Section 1:

Hello, … cycling holiday, bob’s speaking.

Oh hello, I’ve seen your ads for people to lead cycle trip. Are you the right person to speak to?

Yes, I am. Could I have your name, please?

It’s Magaret Smith.

Are you looking for a permanent job, Magaret?

No, temporary (Q1). I’ve got a permanent job starting in the few months time, and I want to do
something else until then.

What work do you do?

This will properly sound crazy. I used to be a lawyer, and then i made a complete career change, and I’m
going to be a doctor (Q2). I’ve just finished my training.

Right! And have you had any experience of leading cycle trip

Yes! I’ve led several bike tours in Africa (Q3). The trip to India that I had arranged to lead next month has
now been cancelled, so when I saw you were advertising for tour leaders, I decided to apply.

Okey! Now we normally have two or three leaders on the trip depending on the size of the group. Some
tours are four very experienced cyclists. But we’ve got a tour coming up soon in Spain which is proving so
popular that we need an additional leader. It’’s a cycling holiday for families, would that suit you?

It certainly would. I enjoy working with children, and I properly need some more experience before I go
to a really challenging trip.

That tour including several teenagers, have you worked with that age group before?

Yes, I’m a volunteer work in the youth (Q4) club, where I help people to improve their cycling skills,
before that, I helped out in the cycling club where I taught beginers.

Wao, that’s great. Now the trip I mentioned is just for four nights but there might be possibility for
leading other tours after that. Would that fiting with your plans?

That’d be fine. I’d be free for 5 months, my job is used to start on Oct 2 nd, and I’m available from May 1st
(Q5) until late Sep.

Good! Now is there anything I need to know about the food you eat. We usually have one or two people
in the group who don’t eat meat, or have some food allergy. So, we’re always very careful about that.

Yes! I’m allergic to cheese (Q6). Would that be a problem?

No, as long as we have enough notice, we can deal with that.

That’s great.

It sounds really interesting. Would you like me to fill in the applicatiion form.
Yes, please. Where should I post it to?

Could you send it to 27 Arbuthnot place? A-R-B-U-T-H-N-O-T (Q7) place, Dumpfries.

And what’s the post code, please?

D-G-7-4-P-H (Q8)

Was that p papa or b bravo.

P Papa

Got that.

If you could return the application form by Friday this week, we can interview you on Tuesday (Q9) next
week. Say half-past two, would that be possible for you?

Yes, it’s fine. You quite a long way from where I live, so I’d drive from Monday, should I bring anything to
the interview?

We’ll have your application form, of course. But we need to see any certificates you got are relevant and
cycling first age or whatever.

Ok!

And at the interview, we’d like to find out about your experience of being a tour guide. So, could you
prepare a ten-minute talk (Q10) about that, please. You don’t need slides or any complicated
equipments, just some notes.

Right, i’ll start thinking about that straight away.

Good! Well, we’ll look for receive your application form and will context you to confirm the interview.

Thanks very much.

Thank you, Magaret. Good bye!

Bye~

Section 2:
Welcome to the podcast about the Sheepmarket, which is one of the oldest parts in the city. As its name
suggests, there were originally a market here where farmers bought their sheeps. But now it has been
redeveloped into buzzing vibrant area for city which is also home one of the city’s fastest growing
communities. The nearby university has always met the area popular with student who come in to enjoy
the lively nightlife. But now graduates (=young people) embarking on careers and the worlds of fashion
and design (=professional) (=>Q11: A) are buying up the new departments recently built here to replace
the small houses where the market workers used to live. The narrow old side streets are great places for
finding original pictures, jewelry and ceramics (=arts and crafts) (=>Q12: C) which won’t break the bank.
As well as local produces like food and vegetable, there’re also lots of pavement cafes, we can have a
coffee and watch tourists from all over the world go by. The oldest buildings in the area are on the main
street, including the city’s first deparment store built in 1880s, which is still open today. The
sheepmarket is the center of fashion, and there’s a policy of encouraging new young designers the Young
Fashion competition is open to local young people who are passion about fashion. This year, they’ve
been asked to design the outfits (=clothes) base on ideas (=be inspired by) from the music and
technology, that’s part of everyday life (=contemporary culture) (=>Q13: B), using both natural and man-
made fibers. The garments will be judged by a panel of experts and fashion designers, and the winning
entries will be modeled at the special galery in the evening. Parking at the Sheepmarket is easy, there’s a
plenty of paying car parking spaces on the road side, which is fine if you just want to stay for an hour or
two. But if you want to spend the day there, it’s better to park in one of the four underground car parks.
It’s not expensive and if you can present a receipt from one of the local stores (=buy something in the
shops), you’ll not be charged (=free) at all (=>Q14: B). After 6pm, many of the car park have a flat rate
which varies, but it is usually very reasonable.

If you look at the map, you’ll see some main attractions there. Most visitors start from Crawley Road at
the bottom of the map, the Reynorlds house is one of the oldest houses in the city and it’s open to the
pubic. It’s on the north side of Crawly Road, next to the footpath that leads to the public gardens.
(=>Q15: H) The area particularly interesting for its unusual sculptures. The Thumb, it's just what its name
suggests, but it’s about 10m high, you’ll see it on Hill Road, across the road from the bank (=>Q16: C).
The Museum got a particularly fine collection of the Newzealand landscapes, it’s on the east side of the
Sheepmarket on City Road. It’s on the otherside of the road from the public gardens, immediately facing
the junction of Hill Road (=>Q17: F). The Contemporary Art Gallery is on the little road that leads off
station quare, not far from the public garden. The road ends at the gallery, it doesn’t go anywhere else
(=>Q18: G), that’s open every day except Mondays. The Warner gallery specializes in 19th century art, it’s
on City Road, near the junction with Crawley Road on the same side of the road as the public gardens
(=>Q19: I). It’s open on weekdays from 9 to 5 and entry is free. Finally, if you’re interested in purchasing
high quality artwork, the place to go is Nucleus, you need to go from Crawley Road, up through station
square and east long Hill Road until you get to a small widing road turning off, go up there, and it’s on
your right (=>Q20: B). If you get to City Road, you’ve gone too far.

Section 3:
Joe, you know I’m giving a presentation in our film studies class next week

Yes!

Well, could we dicuss it, I could do with getting someone else’s opinion.

Of course, Katie. What do you want to talk about?

It’s about film adaptations of Shakespear’s plays, I’ve got very interested in all the different approaches
that film directors take.

Uh huh
So, I thought I start with Giannetti, who’s a professor of film and literature. And one of his books became
off with the straightforward classification (Q21) of film adaptations base on how faithful they are to the
original plays and novels.

Right.

I’ve already made some notes on that, so I just need to show those out before the presentation. I’ve
thought that next, I’d ask the class to come up with (=suggest) the worst (Q22) example of Shakespear’s
adaptations they’ve seen, and I’d say why, that should be more fun than having their favourite versions.

Yes, I can certainly think of a couple.

Right. Next, I want to talk about Rachel Malchow. I came across something on the Internet, about her
work on film adaptations, and I was thinking of showing some film clips to illustrate her ideas.

Will you have enough time though? Both to prepare and during presentation? After all, I doubt if you’ll
be able to find all clips you want.

Hm, perhaps you’re right. Ok, well I’d better do some slides (Q23) instead, saying how various films
relate to what she said. That’s should encourage discussion.

Hmm…

Next, I want to say something about how plays maybe chosen for adaptations because they concern with
(=relationship between) issues (Q24) or the time when the film is made.

You think things like patriotism or the role of governments.

Exactly! It’s quite tricky but I’ve got a few ideas I like to discuss.

And finally, I want to talk about a few adaptations that I think illustrate a range of approaches and made
some comments on them. Do you know the japanese film Ran?

I haven’t seen it, it was based on Shakespear’s King Leo, wasn’t it?

That’s right. It was a very loose adaptation using the same situation and story but moving it to 16th
century Japan, instead of 16th century Britain (=>Q25: F). So, for example, the king’s daughters become
sons, because in Japanese culture at that time, women couldn’t succeed to the throne.

Ok. I hope you’re going to talk about the 1993 film – Much Ado About Nothing. I think that’s one of the
best Shakespear’s films. It really brings the play to life, doesn’t it?

Yes, I agree. And I think fiming it in Intaly where the place is set makes you see what life was like at the
time of the play. (=>Q26: A)

Absolutely right, what’s next?

Next, I thought the Romeo and Juliet the 1996 film, which moves the action into the present day
(=>Q27: E).
Yes, it worked really well I thought, changing the two feuding families in the original to two competing
business empires even thought they’re speaking in the English of the original play.

You expected it would be bizarre, but I found I soon got used to it.

Me too.

Then, I thought I’d included a real holywood film, one that’s intended to apeal to a max commercial
audience.

There must be quite in number of those.

Yes, but I’ve picked the 1996 film of Hamlet. It included every line of the text, but it more like a typical
action movie (=>Q28: C). There are low of special effects, but no unifying interpretation of the play.

All show and no subtance.

Then, there’s Prospero’s books based on the Tempest. That was really innovative from a stylistic point of
view.

Did it include dance and singing and animation (=variety of art form) as well as live actors (=>Q29: G)?

Yes. It did. I also want to mention, Looking for Richard, did you ever see it?

No, but I’ve read abot it, it was a blend of a documentary with a few scenes from Richard III (=only parts
of the play) (=>Q30: B), wasn’t it?

That’s right, it’s more a way of looking how people nowadays connect with the play right. The play is
really just the starting point, and that’ll be where I finished.

Well! That sound that it’s going to be very interesting.

Section 4:
This lecture will be about the science of aucoustic, the study of sound, its relation to urban environment
such as cities. As an aucoustic engineer myself, I think this is an area where we’re likely to see great
changes. In the past, researching urban soundscapes was simple. We measured level of sound in decibel,
so I used to take my sound meters, and I measured the noise somewhere. And then I might ask a sample
of people say at what level the sound became annoying. With data like this, aucoustic engineers have
been able to build up what we call noise maps of the sound environment. But actually, these aren’t a lot
of use. What they do show is the highest noise levels are generally on roads. Well, that’s not really very
supprising. But there’s quite a lot going on that these maps don’t show. Because they can’t capture the
complex way that sound varies overtime. So, they ignored the important issues such as the noise
someone might hear from the open window, or gardens (Q31) of their neighbours. And this sort of noise
can be quite significant in summer, we don’t have any data bases on this sort of information. As well as
that, these records of sound levels take no account of the fact that people vary in their perceptions of
noise, so someone like me with years of working in aucoustic might be very different from you in that
regard. But anyway, even though these noise maps are fairly crude, they’ve been useful in providing
information and raising awareness (=made people realize) that noise matters, we need to deal with it
and so, it’s a political (Q32) matter (=issue). And that’s important, we need rules and regulations
because noise can cause all sorts of problems. Those of you, who are city dwelers know the thing go on
24h a day, so city dwelers often suffer from interupted sleep. It’s also known that noise can rise in level
of stress due to physical changes in body affecting the composition of the blood, and there are other
problems as well. For instance, if school children don’t have a quiet place to study, their work (Q33) will
suffer (=effect). Now, one problem with decibel measurement is it doesn’t differenciate between
different types of noise. Some types of sounds that most people would properly think of is nice and
relaxing (=pleasant), might well score quite highly in decibel level. Think of the sound made by a
fountain (Q34) in the Time Square for example. That’s not necessarily something that we won’t to
control or reduce. So, maybe researchers should consider these sorts of sounds in urban designs. This is
going to be tricky, because just measuring decibel levels isn’t going to help us hear. Instead, many
researchers are using social (Q35) science techniques (=methods) studying (=investigate) people’s
emotional response to sound by using questionaires and so on. So, what exactly do people want to hear
in an urban environment. Some recent interdisciplinary research has come out with results for its first
sight seem contradictory. As city need to have a sense of activity (=plenty of activity), so it needs to be
lively (Q36) with sounds like the clack of high heels on the pavement, or the heat of a coffee machine.
But these mustn’t be too intrusive because at the same time, we need to be able to relax. One of the
major problems in achieving this will be getting architects and town planners to use the reseach. Apart
from studying the basics of aucoustics, these people (=architects and town planners) receive very little
(=not much) training (Q37) in these areas. But in fact, they should be regarded in sound as an
opportunity to add the experience of urban living. whereas at present, they tend to see it as something
to be avoided or reduced as far as possible, or something that’s just a job for engineers like the street
drainage system. What’s needed is for noise in city to be regarded as an aesthetic quality, as something
that has the qualities of an art form. If we acknowledge this, then we urgently need to know what
governs it and how designers can work with it. We need to develop a complex understanding of many
factors. What is the relationship between sound and culture (Q38), what can we learn from disciplines
such as psychology about the way the sound interacts with human development and social relationship,
and the way the sound effects our thoughts and feelings. Can we learn anything from physics, about the
nature (Q39) of sound itself. Today powerful technology can also help us to show us their ideas and help
us to imagine the effect their buildings will have (=advantage). Architects and town planners already use
virtual reality, but (=disadvantage) these programs are silent (Q40). In the future such programs could
use realistic sounds, meaning the soundscapes could be explored before being built. So hopefully, using
the best technology we can lay our hands on, the city in the future will be a pleasure to the ears as well
as the eyes.