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LITENING 1

1. Which TWO of the following things will the team do as a group?

A. Write the report

B. Do the presentation
C. Write the questions
D. Carry out the questionnaires

2. How long does the report have to be?

A. A 1000 words
B. B 1000 – 1500 words
C. C 1500 words
D. D 1500 - 2000 words

3. Which of the following aspects of the university will not be investigated by any of the
groups?
A. B. C. D.

4. What can be inferred about cycling at the university?

A. More students cycle than use the bus

B. There is inadequate shelter for bikes at the university
C. Bicycles are often stolen from the bike sheds
D. Students have to pay to use the bike sheds

LISTENING 2

5. The Bell Jar was ...

A. about her father

B. her first novel
C. a very successful collection of poems
D. her last poem
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6. Sylvia Plath’s ‘Collected poems’ ...

A. won the Pulitzer Prize twenty years after it was published

B. won the Pulitzer Prize twenty years after it was published
C. won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982
D. were never published

7. Sylvia’s husband ...

A. made movies
B. died in 2003
C. was also a poet
D. had a movie made about him

8. Susan Bassnett thought Sylvia’s work ...

A. was about her husband

B. wasn’t very good
C. was about work life
D. was of great interest to women

9. Sylvia’s brother ...

A. was two years older than her

B. was born two years after her
C. was a professor at Boston University
D. was a highly educated academic

10. Sylvia Plath’s time at college was difficult because ...

A. she got bad grades

B. she won a scholarship
C. boys didn’t like her
D. she was short of money

11. In 1953 Sylvia ...

A. left New York to get a job as an editor

B. rejected an offer to teach creative writing
C. worked as a guest editor in New York
D. returned to new York because she was depressed
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12. What does the lecturer imply when she says “Very few modern poets have captured the
popular imagination as much as Plath” ...

A. Plath was able to understand the hopes of ordinary people

B. Plath has become very popular
C. It is unusual for a modern poet to become popular with ordinary people
D. Plath’s writing was about modern people and their imagination

13. What does the lecturer imply when she says “This domineering father figure became a
common theme that recurred throughout Plath’s writing.” ...

A. The image of her father appears in many of her poems

B. Plath often wrote of her love for her father
C. Plath writings were dominated by the image of her father
D. Plath’s father often told her what to write about

14. Which THREE sentences best summarise the passage?

A. What's remarkable about Plath's work is that it addresses many women's issues that
were ahead of her time.
B. Plath's father was one of her guiding influences and he supported and mentored her
until he died in 1940.
C. Plath's early life was spent living happily by the sea with her mother who had a part
time job to support the family.
D. The real significance and the greatness of work was never recognised within in her
lifetime.
E. Plath's academic path to success was secured by winning an early scholarship. After
this she never looked back.
F. Plath's work reflects the many of the personal difficulties that she had whilst growing
up and later as a wife and mother.

LISTENING 3

15. Where does the TV show ‘Las Vegas’ take place?

A. In a shopping mall
B. In a police department
C. In a casino
D. In a crime lab
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16. What is a faceprint?

A. a code which identifies a face

B. distinctive curves in the face
C. a 2D image of the face
D. the number of nodal points on the face

17. Identify TWO problems with 2D facial recognition from the list below

A. It is not effective if a picture is dark

B. The person in the photograph must face the camera
C. Facial curves change over time
D. Nodal points cannot be measured

18. What is the problem with the 3D technology?

A. It can only be used when the individual is directly facing the camera
B. The image might change over time
C. It’s impossible to match a 3D image to a 2D image
D. It cannot distinguish between identical twins

19. Which TWO elements below can be measured by Skin Biometric technology?

A. the curve of someone’s chin

B. the texture someone’s skin
C. the existence of lines on the face
D. the distance between the eyes

20. Which of these faces will the Skin Biometric System be UNABLE to identify?
A. B. C. D.
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LISTENING 4

21. What is a borehole?

A. A kind of tunnel
B. A smaller version of the final tunnel
C. A shaft drilled into the ground
D. A tunnel construction method

22. What tunnelling system was used to create the tunnels in the London underground
system?

A. Cut and Cover

B. Boring
C. Top Down
D. Immersed Tube

23. What will the choice of boring machine depend on?

A. A The number of buildings and roads in the area

B. The depth and length of the tunnel
C. The rock type and ground water content
D. The time available to complete the project

24. What is the purpose of ground freezing?

A. It increases the stand-up time

B. It allows tunnels to be built in hard rock
C. It allows water to be pumped out of the ground
D. It softens the rock

25. Which of these tunnel shapes is MOST difficult to support?

A. B. C. D.
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LISTENING 5

26. Which of the following characterise anthropological study before the time of Franz Boas?

A. Few people were interested or involved in anthropological study.

B. Anthropologists were not expected to support their claims with evidence.
C. Anthropology was not studied seriously
D. Data was not collected in a systematic and objective way.

27. How did Boas’s early life influence his work in anthropology?

A. His religious upbringing meant that he was respectful to people from other
backgrounds.
B. His fondness for collecting things inspired him to gather artefacts from little-known
cultures.
C. His liberal upbringing helped him to understand different cultures.
D. His scientific studies ensured that he approached experiments systematically.

28. Why is Charles Darwin mentioned in the talk?

A. Darwin’s work in the natural sciences inspired Boas to study the world around him.
B. Both Darwin and Boas believed that individuals change according to their situations.
C. Darwin and Boas both went on expeditions to study human societies.
D. Both Boas and Darwin believed that humans evolved along a fixed route towards
civilization.

29. What did Boas object to about museums?

A. The type of artefacts that were on display

B. The fact that certain cultures were not represented
C. The fact that some cultures were not considered important.
D. The order in which the displays were laid out

30. What did Boas prove about head shape?

A. Intelligence is not linked to head shape and size.

B. Injuries to the head can alter its shape and size.
C. People in some cultures had larger brains than those in others.
D. The shape and size of people’s heads is not predetermined.
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31. What did Boas make people realise?

A. To study a culture, one can’t be a member of it.

B. Anthropology is broad and covers multiple disciplines.
C. Cultures can be effectively studied at a distance.
D. Many indigenous cultures were being lost to globalization.

LISTENING 6

32. When is this conversation taking place?

A. July
B. before term starts
C. at the beginning of term
D. midway through a term

33. Whose mistake was it that led to the problem?

A. The student’s
B. The warden’s
C. Godfrey White’s
D. The accommodation office

34. Where is the YMCA on the map?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

35. Which of the following TWO things does the accommodation officer provide for the
student?

A. a telephone
B. a map
C. information about bus routes
D. a pen
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LISTENING 7

36. Which of the following has Amir done already?

A. Used the library search engine

B. Reserved some books
C. Used the e-journals
D. Been on a library induction tour

37. On how many days per week are library inductions currently available?

A. 7 days per week

B. 5 days per week
C. 2 days per week
D. 1 day per week

38. What can Amir do on level two?

A. Use the computers

B. Sign up for a library tour
C. Find the electrical engineering books
D. Meet Mark Taylor

39. Where on the library homepage is the link to the database of journals?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

40. What time does the librarian recommend that Amir returns to meet the subject librarian?

A. At around 12.15
B. At around 12.30
C. At around 1.00
D. At around 2.00