IELTS Listening Hiring a Public Room | cambridge 11 listening test 1

Room and cost

•    the 1. Room – seats 100
•    Cost of Main Hall for Saturday evening: 2.  £
  + £250 deposit (3. payment is required)
•    Cost includes use of tables and chairs and also 4.
•    Additional charge for use of the kitchen: £25

Before the event

•    Will need a 5. licence
•    Need to contact caretaker (Mr Evans) in advance to arrange 6.

During the event

•    The building is no smoking
•    The band should use the 7. door at the back
•    Don’t touch the system that controls the volume
•    For microphones, contact the caretaker

After the event

•    Need to know the 8. for the cleaning cupboard
•    The 9. must be washed and rubbish placed in black bags
•    All 10. must be taken down
•    Chairs and tables must be piled up

Fiddy Working Heritage Farm

Advice about visiting the farm

Visitors should

• take care not to harm any  11.
• not touch any 12.
• wear 13.
• not bring 14.

Questions 15-20
Label the map below.
Write the correct letter A-I, next to Questions 15-20.

15. Scarecrow  
16. Maze
17. Café
18. Black Barn
19. Covered picnic area  
20. Fiddy House

Ocean Biodiversity
Biodiversity hotspots

•    areas containing many different species
•    important for locating targets for 31.
•    at first only identified on land

Boris Worm, 2005

•    identified hotspots for large ocean predators, e.g. sharks
•    found that ocean hotspots:

– were not always rich in 32.
– had higher temperatures at the 33.
– had sufficient 34. in the water
Lisa Ballance, 2007

•    looked for hotspots for marine 35. .
•    found these were all located where ocean currents meet

Census of Marine Life

•    found new ocean species living:

– under the 36.
– near volcanoes on the ocean floor
 
Global Marine Species Assessment

•    want to list endangered ocean species, considering:

– population size
– geographical distribution
– rate of 37.

•    Aim: to assess 20,000 species and make a distribution 38. for each one

 
 Recommendations to retain ocean biodiversity

•    increase the number of ocean reserves
•    establish 39. corridors (e.g. for turtles)
•    reduce fishing quotas
•    catch fish only for the purpose of 40.