PART I     LISTENING COMPREHENSION         [45 min.]

Directions: In sections A, B, C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

SECTION A    TALK

Directions: Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given ONE minute to answer the following questions. Now listen to the talk.
1. Children in Britain will normally come to the age of _______ when they finish their primary school education.
A. seven
B. five
C. ten
D. eleven
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2. Compulsory education in Britain is ________.
A. from 7 to 11
B. from 5 to 16
C. from 4 to 16
D. from 5 to 15
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3. The secondary education requires children to learn some foreign languages, but the first foreign languages is ________.
A. German
B. Italian
C. Spanish
D. French
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4. Students who wish to go on college will have to take a two-leveled _______.
A. General College Examinations
B. General Course Examinations
C. General Certificate Examinations
D. General Compulsory Examinations
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5. When you are a student at university, the state will pay for the cost of ________.
A. your study only
B. your living on campus only
C. your study and living on campus
D. your accommodation
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SECTION B    CONVERSATION OR INTERVIEW


Directions: Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview, you will be given ONE minute to answer the following questions. Now listen to the interview.
6. Actor Dallas McKennon pointed out that broadcast stations are granted a license to ______.
A. entertain and advertise
B. educate and advertise
C. educate and entertain
D. be informative and instructive
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7. Dallas Mckennon said that one of the reasons he likes to act in cartoons is that ______.
A. cartoons are a less violent medium
B. cartoons are a violent medium
C. cartoons are a more violent medium
D. cartoons are an educative medium
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8. Dallas Mckennon said that for cartoons, actors are selected ________.
    A. for the way they look, not the the way they sound
    B. both for the way they look and the way they sound
    C. for the way they sound, not the way they look
    D. both for the way they act their roles and the way they look
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9. In talking about his career in Hollywood, Dallas Mckennon said that his work has been ________.
A. exclusively in cartoons
B. only in Disney feature films
C. mainly in cartoons and in scientific films
D. both in cartoons and in scientific films
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10. According to Dallas Mckennon, the old way of making cartoons was to _________.
A. do the drawings first, and then have the actors record the sound
B. photograph the actors first, and then do the drawings
C. record the sound first, and then photograph the actors
D. find the actors first and then have the record the sound   
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