Welcome to your Listening Test 8 Part 1

Czech Tours Booking

Questions 1 and 2.
Choose the correct answer, A, B, or C.

1 How many people will be going on the trip?

A fifteen B seventeen C thirteen None

2 How old are the students?

A over eighteen B over nineteen C over twenty None

Questions 3 to 5

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Czech Tours Booking form

Date of arrival (3)

Date of departure (4)

Type of accommodation: Hostel

Length of stay (nights): (5)

Questions 6 to 10

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Prices of hostels
Charles Bridge Hostel is (6)   Krona/ €30
Castle Hostel £25 / (7) €  
Charles Bridge Phone: 00 420 (8)  
Castle Hostel email (9)  
Opening hours of Charles Bridge: 9 to (10)  

Part 2

Questions 11 to 14
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS for each answer.

New student mentor program: order of events
(11) the students to the Halls of Residence.
Show them their rooms.
Take students on a tour of campus.
Show them the facilities e.g.
(12) , library, doctors, etc.
Bring students to collect their (13)
Take students for dinner in the (14)

Questions 15 to 20

label the map below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

15.	16.
17.	18.
19.	20.

Part 3

Questions 21-25
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

SPACE FOOD ASSIGNMENT

Name of the Class:	(21) Methods
Topic of Presentation	Food issues related to living in space
Due on Date	(22) time
Sources of Research	• Internet • library books • ESA (23)
Students Ideas	• nutritional value of food • (24) of food • astronauts’ food preferences
Location students are focusing on:	The (25) Station (ISS)

Questions 26-28

Write ONE WORD for each answer.

According to the lecturer, the students should also look into:

26 experiments in creating artificial environments on  .

27 the Vietnam War because there is already research into food .

28 how planets that could sustain life might be .

Questions 29-30

Choose the correct letter: A, B, or C.

29 The lecturer wants to see the students the following day with

A a clearer research topic.

B another research topic.

C research from other experts.

None

30 Overall, the lecturer

A thinks the students have done good work.

B does not show how she feels about the students’ work.

C is disappointed with the students’ work.

None

Part 4

Questions 31 to 40
Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Samrukia nessovi

Nature of discovery:	• Two bones found in (31) , in Kazakhstan.  • Bones (32)  to a large bird.  • Lived 100 (33)  years ago – at the same time as dinosaurs.
Previous research:	• Giant (34)  and dinosaurs lived at different times.  • The only bird that lived then was the size of a (35)
Size of Samrukia nessovi	• (36)  was approximately 30cm in length.  • Height of bird: more than (37) metres tall.  • Weight of bird: more than 50 kg – (38)  than an ostrich.
Comparisons	• Elephant bird of Madagascar was (39)  . – 500kg. • Giant Moa of New Zealand was taller – 4 metres.
Questions	• Unknown whether it could (40)  .

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