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now turn to section one section one you
will hear a telephone conversation
between a hotel receptionist and a
customer first you have some time to
look at questions 1 to
five
you will see that there is an example
which has been done for you on this
occasion only the conversation relating
to this will be played
first
good morning Sunset Hotel how may I help
you good morning I just saw an advert in
the paper about your hotel where exactly
is it located we are situated on Sunset
Avenue North of the beach close to many
Scenic spots it is an ideal choice for
travelers interested in sightseeing the
receptionist says the hotel is situated
north of the beach so North has been
been written in the space now we shall
begin you should answer the questions as
you listen because you will not hear the
recording a second time listen carefully
and answer questions 1 to
5 good morning Sunset Hotel how may I
help you good morning I just saw an
advert in the paper about your hotel
where exactly is it located we are
situated on Sunset Avenue North of the
beach close to many Scenic spots it is
an ideal choice for travelers interested
in sightseeing that's great is there a
vacant four bed room we'll be traveling
with our two sons age 9 and 11 so it's
best that we are able to stay in one
room let me check just a moment um we
only have a few four bedrooms and I'm
afraid they are fully booked at the
moment the earliest time available
is August but there might be some left
in July if a previous customer cancels
the reservation oh that'll do how much
would the room cost me it's €
7750 during peak time but the price
would be much lower during off peak
season only 50 so if I book a room right
now is there any discount yes we do
offer a 30% discard for any reservation
made 1 month ahead of schedule
it is a very reasonable price that does
sound tempting does the price include
anything the price includes two
breakfast vouchers per room per day you
can use them at two different
restaurants in our hotel there's also a
20-minute Spa trial available but you
have to book it beforehand at the
concierge or directly at the spa Center
um I'm wondering if there is a hair
dryer in the room it takes ages to dry
my hair without one do a have to bring
one no there is absolutely no need to
bring that for each room is equipped
with a haird dryer but I have to inform
you that towels are not provided you'll
have to bring your own or hire some at
the front desk oh I
see before you hear the rest of the
conversation you have some time to look
at questions 6 to
10
now listen and answer questions 6 to
10 before making a reservation can you
tell me a little bit more about your
hotel sure no problem we aim to please
our guests by providing impeccable
service at all the modern amenities
trying to make them feel at home in the
lounge there are a list of books ranging
from contemporary literature to Classic
poetry free for any guest to read there
is also a games room offering a number
of indoor games including popular board
games like Monopoly as well as the
Beloved table soccer a nice place to go
on rainy days other computers available
in the hotel I might have a few emails
to respond to during my stay there I'm
afraid we currently do not provide any
for our customers however internet is
available within our hotel premises just
use the room number and the guest name
to log in that means I have to bring my
own laptop then all right um because I'm
traveling with my two sons is there
anything that they might be interested
in yes a popular activity here for
children is collecting shells on the
beach our hotel has a private beach when
there are very few visitors you can take
a stroll down the beach with your
children and enjoy some quality family
time undisturbed that sounds nice but
you see my boys really love Adventure is
there something more exciting for them
to participate in we do have bicycles
ready for hire you can cycle with the
boys along the bush Track by the hotel
which is an ideal place to explore the
wonders of nature but because there is
only a limited number of bicycles
we apply a first come first served rule
got it I think my boys would love it how
can I arrange the payment then can I pay
by credit card of course we take credit
cards thank you you've been a great help
my pleasure
momam that is the end of section one you
now have half a minute to check your
answers
you will hear a speech given to new
employees at a museum you have 30
seconds to look at questions 11
to13
allow me to introduce myself my name is
Peter Meers and on behalf of everybody
here at Stevens Bridge dungeons I would
like to welcome you all to our
entertainment team this year the hiring
process was especially competitive and
it might interest you all to know that
for every position there were almost 30
applicants so you really are the best of
the
best in a moment I will take you on a
tour of the museum so you can get an
idea of what the space is like but first
of all I would like to show you around
the staff
room our staff room is located at the
back of the building over here you will
notice that there are two entrances to
the staff room one leads to the room
we're in now which is the main and
oldest dungeon here at Stevens Bridge
which we have turned into the museum
this is where you will greet the the new
visitors and also where the tour
throughout the dungeons will begin I
should mention now that we only ever
send visitors through as part of a group
so even on the busy days you will still
get roughly 10 minutes of free time
between each group make sure you use
that time wisely because you'll need to
get straight back into character as soon
as it's
over you now have 30 seconds to look at
questions 14 to
18
right follow me and I'll show you the
layout of the
museum from the museum we can pass
through this door near the interactive
display into the staff room from here
you can see the steps at the far side in
the opposite corner that lead outside
into baric Street when you arrive for a
shift it will be much easier for you all
to come in the baric street entrance
directly down the steps to the staff
room if you come in through the main
visitor entrance it will take you longer
to get past
security as as you can all see there are
lockers on your right hand side they
should be big enough for you to put your
bags and coats in you'll get given Keys
later that work with any of the Lockers
in here over on the other side past the
lockers is our most exciting area this
is where our wardrobe and makeup will
take place every shift you will be
transformed from normal people into
grotesque medeval prisoners if you're
lucky you get to be the Jailer but even
they rarely bathed in those days
of course some of you might consider
yourselves method actors but please do
try to shower before your shift we don't
want to give visitors an experience
that's too
authentic now we do have a staff shower
here if you really need it it is located
next to the staff toilets which are
unisex I hope nobody has too much of a
problem with that unfortunately dungeons
were not really designed with comfort in
mind you can find the bathroom at the
other end of the room from the makeup
area there is also another toilet for
the public concealed just to the right
of the door into this
room let's move back into the museum we
have three main sections down here the
first one you pass into when you leave
the staff room is the museum this is
where all the useful information can be
found such as dates number of prisoners
and the kinds of torture that we used I
know it's a lot of information to take
in on your first day but try to learn as
much of it as you can even though you'll
mostly be in character visitors might
want to ask you some questions and it
would be great if you could tell them
more about the dungeons I think it would
be more interesting if visitors could
learn directly from you rather than
having to read about
it as you can see on the left we have an
interactive display for children and on
the right we have a photo
booth this was the original dungeon
first built in 1434 5 now let's pass
through into the main dungeon that was
added during the Tuda period in around
1570 you might be able to feel that the
air is a lot damper and cooler here that
is because we are now beneath the river
Stevens this is primarily the room in
which most of you will be working this
is where many high-profile religious
figures were held sometimes for years on
end depending on the roles you'll be
playing you can either be chained up
free to roam or if you're a Jailer
wandering between prisoners to keep an
eye on
them you now have 30 seconds to look at
questions 19 to
20
now we will pass into our third and
final section the prison cells over here
you can see there are some wooden stocks
and a fake jibbit don't worry I can see
a couple of you looking concerned you
don't need to reenact any of the torture
scenes for
visitors one person each shift will play
the Jailer in here where you'll give a
speech to the group about some of the
more notable prisoners to stay here in
the past this is usually the end of the
tour but some visitors will certainly
want to ask you more questions at this
point so please try your best to make
yourselves available help them by
answering any questions they have also
feel free to guide the visitors through
the museum if you see that they're going
the wrong
way this concludes our introduction to
your new workplace if you'll please
follow me I will get you all issued with
your keys and some information about the
dungeons that you can take home with you
to study I will also introduce you to
your shift supervisor Alice Styles and
you can ask her any questions you may
have about your
roles
three section
three you will hear Jim and Jane two
students talking about their professor's
lecture first you have some time to look
at questions 21 to
25
now listen carefully and answer
questions 21 to
25 Jane what did you think of Professor
Morgan's lecture I don't know about you
but I find it incredibly difficult to
believe that light influences the
environment as much as he
says I've never seen any Journal
articles websites or anything that
verifies his arguments it's stupid on
the cont contrary I've seen a great deal
of research supporting his argument from
a wide range of renowned scientists have
you looked at the recommended textbook
listed on the course outline given to us
at the beginning of the semester all the
information is in there perhaps you've
just been looking in the wrong
places I never look at the course
outlines I have so many loose sheets of
paper I tend to lose anything I'm given
by the end of the day what's the
textbook they recommend and where can I
get it from I should probably go buy it
soon I'm already behind in the course
yeah you definitely should buy it and
our grades are more important this year
it's called the influence of light on
the
environment you should be able to find
it in the Bookshop on campus if not
they'll order it within 2
weeks in the meantime you should read up
on Ken Simpson's work he argues that in
order to protect natural habitats
governments should Endeavor to turn off
lights in cities at night well that's
controversial I doubt any government
would be willing to do that anytime soon
I imagine roads would become quite
dangerous without Street lighting for
this issue Dave Kepler suggests they
could just replace the existing lights
with more environmentally friendly
bulbs they could even in stall solar
powered lights that way roads will be
more eco-friendly while maintaining
safety although I guess they wouldn't be
particularly effective in colder
countries especially during the winter
that's quite a good idea actually the
price of solar power is supposed to be
on par with electricity within the next
few decades and it was on the news this
morning I've also heard that according
to Sharon Gray in country countries with
more sunlight insect eating animals tend
to be smaller in size since there are
fewer insects and the remaining insects
produced a smaller number of eggs yeah I
think I read somewhere that sunlight
also has a negative effect on the
quality of water but I'm not sure I
believe it in many hot countries
particularly developing countries there
is a lot of water pollution caused by
factories rather than sunlight
nevertheless Maria Jackson says that in
direct sunlight the surface of the water
becomes more
translucent therefore it affects the
amount of sunlight that aquatic insects
can
absorb not much research has been
undertaken to prove Jackson's Theory but
it seems to have been widely accepted
anyway I've never heard of that I'll
have to look it up on
Google the only other Theory I studied
is Barbara swallow's study on how how a
declined insect population adversely
affects the Frog
population not that I'm complaining I
hate insects especially spiders you have
Arachnophobia I never would have guessed
didn't your brother have a pet black
widow spider yes he did and I hated it
it escaped from its cage once and we
never found it I had nightmares for
months before you hear the r rest of the
conversation you have some time to look
at questions 26 to
30 now listen and answer questions 26 to
30
okay now I'm getting Goosebumps let's
change the subject what's your stance on
natural and artificial light honestly
I'm not sure it makes much difference
which one you use species will die out
either way I think the real argument we
should consider is global warming and
protection or replacement of finite
fuels solar power provides us with an
incred rible opportunity to replace
electricity and governments should
definitely increase spending on Research
in this field the theories discussed in
our lectures like Simpsons and Grays are
so vague and lack proof so I don't
understand why we even study them I see
what you mean I don't like learning
unsupported theories for exams and I'd
rather spend my time learning something
else for example I'd be much more
interested in studying the animals in
Safari Parks than researching migratory
Birds particularly the effect of
tourists on the quality of life of
animals as we know every year thousands
of visitors will drive in their own
vehicles or riding Vehicles provided by
the facility to observe freely roaming
animals yeah that would be really
interesting especially those animals
living in more tropical countries like
Borneo
following on from that I want to study
how bringing animals over from foreign
countries to put in our zoos affects
their life
expectancy for example do you remember
when China sent pandas to Edinburgh zooo
Apparently one of the pandas became
depressed but it was never explained why
to me obviously you can't take an animal
out of its natural habitat and put it in
a cage on the other side of the world it
just doesn't
work that is the end of section three
you now have half a minute to check your
answers
you will hear a Biology lecture about
tubaria you have 30 seconds to look at
questions 31 to
33
hello everyone I'm glad so many people
have shown up here today to hear about
these fascinating Little Creatures
called the
turbia my name is Dr Baker and I've
spent 20 years researching thousands of
different species of platty helments
what are commonly known as flat worms
both free living and
parasitic so there are a lot of things I
could tell you about these extremely
interesting in vertebrae but I will try
to keep it
short tural areia are unique amongst
flatworms in three ways the first one is
that unlike 80% of all platty helments
tural areia do not need to secure
nourishment from a living Source this
means that they do not generally
parasitize a host but are instead found
living freely in the
environment so no need to worry about
any of these little samples I've got
here escaping and causing Havoc the
second way in which they're different is
that they are well they're incredibly
simple and by simple I don't mean in
terms of structure as their structure is
indeed quite complex and I'll get to
that later by simple I mean that they're
not the brightest bulbs in the
box flat worms in general are not known
for their cognitive abilities especially
when compared with other invertebrates
such as cuttlefish or octopuses or even
insects but amongst flatworms turbia are
by far the most primitive of the
bunch finally and this is a direct
result of the first thing I mentioned
turbellaria tend to have a much more
complicated sensory system in their head
region this includes a set of eyes with
receptors that can detect light as well
as chemical sensory organs that assist
tural areia in locating food obviously
as other flatworms receive nutrition
directly from their host they have no
need for
this you now have 30 seconds to look at
questions 34 to
38
despite these three differences however
tural areia are quite similar to other
flatworms in all sorts of other
ways first of all as their name suggests
they're incredibly flat which allows
them to hide under
Stones they're symmetrical on both sides
and they don't have a body cavity they
also don't have any specialized
respiratory skeletal and circulatory
systems what they do have however and
this is what I meant when I referenced
their structure before is three layers
known as the endoderm the mism and the
ectoderm as well as a head region where
their brain and sense organs are located
and a spongy connective tissue that
fills all the space between their organs
finally like most species of flat worms
they're
hermaphrodites this means that a single
flat worm has a set of each gender but
don't take this to mean they reproduce
alone their preferred method of
reproduction is called cross
fertilization which means that each flat
worm fertilizes the
other I mentioned before that most
flatworms need a host but tural areia
feed from the environment so what do
they feed on most tural areia can be
found either in fresh or salt water and
they feed on small insects microscopic
matter and crustacea
they will pretty much eat anything they
find they have no preference on whether
their food is living or dead also and
this is the most remarkable part about
their eating
habits also and this is the most
remarkable part about their eating
habits if they ever find themselves in a
situation where food is scarce they
might also feed on
themselves that's right they'll start
eating their own body starting with the
least essential muscles and organs and
working their way up they will shrink in
size and until they're able to find food
again at which point they'll begin to
regenerate everything they've
lost one final thing about food and
apologies in advance if I disgusted you
tural areia don't possess an anus which
means that their mouth which is a
muscular opening on the underside of
their body has to serve as
one you now have 30 seconds to look at
questions 39 to
40
before I finish this presentation one
more thing you've probably heard before
but weren't sure if it was a myth or
not I mentioned already that turbia can
reproduce on their own but there's a
second method they can use which is
known as
fishen now as a child you were probably
told that if you cut a worm in half it
will grow into two new worms that's not
entirely true but flat worms are not
worms exactly and they do have the
ability to regenerate by splitting into
two perhaps even more smaller parts at
which point each part regrows the ing
organs and becomes a brand new turolian
now this is extremely important for us
and this is how I'd like to close this
presentation because their ability to
regenerate endlessly makes them
virtually Immortal and it might open
Pathways to Regeneration in human cells
or slowing the human aging process which
is why scientists like myself have been
studying these unique creatures hoping
to get some
answers thank you for listening and
please come long to see
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