Section 1
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00:01Narrator IELTS listening.
00:03 Version 50906.
00:06 You will hear a number of different recordings, and you will have to answer questions on what you hear.
00:13 There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions,
00:17 and you will have a chance to check your work.
00:20 All the recordings will be played once only.
00:25 The test is in four parts.
00:28 Write all your answers in the listening question booklet.
00:33 At the end of the test, you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to an answer sheet.
00:41 Now turn to part one on page two of your question booklet.
00:50 Part One.
00:51 You will hear a conversation between an assistant in a post office and a customer who needs to send a package overseas.
01:00 First, you have some time to look at questions one to eight.
01:50Assistant Hello, can I help you?
01:51Customer Yes, I'd like to send this package to the USA urgently, but I'm not sure what the best way of sending it is.
01:58Assistant Well, first of all, when does it need to get there?
02:01Customer Well, it's Tuesday today. It's absolutely got to be there by Friday.
02:06 Ideally I'd like it to be there by Thursday, but I realize that might be difficult.
02:11Assistant Okay. Well, there's courier post (chuyển phát nhanh), but that takes four working days, so that would be next Monday.
02:16 Or a slightly more expensive service called International Express, which will get there in three working days.
02:22Customer Okay, I'll use that then.
02:24 It's really got to be there as quickly as possible.
02:27Assistant Okay.
02:27 Can I just take some details from you for the form?
02:30 First of all, what's your name?
02:32Customer Peter White.
02:33Assistant And your address?
02:34Customer 14 Mountain Road.
02:36Assistant And where's that?
02:37Customer That's in Lake View.
02:39Assistant Okay. Now, who are you sending the package to?
02:42Customer Um, Anna Hillman, that's H I L L M A N.
02:47Assistant And what's the address?
02:48Customer Apartment 228, North Building.
02:51Assistant Okay.
02:52Customer Upper Park Avenue.
02:54Assistant And what city is that in?
02:55Customer New York.
02:56Assistant Now, I need a description of the contents (nội dung) of the package, just so customs know what's being sent.
03:02Customer I'm sending books.
03:03Assistant How many are you sending? I need to give the number.
03:05Customer And there are six in total.
03:07Assistant Right. And is there anything else in the package?
03:10Customer Yes, some some photographs.
03:12Assistant Okay.
03:16Narrator Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions nine and 10.
03:32 Now listen and answer questions nine and 10.
03:39Assistant Now, would you like to insure the contents (nội dung)?
03:42Customer Mm, it might be a good idea.
03:44Assistant All right.
03:44 Now, can we just weigh the package and I'll tell you how much it's going to cost?
03:49Customer Here you are.
03:51 It's heavy.
03:52Assistant It's just over four kilos, so let's see. That's going to be $98 altogether.
03:58Customer Will I be able to get a receipt (biên lai) with that?
04:00Assistant Yes, of course.
04:02 Now, if the package gets lost, you should contact us as soon as possible.
04:06 It's very unusual for anything to go missing, but just in case, your receipt (biên lai) has an ID code on it, which we will need to be able to trace (truy tìm) the package.
04:15Customer Right. So will I also need to bring in the receipt (biên lai) and the delivery form to you if it does get lost?
04:21Assistant No, you can just give us a call with the ID code.
04:24 Okay? Now, is there anything else I can help you with?
04:27Customer No, that's all.
04:28 Um, thanks for your help.
04:33Narrator That is the end of part one.
04:36 You now have one minute to check your answers to part one.
Section 2
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05:37Narrator You will hear a man called Rob Shafer who is the general manager (tổng giám đốc) of a new hotel talking about the hotel to members of the public on the opening day.
05:50 First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
06:29 Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
06:37Rob Well, let's get started.
06:40 I want to thank you all for coming along to the opening of the Montana Resort Hotel.
06:45 My name's Rob Shafer and I'm the general manager (tổng giám đốc) here.
06:48 We're very glad so many of you have come along to see the beautiful facilities we have here at the hotel.
06:55 We feel we're exceptionally (đặc biệt) located, convenient for the city, but far enough from the flight path to and from the airport
07:01 so that guests won't be disturbed and will be able to recharge their batteries (nạp lại năng lượng) in these uniquely peaceful surroundings.
07:09 Firstly, the guest rooms.
07:12 What we call the standard rooms are about 80 square feet, very spacious (rộng rãi).
07:17 These come with one king-sized bed or with two double beds and a refrigerator.
07:22 And as far as price goes, they go up to $210 per room, but at the lower end of the range, you can get one for just $145.
07:32 So, these are very suitable for our more price-conscious (quan tâm đến giá cả) guests.
07:36 Then there are deluxe suites (phòng hạng sang).
07:38 These have a separate living room as well as the bedroom.
07:42 The bedrooms are slightly larger than the standard rooms, with huge windows.
07:47 And each one has a balcony where you can sit out and enjoy the views either of the golf course or the mountains,
07:54 depending which way the room is facing.
07:57 We welcome families at the hotel.
08:00 Extra beds for your room can be provided for young children at no extra cost,
08:05 and that's true even in the summer.
08:08 Also, we have some rooms that adjoin (liền kề) one another with a door connecting them.
08:14 We expect that these will attract parents who want to be able to check that their children are safe easily.
08:20 All our guests can benefit from the fine dining (ẩm thực cao cấp) opportunities in the hotel.
08:25 In the grill room, guests can watch the flames fly as food is sizzled by the restaurant's master chefs.
08:32 While the Pantheon restaurant has facilities for intimate (thân mật) dining or large dinners,
08:37 and a live jazz band that spices up (làm cho thêm phần thú vị) the evenings from Thursday to Saturday.
08:43 Finally, the Montana Cafe is open 24/7 for anything from a coffee or a sandwich to a more substantial (thịnh soạn) meal.
08:55Narrator Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
09:26 Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.
09:34Rob Now, let's have a look at our outdoor facilities.
09:37 So, here at the main entrance to the hotel, we're looking north straight down Peak Road.
09:43 You'll see a few horses in the nearby field, and the first building on our right is the barn (chuồng ngựa) where the horses are kept.
09:50 We have 12 of them, and they've all been trained here, so they know the terrain (địa hình).
09:56 Beyond that, you can just see the lake.
09:58 The road bends around past that, and just on that corner between the road and the lakeside,
10:04 there are a couple of tennis courts.
10:07 It's a beautiful setting for a game, I'm sure you'll agree.
10:11 Then looking on the left side of Peak Road, there's a road that leads off it that's called Valley Avenue.
10:17 And on this side of Valley Avenue, just past that patch of trees,
10:21 there's a building with a flat roof, and that's our Olympic size swimming pool.
10:26 This has 12 lanes and there's also a baby pool for children.
10:31 The Montana golf course is the jewel (viên ngọc quý) of our outdoor facilities, though.
10:36 You can see part of it on the far side of Valley Avenue,
10:40 and it spreads off west for a pretty long way.
10:43 It's an 18-hole course with beautiful landscaping (cảnh quan).
10:47 We expect lots of golfers to stay and one of our aims is to host (tổ chức) a professional golf tournament.
10:53 The last building I want to point out is the office of the outdoor facilities manager.
10:59 It's in its own building, just opposite where Valley Avenue turns off on Peak Road.
11:05 Okay. So, if you'd like to follow me, I'll...
11:11Narrator That is the end of part two.
11:14 You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part two.
Section 3
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11:46Narrator You will hear a discussion (thảo luận) between a student called Mike and his tutor about Mike's proposed (đề xuất) project on oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng).
11:57 First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
12:47Tutor Thanks, Mike for dropping by.
12:49 I've read the proposal (bản đề xuất) for your project, which is an oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng) of the local football team, particularly the time around 1983 when they won the league championship.
13:00 But first, how do you define oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng)?
13:05Mike Well, in fact, I used the definition you gave us last year in our research methodology (phương pháp luận) class.
13:11 I found the handout in my file.
13:13 The definition says that oral histories (lịch sử truyền miệng) are planned interviews or conversations about some aspect of the past which is considered historically or socially important.
13:25 The interviews are with people who took part in whatever it's about,
13:29 so there'll be a record which historians (nhà sử học) can use later for all those academic articles they write.
13:35 And although history textbooks are mostly about famous people and important events,
13:41 oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng) can be about ordinary people doing ordinary things.
13:45 Oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng) really seems to have started in the States.
13:49Tutor You're right.
13:50 In fact, the first modern oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng) interviews were done by a historian in New York.
13:56 By that time, audio technology had improved so much
13:59 that it was fairly easy to record those interviews.
14:03Mike I was also interested in how the internet has contributed to oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng) studies.
14:07Tutor Yes, it means that lots of people can access (truy cập) the material, and that's great.
14:12 Also, the interactive (tương tác) nature of the better websites means that more students get interested in oral history (lịch sử truyền miệng).
14:20Mike But from what I've read, the real contribution of the internet is that the recording of the interviews will be preserved (bảo tồn) forever.
14:27 In the old days, the tapes would just wear out,
14:30 and after some years, you couldn't really use them, but not now.
14:33Tutor You're right, of course.
14:35 Anyhow, let's move on to the subject of your project.
14:38 Why did you decide to study a sports team?
14:42Mike Well, actually, I don't even like football very much,
14:45 and some of my friends think I'm crazy to go for that subject,
14:48 but my dad is a huge fan and he might be able to help me.
14:52Tutor And how did you find out background about the team?
14:56 You talked to the team manager (quản lý), I assume.
14:58Mike Yes, I did manage to track him down.
15:01 And I looked at all the old news stories about the team in the town newspaper office.
15:06 That was where I got the most helpful information.
15:09 I had high hopes that the local library would have lots of stuff, but they don't keep many records (hồ sơ) for more than 10 years.
15:15Tutor I know that you managed to locate 10 of the original 18 members of the team, using an old-fashioned method, didn't you?
15:22 Not a website or anything, just the telephone directory (danh bạ điện thoại).
15:26Mike Yes, I didn't even need to use the local team's records (hồ sơ).
15:32Narrator Before you hear the rest of the discussion (thảo luận), you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30.
16:04 Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30.
16:13Tutor Okay. Now, I've read your proposal (bản đề xuất) carefully.
16:16 Overall, your plans seem excellent,
16:18 but I want to discuss how you might improve them.
16:21Mike Great.
16:22Tutor I've read through the list of questions you've drafted (soạn thảo).
16:25 I felt most of them are rather complex (phức tạp) to be processed as oral questions.
16:30 You don't have too many, which is good, but you should try to do something about that problem.
16:36Mike Right. I'll work on them.
16:38Tutor And the time you've allotted (phân bổ) for each interview.
16:41 Actually, I think you may have scheduled too much time for each.
16:45 You want them to be tight, not going on and on.
16:48 That makes for better results.
16:50Mike I can change the schedule (lịch trình).
16:52 One thing I'm nervous about is the recording equipment I'll use.
16:56 I've got an old recorder.
16:58 It runs without making too much noise and it isn't complicated,
17:02 but it sometimes just doesn't seem to work.
17:04 It stopped during an interview I tried out with my dad.
17:07Tutor Well, the important thing is just be ready if anything happens.
17:11 Well take some spare batteries or even an extra recorder.
17:15 Now, I'm a little concerned with the subjects you've chosen to cover.
17:19 The topics seem quite general, not very specific.
17:24 For example, why did they like playing for this team?
17:27 You need to talk about more exact things and feelings.
17:32 That way your results will be more valuable.
17:35Mike I'll try to refine them.
17:37 And you know, the plan for my report seems to be just to report back more or less what the players say,
17:42 what happened, when, what they each did, and so on.
17:46 But I'm not sure about that.
17:48Tutor Yes. Although your outline (đề cương) seems long enough,
17:51 change it to indicate that you plan to include your own evaluation (đánh giá) of the data you get from your interviewees.
17:58 Anyhow, best of luck on your project.
18:00 I look forward to seeing the results.
18:02Mike Thanks for your help. And uh...
18:08Narrator That is the end of part three.
18:11 You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
Section 4
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11:45Narrator Part four.
11:47 You will hear a lecturer (giảng viên) talking to a group of biology (sinh học) students about recent plant studies.
11:54 First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.
12:55Lecturer Good morning, everyone.
12:57 In the last few weeks, we've looked at ways in which different types of animals use their senses (giác quan).
13:03 And today, I'm going to introduce the topic of plant behavior.
13:08 And we'll look at the reasons why ideas about plants have been changing in the last few years.
13:15 So, up until fairly recently,
13:18 plants, lack of eyes or ears, or noses or mouths,
13:22 made them less interesting to many members of the public compared to animal species (loài).
13:28 And even by scientists (nhà khoa học), they were generally regarded as organisms (sinh vật) which were essentially passive (thụ động).
13:36 However,
13:37 in the last 20 years or so,
13:40 evidence (bằng chứng) has started to emerge that plants can sense (cảm nhận) their surroundings in quite sophisticated (tinh vi) ways.
13:48 But because scientific attitudes (thái độ) towards plants
13:51 and their capabilities had been fixed (cố định) for such a long time,
13:55 this evidence (bằng chứng) has been met with some disbelief (sự hoài nghi).
13:59 So,
14:01 let's look at some of these recent findings (phát hiện) that are starting to change the way some scientists (nhà khoa học) view plant life.
14:09 It all began with a Canadian study
14:12 that looked at a species (loài) of plant known as the great lakes sea rocket.
14:18 This is a wild plant which grows on beaches.
14:23 In appearance, it's perfectly ordinary (bình thường), with little purple flowers and a long stalk (thân cây).
14:29 But actually,
14:30 the plant is far from ordinary (bình thường).
14:34 Normally, when the sea rocket detects (phát hiện) other plants growing nearby,
14:39 it quickly grows additional (bổ sung) roots.
14:43 This is so it can compete (cạnh tranh) with these other plants for the available nutrients (chất dinh dưỡng) in the soil,
14:49 by soaking up (hấp thụ) as many of them as possible.
14:52 But scientists (nhà khoa học) found that the sea rocket doesn't do that when the surrounding plants are related (có họ hàng) to it.
15:00 And as even animals sometimes find this type of recognition (nhận dạng) difficult,
15:05 such a finding was very unexpected.
15:08 It was an ability that was previously unheard of (chưa từng nghe đến) in any other plant.
15:14 Since then, it's been suggested (gợi ý) that two other plants may have a similar ability.
15:19 These are sagebrush and thornapple.
15:24 It's being claimed that these plants can recognize the characteristics (đặc điểm) of their neighbours
15:29 by sensing properties of the light that is reflected (phản chiếu) from them.
15:33 The reason they are able to do this is that all plant species (loài) are slightly different to each other in this respect.
15:41 So,
15:42 each plant species (loài) has what you could call its own signature (dấu hiệu đặc trưng).
15:47 Sagebrush and thornapple are able to recognize these.
15:51 But scientists (nhà khoa học) point out that this behavior is very different to the way that animals sense (cảm nhận) things.
16:03 Another type of plant which can sense (cảm nhận) things in its surroundings is the doder plant.
16:09 This plant is different to most other species (loài)
16:12 because it doesn't have the ability to make sugar by converting nutrients (chất dinh dưỡng) from the soil.
16:18 This means that as soon as the doder has sprouted (nảy mầm) from a seed,
16:22 it needs to find another plant in order to survive.
16:26 In other words, it's a parasite (ký sinh trùng).
16:29 Doder infest (tàn phá) a variety (nhiều loại) of food crops around the world,
16:33 as they wrap themselves like string around their target plants,
16:37 and the effect can be devastating (tàn phá) for farmers.
16:41 It's particularly damaging to alfalfa, as well as to potatoes and different varieties of citrus (cây có múi).
16:48 At first, scientists (nhà khoa học) were puzzled (bối rối) as to how the doder knows which plants to prey on (săn mồi).
16:55 But now they've found that the plant can identify a suitable host (vật chủ)
17:00 by sensing the chemicals (hóa chất) that other plants release into the soil and air.
17:06 What really surprised researchers was how extremely quickly and accurately (chính xác) the doder identifies a possible host (vật chủ).
17:13 They used time-lapse (tua nhanh thời gian) videos to study the mechanism (cơ chế),
17:17 and saw from these that when the doder is trying to check out its environment,
17:22 it rotates (xoay) in a circle.
17:24 And then, without touching any other plants,
17:27 it heads directly towards its selected host (vật chủ).
17:31 It could sense (cảm nhận) reliably (đáng tin cậy) which type of plant it would grow best on.
17:36 Scientists (nhà khoa học) who were working on the project reported that the doder sprout (nảy mầm)
17:41 resembled (giống với) a worm as it moved towards the other plant.
17:46 Well, those are some examples of the new discoveries about plant characteristics (đặc điểm).
17:52 So, which direction is plant science likely to go in next?
17:57 Many of the phenomena (hiện tượng) related to plant behavior that I've just described are now quite easy to observe,
18:03 using up-to-date (hiện đại) equipment.
18:06 So, gradually (dần dần), scientists (nhà khoa học) are accepting the fact that plants are more capable (có khả năng) than we used to believe.
18:14 But although such plant behavior is often obvious to some scientists (nhà khoa học),
18:23Narrator That is the end of part four.
18:26 You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.
19:30 That is the end of the listening test.
19:33 You now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet.
29:42 Please stop writing and wait for your question booklet to be collected.
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