Cambridge English Listening LAKE PANE CAMPGROUND, US BOOKINGS Practice Test with Answers || Official

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you will listen to several different recordings and have to answer questions about what you hear there will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have the opportunity to check your work all recordings will be played once Only at the end of the

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you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your

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to an answer sheet. You will hear a woman talking on the phone with the camp manager. First she will have some time to review questions one through five. Now we will begin. You must answer the questions while

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because you will not listen to the recording a second time.

Listen carefully and answer questions one to five. Hello Lake Payne Campground, can I help you? Oh, hello, yes. I wonder if we could reserve a spot at your

campground

? My computer is down right now so I just need to get a form. Okay, how many nights would you like to stay? Well, ideally we would like to stay five, five nights. Okay, so when do you plan to arrive? Well, we will be. We've been traveling in the area since mid-July and think we'll be at the

lake

around the 24th. Let's see, July is a busy time. We could probably accommodate you, but to be honest, if you want five nights, it would be better to get it.

Here a day before, we have a large group that will come at the end of the month. Okay, 23 is fine. We weren't sure. So awesome. Do you just want a place to park and pitch a tent or do you have an RV? A mobile home, yes. you know, an RV, a camper, okay, yeah, we drive a van, so okay, so what's it called? That's where we're from. I was going to ask if you were in the UK. It's a very good line, isn't it? Yes, would this be your contact number? Yes, it's 07968 355 630. Great, thanks. Do you want my house number too?

No. It's okay, we provide a series of facilities. I don't know if you're familiar with the way camps work here. It would be nice if you could explain well that you are coming in the motorhome. So would you like to connect to our electricity Oh yes please, you can also connect your vehicle to the water taps here. I hope it's easy to do. Yes, you just plug in the electricity and turn on the water. The people who rent the RVs will explain everything to you. And what happens to the waste? water, sure they can have a place with a sewer or I think you guys call it drainage, that's a little extra, not all

campground

s have that facility, see well we'll have it, so what's the turtle?

And before they hear the rest of the conversation. You have some time to look at questions six through ten. Now listen and answer questions six to ten. Okay, I've assigned you a spot, so you need to write down the code. I'll just get a pen. Most of our sites are coded using letters and numbers ew or sew so yours is one of the sew sites and it is number 47. I understand that that is the area that has all the requirements you need. It's easy to find when you get there. What time will you arrive? IM not going to do it.

Sure, but it could be quite late. Okay, so the reception might be closed. We close at six. Alright. I'll tell you where to go when you enter the campground entrance. You will see our office passing through the main door. There is another office next door. to ours, that's the business office, yes, and there's a pool behind it, okay, it'll be good to swim, it's open late, so feel free to use it, keep going past all those to the end of the track at the top, you will reach. At the end there is a laundromat, okay, turn left at the laundromat and you will see your own spot right in front of you.

They are all clearly labeled, that sounds easy enough right before you hang up. We have had some problems. with campers with things lying around, well, it may be careless, but we ask our visitors to take away all their rubbish, of course, otherwise someone has to clean it up, that's right, in the morning too, you know , we have bathrooms and once. The reception is open. You can get a key for the shower. You can keep it while you're on site, but could you return it when you leave? I'll make sure we get it back to you. Yes, otherwise we won't do it.

I don't have enough for everyone. Well thank you very much. See you soon. Yes bye. Now you have half a minute to check your

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. You will hear someone talking on the radio about colors. Now you have time to look at questions 11 to 14. Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14. Well, it's a colorful start to the day at db radio kathy, what do you have to tell us? Thanks Brian, today I thought I would talk about two areas where color plays a very important role in our lives. lives and it's food and fashion, so let's start with food and, more specifically, food coloring.

Nowadays, in many parts of the world people like the food they buy to be the right color, so if we buy canned or tinned vegetables, such as peas, it is very likely that the content has been improved by using coloring agents, you could say peas are naturally green, but they may not be completely green or the nicest shade of green, so one or two natural additives can quickly fix that. Just like the mint green ice cream we buy our kids, kids are a huge food market and are easily tempted by color. Breakfast cereals, for example, which come in various shades of brown, are often modified with caramel, a natural brown coloring derived from caramelized sugar, this also gives the cereals a bright, delicious appeal that is enormously tempting to the consumers.

In fact, natural food coloring goes back a long way. One of the oldest or perhaps best-known natural food dyes is red or cochineal, named after The insects used to make it the Aztec Indians created a crimson dye from the crushed bodies of beetles. Cochineal is very expensive to produce, so it was unpopular with consumers for some years, but health concerns linking artificial red dyes with cancer have meant that more shoppers are buying cochineal again now. There is a food color that manufacturers use with some caution and that is blue. Our ancestors believed that foods of this color were dangerous.

If you think about it, very few natural foods are blue and, in fact, there is little demand for this color. If you're trying to lose weight, experts suggest putting your food on a blue plate; you will almost certainly kill your appetite. Before

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to the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20. Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20. 20. Okay, let's look at another area where color is a key issue. If you say you bought something new to wear, often the first question people will ask you is what color it is, but the answer doesn't necessarily indicate that the color was yours. preferred choice as consumers we have to balance how we feel about certain colors with what is in fashion the moment you think you have suddenly developed the desire to wear orange when in reality the stores are full of orange and you end up buying an orange shirt which may or may not suit you simply because it is the color of this season, the interesting thing here is that the colorists, as they are called in the business, have to look ahead and say what color the models will wear in the fashion shows several years in advance.

To do it right, they have to consider how long it will take to produce fabric dyes, they must establish agreements with suppliers and take into account the constant changes in consumer tastes, so what appears to be this season's color is actually has agreed for years. before, so what do we think about the colors we use? Like everything, our tastes change with age in general, although we believe that black makes people look and feel thinner, while red, on the contrary, white goes with everything, while yellow is more difficult to match and nothing alters the fact that there are certain colors that we never feel comfortable wearing and finally, whether it is food or fashion, anyone in the business field knows that it is not enough to give a product the right color, even Packaging must be carefully designed to maximize this.

For sales, it is not good to, for example, wrap an item in brown paper if you want it to stand out much better, opt for bold colors or, in fact, in today's world green has become very popular because it promotes the idea of That the company cares about the environment, in addition to its products, companies also have to think about the people who come up with the ideas. If you surround your workers with drab colors, they will come up with equally boring ideas. This is not rocket science. We used to associate red with creativity. in business, but according to a recent study it turns out that blue is a much better stimulus for creative thinking, so the color is not all bad.

Now you have half a minute to check your answers. First you will hear a tutor and two students talk about international student mobility. you have some time to look at questions 21-26 now listen carefully and answer questions 21-26 hello nils hello eva come in and sit down you wanted to talk about your research work, that's right, yes, we have drawn up an outline for the introduction and carried out some preliminary interviews and how it went. We have found some interesting finds. Okay, let's review what you've done so far. Which is the topic? So, we are doing our document on international student mobility that we are looking at.

The big picture is knowing where foreign students go to study in the world and why, and we think the change of images sounds interesting. The first thing we've looked at is the numbers and as part of that, how many students are there in total? Studying outside your own country seems easy, it seems that there are around three million, yes, but the problem is that the definition of the term international student varies depending on the country, yes, and that is why the figure could be much higher. I see our next question was, well, I wanted to know what the breakdown of the numbers is around the world.

You know how many students go where, but we're not sure how accurate those numbers are. Yes, although it is the fastest growing higher education sector, some ministries do not include students. in private institutions on your account is quite frustrating anyway. Next we wanted to know where the majority of students come from. This is something that is changing quite rapidly. Well, that would be an interesting point. What is changing. Most people know that the largest group of international students comes. from East Asia, but what we hadn't realized is that US numbers have quadrupled in the last 20 years and many more students from Europe are now also studying abroad.

Uh-huh, yes, we need to look at some more figures. the countries that students are going to and the trends there, yes, our question was really about the destinations of international students and whether they are changing and whether countries like China are providing more higher education opportunities for their own students and for students from places like Britain. This means that higher education is improving. There are high levels of competition, but with that there is also a spirit of exchange. It's not so one-sided anymore. Before listening to the rest of the conversation, you have time to look at questions 27 to 30.

Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30. So you said you had done some preliminary interviews. Yeah, we thought we'd start by talking to some of the international students in our city just to help us design the web interviews we plan to do. Well, we wanted to know if there are common factors that students consider important when choosing a course abroad. Obviously these will vary depending on the international student population, but we think some similar costs could be significant. Surprisingly, many students said they abandoned finances. to their parents, but they wanted to know if their university was good, they said they had decided this by talking to friends at home, not by looking at how many degrees or publications the staff had, that's true, but they were interested in the degrees they were taking and If when they finished their course they would get a good job, what else did you ask them about what kind of incentives they think the home country should offer students to encourage them to return home after graduating?

A very interesting question. What did you find? Many said that if they decided to gain another qualification they would stay or move to a third country to do this. Yes, so it doesn't seem to make much sense to offer scholarships for them to return home to study. What about scholarships for postgraduate research? They were much more popular, especially if the system allowed them to compete individually for them, and many students were eager to return home and get a job if they could be sure that they would have a good income and agood lifestyle for the rest of the year.

For example, they felt that the government should perhaps offer tax breaks so they could afford to live in a nice area. Some countries have created special work zones for incoming graduates, especially in the sciences. Yes, and some of them also include apartment blocks, but the same amount. Of the students we spoke to were art students this didn't seem to appeal well to them, I think it's a good start. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. First you will listen to a lecture about lions. You have some time to Look at questions 31 to 40. Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

As part of this wildlife lecture series, today I am going to talk about lions, their history and some of the works they have been done with lions in In recent years, when we think of lions, we tend to think of Africa, as it is the only area in the world where they still exist in the wild, apart from some small groups in the Indian Forest of Gear, but You might be surprised to know that lions were once practically everywhere on the planet, in fact, if you go back five hundred thousand years, there were more lions roaming the world than there are dogs or monkeys, you could run into one in London, Moscow or Los Angeles, anywhere in Africa, except in the desert.

In fact, the only continents that were and have always been lion-free were the frozen plains of Antarctica, which were obviously too inhospitable for this jungle creature and in Australia, although there is a lot of bush there, which happened well, we know Certainly, as recently as the 19th century, that is, barely 200 years ago, lions were hunted to extinction in some parts of the world, sometimes just for sport, but much earlier. that about 10,000 years ago lions began to disappear from various corners of the world, scientists believe that there was the usual battle with our human ancestors for food in the form of other smaller creatures and that many lions were also killed to make clothing, for so it is possible that the lions have disappeared. of Europe, but there are many prehistoric paintings that attest to its presence and reveal some interesting facts.

Let's take a look. These cave paintings were found in France. The outlines are slightly blurred because they were drawn by hand using materials such as charcoal or ocher, but the images are still very clear and the interesting thing is that as you can see in the past the lines were actually much larger than they are now. up to this man's waist, you may think the size has been exaggerated due to man's fear, but there is plenty of fossil evidence to support the larger proportions these animals once had when you compare them to modern-day African lions. The other curious thing here is that none of the male lines seen in cave paintings like this have the long black or blonde hair around their necks and faces which is called the mane now the lion's mane is another interesting feature of these creatures no one seems to know a lot about it there are none in cave paintings like these and even today the date when the lion's mane first appeared is unknown and there is disagreement among scientists about what its purpose is.

A lot of work has gone into researching this, if you think about it, no other cat has a mane, so why does a lion have one and a lion's mane can be various lengths and colors, not unlike a human's. hair some are long others are short they can be black brown or blonde and can be in good or bad condition what scientists do know is that when lions fight they tend to go for the other's neck and at first this led some researchers to believe that the main acts as a form of protection during battles with neighboring packs, which may be partly true, but not everyone agrees that it is the complete explanation.

A leading expert believes that minds have more to do with attracting females and scaring away males, and has conducted an experiment to test this theory. What he did was make five toy lions and place them in the lions' territory. . He made sure everyone looked different. Some had long, light-colored hair, others had short, dark hair, and so on. He put them in places where they were safe. to be seen and for a while the lions ignored them but finally they approached the models and well the lionesses were attracted to the ones with long, dark manes the male lions not only stayed away from them what interested them were the ones that They had short blonde hair approached them and bit or scratched them quite aggressively.

When the results of this study were compared to the real-world situation, it was found that lions with long, dark minds tend to be the healthiest, while those with short, fair minds are healthier. It is more likely to get injured or sick, so the team concluded that a lion's mind is effectively a status symbol that shows how strong and healthy the line is and, as a result, makes the line more attractive to people. females. Now you have half a minute to check your answers, that is the end of the listening test in the IELTS exam, you will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet you