A. It Is Useful To A Certain Extent.: C. Are Having Contrasting Feelings About What You Have Written

SECTION 1: LISTENING
Part 1: You will hear a radio discussion about writing a novel. For questions 1-5, choose the
answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. (10pts)
1. What does Louise say about Ernest Hemingway’s advice to writers?
A. It is useful to a certain extent.
B. It applies only to inexperienced novelists.
C. It wasn’t intended to be taken seriously.
D. It might confuse some inexperienced novelists.
2. Louise says that you need to get feedback when you
A. have not been able to write anything for some time.
B. are having difficulty organizing your ideas.
C. are having contrasting feelings about what you have written.
D. have finished the book but not shown it to anyone.
3. What does Louise regard as useful feedback?
A. a combination of general observations and detailed comments
B. both identification of problems and suggested solutions
C. comments focusing more on style than on content
D. as many points about strengths as weaknesses
4. What does Louise say about the people she gets feedback from?
A. Some of them are more successful than her.
B. She doesn't only discuss writing with them.
C. She also gives them feedback on their work.
D. It isn’t always easy for her to get together with them.
5. One reaction to feedback that Louise mentions is that
A. it is justified but would require too much effort to act on.
B. it focuses on unimportant details rather than key issues.
C. it has been influenced by reading other people’s novels.
D. it is not suggesting that major changes to the novel are required.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2: Listen to a lecture about population growth. For questions 1 – 5, decide whether these
statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
1. Birth rate is the average number of children born in a year, per thousand people.T
2. Fertility rate in UK was first reported to have been so high in 2008.F
3. Fertility rate in the UK is higher than it was twenty years ago because a higher proportion of
women are having children. F
4. 10% of of women in their mid-forties do not have children nowadays. F
5. Fertility rates are low partly because parents do not have time to have children. T
1
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 3: You will hear part of a lecture on the subject of jellyfish. For questions 1 - 5, give short
answers to the questions USING NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.
1. Why are jellyfish largely without enemies?
…………THEY ARE 97%
WATER…………………………………………………………………………
2. What are TWO things determining where jellyfish can go in the sea?
………………WIND EFFECTS, TIDAL
MOVEMENTS……………………………………………………………………
3. Where do both jellyfish and people tend to end up?
………………SHELTERED
BAYS……………………………………………………………………
4. Through which method can you counteract tentacles of jellyfish on the victim's body?
…………………( APPLICATION OF )
VINEGAR…………………………………………………………………
5. What part of the blue-coloured moon jellyfish's body appears to be glowing in the dark?
……………………… INTERNAL
ORGANS…………………………………………………………
Part 4. Listen to a piece of BBC news about the World War One centenary and fill in the missing
information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in
the spaces provided.
People have criticised Germany's government for not doing enough to (1)
__COMMEMORATE_________ the World War One centenary.
Germany hasn’t spent as much on events as some other (2) _______EUROPEAN_________
countries. And the events which have taken place have been seen as (3) ______HALF-
HEARTED__________by critics.
Traditionally in Germany the First World War is (4)______OVERSHADOWED__________the
Second World War. History teaching in German schools tends to focus on (5)____CRIMES__________ of
the Nazis rather than what happened (6) ______A GENERATION _____ earlier.
And since 1945 there's been a strong (7)___AVERSION__________ in Germany to anything that
might be seen as (8) ___GLORIFYING MILITARISM ____________ . So many people here are
uncomfortable with any anniversary of a war or a battle.
There's still (9)____SOME____DISAGREEMENT_________ among historians about who was responsible
for World War One. But having spent the last 70 years atoning for Nazi guilt, many Germans have
(10)__LITTLE APPETITE____________ to now take on the blame for the First World War, too.

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