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And the and you will have a chance to check your work.
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All the recordings will be played once only.
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The test is in four sections.
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Write all your answers in the listening question booklet.
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Go Please Section one.
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In this section, you will hear two overseas students, Kate and Luky, being interviewed by a university counselor.
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First look at questions one to five.
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Hi there, Kate.
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Come on in.
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How are you today?
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How's things?
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Well, as I explained on the phone, I'm a counselor here at the student services section of the university and I'm interviewing overseas students to help me draw up a guide for new students.
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So I'd be grateful if you could tell me a little about your time since you've been here in Cambridge.
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Let's start with you.
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This is your second semester, isn't it?
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Could you tell us something about your first impressions of the town when you arrived?
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Well, first of all, I was struck by how quiet it is here in the evening.
Speaker 1 (29)
Kate's first impression of the town is that it is quiet in the evening, so quiet is the answer.
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Now we shall begin.
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You should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time.
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Now listen to the first interview with Kate and complete the notes by filling in the numbered spaces one to five.
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Hi there, Kate.
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Come on in.
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How are you today?
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How's things?
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Well, as I explained on the phone, I'm a counselor here at the student services section of the university.
Speaker 2 (42)
And I'm interviewing overseas students to help me draw up a guide for new students.
Speaker 2 (43)
So I'd be grateful if you could tell me a little about your time since you've been here in Cambridge.
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Let's start with you.
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This is your second semester, isn't it?
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Could you tell us something about your first impressions of the town when you arrived?
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Well, first of all, I was struck by how quiet it is here in the evening.
Speaker 2 (53)
I suppose Cambridge is a quiet place.
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Where did you live when you first arrived?
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Well, I went straight into student accommodation.
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It was a kind of student hostel.
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So you didn't have to worry about doing your own cooking or anything like that?
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But sometimes I wished I had.
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The food at the hostel was awful.
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But how would the other students?
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To be honest, I haven't managed to make many friends even though the place is full.
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People seem to keep to themselves.
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They're not really very friendly.
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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
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Well, about the actual course?
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You're studying I'm doing a master's by coursework in environmental studies.
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And how are you finding that?
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Well, it's been pretty good, really.
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I've enjoyed the course, but I feel there hasn't been enough contact with the lecturers.
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They all seem to be incredibly busy.
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The only chance I've really had to talk to them was on a field trip.
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Well, that's no good at all.
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Could anything be done to improve the course in your opinion?
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Well, I think it would be helpful to have meetings with lecturers on the course, say, a fortnight, something like that.
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Regular meetings.
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That could certainly help.
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Now, Kate, we'll come back to you in a minute, but I'd just like to ask Lucy some questions.
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Luky, where are you from?
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I am from Indonesia.
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And how did you find Cambridge when you first arrived?
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Well, I like it here.
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I think the city is very beautiful.
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What about your accommodation?
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Was that okay?
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At first, I stayed with a family for three months.
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They were very kind to me, but they had three young children, and I found it difficult to study.
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So after three months, I moved out, and now I live with two other students in a student house.
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It's much cheaper, and we like it there.
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And, um, what about your studies?
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What are you studying?
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I'm doing a bachelor of computing.
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Computing.
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Um, apart from the language difficulties, if you can separate them, how have you found the course?
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Well, the main difficulty for me is getting time on the computers in the computer room.
Speaker 1 (113)
It's always busy, and and this makes it very hard to do my practical work.
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I'm sure it would.
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Can you reserve time in the computer room?
Speaker 1 (118)
You can't.
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But it would certainly help if we could reserve computer time.
Speaker 2 (121)
I'll look into that and see if something can't be done to improve things over there.
