetti . The Dene specialises in Q13 fish and seafood and the
Mekong offers you a selection of dishes from the Far East; not just from
Vietnam as the name suggestsbut Chinese, Thai, Malay and others.
You don’t have to pay in any of the restaurants unless an

Q14 extra supplement is needed for some of the specials . All soft drinks are
also free though we charge for alcoholic drinks. You can choose to pay any bill
that you may incur at the end of the meal itself or you can put it on your main
bill which you can pay when you leave at the end of your holiday.
There is also a bar menu in the Q15 main bar which serves pretty good pub
food and if you have any late night munchies , there is a take away open until
2.30am which sells fast food. Good for those of you who are returning in the
early hours from a disco or club!
Now let’s look at some of things that you can do here during your stay with us.
Of course we have our main beach which is popular with everyone. There is
also an adult beach which is prohibited to anyone less than 17 years of age.
This allows those of you without children to get some peace and quiet on the
beach. The main beach has two Q16 lifeguards on duty from 9.00am to

6.00pm. The adult beach has no lifeguards . If you don’t like sand and salt we
have a decked area in front of the Harvest Restaurant with our 25
meter swimming pool. You can lie here on a sun lounger and swim in the pool
with no sand to bother you. There are steps from the pool area to the beach so
you can go between the two but, if you’re coming up from the beach, please
walk though the foot pool so that the sand gets washed off and doesn’t lie
around the pool area. There are also Q17 freshwater showers available on the
beach and in the pool area.
As for sports we have 8 tennis courts and 3 squash courts which can be booked
at any time.
There is a fully equipped gym with staff on duty to help you. No-one under 18
years of age may use the gym though. We also have 6 full sized snooker tables
and 5 pool tables in the games room adjoining the bar. There is no charge for
use of any of these facilities though there is a small charge if you need to hire
any sports gear. Again you can pay immediately or put the charges on your
main bill. There are also water skiing and jet skis available but there are
charges for these.
Q18 Go to the water sports office for details. All the water sports such
as snorkeling inflatables , cinemas and pedallos are free. Ask for all details
again at the water sports office.
There is a library in the hotel which supplies books, magazines and

newspapers. It has certain terms and conditions of use which you will be able to
find on the Q19 notice board in the library.
We also have 2 kids which show 3 different films every day. The showings are
in the afternoons at 2.00pm, the early evening at 5.30pm and at night at
8.30pm. The afternoon and early evening showings always have a film
for permitted . Children under the age of 16 are not allowed to attend the 8.30
Q20 presentations.
Well, that’s all for now. Are there any questions?
Section 3
You will hear 2 students giving a presentation to a seminar group at their
university.

Dr. Reece: Good morning all. Glad to see you’re all on time today. This morning
we’re going to hear Jamie and Rebecca give their presentation on some aspect
of demographics . They’ve talked to me about it a bit before
while researching it but I don’t want to give the game away so I’ll hand straight
over to them
Jamie: Hi everyone. As Dr. Reece said Rebecca and I are going to give our
demographics presentation . Both Rebecca and I also study languages so we
decided to look at the world’s different languages and the ones that are the
most important , both now and in the future. Rebecca’s going to start off.
Rebecca: OK everyone. Who knows what the world’s most spoken language is?
Phil: I thought it was English. Isn’t it?
Rebecca: Well, it’s an ambiguous question. If you just look at how many
individual speakers there are around the world then the answer is Mandarin
Chinese with 836 million speakers.
English was second until a few years ago but it has since been overtaken by
Q21 Hindi with 333 million speakers and Spanish with 332 millionspeakers.
Now English is after Spanish with Q22 322 million speakers.
Phil: Oh yes, South America. I didn’t think of that.
Jamie: Yes, it’s easy to forget. You can look at Rebecca’s question though in a
different way if you look at the number of countries that use English. English is
a massive 115, ahead of French, Q23 Arabic and Spanish with 35 24 and
Q24 20 countries respectively .
Rebecca: English has different statuses around the world. Core countries are
where English has a full official status like England, the US and Australia. In
outer core countries English has some official status as in India and then there
are fringe countries such as Japan and the UAE where it’s used a lot in business
and tourism .
Jamie: A more important list is the world’s most influential languages. This was
compiled by weighing six factors which were the number of primary speakers,
the number of Q25 secondary speakers, the number and population of
the countries where the languages are used, the number of major fields using

the language internationally , the Q26 economic power of countries using the
languages and socio literary prestige.
Rebecca: And the list shows the following in order of most influential: English,
French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, portuguese and
Hindi.
Dr. Reece: How up to date are these figures?
Jamie: Fairly. They came out just last year. But the picture is changing very
rapidly in terms of influential languages. There are certain large countries
which are about to emerge on the world stage and their economies are starting
to influence the world balance of power.
Rebecca: The largest countries that for various reasons are beginning to shift
world economic power are China, Russia, India and Q27 Brazil. The sizes of the
populations along with the cheap labour and Q28 raw material prices which
are available in these countries are causing this shift. As a result, every year
the demand for people knowing the languages of these countries is
growing enormous lee .
Jamie: In addition the demand for teachers and English language training is
also enormous lee increasing. Western teachers are going to the countries and
their nationals are coming over here. As well as business, the education sector
is getting a huge boost from the opening up of these economies .
Dr. Reece: So, will China be the major powerhouse as everyone says?
Rebecca: Definitely but maybe not the biggest. Many eaxperts predict that
India’s population will soon surpass China’s. Q29 Bangladesh’s population
could too. It all points to world economic power being held in Asia though.
Jamie: English will probably remain important though. Chinese is difficult to

learn and English also has some official status in India. English is easy to learn
and has the advantage , for better or worse, of being the language that
everyone wants to learn. That won’t change in a hurry .
Dr. Reece: How many people learn English then?
Rebecca: The number of spoken languages nowadays is estimated between

2500 and 7000. Out of all these languages, the numbers of those actually
studied by Q30 non-native speakers is tiny. There are no official records of
numbers studying English worldwide but today you can safely say that there
are not many countries with a structured program of education where English
is not taught. It will take a long time for this habit to be broken. At the moment
it’s getting stronger .
Section 4
You will hear part of a humanities lecture on Mad Cow Disease.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this humanities lecture.
Today we are going to continue our look at the modern diseasesthat afflict
society. Today we are looking at quite a famous but rare disease. The popular
name for this disease is mad cow disease. It has been so named because it is
most often found in the brains of cattle. It attacks the Q31 nervous functions
of the brain and leads to unusual behaviour by the cattle. Thus we familiarly
say that the cow is therefore mad and hence , mad cow disease. Mad cow
disease is the commonly used name but its medical title is
Bovine spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE. It is a slowly
progressive, degenerative , fatal disease affecting the nervous system of adult
cattle . The exact form of BSE is not known but it is generally accepted by the
scientific community that the likely cause is an infectious form of a Q32 type
of protein known as a prion. This protein develops abnormalities and
apparently seems to encourage other proteins to become similarly misshapen ,
affecting their ability to function. In cattle with BSE, these abnormal prions
initially occur in the small intestines, Q33 tonsils, and central nervous tissues .
There is a similar disease to BSE called Creutzfeld Jacob Disease or CJD that is
found in people.
A variant form of CJD is believed to be caused by eating contaminated beef

products from BSE affected cattle. The abnormal prions in infected cattle
products are consumed by humans as they are resistant to common
Q34 food disinfection treatments such as heat. The disorder is rare occurring
in about 1 out of 1 million people. To date there have been 155 confirmed and
probable cases of CJD worldwide among the hundreds and thousands of people
that may have consumed BSE contaminated beef products. Most of the cases
have occurred in the UK. The one US case was in a young woman who
contracted the disease while Q35 residing in the UK and

developed symptoms after moving to the US.
CJD is a disorder involving rapid decrease of mental function and movement .

As with BSE in cattle, these abnormalities are believed to be caused by
damage done to the brain by prions , though it is has been proved that in rare
cases it can be Q36 genetically inherited . CJD tends to affect younger people,
beginning between the ages of 20 and 70, with average age at onset of
symptoms in the Q37 late 50s. Early symptoms include personality changes
and difficulty with Q38 coordination . Once symptoms appear, the disorder
progresses rapidly and may be confused with other types of dementia such as
Alzheimer’s Disease. CJD though is distinguished by extremely rapid
progression from onset to symptoms to disability and death.
So, how did BSE and CJD come about? We’ve not read about them in the
history books. These appear to be new diseases. BSE was first reported in the
United Kingdom. The exact origins of BSE remain uncertain , but it is thought
that cattle initially may have become infected when given
feed contaminated with scrapie infected sheep meat and bone meal. Scrapie is
a sheep prion disease similar to BSE in cattle. The scientific
evidence suggests that the UK BSE outbreak in cattle was then spread by
feeding BSE contaminated cattle protein to calves. Thus, we have created the
disease ourselves. Cattle naturally are grazers , feeding on grass. Q39 We
have given cattle feed derived from sheep, an unnatural food for cattle. We
have compounded our mistake by also Q40 feeding young cattle with
feed derived from older cattle making them cannibals . There is a kind of horror
associated with it when we look at it like this. There is also a kind of
poetic justice that the disease is passed down to us as we consume the
animals that we have infected.
Moving on now, are there any questions with what I have said so far?

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SUN TOURS TRAVEL AGENTS

Other Mrs. Jane Collins

4 star quality hotel + breakfast; safe, warm, quietish, beach;

Pref. Flight Time Less than 5

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Bottom End Prices 6 , Greece and Turkey (Turkey

Crete Hotel Tropicana

1 mile safe walk on 7 to beach.

2 miles from beach but has 8 service.

Right on beach; less than 9 from the rooms.

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Solaris Hotel and Holiday Village – Food Options

American an 11 breakfasts on offer

Menus same for lunch + dinner: see 12 for specials

The Dene Restaurant : 13

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All restaurants free; 14 needed for some specials

Bar menu available in 15 for pub food

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adult beach (17s or over)

16 on duty from 9.00am to 6.00pm on main beach (none on adult

* 17 on beach + in pool area.

8 tennis courts + 3 squash courts

Fully equipped gym (No under 18s)

(only charge for hiring any equipment)

water skiing + jet skis available (extra charge)

snorkelling, infiatables and pedallos (free)

Library & Cinemas

Library contains books, magazines + newspapers. See 19 for terms +

2 cinemas show 3 different films each every day.

Children under 16 years are not allowed to attend 8.30 20

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World’s Most Spoken Languages By Number of Individual Speakers

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1 836 million Mandarin Chinese

3 332 million Spanish

World’s Most Spoken Languages

Rank No. of Countries Language

World’s Most Influential Languages – 6 weighing factors

1 Number of primary speakers

3 Number and population of countries where languages are used

4 Number of major fields using the language internationally

5 26 of countries using the language

6 Socio-literary prestige of the language

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Jamie and Rebecca’s Presentation

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Reasons for shift size of the populations

China could be less important than possibly India or 29 due to their

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Mad cow disease attacks the 31 of the affected cows’ brains.