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Directions: You will hear a conversation between two people. You will be asked to answer three questions about what the speakers say in each conversation. Select the best response to each question.

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Directions: You will hear some talks given by a single speaker. You will be asked to answer two or three questions about what the speaker says in each talk. Select the best response to each question.

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158 Bob's Creative Arts 2 Smithers Brampton, Canada M6f GT5 Tel: (416) 754-1495 September 21st, 2011

Katrina Moses 1 Bernard Rd. Slough, Ontario, Canada M6F 4H9

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Dear Ms. Moses, Bumper Sale in our showroom. Greetings. As a ____1___ customer, we wanted you to be among the first to know about our upcoming bumper sale. All furnishings, crockery and cutlery will be reduced by 50% for the month of September. As per tradition at Bob's Creative Arts, we will be having a lucky draw. This year the grand prize is a 2-night stay for two at the Hilton Inn ___2____ Toronto Island. The winner will receive a free double occupancy stay in the penthouse suite as well as a free dinner on the moonlit patio. Money from the ticket sales will be ____3___ to the Senior Citizens Foundation. We look forward to seeing you this season. Yours truly Bob and Nancy

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DISCOUNT SHOE EMPORIUM MEMO TO: Sales Staff FROM: Management R.S. DATE: July 29th, 2011 SUBJECT: Flyer Misprint Please be aware that there was a misprint in an advertisement for our store in this week's Intercity press. The ad states that on Saturday, all formal footwear is on sale for 50% percent off rather ___4____ 10% off. If customers come in and ask about this sale, please ___5____ and explain the printing error. Offer them an additional 5% off coupon to thank them for coming to our store. The coupon can be given out even if the customer decides not to purchase any shoes.

Please call a manager to the sales floor ___6____ you encounter any customers who have the ad with them and demand to receive the 50% discount. These cases will be handled on an individual basis. Thank you. R.S

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25th July Ms. Jenny Smiths Channel 8 Sun TV 2000 Pine Road New York, USA Dear Dr.Watson 25

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I am writing to request permission to use portions of your recent episode about the migrating patterns of water birds in your recent episode of 'Birds of the North' that was ___7___ October 15th. All excerpts from your television show would only be shown to students at the summer camp. As an educational institution __8____ limited means we are unable to pay for any of the content with monetary compensation, but we would give your show proper ____9_____ as the sole provider of the content. Sincerely, Jenny Smiths

Elementary schools are far better equipped than secondary schools when it comes to (10)__________ students with behavioral and learning disabilities. While inculcating basic cognitive and behavioral skills (11)__________ elementary education, the same can hardly be said for the secondary level, where students are assumed to have already attained a high level of independent functioning. Today's emphasis on content knowledge, mainly 26

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through standardized testing, at the expense of vocational training has only served to (12)___________.

Refer to the following advertisement for questions 1 - 4: 1. Read the Advertisement and answer the questions. FREE SUNGLASSES AND CASE

Purchase a 6 month subscription to Health and You today and receive a free pair of branded sunglasses with your very own soft leather case. To get your free sunglasses follow these 3 easy steps. 1. Purchase a copy of Health and You, a popular fashion and health magazine. 27

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2. Fill out the application form (found in the center of the magazine) 3. Mail the form and US $20. 45 to the address provided. This is a limited period offer only. Application forms must be received no later than Dec 1st, 2011. Offer not available for residents outside of USA.

MARKETING ASSISTANT Responsibilities: Assist in visualizing and conceptualizing marketing campaigns. Provide inputs to the companys marketing plans, programs, and activities. 28

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Monitor the marketing performance of the companys products in its various markets and outlets. Requirements: Must have good marketing and communication skills. Must have a degree in Business, Economics, or Marketing Management. Must have at least five years work experience in a marketing organization. Must be forward-looking and innovative. We offer competitive salary, bonuses, incentives, health and insurance plans. Applicants may submit their rsum with Photo ID to: Soft Stone Marketing Corp. Personnel Department Room 64 Twin Towers 14th Street, Slough, UK 98443

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The legend of Frank Towers - An urban folk tale Have you ever heard of Frank Tower? He is the mystery figure who supposedly survived three doomed ships in the 1900's. Some consider him one of the luckiest men alive. He was touted to be a middle-aged fireman in the engine room. Some considered him an ordinary, hardworking person, but he had the ability to survive in some of the most horrendous ocean liner accidents ever recorded. He was said to have once been a crew member on the Titanic at the time that the ship hit the iceberg. Two years later, he was working on the Empress of Ireland when she collided with another ship. Over one thousand people died in that disaster. He was then employed in May of 1915 on the Lusitania when it was hit by a U-20 torpedo. He apparently lived through that without a scratch as well. Are you too beginning to doubt this man's existence? You are not too far from the truth. No records have been found ever listing a man named Frank Towers working on any of the three ships. The legend of Frank Towers seems to be another case of an urban folk tale, humanity's desire to see triumph over a tragic situation. Fact or fiction, Frank Towers is one of the multiple mystery characters from history.

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The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward towards the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is huge and extremely complicated to operate. The steel pipe crosses plains and endless miles of sparse vegetation that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily. Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a snaky course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the varied and difficult lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost. A little more than half of the pipeline is

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elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.

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Juan Ponce de Leon was the first Spaniard to touch the shores of the present United States. As Columbus had not realized the extent of his momentous discovery, so de Leon never dreamed that his "island" of Florida was a peninsular extension of the vast North American continent. After coming to the New World with Columbus in 1493, he had led the occupation of Puerto Rico in 1508 and governed it from 1509 to 1512. In 1509, de Leon started a colony at Caparra, later abandoned in favor of San Juan. He was one of the first adelantadosmen who "advanced" the Spanish Empire by conquest, subjugation of the Indians, and establishment of a semi-military government. In Puerto Rico he heard a legend about an island called Bimini. It was said that there was a spring in Bimini that restored youth to all who bathed in it. It is said that de Leon was seeking this spring when he discovered Florida. He sailed from Puerto Rico in March 1513. On Easter Sunday he sighted the coast. A few days later he landed on Florida's east coast, near what is now St. Augustine. He named the place La Florida after the Spanish term for Easter SundayPascua florida, or "flowery feast." He then sailed around the peninsula and up the west coast. He returned to Florida in 1521.

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We believe the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. We are forced to look to other bodies in the solar system for hints as to what the early history of the Earth was like. Studies of our moon, Mercury, Mars, and the large satellites of Jupiter and Saturn have provided ample evidence that all these large celestial bodies were bombarded by smaller objects in a wide variety of sizes shortly after the larger bodies had formed. This same bombardment must have affected Earth as well. The lunar record indicates that the rate of impacts decreased to its present low level about 4 billion years ago. On Earth, subsequent erosion and crustal motions have obliterated the craters that must have formed during this epoch. Scientists estimate the Earth's age by measuring the ratios of various radioactive elements in rocks. The oldest Earth rocks tested thus far are about 3 1/3 billion years old. But no one knows whether these are the oldest rocks on Earth. Tests on rocks from the moon and on meteorites show that these are about 4.6 billion years old. Scientists believe that this is the true age of the solar system and probably the true age of the Earth.

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Read the E-mail and Letter To: "The Shoe Palace" <askme@shoepalace.com> Cc: From: "Jason Trinnybald" <RJconstruction@img.com> Subject: Customer complaint for work boots To Whom it May Concern I have trusted the Shoe Palace to supply work boots for my employees for over ten years now. I recently purchased a few pairs of boots from your company for my new crew. Though my men were initially satisfied with the boots, the soles began to fall apart on them after just ten weeks. The boots are unsafe to wear because my men pour hot concrete. Please respond as soon as possible with instructions on how I can return the boots and receive a refund. Thank you Jason Trinnybald Foreman, RJ Construction

The Shoe Palace 25Amber Rd. Castlerock, UK UY658 8GT Jason Trinnybald RJ Construction 54 Mason Street London, England NH6R 65re January 23rd, 20__

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Dear Mr. Trinnybald Thank you for your e-mail concerning the poor quality of our rubber soled black work boots. Our representative will come by your office next week to pick up the damaged boots. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you and your crew. Along with five new pairs of work boots for your crew (we included one extra pair), we have enclosed a free sole protector spray. To date we have had no complaints about these work boots from customers who have used the protector spray. However, should you use the spray and find that you are still dissatisfied with the boots, please return the boots and spray for a full refund. Thank you for supporting The Shoe Palace. Sincerely Judy Morris President

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Announcement - First SAL and The New Times Group announced their intention to combine. Then came Time City/HT and News Line/ Times Profit. The market is abuzz with speculation that these mergers have caused. It is claimed that if these transactions are consummated, a new trend will be set. A large number of additional media mergers are expected. There is even the possibility of a nightmare scenario- where these big sharks will eat the small fish in the market. This will lead to a wave of media mergers, so large. that within a decade most of our information will be supplied by a handful of these huge media conglomerates and just a fringe of smaller firms. People response - It's time to ask two critical questions. Is this kind of media monopoly that we want as a society? And if not, can the antitrust laws effectively prevent the threatened merger wave? The answer to the first question is clear. We do not want a media monopoly. The answer to the second question, however, is far less certain. We should distrust a media monopoly because it would give undue control to a few individuals. Who will discern "newsworthy" stuff? Even if the media barons try to be fair and objective, they will necessarily bring their own worldview to the job. And, in time, some of these media conglomerates may be controlled by people who are not fair or objective. It is quite paradoxical.

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Report - For many years paleontologists have been interested by the fossilized remains of pterosaurs, the first flying vertebrates. It is amazing how these heavy creatures, having a wingspan of about 8-12 meters managed the various problems associated with powered flight. Wonder if these creatures were reptiles or birds! 39

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Most likely the pterosaurs were reptiles. Their skulls, pelvises, and hind feet are reptilian. The anatomy of their wings suggests that they did not evolve into the class of birds. In pterosaurs, a greatly elongated fourth finger of each forelimb supported a wing like membrane. The other fingers were short and reptilian, with sharp claws. In birds the second finger is the principal strut of the wing, which consists primarily of feathers. If the pterosaurs walked on all fours, the three short fingers may have been employed for grasping. When a pterosaurs walked or remained stationary, the fourth finger, and with it the wing, could only turn upward in an extended inverted V- shape along each side of the animal's body.

Analysis - In resemblance pterosaurs were extremely similar to both birds and bats, with regard to their overall body structure and proportion. The design of any flying vertebrate is subject to aerodynamic constraints. Both the pterosaurs and the birds have hollow bones, a feature that represents a saving in weight. There is a difference, which is that the bones of the birds are more massively reinforced by internal struts. Although scales typically cover reptiles, the pterosaurs probably had hairy coats. Scientists reasoned that flying vertebrates must have been warm-blooded because flying implies a high rate of metabolism, which in turn implies a high internal temperature. They speculated that a coat of hair would insulate against loss of body heat and might streamline the body to reduce drag in flight. The recent discovery of a pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hair like fossil material correct was the first clear evidence that this reasoning was

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Visual recognition involves storing and retrieving memories. What we see forms an image in the brains memory system that constitutes an internal representation of the viewed object. When the object is seen again, it is matched with its internal representation and thereby recognized. Controversy surrounds the question of whether recognition is a parallel, one-step process or a serial, step-by-step one.

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Reasoning: Psychologists maintain that objects are recognized as wholes in a parallel procedure: the internal representation is matched with the retinal image in a single operation. Some psychologists have proposed that internal representation features are matched serially with an object's features. Although some experiments show that, as an object become familiar, its internal representation becomes more familiar, its internal representation becomes more holistic and the recognition process correspondingly more parallel, the weight of evidence seems to support the serial hypothesis, at least for objects that are not notably simple and familiar.

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