Cambridge Book 15 Listening 3

Part 1: Questions 1-10

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Employment agency: Possible jobs

First job
Administrative assistant in a company that produces (1) __________ (North London)

Responsibilities
• Data entry
• Go to (2) __________ and take notes
• General admin
• Management of (3) __________

Requirements
• Good computer skills including spreadsheets
• Good interpersonal skills
• Attention to (4) __________

Experience
• Need a minimum of (5) __________ of experience of teleconferencing

Second job
Warehouse assistant in South London

Responsibilities
• Stock management
• Managing (6) __________

Requirements
• Ability to work with numbers
• Good computer skills
• Very organized and (7) __________
• Good communication skills
• Used to working in a (8) __________
• Able to cope with items that are (9) __________

Need experience of
• Driving in London
• Warehouse work
• (10) __________ service

Part 2: Questions 11-20

Questions 11-16. Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

Street Play Scheme

11. When did the Street Play Scheme first take place?
A. two years ago
B. three years ago
C. six years ago

12. How often is Beechwood Road closed to traffic now?
A. once a week
B. on Saturdays and Sundays
C. once a month

13. Who is responsible for closing the road?
A. a council official
B. the police
C. local wardens

14. Residents who want to use their cars
A. have to park in another street
B. must drive very slowly
C. need permission from a warden

15. Alice says that Street Play Schemes are most needed in
A. wealthy areas
B. quiet suburban areas
C. areas with heavy traffic

16. What has been the reaction of residents who are not parents?
A. many of them were unhappy at first
B. they like seeing children play in the street
C. they are surprised by the lack of noise

Questions 17 and 18
Choose TWO letters A-E. Which TWO benefits for children does Alice think are the most important?
A. increased physical activity
B. increased sense of independence
C. opportunity to learn new games
D. opportunity to be part of a community
E. opportunity to make new friends

Questions 19 and 20
Choose TWO letters A-E. Which TWO results of the King Street experiment surprised Alice?
A. more shoppers
B. improved safety
C. less air pollution
D. more relaxed atmosphere
E. less noise pollution

Part 3: Questions 21-30

Questions 21-26. Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
What Hazel should analyse about items in newspapers:
• What (21) __________ the item is on
• The (22) __________ of the item, including the headline
• Any (23) __________ accompanying the item
• The (24) __________ of the item e.g. what’s made prominent
• The writer’s main (25) __________
• The (26) __________ the writer may make about the reader

Questions 27-30
What does Hazel decide to do about each of the following types of articles? Write the correct letter A, B or C for questions 27-30.

Part 4: Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Early history of keeping clean

Prehistoric times:
• Water was used to wash off (31) __________

Ancient Babylon:
• Soap like material found in (32) __________ cylinders

Ancient Greece:
• People cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
• Used a strigil – scraper made of (33) __________
• Washed clothes in streams

Ancient Germany and Gaul:
• Used soap to colour their (34) __________

Ancient Rome:
• Animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes
• From about 312 BC, water carried to Roman (35) __________ by aqueducts

Europe in Middle Ages:
• Decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of (36) __________
• (37) __________ began to be added to soap

Europe from 17th century:
• 1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual
• 1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from (38) __________
• Early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a (39) __________
• From 1800s, there was no longer a (40) __________ on soap