Content text Part 3 - Practice 13.pdf
COMPOSED AND EDITED BY MS. UYEN 89 TNTRAM TOEIC - IELTS – VSTEP B1B2C1 [LISTENING MATERIAL] PRACTICE 13 Talk/Lecture 1. You will hear a talk about the history of the railway. Question 21. The idea of rail transportation has appeared ..... A. for ages B. recently C. for 100 years D. for a short time Question 22. Rails were always made of ........... A. wood or metal B.wood, stone or metal C. metal or stone D. wood or stone Question 23. Who invented the first steam engine for trains? A. James Watt B. Richard Trevithick C. Iron Works D. Cornish Wales Question 24. The Rocket first travelled on the..... A. Stockton and Darlington Railway B. Manchester and Liverpool Railway C. Eurotunnel D. Stockton and Liverpool Railway Question 25. When was the first accident? A. 1833 B. 1829 C. 1830 D. 1933 Talk/Lecture 2.You will hear a talk about overpopulation. Question 26. The population of the UK in 2001... A. was impossible to count B.was less than the government thought C. was one million D. was more than the government thought Question 27. Malthus thought that the number of people A. would go up very fast, much faster than the amount of food B would stay the same because there would always be people dying of hunger C. would rise slowly together with the increase in food production D. would rise more slowly than the amount of food Question 28. When Malthus wrote his essay the world population was... A. just under one billion B. 1.7 billion C. 6 billion D. 16 billion Question 29. The number of people in the world depends on... A. the number of babies born B. how long people live C. the standard of life D.the combination of A and B