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The document is a mini-skill test containing listening and reading comprehension questions. The listening section contains 4 multiple choice questions about a talk on staying safe on campus. It asks about when students can ask security officers to walk with them, what to do if feeling nervous walking home late, emergency phone numbers on and off campus, and why the campus emergency number 3333 should be used. The reading passage is about the benefits of digitizing libraries. It discusses preserving rare materials while providing access, increased convenience as items can be retrieved instantly by many simultaneously, and reduced storage space needs as digital copies take up little space compared to physical bookshelves. The questions ask which 3 mentioned benefits are reducing storage space needs, increased

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Answers:: Mini-Skill Test 4

The document is a mini-skill test containing listening and reading comprehension questions. The listening section contains 4 multiple choice questions about a talk on staying safe on campus. It asks about when students can ask security officers to walk with them, what to do if feeling nervous walking home late, emergency phone numbers on and off campus, and why the campus emergency number 3333 should be used. The reading passage is about the benefits of digitizing libraries. It discusses preserving rare materials while providing access, increased convenience as items can be retrieved instantly by many simultaneously, and reduced storage space needs as digital copies take up little space compared to physical bookshelves. The questions ask which 3 mentioned benefits are reducing storage space needs, increased

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ANSWERS:

Class PRE29503
Name

Listening:
1 2 3 4

Reading:
1
2
3

MINI-SKILL TEST 4

LISTENING – MULTIPLE CHOICE

SECTION 3

Questions 1 – 4

You will hear a talk about saying safe on campus. Choose A, B, or C.

1. When can students ask a security officer to walk home with them?
A. in the evening
B. after dark
C. late at night

2. What does the security officer say students should so if they want to go home late at
night and they feel nervous?
A. They should ring campus security
B. They should study in the library
C. They should go home alone

3. What does the security officer say about national and on campus emergency numbers?
A. They are both 999
B. They are both 3333.
C. They are not the same

4. Why should students call 3333 in an emergency on campus?


A. 999 does not work.
B. It is confusing
C. It is faster

READING
PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 5 minutes on Questions 1-3, which are based on the reading
passage below.

Going Digital
Electronic libraries will make today's Internet pale by comparison. But building them will not
be easy.
All over the world, libraries have begun the Herculean task of making faithful digital copies of
the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of humankind. For
armchair scholars, the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to the desktop
that the present Internet may seem amateurish in retrospect.
Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First, it helps them preserve rare and
fragile objects without denying access to those who wish to study them. The British Library,
for example, holds the only medieval manuscript of Beowulf in London. Only qualified
scholars were allowed to see it until Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky scanned
the manuscript with three different light sources (revealing details not normally apparent to
the naked eye) and put the images up on the Internet for anyone to peruse. Tokyo's National
Diet Library is similarly creating highly detailed digital photographs of 1,236 woodblock prints,
scrolls and other materials it considers national treasures so mat researchers can scrutinise
them without handling the originals.
A second benefit is convenience. Once books are converted to digital form, patrons can
retrieve them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can simultaneously read the
same book or view the same picture. Clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. And libraries
could

conceivably use the Internet to lend their virtual collections to those who are unable to visit in
person.
The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic
disk rather man meters on a shelf. Expanding library buildings is increasingly costly. The
University of California at Berkeley recently spent $46 million on an underground addition to
house 1.5 million books - an average cost of $30 per volume. The price of disk storage, in
contrast, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.

Question 1-3

Which THREE of the following are mentioned in the text as benefits of going digital?

A. More people can see precious documents.


B. Old manuscripts can be moved more easily.
C. Material can be examined without being touched.
D. Fewer staff will be required in libraries.
E. Borrowers need not go to the library building.
F. Libraries will be able to move underground.

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