Listening Listen carefully to the tape to answer the questions.

A. Listening Listen carefully to the tape to answer the questions.

You are going to listen to some short Questions 6–10 are based on the listening dialogues from the tape. Questions 1–5

text you are going to hear. are based on the dialogues. Choose the

6. What is the text about?

best response to the expression you

a. A garden.

hear.

b. A menagerie.

1. a. How are you doing?

c. A gardener and a bear.

b. Why didn’t I think of that?

d. Quinces and melons.

c. Why don’t you lie down for a

7. Where did the gardener live? while?

a. In the western part of Persia.

d. Why not?

b. In the eastern part of Persia.

2. a. That’s a good idea.

c. In the eastern part of Iraq.

b. Why?

d. In the southern part of Iran.

c. Sure.

8. Why did the gardener make friends

d. Excuse me.

with the bear?

3. a. It sounds great.

a. Because he got bored growing

b. Are you sure? Á owers and plants.

c. I wouldn’t do that if I were you.

b. Because he wearied of having no

d. You’re welcome. one to talk to.

4. a. What’s on your mind?

c. Because the bear fed him on

b. Really? quinces and melons.

c. Alright.

d. Because his children wanted a

d. That’s one possibility.

pet.

5. a. No, I’m afraid I can’t.

9. What did the bear do to express his

b. Sure, I will. gratitude to the gardener?

c. Here you are.

a. He helped the gardener grow Á owers and plants.

d. OK, what are they?

b. He stood by and drove off the Á ies when the gardener took a nap.

13. In what form is the stored energy garden.

from the Sun released?

d. He invited the gardener to come

a. In the form of heat. into his nest.

b. In the form of electricity.

10. How was the gardener killed?

c. In the form of nuclear energy.

a. The bear ate him.

d. In the form of light.

b. The bear hurled a stone at his Q uestions 14– 15 are b ased on the

nose.

listening text you are going to hear.

c. The bear scratched him.

14. Which statement is true according to

d. The bear was angry with him

the text?

and killed him.

a. Nuclear energy produces gases

Q uestions 11– 13 are b ased on the

contributing to the greenhouse

listening text you are going to hear.

effect.

11. Where do fossil fuels come from?

b. Nuclear energy releases poison-

a. The dead plants and animals ous gases to the air. w hich w ere buried hundreds

c. Nuclear energy is pro d uced years ago.

from changes in nuclei.

b. The faeces of prehistoric animals.

d. Nuclear energy produces a little

c. The rotten parts of dead animals. amount of energy.

d. The parts of dead plants and

15. The disadvantage of nuclear energy animals that are left over millions

. of years.

is that

a. it produces a large amount of

12. Where does the energy of fossil fuels

energy.

come from?

b. the nu c lear w aste that is

a. The process of decomposition of pro duced is very difficult to dead plants and animals.

store safety.

b. The minerals they absorbed from

c. it is very cheap to make an old soil.

nuclear reactor safe.

c. The Sun.

d. it does not produce poisonous

d. The energ y o b tained fro m

gases.

underground hot rocks.