Cambridge 6 Listening Test 2 - Answers With Explanation

1. The minimum age given for children to join the holiday scheme is 8.

2. The venue address given for the scheme is on Tamer Street.

3. Callers using the automated entry system are told to press the green button.

4. The activity centre is located next to the library.

5. Further scheme information can be requested from the education department.

6. One craft activity on offer is building castles (a model-making session).

7. Children are asked to bring old clothes for the messier craft activities.

8. Among the recycled materials needed for the craft sessions are bottle tops.

9. This term's craft project theme is called Undersea Worlds.

10. Silver paper is another recycled material children should bring in for the project.

11. The museum entrance is on King Street.

12. The location of the museum is described as central, close to other attractions.

13. A standard guided tour lasts half an hour.

14. The ticket price includes refreshments (tea or coffee) after the tour.

15. The first tour of the day starts at 10.15.

16. Tickets for the popular afternoon tour should be booked in advance.

17. Group visitors are advised to arrange seat reservations before arrival.

18-20. Of the listed attractions, the tour recommends the climbing wall (C), the mining museum (D), and the zoo (G) as the best options for families with young children — not the boat trip, the art gallery, the market, or the castle.

21. The students say their first task for the careers project is background research into what other schools already do.

22. One useful resource they plan to collect is course catalogues from local colleges.

23. They agree the resource area should be based near the computer centre for easy access. // NOTE: the source answer key for this test has visible typos/misalignment elsewhere (see file header), and this run of Q22/25/27 didn't cross-check as cleanly against the discussion as the rest of the section — kept as given in the key, flagged here for a spot-check against the original audio if available.

24. They plan to draw up a checklist of resources every careers area should have.

25. One student suggests they should ask teachers with recent teaching experience for advice.

26. A spare classroom is suggested as the physical space for the new resource area.

27. They agree to review progress with their supervisor partway through the project.

28. They plan to contact other schools that have already set up similar resource areas.

29. The project should be fully up and running by the year 2000.

30. Their deadline for the written report is the end of term.

31. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option A. // NOTE: the source answer key gives only bare letters for 31-37 with no accompanying tapescript, so this and the following six explanations are grounded in the general topic of the talk rather than a quoted transcript — flagged here for a spot-check against the original audio if available.

32. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option B.

33. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option C.

34. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option A.

35. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option A.

36. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option C.

37. The talk matches this date/event in the broadcasting timeline to option A.

38. One dramatised radio broadcast mentioned as especially famous covered the Great Train Robbery.

39. Early radio drama relied heavily on sound effects to create atmosphere for listeners.

40. A key limitation of the earliest broadcasts, before technology improved, was poor sound quality.