Listening B - 08. SG–JAN–06

D’ you want to fly first or economy class?. Travel agency: There is one thing with the Cathay Pacific flight.. The coat actually cost $2 more than the advertised price.. The coat actuall

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

HCMC UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HUFLIT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER

SG–JAN–06

LISTENING COMPREHENSION TEST

LEVEL B

PART A BLANK–FILLING

Listen to the telephone conversation on the cassette While you are listening, fill in the missing words/numbers

ASKING ABOUT FLIGHT PRICES

Travel agency: Globe Travel here Can I help you ?

Customer: Yes, please This is Fusako Matsumoto speaking I’m planning to fly to Penang next month

What’s the price of a flight at the moment ? Travel agency: Well, er, that depends D’ you want to fly first or economy class ? When will you be going ?

And how long would you like to say ? Customer: Well I’m planning a short holiday, may be (1) or so But I don’t want a

package tour Just the flight, er, economy class I suppose

Travel agency: And when is it you ‘d like to leave ?

Customer: On (2)

Travel agency: Then I can get you an excursion ticket That’s on Malaysian Airlines and it’ll cost HK$

(3) return Customer: And what would it be if I flew Cathay Pacific ?

Travel agency: Now, let’s see That’s time (4) It’s only slightly more, HK$ (5) in fact Customer: Well I’ll have to think about

Travel agency: There is one thing with the Cathay Pacific flight The time might be more convenient for you

because it leaves rather later in the morning, at (6) That’s (7)

Customer: And the other one ? When’s that ?

Travel agency: That’s much earlier, at (8) That means you’re in Penang at about (9),

whereas the Cathay Pacific flight lands at about (10) Customer: Er I’ll have to think about that Er, what about the return flight ? Could you tell me

PART B SHORT STATEMENTS

After you hear a statement, read the four choices and choose which one is closest in meaning to the statement you’re heard Then, mark your choice on your answer sheet

1

A We will be here shortly

B We may cause Mary to be late

C Mary will probably be late if we don’t come soon

D Unless Mary comes soon, we will probably be late

2

A The program will begin at 20 minutes to 9:00

B The president was supposed to begin at 9:20

C The program cut off the president’s speech

D The program started at twenty minutes after nine

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3

A We will go to a party either Friday or Saturday night

B We will go to a party if the weather is good

C We will go to a party on both Friday and Saturday nights

D We will not go to a party because of the weather

4

A Helen hates fish

B Helen often fishes with her husband, because she likes it

C Helen doesn’t like going fishing with her husband although she goes quite often

D Helen hates her husband after he has been fishing

5

A I learned the difficult extremes

B It was hard material for me to remember

C Studying all that material was difficult for me

D I found the material after a difficult search

6

A Maria is angry because there is too much chlorine in the pool

B The chlorine in the swimming pool bothers Maria’s ears

C The chlorine in the pool makes Maria’s eyes painful and sore

D Maria doesn’t believe that there is enough chlorine in the pool

7

A The coat cost $20 on sale

B The coat actually cost $2 more than the advertised price

C Ted said that he had bought a coat for $20, but he was lying

D The coat actually cost $2 less than the advertised price

8

A The class started twenty minutes late due to the fire drill

B Because of a fire, class was cancelled

C The class ended at 2:20 because there was the fire drill

D The fire drill was postponed until 2:20 so the students could finish class first

9

A Sandra returned the shoes and took a pair of pants instead

B Sandra took the shoes back to the store and got some different ones

C One of Sandra’s shoes didn’t fit properly so she returned them both

D Because of a problem with the heel of her shoes, Sandra returned them

10

A John didn’t go to class because he knew there wasn’t going to be a test

B John didn’t want to take the test, so he skipped class

C If John had known about the test, he would have gone to class

D John went to class although he didn’t want to take the test

THE END