you can write down your answers as you do the test. At the end of the test we

will go through all of the answers. There are 40 questions. So let's start the test.

First, listen to the instructions. You will hear a number of different

recordings and you will have to answer questions on what you hear there will be

time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a chance

to check your work all the recordings will be played once only the test is in

four sections now turn to section 1 section 1 you will hear a woman ordering

some goods from a mail-order company by telephone first you have some time to

look at questions 1 to 8

you should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the

recording a second time listen carefully to the first part of the conversation

and answer questions 1 to 8

cosmic home delivery my name is Gary how may I help you today hello I'd like to

place an order certainly madam I'm afraid our computer system crashed

earlier today I'll have to take the details down on paper and then enter

them later when it's been fixed is that ok yes of course

so can I take your name please yes it's Alexandra Hornby sorry could you spell

the surname for me H yes then O R N B Y Oh fine and then your address that's

number 28 Wood Road which is in Ilford I L F O R D and that's near Northchester

the postcodes NC1 and 2FR thank you and do you

have an account with us I do I've got the number here 9 double 4 5 6 7 8 1 is

that long enough 8 digits yes it is good now what would you like to order today I

want a coffee table I think there's only the one type I expect so perhaps you can

tell me the price I can use that to check later just in case there's more

than one yes it's 39 pounds 99p fine sorry about all

these extra questions it's no problem at all now that size of order value does

mean you're entitled to a free gift did you want to take up that option on this

occasion yes I do I've already got a calculator like the one on offer but I

do like the look of the handbag so I'd like one of those please certainly and

can I just check as an account holder you may have been sent a voucher oh yes

for a discount let me see the reference number we'll probably start with the

letter D huh it does and it continues B R 29 great now how would you like your

order delivered there's a standard service within a week and then Express which

comes within two days or special which means it arrives the same day mmm

special would be ideal but I know it's a bit expensive so I'll make do with

Express I think standard is very slow it is to be honest before you hear the rest

of the conversation you will have some time to look at questions 9 and 10

now listen and answer questions 9 and 10

well that's your order completed could I just trouble you for another minute or

so to ask you a couple of questions to help us improve our service as much as

possible yes firstly we do like to try and keep a

record of how customers have heard of Cosmic Mail Order how did you was it

from our advertising campaign oh I think I would have remembered any

advertisements on TV for example I only read newspapers occasionally so that

would have passed me by a friend of mine had been using it for years and

encouraged me to give it a go so I looked on the internet to find you to

see what was available on the site that's great thank you

the second thing is we're thinking of introducing a number of promotional

offers oh yes I got a little brochure about them with my last order I've got

the list here so can I ask which ones appeal to you well let's see there's

quite a few things here that don't really apply to me actually for example

my mobile phone bills are so low that I hardly notice them likewise they shut

down the local cinema I do enjoy a meal out though so that discount could be of

interest and I like to get away at weekends when I can and some of the

places you want to visit are expensive so it would be lovely if they became

cheaper as for planes well I've been abroad for a while now and in any case I

prefer the train where possible fine well thank you very much for your time

not at all section 2 you will hear a trainer giving a talk to

a group of cyclists first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15

now listen carefully to the first part of the talk and answer questions 11 to

15 hello everybody it's nice to see that so many of you made it even on an

evening as rainy as tonight okay now whether you're new to cycling as a sport

or are returning to it after some years absence I'll just go over a few basic

points now race preparation is a complex business and there are many factors to

consider the first area of concern is mechanical now this involves the machine

itself that is your bike and also no less importantly in fact clothing this

will protect your body and aid your performance providing you wear the right

kit the next area to concern yourselves with is the mental this is you as a

person you can have the best bike in the world but you won't get the most out of

it if you don't have the right mindset so tactics are important to consider

another factor which is essential to a good performance is determination you

need to feel this so that you can really push yourselves to your limits to

accompany this you also need knowledge of your bike yourself physics other

riders the course and so on finally strange though it may seem after all

I've said so far you need relaxation if you can't switch off sometimes you

won't get to recharge your batteries okay and that takes us on to the

physical side of race preparation the first and perhaps most obvious aspect of

this is training and we'll come to some of the details of that in a minute

another important aspect to pay attention to is diet and you'll soon

find that if you don't eat well you won't see yourselves performing

as well as you might then there's also the question of style and you'll need to

learn to develop the most effective ways for each of you to deliver your

performance and the details of this depend on which kind of event you're

competing in and finally you need to take body care into account you need to

stay healthy in order to be able to give of your best right those are the basic

ingredients of race preparation before you hear the rest of the talk you have

some time to look at questions 16 to 20

now listen to the rest of the talk and answer questions 16 to 20 now I'd like

to turn your attention to some of the details of a good training regime and

what you should and shouldn't do through the year let's consider various

activities in turn the first thing to think about is circuit training this is

an indoor series of gym exercises designed to work on all parts of your

body this starts as the racing season closes

with the end of summer and continues right through the cold season and stops

you going off the boil when you aren't competing it's extremely beneficial

although I would stress you do need a qualified gym instructor to tell you how

to do it properly next weight training this is also very good for cyclists and

it tops up the natural strength that cycling produces exercises need to be

arranged as part of a carefully calculated routine and this routine

needs to be sensibly followed it's a good idea for continuity to carry on

using weights throughout the year as you can lose strength just as quickly as you

can gain it something simpler and requiring no equipment is mobility work

while cycling has a great many benefits for the body it doesn't work every part

of it and indeed keep some parts locked in pretty much the same position so

exercises that involve twisting and turning and generally promoting

flexibility are advisable before the start of each race throughout the summer

season another important activity is pleasure riding perhaps this doesn't

sound so important to you but you don't race all year and when you do race it's

pretty hard riding so you can sometimes forget that cycling is actually

basically a fun thing to do so when you hang up your racing bike at the end of

the summer get out another bike and go for some

gentler enjoyable rides during the winter weather permitting of course and

finally running this is of course another sport in its own right and for

this reason some cyclists are rather sniffy about it however it is good

exercise and maintains aerobic fitness very effectively but it is rather hard

on the knees and in different ways from cycling so you're best advised to keep

your running two out of the racing season and wrap up well against the cold

when you do go so now section three you will hear three students anna jane and

mark planning a project about cinema on their media studies course first you

have time to look at questions 21 to 23

now listen to the first part of the conversation and answer questions 21 to

23 so Jane mark we need to press on with the assignment yes we do Anna and we

need to begin by going to the best sources of information right no we're

looking into how films get altered sometimes if they're not going to do

very well we need to know quite detailed things so ordinary magazines you know

leisure interest ones may lack the detail we're after specialist magazines

on the other hand will probably be helpful I think that's true okay so

we'll route out some of those and what else there ought to be stuff available

online but we'll have to be selective sure not general cinema websites you

mean I think it would be useful to go onto studio websites then we'd get

pretty specific information even if it might be a bit biased yes okay anything

else I think we also need to think about the point of consumption

so perhaps reviews would be good to look through okay though we'll get most by

looking at local reviews I think I agree good now you have time to look at

questions 24 and 25

now listen to the next part of the conversation and answer questions 24 and

25 so far so good now we'll gather all that together we

can take one source each and then I don't know about what Jane I mean okay

so we get all this stuff probably loads of it but do we know how to assess the

usefulness of it I know it'll all be factual and so true in that sense but we

need to know what it can really tell us perhaps we should cross that bridge when

we come to it mark yes though I think Jane's got a

point but the problem for me is the context we're working in we've got the

assignment instructions and in a sense it's all very straightforward we know

which parts are worth how many marks and so forth but the focus seems to be

heavily on the objective and quantitative side of things whereas I

would be hoping to be asked for more interpretive work and there would have

to be time to do that within the framework we've been given well again I

think we should just see how we go with it

now you have time to look at questions 26 to 30

now listen to the final part of the conversation and answer questions 26 to

30 should we take that we're clear on just how films are altered good idea

we'll list the various cures that filmmakers use when a film looks like it

might be going to fail the first one is called tweak every joke sometimes they

change lots of the jokes after showing the first version to a test audience

comedy is the only film genre with a reliable formula the more of the

audience laugh the more income the film gets and it's not very funny if your

film makes a loss and the next one they call change the ending occasionally they

completely change the way of film ends it seems a bit strange maybe but the

problem is it's far from easy to know in advance what reaction you'll get from an

audience so if it turns out after all that the test audience doesn't like your

ending you've no choice but to do another one what's the third one

that'd be fixed the tone if for example your film begins as a kind of gentle

comedy but then gets too serious or horror like audiences get confused so

one thing that really matters is being consistent you mean yes or that's the

logic I think audiences don't want to have to switch track it's more

complicated than people imagine isn't it now the next cure is a big one

reshoot this may seem drastic but in some cases it's the only option

available it's very expensive of course but the film's backers will see this as

protecting their investment are there any others one more and it's another big

one or at least has the potential to be a big one it's shift the genre and this

is done when the test audience seemed to only like one half of the equation as it

were maybe you made a musical but they only like your comedy storyline not the

songs so you do it all again without the songs it could broaden the film's

he'll get a wider audience it's weird to think how much extra work has gone into

some films isn't it section four you will hear a talk about the history of

the Mediterranean Sea first you have time to look at questions 31 to 40

now listen to the first part of the talk and answer questions 31 to 37 now in

looking at the history of anywhere we need to accompany our discussion of the

facts with some consideration of what facts mean or which facts have meaning

but more of that later let's start with looking at one very important period of

the history of the Mediterranean the period of Roman influence this was born

out of the death of Alexander the Great his grip on the area went and what

directly ensued was a period of intense conflict which focused on the eastern

Mediterranean as opponents sought to gain control of that area Rome began to

emerge from this as a potential dominant force but obstacles such as a lack of

overall planning and in particular the ever-present menace of piracy lay in the

way of success gradually the Romans improved the power of their ships and

fighting equipment they also formed a series of alliances which effectively

reduced the size and number of enemies and a key measure they took was creating

an office of government specifically charged with repairing their fleets

however many ships they and their enemies had Rome from now on would have

the highest proportion out patrolling and fighting there were of course no

engines in ships in those days and another aspect in the battle for

supremacy was speed through human effort rivals built ships with ever-increasing

numbers of oars but what really mattered was the amount

of human pulling strength attached to each one and the Romans benefiting from

their great population of slaves was able to have every or pulling faster and

harder than anyone elses eventually Rome's dominance was more or less