Аудирование (30 минут) в тесте по аудированию перед каждым заданием дана пауза с тем, чтобы вы смогли просмотреть вопросы к заданию, а также паузы

of income and together they catch 80,000 colds a year.

in the world pay Cardiff's students to take part in research.

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Laughter is a series of vowel-like notes, repeated every one-fifth of a second,

15 facial muscles. People make a 'huh-huh-huh' noise rather than 'ho-ho-ho" or 'ha-ha-ha'. Young children laugh about 300 times a day, an adult only 17.

Your laugh says a lot about you. According to a study, cacklers rejoice in others' misfortunes,
howlers are attention-seekers, snorters are | A23 to feelings of superiority, sniggerers

are immature and insensitive, belly-laughers are trustworthy and friendly, and chucklers are kind but introspective.


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Laughter really is contagious. In January 1962, an outbreak of giggling at a Tanzanian girls' school


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to local villages and 14 other schools, forcing several to close. The epidemic finally ended two years later. It is believed that the brain may be programmed to respond when it hears other people's laughter. That's how canned laughter on TV comedy programmes

people said or heard before they laughed and found it was usually things like Are you sure?' or 'See you later'. We laugh at the end of a sentence as a subconscious signal that we've finished speaking or, if someone else is speaking, that we have understood.


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Some experts believe that laughter is an unconscious recognition of status - which is why
people laugh at their boss's terrible jokes. One study in a hospital found that senior staff
average made 7.5 witty remarks per staff meeting, junior staff 5.5 and lowly paramedics only 0.2. The study also found that women laugh almost twice as much listening to a man as men do listening to a woman.

Men and women laugh at different things. During an online study, a researcher asked 100,000
people to A28 | various jokes on a scale of 1 to 10. according to how funny they found

them. Males preferred aggressive, nasty jokes. Women, who tend to be more lingusitically skilled than men, preferred wordplay.

... Last weekend I went to a fantastic concert by my favourite band, Hotshot. It's the best thing I've ever been to. What's the best thing you've ever been to? Was it a concert? Or maybe it was a sports event, or a show, play or film. Maybe it was something completely different.

Describe it to me and tell me why it was so great.

I'd love to hear all about it.

Tom

Write back to Tom answering his questions.

Write 100-140 words.

Remember the rules of letter writing.

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You have 40 minutes to do this task.

Comment on the following statement.

Some people say that the inventions of email and text messaging have been wonderful for communication between people. However, some people say that this kind of communication has disadvantages as well as advantages.

What can you say for and against the use of email and text messaging?

Write 200-250 words.

Use the following plan:

1. 
   Introduction (Describe the situation) 3 Arguments 'against'
   
2. 
   Arguments 'for' 4 Conclusion
   

Вы услышите 6 анонсов телесериалов. Установите соответствие между каждым анонсом 1-6 и утверждениями, данными в списке A-G. Используйте каждую букву, обозначающую утверждение, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение.

Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу

A. This series is sometimes funny and sometimes sad.

B. Some strange characters appear in this series.

С In this series, someone has achieved their ambitions.

D. In this series, someone has travelled through time.

E. This series shows the results of an event for various people.

F. Someone makes new friends in this series.

G. In this series, each story is about a different individual.

Говорящий	1	2	3	4	5	6
Утверждение

Вы услышите беседу о Национальной неделе пауки. Определите, какие из приведённых утверждений (А1-А7) соответствуют содержанию текста (1), какие не соответствуют (2) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3). Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды.

Al National Science Week is particularly intended for young people.
1) true 2) false 3) not stated

A6 | Click for Climate Change starts after National Science Week.
1) true 2) false 3) not stated

Before beginning the interview, what does the interviewer suggest about Catherine?

1. 
   Some of the other students don't like her.
   
2. 
   Her life is different from that of other students.
   
3. 
   She doesn't want to look like other students.
   

What do we learn about Catherine's murder mystery novel?

1. 
   She feels that the other books in the series are better.
   
2. 
   It is the fifth book in a series she is writing.
   
3. 
   She wrote it some time ago but it has just been published.
   

The interviewer says that he is surprised by

1. 
   the speed at which Catherine writes her books.
   
2. 
   the pressure that Catherine's publishers put on her.
   
3. 
   Catherine's decision to continue with her studies.
   

When Catherine wrote Mirror Dreams, she was surprised that

1. 
   she found writing a novel so easy.
   
2. 
   an agent agreed to try to sell it.
   
3. 
   her father thought it could be successful.
   

When Catherine goes to schools to talk to children,

1. 
   she feels that she is still a child herself.
   
2. 
   she remembers what it was like to be a child.
   
3. 
   she knows she can communicate very well with children.
   

What advice does Catherine give about writing novels?

1. 
   Writing novels can improve people's ability to write essays.
   
2. 
   Other people's opinions of novels should be ignored.
   
3. 
   Enthusiasm is more important than expert knowledge.
   

Catherine says that when she is writing a novel,

1. 
   she doesn’t like to include characters that are similar to her.
   
2. 
   she doesn’t feel she has total control over what happens in it.
   
3. 
   she does less and less planning each time.