Proficiency Test 4

• 1 What does the speaker say about the word 'confidence'? (C)
  • A Most dictionary definitions of it are inaccurate.
  • B It means a great deal more than simply 'self-assurance'.
  • C It is a hard word to define precisely.

• 2 What does the speaker say about having confidence? (A)
  • A There is no one who doesn't wish to have it.
  • B It frequently changes into feeling superior.
  • C Some people are incapable of it .

• 3 The speaker says that Goldman's latest book contains (C)
  • A views even more negative than those in his previous book.
  • B confusing comments on actors and directors .
  • C criticism that may be unnecessarily harsh.
• 4 The speaker believes that Goldman (B)
  • A exaggerates the difficulties of his occupation.
  • B has an unfavourable opinion of his own occupation.
  • C is unaware of how much his work is admired.

• 5 What does the speaker say about the James Brown records he mentions? (A)
  • A They conveyed a sense of joy.
  • B They were surprise hits.
  • C They were totally unlike Brown's other records.
• 6 The speaker says that people growing up in Britain in the 1960s (B)
  • A had only a limited view of what America was like.
  • B had the same view of America as Americans did.
  • C felt that American music was more varied than British music.

Frank Hornby worked for a (7) (meat importer)

He was inspired by a book called (8) (Self-Help, Self Help)

The (9) (submarine) he invented did not work properly.

He started to consider the idea of (10) (interchangeable) parts.

He decided that the parts would need to have a (11) (series of holes) in them.

The first parts he made were from a big (12) (piece of copper)

The first object that was built with the new system was a (13) (crane)

The first name given to the new toy was (14) (Mechanics Made Easy)

Each Meccano set could be made bigger with the use of an (15) (Extension Pack)

Stop the recording when you hear 'That's the end of Part 2:

• 16 David says that the session he has just conducted (C)
  • A was longer than most sessions he conducts.
  • B illustrates his own beliefs about focus groups.
  • C is an example of a new approach to visual planning.
  • D concentrated as much on positive as negative attitudes to cleaning.

• 17 What did David know about cleaning products before the session? (A)
  • A Some people could not make up their minds which ones to buy.
  • B Manufacturers were concerned about falling sales in them.
  • C Some of them looked too dull to appeal to shoppers.
  • D People felt that false claims were made about them.

• 18 One of the comments made during the session referred to (D)
  • A regarding the choice of a cleaning product as unimportant.
  • B cleaning products all looking the same.
  • C the deliberate misleading of shoppers.
  • D buying a cleaning product because it is familiar.

• 19 David says that what the women produced when they were split into groups (A)
  • A did not focus on what cleaning products actually do.
  • B presented contrasting images.
  • C was not what they had expected to produce.
  • D was similar to the presentation of other kinds of product.

• 20 David says that he has concluded from the session that (B)
  • A his firm's methods will need to change slightly.
  • B he was right to question a certain assumption.
  • C cleaning products do not fit into a general pattern.
  • D what he had previously thought was not entirely correct.