Listening Comprehension
You will hear each recording twice. After each listening, you will have time to complete your answers.
Task 1: Jane Eyre
Preparation time: 30 seconds to read the assignment. While reading, you may use a dictionary.
You will hear six statements about the novel Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë.
Choose from the list (A-G) which heading best applies to which statement (1-6). For each heading there is only one correct answer. There is one more heading than you need.
Headings | |
---|---|
A | Global popularity |
B | Controversial life |
C | Strong personality |
D | Limited perspective |
E | Charged with emotions |
F | Similarities and differences |
G | Liberation through literature |
Statement | Headings |
1 | |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
6 |
6 BE
Task 2: Meat grown in a laboratory
Preparation time: 1 minute to read the assignment. While reading, you may use a dictionary.
You will hear an interview with Steve Myrick, vice president of a company in California, producing lab-grown meat from meat cells.
While listening, answer the questions. You need not write complete sentences. Unless otherwise specified, name one aspect.
1.
How was the company able to finance their production?
2.
What are the challenges mentioned? (Name two aspects.)
3.
What are the potential benefits of the new concept? (Name two aspects.)
4.
According to Myrick, what will the new production site be like? (Name two aspects.)
5.
What needs to be done before the first products can be put on the market?
6.
Where will the first lab-meat products be available?
9 BE
Task 3: Interview with Nabeelah Hafeez
Preparation time: 1:45 minutes to read the assignment. While reading, you may use a dictionary.
You will hear an interview with the poet and photographer Nabeelah Hafeez. While listening, tick the correct answer (a, b or c). There is only one correct answer.
1.
Nabeelah Hafeez was chosen for the interview because she
a | won a price for her city. | |
b | chairs the city’s advisory panel. | |
c | is actively involved in promoting her city. |
2.
As a Muslim, Hafeez feels
a | excluded in Britain. | |
b | torn between two cultures. | |
c | more Pakistani than British. |
3.
Hafeez defines Britishness as
a | an outdated label. | |
b | a helpful construct. | |
c | a complex concept. |
4.
In the US, Hafeez was
a | recognized as an artist. | |
b | treated like a close friend. | |
c | perceived as someone from the UK. |
5.
The interviewer
a | shares Hafeez’s experience. | |
b | lived in the US for some years. | |
c | has experienced discrimination as an Asian. |
6.
When visiting Pakistan, Hafeez
a | feels like returning for good. | |
b | would like to spend more time there. | |
c | feels connected with her cultural background. |
7.
In Pakistan, Hafeez enjoys
a | visiting her family home. | |
b | watching the people in the streets. | |
c | experiencing the silence of the countryside. |
8.
Recent changes in her family’s home town make Hafeez feel
a | guilty. | |
b | angry. | |
c | regretful. |
9.
The interviewer
a | loves to shop groceries in Asia. | |
b | prefers American to Asian food. | |
c | longs for the Asian food culture. |
10.
The main topic of the interview is cultural
a | divisions. | |
b | identities. | |
c | stereotypes. |
10 BE
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Task 1: Jane Eyre
Distraktor: B
Task 2: Meat grown in a laboratory
Statement | Headings |
1 | C |
2 | F |
3 | E |
4 | G |
5 | D |
6 | A |
1.
How was the company able to finance their production?
attracting supporting investors/ raised over 161 million dollars in donations from well-known personalities such as Bill Gates, Richard Branson and leading food companies
2.
What are the challenges mentioned? (Name two aspects.)
maintain low costs / minimise costs
scaling of production
3.
What are the potential benefits of the new concept? (Name two aspects.)
manufacturing infrastructure can be set up anywhere
everyone can operate it, not just scientists with a PhD
4.
According to Myrick, what will the new production site be like? (Name two aspects.)
- around 38,000 square feet
- as a food production facility
- not like a laboratory
- steel tanks
- just like a brewery
5.
What needs to be done before the first products can be put on the market?
overcoming several essential regulatory hurdles with the Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture
6.
Where will the first lab-meat products be available?
Task 3: Interview with Nabeelah Hafeez
Preparation time: 1:45 minutes to read the assignment. While reading, you may use a dictionary.
at some restaurants / (a few) retailers
1.
Nabeelah Hafeez was chosen for the interview because she
a | won a price for her city. | |
b | chairs the city’s advisory panel. | |
c | is actively involved in promoting her city. |
2.
As a Muslim, Hafeez feels
a | excluded in Britain. | |
b | torn between two cultures. | |
c | more Pakistani than British. |
3.
Hafeez defines Britishness as
a | an outdated label. | |
b | a helpful construct. | |
c | a complex concept. |
4.
In the US, Hafeez was
a | recognized as an artist. | |
b | treated like a close friend. | |
c | perceived as someone from the UK. |
5.
The interviewer
a | shares Hafeez’s experience. | |
b | lived in the US for some years. | |
c | has experienced discrimination as an Asian. |
6.
When visiting Pakistan, Hafeez
a | feels like returning for good. | |
b | would like to spend more time there. | |
c | feels connected with her cultural background. |
7.
In Pakistan, Hafeez enjoys
a | visiting her family home. | |
b | watching the people in the streets. | |
c | experiencing the silence of the countryside. |
8.
Recent changes in her family’s home town make Hafeez feel
a | guilty. | |
b | angry. | |
c | regretful. |
9.
The interviewer
a | loves to shop groceries in Asia. | |
b | prefers American to Asian food. | |
c | longs for the Asian food culture. |
10.
The main topic of the interview is cultural
a | divisions. | |
b | identities. | |
c | stereotypes. |