Section 1:

Listening

QUESTION DIRECTIONS – Part A

In Part A of the Listening Section, you will hear short conversation between two
people. In some of the conversations, each person speaks only once. In other
conversations, one or both of the people speak more than once. Each
conversation is followed by one question about it.

Each question in this part has four answer choices. You should cross the best
answer to each question. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or
implied by the speakers.

1. What is the man’s problem? d. It is a new bike.

a. He doesn’t mind the traffic.
b. He takes the bus to school. 5. What does the man want to
c. He has to stand on the bus if drink?
he takes it to school. a. Something cold.
d. He wants to ride to school b. Coffee.
with the woman. c. Tea.
d. Both coffee and tea.
2. What does the man mean?
a. The woman should not 6. What does the man suggest the
consider her advisor in the woman do?
decision. a. Ask directions.
b. The woman should not take b. Walk to the shopping
Dr. Sullivan’s section. center.
c. The woman’s advisor will not c. Take a taxi.
be offended. d. Wait for the bus.
d. The woman should not take a
physics course. 7. What can be inferred about the
woman?
3. What does the woman imply? a. She does not plan to
a. She is not interested in the study.
man. b. She has a very busy
b. She does not like lectures. schedule.
c. She would go out with the c. She is lost.
man on another occasion. d. She has not registered yet.
d. She would rather stay at
home. 8. What does the man mean?
4. What does the woman mean? a. He does not want to listen
a. The bike is in good to the radio.
condition. b. He has changed his
b. The man needs to replace opinion about turning on
the bike. the radio.
c. The bike is missing.
 c. The radio will not bother c. He is surprised that the
him. woman wan denied her
d. The radio is not working request.
well. d. The professor does not
have a policy.
9. What does the woman suggest
Anna do? 14. What problem do the man and
a. Stop worrying. woman have?
b. Go out more. a. They do not have a
c. Talk to a friend. telephone.
d. Get counseling. b. They are late.
c. They have been left.
10. What does the man mean? d. They got lost.
a. He prefers to talk another
time. 15. What is the woman probably
b. He wants the woman to go going to do?
away. a. Pay the rent for half a
c. HE would like the woman month.
to continue. b. Help the man move.
d. He doesn’t know what to c. Stay where she is living
think. until the 15th.
d. Move out of the apartment.
11. What will the man probably do?
a. Accept the woman’s 16. What had the man assumed
apology. about Mary Anne?
b. Allow the woman to go a. She had already taken the
ahead of him. test.
c. Apologize to the woman. b. She did not want to take
d. Go to the front of the line. classes.
c. She had not taken the
12. What does the woman imply? placement test.
a. The neighbors have d. She would take the math
parties often. classes later.
b. She does not like her
neighbors. 17. What does he man mean?
c. The neighbors’ party is a. The plan is to remain in
disturbing her. the class.
d. She will not be invited to b. It is not comfortable in the
the neighbors’ party. classroom.
c. He has been absent
13. What had the man assumed? because he was sick.
a. Dr. Franklin is not very d. The weather has been
understanding. very bad.
b. The extension was a very
bad idea.
QUESTION DIRECTIONS – Part B
In part B of the Listening Section, you will hear several longer conversations and
talks. Each conversation or talk is followed by several questions. The
conversations, talks, and questions will not be repeated.

The conversations and talks are about a variety of topics. You do not need
special knowledge of the topics to answer the questions correctly. Rather, you
should answer each question on the basis of what is stated or implied by speaker
in the conversations or talks.

For most of the questions, you will need to cross on the best of four possible
answers. Some questions will have special directions.

18. What is Mike’s problem? d. He does not have enough

a. He was late arriving at credits for graduation.
registration.
b. He needs an advisor’s 21. What does Professor Day decide
signature on a course to do?
request form. a. Enroll Mike in the class next
c. He is not doing well in the year.
class because it is so large. b. Allow Mike to take the class
d. He must have the this term.
permission of the instructor c. Give Mike permission to
to enroll in a class. graduate without the class.
d. Register Mike for another
19. What does Mike want Professor class.
Day to do?
a. Help him with the class. 22. What is MUZAK?
b. Explain some technical a. A slow, soft song.
vocabulary. b. Music in restaurants.
c. Give him special permission c. Background music.
to take the class. d. A pleasant addition to the
d. Take a form to the environment.
registration area.
23. What is the average increase in
20. What does Mike say about productivity when MUZAK is
graduation? introduced?
a. He has planned to graduate a. Thirteen percent.
in the fall. b. Five to ten percent.
b. He has to take Professor c. One hundred percent.
Day’s class in order to d. Thirty percent.
graduate.
c. He needs the professor to 24. What is stimulus progression?
sign his application for a. Background music that is
graduation. low in stimulus value.
 b. Upbeat music that stimulate
sales. 29. How can students contact the
c. Music engineered to reduce instructor?
stress. a. By using e-mail.
d. Music that starts slow and b. By calling KCC7-TV.
gets faster at times of the c. By writing letters.
day when people get tired. d. By making video tapes.

25. how does MUZAK influence sales 30. What is the topic this
in supermarkets? conversation?
a. It can cause shoppers to go a. The women’s health.
through the line faster. b. The women’s grades.
b. It can cause shoppers to c. The man’s joke.
buy thirty percent more or d. The man’s strees.
less.
c. It can cause shoppers to 31. What was the women’s problem?
walk slower and buy more. a. She was taking too many
d. It does not influence sales. classes.
b. She was very tired because
26. What is this announcement she studied too late.
mainly about? c. She had been ill last
a. The “Sun-Up Semester” semester.
program. d. She may have to withdraw
b. The Community College from school this semester.
campus.
c. The telecourses. 32. Why is mono called the “college
d. Technology for distance disease”?
learning. a. Many students get mono
while they are in college.
27. Why does the speaker mention b. If one student gets mono,
the “Sun-Up Semester”? the whole college becomes
a. To clarify how to register. infected.
b. To advertise the college. c. It is a joke about college
c. To provide the college. students that the woman
d. To give students an tells.
alternative to video tapes. d. The disease was first
identified on a college
28. How can students register for a campus.
course?
a. They should come to 33. What advice does the women
campus. give the man?
b. They can call the a. Drop out of school for a
Community College. semester and return later.
c. They must contact the b. Study harder to learn all the
instructor. lessons this semester.
d. They can use computers.
 c. Take fewer hours each 38. What is the topic of this
semester and add one discussion?
semester to the program. a. Air pollution.
d. Add extra classes to the b. Acid rain.
program even if it requires c. Fossil fuels.
another semester. d. The Great Lakes.

34. What central theme does the 39. What is acid rain?
lecture examine? a. Precipitation that is polluted
a. The relationship between by sulfuric acid and nitric
language and culture. acid.
b. The culture of Hopi society. b. Rain that falls after long
c. Native American culture. period of severe drought.
d. The life of Benjamin Lee c. Large concentrations of acid
Whorf. in the soil around the Great
Lakes.
35. Which languages did Whorf use d. Water vapor that is mixed
in his research? with a high concentrations of
a. European language. sulfur.
b. South American language.
c. Native American language. 40. In which two ways has the
d. Computer language. environment been damaged
along the Great Lakes?
36. According to the lecturer, what is Cross on 2 answers.
linguistic relativity? a. The air now contains dangerous levels of carbon
a. All language are related.
b. All Native American b. Weather patterns have been disturbed.
language are related.
c. Language influence the c. Water resources have been polluted.
manner in which an d. The soil has been depleted of nutrients.
individual understands
reality. 41. What are the conditions of the Air
d. Language and culture are Quality Accord?
not related. a. Companies in the United
States must control pollution
37. What is another name for that could affect Canadian
linguistic relativity? resources.
a. The Sapir Hypothesis. b. There are limits placed on
b. The Sapir-Whorf the quantity of acidic
Hypothesis. deposits that can cross the
c. The Sapir-Whorf-Boas border.
Hypothesis. c. Governments and agencies
d. The American Indian Model will regulate automobile
of the Universe. emissions.
d. Fuels cannot contain any
sulfur near the border.
42. What is the topic of this lecture? a. The man needs help
a. Three major types of changing his schedule.
bacteria. b. The man is looking for a job
b. How microscopic organisms in the morning.
are measured. c. The man in trying to get a
c. How bacteria is used for student loan.
research in genetics. d. The man is changing his
d. Diseases caused by major to sociology.
bacteria.
47. Why does the man need to take
43. Which two characteristics are at least twelve hours?
common in bacteria? a. He wants to graduate as
Cross on 2 answers. soon as possible.
a. They have one cell. b. He must be a full-time
student to quality for his
b. They are harmful to humans. loan.
c. They reproduce quickly. c. His advisor insists that he
study full time.
d. They die when exposed to air. d. All the courses are required.

44. Which of the following slides 48. Why does the man prefer
contain cocci bacteria? Sociology 560?
a. It is a required course.
b. It is offered in the afternoon.
c. It is taught by Dr. Brown.
d. It is a sociology class.
a b. c.
49. What will Dr. Kelly do?
45. Why are bacteria being used in a. Help the man withdraw from
the research study at the school.
University? b. Change the man’s class
a. Bacteria have unusual cell schedule.
formations. c. Give the man a student
b. Bacteria live harmlessly on loan.
the skin, mouth, and d. Change the man’s major.
intestines.
c. Bacteria are similar to other 50. What will the man probably do
life forms. after the conversation?
d. Bacteria cause many a. Go to Dr. Brown’s office.
diseases in humans. b. See Dr. Brown in class.
c. Call Dr. Brown.
46. What is the purpose of the d. Send the form to Dr. Brown.
conversation?