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[Music] you will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions on what you hear there will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a chance to check your work all the recordings will be played once only write all your answers in the listening question booklet at the end of the test you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to an answer sheet you will hear a woman telephoning a travel agent to book a holiday first you have some time to look at questions one to seven you should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time listen carefully to the first part of the conversation and answer questions 1 to 7. hello you're through to go travel this is darren speaking how may i help you today hello i'm calling to book a holiday great may i take your name please yes it's grieves anna grieves is that g-r-e no g-r-i-e-v-e-s and anna is with double n right thank you anna now we're delighted you've called us can i ask where you heard about us uh it was your advertisement in uh one of the magazines was it holiday world oh yes that's the one good thank you it's useful to know of course and did you have a particular holiday in mind or was it a general inquiry i think i've chosen i like the look of the one with the code ft4551 the right destination and the prices seem reasonable right now was it for yourself only or oh no i want to go with a couple of friends so there'd be three of us going okay now there's a choice of dates as you know yes i think well we've got to be back by the end of august so if we say going on august the 16th that would work fine no problem and you can also choose the length of your holiday there's let's see 7 11 or 14 nights we thought the middle one would be great longer would be nice of course but maybe next year yes and you do need to have insurance uh-huh we've three levels standard super and super plus standards seems a bit basic let's say super that should be sufficient fine before you hear the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 8 to 10. now listen and answer questions eight to ten well that's all good so far and the availability is okay have you looked through the list of options they're in the advertisement i have and i've got the list here some of them do seem a good idea which ones would you like to take in terms of the hotel the offer of picnic lunches we'd leave that we'd rather go to cafes i think a balcony for the room is a must it's so nice to sit out enjoying the view oh yes and then the trips uh i think we'll pass on the night bus one i never really enjoy the commentaries and museums aren't really my sort of thing to be honest any more than dances but i like practical things so i think the demonstration of local arts could be fun yes i would think so and then in terms of getting out of town going up the river on a boat sounds delightful and i wouldn't want to miss that but the mountains well sitting in a coach on those winding roads i understand okay well that's all i need for the booking at this point just a few details for you and then we'll check the payment that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your answers you will hear a talk about runwell a charity that raises money by organizing running races first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 17. now listen to the first part of the talk and answer questions 11 to 17. i'm very pleased to have this opportunity to tell you something about the runwell charity and the work we do i'll give a brief overview of what we do and i hope you may be able to help and then there'll be time for questions at the end runwell's founder mike hughes took up long distance running in 1987 raising money by doing sponsored half marathons and in 1992 established the charity as we know it today by 1997 the runs were being filmed by local tv and today they appear on national tv every year all the funds collected by runwell go to the hospital with the idea that those fit enough to run use their energy to assist the provision of people who are unwell for whatever reason now if you want to race and i assume that's why many of you are here let me explain a couple of the basics races are run by teams so you need to form and register a team what you wear to run in is up to you and i know some teams come up with some pretty wacky ideas we have a standard design for your numbers which we ask you to reproduce so you make them up according to that standard we don't want to spend valuable funds on doing that ourselves now the race is run as a kind of relay so while you won't actually compete side by side we do recommend that you train as a group this helps to optimize performance and build team spirit it will also give you a fair idea of how much you need to eat and drink over the race distance this is clearly essential for an effective performance so please make sure you come along to the race with sufficient food and drink again we don't spend money on providing that but you do need to keep yourself going for the 20 kilometer course the course goes through the town then out through highfield park concluding in the main square where the applauding spectators will be ready to greet you there are many different prizes including oldest runner youngest runner team with the most sponsorship team with the best costume that one's donated by zoom fashions the mayor will introduce the minister for health who will hand over each prize to the winners and then the hospital president will make a short speech before you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 18 to 20. now listen and answer questions 18 to 20. okay that's the big race but i know there are many people who don't feel they are up to running a 20 kilometer race but who would nevertheless like to raise money for run well over the years we've had experience of many ways of trying to collect money some very successful others less so now of course 20 kilometers is too far for children to run but there was a sponsored swimming event at the local school last year and that did very well people have also tried to organize food-based events such as selling homemade cakes and bread and so on at the market and there was a large picnic arranged in four bright gardens although these events failed to justify the efforts put into them though i'm sure they were very tasty these days so many people are out at work all day that going from house to house to collect money isn't very effective but it is possible to raise useful funds by selling small promotional items such as badges with the runwell motif on them we're currently checking to see if postcards perhaps showing the races winners each year might also be a good idea or not we do appreciate the efforts that have gone into selling second-hand goods but to be honest the returns have not been very high on this one very dedicated group organized a team quiz recently which went very well and it would be good to see more such activities there's also been talk of a concert but we'll have to see how plans for that progress now are there any questions at this stage that is the end of section two you now have half a minute to check your answers you will hear three linguistic students joe martin and angela discussing the presentation that joe is giving soon as part of his course first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26. now listen to the first part of the conversation and answer questions 21 to 26. hi martin hi angela hi joe yeah hi joe so you're really worried about your presentation the one about names i am well you know your stuff on names pretty well so it's just a question of selecting what you want to use that's right but there's so much well you don't have to include everything let's start somewhere well for example there's a lot to discuss about people's names in terms of culture it would be a good way to start bringing in issues of religion society i thought so as long as you can keep it concise since it's potentially a large area i'll pick out some key points good now that will tend to be about differences what about something on ways in which naming practices are often similar across different languages that sounds good i'm not sure how much i could say that's really about just names and not really general language maybe you need to give that some more thought yes i'm not ruling it out well what about what first names mean that's got to be specific to languages or language groups yes there are all sorts of different principles at work it's a rich area for discussion and you can present lots of examples it would mean a good slide or two i'll enjoy making those up don't forget to put our names in no okay right where we got up to yes now there's the question of place names ones where the name of the place is the word for the situation like something to do with sea or mountain etc yes people often don't realize the origin it sounds like it's just a translation issue to me don't you think you might give that a miss given the time limit perhaps you're right you need something on place names could you get history in actually the way migrants often used to name places after somewhere in their country of origin is interesting sounds a bit narrow to me well i'd hope to build it up a bit perhaps you should make a final decision on that later okay i'll see how the rest of it goes first is that the lot no there's still country names the origins of those i think that's an interesting area yeah because it's something we often don't think about it'd be a way to bring in various aspects history certainly i could project a map of the world and have people match the original meanings to the countries well that seems to be a foregone conclusion fine yes i'm feeling clearer already now you have some time to look at questions 27 to 30. now listen to the rest of the conversation and answer questions 27 to 30. you know there's another aspect that i think i'll cover yes brand names isn't that more to do with business studies well international companies are finding it increasingly important to have brand names that can be used in many different countries oh so they can advertise the same product everywhere yes and it seems that brand names are very special in our brains how so well there was a research study recently carried out on a group of about 50 students they showed them 108 words and the students had to say whether they recognized them as real words or not the list included all mixed up ordinary nouns brand names and meaningless words and they were shown all the words quickly and the brand names seemed to be recognized strongly and in the emotional right-hand side of the brain it was interesting that the brand names were recognized more readily if they were displayed in capital letters rather than lowercase something which doesn't apply to normal words how strange what else did the researchers find out of course it's a relatively small study but they suspect that other visual features are at play and so that for example color has a major effect in helping us to store brand names in a special way in our brains i suppose that's logical but what do you well they mean by a special way i'm not saying i understood everything about this study of course not but they seem to be saying that the power of brand names is that they conjure up a range of associations inside our brains more so than ordinary words or names do i guess this is great news for international companies potentially certainly though exactly what they do that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers you will hear part of a lecture about balloons and airships first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40. now listen to the lecture and answer questions 31 to 40. now balloons and airships are worth consideration because while on the one hand they represent humans first successes at air flight after centuries of less than successful theory and experimentation they also on the other hand continue to be used today we may have appeared to have moved on to jet planes and space rockets but you can still see these more primitive flyers in the skies okay um gas balloons first france saw the first balloon flight in 1783 and this began a process of development by 1862 in the civil war in the united states we find thaddeus low replacing spies with balloons to go behind enemy lines the success of this led to the continued use of balloons in peace time and they were employed in the creation of maps and such applications continue to this day with balloons assisting in increasing our knowledge and understanding of the world we live in unmanned balloons are still widely used to collect data to inform scientific research of various kinds you'd be surprised at how much they contribute all sorts of instruments can be mounted in a balloon and ongoing investigations into climate benefit from the information that can be gathered from a flight well that's gas balloons now the increase in the popularity of ballooning as a sport or leisure activity has been mainly due to the development of the modern hot air balloon being cheaper and safer than the gas balloon heating air rather than using potentially explosive gas is what makes these rise although the process doesn't generate as much lift as with gas balloons but this is a small price to pay for its other benefits and this type of balloon is no doubt here to stay airships are also fairly old in their origins the idea for a balloon that could be powered and steered was first published in france in 1784 although 1852 was the date of the first successful airship flight the first airships like the first aircraft didn't provide any weather protection for their crew so it must have been rather uncomfortable up there but designs continued to develop in sophistication it was realized that the ships would drift about if they weren't strengthened and that to work effectively they would have to have a framework once designed started incorporating this flights became longer and more reliable airships were deployed for various uses in the first world war and once peace returned designers began to turn their attention to ambitious plans for regular intercontinental flights however in the 1930s this program more or less came to an end for one thing the speed and popularity of airliners meant that the airship appeared superseded they just couldn't compete and as if that weren't enough in itself another factor in the decline of the airship was an alarming number of crashes and this of course put people off nevertheless several countries have continued to build smaller airships for various uses such as naval observation or publicity purposes in fact their popularity seems set for a slight revival and in the past few years there has been renewed attention paid to the possibility of using them to transport cargo who knows maybe the 21st century will be the age of the airship now if you look at your handouts you'll see that i've included some information that is the end of section four you now have half a minute to check your answers in the ielts test you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet that is the end of test six you