Award-Winning Natural-World Projects - Test 1

C2 Proficiency · Listening Matching · Cambridge English: Proficiency 1, Cambridge University Press

You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about their involvement in award-winning projects related to the natural world. While you listen you must complete both tasks.

a combination of old and new methods

the involvement of community leaders

the recycling of local resources

the adaptation of space technology

an idea copied from another part of the world

the use of a different material

a method based on an accidental discovery

the development of a single multi-purpose system

For questions 1–5, choose from the list (A–H) what special feature of the project each speaker mentions.

Advanced technology was donated.

The original idea was improved.

Critics of the project were silenced.

The attitude of local people changed.

Related information could be shared.

More staff were taken onto the project.

Awareness of endangered species was increased.

The economy of the region was developed.

For questions 1–5, choose from the list (A–H) what positive effect of receiving the award each speaker appreciated.

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