Paper 4 Listening (about 45 minutes)

Ta część składa się z czterech zadań, które sprawdzają różne aspekty umiejętności rozumienia tekstu słyszanego. Materiał do słuchania stanowią różnego typu i różnej długości nagrania, w których bierze udział jedna lub więcej osób. Osoby te mogą reprezentować różne akcenty, odpowiadające standardowym akcentom rodzimych użytkowników języka angielskiego. Często wypowiedziom towarzyszą inne dźwięki, które dostarczają dodatkowych informacji. Każdą część usłyszysz dwukrotnie, wyjątek stanowi część druga, którą usłyszysz tylko raz.

Zadanie 1. Sentence completion, note-taking. Uzupełnianie zdań, robienie notatek. Dwukrotnie usłyszysz monolog, zapowiedź, fragment audycji radiowej, fragment wykładu itp. Masz uzupełnić notatkę jednym słowem lub frazą.

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Part 1

Candy Watkins works in the tourist office of a small town in the west of England. Each morning her first job is to check the messages on the telephone answering machine for her boss, Heather. Look at her notes below and complete the information for questions 1-9.

You will hear the recording twice.

Tapescript

V1: [answerphone] This is Hensham Tourist Office. We are sorry there is no one to take your call at the moment. Please leave a message after the tone, or call again during office opening hours, which are 9.30 to 4, Monday to Friday. Thank you.

V2: Oh, eh, this is er, Ed Benkel here. Erm, we'd like, er that is, the wife and I, er, that's, Mr and Mrs Benkel, er, we'd like to make a booking through you, er, we're over from New Zealand and we want to stay in Hensham for three nights, er, in bed and breakfast, er, we'd like to stay in a farmhouse, er, not in the town, er, starting Friday. Can you fix that? Er, I'll call you tomorrow to confirm. Thank you.

V3: Durham here. Monty Durham. Henmouth Festival Office. Right. We've got the posters for the festival. That is, the printer fellow's got 'em. He'll deliver direct to you, save a lot of hassle. So, question is, how many do you want? Okey-Jokey? Be in touch.

V4: Erm, I'm phoning on behalf of Oxbow Players, er, you know, drama group? You very kindly agreed, erm, to publicise our production this summer, so I'm phoning to tell you, erm, about it. Erm, it's called 'Late Flowering', it's a comedy, at least it's supposed to be. We'll be doing it at the usual venue, that's Hensham Community Centre of course, and er, thank you for er - oh, yes, it'll be the third to the ninth of August. Er, thank you very much.

V5: Erm, Mum? I mean, Candy, can you let Mum, I mean Heather, know that I'll be late? They've changed the time of my driving lesson from half past ten to half past twelve, so I'll get the eleven o`clock bus, but I want a lift home so I'll come to the office at quarter to two, so can you, I mean she, wait for me? Thanks.

Louise Hashemi, CAE Practice Tests 2, wyd. Cambridge University Press 1998

Zadanie 2. Note-taking, sentence completion. Uzupełnianie zdań, robienie notatek. Monolog, który usłyszysz tylko jeden raz. Czasami mogą być wtrącenia innego rozmówcy. Należy uzupełnić notatkę jednym słowem lub frazą.

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Part 2

You will hear an introduction to a course in Business Management Today. For questions 11-21, complete the information.

Listen very carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only.

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT TODAY

Seminar/Workshop Programme

MARKETING 11 ...................

12 ................... Bishop's Hall One

STRATEGIC PLANNING Bishop's Hall Two

HUMAN RESOURCES 13 ...................

TIMETABLE LOCATION

9.30 - 11.30 Convocation Hall

Coffee and biscuits 14 ...................

11.30 - 1.00 15 ...................

Lunch 16 ...................

2.00 - 3.30 17 ...................

Tea and biscuits

4.00 - 5.30 18 ...................

5.30 - 6.30 19 ...................

NB Books and resource materials

on display in 20 ...................

Centre closes 21 ...................

Tapescript

Man: Good morning and welcome to our course on `Business Management Today'. I hope you've all registered and obtained your name badges and information packs. I would like to point out some additional information and changes to the agenda you will find in your packs. The four seminar workshops are now as follows:

Room Six - 'Marketing'.

Bishop's Hall One - 'Communications', which replaces 'Taxation'.

Bishop's Hall Two - 'Strategic Planning', which now includes small businesses, as well as large companies.

Room Five - `Human Resources'.

I'll just run through that again. 'Marketing' is in Room Six. In Bishop's Hall One we have a change to the original programme, and 'Taxation' has been replaced by 'Communications'. 'Strategic Planning' in Bishop's Hall Two now includes small businesses, and Room Five is 'Human Resources'.

We will stay in the Convocation Hall for the first morning session, which runs from nine-thirty till eleven o'clock, when we shall all meet up in the Memorial Hall for coffee and biscuits.

The eleven-thirty session will be held in Bishop's Hall One.

A buffet lunch will be held in the self-service restaurant from one to two. We are hoping that this system will prove quicker than waitress service, and ensure a prompt start to the afternoon session which begins in Bishop's Hall Two at two o'clock and runs to three-thirty. Please note, however, that we shall be in Room Five for the four to five-thirty session.

Tea and biscuits will be brought to you between three-thirty to four o'clock.

At five-thirty, we invite you all to the Assembly Hall for an hour's general forum. There will be time for questions based on the day's sessions. This session in the Assembly Hall is intended to give you an opportunity to clarify any problem areas which may have arisen during the day and to ask any questions you may have. There will be a general exhibition of books and resource materials in the Abbey Room, which will be open for the whole day. Anyone interested in purchasing any of these materials will be able to order them at the various stands.

Please feel free to visit the Abbey Room at any time during the day up until the Centre closes at seven-thirty pm.

May I draw your attention to the fact that notes accompanying the seminars will be provided by the speakers. It is therefore not necessary . . .

[pause]

Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 3, Examination Papers from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, wyd. Cambridge University Press 2001,

Zadanie 3. Multiple choice or sentence completion. Test wielokrotnego wyboru lub uzupełnianie zdań.

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Part 3

Your will hear part of a radio programme about dancing. For questions 17-22, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.

You will hear the recording twice.

17

What makes Shirley dance?

A certain types of music

B other people dancing

C the beat of music

D being in a good mood

18

How does Tony choose which song to play first?

A according to the age of the crowd

B according to the atmosphere in the place

C according to musical fashions at the time

D according to the type of event it is

19

What happens at some company dances, according to Tony?

A People feel obliged to dance.

B The bosses don't dance.

C There is more talking than dancing.

D People are too shy to dance.

20

According to Emma, why is dancing important to young people?

A It gives them a sense of identity.

B It reflects their cultural background.

C They have more energy than older people.

D They gain a greater understanding of music.

21

Emma believes that musical taste

A shows there are no barriers between people.

B is a reflection of cultural influences.

C reflects people's political views.

D shows how individual people are.

22

What is Tony's opinion of dancing?

A It brings all social classes together.

B it makes young people happy.

C It enables people to make friends.

D It can be enjoyed by everyone.

Tapescript

Presenter: Most of us dance at some time or other, but do you ever wonder why? What is it that makes us dance? In this report, that's what I'm looking into and I started at a night club, where I put that question to Shirley, who was just taking a break from the dance floor.

Shirley: It all happens automatically. I don't know the scientific process but it's all to do with the rhythm. I mean, when you hear that drum and bass sound . . . you know . . . the hips start moving and the next thing you know you're dancing. You just feel like it and you have to get up and go with it. I mean, I'll dance to anything. I like everything from the latest sounds right back to the Fifties' rock'n'roll, as long as it's cheerful music.

Presenter: The music is obviously a major factor in making people dance, but is it possible to predict what kind of music a particular crowd will dance to? I asked Tony Leach, who for twenty years has been the leader of a dance band who play at parties, weddings and other social gatherings.

Tony: The time that I decide what our first song is going to be is approximately five seconds before we start it. I look around and I think yes, it feels like a slow song or an old rock'n'roll song or a romantic ballad is right. Sometimes I change my mind later, though.

I might get to the end of a song thinking that we'll do a particular one next and then I see their physical attitudes on the dance floor and I think, `No, wrong' and instantly swap to something else. Sometimes the way people react to a certain song will tell you a lot about the sorts of things they're going to dance to for the rest of the night.

Presenter: So creating the right mood is essential, but according to Tony, what makes us dance can also depend on other things.

Tony: Different social groups have different social rules. There are occasions where it's the done thing to dance and so it almost doesn't matter what's played. Then at other times, perhaps at company dances, you get people who are embarrassed about dancing in front of bosses. So there's one great social divide, which is between people who think you go onto the dance floor in order to make polite conversation with your partner and people who go onto the dance floor to fling their bodies around in time to music.

Presenter: Emma Phillips, a music journalist, thinks that dancing plays a very significant role in the lives of young people in particular.

Emma: There's a massive club scene going on. These kids, they need to release energy and they're doing it by dancing to their own kind of music. I mean, every generation needs its own soundtrack, one that just belongs to them.

Presenter: Emma believes, however, that what gets us on our feet depends not just on age but is also rooted deep within our cultural background.

Emma: I think dancing does break down the barriers but it also reveals some of the barriers. By the very fact that some people only dance to a certain kind of music, that reveals something about them, maybe their social background, you know, whereas other people might get up and dance to anything, which means they're a bit more open-minded about what's going on around them.

Presenter: So, finally, I asked both Tony and Emma, how they would sum up dancing.

Emma: If you look around the world, dance has been a very fulfilling, uplifting and spiritual thing from the beginning of time.

Tony: I think dancing should be seen as a physical reaction to music in a social situation. As long as people are happy then things like embarrassment just don't apply. I think it's the most amazing phenomenon. You only have to play the right music in the right situation and people get on the dance floor. I think it's a basic human instinct.

Presenter: And you might like to know that Tony and his band, The Kings of Swing, will be featured on Radio 2 this evening at 8.30.

Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 4, Examination Papers from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, wyd. Cambridge University Press 2001,

Zadanie 4. Multiple matching, multiple choice - Usłyszysz 5 krótkich, niepowiązanych ze sobą fragmentów. Do każdego z nich musisz dopasować właściwą odpowiedź spośród ośmiu podanych możliwości (multiple matching) lub odpowiedzieć na pytania, wybierając właściwą odpowiedź spośród 3 podanych (multiple choice).

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Part 4

You will hear five short extracts in which different people give their views about various means of communication. Each extract has two questions. For questions 26-35, choose the correct answer A, B or C.

You will hear the recording twice.

26 The first speaker feels that communicating by post is more

A personal.

B reliable.

C impressive.

27 What does he feel about letters sent by fax?

A They are less entertaining.

B They are not worth keeping.

C They are often badly written.

28 How does the second speaker feel about the phone?

A dependent on it

B irritated by it

C resentful of it

29 Why doesn't she like answering machines?

A Strange people leave messages.

B Voices don't sound natural.

C The machine makes odd noises.

30 What annoys the third speaker about mobile phones?

A when they are used

B how they are used

C where they are used

31 When has he been disturbed by mobile phones?

A when at home

B when at work

C when travelling

32 The fourth speaker's uncle

A lived in a place without telephones.

B had the telephone disconnected.

C didn't see the need for a telephone.

33 How did the fourth speaker feel at receiving a telegram?

A excited

B guilty

C embarrassed

34 Why does speaker five prefer the fax to the phone?

A It allows her to work from home.

B She gets a briefer response.

C It doesn't interrupt her work.

35 Why does she find the fax annoying sometimes?

A It makes too much noise.

B It encourages people to be impatient.

C Some of the messages are unclear.

Tapescript 4

Man: Of course, the postal service is greatly menaced by the fax machine which has irresistible but I think, lesser charms. There is a kind of intimacy in a letter, something in the fact of sealing and posting it off which doesn't exist in the fax. When you send a fax you never know who is going to pick it up and read it before passing it on to your correspondent. Also, the charm of a letter is that, if it's a good one, you can always re-read it. Even the letter back in response to a letter one's forgotten writing, carries the ghost of one's youth in it. Whereas, fax paper itself degenerates, in fact, and if you looked at them, I think, a year later, you'd just have a collection of very flimsy, almost blank pages. And that's exactly what they deserve to be!

Woman: I'm a bit of a phone fiend actually. I find it absolutely impossible not to answer and even when I go down to the end of the garden, I still carry it with me in case some totally unimportant person should ring. Although, as you know, telephones don't ring anymore, they bleep. The thing I can't abide, though, is the answering machine. It has such a weird effect on people's voices, the messages are certainly eerie. They have a kind of lifeless tenseness because, I think, they're always heavy with the disappointment of the person not actually having got you, so the message always sounds a bit sulky and demanding.

Man: Ah yes, the mobile phone is either a boon or a beast, depending on whether you've got one or you're surrounded by them. I am an occasional user of one myself actually, on the train. Now, there's a very peculiar thing about mobile phone users. If they're talking to a neighbour, they talk in a normal tone of voice, but if they talk on their mobile phone, for some reason, they shout . . . and it's impossible to read, to work or to take a nap, if somebody in the next part of the compartment is yelling down the phone, asking Ken if he can speak to Tracey and so forth. In fact you can mumble into the thing and still be heard quite clearly at the other end, even from a noisy place.

Man: As a boy, I used to spend summer holidays with a great uncle who lived on a remote island in Scotland. Now, he never even put in for a telephone, though he could have done, and I once said to him, `But how do you talk to people? You must waste a lot of time,' and he replied, `Yes, but it saves a lot of valuable time as well. If a man isn't worth a letter or a visit, he probably isn't worth talking to.' And then of course when my parents wanted to send an urgent message about last-minute changes to my travel plans, they had to send a telegram, which some poor soul had to cycle five miles with from the nearest Post Office. Terribly dramatic for me, of course, but my mother was mortified at causing such a fuss.

Woman: Yes, I couldn't do without a fax in my business, even if I didn't work from home, and the fax, I think, clearly has enormous advantages over the post in that everything can be completed with greater speed, but without the need to respond there and then and so get caught chatting as happens on the phone. But I sometimes dread the fax's arrival, I hate that stuttering and that sort of ah, ah, ah, which seems to go on for a very long time, and when you get there, most of the information is about how many sheets are coming or something of that kind. But when the message is eventually spewed out, it's always urgent and people get quite agitated if you don't reply immediately, even to quite complex questions.

Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 3, Examination Papers from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, wyd. Cambridge University Press 2001,

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