INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM 0380/4

0381/4

Listening and Academic Reading

MOCK TEST MATERIALS

Additional materials:

Answer sheet for Listening and Reading

Approximately 40 minutes

Time Approximately 40 minutes (plus 5 minutes' transfer time)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.

Write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page. Listen to the instructions for each part of the paper carefully. Answer all the questions.

While you are listening, write your answers on the question paper.

You will have 5 minutes at the end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet. Use a pencil.

At the end of the test, hand in this question paper.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

There are two parts to the listening test and one reading passage for the reading test. You will hear each part once only. There are 33 questions. Each question carries one mark.

For each part of the test, there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to check your answers.

SECTION 1 Questions 1 and 2

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Questions 1-10

Example

Penny's interview took place

yesterday, last week, two weeks ago.

1 What kind of shop is it?

A a ladies' dress shop B a department store

C a children's clothes shop

2 What is the name of the section Penny will be working in?

A the Youngster B the Youngset C the Young Set

Questions 3-10 Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Pay: Breaks: Holidays:

$6.50 an hour

one hour for lunch and 3 ................................ coffee breaks three weeks a year in the first two years four weeks a year in the 4 ................................. held on the 5 .............................. of every month

Staff training: Special staff benefits or 'perks':

staff discount of 6 ............................... on everything except sale goods

Information on pension: Boss's name:

see Personnel Manager, office in 7 ................................... 8 ............................ serve customers 9 ............................

Duties:

Expected to wear:

check for shoplifters check the stock

a 10 ............................... a red blouse, and a name badge

SECTION 4 Questions 31-33 Questions 31 - 40 Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Peregrine Falcons 31 The Peregrine falcons found in .................................. are not migratory birds. 32 There is disagreement about their maximum ....................................... 33 When the female is guarding the nest, the male spends most of his time .............................. Questions 34 - 37 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Age of falcons What occurs 20 days old 28 days old The falcons 34 ................................. The falcons are 35 .................................. The falcons 36 ................................. permanently More than half of falcons 37 ................................... 2 months old 1-12 months old Questions38 -40 Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Procedures used for field research on Peregrine falcon chicks First: catch chicks Second: 38 ............................ to legs Third: 39 ........................... of chicks Fourth: take blood sample to assess level of pesticide Fifth: check the 40 ............................ of the birds This is the end of the Listening Test.

Please turn over to the Reading Test.

Questions 1-13 are based on the following passage.

Revolutions in Mapping

Today, the mapmaker's vision is no longer confined to what the human eye can see. The

perspective of mapmaking has shifted from the crow's nest of the sailing vessel, mountain top and airplane to new orbital heights. Radar, which bounces microwave radio signals off a given surface to create images of its contours and textures, can penetrate jungle foliage and has produced the first maps of the mountains of the planet Venus. And a combination of sonar and radar produces charts of the seafloor, putting much of Earth on the map for the first time.

'Suddenly it's a whole different world for us,' says Joel Morrison, chief of geography at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. 'Our future as mapmakers - even ten years from now - is uncertain.' The world's largest collection of maps resides in the basement of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The collection, consisting of up to 4.6 million map sheets and 63,000 atlases, includes magnificent bound collections of elaborate maps - the pride of the golden age of Dutch cartography*. In the reading room scholars, wearing thin cotton gloves to protect the fragile sheets, examine ancient maps with magnifying glasses. Across the room people sit at their computer screens, studying the latest maps. With their prodigious memories, computers are able to store data about people, places and environments - the stuff of maps - and almost instantly information is displayed on the screen in the desired geographic context, and at the click of a button, a print-out of the map appears.

Measuring the spherical Earth ranks as the first major milestone in scientific cartography. This was first achieved by the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes, a scholar at the famous Alexandrian Library in Egypt in the third century BC. He calculated the Earth's circumference as 25,200 miles, which was remarkably accurate. The longitudinal circumference is known today to be 24,860 miles.

Building on the ideas of his predecessors, the astronomer and geographer Ptolemy, working in the second century AD, spelled out a system for organising maps according to grids of latitude and longitude. Today, parallels of latitude are often spaced at intervals of 10 to 20 degrees and meridians** at 15 degrees, and this is the basis for the width of modern time zones. Another legacy of Ptolemy's is his advice to cartographers to create maps to scale. Distance on today's maps is expressed as a fraction or ratio of the real distance. But mapmakers in Ptolemy's time lacked the geographic knowledge to live up to Ptolemy's scientific principles. Even now, when surveyors achieve accuracies down to inches and satellites can plot potential missile targets

within feet, maps are not true pictures of reality. However, just as the compass improved navigation and created demand for useful charts, so the invention of the printing press in the 15thtook their production away from monks, who had tended to illustrate theology rather than century put maps in the hands of more people, and geography. Ocean-going ships launched an age of discovery, enlarging both what could and needed to be mapped, and awakened an intellectual spirit and desire for knowledge of the world.

Inspired by the rediscovered Ptolemy, whose writing had been preserved by Arabs after the sacking of the Alexandrian Library in AD 931, mapmakers in the 15ththeology with knowledge of faraway places, as reported by travelling merchants like Marco century gradually replaced Polo.

Gerhardus Mercator, the foremost shipmaker of the 16tharranging meridians and parallels in such a way that navigators could draw straight lines century, developed a technique of between two points and steer a constant compass course between them. This distortion

formula, introduced on his world map of 1569, created the 'Greenland problem'. Even on some standard maps to this day, Greenland looks as large as South America - one of the many problems when one tries to portray a round world on a flat sheet of paper. But the Mercator projection was so practical that it is still popular with sailors.