Three Extracts - Test 3

C2 Proficiency · Listening Multiple Choice Extracts · Cambridge English Proficiency 2, Cambridge University Press

You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1–6, choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract.

You hear a woman talking on the radio about a small mammal called the hedgehog.

What is her attitude to the reduction in the number of hedgehogs in Britain?

She is concerned at the part played by cats.

She is disinclined to take it very seriously.

She thinks it may affect other animals.

What does she suggest about threats to wildlife?

Some species are more important than others.

Politicians are too slow in taking action.

There are more pressing priorities.

You hear an entrepreneur called Patrick Schwerdtfeger giving a talk at a business conference.

Patrick uses the example of a skyscraper

to emphasise how competitive people need to be.

to illustrate that anything is possible with determination.

to show that you need imagination to succeed.

Patrick thinks that 'realistic' goals

display a lack of ambition.

may offer little sense of achievement.

can be too popular.

You hear part of an interview with a man called Maurice Parks, who owns a small independent publishing company.

Maurice feels his professional approach is unusual because

he does not make assumptions about authors.

he is more selective than traditional publishers.

he does not believe in rushing the editing process.

Maurice says editors in big publishing companies are driven by

the search for new formats.

the need to create profits.

the safeguarding of their reputation.

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