With answer key for advanced

narrator:  Now listen again.
narrator:  Extract two. you hear two friends 
discussing the use of social media. 
now look at questions three and four.
woman:
I do sometimes wonder about the value of 
posting things on social media. 
Man: 
What do you mean?
woman: 
… so many people just give vent to anger 
or frustration. At any given moment, with 
all the different online platforms, there 
are thousands of people, who often 
don’t know anything about the subject 
in question, telling others their ideas 
are rubbish. They should at least check 
their facts. I do. Anyway, I find it amazing 
when people react aggressively in public 
forums. I regularly post comments on 
various blogs, and pride myself on not 
over-reacting when someone has a go at 
something I’ve said, but it’s hard not to. 
I do get angry too, but. I really don’t …
Man: 
I guess there’s something to be said 
for some sort of self-censoring rather 
than posting too wildly. The thing I find 
frustrating about social media is that it 
encourages an insatiable supply of short 
bits of infotainment – you know sharing 
news bites that are witty or shocking, and 
people tend not to think critically about 
what they read, but most of it’s not even 
interesting, let alone true. I’m not including 
the kind of self-promotion a lot of people 
go in for on social media, photos of their 
wonderful holidays, or kids’ graduation. 
That’s all about wanting to look good to 
other people and mostly harmless.
narrator:  Now listen again.
narrator: Extract three. you hear part of a radio 
programme in which two journalists 
are discussing surveys. now look at 
questions five and six.
Man: 
There’s so much we still have to learn 
about what influences human behaviour. 
We don’t really know how to effect positive 
changes in what people do. Personally, 
I don’t think our focus on large-scale 
surveys as the main source of insight 
into how people behave helps us. We 
hear all these sweeping statements 
about attitudes towards everything from 
brands to climate change, but the majority 
of research is built on self-reporting 
methodologies like surveys in which