Cambridge 5 Listening Test 4 - Answers With Explanation

1. "Sea View Guest House, 14 Hill Road."

2. "I suppose between 9 and, let me see, half-past, before I leave for the college."

3. "I'm planning on staying a year but at the moment I'm definitely here for four months only" — her intended stay is a year.

4. "I'd like to say 'advanced' but my written work is below the level of my spoken, so I suppose it's intermediate."

5. "I'd really like to live in the north-west."

6. "Well, I'm nearly a vegetarian... not quite" — "Shall I say you are?" "That would be best."

7. "I'd also like the house to have a real garden rather than just a yard."

8. "I'd prefer to be the only guest if that's possible?" "No other guests."

9. "I was thinking in terms of about £60–£80 a week, but I'd go up to a hundred if it was something special."

10. "It's the 10th today... so if we go for the Monday it's the 23rd March."

11. "We're going to use the clubhouse in King's Park, and the next meeting will be held in the clubhouse on the 2nd of July."

12. "We hope to begin the season with a picnic next Saturday at the clubhouse."

13. "The last week of the season we usually have a dinner and presentation of prizes to the players."

14. "We hope to have ten teams, instead of five, in the junior competition."

15. "Training sessions will be held in King's Park on Wednesday afternoons for the juniors."

16. "In the senior competition, there'll be four teams, the same as last year."

17. "The training session for seniors is planned for Sunday afternoons."

18. Gina Costello, the treasurer, "will collect the fees from you for the season."

19. David West, the secretary, will "send out newsletters to you regularly."

20. Jason Dokic, the Head Coach, "will continue to supervise the teams, at training sessions and on match days."

21. "Despite a new advertising campaign, they were suffering from falling sales."

22. "Although they had invested in an expansion plan, they had to face up to increased competition."

23. Jason: "What they were set back by was high interest rates."

24. "Their longer-term problems, which were affecting their market share, were eventually credited to poor training."

25. Karin expects the cautious company "will start trying to find individuals who'd be prepared to back them with some of the capital they need" — private investors, A.

26. The tutor suggests the more promising approach is to "alter how they're running things — the management layers and the processes" — B.

27. The tutor wants a report that will "suggest some ways in which they might overcome their problems" — A.

28. Karin: "I think it will recover... they're very innovative with their products — they set new trends" — she thinks it will overcome its problems, C.

29. Jason thinks recovery depends on the company managing "to attract the right level of investment" — it currently has too little, B.

30. The tutor says "that's where they could do with some innovation — to get sales kick-started", disagreeing that the campaign was strong — its marketing needs improvement, D.

31. "In this first week, we run a series of talks which focus on different aspects of the library and its resources" — B.

32. "You can find lots [online] but much of it is useless information as it is from highly debatable sources — so be critical" — A.

33. The library adds CD-ROMs "at very little extra cost" instead of buying more books — a cheap source of information, A.

34. "Some of you will find the printed version more accessible... but I'm afraid the intention is to phase these out eventually" — printed stock will be reduced, C.

35. "Some of you may prefer to borrow a book rather than sit in the library" — reference books can be taken away, A.

36. "As your Training Supervisor, I just oversee your induction" — providing orientation to the library, B.

37. "The training will also include some time on the computers... we can show you the different ways to run data programmes" — library staff, B.

38. "Your tutors will tell you at the outset how to set out the chapters they require but you will need to ask them" about the bibliography — the student's own tutor, A.

39. "When you've got something together the trainer here will look through the draft version for you" — library staff, B.

40. "If you require language lessons then they are available from the International Centre" — another section of the university, C.