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| Test tip: Try to identify the type of information you need before you listen (e.g. for question 2 you need to listen for a date, or for question 3 you need to listen for a place). Pay careful attention to the word limit and check your spelling at the end. |
| Test tip: Completing a flowchart is similar to completing notes. Read through the flowchart carefully before you listen and try to predict what type of information you need to hear (eg. for questions 4 and 5 you need to listen for a type of material). Pay careful attention to the word limit and check your spelling at the end. |
| Test tip: Read all the questions carefully before you listen. Underline or highlight any key information or words that you need to listen for. Some of the options may not be mentioned at all; others will be incorrect Pay attention to how many choices you need to make (here you need to choose two letters). |
Questions 1-3: Complete the sentences. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS ANDIOR A NUMBER for each answer.
1 Solar towers create energy from moving
2 The first ever recorded use of this type of energy was in the .
3 The location of the first solar tower was
Questions 4-8: Complete the flowchart. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Solar tower flowchart
| Towers are built using extra strong 4 At the bottom they have a sunlight collector made of 5 spread over a large area of ground. | ||
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| The sunlight collector warms the air beneath it and operates in a similar way to a 6 | ||
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| The air 7 through the tower causing the turbines to turn. | ||
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| The turbines create 8 megawatts of electricity. | ||
Questions 9-10: Circle TWO letters A-E. What are TWO disadvantages of solar towers?
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A they are too expensive to run
B heat escapes from the solar collector
C they require a great deal of land
D they cannot produce electricity at night
E they need to be able to withstand high winds
1 (columns of) (hot) air (They actually work by using the sun to make columns of hot air that rise upwards through the centre of the tower.) 2 seventeenth/17th century (The first time solar energy was produced was in the seventeenth century) 3 Spain (he chose Spain to build the first tower)
Questions 4-8: flowchart completion
4 concrete (They’re constructed out of high-strength concrete) 5 plastic (a sunlight collector which is basically a large sheet of plastic) 6 greenhouse (it acts like a greenhouse) 7 rises (this hot air rises up the chimney or the tower and drives the turbines at the top) 8 two hundred / 200 (it can generate 200 megawatts of power)
9 and 10 B, E in any order (One problem they do have is that a lot of the energy in the sunlight is lost in the farm of heat from the collector … keeping them stable is another drawback)