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TEST 3 SECTION 1

MAN:

Good morning, please take a seat.How can I help you? WOMAN: Well, I'm thinking of buying a new car and I'd like some advice.MAN:

Sure, yes.Had you got any particular make in mind? WOMAN:

I'm interested in a LidaI've never driven a car with manual gears.MAN: Right.Well now, here's the colour chart for the Max.Have you given that any thought? This blue's very popular at the moment.WOMAN: Yes, it is nice, I like blue.What's it called? 'Royal'? MAN: Yes.WOMAN:

But actually, I think I prefer this lighter shade herelike the animal.MAN: Then it must be 1994, because they brought out the Fox after that.WOMAN: Oh right, yes.MAN: Mileage? Roughly? WOMAN:

I'm not sure.I know it's le than seventy thousand.MAN: OK.What colour is it? WOMAN: It's grey, metallic grey.MAN: Right, and one last thing-what sort of condition would you say it's in? WOMAN:

I'd probably describe it as reasonable.Do you need to see it? It's parked outside.MAN: Not at the moment, no.Perhaps you could call in one day next week...SECTION 2 MAN: As I said earlier, there is I think at Rexford an excellent combination of physical and geographical advantagesand I know from talking to you individually that a number of you may be looking for some experience in industry after the courseI mean occasionally there are postal problems, but most often the hold-up is caused by referenceswe will, of course, liaise between younot only the academic atmosphere but important details like what the leisure facilities are like and whether the English weather and food are really as awful as everybody says!

If you decide you can face it, the contact can also help you just before you leave, with tips on what to pack and that sort of thing.At the moment I think we've got two second-year students and one postgraduate from this country.-------------------------

Now to move on to the other concerns you expreed earlier.At a UK universityyou will be in an environment where independent learning is the norm, which takes most students a while to adjust to, and at a time when you will be separated from your normal surroundings and, in most eases, your family.This can be a difficult time.But remember that something like 25% of our student body are international students like yourselves, and that there are several organisations in the university and city whose main purpose is to offer help and ensure that your time with us is enjoyable and useful.One or two of you touched on the subject of accommodation earlier.So I'll just add a few points: it is the University's policy to give priority in the allocation of residence places to three categories, and those are: visiting students, exchange students and new postgraduate students.However, demand exceeds supply, so there is still a need to put your name down early for campus accommodation, particularly if your family is accompanying you.This means that the earlier you decide whether you want to study with us...and so get the procedure moving, the better it will be for everybody.Yes? WOMAN: What if you would prefer to live outside the university? MAN: If you're planning to live off-campus, you've got to sort things out even earlier.As with everything in short supply, the good accommodation gets sccnapped up months before the beginning of termit's just a matter of contacting them in good time.Of course, we have a full-time accommodation officer available to help all students.She'll get in touch with you when you're acceptedI wish I could speak your language half as well.Having said that though, I'm afraid the lecturers will make little or no allowance for the presence of non-native speakers in the audience.So anything you can do to improve your spoken EnglishI just remembered I never filled in that form for Nick“Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course”, OK, what's the first one? Oh, course organisation.What do you think? ANNIE: Er, clear? It was, wasn't it? BEN: Yes, I think the organisation was clear.OK, anything else for course organisation? ANNIE: It was a good thing he gave us the course outline at the beginning, in the first seion, that was useful, so I'll put that down, shall I? Now, going on to suggestions for improvement, one thing that wasn't so good, I think we could have done a bit more work at the beginning, I mean at the beginning it seemed dead easy.BEN: Yeah.ANNIE: I thought it was going to be really easy and then all of a sudden in the second half of the course we got a whole load of work, reading to do and eays and things.BEN: Yes, it'd be better if it was more even.OK, now course delivery, does that mean teaching? ANNIE:

Yeah, I suppose so.Well, what I thought was really good on this course was the standard of teaching.Actuallybut the standard generally was fine.Much better than other courses I've been on.BEN: Yeah, I agree.Let's put that then.What about suggestions for improvement? ANNIE: I...I didn't think it was all that wonderful when we had great long group discuion seions that went on for hours and hours.I don't mean we shouldn't have group discuions, just that they shouldn't go on too long.ANNIE:

Now, on to materials and equipment.BEN: Oh, now what was good about some seions was the handouts.ANNIE: Yes, I thought all the handouts were good actually, and some were great, with website addrees and everything.BEN: One problem though with materials was the key texts.ANNIE: Yes!There just weren't enough copies on reserve in the library.And if you can't get the key texts before the seion, how are you supposed to do the reading? And not enough computers.You have to wait ages to get one.BEN: OK, testing and evaluationI thought that was good, the way I got my feedback really quickly.ANNIE: Yes, it was.And I liked the way we knew what we'd be evaluated on, we knew the criteria, so we knew we had to think about clarity, organisation, and so on.BEN: Yeah, but I'm not so sure about the written work.One thing I think is that there's just too much, it's really streful.ANNIE: Yes, I'd agree and I don't see why they can't let us know the criteria they use for marking.BEN: The written aignments? But he told us.ANNIE: No, for the final exams.What are they looking for-what are the criteria? What makes a pa or a fail? BEN: Yeah, I never thought of that.It'd be really useful.ANNIE: OK, any other comments? BEN:

I thought student support, was excellent.ANNIE:

Yeah, me too.OK, excellent.Other comments? BEN: No, I can't think of anything else.ANNIE: Nor me.OK, so that's done.Thanks, Ben.BEN: No, thank you.SECTION 4 Well, my group has been doing a project on how household waste is recycled in Britain.We were quite shocked to discover that only 9% of people here in the UK make an effort to recycle their household waste.This is a lower figure than in most other European countries, and needs to increase dramatically in the next few years if the government is going to meet its recycling targets.The agreed targets for the UK mean that by 2008 we must reduce our carbon dioxide emiions by 12.5%, compared with 1990.And recycling can help to achieve that goal, in two main ways: the production of recycled gla and paper uses much le energy than producing them from virgin materials, and also recycling reduces greenhouse gas emiions from landfill sites and incineration plants.As part of our project, we carried out a survey of people in the street, and the thing that came up over and over again is that people don't think it's easy enough to recycle their waste.One problem is that there aren't enough 'drop-off' sites, that is, the places where the public are supposed to take their waste.We also discovered that waste that's collected from householders is taken to places called 'bring banks', for sorting and baling into loads.One problem here is taking out everything that shouldn't have been placed in the recycling containers: people put all sorts of things into bottle banks, like plastic bags and even broken umbrellas.All this has to be removed by hand.Another difficulty is that toughened gla used for cooking doesn't fully melt at the temperature required for other gla, and so that also has to be picked out by hand.Gla is easy to recycle because it can be reused over and over again without becoming weaker.Two million tons of gla is thrown away each year, that is, seven billion bottles and jars;but only 500.000 tons of that is collected and recycled.Oddly enough, half the gla that's collected is green, and a lot of that is imported, so more green gla is recycled than the UK needs.As a result, new uses are being developed for recycled gla, particularly green gla, for example in fibregla manufacture and water filtration.A company called CLF Aggregates makes a product for roads, and 30% of the material is crushed gla.For recycling paper, Britain comes second in Europe with 40%, behind Germany's amazing 70%.When recycling started, there were quality problems, so it was difficult to use recycled paper in office printers.But these problems have now been solved, and Martin's, based in South London, produces a range of office stationery which is 100% recycled, costs the same as normal paper and is of equally high quality.But this high quality comes at a cost in terms of the waste produced during the proce.Over a third of the waste paper that comes in can't be used in the recycled paper, leaving the question of what to do with it.One firm, Papersave, currently sells this to farmers as a soil conditioner, though this practice will soon be banned because of transport costs and the smell, and the company is looking into the poibility of alternative uses.Plastic causes problems, because there are so many different types of plastic in use today, and each one has to be dealt with differently.Pacrite recycles all sorts of things, from bottles to car bumpers, and one of its most succeful activities is recycling plastic bottles to make containers which are used all over the country to collect waste.The Save-a-Cup scheme was set up by the vending and plastics industries to recycle as many as poible of the three-and-a-half billion polystyrene cups used each year.At the moment 500 million polycups are collected, proceed and sold on to other businees, such as Waterford, which turns the cups into pencils, and Johnson & Jones, a Welsh-based firm, which has developed a wide variety of items, including busine cards.Well, to sum up, there seems to be plenty of research going on into how to re-use materials, but the biggest problem is getting people to think about recycling instead of throwing things away.At least doing the research made us much more careful.