now open your question paper and look at part one you'll hear three different extracts for questions one to six choose the answer a b or c which fits best according to what you hear there are two questions for each extract extract one you hear part of a radio discussion about a football team now look at questions one and two so is john elliott a player you like to watch i'm guessing he is yes he's excellent very technical clever with the ball he's good at passing the ball to the team's top goal scorers and setting them up to shoot when he sees that final pass coming as he approaches the goal area you get a lot of players who get there but then freeze and get erratic but he's not one of them so if you can get him backing up the strikers he can be the key player and what about their new man danny martinez 7 million they paid for him they've probably overpaid not very cautious given that they've paid out this kind of cash before and it all went wrong didn't it i want to hang on to him come what may at that price yes well it hasn't broken the bank but they were overcharged for him they probably thought he was a good investment he's young they can sell him on if things go wrong for more money they got their fingers burnt once over a similar deal and they won't want it to happen again now you'll hear the recording again so is john elliott a player you like to watch i'm guessing he is yes he's excellent very technical clever with the ball he's good at passing the ball to the team's top goal scorers and setting them up to shoot when he sees that final pass coming as he approaches the goal area you get a lot of players who get there but then freeze and get erratic but he's not one of them so if you can get him backing up the strikers he can be the key player and what about their new man danny martinez seven million they paid for him they've probably overpaid not very cautious given that they've paid up this kind of cash before and it all went wrong didn't it i want to hang on to him come what may at that price yes well it hasn't broken the bank but they were overcharged for him they probably thought he was a good investment he's young they can sell him on if things go wrong for more money they got their fingers burnt once over a similar deal and they won't want it to happen again extract two you hear part of a radio interview with dina carracondd who has just won a prize for her environmental work in south america now look at questions three and four congratulations dina thanks very much were you surprised to win and completely well now you're trying to save a wildlife habitat that stretches 3000 kilometers along the coast of south america aren't you daunted by that it's a huge task but we're basically getting the message out the local fish population mainly anchovies are being forced into colder water because the sea is warming up of those left 85 percent are being scooped up by industrial fishing trawlers so predators like seals penguins and dolphins and local fishermen are left with very little now this is the richest ecosystem in the world if it's starting to be affected you know there must be a tremendous impact on other less robust systems so what's your relationship like with local fishermen no they used to regard me as an enemy because i used to work for seals and as you know fishermen and seals compete for the same fish but now they see me as an ally trying to control industrial fishing what stopping them scooping up anchovies not stopping them but getting them to catch less which means the local fishermen can catch more of the large fish that feed on the anchovies now you'll hear the recording again congratulations dina thanks very much were you surprised to win and completely well now you're trying to save a wildlife habitat that stretches 3000 kilometers along the coast of south america aren't you daunted by that it's a huge task but we're basically getting the message out the local fish population mainly anchovies are being forced into colder water because the sea is warming up of those left 85 percent are being scooped up by industrial fishing trawlers so predators like seals penguins and dolphins and local fishermen are left with very little now this is the richest ecosystem in the world if it's starting to be affected you know there must be a tremendous impact on other less robust systems so what's your relationship like with local fishermen no they used to regard me as an enemy because i used to work for seals and as you know fishermen and seals compete for the same fish but now they see me as an ally trying to control industrial fishing what stopping them scooping up anchovies not stopping them but getting them to catch less which means the local fishermen can catch more of the large fish that feed on the anchovies extract three you hear part of a radio program about books and reading now look at questions five and six today we're talking about books that have inspired us books that have made a difference to our lives each of my studio guests has chosen what for them was an important book and first off we're going to hear about monica nan's choice moniker thanks neil well the thing about this book is that when i first discovered it in my late teens it was a birthday present if i remember correctly i'd never really read anything like it before i'd heard about it from a friend and i'd got the idea it was something special and so i asked for it specifically i think i was about 17 so i was a fairly late developer as a reader i hadn't been particularly interested until then but it suddenly sort of took a grip i think it was the strangeness of that book i mean it's the one i'd take with me to a desert island because it's just got everything in it and it just opened me up to what pleasures there are in description in narrative you know in ideas well we'll uh discover exactly which book my next guest has chosen now you'll hear the recording again today we're talking about books that have inspired us books that have made a difference to our lives each of my studio guests has chosen what for them was an important book and first off we're going to hear about monica nan's choice monika thanks neil well the thing about this book is that when i first discovered it in my late teens it was a birthday present if i remember correctly i'd never really read anything like it before i'd heard about it from a friend and i'd got the idea it was something special and so i asked for it specifically i think i was about 17 so i was a fairly late developer as a reader i hadn't been particularly interested up till then but it suddenly sort of took a grip i think it was the strangeness of that book i mean it's the one i'd take with me to a desert island because it's just got everything in it and it just opened me up to what pleasures there are in description in narrative you know in ideas well we'll uh discover exactly which book my next guest has chosen that's the end of part one now turn to part two part two you'll hear part of a radio program about cherries small fruit which grow on trees for questions 7 to 14 complete the sentences you now have 45 seconds to look at part 2. when i visited a number of fruit farms in central england i found broad agreement among most of the growers that these days it makes sense to move away from their traditional crops such as apples and into cherries instead now in summertime they have orchard after orchard of beautiful trees heavily laden with bright red fruit uk cherry growers tend to choose the varieties which ripen slowly this fruit may command a higher price because the harvest is not so early and there are always reliable buyers for it research is currently being carried out into ways of improving yield a major obstacle to efficient production is the fact that growth may not be consistent from season to season sometimes the fruit only grows as big as a pea and then drops to the ground quite a few of the smaller trees are covered up against the rain and wind in a plastic tunnel older larger trees have to take their chance out in the open but cherries are a delicate fruit and optimum weather conditions are needed to achieve the potential yield of five tons per hectare the surface of the fruit has very little wax on it so cherries need to be kept out of the rain as much as possible because the skin is liable to crack when water gets into it if this occurs the crop may be lost because the fruit bursts with a pop rather like a balloon when you're selecting the best cherries to buy don't get them if they look at all tired or wrinkled and buy the ones with a green stem you'll find they taste much better than ones without people often ask how long does it take to get a decent crop from a cherry tree well there are new varieties laden with fruit that are only four years old but if you go back and read the old fruit growing textbooks from the 1960s they tell you cherries don't give a worthwhile crop till they're 12 years old some varieties go on cropping till they're 90. there are three new varieties which have recently been introduced by growers symphony and staccato are both highly successful so far but sweetheart is being planted in larger numbers than either of them and looks to be a real winner just one problem if you go cherry-picking this summer how do you stop yourself eating them all one expert who's been picking all her life told me eat a cherry suck the stone and keep it on your tongue it stops you putting any more in that way you end up with at least a handful of this delicious fruit in your basket now you'll hear the recording again i visited a number of fruit farms in central england i found broad agreement among most of the growers that these days it makes sense to move away from their traditional crops such as apples and into cherries instead now in summertime they have orchard after orchard of beautiful trees heavily laden with bright red fruit uk cherry growers tend to choose the varieties which ripen slowly this fruit may command a higher price because the harvest is not so early and there are always reliable buyers for it research is currently being carried out into ways of improving yield a major obstacle to efficient production is the fact that growth may not be consistent from season to season sometimes the fruit only grows as big as a pea and then drops to the ground quite a few of the smaller trees are covered up against the rain and wind in a plastic tunnel older larger trees have to take their chance out in the open but cherries are a delicate fruit and optimum weather conditions are needed to achieve the potential yield of five tons per hectare the surface of the fruit has very little wax on it so cherries need to be kept out of the rain as much as possible because the skin is liable to crack when water gets into it if this occurs the crop may be lost because the fruit bursts with a pop rather like a balloon when you're selecting the best cherries to buy don't get them if they look at all tired or wrinkled and buy the ones with a green stem you'll find they taste much better than ones without people often ask how long does it take to get a decent crop from a cherry tree well there are new varieties laden with fruit that are only four years old but if you go back and read the old fruit growing textbooks from the 1960s they tell you cherries don't give a worthwhile crop till they're 12 years old some varieties go on cropping till they're 90.
there are three new varieties which have recently been introduced by growers symphony and staccato are both highly successful so far but sweetheart is being planted in larger numbers than either of them and looks to be a real winner just one problem if you go cherry-picking this summer how do you stop yourself eating them all one expert who's been picking all her life told me eat a cherry suck the stone and keep it on your tongue it stops you putting any more in that way you end up with at least a handful of this delicious fruit in your basket the end of part two now turn to part three part three you'll hear a radio interview in which an artist called sophie axel is talking about her life and career for questions 15 to 20 choose the answer a b c or d which fits best according to what you hear you now have one minute to look at part three so here we are today in the artist sophie axel's um amazingly colorful home do you mean shockingly colorful you don't have to be polite well it was quite a surprise when you opened the front door that's how it's meant to be really a huge impact of color on the senses electric pink brilliant blue and yellow for the hallway in fact all the walls in the house are different colors it's so stimulating so would you say color is the most important thing in your life sophie absolutely it's in me i don't pay any conscious attention to it it's who i am what i have grown up with it's like an internal microchip for me every number and every day has a color when i sleep i even dream in color and i associate people with colors too i won't ask you what mine is i noticed before that you've even got rainbow stairs oh the children adore them it's their favorite place to play they're quite small aren't they you're not worried about them falling no they're as short-footed as goats even the baby life is never without danger i just leave them to it and they develop confidence at their own rate as children should they need to find themselves especially if they're going to follow the family's artistic tradition you mean your family are artists too not as such but we're all very creative especially the female side of the family my grandmother was an actress she's still alive and my mother and aunt are furniture designers for quite famous international companies actually so when you get together oh there's no stopping us we're all very expressive in words in clothes in the environment we create in our homes family gatherings must be something oh you're right there when it comes to events such as festivals and birthdays we dress up find the best presents imaginable and then wrap them magnificently oh it's so exciting and we have huge parties but there's awful pressure to do something unusual too and even more pressure from people around for example on rosa's third birthday that's your daughter yes i made a set of puppets to put on a show for her friends from play group it took me days immediately their parents asked me to put on shows for their children's birthdays too and so it goes on and is rosa creative as well oh yes she adores painting my mother came to stay recently and i found them both in the early morning chatting away about the color of sunrise there they were grandmother and granddaughter talking about colors if they were absolute equals quite an unusual topic so let's talk about your own life a bit i suppose you're a star student at art school oh you couldn't be more wrong i was a total flop at that time there was no interest in design it was all introspection and gloom and doom and i just couldn't be molded in that way so i took off literally well nothing too exotic i went to work as a cook in a local hotel i used to cycle there and may was so low that when i got a puncture i just couldn't pay for the repair so i offered the man in the bike shop a poster advertising his repair service instead of money did he accept yes in the middle of the picture was this completely flat tire and someone who saw it asked if he could use it to advertise a national charity bike ride that must have given you a boost yes i had several important poster commissions after that including some for health education i've had some other lucky breaks too i designed some gift wrap for a stationary company and a woman phoned who had been given a book wrapped in my paper she was an author and asked me to illustrate her book of fairy stories so that's how i got into publishing in fact i'm just finishing a children's activity book that i've actually written and illustrated myself now you'll hear the recording again so here we are today in the artist sophie axel's um amazingly colorful home do you mean shockingly colorful you don't have to be polite well it was quite a surprise when you open the front door that's how it's meant to be really a huge impact of color on the senses electric pink brilliant blue and yellow for the hallway in fact all the walls in the house are different colors it's so stimulating so would you say color is the most important thing in your life sophie absolutely it's in me i don't pay any conscious attention to it it's who i am what i have grown up with it's like an internal microchip for me every number and every day has a color when i sleep i even dream in color and i associate people with colors too i won't ask you what mine is i noticed before that you've even got rainbow stairs oh the children adore them it's their favorite place to play they're quite small aren't they you're not worried about them falling no they're as short-footed as goats even the baby life is never without danger i just lead them to it and they develop confidence at their own rate as children should they need to find themselves especially if they're going to follow the family's artistic tradition you mean your family are artists too not as such but we're all very creative especially the female side of the family my grandmother was an actress she's still alive and my mother and aunt are furniture designers for quite famous international companies actually so when you get together oh there's no stopping us [Laughter] we're all very expressive in words enclosed in the environment we create in our homes family gatherings must be something oh you're right there when it comes to events such as festivals and birthdays we dress up find the best presents imaginable and then wrap them magnificently oh it's so exciting and we have huge parties but there's awful pressure to do something unusual too and even more pressure from people around for example on rosa's third birthday that's your daughter yes i made a set of puppets to put on a show for her friends from play group it took me days immediately their parents asked me to put on shows for their children's birthdays too and so it goes on and is rosa creative as well oh yes she adores painting my mother came to stay recently and i found them both in the early morning chatting away about the color of sunrise there they were grandmother and granddaughter talking about colors if they were absolute equals quite an unusual topic so let's talk about your own life a bit i suppose you're a star student at art school oh you couldn't be more wrong i was a total flop at that time there was no interest in design it was all introspection and gloom and doom and i just couldn't be molded in that way so i took off literally well nothing too exotic i went to work as a cook in a local hotel i used to cycle there and may was so low that when i got a puncture i just couldn't pay for the repair so i offered the man in the bike shop a poster advertising his repair service instead of money did he accept yes in the middle of the picture was this completely flat tire and someone who saw it asked if he could use it to advertise a national charity bike ride that must have given you a boost yes i had several important poster commissions after that including some for health education i've had some other lucky breaks too i designed some gift wrap for a stationary company and a woman phoned who'd been given a book wrapped in my paper she was an author and asked me to illustrate her book of fairy stories so that's how i got into publishing in fact i'm just finishing a children's activity book that i've actually written and illustrated myself that's the end of part three now turn to part four part four part four consists of two tasks you'll hear five short extracts in which people are talking about tourism look at task one for questions 21 to 25 choose from the list a to h each speaker's occupation now look at task 2. for questions 26 to 30 choose from the list a to h each speaker's aim for the future while you listen you must complete both tasks you now have 45 seconds to look at part 4. speaker one increased numbers of visitors would of course be a great benefit to the locality my worry is though whether we have the infrastructure to cope i'm not really concerned about the bed and breakfast sector there's a certain amount of slack in the system but what about transport the railway line was removed 20 years ago and the center gets choked up with cars as it is in the summer while cueing to go through the narrow medieval gateways which are a great photo opportunity but a nightmare for through traffic naturally the pollution levels are rising now from traffic fumes reinstating the railway connection would get my vote but it won't be easy speaker too i think there are some wonderful places to visit around the country and it's my job to try and include them in our publications particularly for our profitable export market but it's all a big piecemeal isn't it take accommodation for example there are some pockets of excellence with great places to stay run by friendly staff and serving interesting regional food but you should see the pile of correspondence we receive from disappointed tourists it's generally about the mismatch between price and quality it's very hard to know what to recommend when we have to update our accommodation sections especially in london quality across the board that's the way forward speaker three well i think we really need to aim to try to get as many tourists as possible but we should start focusing on different groups one of our key tasks has always been to gather information from overseas markets and feed it back to local tourist organizations throughout the country here so that they can develop products that suit currently we're thinking of marketing certain regions to the more mature higher spending travelers who could come outside the summer holiday period in order to extend the main tourist season these travelers are primarily people who love historical buildings gardens walking and other activities which can be done in the spring and autumn speaker 4 i think tourism can bring benefits of handled wisely one scheme which is close to my heart is the regeneration of the rural economy by promoting traditional crafts and setting up visitors centers to see these in action it would be possible to go quite a long way but we need to consider the wider issues for instance what means of transport are all these people going to use to get here and where are they going to stay can we encourage only those who do the least damage i fear that won't happen the short-term considerations always win people fail to understand how difficult it is to reverse damage to our surroundings speaker five in this business you can't stand still we've done a lot to make the inside attractive and informative over the years set up educational displays about everyday life 500 years ago redecorated the bedroom where queen elizabeth slept in 1570 we also restored the 18th century kitchen to its formal layout and we do cooking demonstrations for school children this year it's the outside i want to encourage families to pay to see our extended garden and zoo and the demonstrations of archery and medieval combat to be profitable we really do need visitors to stay longer and spend more money in the garden's shop and restaurant now you'll hear the recording again speaker one increased numbers of visitors would of course be a great benefit to the locality my worry is though whether we have the infrastructure to cope i'm not really concerned about the bed and breakfast sector there's a certain amount of slack in the system but what about transport the railway line was removed 20 years ago and the center gets choked up with cars as it is in the summer all cueing to go through the narrow medieval gateways which are a great photo opportunity but a nightmare for through traffic naturally the pollution levels arising now from traffic fumes reinstating the railway connection would get my vote but it won't be easy speaker 2 i think there are some wonderful places to visit around the country and it's my job to try and include them in our publications particularly for our profitable export market but it's all a bit piecemeal isn't it take accommodation for example there are some pockets of excellence with great places to stay run by friendly staff and serving interesting regional food but you should see the pile of correspondence we receive from disappointed tourists it's generally about the mismatch between price and quality it's very hard to know what to recommend when we have to update our accommodation sections is especially in london quality across the board that's the way forward speaker three well i think we really need to aim to try to get as many tourists as possible but we should start focusing on different groups one of our key tasks has always been to gather information from overseas markets and feed it back to local tourist organizations throughout the country here so that they can develop products that suit currently we're thinking of marketing certain regions to the more mature higher spending travelers who could come outside the summer holiday period in order to extend the main tourist season these travelers are primarily people who love historical buildings gardens walking and other activities which can be done in the spring and autumn speaker four i think tourism can bring benefits if handled wisely one scheme which is close to my heart is the regeneration of the rural economy by promoting traditional crafts and setting up visitors centers to see these in action it would be possible to go quite a long way but we need to consider the wider issues for instance what means of transport are all these people going to use to get here and where are they going to stay can we encourage only those who do the least damage i fear that won't happen the short-term considerations always win people fail to understand how difficult it is to reverse damage to our surroundings speaker five in this business you can't stand still we've done a lot to make the inside attractive and informative over the years set up educational displays about everyday life 500 years ago redecorated the bedroom where queen elizabeth slept in 1570.
