Cambridge 10 Listening Test 3 - Answers With Explanation

1. "She's three now but she turns four next month." The director says: "I'll put four down because that's how old she'll be when she starts."

2. "It's 46 Wombat Road, that's W-O-M-B-A-T. Woodside 4032."

3. Carol wanted Wednesday, but "the centre is already full for Wednesday" (a distractor), so she settles for Thursday: "I suppose Thursday would be all right because she has swimming on Friday."

4. "I need to get to work in the city by 9:00 so I'll drop her off at 8:30."

5. The green group is for three- to four-year-olds (a distractor), but since the daughter "is quite mature for her age," the director says: "I'll put her in the red group."

6. "Yes, she'll only need lunch."

7. "But she does need to wear glasses."

8. "That'd better be my sister ... Jenny Ball. That's B-A-double L."

9. "So she is the child's aunt? — Yes, that's right."

10. Carol chooses the discounted option: "we do offer a slightly discounted rate if you pay every month. — Oh, I'll do that then." Paying by term was the other, unchosen option.

11–12. "The charity uses its money to support campaigns — for example, for changes in fishing policy" (C), and "many people give their services on a voluntary basis and we now have volunteers working in observation, office work and other things" (E). Children make up only 35% of members (not most — a distractor for A), and the Trust only "hopes soon" to employ its first biologist (D is not yet true).

13. "Although it's not meant an enormous amount of money for us, it has made our activities even more widely publicised and understood" — better known (B), ruling out extra money (A).

14. "Exploration creates a lot of underwater noise. It means the dolphins can't rest and socialise" (A) — pollution from oil leaks is explicitly ruled out: "there'll be little pollution from oil."

15. "Then I came across this story about a family of dolphins who had been observed living off the coast — and I was hooked" — reading about them (C).

16. "Echo is being rather elusive this year and hasn't yet been sighted by our observers."

17. "It is Kiwi who's our real 'character' as she seems to love coming up close for the cameras and we've captured her on film hundreds of times."

18. "Samson has a lot of energy — he's always leaping out of the water with great vigour."

19. "You'd probably expect him to be the youngest — he's not quite — that's Kiwi — but Samson's the latest of our dolphins to be chosen for the scheme."

20. "Moondancer's easy to find because she has a particularly large fin on her back, which makes her easy to identify."

21. "I'd visualise what he must have been like in the past, when he was working" — Rob imagined his grandfather at work (C).

22. "People kept saying the same thing over and over, like 'Cold, isn't it?'" — repetition of words and phrases (A).

23. "Sophia helped us work out exactly what to do, for the production. And that made me feel better, I suppose" — Rob felt better once he had clear guidelines (A).

24. "She found these articles from the 1950s about how relationships between men and women were changing" — changing social attitudes (B).

25. "In the final rehearsal everything was going fine until the last scene. And then the spotlight stuck somehow so it was shining on the wrong side of the stage" — an equipment failure (B).

26. "Next year when you are in the second year of the course, you — with good marks — get places. You have to prove that you know your subject really well" — show ability in Theatre Studies (E).

27. "I decided I wanted a programme that would fit in with what I wanted to do after I graduate, so I looked for a university with emphasis on acting" — making sure the institution's focus is relevant (D).

28. "I had a friend who missed the deadline and didn't get her first choice, so you do need to get a move on at that stage" — be on time (A).

29. "I'll get some of the final year students to give me some tips ... maybe see if I can read what they wrote" — Rob plans to ask for help (G).

30. "While you're abroad don't make the mistake I made. I got so involved I forgot all about making arrangements for when I came back here for the final year" — plan for the final year (C).

31. "Promotion goals in different life situations emphasise achievement."

32. "This factor is connected to a person's personality and says that each person has a basic tendency to either focus more on promotion goals or focus more on prevention goals."

33. "Second, there is a situational factor which means that the context we are in can make us more likely to focus on one set of goals or the other."

34. "We are more likely to be thinking about pleasure and to have promotion goals when we are spending time with a friend."

35. "When focusing on promotion goals, people consider their ideal self, their aspirations and gains."

36. "The way leaders behave, or their style of leading, can affect the focus that followers adopt."

37. "Transformational leaders, when interacting with their followers, focus on their development."

38. "Their speech is passionate and conveys a definitive vision."

39. "Transactional leaders focus on developing clear structures that tell their followers exactly what is expected of them."

40. "For a designer who works in a field where a lot of innovation is needed, a promotion focus is probably better."