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Write your name, surname, and identity card number or passport number in the spaces provided above. Answer all the questions in blue or black pen. All questions carry one mark. The full exam will last approximately 30 minutes. Before you listen to the recordings you will be given time to read through the questions and time afterwards to write up your answers. You will listen to each recording twice. At the end of the exam, please hand in this Listening paper and any notes you may have taken on a separate sheet of paper. Listening One You are going to hear part of Health Check, a BBC radio programme. Claudia Hammond, Dr. Kevin Fong and six people talk about the problems of giving medicine to children. Choose the option that best describes what they say. Part 1. Introduction to the invited doctor 1. Why is Dr. Fong an expert in tablets for children? a) Because he is a doctor. b) Because he is a father himself. c) Because he has done research in the field. Part 2. Six people talk about their experiences 2. What is the most common problem the first parent (a woman) has? a) Ill children do not behave. b) Tablets are very expensive. c) Children find medicine disgusting. 3. How many children does the second parent (a man) have? a) One b) Two c) Four 4. The third parent (a woman) describes her method to make children take their medicine. What is it? a) She forced her children to take medicine. b) They were very healthy and she never had to give them medicine. c) She mixed medicine with a sweet drink. 5. What type of medicine does the fourth parent (a man) talk about? a) Tablet b) Syrup c) Syringe B1 Listening ∙ Data ∙ Universitat Rovira i Virgili 1 6. When the fifth woman’s 3‐year old child was in hospital with pneumonia, how did she give her medicine? a) They forced the child to take it. b) The doctors decided to stop her medication because she refused to take it. c) The mother mixed the medicine with food. 7. What does the sixth woman say about her experience when she was a child? a) She was never ill and did not have to take any medicine. b) Taking medicine was not a traumatic experience. c) Taking medicine was a very traumatic experience for her. Part 3. The research study 8. Where was the study conducted? a) In the Netherlands b) In the United Kingdom c) In Belgium B1 Listening ∙ Data ∙ Universitat Rovira i Virgili 2 Listening Two You are going to listen to part of an interview with John Lewis, an American congressman who met Martin Luther King Jr. and was with him in Washington when he gave his famous speech “I have a dream”. Please answer each question or complete the sentence with a number, a word or a short expression. 9. How many people were at the rally in Washington? _____________ 10. How many main speakers were there? _______________ 11. Where is Lewis from? _____________ 12. In Washington, people marched against __________ segregation. 13. How old was Lewis when he gave his speech? ___________ 14. When he was a child, Lewis could not _________________________________ because of the colour of his skin. 15. As a member of a Civil Rights group, he trained young people to protest _________________ B1 Listening ∙ Data ∙ Universitat Rovira i Virgili 3