Listening 3b Skills Test 1a
Listening 3b Skills Test 1a
Listening 3b Skills Test 1a
Part 1
1 Listen to three people talking about bad experiences they have had whilst travelling.
Match two statements from a–i to each speaker. There are three statements you do not
need to use.
Speaker 1 ___ , c___
Speaker 2 ___ , c___
Speaker 3 ___ , c___
Part 2
3 Listen to two people describing a bad experience. Read the question and circle the
correct answer. Which speaker felt ashamed of what they did?
a Neither Speaker 1 nor Speaker 2
b Only Speaker 1
c Only Speaker 2
d Both Speaker 1 and Speaker 2
4 Listen again. Circle the correct answer.
1 Emil gave up meat …
a when he started university.
b because he didn’t like how it tasted.
c because it wasn’t ethical.
2 Emil was finding it hard to sleep because …
a of the pressure he was under.
b he was homesick.
c all he could think about was eating chicken.
3 When Sarah’s son told her that he was getting
headaches, Sarah initially …
a contacted her doctor.
b went online to do further research.
c wasn’t worried and did nothing.
4 Sarah was …
a told not to worry by her doctor.
b advised to get rid of the phones by her doctor.
c shown all the research by her doctor.
5 Sarah and her husband …
a suffer from migraines.
b agreed to get rid of the phones.
c were concerned about their son.
5 Read the text. Match sentences A–F with gaps 1–5. There is one sentence that you do
not need.
A Our nanofabricators will be able to recycle everything we make with them into
something else.
B He did predict that by the year 2000, there would be 300,000 computer systems
in the world.
C Molecules are the things that build everything in the world.
D But amazingly, Burke not only predicted the rise of the computer, but also of
social media.
E He believes people will use these to make whatever they want, from a bicycle to
a bottle of milk.
F He explained that this would mean that people could live anywhere they wanted
and have everything they needed.