Q: What does the woman mean?
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear one short passage and two longer conversations. After each
passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passage and the conversations
will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the
four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the
question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Ladies and gentlemen,
May I have your attention, please!
I’m sorry to tell you that the police have asked us to tell everyone to move out from this building
as quickly as possible. A handbag possibly containing an explosive device has been found in one
of the dressing rooms back stage. Experts are on their way to examine it. We ask you to leave in a
quiet and orderly way. There is absolutely no need for panic. Please make your way out by exit 1.
Leave your seats row by row as directed by our staff and give any assistance necessary
to elderly and disabled people. If you have children with you, make sure you do not become
separated from them. Hold small children firmly by the hand. If you forget anything, please do not
try to go back for it. This will only cause unnecessary confusion and delay. If you see any
suspect object, do not touch it but inform one of our staff members as you leave. Please extinguish
all cigarettes. We rely on your cooperation and hope that you will be able to return to your seats
shortly to enjoy the last act of the play.
Questions:
11. According to the speaker, what has been found?
12. What are the listeners advised to do when making their way out?
13. Where is the announcement most probably made?
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following talk.
Welcome to Inventor’s Corner! This week we take a look at an invention that may well change the
way in which you listen to your television set. Four years and twenty thousand pounds later,
Susan Scofield believes she has the answer to that problem of listening to advertisements at twice
the volume of the program you’re watching. She was so annoyed at having to reach for the
remote control every time the advertisement comes on the screen to avoid being deafened. She
came up with an idea of a small device that detects when an advertisement is being shown and
automatically reduces the volume to a preset lowered level. Just how the device works, it’s a
patterned secret, but together with her husband, she was able to create an electronic box, no bigger
than your thumb that attaches to the back of the remote control itself. The only shortcoming is that
the remote control must always be pointed directly at the TV set. However, Susan doesn’t think
this will reduce its selling power and Susan ought to know it was she who invented the telephone
answering machine. Looks like Susan’s done it again with what she calls the ad subtractor.
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