SECTION I. LISTENING (50 points) Part 1: You will hear an interview with the presenter of a popular radio series about food and cooking. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. The recording will be played TWICE. (10 pts)
1. What has made “Just a taste” so popular? A. it gives advice about how to cook traditional dishes. B. it features interviews with professional chefs. C. it takes a humorous approach. D. it presents food and cooking in a more personal light. 2. The presenter of the programme believes that smells ______. A. will one day be made available to listeners B. can never be part of a radio cookery programme C. are more important than sounds in the kitchen D. cannot be successfully imagined by listeners 3. What makes describing a dish particularly difficult? A. There are too many ingredients to describe. B. Listeners are mainly interested in what they should be aiming for. C. There is a lack of appropriate vocabulary. D. Each stage of the cooking process needs to be described. 4. The presenter of the series mentions Iceland because ______. A. it has a particularly unusual cuisine B. fish-based dishes are particularly popular there C. it has turned natural features to its advantage D. it produces large quantities of fruit and vegetables 5. The spices asafoetida and turmeric are used in South India cooking ______. A. mainly for their therapeutic properties B. mainly for their taste C. by filtering them into the food D. it produces large quantities of fruit and vegetables Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5 Part 2: You will hear a lecture on the importance of laughter. For questions 6-11, complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer: The recording will be played TWICE. (12 pts)
LAUGHTER * The nature of laughter - Laughter is a (6) ______________ process- involves movement and sound. - It is controlled by our (7) ______________.
* Reasons for laughter - Only 10 % of laughter is caused by jokes/ funny stories. - May have begun as sign of (8) ______________ after a dangerous situation. - Nowadays, may help to develop (9) ______________ within a group. - Connected to (10) ______________ (e.g. use of humor by politicians or bosses) - May be related to male/ female differences (e.g.women laugh more at male speakers) - May be used in a (11) ______________ way to keep someone out of a group.
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6. ______________________ 9. ________________________ 7. ______________________ 10. _______________________ 8. ______________________ 11. _______________________ Part 3. Listen to the lecture and decide if the following statements are T or F. The recording will be played TWICE. (10 pts) 12. The lectures aim to raise students’ awareness of psychological features in learning process. 13. Theory of multiple intelligence appeared before Gardner’s theory. 14. A person with kinaesthetic intelligence is good at bodily motion. 15. Being sensitive to others’ feelings is known as interpersonal intelligence. 16. Visually intelligent learners like learning through diagrams. Your answers:
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Part 4. Listen to the recording about ozone layer and fill in the gap with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording. The recording will be played TWICE. (18 pts)
17. The ozone layer plays an indispensable role in the Earth’s _________________ that takes in the sun’s precarious radiation 18. As a result of ill-adviced choices. human have created a considerable hole that destroys this _________________. 19. Between three months from September to December, this ominous hole covers most of Antarctica, which results in _________________ where half of the ozone layer has disappeared. 20. The decline in the quantity of ozone since the late 1970s can be ascribed to the continual use of _________________, which can be identified in hairspray or deorderant. 21. What if the ozone destruction was _________________ and the life facilitating …
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