test 6

part 1

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Part one.
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You will hear a man who runs a volunteer agency interviewing a woman called grace,
who is applying to do volunteer work.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 1:00 to 5:00.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 1:00 to 5:00.
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Hello. Grace. I'm William. Thanks for coming in for this interview. It's very important for
us to meet our volunteers in person.
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I understand it's no problem at all.
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OK.
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Let's get started.
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What's the best phone number to contact you on?
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My mobile phone is probably best the numbers 0216367189.
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But I can't always answer it during the day. I'll give you my e-mail address as well. I check
it frequently.
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OK, I'll make a note that email's a good way to contact you. What's the address?
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It's [email protected] dot NZ.
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I chose it when I was younger and I just haven't changed it since.
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It's easy to remember.
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Now do you?
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Have any particular qualifications grace.
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I'm a housewife now, but I used to be in teaching. I trained for that and got my diploma,
although I haven't done.
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It for years.
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Before having children, I worked as a bank teller.
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Right, I need to.
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Find out when you'll be available during the week.
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You said you have to.
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Are they at school?
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Yes, both of them are, so I can't start work before 8:15 in the morning or work past 3:00
in the afternoon.
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So you'd be looking for about four or five hours a day, say, 9:15 AM to 2:00 PM. That
gives you time to get to and from school to work.
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It's perfect. It's important for me to be there for my children.
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Of course.
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And are you looking to work Monday to Friday?
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Yes, if it gets to be too much, I can.
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Rethink it later.
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Now Grace, you obviously have a lot of work experience, but have.
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You done any volunteer work before?
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During the Rugby World Cup there were many visitors who didn't know their way around
or what they should see and do in Auckland City. So I worked as a guide to help
introduce the city to tourists I really enjoyed.
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It OK. Good. Have you done anything?
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Else, perhaps when you were at school or university.
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Did you do any volunteer work there?
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When I was at university, the manager of a netball team asked me to be the coach and I
did that great.
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It sounds like you like your sports.
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I used to but not so much nowadays, OK.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at Questions 6
to 10.
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Now listen and answer questions 6 to 10.
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If not sports, do you have any other interests?
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Oh yes, I love to get out in my garden and I grow most of my own vegetables. I love
flowers and flower arranging, but I don't suppose there's much volunteer work associated
with those kinds of things.
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You'd be surprised. Any other hobbies?
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Like most people, I guess I like music. Actually, I can play the guitar, but I haven't done
much for a while so I'm a bit rusty. One day I'd like to have a go at the flute.
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OK, that gives me a good idea of the type of work you might be interested.
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Ideally it would be something that combines your experience and your hobbies.
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If you're interested in something outdoors, I have a position helping out on a farm that's
just for a month. It's not too physically demanding, though it does require you to be on
your feet all day, and it would be nice as long as the weather is fine, but I imagine it could
be uncomfortable in the rain or the heat.
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In the past, we've had many positions working in community centres.
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They've been working with the disabled or teens.
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The position we have available now is with elderly men and women.
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They have activities like.
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Flower arranging, music lessons, sing alongs, things like that.
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Both of those sound great.
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I'm really open to anything.
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It's nice to know.
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Just a couple more questions. Why do you?
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Want to do volunteer?
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Well, now that both my children are in school, I'd like to make some friends as I've got
the time on my hands. Also, I like the idea of helping others.
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And last question, how did you find our agency? We aren't in the phone book.
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Did a friend tell you about us?
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No, I was on my way.
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To school the other day, and I saw your advertisement at the supermarket.
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It's good to know someone sees those ads.
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Thank you again for coming.
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That is the end of part one.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part one.

part 2

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Part 2.
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You will hear the owner of a strawberry farm talking to a group of new employees.
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First, you have some time to look at Questions 11 to 14.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14.
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Hello, my name's Peter Blakewell and I'm the owner of the Strawberry Farm.
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All of you are starting work here next week, so I thought it'd be helpful if I explained a bit
about the farm and what you'll be doing.
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Well, the farm operates all year round, but summer is when we open to the public and
people come here to pick their own strawberries as a family activity.
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It's also our busiest period, which is why we need you for the next few months.
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Well, first up.
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What do you need to bring for a long?
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Day you'll be.
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Working outside a lot, so fill up your water bottles at home and have them with you at all
times. You'll come in for lunch around 1:00. We'll be putting sandwiches out for you, and
there's also short morning and afternoon breaks.
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Gloves should be worn at all times. You'll find them in the packing shed. Just make sure
they get returned please.
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Now, if for some reason you can't come into work, there's a procedure to follow. There's
no point phoning the office by the time someone picks up your message, it'll be too late
to find a replacement. You need to get hold of the duty manager phone and speak to him
directly, and he'll let your team leader know you're going to.
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Be off.
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But before I.
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Forget last year we had a problem with customers getting to the checkouts and not
realizing how much they have to pay per kilo for the strawberries, but we've got signs
with price lists all around the farm this year, so that's been dealt with.
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One annoying thing is people taking baskets out of the shop and leaving them in the car
park, or worse, taking them home. They're expensive to replace, so please keep an eye on
them.
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If you're in the fields, no doubt you'll see people popping a couple of strawberries into
their mouths, but we don't need to worry about this too much.
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I should mention the benefits of working here. For a start, you get to take home a good
sized carton of strawberries at no charge. Your family members can also get 15% off the
fruit they pick.
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Discounts don't apply to the gift shop, I'm afraid.
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.
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Alright, let's look at the map. You all have to give you an idea of the farms layout. We'll
start with the staff room. See the main building. The entrance is at the bottom of your.
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Map well above the main building on the map is a row of three smaller buildings. The
staff room is the middle one.
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If you need to go to administration, that's easy to find in the main building. You've got the
three checkout desks in the bottom right hand corner and the cafe in the top corner.
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And the other large inside area is the shop, so administration is the other room there. It's
in the top left hand corner.
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Some of you are working in the packing shed. You see where the main building is, and
then at the top of the map.
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There are the round water tanks, four of them. The packing shed is the bigger of the two
buildings directly below the tanks on your map.
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Not easy work, but at least you'll be in the shade.
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If you're driving to work.
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You'll need to know where the staff car park is.
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So that's to the left of the main building, the area nearest the bottom of the map.
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Park there and then either use the front entrance or that little door on the left of the
main building.
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Right. Let's talk about where the customers can and can't pick their own strawberries.
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The not allowed to enter the commercial growing areas.
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And you can see Area 1 already marked on your map.
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That means there are two sections where customers are allowed to pick their own fruit.
The section with strawberries that are ready to pick now the ripe strawberries. That's the
l-shaped section right at the top of the map on the left.
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The unripe strawberries will be ready in about 3 weeks, so that section that's above
commercial growing area one, and you can see it from the cafe.
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OK, so does anyone have any questions about?
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part 3

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Part 3.
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You will hear an engineering student called Cathy.
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Discussing a piece of work with her tutor.
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First, you have some time to look at Questions 21 to 26.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.
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Hello, Kathy. How's your dissertation on water pumps going?
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Not too bad. Thanks. I'm getting on well with the literature of you now and my lab works
fine so far.
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Ohh that's good. Remember you should aim to have your results section completed by
the end of next month, so there's plenty of time to finalize the whole thing.
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For the summer.
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Anyway, looks like you're on track. I've been through your first chapter now and I was
quite impressed.
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Oh, that's a.
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Relief. Sometimes your sentences are a little long and over complex.
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But the overall.
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Structure of the piece is very clear.
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I'd recommend you get.
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A critical friend to go through it.
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With you then once you've built in citations of other work in the field, I think it'll be
pretty good.
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Ohh thanks, I was pleased. I decided to focus on water pumps.
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You seem to be testing an appropriate range of pump design.
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Lots of students make the mistake of either restricting their range too much or
conversely not narrowing it down enough. You've managed to avoid those twin traps,
however, I.
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Think you'd get.
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More convincing results if you took some additional measurements. I've noted exactly
what I mean on your work.
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Yes, I thought that might be necessary and I know I need to get down to.
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Some more library work.
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Too well, I don't think that's essential at the moment.
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Right, So what do you suggest I do next? Repeat my last experiment using different
variables.
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Well, you could have a word with James Higgins tomorrow. He's coming here to give a
lecture on hydraulics to the faculty.
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And it would be a.
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Great chance to have a chat with him, especially as your experimental work has drawn so
heavily from his last article in the British Engineering Journal.
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Fantastic. And you never know how successful a chat with him might turn out to be.
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I got my first research post when I was a final year student and asked a visiting professor
to explain what he meant in some article he had written. So I urge all my students to take
any such opportunity that arises.
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But times have changed. People like that are too busy to talk to me students these days.
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I don't know Balad. Anyway, is there anything else I can help with? Any practical
information about layout perhaps?
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Well, I suppose I'm a bit unsure about how the bibliography should be presented.
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Won't you? I can just check what's normally done in journal articles, so that's not
something to.
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Bother you with?
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I'd welcome some guidance though about what I should or shouldn't include in the
appendices. I know some things. Some of my data tables, or details of specs perhaps are
not really needed in the main body of the text, and I'm likely to be pushed for words
there.
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OK, I can certainly help you with that, but it will take a while, so can we deal with that
next week? I've got that solar panel seminar to go into in a few minutes.
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There's plenty of work you can be carrying on with in.
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The mean time.
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Sure, that's no problem. I think I'll go and investigate the latest version of the CAD
software to see if it might help with my pump design experiments at all.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at Questions 27
to 30.
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Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.
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Before you go though, I'd like quickly to run through what you should be doing over the
next few months, not just for your dissertation, but also to help your chances of getting
the research post you'd like. Is that OK with you?
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Yes, that would be really helpful.
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Well, you certainly need to become a member of the Mechanical Engineering Society.
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And then you'll be able to go along to their meetings there. You must make a point of
making yourself known to various people like Professor Jones. He's the current president
and is very approachable.
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OK, so I could do some networking there.
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Exactly. Also, I think you should try to set up some visits to industry. Go to a lot of
different workplaces just to see how things are done. It's actually a very good way of
making sure you're familiar with the cutting edge of what's.
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Going on textbooks, even academic articles sometimes lag behind industry.
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That sounds really interesting. Also, I'd love the chance to do a bit of work abroad for a
while. That's actually the next thing I was going to recommend. I'm sure we could set up a
month for you in either the states or Canada.
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And that would be a great way to find out how things are done elsewhere.
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That would be good. Thank you.
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And the last thing I was going to suggest was that you could go to the European Water
Engineering Conference being held in Spain in May, I could even present my dissertation
there. Yes. Ohh, thank you so much. That's all really helpful.
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Good. So now if we.
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part 4

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Section four. You will hear a tutor talking to a group of students about a project to build a
driverless vehicle. First you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 on pages seven
and eight. Now listen carefully and answer questions. 31 to 40.

Speaker 4 [00:23:16] Hello, everyone. I have an exciting announcement to make. The

university has decided to enter an international competition next year and we are going to
need some enthusiastic undergraduates to help us with the project. The competition is to
make an automated vehicle, a kind of robot that will be able to move quickly and accurately
on its own. All the vehicles will then enter a race which will take place here in the U.S. So
the engineering school will be collaborating with the computer science department and
possibly the Automotive Design Department, although that's yet to be confirmed. What
they have to do is try to design an automated vehicle which will be able to complete the
course. To give you an idea of how tough this race is. One vehicle last year only managed
12 kilometers of the 280 kilometers stretch of California desert that forms the racetrack.
The vehicles in the race must cover the whole distance without a human driver and quite
autonomously identify and steer around corners and avoid unexpected hazards. Things like
rocks, for example. It's a challenging task because there are lots of obstacles of this kind
along the route. As I said in last year's event, the most successful vehicle only drove 12
kilometers. Then its team decided to deactivate it because it had gotten too near a cliff in
the race held earlier this year. There still wasn't a winner, but they did much better. And
there was one design which we will be analyzing carefully in seminars. Its strength was in
its onboard technology. That particular vehicle built a three dimensional picture of its
surroundings using video cameras and lasers. It was equipped with seven laptop
computers, which analyze the incoming information ten times a second, and it drove along
at a comfortable 55 kilometers per hour. The design details have been published, so we
hope to learn from them and go on to make ours even better for next year's competition.
The competition is open to all universities and there's a prize of $2 million for the winner.
But it's really about more than that. The sponsors are hoping to see innovative design ideas
that they can transfer into commercial production. You'll get a lot out of this project as well
in terms of working as a team and broadening your knowledge of the subject. The key to
winning is unlikely to be anything to do with what the vehicle looks like. Programing skills
will decide who eventually wins first prize. The design will need technological expertize in
this area above all, and that's what the team who work on the project will need to focus
on. I'll be handing out some scientific reports about this year's vehicle shortly. It's
interesting to read that even after months and months of planning, building and trials, many
of the teams were amazed that the vehicles did what they wanted them to do at all because
so many things can go wrong on the day. So even though no vehicle actually completed
the course, they were pleased they got as far as they did. Right. If any of you are interested,
this is the plan of action. Keep an eye on the main noticeboard for details. Firstly, at the
beginning of May, we'll be scheduling a seminar to introduce the project to anyone who
might be interested. Later in the month, we'll be asking you to submit a short essay, letting
us know why you feel you should be chosen to take part in the project. You'll need to tell
us about any particular skills that you have and can bring to the team and any experience
you may have had in the field. Then in June, we're organizing a trip to a factory to chat
over some design considerations with specialists there who have kindly agreed to act as
consultants throughout the project. Then, at the beginning of the next semester in
September, we thought we'd hold a weekend workshop to share ideas and see computer
aided design demonstrations. We have a brand new package which sponsors have kindly
financed. You'll need to be able to use it with confidence before we start. In December,
we'll be asking you to submit your outline designs. And the following month will choose
the team and start work in earnest. Okay. It sounds like a lot of fun, but it will also require
serious commitment. So please think this through carefully. Some handouts are coming
around now. Any questions?

Speaker 1 [00:28:35] That is the end of Section four. You now have half a minute to check
your answers. That is the end of the listening test. You now have 10 minutes to transfer
your answers to the listening answer sheet. You have 2 minutes left. You have one minute
left. Please stop writing and wait for your question booklet to be collected.