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Question Answer Script

1. What will B G: Did you get everything you wanted?
the boy take B: I did. In fact I only needed to go into one shop. I’d seen a
back to the T-shirt in the window and I got the last one in the sale. And
shop? some shorts to match. I bought this jacket too but I’m not
sure if I like it.
G: Oh, it looks great. I’d keep it. But those shorts are a
horrible color. I should change them.
B: you’re right. They looked different in the shop.
2. What time C Hi Julie. This is Paula. I’m ringing to remind you that I’ll pick
does Paula you up tonight. The film doesn’t start until eight fifteen, so
pick Julie up? we can go a bit later than I thought. I’ll leave here at about
twenty past sevem so I’ll be at your house at twenty to eight.
We need to allow time to park the car and I want to get
good seats. See you later then. Give me a ring if there’s a
problem.
3. What will B G: The most important thing I need is new trainers. I know
they get first? exactly which ones I want. They’re in the shop by the library.
Let’s go straight there.
W: Just a minute. That’s the opposite end of town. I want to
get a film for my camera in this shop while we we’re here.
G: Don’t forget we need some fruit.
W: We’ll get that last, after we’ve bought your trainers,
because it’ll be heavy.
A W: Oh, I’m in a hurry and I can’t find my keys. I always leave
4. What time them on the hall table.
did the woman M: Let’s see. You didn’t leave them in the car, did you? That’s
leave the keys? what I did last week.
W: I’ll go and look.
M: There are some keys in the kitchen but I don’t think
they’re yours. I’ll get them.
W: Those are mine. Thanks.
D W: what will you have? How about fish and chips? It’s really
5. What does good here.
the man M: Actually I think I’ll just have a drink.
decide to eat? W: You must have more than that. It’s hours since we had
lunch. What about chicken then or a chicken sandwich?
M: If they have salad, I’ll have some with a roll.

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6. What time is C W1: Good morning, Dr. Clarke’s surgery.

the woman’s W2: Hello, could I change the appointment I have for
new tomorrow, please? It’s in the morning and I can’t come till
appointment? the afternoon. The name’s Joanna Saunders.
W1: Certainly, I’ll have a look and see if Dr. Clarke is free… So
you can’t come at a quarter past ten. Erm… quarter to three
is available or a quarter past four.
W2: I’ll take the later one, thank you. Goodbye.
7. What was A W: We missed the first day of our holiday because of the
cancelled? bad weather.
M: Oh! Was your plane cancelled?
W: That wasn’t the problem. And the coach was waiting to
take us to the port, but the sea was so rough we had to wait
till the next day and take a helicopter to the island. It was
much more expensive and I was looking forward to the ferry
crossing.
8. What did B G: Hi, Jason. Did you have a good day yesterday? Did you
Jason enjoy have a football match?
doing on B: Yes, but we lost, so we all felt a bit miserable. The score
Saturday? was 5-0.
G: I went shopping with Sally. We really enjoy ourselves. But
I know you don’t like shopping.
B: well, actually I spent Saturday afternoon looking for a
birthday present for my sister, and I had a great time in the
bookshops and music shops. I got her a book and a CD.
Then I went to the cinema to see Road to the Stars. I was
really looking forward to it, but it wasn’t as good as I
expected.
9. A Interviewer: Harry Park, you run a travel company which organises
adventure holidays in some difficult places. How did you first become
10. B interested in ‘adventure travel’?
Harry: Well, my father worked in an insurance company once he had a
11. C
family. But before that he’d spent several years travelling the world, and
he never stopped telling us about it. His stories were much more exciting
12. D
than the books I read, and they made me want to travel and have
adventures of my own (5).
Interviewer: And what made you decide to start an adventure travel
company?
Harry: Well, when I was in my twenties, I travelled a lot in different
countries. I went exploring and climbing in mountains and deserts. I
wanted to show other people how wonderful these things were (6). The
business has been very successful, but when I started it I didn’t know if I’d
make any money.

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Interviewer: Your company’s called Far and Wide. How did you choose
the name?
Harry: Well, I just called it Park Travel at first. But everyone thought that
was terribly boring! My wife kept suggesting different things, but in the
end it was a customer who gave me the idea (7). Far and Wide is also the
title of a book that a friend wrote, so it reminds me of him, too.
Interviewer: Great... The places you visit are usually very unspoilt, Harry.
Some people think it’s not a good idea to take tourists there. What would
you say to them?
Harry: Well, most of the places we visit have no inhabitants, so we aren’t
going to spoil people’s way of life, or bring in things like television and
fridges! And I make sure that we always take care of the environment (8).
We are careful not to cause pollution, so we take all our rubbish away.
Interviewer: Some of the things you do are also dangerous. Do you enjoy
danger?
Harry: Well, it’s not a question of enjoying it - it’s just that you can’t do
what I do without thinking about the possible dangers. I’m never
frightened though. If I’m taking a group up a mountain or something like
that, I just concentrate on what I have to do and get on with it.
Interviewer: You’ve been to some facinating places, Harry.....

13. C A: Hey, I’m reading this really interesting article about the human body.
B: Yeah? Well, we know all about that from biology lessons.
14. D A: No, we didn’t learn much at all at school! They’re discovering loads
more things all the time. Really amazing things! Did you know that only
15. B
about one tenth of the cells in your body are really you? The rest are
bacteria.
16. A
B: What? I’m not really me?
A: No, of course you are you, but you also have millions, or trillions, of
bacteria in you.
B: Eeeeuuugh!
A: No, they’re mostly really helpful. Someone did an experiment to see if
animals can live without bacteria, and he found that a lot of them died or
had to have a special diet. Animals need bacteria to digest food, you see.
So we’re better off with bacteria.
B: Unless the bacteria are bad.
A: Unless they are bad, but they’re nearly all good. Oh yeah, and going
back to cells, do you know how many cells you have in your body?
B: Quite a lot, I’d say. A good few.
A: Yeah, but how many?
B: I don’t know. I’m not mathematical.
A: 7 octillion! That’s 7 plus 27 noughts.
B: I knew it was a lot.

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A: OK, that’s an amazingly huge number, almost impossible to imagine.

But the really weird thing is that most of the atoms are empty space, just
air or nothingness. And if you took out the empty space, you could fit
your body inside a tiny cube which measures one 500th of a centimetre
on either side. That’s a box measuring 0.002 of a centimetre on each side.
You’d be much too small to see.
B: Mmm, I can imagine that. It sounds like something that would happen
in a really bad Hollywood movie. You know, a mad scientist goes: (funny
voice) ‘I’m going to extract all the air from your body’. OK, enough facts
for one day.
A: Don’t go! One last thing, did you know …
B: No.
A: Did you know that you probably have mites in your eyelashes?
B: Mites in my eyelashes? What are mites exactly anyway?
A: Yeah, they’re very small creatures, like insects, only not insects. They’re
about a third of a millimetre long, so you can’t really see them. These
particular mites live in eyelashes and eyebrows.
B: But in mine?
A: Well, maybe not. Only about 50% of people have them, and more older
people. So you might not have any. Anyway, they’re completely harmless,
they just eat dead skin.
B: Yeah, right, harmless. I really would have preferred not to know that.
A: Sorry.
B: I mean, really!
17. A Girl: So, have you got any plans for the weekend?
Boy: Yeah, me and my mates are going to this activity centre in the
mountains.
Girl: Oh, yeah?
Boy: You can do all kinds of things. It’s a new centre; it sounds great.
We’re going to go dirtboarding …
Girl: What’s that?
Boy: It’s like skateboarding or snowboarding. You have a board, or deck,
to stand on and wheels. They’re pretty strong because you go down
rough mountain tracks on them. Steep, rough mountain tracks.
Girl: Sounds a bit risky. Have you done it before?
Boy: No, but I’ve done similar things. Anyway, we’re also going to go
canyoning. Before you ask, that’s when you jump and swim down a river
canyon. You have to use ropes and special equipment. And maybe we’ll
go white water rafting too.
Girl: Phew. It sounds far too difficult to me.
Boy: They have lots of things that you could do too. Like zip-wiring, you
know when you go along a wire through the trees or down a mountain.
Girl: Go down a mountain on a wire!

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Boy: It’s really easy, and exciting too. You just have to hold on and enjoy
the ride. Or there’s bungee jumping.
Girl: Jump off a bridge on a long elastic band! Me? You’ve got to be
joking! Anyway, I’m going away this weekend too, thank you for asking.
Boy: I was going to ask. So where are you going?
Girl: Paris! I’m so excited!
Boy: Paris, wow!
Girl: Yeah, it’ll be brilliant! We’re going to do all the sights, like go up the
Eiffel Tower and take a boat along the River Seine and see the old parts of
the city. It looks so beautiful in the photos. And then there are all the art
galleries. You know how much I like art. I can’t wait to go round the
Louvre and see all those famous paintings.
Boy: I think the famous Impressionist paintings are somewhere else.
Girl: Yeah, I know, they’re in the Musée d’Orsay. We’re going there too.
And then I want to go to the Rodin Museum and see that famous statue,
you know, The Thinker. And of course, if we’re in Paris, we’ll have to go
shopping. Or look at the shops, at least. And then there’s the restaurants.
Just think, French food!
Boy: You’ve got a lot planned for one weekend.
Girl: Oh, we’re going for four days, actually.
Boy: Oh, four days, very nice. And who are you going with?
Girl: Oh, just a friend.
21 D Young people in Great Britain are watching less and less news on
television. This is according to Ofcom, a regulatory body that oversees
22 A broadcasting practices in the UK. This comes as no surprise as young
people become increasingly addicted to their smartphones. Youth are
23 B
opting for online distractions like YouTube videos, social media and
games rather than switch on a TV and watch a news programme.
24 C
Britain's Guardian newspaper reported that: "The youth of the nation
25 A are more likely to get their day's news about the world from social
media or by reading graffiti in bus stations than seeing it on the telly,
with the average 16-24-year-old watching just two minutes' worth of
live TV news per day."
Ofcom commissioned research into the news-viewing habits of people
around the country. The report is called "News Consumption in the UK:
2019". The research suggests that young people are increasingly using
social media as their primary news source. Researchers wrote: "There is
evidence that UK adults are consuming news more actively via social
media." They reported an increase in posts and comments on Facebook
and Twitter about the news compared to last year. Ofcom suggested
presenting news stories in a less complicated, more accessible way to
attract young people's attention. Some people suggested this would be
"dumbing down content for young audiences".

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26 D There has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of veganism

around the world in the past decade. Many people are becoming
27 C vegans in an attempt to lead a lifestyle that is more conducive to
helping the planet. Giving up eating meat, dairy and other food from
28 B
animals constitutes the bulk of changes vegans make to their lives.
However, an increasing number of vegans are now extending their
29 C
beliefs to fashion. There is a considerable increase in the sales of vegan
30 D clothing, footwear and accessories. Retailers are marketing products
that are free from cow skin and other animal products. Shops are full of
synthetic fur coats, plastic belts, and shoes made from tree bark,
recycled plastic bottles, rubber and coconut fibre.
Research in the United Kingdom revealed that 42 per cent of shoppers
considered animal welfare before buying clothes. The researchers
discovered that people of all ages would consider purchasing vegan
footwear. The trend in vegan fashion has also reached luxury brands.
Designer Stella McCartney has designed a new range of fashion that is
free from leather and makes use of recycled products. Her new
collection is based on a theme of the iconic sixties pop group the
Beatles. Ms McCartney's father, Paul, was lead singer of the group. She
has designed leather-free Yellow Submarine sneakers and colourful fake
fur coats. Ms McCartney is a committed animal rights activist.
31 D Alan Turing, the man widely recognised as being the father of modern
computer science, has been honored by being selected to appear on a
32 C United Kingdom banknote. Mr Turing was chosen ahead of a wealth of
notable British historical figures and luminaries to be the face of the
33 D
new £50 note. Turing was instrumental in helping Britain and its allies
win World War II. He led a team of codebreakers to crack the Enigma
34 A
code the Nazis used to send messages to warships and military
35 B commanders. He invented the now famous British Bombe to do this.
This was a giant computer, which ushered in the birth of modern
computing and the beginnings of artificial intelligence.
Alan Turing was a mathematical genius who also excelled in the
sciences. He was born in London in 1912. He graduated from
Cambridge University and then outlined his vision for creating an
algorithm-based computing machine. He said of his invention: "This is
only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is
going to be." His idea is central to the computers we use today. His
brilliance led to his being asked to join the WWII code-breaking team.
Despite his pivotal role in ending that war, he was persecuted in the
post-war years for being homosexual. Being gay was illegal in the UK
until 1967. He chose to be chemically castrated rather than go to
prison. Turing died in 1954, aged 41, in an apparent suicide.

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