Women Wearing Cosmetics Are Paid More

LISTENING – Guess the answers

1) a good reason why women spend so long in the morning getting ______
 a. readily for work
 b. readied for work
 c. ready for work
 d. readies for work

2) they get paid more if they wear makeup and ______
 a. to their hair
 b. dew their hair
 c. due their hair
 d. do their hair

3) get paid around 20 per cent more than what they called ______
 a. "averaged" people
 b. "average" people
 c. "averages" people
 d. "over age" people

4) They found that both physically attractive men and women tended ______
 a. to earns more
 b. to earning more
 c. to earn more
 d. to earned more

5) only about half of the effect of attractiveness is ______
 a. dew to grooming
 b. due two grooming
 c. due too grooming
 d. due to grooming

6) It will be published in the journal Research in Social Stratification ______
 a. of Mobility
 b. end Mobility
 c. by Mobility
 d. and Mobility

7) salary, job, education, personality, social behaviour and ______
 a. another characteristics
 b. other characteristics
 c. others characteristics
 d. other characteristic

8) rate each participant on how attractive and well groomed ______
 a. they are
 b. they were
 c. them were
 d. these were

9) Researchers said people were biased when it comes to beauty because of ______
 a. a 'halo effect'
 b. a 'hello effect'
 c. a 'hay low effect'
 d. a 'hail oh effect'

10) researchers noted that the idea that humans are influenced by beauty ______
 a. bias is not new
 b. basis is not new
 c. by us is not new
 d. buy us is not new

Listening Comprehension

1) What do women spend a long
time doing in the morning?
a) reading the newspaper
b) getting ready
c) sleeping
d) eating breakfast

2) How many sociologists are
mentioned in the article?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 2

3) How much more do attractive
people get paid?
a) 40% more
b) 30% more
c) 20% more
d) 10% more

4) Who do attractive people get
more pay than?
a) average people
b) bosses
c) their colleagues
d) researchers

5) How much of the attractiveness of
men is because of grooming?
a) three-quarters
b) about half
c) two-thirds
d) two-fifths

6) What university carried out the
study besides California?
a) Chicago
b) Michigan
c) Maine
d) New York

7) How many people took part in the
study?
a) 140,000
b) 1,400
c) 14,000
d) 4,000

8) Who did interviewers have to rate?
a) participants
b) themselves
c) models
d) bosses

9) What is the effect mentioned in the
article that is related to beauty?
a) hollow effect
b) help effect
c) hello effect
d) halo effect

10) What idea did the researchers say
was not new?
a) pay
b) inside beauty
c) beauty bias
d) attractiveness

U.K. votes to leave European Union

   LISTENING – Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1) Just over 52 per cent of Britons expressed their desire to exit the EU ______
 a. inner referendum
 b. in a referenda
 c. inner referenda
 d. in a referendum

2) Britain's decision to leave has caused ______
 a. political up heave all
 b. political up he vole
 c. political upheaval
 d. political up heavy awl

3) so politicians in both countries are now ______
 a. contemplating breaking in
 b. contemplating breaking
 c. contemplating break in
 d. contemplating breaks in

4) It is Great Britain's independence day. The people were asked, and ______
 a. they decided
 b. they decisive
 c. they deciding
 d. they decision

5) The European Union as a political ______
 a. unions has failed
 b. union have fails
 c. union has failed
 d. union has fails

6) This is the biggest shock to European politics since the fall ______
 a. of the Burning Wall
 b. of the Bergen Wall
 c. of the Berlin Wall
 d. of the Building Wall

7) The vote has already prompted Britain's leader David Cameron ______
 a. to re-sign
 b. to resign
 c. to design
 d. to resigns

8) He led the campaign to stay part of the EU and ______
 a. will step down
 b. will step up
 c. will step in
 d. will step on

9) Less certain is the plight of the 3.3 million non-______
 a. British EU citizenry
 b. British EU citizenship
 c. British EU citizens
 d. British EU citizen

10) Holland's Dutch Freedom Party and France's National Front Party said: "______."
 a. Now it is our tern
 b. Now it is our torn
 c. Now it is our turn
 d. Now it is our tarn

Listening Comprehension

1) What did the article say the UK's
decision to leave the EU was seen
as?
a) a referendum
b) a political earthquake
c) desire
d) the European Union

2) What percentage of Britons voted
to exit the UK?
a) just under 52%
b) exactly 52%
c) around 52%
d) just over 52%

3) When was the last time the UK
pound was as low against the dollar?
a) 2005
b) 1927
c) 1985
d) 1958

4) What are Scotland and Northern
Ireland thinking about doing?
a) leaving the UK
b) joining together as one country
c) applying to join the USA
d) having another referendum

5) What did a right-wing European
politician say had failed?
a) the UK
b) the EU
c) democracy
d) the left wing

6) Who is Bob Ford?
a) a professor
b) a campaign leader
c) head of the EU
d) a Manchester United footballer

7) What did Bob Ford liken the UK
exit to?
a) European politics
b) Manchester University
c) the fall of the Berlin Wall
d) failure

8) When will David Cameron step
down as Britain's leader?
a) October
b) tomorrow
c) next month
d) with immediate effect

9) How many non-British UK citizens
live in the UK?
a) 2.3 million
b) 1.3 million
c) 2.3 million
d) 3.3 million

10) How many UK citizens live
outside the UK in EU countries?
a) 1.2 million
b) 1.1 million
c) 1.3 million
d) 1.4 million

Card Games Can Help Recovery In Stroke

Listening Guess

1) A new report says that playing simple card games can help ______
 a. stroke patience
 b. stroke patents
 c. stroke patient
 d. stroke patients

2) determine whether gaming or more traditional games was better at ______
 a. treat in stroke sufferers
 b. treating stroke sufferers
 c. treats stroke sufferers
 d. treatment stroke sufferers

3) even throwing a paper ball into a basket improved ______
 a. patients' motors skills
 b. patients' motor skills
 c. patients' motoring skills
 d. patients' motorised skills

4) The researchers reported that if the type ______
 a. off task used
 b. off-task used
 c. of task use
 d. of task used

5) the rehabilitation of motor skills is intensive, repetitive and gets the hands ______
 a. and arms move in
 b. and arms movie
 c. and arms moving
 d. and arms movement

6) A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of the ______
 a. brain is cuts off
 b. brainy is cut off
 c. brain is cut of
 d. brain is cut off

7) drooping face muscles, slurred speech and a loss of ______
 a. strength in the arms
 b. strength on the arms
 c. strength in the arm
 d. strength on the arm

8) the tendency to think that new technology is better than old-______
 a. fashion strategies
 b. fashion old strategies
 c. fashioned strategy
 d. fashioned strategies

9) but sometimes that's ______
 a. not a case
 b. not this case
 c. not the cases
 d. not the case

10) simple recreational activities that can be implemented anywhere ______
 a. may be was effective
 b. may be has effective
 c. may be as effective
 d. may be is effective

Comprehension

1) What can simple card games be
as good as for stroke patients?
a) virtual reality gaming
b) walking
c) taking a hot bath
d) conducting tests

2) How many participants were in a
test conducted by researchers?
a) 411
b) 114
c) 141
d) 1401

3) Where did researchers say stroke
patients could throw a paper ball?
a) in a park
b) into a basket
c) out the window
d) in the air

4) What kind of skills did the
researchers say simple games
improved?
a) throwing skills
b) writing skills
c) language skills
d) motor skills

5) What did the researchers say
would get moving after intensive
tasks?
a) hands and arms
b) arms and legs
c) hands and feet
d) legs and feet

6) What part of the body is deprived
of blood when someone has a stroke?
a) the liver
b) the arms
c) the heart
d) the brain

7) What can happen to someone's
speech if they have a stroke?
a) it becomes impossible to
understand
b) it becomes slurred
c) it becomes difficult
d) it stops

8) Who is Gustavo Saposnik?
a) a technologist
b) a card game player
c) a patient
d) a researcher

9) What do people tend to think
about old-fashioned strategies?
a) no one should use them
b) they are boring
c) that new technology is better
d) they are too old to work

10) What did a researcher say might
be as effective as technology?
a) studying
b) simple recreational activities
c) reading
d) crafts

Plants Can Make Intelligent Decision

  1) they are capable of making intelligent decisions ______
 a. regarding risky
 b. regarding risks
 c. regarding risked
 d. regarding risk

2) the humble pea, can make decisions regarding how ______
 a. to survival best
 b. to survivor best
 c. to survive best
 d. to survives best

3) grew several pea plants that had their roots separated ______
 a. between the pots
 b. between two pots
 c. between two posts
 d. between the posts

4) while the other pot varied between a ______
 a. lots and a little
 b. lot and a little
 c. lots and a little
 d. lot and the little

5) remarkably consistent at diverting their roots to the pot with ______
 a. the most nutrients
 b. the most nutritious
 c. the most new tridents
 d. the most new traders

6) The research paper will be published this week in the ______
 a. 'Current Biology' journey
 b. 'Current Biology' journeyed
 c. 'Current Biology' journal
 d. 'Current Biology' journals

7) He said: "We have a very ______"
 a. fancied brain
 b. fan see brain
 c. fancy brain
 d. fan seed brain

8) he did not think that pea plants were intelligent in ______
 a. the human sense
 b. the human cents
 c. the human sentence
 d. the human senses

9) they exhibited complex behaviours to efficiently take advantage ______
 a. of neutral opportunities
 b. of naturally opportunities
 c. of neural opportunities
 d. of natural opportunities

10) see how our lives would be different if we adopted ______
 a. similarly strategies
 b. similar strategy
 c. similar strategies
 d. similar strategise


Listening Comprehension

1) Who said plants were capable of
making intelligent decisions?
a) botanists
b) researchers
c) gardeners
d) a humble person

2) What did scientists say the pea
plant did not have?
a) a nose
b) eyes
c) ears
d) a brain

3) What was the university in the
research?
a) Tokyo
b) Harvard
c) Oxford
d) Delhi

4) What did each pot contain?
a) nutrients
b) grass
c) pellets
d) worms

5) Which pot did the roots choose
most of the time?
a) the biggest one
b) the one with the most nutrients
c) the green one
d) the most expensive one

6) What is the name of the journal
the research will be in?
a) 'Current Biology'
b) 'Currently Biology'
c) 'Current Biological'
d) 'Currently Biological'

7) What did the researcher say the
experiment raised?
a) risk
b) money
c) a question
d) peas

8) What kind of brain did the
researcher say we had?
a) a fancy one
b) a pea-brained one
c) a superior one
d) a grey one

9) In what sense did a professor say
pea plants were not intelligent?
a) fashion sense
b) nonsense
c) common sense
d) the human sense

10) What did the professor say plants
took advantage of?
a) beans
b) other plants
c) natural opportunities
d) researchers