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the speaking section measures your
ability to speak in English about a
variety of topics there are six
questions in this section questions 1 &
2 are independent tasks in which you
will speak about familiar topics your
responses will be scored on your ability
to speak clearly and coherently about
the topics questions 3 & 4 are
integrated speaking tasks you will read
a passage listen to a conversation or
lecture and then speak in response to a
question about what you have read and
heard you will need to combine relevant
information from the two sources to
answer the question completely your
responses will be scored on your ability
to speak clearly and coherently and on
your ability to accurately convey
information about what you read and
heard questions 5 & 6 are integrated
speaking tasks you will listen to part
of a conversation or lecture and then
speak in response to a question about
what you have heard your responses will
be scored on your ability to speak
clearly and coherently and on your
ability to accurately convey information
about what you heard you will hear each
conversation and lecture only one time
you may take notes while you listen you
may use your notes to help you answer
the questions
number one in this question you will be
asked to talk about a familiar topic
after you hear the question you will
have 15 seconds to prepare your response
and 45 seconds to speak about a time
when a friend or a family member helped
you in the past describe how the person
helped you then explain why this was
important to you begin to prepare your
response after the beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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number two in this question you will be
asked to give your opinion about a
familiar topic after you hear the
question you will have 15 seconds to
prepare your response and 45 seconds to
speak some people enjoy taking risks and
trying new things others are not
adventurous they are cautious and prefer
to avoid danger which behavior do you
think is better explain why begin to
prepare your response after the beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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number three in this question you will
read a short passage about a campus
situation and then listen to a talk on
the same topic you will then answer a
question using information from both the
reading passage and the talk after the
question you will have 30 seconds to
prepare your response and 60 seconds to
speak City University plans to begin
playing music over loudspeakers in the
campus cafeterias you will have 50
seconds to read an article from the
campus newspaper about the plan begin
reading now
you
now listen to two students discussing
the university's plan this article are
they serious yeah I think so why well
first of all a lot of kids aren't
looking for a relaxing break at
lunchtime they like the study WildAid
especially if they have exams coming up
or some assignment they have to get done
yeah that's true and now they won't be
able to concentrate this is gonna be
very distracting hmm okay yeah I see
your point and second most students
don't like classical music it's
certainly not what I listen to so are
people going to stop listening to their
own music no I think people are going to
be even more likely to bring their mp3
player you know to play their own music
and block out the classical stuff yeah
that makes sense
the man expresses his opinion of the
university's plan state his opinion and
explained the reasons he gives for
holding that appeal begin to prepare
your response after the beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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number four in this question you will
read a short passage on an academic
subject and then listen to a talk on the
same topic you will then answer a
question using information from both the
reading passage and the talk after the
question you will have 30 seconds to
prepare your response and 60 seconds to
speak read a passage about revealing
coloration from a biology textbook you
have 45 seconds to read the passage
begin reading now
you
now listen to part of a lecture
ecology class there's a large tropical
insect called the peanut bug yes like
the peanuts that you eat and the peanut
bugs front wings are colored so that
they blend in with their surroundings
but it's back wings which are usually
closed and hidden have these bright
colorful spots on them and when the
peanut bugs attacked it suddenly opens
its back wings and out pop these big
bright colors and that surprises the
predator and gives the peanut bug a
chance to get away um and then you have
a butterfly called the Morpho butterfly
and parts of the Morpho butterfly's
wings are very shiny they reflect a lot
of sunlight when this butterfly is
resting this shiny part of its wings is
hidden now morpho butterflies are often
attacked by Birds
so when a bird approaches the Morpho
flies away and when the Morpho flaps its
wings all the bird can see are flashes
of light reflected from the MorphOS
wings those flashes of light make it
very difficult for the bird to follow
the Morpho and the Morpho is usually
able to get away using the examples of
the peanut bug and the Morpho butterfly
explained the concept of revealing
coloration begin to prepare your
response after the beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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number five in this question you will
listen to a conversation you will then
be asked to talk about the information
in the conversation and to give your
opinion about the ideas presented after
you hear the question you will have 20
seconds to prepare your response and 60
seconds to speak listen to a
conversation between two students hey
Steve are you ready for classes to start
not really there's still a big conflict
in my course schedule what's wrong this
is my last semester and I've still got
two required courses left to take in
order to finish my literature degree
okay I have to take both history of the
novel and Shakespeare or I can't
graduate problem is the two courses meet
at the same time uh-oh what are you
gonna do well I talked to the professor
who's gonna teach Shakespeare he said I
could do an independent study to fulfill
that requirement how would that work I'd
read the assigned texts on my own do all
the same assignments and meet with them
what I need to if I have any questions
well that sounds like a good way to
fulfill the requirement yeah plus it
would be nice to have one-on-one
discussions with the professor it's just
that well working on my own like that
I'm kind of concerned I won't be able to
motivate myself to get the work done on
time it's easy to put things off when
it's not an actual class you know yeah
are there other options um yeah I found
out that the Shakespeare class is being
offered at another university about a
half an hour from here that University
has a really great literature program
and our University will accept their
credits so that's an idea
yeah I'm sure it'd be a good class and
it did fulfill the requirement only
thing is you know I'd have to drive a
half an hour to get to the class and a
half an hour to come back three times a
week that's a lot of time and gas money
briefly summarize the problem the
speakers are discussing then state which
solution you would recommend explain the
reasons for your recommendation
begin to prepare your response after the
beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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number six in this question you will
listen to a short lecture you will then
be asked to summarize important
information from the lecture after you
hear the question you will have 20
seconds to prepare your response and 60
seconds to speak now listen to part of a
lecture in a business class today we'll
talk about how companies determine the
initial price for their products by that
I mean when they first introduce a
product in the market there are
different approaches and today we'll
discuss two of them they are quite
different each with their own advantages
one approach or strategy sets the
initial price of the product high
followed by a lower price at a later
stage why well when introducing a new
product companies want to build a
high-quality image for it products that
cost more are believed to be of higher
quality so during the early stages of
the product life cycle companies can
make very high profits from consumers
willing to pay more for a high-quality
product
and although consumers know that prices
will eventually go down they are also
willing to pay more to get the product
sooner this approach works very well
with Oh innovative high-tech products
for example now just think about when
video recorders or video cameras or even
cell phones first came out they were
very expensive
but then they became much more
accessible another very common strategy
sets an initial price low now this
happens when the market is already
saturated with the product and the
strategy is to undercut its competitors
say there's a newly starting computer
maker trying to gain market share so
what do they do well they offer a
computer at an affordable price lower
than existing brands by doing this the
company appeals to new consumers who
weren't probably even interested in
getting a computer and well of course to
existing consumers who might now be
tempted to switch brands now how does
this company make profits with its
low-priced computer well one thing
that's often done is to encourage their
customers to buy accessories also
manufactured by them like printers or
software for example using the points
and examples from the lecture explain
the two pricing strategies described by
the professor begin to prepare your
response after the beep
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begin speaking after the beep
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