Part A Listening Practice

Dialogues  Listen to the short dialogues and choose the best answer according to what you have heard.

   A) He is timid.

    B) He is heroic.

    C) He is dangerous.

    D) He is clumsy. 

2. A) He was very courageous.

    B) He was pleased to get the medal.

    C) He used to be a firefighter.

    D) He was accused of causing a fire.

3. A) The man is fond of travelling.

   B) The woman is a photographer.

   C) The woman took a lot of pictures at the contest.

  D) The man admires the woman’s talent in writing.

4. A) She doesn’t want to talk about the contest.

   B) She’s modest about her success in the contest.

   C) She’s spent two years studying English in Canada.

   D) She’s very proud of her success in the speech contest.

5. A) Ellen has all of Andy Lau’s DVD

   B) Ellen has all of Andy Lau’s magazines

   C) Ellen loves and admires Andy Lau

   D) Ellen loves and sells Andy Lau’s albums.

Conversation

Task 1 Listen to the conversation and choose the best answer according to what you have heard.

1.What do paparazzi usually do?

 A) They work as the spokespersons for celebrities.

 B) They wait to take pictures of celebrities wherever they go.

 C) They arrange book-signings for celebrities.

 D) They do a lot of charity work.

2. What are Vogue and ELLE?

 A) They are two famous people.

 B) They are two paparazzi.

 C) They are two gossip columnists.

 D) They are two top magazines.

3. If the woman were famous, which of the following would she NOT do?

 A) Be photographed by paparazzi.

 B) Write her own autobiography.

 C) Do a lot of charity work.

 D) Do interviews for all the top magazines.

Task 2 Listen to the conversation again and fill in the blanks according to what you have heard.

1. I’m not sure that you would like all the    ____________ .

2. I’d also do___________ for all the top magazines.

3. No one really___________ gossip columnists.

4. So you have to be very ___________bout every word you say.

5. I’d be the first to buy your ____________.

Task 3 Give a short talk about disadvantages of being famous.

Cues: lack privacy, find life very difficult, not be able to go out without being noticed, make a normal lifestyle a real problem, ask for autographs, ask questions, the target for media intrusion

Passage

Task 1 Listen to the passage and choose the best answer according to what you have heard.

1. Why was Huang Jiaju the heart and soul of Beyond?

 A) Because he started the band.

 B) Because he composed more than 90 percent of the band’s songs.

 C) Because he performed in a game show in Japan.

 D) Because he was called “the Beatles of Hong Kong”.

2. What did the Japanese probably think of the incident?

A) They thought that Hong Kong had lost a musical revolutionary.

B) They thought that Hong Kong had lost a musical era.

C) They thought that the incident had made the band an unsurpassable classic.

D) They thought that Hong Kong had lost an artist.

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

 A) Tens of thousands of fans mourned for Huang Jiaju’s death.

 B) The Japanese took Huang Jiaju’s death as a loss of a musical era.

 C) Huang Jiaju’s music made the band stand out from the rest.

 D) Beyond was sometimes called “the Beatles of Hong Kong”.

Task 2 Listen to the passage again and complete the notes by filling in the blanks. 

Task 3 Retell the passage according to the notes above with the help of the key words and expressions below.

Cues: broken stage, head injuries, convey emotions, fans mourning, a musical revolutionary and a musical era, unsurpassable classic, the Beatles of Hong Kong