Listening Test Item

LISTENING TEST

Listening section

In this section of the test you will have the chance to show how well you understand spoken english. There are three parts to this section with special directions for each part.

Part 1

Question 1 to 5

Directions

In this part of the test, you will hear a monologue that will be spoken two times. It will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen carefully to understand what the speakers say. After you hear a monologue and the question about it. Read the possible answer and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

BEES

Bees are insects. There are about 20.000 species or kinds of bees.  They live everywhere in the world except on high mountains, in Artic and Antartic, and on some small island in the ocean.

Some bees are small as 0,08 inch (2 millimeters). However, some bees are as big as 1,6 inch (4 centimeters). Bees come in many colors : black, grey, yellow, red, green, or blue. Bees have three pairs of legs and four wings. Like all insects, they have a head, chest and abdomen. They have mouthparts and a tounge for collecting nectar. They carry the nectar in an organ called a honey stomach.

   1.      what is the text about ?

A. Bees in brief

B. Insect and bees

C. Bees habitat

D. Kinds of bees

E. The size of bees

   2.      how much the big from bees ?

A. 0,08 inch

B. 0,09 inch

C. 1,5 inch

D. 1,6 inch

E. 1,7 inch

   3.      How many pairs of pairs of legs and wings ?

A. Two pairs of legs and five wings

B. Three pairs of legs and four wings

C. Four pairs of legs and five wings

D. Four pairs of legs and three wings

E. Five pairs of legs and three wings

  4.      Which is not the color of the bees ?

A. Blue

B. Green

C. Brown

D. Black

E. Grey

   5.      Which pats of the bees body function to carry the nectar ?

A. Legs

B. Legs and wings

C Honey stomach

D. Mouthparts

E. Abdomen

Part 2

Question 6 - 10

Directions

In this part of the test, you will hear a monologue that will be spoken two times. It will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen carefully to understand what the speakers say. After you hear a monologue and the question about it. Read the possible answer and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

SPIDERS

Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals. They are not classified in the class insect, a spider has eight legs while an insect never has more than six legs.

Spiders have a body with two main divisions, four pairs of walking legs and two other pairs of abdominal spinnerets for spinning threads of silk. The silk can be used to aid in climbing, build egg sacs and catch prey.

Spiders kill so many insects, but they never do the least harm to man’s belonging. Spiders are busy for at least half of the year killing insects. It is impossible to find out ho many insects they kill, since they are hungry creatures which cannot be content with only three meals one day.

   6.      What is the purpose of the text ?

A. Explain about spiders

B. Tell a particular spiders in chronogical order

C. Describe a kind of animal in general

D. Persuade people about spiders

E. Retell about spiders

   7.      Why can’t spiders be classified in the class of insect ?

A. Because spiders have more than six legs

B. Because spiders bodies have two main divisions

C. Because they have walking legs             

D. Because spiders kill many insects

E. Because spiders are hungry creatures

   8.      How many legs the spiders have ?

A. Seven legs                           

B. Eight legs

C. Nine legs

D. Five legs

E. Four legs

   9.      How many body’s spiders in main division ?

A. Two main division

B. Three main division

C. Four main division

D. Five main division

E. One main division

  10.  How many pairs of walking and pairs of abdominal spinnerets ?

A. Three pairs of walking legs and two pairs abdominal

B. Four pairs of walking legs and two pairs abdominal

C. Three pairs of walking legs and four pairs abdominal

D. Five pairs of walking legs and two pairs abdominal

E. Four pairs of walking legs and three pairs abdominal

Part 3

Question 11 - 15

Directions

In this part of the test, you will hear a monologue that will be spoken two times. It will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen carefully to understand what the speakers say. After you hear a monologue and the question about it. Read the possible answer and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Honey is among the oldest type of natural food known to mankind. Its consumption has been recorded in ancient civilization, and for many races it was the only source of pure sweetness. It was widely believed to have health giving properties, the journal of ansient doctor contained references to honey as the most important ingredient their modification.

The ancient Greek believed thet eating honey can increase man’s life span by almost double. In the early Olympic Games athletes took honey to perform better and after the games, to restore their strength. In the modern times it has been proven thet honey can prevent and cure all kind of ilness. Germs of dysentry, typhoid, pneumonia, fever and variety of other diseases died soon after they placed in pure honey.

Honey is rich of vitamin and because of its hig food value, is is better than any other type of sugar. It has been converted into simple sugar by bees, so iteasily to digest and releases energy quickly. Besides, it never goes bad, as it was found in Egyptian tombsafter thousand of years honey was still good enough to be eaten.

   11.  Where is the honey took to perform better ?

A.    Olympic Games Athletes

B.     Olympic Games Yunani

C.     Olympic Games Asia

D.    Olympic Games Africa

E.     Olympic Games india

   12.  What is the disease that not cure by honey ?

A.    Dysentry

B.     Thypoid

C.     Pneumonia

D.    Diabets

E.     Fever

   13.  Honey has been converted into simple sugar by

A.    Bird

B.     Bees

C.     Housefly

D.    Bear

E.     Butterfly

   14.  The communicative purpose of the text is

A.    To provide information about honey specifially

B.     To explain how honey is formed

C.     To show the reader the way honey is formed

D.    To describe the formation of honey

E.     To provide information about honey

   15.  Where we  found that thousand of years honey was still good enough to be eaten ?

A.    Asia

B.     Australia

C.    Egyptian

D.    Africa

E.     India