Section 1 Audio script: VISITOR: Hello! AGENT: Welcome. Please have a seat. VISITOR: I need a flat on rent.

AGENT: Do you want it for residential purpose. VISITOR: Yeah. AGENT: How many rooms do you want? VISITOR: Two bed rooms and one drawing room. Flat should be well-furnished. AGENT: Do you have any floor preference? VISITOR: I need a flat either on ground floor or on first floor. AGENT: What do you do? VISITOR: I am a software engineer in a company. AGENT: How many family members are you? VISITOR: I, my wife, and two children. AGENT: Can you tell me about your budget? VISITOR: I need a good flat at a good location with a space for car parking. I shall pay according to market rate. AGENT: OK. I am showing you a good flat according to your requirements. Let's go. (After coming back). AGENT: Have you liked the flat? VISITOR: Yeah. I'll show it to my wife tomorrow. AGENT: At what time will you come? VISITOR: In the evening at 6. If my wife likes it I'll pay advance. AGENT: I hope she'll like it too. VISITOR: Have I to give any security amount? AGENT: You have to give 3 months' rent as security deposit. VISITOR: And what's your commission? AGENT: One month's rent. It's market rate. From which date would you like to occupy the flat? VISITOR: From the 1st of coming month. Will there be any agreement? AGENT: 11 months agreement will be there. VISITOR: OK. See you tomorrow. AGENT: Welcome. Fill in the gaps with the correct information. A. The visitor wants to _____1_____ a flat. The flat needs to have _____2_____ rooms, _____3_____ and _____4_____. B. He is by profession _____5_____. The number of family members is _____6_____. They are _____7____ and _____8_____. C. He will go to visit the flat with ____9_____. D. They will visit the place at _____10______.

Section 2

Audio script: Former president George W. Bush writes in a new memoir that he briefly considered dropping his vice president, Richard B. Cheney, from his 2004 reelection ticket but said he still considers Cheney a steady adviser who helped him achieve his goals. The memoir, which was leaked to several news outlets in advance of its formal release next Tuesday, details Cheney's advocacy of war with Iraq. It says he asked Bush at a luncheon whether he was "going to take care of this guy, or not," referring to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Bush writes that he still considers the war justified and said he believes it left America safer, despite the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that prompted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to offer his resignation privately to Bush. He said he turned Rumsfeld's offer down because he feared the change in leadership would send a bad signal to U.S. troops. The former president defends his handling of some of the most intense controversies of his presidency, acknowledging at one point that he personally approved the waterboarding, or simulated drowning, of alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a practice that the CIA has since forsworn and both President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have described as torture barred by international law. "Damn right," Bush said he told the CIA when they sought his permission. He offered his regrets for flying over New Orleans to survey the post-Katrina damage, a move that provoked criticism, and says that he mistakenly brought too many troops home from Iraq too soon. But he has described as "disgusting" the televised accusation from recording artist and producer Kanye West that his response to Katrina was tainted by racism, calling that one of the low points of his tenure. The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key moments in his life, including his decision to stop drinking after some embarrassing conversations in bars. Bush said he realized as his daughters got older that, if he did not stop, they would think it was okay to drink and drive. And he said that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq gave him a "sickening" feeling that persists. Bush says he considered dropping Cheney in favor of then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) but appreciated the fact that Cheney helped him "do the job" at the White House. The two men disagreed over Bush's decision to fire Rumsfeld because the war in Iraq was going badly, and over Bush's refusal to pardon Cheney deputy I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after Libby's conviction for lying about his role in the Valerie Plame affair. But Bush said they have patched up their friendship since then. Complete the following statements by filling in with the missing information. A. Former president George W. Bush writes in a new memoir that he briefly considered dropping his vice president, ____11_____, from his ____12_____ re-election ticket. B. The former president defends his handling of some of the most ____13_____ of his presidency. C. He offered his regrets for flying over ____14____ to survey the _____15_____ damage, a move that provoked _____16_____.

D. The book, titled "_____17_____," is focused on key moments in his life, including his decision to stop _____18_____ after some _____19______ conversations in bars. E. Bush says he considered dropping Cheney in favor of then-Senate _____20____ Frist. Section 3 Audio script: Catherine: Hi Julia, how are you? Julia: Hi Catherine. Im fine. How are you? Where did you go last week? I called at your number and it was your answering machine that replied. C: well, I went to my ancestral house in Avon. J: thats great. What did you see that? C: oh, it was a great week. The county came into formal existence on 1 April 1974 when the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect. The new county consisted of the areas of: The county boroughs of Bristol and Bath, Part of the Administrative County of Gloucestershire: Kingswood Urban District, Mangotsfield Urban District Warmley Rural District, most of Sodbury Rural District and most of Thornbury Rural District Part of the Administrative County of Somerset: Municipal Borough of Weston-super-Mare Clevedon Urban District, Keynsham Urban District, Norton-Radstock Urban District, Portishead Urban District, Bathavon Rural District, Long Ashton Rural District, part of Axbridge Rural District and part of Clutton Rural District. The county was divided into six districts. Bristol and Bath had identical boundaries to the former county boroughs. In the north the urban districts of Kingswood and Mangotsfield formed a single District of Kingswood, with the rest of the areas transferred from Gloucestershire becoming Northavon. In the south, there were two districts, Woodspring, on the coast, and Wansdyke, in the interior. J: ok. C: To the north the county bordered Gloucestershire, to the east Wiltshire and to the south Somerset. In the west it had a coast on the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel.

The area of Avon was 1,347 square kilometres (520 sq mi) and its population in 1991 was 919,800. Cities and towns in Avon included (in approximate order of population) Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Clevedon, Portishead, Midsomer Norton & Radstock, Bradley Stoke, Nailsea, Yatton, Keynsham and Thornbury. J: well, i will come in the evenng today to your house. Let me listen to the detail of your trip then. C: alright. Bye. J: bye. Fill in the gaps with the correct information from the conversation that you have just heard. A. Catherine went to visit her _____21_____ in _____22____. B. It is a county divided into _____23_____ districts. C. To the north the county bordered _____24_____, to the east Wiltshire and to the south _____25_____. In the west it had a coast on the _____26_____ and Bristol Channel. D. _____27_____ and _____28_____ had identical boundaries to the former county boroughs. E. The county came into formal existence on 1 April _____29_____ when the _____30_____ 1972 came into effect. Section 4 Audio script: Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, its population was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian. Manchester is situated in the south-central part of North West England, fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south and the Pennines to the north and east. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian vicus associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established c. AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically, most of the city was a part of Lancashire, although areas south of the River Mersey were in Cheshire. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The urbanisation of Manchester largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era, resulting in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. As the result of an early-19th century factory building boom, Manchester was transformed from a township into a major mill town, borough and was later granted honorific city status in 1853.

Manchester was the site of the world's first railway station, hosted the first meeting of the Trades Union Congress and is where scientists first split the atom and developed the first programmable computer. It is known for its music scene and its sporting connections. Manchester was the host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and its sports clubs include two Premier League football teams, Manchester City and Manchester United. Manchester is the third-most visited city in the United Kingdom by foreign visitors and the most visited in England outside London. Manchester is represented by three tiers of government, Manchester City Council ("local"), UK Parliament ("national"), and European Parliament ("Europe"). Greater Manchester County Council administration was abolished in 1986, and so the city council is effectively a unitary authority. Since its inception in 1995, Manchester has been a member of the English Core Cities Group, which, among other things, serves to promote the social, cultural and economic status of the city at an international level. The town of Manchester was granted a charter by Thomas Grelley in 1301 but lost its borough status in a court case of 1359. Until the 19th century, local government was largely provided by manorial courts, the last of which ended in 1846. From a very early time, the township of Manchester lay within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. Pevsner wrote "That [neighbouring] Stretford and Salford are not administratively one with Manchester is one of the most curious anomalies of England". A stroke of a Norman baron's pen is said to have divorced Manchester and Salford, though it was not Salford that became separated from Manchester, it was Manchester, with its humbler line of lords, that was separated from Salford. It was this separation that resulted in Salford becoming the judicial seat of Salfordshire, which included the ancient parish of Manchester. Manchester later formed its own Poor Law Union by the name of Manchester. In 1792, commissionersusually known as police commissionerswere established for the social improvement of Manchester. In 1838, Manchester regained its borough status, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme. By 1846 the borough council had taken over the powers of the police commissioners. In 1853 Manchester was granted city status in the United Kingdom.

Fill in the gaps with the missing information. Do not write more than three words in a blank. A. Manchester is a city and _____31____ of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, its population was estimated to be _____32_____, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest _____33_____; the metropolitan county of _____34_____ had an estimated population of _____35_____, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the _____37_____ around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the _____38_____ Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian. B. Manchester is represented by three tiers of government,_____39_____ ("local"), UK Parliament ("national"), and European Parliament ("Europe"). Greater Manchester County Council administration was abolished in _____40_____, and so the city council is effectively a unitary authority. Since its inception in 1995, Manchester has been a member of the English Core Cities

Group, which, among other things, serves to promote the social, cultural and economic status of the city at an international level.