Listen to each recording 2 times and choose the correct answer.

Listen to Eric talking to Mary about the weekend. Their friend, Carlos, is coming to visit them. Choose the best answer to complete each statement.

You will hear a conversation between a boy, Carl, and a girl, Susanna, about a school concert. Decide if each sentence is correct (A) or incorrect (B).

Arranged marriages are still the custom in India. Parents still help their sons and daughters find the right husband or wife, but the system is changing, especially in bigger cities. In the past, parents decided whom their children would marry and the young couples didn’t have much say in the matter. These days, young men and women work together with their parents to find a partner. It is now often called assisted marriage rather than arranged marriage.

Winter Driving

Winter is dangerous because it's so difficult to know what is going to happen and accidents take place so easily. Fog can be waiting to meet you over the top of a hill. Ice might be hiding beneath the melting snow, waiting to send you off the road. The car coming towards you may suddenly slide across the road.

Rule Number One for driving on icy roads is to drive smoothly. Uneven movements can make a car suddenly very difficult to control. So every time you either turn the wheel, touch the brakes or increase your speed, you must be as gentle and slow as possible. Imagine you are driving with a full cup of hot coffee on the seat next to you. Drive so that you wouldn't spill it.

Rule Number Two is to pay attention to what might happen. The more ice there is, the further down the road you have to look. Test how long it takes to stop by gently braking. Remember that you may be driving more quickly than you think.
In general, allow double your normal stopping distance when the road is wet, three times this distance on snow, and even more on ice. Try to stay in control of your car at all times and you will avoid trouble.

Bette Nesmith Graham – A Woman in business

Bette Nesmith Graham had always wanted to be an artist, but in the 1940s, she was a single mother with a child to 1____________. She learned typing and found work as a secretary. She was an efficient employee who was proud of her work and tried to find a better way to correct typing. She remembered that artists painted over their mistakes, so why not typists?

With this idea in 2____________, Graham put paint, the same color as the office stationery, into a bottle and took her brush to work. She used this to correct her typing mistakes and her boss never realized. Soon everyone in the office was using it.

In 1956, Graham started the Mistake Out Company from her home. Her kitchen became a laboratory in which she mixed up an improved product with her food mixer. Although she worked 3_______________ hours, she made little money. Then, one day she made a mistake at work that she couldn’t correct, and her boss sacked her. She now had the time to 4_______________ to selling Liquid Paper, and the business boomed. By 1967, it was a million-dollar 5_______________.

There are many tea houses or tea gardens in Korea. But often tea ceremonies are 1____________ at home. The guests sit around a low table and talk about their families. 2____________ the conversation, the water boils over the open fire. The hostess first pours the water 3____________ a hot teacup. Then she puts green tea leaves into the teacup and quickly takes 4____________ again. This she does 5____________ times in a row to give the tea the right flavor and temperature. Next, she steeps the tea: she lets the leaves 6____________ in water for about 20 minutes, and then takes them out. Finally, she pours a 7____________ of tea to each guest. The bubbles 8____________ form in the tea bring good luck. This tea ceremony takes many hours. It is very relaxing, and is often 9____________ to do business.

A.  In Mexico, every family celebrates Christmas with a big dinner on Christmas Eve.
B. Chocolate is also made from cacao, so some people call this dish chocolate chicken!
C. Some people have turkey.
D. The special foods that people make for the Christmas Eve feast are different from family to family.
E. This dinner takes place after everyone comes home from church on the night before Christmas, so
     people eat very late.
F. Others eat more traditional Mexican foods such as mole, chicken or turkey in a special sauce made      
     with more than thirty ingredients such as cacao.
G. It is not unusual for people to eat dinner at midnight or even later.
H. No matter what dishes the family cooks, the Christmas Eve feast is a very important meal to Mexicans.