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Questions 16-20

Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

According to Mr Singh, the biggest problem for young Indians is that their parents ______ them too much at school.

Questions 35-37

Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

MRF is short for ______.

听力原文：AGENT: Good morning. Ace Accommodation; how can I help you?

SYLVIA: Good morning. I'd like to organize some short stay accommodation on the Gold Coast, please.

AGENT: Certainly. Who am I speaking to?

SYLVIA: Miss Mackinlay. Sylvia Mackinlay.

AGENT: Could you spell your family name for me please?

SYLVIA: It's M-A-C-K-I-N-L-A-Y.

Listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 5.

AGENT: Good morning. Ace Accommodation; how can I help you?

SYLVIA: Good morning. I'd like to organize some short stay accommodation on the Gold Coast, please.

AGENT: Certainly. Who am I speaking to?

SYLVIA: Miss Mackinlay. Sylvia Mackinlay.

AGENT: Could you spell your family name for me please?

SYLVIA: It's M-A-C-K-I-N-L-A-Y.

AGENT: Thank you. And your first name is Sylvia?

SYLVIA: Yes.

AGENT: Is that with an ' i' or a ' y' ?

SYLVIA: A 'y'—the old fashioned way. That's S-Y-L-V-I-A.

AGENT: Thank you, Miss Mackinlay. Now, just for our records, can you tell me what country you live in?

SYLVIA: Of course—it's England actually.

AGENF: I thought so. Now, when are you coming?

SYLVIA: Well, at the moment we're planning on arriving on July 26th.

AGENT: Ooh, the 25th, that's the last day of the public holiday and it might be difficult to find something available on that date.

SYLVIA: No, we're coming on the 26th of July.

AGENT: Oh, well that's fine then. We'll have lots of good places vacant by then although you wouldn't be able to move in until late afternoon because our cleaning crew will need time to get everything ready for you.

SYLVIA: That suits us—our flight won't get in until early evening anyway.

AGENT: How many of you will there be?

SYLVIA: Just my sister and myself.

AGENT: And how long do you intend to stay for?

SYLVIA: Oh, only a couple of weeks, we'd like to stay longer but we'll have to get back to work.

AGENT: So, you're not coming on business then?

SYLVIA: No, it's just a holiday. Why? What difference does that make?

AGENT: Oh, you'd be surprised. Business people have different needs you know, wireless internet, even fax machines and photocopiers.

SYLVIA: No, we won't need any of that stuff—we'll be coming to relax, and get away from all that kind of thing.

Now listen and answer questions 6 to 10.

AGENT: Good. Now, what exactly are you looking for? A house, a duplex or an apartment?

SYLVIA: What's a duplex?

AGENT: Oh, that's what you might call a townhouse or a unit--you know, two houses semi-detached on the same property.

SYLVIA: Oh, I see. I think an apartment will suit us just fine.

AGENT: And how many bedrooms? Two?

SYLVIA: One or two—it depends on the size. My sister and I don't mind sharing if it's a decent size bedroom with two beds.

AGENT: Well, that makes it easier.

AGENT: And car parking? Will you require a lock-up garage? They're a little harder to find with an apartment.

SYLVIA: We'll have a hire car and as far as I know there are no regulations concerning car parking. I think as long as it's not parked on the street and it's secure there shouldn't be any problems.

AGENT: Okay. Now, I'm assuming you want something by the beach?

SYLVIA: Yes, that's the idea. We want to enjoy the surf, sand and sunshine.

AGENT: Okay, but before we settle on an area and discuss your price range, I'll need to know about other necessities.

SYLVIA: What do you mean?

AGENT: Well, for example, do you want to be close to a shopping mall or the casino or the fun parks? Or do you want to be in a complex with or near a swimming pool?

SYLVIA: No, none of that really matters to us but we'd like to have reasonable access to the motorway so that we can drive up to Brisbane to visit friends there.

AGENT: Well, there are quite a few lovely small towns to choose from. There's Main Beach which is north of Surfers' Paradise or Mermaid Waters which is a bit further south or Palm Beach which is quite a bit further south?

SYLVIA: Mermaid Waters sounds delightful. Is it close to the motorway?

AGENT: Well, not really, the M 1 is actually closest to Palm Beach and prices are likely to be more reasonable there too.

SYLVIA: That's settled then, Palm Beach it is.

AGENT: Now, if you'll just give me your email address, I can send you information about the town and lots of photos.

SYLVIA: Well, my email is S-M-A-C 13 at hotmail dot com.

AGENT: And, one final thing, how much are you looking to spend per week on accommodation? Do you want something at the luxury end of the market—you know, newly redecorated, great views, all the mod cons ...

SYLVIA: Not necessarily. Could we get something clean, comfortable and reasonable for $1200 a week?

AGENT: Could you stretch that to 1500 a week? I've got a property in mind that you'll absolutely love but you'd have to go to 1500—1200 wouldn't cover it.

SYLVIA: Alright, then. But that's our top limit.

AGENT: Good. I'll get on to this straight away and there should be something in your inbox shortly.

SHORTSTAYACCOMMODATION

First Name: (1)

Country of Origin: (2)

Date of Arrival: (3)

Number of Tenants: (4)

Length of Stay: 2 week

Purpose of Visit: (5)

Type of Accommodation: (6)

Number of Bedrooms: one or two

Car Parking: off-street and (7)

General Area: near the beach

Other Requirements: near (8)

Name of Town: (9)

Client's Email smac13@hotmail.com

Price Range: up to $． (10) a week

(1)

ou most probably know, 'hydro' means water—so we are talking about using water to generate electricity. Of course, there are many ways to generate electricity but hydropower is important to the community, firstly and obviously, because it's renewable. The earth's hydrologic cycle of constant evaporation and transpiration provides a continual supply of water from rainfall and snowmelt. The second point to consider is its efficiency. Hydropower plants are able to convert approximately 90% of the energy from the falling water into electric energy whereas many fossil-fuelled plants lose more than half of the energy content of their fuel by way of waste heat and gases. For this reason they are very efficient.

Hydropower is also clean. It doesn't emit harmful gases that contribute to air pollution, acid rain, and global warming. No trucks, trains or pipelines are needed to bring fuel to the site and there's no noise pollution either. Furthermore, hydropower plant machinery is fairly simple and runs at slow speeds, which makes it reliable and durable. And, hydropower units are flexible also—they have the ability to start quickly and adjust rapidly to changes in demand for electricity, thus enabling them to meet peak loads. But this also allows them to serve as reserve capacity and bring more stability to the power system overall.

The dams that provide hydroelectric power also have other uses such as navigation, flood damage reduction, water supply, recreation, irrigation and low flow augmentation but it's not the purpose of this talk to go into those details.

How do the hydropower plants work? Well, a dam is built across a river which captures water to form. a reservoir and raises the water level to create 'head'. Think of 'head' as the vertical distance that the water falls as it passes through the dam, in other words, the difference in water level between the reservoir behind the dam and the river below. Water from the reservoir flows through an intake gate into a penstock—this is kind of a narrow channel which leads to the turbine below. The force of the water causes the turbine to rotate rapidly which, in turn, drives the generator to spin and produce electricity. The electricity is carried the long distances from the powerhouse to substations on the outskirts of cities via power lines.

Can you build a hydropower unit on any river? Well, no, just having water in a river isn't enough. A good dam site must have enough stream flow as well as enough head. A fast flowing river on the plains is probably not suitable because a dam couldn't be built high enough to provide the head needed for efficient production of electricity. On the other hand, dams in arid high country may have plenty of head but insufficient stream flow. The perfect spot for a hydropower plant is where the right combination of stream flow and head exists.

What about the environment? Surely the construction of large dams has an environmental impact? Well, yes it does. Certainly dams and reservoirs are built to improve the lives of people living in towns, farming communities and cities. But there must be a balance between development and preserving the natural environment. Needless to say, the natural river environment is changed which leads to changes in river ecology and aquatic habitat. Sometimes, for example, dissolved oxygen levels below dams get so low in summer that there is a negative impact on aquatic life. These levels can be improved, however, by using special aerating turbines and/or injecting oxygen directly into the stream flow. In order to protect and improve the habitat for endangered and other species of birds, fish and water life, there needs to be a thorough review of operating plans to see if a better balance can be achieved.

Hydropower plant design and operation must not only meet the needs of consumers for electricity but work hand-in-hand with agencies whose concern is for the fish and wildlife, water quality and water supply.

Complete the notes below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Hydropower

Renewable—constant source (31) from natural hydrologic cyde

(32) —90% of hydro energy→electricity

Clean—no air or (33) pollution

(34) & curable—simple to operate

Flexible—can startadapt quickly to meet demand→leads to (35) of power supply.

(31)