LISTENING TEST - English B2

May 2017
Name __________________________________________

Read the instructions carefully:

1. You will hear/see two different recordings / videos.

2. You will hear / see each piece twice.
3. There are ten questions for each piece.
4. For questions 1 – 10, choose the answer (a, b, c) which best fits according to
what you hear.
***UPDATED INFORMATION FOR ACADEMIC COURSE 2017/2018:
5. Wrong answers penalize -0,16.

The procedure for the listening exam is as follows:

1. You have 8 minutes to read the questions of both exercises.

2. Then the first audio / video will be played.
3. You have 5 minutes to attempt to answer some questions.
4. The audio / video will be played again.
5. You have 5 minutes to answer the questions you did not answer the first time
or reflect on your answers.
6. The second video / audio will be played and then, steps 3 – 5 will be
repeated.

How to succeed? Get more sleep

1. Arianna Huffington describes the women in the audience as _______ women.

a. busy
b. important
c. Type A

2. She says she learned the value of sleep _______

a. through testing.
b. ‘the hard way.’
c. through doctors.

3. Two and a half years ago, Arianna Huffington _______ at her desk.
 a. suffered an attack
b. fainted
c. fell sick

4. According to the speaker, a life with more sleep is a ‘more _______

a. productive.’
b. beautiful.’
c. energetic.’

5. She says that they are starting a _______

a. feminist revolution.
b. sleep revolution.
c. feminist institution.

6. _______ with others about who sleeps the least.

a. Women compete
b. Men compete
c. Everybody competes

7. If the man had had more sleep the night before the dinner would have been _______
a. more formal
b. more exciting
c. longer

8. There is a kind of sleep deprivation one-upmanship _______ in Washington.

a. especially
b. unfortunately
c. likely

9. According to the speaker:

a. We have good leaders who make mistakes without sleep.
b. We don’t have good leaders and without sleep the situation is even worse.
c. We should have great leaders who sleep enough.

10. Lehman Brothers failed because _______

a. they were sleeping when the problems started.
b. they didn’t have sisters.
c. they were too busy trying to make more and more money.
What’s education for?

11. According to the speaker, _______

d. education should prepare people for adult life but it doesn’t.
e. more people are failing at school.
f. school is failing some students.

12. The situation is _______

a. different according to the type of schooling received.
b. ‘the hard way.’
c. largely the same whatever the school someone goes to.
13. The success will depend on _______
a. a higher investment on well-equipped and modern schools.
b. a higher investment on analyzing the real needs of students for the future.
c. a higher investment on teacher training.

14. According to the speaker:

a. there is a great loss of skills and abilities in our approach to education.
b. there is an industrial scale waste of resources in our approach to education.
c. there is too much ambition and little support in in our approach to education.

15. According to the speaker, education should be based around:

a. The topics of money, personality maps, complex behavior and the job for the
future.
b. The topics of Capitalism, yourself, jobs and relationships.
c. The topics of Maths, career, relationships and living together.

16. The audio highlights that:

a. Nobody understand what Capitalism really means.
b. It seems to be impossible to improve the mistake caused by Capitalism.
c. There seems to be a conscious political effort not to explain what Capitalism is.

17. Which statement is NOT TRUE, according to the audio:

a. Math classes should teach people to deal with personal money problems.
b. Math classes should teach students how to be leaders by understanding
Marketing and how to compete.
c. Students should be taught about the global economy and means of
production.

18. Students should learn about _______

a. their own feelings and weaknesses.
b. mainly the positive qualities of human beings.
c. mainly the negative features so that they can protect themselves from others.

19. Students should spend an average of _______

 a. three hours per week thinking about what job they would do as adults.
b. several weeks researching about what to with their future lives.
c. a few hours every week looking for a suitable job.

20. Which statement is NOT TRUE, according to the audio:

a. There should be help to avoid unhappiness in society.
b. There should be training for all ages on kindness and forgiveness.
c. There should be no teaching in classrooms.