Section 1 Audio script: Joyce: Excuse me can you tell me the route to the railway station, please.

Stranger: yes, madam. Please take the road to the north from here. After a few yards you will see a church. There is a four point junction. Take right from there. J: ok. S: walk a few more yards when you see the post office. Take left from there. Right after a couple of minutes walk, you will find the local bank. Walk straight until you see the womens college. J: ok. S: Take right from there. Walk for another two minutes until you see the boys school. Take no turn there. Walk straight to reach the railway station. The station will be another couple of minutes walk from there. J: it seems a long distance. S: yes, madam. J: can I get a bus from here for the station, now? S: yes a bus goes to the station from here. But the next bus will come after a half an hour. It is number 6. J: can I get a taxi to reach the station? S: today is an off for the taxis as they are on a strike today. You have to either walk the way over or wait for the bus to come. J: thank you. S: youre welcome. Supply the blanks with the correct information. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. The lady wants to _____1_____. She does not _____2_____. On the way she will first come across _____3____. She will turn _____4_____ there. The next landmark is _____5_____. She needs to turn _____6____ there. She will see the school after the _____7_____. The bus will come after _____8_____. She cannot have a taxi as the taxis are _____9_____. She needs to ____10_____ the distance.

Section 2 Audio script: MRS. FREDERICK BELMONT-TOWERS: Is that you, Helen? Come in. You must excuse me for seeing you up here, but this is my day for treatment and I don't get up till afternoon. Oh, didn't you know? I'm taking a course with Omarkanandi, this famous Hindu priest. You haven't heard of him? Oh, my dear, he is too wonderful. You know what an invalid I've been for years? I've had no sympathy in my suffering-Fred thinks it's all nonsense, says I'm a hypochondriac, and all that, but Omarkanandi says my condition has been simply pitiful! He's so sympathetic, Helen. He wears a long red robe, and a turban and the queerest rings, and his eyes are the most soulful things. Well, it's hard to tell you just what he does. He sits beside me, and holds my hands and looks into my eyes and talks to me, in his soft Oriental voice. He says he is the medium of infinite strength and power, and that he transmits it to me. Well, he thinks in time that I can draw on this power myself, without him. He says that I'm so highly strung that the winds of evil play on me. He says my chronic indigestion is simply a wind of evil, and that I must harden myself against it. I told him I didn't care so much about the indigestion itself, but it was ruining my complexion. He said when I got myself into harmony with the Infinite my skin would be like a rose leaf--so you can see for yourself the thing is worthwhile. [Pause] Oh, no, it isn't Mind Cure or Christian Science or any of those intangible things, this is really practical. And I find that my power over others is growing, just as he said it would. The other night, Fred came home just worn out, and I determined to try the cure on him, so I made him lie down, and I held his hand, and looked at him, and talked very softly, and it was no time at all, Helen, until he was sleeping like a child. You see, what I like about this system is that it is so practical. I told Omarkanandi how I was worrying about my Bridge debts, and that I couldn't tell Fred about it, and he put himself "in harmony" and worked out the most wonderful scheme. he told me to get up a sort of Trust, and make up a pool, every woman in the club putting in five hundred dollars. Then as long as we won, we should each put ten percent of our winnings back into the pool, and if we lost, the pool would stand for it, up to a certain limit. I was Treasurer and I made Omarkanandi take five hundred for thinking up the scheme. He didn't want to at all, but he did finally to help "his cause." Well, it worked splendidly for about a week, and then it ended in the awfullest row. The women accused each other of not paying their ten percent, and of overdrawing on the pool, and every woman demanded her money back, and we just couldn't get it straightened out. I'm out, Heaven only knows how much! Some of the men heard about it, and you ought to have seen Fred lecture me. I repeated a lot of things to him that he had said himself on the benefit of Trusts, but he said that it was all rot. I told him I thought so when he first said it, but I was so used to taking his word as law, that I went right ahead. I'd never dare tell him how much I'm out--I just said, "We'll call it legitimate speculation and charge it up to profit and loss," which is his favorite excuse when he's on the wrong side of the market. [Pause] Mercy, no, I didn't tell him Omarkanandi had anything to do with it. He says he's a fraud and all sorts of things. Omar says Fred is not attuned to the higher chords of ethereality, so he lives in error and darkness. Helen, you ought to have him come see you; he'd do wonders for you. Only five hundred for the course, and it's nothing when you think what he does for you. [Listens to Helen's sarcasms in surprise] Why, Helen! I'm afraid you're like Fred, too worldly and suspicious to grasp these truths. As Omarkanandi says, you must be saved "by faith alone!" [Turns her head, as if at interruption] Who is it, Maria? Omarkanandi? Ask him

to come up. Goodbye, Helen, do run in again. [Watches her go out, and sighs] Poor, trivial thing, she hasn't the capacity for great thoughts and spiritual experiences, as I have. The following passage is a summary of the audio script that you hear. Fill in the gaps to complete the summary meaningfully. I told Omarkanandi how I was worrying about my _____11_____, and that I couldn't tell _____12_____ about it, and he put himself "_____13_____" and worked out the most wonderful scheme. He told me to get up a _____14_____, and make up a pool, every woman in the club putting in _____15_____. I'd _____16_____ tell him how much I'm out--I just said, "We'll call it _____17_____ and charge it up to profit and loss," which is his favorite excuse when he's on the wrong side of the market. Mercy, no, I didn't tell him Omarkanandi had anything to do with it. Only five hundred for the course, and it's nothing when you think what he does for you. Why, Helen! As Omarkanandi says, you must be saved "by _____18_____! " Who is it, _____19_____? Omarkanandi? Ask him to _____20_____. Section 3 Audio script: MONA: Hey Tim, you have been working continuously for the last four hours. Lets have a tea break now. TIM: Sorry, I wont be able to leave my work. MONA: You must take a break after every two hours. It will keep your mind fresh. TIM: I certainly wish for that, but unluckily I cant. My promotion is due after a couple of months. I have to perform. MONA: Do you think you can perform better with a tired mind? TIM: I agree with you, but if I get up from my chair I may not be able to get the same concentration again. MONA: In my opinion youll do better. Your mind will become habitual to a new work pattern. TIM: It may also disturb rhythm of my working schedule. MONA: Why dont you do it for a week? TIM: If my boss gets angry, then? MONA: Everybody is taking tea breaks in the morning and in the evening. Why cant you? TIM: OK. I can give it a try for one week. If I perform better I shall continue the new workpattern as you suggest. MONA: You are a good boy. Lets go to office canteen for just 10 minutes quick tea break. TIM: I like you Mona; you are a good friend.

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Tim has been working continuously for _____21_____. The girl suggests for a _____22_____. He must take a break every _____23_____. It will keep his _____24_____. Tim did not _____25_____ as he could not _____26_____. The girl says that he cannot perform well with a _____27_____. If Tim gets up from _____28_____ he may not get back the same _____29_____. He also apprehends that his boss _____30_____.

Section 4 Audio script: Power couples don't get that way by accident. Devotion to mission and a tireless work ethic go down a lot easier when both members of a pair approach their jobs the same way. That kind of stick-to-theflight-plan determination was on display Friday afternoon when NASA and astronaut Mark Kelly husband of injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords convened a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to announce that Kelly would be in the commander's seat as planned when the shuttle Endeavour takes off in April. Kelly, 46, has flown in space three times before, but this time was going to be special. It would be both his and Endeavour's final mission and perhaps the last of the shuttle program as a whole if money isn't forthcoming for one more flight later in the year. What's more, the objective of the mission is to deliver the alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station. The AMS will be affixed to the station's truss and try to collect particle evidence of the cosmos' little-understood dark matter and dark energy, which are thought to serve as nothing less than the mortar that holds the universe together. But those plans at least Kelly's role in them were blown to bits last month, when Giffords was shot in the head at an outdoor constituent event, landing her in intensive care unit and, more recently, a long-term rehab facility. "Four weeks ago tomorrow, I was sitting in the ICU in Tuscon and talking to her neurosurgeon and trauma surgeon about her progress," Kelly said today. "At that time I thought I'd likely be sitting in that same seat maybe two, four, six months later." But if he were there today, he'd be very lonely. On January 21 way ahead of schedule Giffords had recovered sufficiently to be moved to the Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, handily close to the space center, where Kelly trains. Even then, there was little thought in his mind that he would fly the two-week mission and little in NASA's plans either. The famously risk-averse space agency wants nothing to do with any astronaut least of all a commander whose mind isn't fully on the job. Said Peggy Whitson, head of the NASA astronaut office: "We weren't going to ask him to command if he didn't want to. I have to choose a crew that will be able to support the mission." All that changed in the past couple of weeks, mostly because of Giffords. The optimistic press releases about the speed of her improvement are more than sunny spin. Her doctors place her recovery in the

one-percentile category, impressive enough that since her arrival in Houston she's been putting in the equivalent of a full work day from eight in the morning to six in the evening working on speech, motor control, strength and more. That left Kelly with little to do, and so two weeks ago, he approached Whitson and Brent Jett, director of flight crew operations, about rejoining his crew. There were a few things that worked in his favor. His launch date had twice slipped for technical reasons from February to early April, and then again to April 19. This would allow him to catch up on any preparations he'd missed. What's more, NASA tries to keep its crew decisions as free of emotion as it can, which means that everything comes down to safety. Kelly had logged 18 months of training, far more than his back-up commander had. Provided he could prove he was fully focused on the mission, the flight would be his. To ensure himself that his mind would indeed be clear, he canvassed his family to see if they approved. "When I told [Giffords' mother] in the ICU in Houston that I would most likely not be flying, she said 'What, are you kidding me? You have to go and do that,'" Kelly say. He got the same response from Giffords' father. The question that reporters kept asking today was what Giffords herself said, or even if she is yet capable of speaking at all. Kelly was polite but adamant that he would not disclose any details about her recovery, except to say whether she is gaining or losing ground, and he stuck to that. "I know her very well," was pretty much all he said. Among those journalists present was ABC's Bob Woodruff, who knows better than anyone in the room what Giffords is going through, having suffered his own devastating head and brain trauma as the result of an IED explosion in Iraq in 2006. Woodruff asked Kelly if he would see Giffords face to face during the two weeks he's aloft, courtesy of the video conference equipment that's available in orbit. "Typically, we do one family video conference during a mission, toward the end of the flight," Kelly answered. "So this time we'll do that too." "One time?" Woodruff pressed. "In fourteen days?" "Yes, one time," Kelly answered. That, for both Kelly and Giffords, may well be enough. He has a mission to perform during those two weeks and so does she. They'll both be more than busy enough, thank you very much. Fill in the gaps with the correct information. A. B. C. D. E. The husband and wife are _____31_____ and _____32_____. The wife is a _____33_____ and the husband is a _____34_____. Bob Woodruff is a _____35_____. The husband has been in the space _____36____ before and this is _____37_____ for him. The man is worried about his wife as she is _____38_____.

F. They are staying quite _____40_____.