Mock 4

Section 1 is a conversation between Fred and Mary about a farewell party.

Fred: Mary, thank God you’re here. We’ve a ton of work to do if we are going to
get everything ready for tonight. Whose idea was it to have this going away
party for Christ anyway?

Mary: It was your idea Fred, remember.

Fred: Hey, I suggested a small get together for a few close friends. I didn’t
mean inviting half the university.

Mary: Well, it’s too late now. We have about 3 hours to get everything under
control. Have you got that list of things we need to do?

Fred: Yes, it’s in my room. Hang on, I’d go get it. Ha, I can’t find it.

Mary: What do you mean you can’t find it?

Fred: I can’t find it. What do you think I mean? Damn, I remember, I left it in
the library.

Mary: Okay, okay, cool down. We’ll manage. I can remember what’s on it. Let’s
check the food and drinks situation. Did you arrange the beer?

Fred: Yeah. Jim said he’d bring 10 cases of cold Budweiser. I sent a couple of
big bins to keep it cold. He says he’d get here around 5.

Mary: Huh, you know Jim, he’d probably turn up drunk around midnight.

Fred: No problem. I phoned him a few minutes ago. He’s at Jenny’s place. She’s
keeping him away from alcohol until he’s delivered everything safe and sound.
What about the wine, you said you’d look after it?

Mary: Oh my God, I completely forgot. What’s the time?

Fred: Half past 3.

Mary: Okay, I’d go to the liquor store and sort it out. Will they deliver?

Fred: No problem, but you’ll have to pay upfront.

Mary: I reckon about 60 people will turn up. Allow for half a bottle per person.
That makes 30 bottles, half red, half white. What do you think?
Fred: uh, that should be enough. Better to have too much than too little. Why
not make it 40. 25 reds and 15 white.

PAUSE

Mary: Yeah, I guess most people prefer red. Where is the nearest liquor store?

Fred: Not far. Go out the front door, turn right. Sorry left. Take the second
street on your right and its 300 yards down on the left, just before you get to
the park.

Mary: Okay, I’d go in a few minutes. Let’s first make a quick list to make sure
we haven’t forgotten anything. Glasses. Glasses. What about glasses?

Fred: Sally borrowed a 100 beer glasses and a 100 wine glasses from the
student bar. There in the cupboard. Should be enough.

Mary: Yeah should be. And what about the barbeques?

Fred: I’ve got two barbecues and plenty of charcoals out the back. Jane and I
spent 3 hours yesterday getting the steaks, chicken legs and sausages ready.
They’re all in the big fridge. Should taste terrific. Tons of garlic, pepper and soy
sauce, no MSG.

Mary: Sounds good. What about plates and things?

Fred: Sally has looked after that as well. She’s borrowed them from the bar too.
They’re in the cupboard with the glasses. You know Sally refuses to use
throwaway things. Bad for the environment.

Mary: Good for her.

Fred: Oh, just remembered. Could you pick up another 20 loaves of French
bread and a few packets of paper napkins?

Mary: No problem. Is there a shop on the way?

Fred: There is a supermarket just before you get to the liquor store. Can you
manage everything or should I go with you?

Mary: I’ve got this huge rock sack. No problem. Damn, just remembered. I’m
over my limit on my credit card. Have you got $500 on you? We’ll work out who
owes who how much later.
Fred: No problem. I took out $1000 this morning. Here’s $500.

Mary: Ta. Okay, I’d get going. See you in a while.

Fred: Ciao. See you.

PAUSE

Half a minute to check your answers.

Section 2 is a brief introduction of college by Richard Thomas who is head of

the chemistry department in the college.

Good morning everybody and welcome to Royal Hospital College. What a

beautiful September day you’ve brought with you. My name is Richard Thomas.
I’m the head of the Chemistry Department and today it’s my pleasure to
introduce our wonderful college to you. Normally the dean, Professor John
Thomas, yes, we share the same surname, likes to do this. But unfortunately,
he has a bad case of flu, so he is doing the sensible thing and staying in bed. He
sends his apologies, but you’d be meeting him soon, so no big problem.

I’m sure you’re all so excited at the thought of studying here that you have read
all about the history of our school. But for those who haven’t, I’ll give you a
brief summary as we walk around. The college was originally found in, anybody
know? Yes, 1694, by William and Mary of Orange. Can you remember your high
school history? Right! William Orange was a Dutch Prince married to King James
the II eldest daughter, Mary. 1694, poor queen Mary died of smallpox the same
year. Actually, the school was not a school in those days. It was a hospital for
retired sailors of the royal navy and it wasn’t here in the beautiful countryside of
east England. It was located in what is now east London on the banks of the
river Thames. Back in those days, it was also in the countryside, but London
grew and grew and by the end of the 19th century, it was surrounded by houses
and smoky factories. So, after the 2nd world war, a New Zealand millionaire
named Sir Gifford Reed kindly gave the school 65 million pounds to move to
here. He was an architect and he designed much of the beautiful school that
you see today. It opened in 1963 and if you look to your right, there is a statue
of Sir Gifford Reed facing that other large statue of Queen Victoria.
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Okay, let’s jump back to the 1700. In the 1780s, the royal hospital was changed
into a school for the orphans of officers and men of the royal navy and they
added the word college to the name. For nearly a 100 years, it was
coeducational. But in 1868, the board of governors decided to make it boys
only. Much more boring don’t you think and it stayed that way right until 1991
when the school became co educational again.

Okay, and here we are at the school’s church. Do we have any musicians with
us? You? Wonderful. What do you play? Piano and organ. You’ll love it here. Our
church has the largest organ in England and we often have recording
companies, the BBC etcetera come in here to record. And our staff and students
are more than welcome to play it. In fact, there’s a waiting list. It’s very
popular. In fact, the school is very well known for its choir and orchestra. I sing
in the choir. Last summer we toured North America. Great fun. A healthy mind
and a healthy body as the Romans used to say. Which brings us to our gym and
swimming pool. Both are open from 6 in the morning till 11 at night seven days
a week. The gym has everything you need for aerobics, weight training, martial
arts, basketball, gymnastics and even an indoor running track. So there’s no
excuse for not keeping fit. And of course we have all the usual team sports;
soccer, basketball, our women’s basketball team won the all England
universities championship this year. Rugby, water polo, on American football.
So you see, we are quite a sporty lot here and we also study sometimes. Here is
the main library. I’m afraid we can’t go in because it’s being redecorated. It’s
supposed to open again this Wednesday but it looks to me that'll be a bit late.
Here’s the coffee shop. Why don’t we stop here for a drink? Agreed? Jolly good.

Half a minute to check your answers.

Section 3 is a conversation between 2 students who are talking about a survey.

Jack: Hi Ann, how is it going? Thank goodness I finished that survey about
television watching and reading ability. What was your survey on?

Ann: I told you before. I wanted to find out if there is any relationship between
how fat students are and how many times they eat at fast food restaurants.
Jack: That’s right. I’d forgotten. Have you got your reports finished? All the
graphs and charts, that sort of thing.

Ann: Almost done. What about you?

Jack: All ready to present to the class apart from one or two small things.
Actually, my results are really interesting. Want me to tell you what I found?

Ann: Sure, if you promise to let me tell you what I found.

Jack: Anyway, look at this graph here. On the X–axis, I have the dependent
variable reading level.

Mary: How did you measure reading level?

Jack: I used the English department test and on the Y-axis, I have a number of
hours usually spent watching television every week.

Ann: 13-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40=49, 50-59. What are these numbers?

Jack: The people’s ages. I managed to get exactly 20 people from each age
group to do the test. It took me ages.

Ann: And what did you find out?

Jack: Well, look at this. If we take the 100 people as one group, we see that the
more television people watched, the worse their reading levels.

Ann: That’s not surprising. But did you find any significant difference between
the different age groups?

Jack: You bet. Okay. This is the curve for the group as a whole. These lines are
for the different age groups. See what I see?

Ann: Wow, that’s fascinating. The two youngest groups are very similar. Big
difference between the oldest two groups and the youngest two. The older the
people are, the less the correlation between the reading level and hours spent
in front of the TV. Why do you think that is?
Jack: Well, I need to do more research before I can say for sure. But from
talking to the people, it’s clear that over the past 30 years, most people have
been watching more television and reading fewer books. But the older people…

Ann: Don’t tell me. They spent more time reading when they were young than
young people nowadays. So they learnt to read well and even though they
spent more time in front of the TV than they used to, their reading levels stayed
the same.

Jack: Hey, you’re pretty smart. That’s exactly what I think. But I need to do
more research before I can say for sure. How about your survey?

Pause

Ann: Nothing surprising. Well, actually, one thing is really interesting. Look, this
is the number of times people usually go to a fast food place every week. These
are the percentages of people who are normal weight, overweight or obese.
Meaning really, really fat.

Ann: Look, no fast food only about 5% are obese. And look, 12 or more about a
third. And another graph, we have the number of hours they exercise every
week.

Jack: Wow. A big difference. More junk food, less exercise, more fat. I didn’t
think it would be so obvious. That’s great work. Why do you think people who
exercise more tend to eat less junk foods?

Ann: I asked everyone about that and found that people who care about their
health do more exercise and eat fewer French fries and all that other greasy
food fast food stuff. Simple.

Jack: That makes sense. I see that you found lots of people who eat these stuff
more than once a day on average. I can’t believe it.

Ann: You’d be surprised. You’re right.

Jack: Hey, who’s this guy? More than 12 a week. I bet it was Richard. He must
weigh 260 kilos and he’s pretty short, all fat and no muscles.

Ann: You’re right and he drinks tons of soft drinks. All that sugar.

Jack: Okay. That’s it. Healthy food only from now on.

Ann: And get to the gym fatty.

Half a minute to check your answers.

Section 4 is a lecture on corporate crimes.

Good evening, welcome once again to Criminology 201. I’m happy to see you all
looking so alert and full of energy after a busy day. Tonight and for the next few
weeks, we would be looking at what is clearly a very important topic, corporate
crime. First of all, what do we mean by corporate crime? The simple answer, of
course, is crime committed by a corporation. Usually by the heads of a
corporation working together. But what about a crime committed by, for
example, the CEO of a company, who without the knowledge of his colleagues
bribes a government official in order to get a big fat contract for his company.
Well, we won’t be looking at this kind of white collar crime. Rather, we will
restrict our studies to cases where the top people in a business entity work
together and knowingly break the law and especially those cases, where until
they are caught, this type of unlawful behavior is actually part of the corporate
culture. First, why do they do it? Simple answer is to make more money. Well,
most business men want to make more money, but they don’t break the law to
do so. So what factors make a group of men, yes, they are usually men, but
women are by no means immune from this temptation, decide to step outside
the law. In the next few weeks, we will be looking into this question with a lot of
case studies in some depth. We will also try to divide corporate crime into
several categories and see what they share in common in terms of the
psychology and organizational culture of those who commit them. And also we
will also look into the legal, social and political settings in which these crimes
occur.
A particularly interesting aspect of corporate crime is a process of detection,
trial and punishment. It often seems that this type of crime goes on for an
unreasonable length of time before it is detected by the authorities. Is this true
and if so, why? There is also a common perception that people found guilty of
corporate crimes are treated much more leniently by the court than, for
example, your common everyday thief or even murder even. Is this true and if
so, why? I mentioned that we would divide corporate crime into categories and
look at some specific cases. What categories can we think of? Well, one is that
of product safety. Where a company markets a product that it knows to be
unsafe. One of the landmark cases in corporate criminology of this type is the
Ford Pinto case. Ford was accused of rushing an unsafe car and in 1980, there
was the criminal trial of the Ford Motor company for reckless homicide. We
would look at the research on white collar crime and studies on organizational
culture and structure to examine the lack of safety of recall regulations that
may have contributed to as many as 500 deaths. As one report put it, much of
the literature on the Ford Pinto case was focused on how consumer safety was
willingly sacrificed in the face of corporate greed.

Another category of corporate crime is manipulation of a company’s share

prices. One form of this is insider trading. Closely related and sometimes very
difficult to prove is a kind of creative accounting whereby, for example, profits
are exaggerated in order to drive up a company’s share prices. Take the Enron
scandal. On November 29th, 2001, the Wall Street Journal ran an article in which
they reported that for years, the company may have been President Bush’s
biggest financial backers donating nearly 2 million to his campaigns. And it
appeared that the Bush administration’s national energy plan might have been
in part in an effort to help one of Bush’s largest contributors. So, we see politics
creeping into this corporate crime question.

That is the end of Section 4.

You now have half a minute to check your answers.

That is the end of the listening test. In the IELTS test, you will now have 10
mins to transfer your answers to the IELTS sheet.