這次的聽力練習非常具有挑戰性！適合FCE、雅思、中高級學員。
If you can easily follow what is being said, you should consider doing our IELTS Skills course or our Advanced Complete English course.
如果這次的聽力練習對您而言不過是牛刀小試，那麼您可以考慮上我們的雅思技巧課程或聽說讀寫課高級班。
- Listening for main ideas
- Listening for synonyms
- Identifying paraphrased information
- You will hear instructions and the questions before each short listening. You will hear each listening twice.
- You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1 – 8, choose the best answer, (A, B or C).
1. You hear a young man talking. Why did he go back to college?
A) an inventor
B) a company employee
C) a writer
3. You hear someone talking on the radio about an artist. How does the artist feel about his work?
A) He would like to exhibit it in an art gallery.
B) He wants to make his creations last longer.
C) He is happy to see his work destroyed.
4. You hear a woman talking to her son. Why is she talking to him?
A) to give him a warning.
B) to refuse permission
C) to make a suggestion
5) You hear part of a lecture about the role of retired people in the economy. What is the lecturer describing?
A) reasons why something is changing
B) errors in statistical information
C) disagreements between researchers
6. You hear a chef being interviewed on the radio. Why did he decide to become a chef?
A) to follow a family tradition
B) to develop a natural talent
C) to pursue his love of cooking
7. You hear a teenager talking about the sport she plays. How does she feel while she is playing the sport?
A) uncomfortable
B) embarrassed
C) confident
8. You hear an explorer talking about a journey he is making. How will he travel once he is across the river?
A) by motor vehicle
B) on horseback
C) on foot
Now, listen again and try to confirm your answers at the bottom of the page
現在，再聽一次。答案在最後的地方。
現在，再聽一次。答案在最後的地方。
Source: Cambridge ESOL FCE Sample Test Dec 08 Test 2 Part 1
Listening Part 2 - Sentence Completion - Instructions 第二部份：句子填空 - 說明
Listen again and complete the sentences with the words you hear. Write 1 to 3 words in the spaces.
Be careful! The information before and after the spaces may be said in a different way. So, you need to listen for expressions. Also, while the information is in the same logical order, you may hear it in a different order.
Extract One
1. After my promotion, I began for the first time.
2. He is now studying during the time he previously did .
Extract Two
3. The differences between the rights of writers and inventors is , so I’m helping inventors.
4. I believe rich have advantages over normal people.
Extract Three
5. Gennaro’s art works are often by those his admirers.
6. Gennaro believes eating is art is the .
Extract Four
7. Are you taking a with you on your climbing holiday?
8. Before you go, please contact the .
Extract Five
9. The in the West is divided.
10. Despite not having high incomes, there are large numbers of elderly and so they are .
Extract Six
11. My mother’s couldn’t be eaten.
12. After I realised that I could cook, I knew I wanted learn more about cooking .
Extract Seven
13. It isn’t easy to join a club because .
14. I don’t usually tell people about .
Extract Eight
15. It’s unlikely that can manage crossing the river.
16. While it’ll be fairly , we’ll need to carry everything across the footbridge
Answers - Part 1 解答 - 第一部份
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. B
8. B
Answers – Part 2 解答 - 第二部份
1. managing staff
2. absolutely nothing
3. fundamentally unfair
4. companies
5. devoured
6. highest compliment
7. qualified climber
8. mountain guide service
9. retired population
10. collectively powerful
11. meals
12. at college
13. there aren’t many
14. playing football
15. the trucks
16. slow
Script 錄音稿
One.
I’d been thinking of starting on a course at college for a while. It’s not easy to study when you are working full time ... and my only free time was after 6pm ... Then the company where I work gave me a promotion, and my new job involved managing staff, which I had no experience of. That’s why I chose this subject. My degree is in engineering, you see. I still wasn’t too sure I wanted to give up the only part of the day when I did absolutely nothing, but I’m actually enjoying going to college after work!
REPEAT 1
Two
I’m fighting in the courts to make it easier for people like me to protect their ideas. If you’re a writer or a songwriter you own your own creation without paying a penny, but people who create mechanical objects have to fight for their rights and pay for them. That’s fundamentally unfair. And I’m not doing this just to benefit myself – I’m doing it so that other individuals like me who work alone won’t be disadvantaged by large companies with large budgets.
REPEAT 2
Three
Gennaro Naddeo is an unusual sort of artist. For a start his creations rarely survive more than a few weeks, and sometimes as little as a few hours. They either go stale, or they melt, or else they are devoured by the very people who most admire and appreciate them. Not surprising really, since his materials of choice are butter, chocolate, cake and sugar. With the help of a freezer his work would find itself in an art gallery. But Naddeo has
very modest ambitions and the highest compliment he can hope to be paid is to have his works sliced up and swallowed.
REPEAT 3
Four
I know you really want to go on this climbing holiday, but will there be anyone with you who is a qualified climber, a guide? You hear of so many people getting into difficulties and on TV they’re always warning people not to go alone into the mountains. Contact the mountain guide service, tell them where you’re going and ask for information about the region. Get as much information as you can and then talk to me about it again.
REPEAT 4
Five
Well, basically, in Western countries the retired population is split. There’s a significant minority who are really quite well off, and so they have consumer power, and we now see businesses like holiday companies, for example, targeting this group. But even the significant majority who are living off their pensions or savings and trying to make ends meet, are collectively powerful because there are so many of them, and they are
demanding more specialised products from manufacturers who are having to design more of their products for people of this age range.
REPEAT 5
Six
Int: Was there a particular moment in your life when you thought – this is the job for me?
Chef: Well not really. My mother used to put these meals on the table that were inedible. Pastry that you couldn’t cut through … rice that came out of a pan in a lump.
Int: So it was a case of having to!
Chef: If we wanted to eat, yes. Of course, I realised eventually, ‘Hey, I could do this’. I knew how to make things taste good. And that’s what I wanted to build on when I went
to college. Even though at the time, I found it a bit of a chore, you know, getting home from school you just wanted to go out with your mates.
REPEAT 6
Seven
For girls, it’s never a case of going down the road to the nearest club, you have to find a club and travel to it. There aren’t many so you have to make the effort. When people ask, ‘Are you sporty?’ I don’t always admit to playing football. Somehow I feel awkward. Some females say, ‘I can’t understand why you do it, you’ll get all dirty.’ I started playing competitively when I was nine years old. There were some negative responses at first, but
when people saw me play, they realised that once I’m on the field, I know exactly what I’m doing.
REPEAT 7
Eight
The engine’s full of water at the moment, it’s very doubtful if any of the trucks can get across the river in this weather. The alternative is to carry all the stuff across using the old footbridge, which is perfectly possible … just rather a slow business … and then use horses rather than trucks for the rest of the trip; all the way instead of just the last 10 or 15 kilometres as was our original intention. We can always pick up the vehicles again on the way back down. They’ll be safe enough here.
REPEAT 8
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