Listen to the following conversations and fill in the missing information in the spaces below.
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Operator: Can I help you?
Inquirer: Yes. Could you give me Hilton Hotel's telephone number, please?
Operator: .
Inquirer: Thanks.
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Operator: Can I help you?
Inquirer: Yes. Could you tell me British Rail's telephone number, please?
Operator: .
Inquirer: Thank you very much.
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Inquirer: Is that ?
Operator: Yes. Can I help you?
Inquirer: I'd like to speak to , please.
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Inquirer: Is that ?
Operator: Yes. Who do you want to speak to?
Inquirer: Doctor , please.
5.
Inquirer: Is that ?
Operator: Yes. Who do you wish to speak to?
Inquirer: , please.
You will hear three dialogues on the telephone between a secretary and a person who is making an appointment to see someone. As you listen, complete the notes below. Write the name of the person, the day, the time and the telephone number in each dialogue.
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Dialogue 1 Note for Mr. Watson: is coming to see you on at . Her telephone number is . |
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Dialogue 2 Note for Dr. Jenkinson: is coming to see you on at . Her telephone number is . |
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Dialogue 3 Note for Professor Hansen: is coming to see you on at . Her telephone number is . |
Listen to the conversation and fill in the missing information in the right places.
Message to Ms. Proctor:
Date: July 8 at 10:30
From: .
Message:
The meeting is on at , Room .
Please call him .
Telephone number: .
Listen to the conversation and fill in the missing information in the right places.
Message to Professor
From .
Message:
The meeting on is .
Please call him .
Telephone No.: .
Read the following passage.
The Peace Corps
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued an order creating the Peace Corps. Its mission was to promote world peace and friendship by providing qualified volunteers to interested countries. Today it sends an average of 6,000 U.S. citizens abroad each year.
Volunteers live at a local level in their host countries. They are paid in local currency. Each month they receive a small sum of money that covers basic living expenses and varies with the local economy. For example, volunteers in Micronesia make the equivalent of $300 per month, while those in Turkmenistan make $75. Most volunteers live with host families. This is a great chance to learn the language and the culture.
For each month that they spend overseas, volunteers receive a sum of about $200. This money helps them to get back on their feet in the United States.
Serving countries all over the world, the Peace Corps lives up to its promise as "the toughest job you'll ever love." Volunteers do everything from teaching English to sharing, tips on growing food to providing preventive health care. However, the application process to become a Peace Corps volunteer is very competitive. You must be a U.S. citizen, at least eighteen years old, in good health, and willing to serve for two years. Nearly all volunteers have a bachelor's degree in their chosen field, and about 18 percent have their master's or doctorate degrees. Knowing a language, especially French and Spanish, helps.
Adapted from Basic IELTS Reading
Complete the following questions and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
1. What kind of U.S. citizens does the Peace Corps send abroad to fulfill its mission?
2. What does the monthly payment in local currency to volunteers cover?
3. Whom do the volunteers stay with in their host countries?
4. What is the shortest time that volunteers can work for the Peace Corps?
5. Which languages are given as an example of what can benefit volunteers?
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Planning a party or starting a new job can be just as stressful as being called to the principal's office.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
A deadline, a poor test performance, or bothersome noises all may be thought of as stressors.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Depending on how people appraise, or judge, circumstances, they may or may not consider them stressful.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
The circumstances that cause stress vary from one person to another.
Read the following passage.
What Is Stress?
Most people would say they know what stress is. But for scientists who study stress, it has been surprisingly hard to define. This is because there are so many ways of looking at stress.
Some researchers have studied how our bodies react to stress. You know how your heart beats faster, you perspire more heavily, and your words do not come out right when you are placed in a stressful situation. But knowing how we feel when we experience stress does not explain it; nor does it tell us what causes it.
Other scientists have looked at stressors: events or situations that produce stress. A deadline, a poor test performance, or bothersome noises all may be thought of as stressors. Even pleasant events can be stressors. Planning a party or starting a new job can be just as stressful as being called to the principal's office.
Stress, then, can be caused by both negative and positive events, or stressors. Of course, whether an event is thought of as positive or negative is, in some ways, a matter of personal choice.
In sum, it is the way people interpret an event that makes it stressful or not stressful.
This process of interpretation is called appraisal. Depending on how people appraise, or judge, circumstances, they may or may not consider them stressful.
What, specifically, causes people to appraise a situation as stressful? The answer depends on how much of a threat or challenge it appears to be. Circumstances that bring a threat or challenge to a person's sense of well-being produce stress. Those that do not threaten or challenge us are not stressful.
Looking at stress this way gives us a general definition of the concept of stress: Stress is a response to circumstances that seem threatening or challenging.
The circumstances that cause stress vary from one person to another. It all depends on how we appraise circumstances. In addition, the things that cause us stress today may not cause us stress at another time. And the opposite is true: things that once caused no stress may now be stressful.
Adapted from Basic IELTS Reading
Choose from the passage NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following sentences.
It is hard for the scientists to define the word because there are many ways of looking at it. Your body reacts to stress with a fast-beating heart, heavy perspiration and so on when you are in . refer to events or situations that produce stress and they may even include such as and starting a new job. In general, stress can be caused by both negative and positive events.