In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet. Question 6 is based on the following news . At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.

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The New Moderates Party began forming the new Swedish government on Monday. In Sunday’s elections, the New Moderates Party defeated the Social Democrats. The Social Democratic Party has controlled Sweden for all but 9 years since 1932, building up the country’s generous welfare state. But the New Moderates wants to change it. Sweden’s welfare system is famed around the world, ]but the system encourages people to be lazy. And unemployment is also high in Sweden. One reason is the high tax on companies which makes it difficult to employ new people.

Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

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Much of the world was watching on television when the commander of the Apollo-11 mission, Neil Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon in July, 1969. The pictures of that historic footstep and everything else about that and subsequent Apollo moon landings were recorded on magnetic tapes at three NASA ground tracking stations around the world. The tapes were then shipped to a NASA operations center near Washington, the Goddard Space Flight Center.

In late 1969, the space agency began transferring them and tens of thousands of tapes from other space missions to a nearby U.S. government archives warehouse. NASA says it asked for them back in the 1970s, but now does not know where they are. “I probably am overly sensitive to the word ‘lost’. I did not feel they are lost,” said Richard Nafzger, a Goddard Space Flight Center engineer who was in charge of television processing from all of NASA’s ground receiving sites.

The space agency has authorized him to set aside his other duties for the foreseeable future and devote his time to the hunt for the tapes. Nafzger says they are stored somewhere.

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

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More than 22 million people who live in the United States don’t speak or understand English very well and that can be deadly. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Glenn Flores highlights some cases where language barriers prevented patients from communicating with health care providers — with serious consequences. Dr. Flores recalls one incident in which English-speaking doctors thought a Spanish-speaking man was suffering from a drug overdose. “He was in the hospital basically for two days being worked up for drug abuse,” Flores says. “They finally did a head CT scan and realized he had had a major bleed into his brain. He ended up being paralyzed and he got a $71 million settlement award from the hospital.” Dr. Flores, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin says that despite examples like that, the majority of U.S. health care facilities still do not have trained interpreters on site. But he acknowledges that increasing numbers of health care workers are bilingual, and that more clinics and hospitals do make sure their staff and patients understand each other. This is the end of listening comprehension, please proceed to the next part.