Three Extracts - Test 4

C2 Proficiency · Listening Multiple Choice Extracts · Cambridge English: Proficiency 1, 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 Sarah Carpenter being interviewed about a campaign called Online Now, which aims to give more people in Britain access to computers.

Why does Sarah say she wants to increase internet use so urgently?

to improve international communication

to prevent an increase in social inequality

to involve people in economic development

How does Sarah say increased computer use should be achieved?

by improved access to existing facilities

by increased investment in education

by government subsidies for community centres

You hear a museum curator talking about one exhibit, a pestle, which was used for grinding food.

What does he say about the handle of the pestle?

It may originally have been designed for another purpose.

It was probably made after the ball of the pestle.

Its form is unrelated to its intended function.

According to the curator, what was striking about the first plants cultivated by humans?

They were all varieties of wild grasses.

They were all inedible in their natural state.

They all formed part of the diet of other animals.

You hear a marine biologist talking about measures to protect the oceans from pollution.

Why has protecting the oceans proved to be so difficult?

Many people do not accept that there is a serious problem.

The legal situation is not recognised equally around the world.

The activities of the fishing industry often obstruct conservation.

In the speaker's opinion, conservation projects that focus on individual species

fail to take wider implications into account.

cause confusion about the issues facing environmentalists.

provide misleading information for publication.

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