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TEST 18. 8 C 9 C 10 B 11 A 12 C 13 A
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Woman: Frank, tell us
about some of the ships you’ve discovered. Man: Well, there’s
nothing quite like finding your first old ship – it was 300 years old. It was
just lying at the bottom of the sea, so it wasn’t difficult to find. Most are
covered in sand and rocks – but this one wasn’t. I’m actually a teacher, not a
full-time diver – I dive in my free time but I often get to them before the
professional divers, because I have good up-to-date equipment. Another thing
that helps is talking to fishermen who tell me about their local area. I’ve
even written a book about some of their experiences. At the moment, I’m looking
for the gold from a ship called The Seabird. It was an enormous
well-built ship and it was coming from Australia on a winter night in 1859.
Everything was going fine until the ship reached the English coast, when it
crashed into some rocks in a very strong wind and sank to the bottom of the
sea. It was carrying gold from Australia, and most of it is still at the
bottom of the sea. My wedding ring is actually
made from gold which I found on an eighteenth-century sailing ship. A friend
of mine, another diver, has already found £88,000 worth of gold from
different ships. He’s now decided to give up his job and become a full-time
diver. My house is full of things
like coins, bottles and old guns. My wife is always complaining about the
number of objects around the house – she says I should open an antiques shop
– but I love all these old things. Anyway, in the end, I gave some things
from my collection to museums, because I didn’t want to sell them. But my
wife still wasn’t very pleased, I’m afraid. As diving is a dangerous
hobby, it’s not a good idea to try to teach yourself. I’d advise anyone
interested to do what I did. There are some excellent diving clubs like the
one I joined, which run courses for beginners. It is best to do one of these
before you go on a diving holiday … |
Người
phụ nữ: Frank, hãy kể cho chúng tôi nghe về một số con tàu mà anh đã khám phá
được. Người
đàn ông: Chà, không gì bằng việc tìm thấy con tàu cũ đầu tiên của bạn – nó đã
300 năm tuổi. Nó chỉ nằm dưới đáy biển nên không khó để tìm thấy. Hầu hết đều
được bao phủ bởi cát và đá – nhưng cái này thì không. Tôi
thực sự là một giáo viên, không phải thợ lặn toàn thời gian – tôi lặn vào thời
gian rảnh nhưng tôi thường đến gặp họ trước những thợ lặn chuyên nghiệp, vì
tôi có thiết bị hiện đại tốt. Một điều hữu ích khác là nói chuyện với những
ngư dân kể cho tôi nghe về khu vực địa phương của họ. Tôi thậm chí còn viết một
cuốn sách về một số trải nghiệm của họ. Hiện
tại, tôi đang tìm vàng từ con tàu có tên The Seabird. Đó là một con tàu khổng
lồ được đóng rất tốt và nó đến từ Úc vào một đêm mùa đông năm 1859. Mọi chuyện
đều ổn cho đến khi con tàu đến bờ biển nước Anh thì nó đâm vào một số tảng đá
do gió rất mạnh và chìm xuống đáy biển. biển. Nó chở vàng từ Australia và phần
lớn vẫn còn nằm dưới đáy biển. Chiếc
nhẫn cưới của tôi thực ra được làm từ vàng mà tôi tìm thấy trên một chiếc
thuyền buồm thế kỷ 18. Một người bạn của tôi, một thợ lặn khác, đã tìm thấy số
vàng trị giá 88.000 bảng Anh từ các con tàu khác nhau. Bây giờ anh ấy quyết định
từ bỏ công việc của mình và trở thành một thợ lặn toàn thời gian. Nhà
tôi chứa đầy những thứ như tiền xu, chai lọ và súng cũ. Vợ tôi luôn phàn nàn
về số lượng đồ vật xung quanh nhà – cô ấy nói tôi nên mở một cửa hàng đồ cổ –
nhưng tôi yêu tất cả những thứ cũ kỹ này. Dù sao thì cuối cùng, tôi đã tặng một
số thứ trong bộ sưu tập của mình cho các viện bảo tàng vì tôi không muốn bán
chúng. Nhưng tôi e là vợ tôi vẫn không hài lòng lắm. Vì
lặn là một sở thích nguy hiểm nên bạn không nên cố gắng tự học. Tôi khuyên bất
cứ ai quan tâm hãy làm những gì tôi đã làm. Có một số câu lạc bộ lặn tuyệt vời
như câu lạc bộ tôi tham gia, tổ chức các khóa học dành cho người mới bắt đầu.
Tốt nhất bạn nên thực hiện một trong những điều này trước khi đi nghỉ lặn… |
TEST 4
6 12th July (any convention) 7 video
8 jittersea 9
college 10
175
Woman: Rosie, I’ve found
some information about that dance competition that you’re interested in. It’s
perfect for you because it’s for children who are between thirteen and fifteen.
The competition’s on the fourth
of August, but you’ve got to enter by the twelfth
of July. So you’ve still got over four weeks.
You don’t have to send any
money to enter, just a video. I know
you’ve already got some, but it might be a good idea to make a new one.
Anyway, everything you need to
know is on the website. Write down the address. It’s www dot jittersea dot com.
That’s spelt J-I-double T-E-R-S-E-A.
I also found out where they’re
having the competition. It’s going to be at the college; the one opposite the park. That’s easy for you to get to.
And the best news is about the
prizes. The winner gets a hundred and
seventy-five pounds, and the person who comes second gets one hundred
pounds! That’s a lot!
TEST
5
6 story 7 250 (any convention) 8 photo(graph)
9 collatra 10 22nd May (any
convention)
Fabio: Hi, it’s Fabio.
Sorry you weren’t at school today. I hope you’re feeling better. I want to tell
you about our homework for English.
It’s much easier than our last
homework when we had to write an advertisement. This time it’s a story. We’ve got to write about a journey. Of course, it
doesn’t have to be real. I’ve already started mine and I’ve written one hundred
words, but actually we’ve got to write
two hundred and fifty, so I have to write some more.
We have to include a photo, but we don’t have to draw a map
or anything like that. If you need some ideas, look at this website: www dot
collatra dot com. That’s C-O-double
L-A-T-R-A. OK?
One last thing, the date we’ve
got to give it to the teacher. Let me look, I wrote it down. Yeah, the twenty-second of May. That’s good
because it’s before my birthday on the twenty-fifth, so I’ll have no homework
on my birthday!
TEST
6
6 5.60 (any
convention) 7 Sat(urday)
8 9:10 (any
convention) 9
camera 10 Modana
Woman: Please listen because I want to
tell you about the next class trip. We’re going to a castle. You read about
this one in Tedbury last week in your history lesson. Tell your parents they
need to pay for the trip this week. It’s five pounds sixty. That’s three pounds
for the ticket and the rest is for transport.
This
trip’s on a Saturday.
We don’t want you to miss a school day, like a Friday.
We’re going by bus. Please get
to school by eight fifty at the
latest because the bus will go at ten
past nine exactly.
You don’t need to bring paper
or a pen, but you’ll need a camera. If you haven’t got one, you can share with
a friend.
While we’re there, we’re going
to see a special exhibition. The one about cars has just finished and now
there’s one about clothes that’s called Modana. That’s M-O-D-A-N-A. It’s very
interesting to see what people wore hundreds of years ago.
Now, any questions … (fade)
TEST
7
6 8.30 7 6/six 8 1 9 free 10 photo
Woman: Welcome to the
library. You will all come here a lot, so there’s some important information
that you need to know.
First of all, the hours the
library is open. During term time, the library is open 24 hours a day. But
outside term time, it’s open from half past eight in the morning until seven
o’clock in the evening.
Of course, you will want to
take things out of the library. You can borrow different things, like
magazines, CDs, books. You can take up to ten different things out of the
library, but only six books at one time. But please be careful! If you return
things late, you will have to pay a fine! The cost is two pounds a day for each
book and one pound a day for other
things. Library cards are free, but
you need to fill in a form and give it in with a photo. If you lose your card, you can get a new one, but it will
cost five pounds.
TEST
8
6 China 7 4/four 8 6/six 9 games 10 July
Jessica: My name’s Jessica
Chapman and I’d like to tell you about a job I did a few months ago. I worked
as an online language teacher. I helped schoolchildren in China to learn
English. I talked to them online using special software for two hours every Monday and Wednesday.
My students were all young, eight to ten years old and about the same level.
The groups I taught were small: three to six students in each lesson.
I had an interactive whiteboard
on my screen that I could write and draw on. The students could see it on their
screens, too. We played games, sang songs and had conversations.
I saw an advert for the job in
January, and I applied immediately. A month later I got a reply, and I started
working in July. I want to be a teacher in the future and this job gave me lots
of experience. I really loved it, and I was sad when the job came to an end in
September.
