Cambridge 9 Listening Test 4 - Answers With Explanation

1. Of Doctor Green at the Harvey Clinic, the woman says: "We always recommend her for babies, because she's very good with them."

2. "Yes, the Eshcol Health Practice is the next one on my list," spelled out as E-S-H-C-O-L.

3. The Eshcol practice suits busy people because "they also do appointments in the evening."

4. "You can register with Doctor Gormley, that's G-O-R-M-L-E-Y. He's new there."

5–6. Two services are free at Shore Lane: "if you need to be vaccinated before any trips abroad, you won't have to pay for this" (E, vaccinations), and "if you need to prove you're healthy... before a new employer will accept you, you can get a free fitness check-up" (B, employment medicals).

7. Of the smoking talk, she says "the talk will stress the health benefits particularly for people with asthma or heart disease."

8. The Healthy Eating talk is "at the primary school on Shore Lane," not the Health Centre.

9. The injury-prevention talk is "a late afternoon talk, at four thirty."

10. That same talk "is suitable for all ages."

11. "The first one — the round one on the far left — is the most important one for the heating and hot water. It's the main control switch" — the on/off switch (B).

12. If the heater cuts out, "you'll need to press this button to reset the heater" — the reset button (C).

13. "There's a little square indicator under the third knob that's a kind of alarm light. It'll flash if you need to reset the heater" — the warning indicator (E).

14. "Pillows... if you look in the cupboard, the large white one upstairs — to the left of the bathroom door — there should be four or five on the top shelf," so the cupboard on the landing (B).

15. The washing powder is "probably by the back door. There's a kind of shelf there above the sink" — on a shelf by the back door (E).

16. "The spare key to the back door is hanging on a hook on the wall by the sitting room window" — next to the window in the living room (D).

17. "You'll find some spare bulbs in a large cardboard box. It's on top of the washing machine" — in a box on the washing machine (A).

18. The local map is kept "in the top drawer of the chest under the TV in your bedroom" — the chest of drawers (C).

19. For pizzas, he says: "Call 7-3 double 2, 8-1 for that one," giving the number 732281.

20. The railway museum should be avoided "not on Thursdays," which is "the only day of the week when they're not open."

21. Kira explains she chose the course because "I'd already finished a course in it in my country" — she had completed a course (A).

22. Kira says the real difficulty was not the reading or writing but "it is more a question of altering your viewpoint towards academic study" — changing her way of thinking (C).

23. "Here, they're much easier to approach," Kira says of the lecturers.

24. Paul suggests: "you're a more mature student now," whereas she was younger before.

25. Students make appointments "sometimes just about something that might really interest them."

26. "We did these in small groups," Kira says of the practical sessions.

27. In the second semester, "every second day we went to one of the big hospitals and worked there."

28. "Between first and second semesters, we had to work full-time for two weeks in a hospital."

29. Asked how she feels now, Kira says "I do feel much more confident."

30. "The biggest problem for me was a lack of familiarity with the education system here."

31. The group noticed "more sparrow-hawks... turning up in these gardens in great numbers" and wondered why — investigating a recent phenomenon (C).

32. The proportion of land in private gardens "was endorsed by looking at large-scale usage maps in the town land survey office" — consulting official documents (A).

33. Garden owners "completed a survey once every two weeks... ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list" — keeping a record of animals seen (B).

34. "We deliberately chose smaller [gardens] because they were by far the most typical in the city... to look at the norm not the exception" — representative gardens (B).

35. Alongside their own research, "we were studying a lot of books about the decline of wild animals in the countryside" — wildlife problems in rural areas (A).

36. The group chose these three species "because we felt these gave a good indication of the processes at work in rural and urban settings as a whole" — they best indicated general trends (C).

37. "The first species to generate a lot of interesting information was frogs," which proliferate wherever there is suitable water.

38. Hedgehogs do better in cities because "their predators are not finding it quite so attractive to leave their rural environment."

39. With plenty of sightings, "we had no difficulties with our efforts to count their numbers precisely."

40. Song thrushes thrive because "there's an extensive range of seeds around, which is what they feed on."