Test 2

LISTENING SECTION 1 Questions 1-10 Questions 1-6

Complete the notes below.

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

Questions 7-10

Complete the sentences below. SECTION 2 Questions 11-20 Questions 11-17

Answer the questions below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Sea Life Centre - information

11 What was the Sea Life Centre previously called? ........... 12 What is the newest attraction called? ............... 13 When is the main feeding time? .................. 14 What can you do with a VIP ticket? ................

15 What special event will the Sea Life Centre arrange for you? ...........

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16 Where will the petition for animal conservation be sent to? ........... 17 What can you use to test what you have learnt? ............ Questions 18-20

What does the guide say about each attraction?

Choose THREE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-E, next to Questions 18-20. A B C D E 18 19 20

Aquarium Crocodile Cave Penguin Park Seal Centre Turtle Town must not miss ...... ……………… temporarily closed……… large queues ..... ………………

SECTION 3 Questions 21 -30 Questions 21-22

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Which TWO subjects did Martina like best before going to university? A Art D History B English E Science C French Questions 23-26

Complete the summary below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

George’s experience of university

George is studying Mechanical Engineering which involves several disciplines. He is finding 23…………………the most difficult. At the moment, his course is mainly 24

………………He will soon have an assignment which involves a study of and would like less of them.

25………………………… He thinks there are too many 26……………………………Questions 27-30

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

27 Martina thinks the students at her university are

A sociable B intelligent C energetic

28 George hopes that his tutor will help him A lose his shyness. B settle into university.

C get to know his subject better.

29 What does Martina know about her first assignment? A the topic B the length C the deadline

30 George would like to live A in a hall of residence. B in a flat on his own. C with a host family. SECTION 4 Questions 31-40 Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

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READING READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

When it comes to celebrating the flavor of food, our mouth gets all the credit. But in truth, it is the nose that knows.

No matter how much we talk about tasting our favorite flavors, relishing them really depends on a combined input from our senses that we experience through mouth, tongue and nose. The taste, texture, and feel of food are what we tend to focus on, but most important are the slight puffs of air as we chew our food - what scientists call 'retronasal smell’.

Certainly, our mouths and tongues have taste buds, which are receptors for the five basic flavors: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, or what is more commonly referred to as savory. But our tongues are inaccurate instruments as far as flavor is concerned.

They evolved to recognize only a few basic tastes in order to quickly identify toxins, which in nature are often quite bitter or acidly sour.

All the complexity, nuance, and pleasure of flavor come from the sense of smell operating in the back of the nose. It is there that a kind of alchemy occurs when we breathe up and out the passing whiffs of our chewed food. Unlike a hound's skull with its extra long nose, which evolved specifically to detect external smells, our noses have evolved to detect internal scents. Primates specialize in savoring the many millions of flavor combinations that they can create for their mouths.

Taste without retronasal smell is not much help in recognizing flavor. Smell has been the most poorly understood of our senses, and only recently has neuroscience, led by Yale University's Gordon Shepherd, begun to shed light on its workings. Shepherd has come up with the term 'neurogastronomy’ to link the disciplines of food science, neurology, psychology, and anthropology with the savory elements of eating, one of the most enjoyed of human experiences.

In many ways, he is discovering that smell is rather like face recognition. The visual system detects patterns of light and dark and. building on experience, the brain creates a spatial map. It uses this to interpret the interrelationship of the patterns and draw conclusions that allow us to identify people and places. In the same way, we use

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