Listening – Luyện Part 1 – Bài Thực Hành Số 8

SURVEY FORM 

Questions 6-10: Complete the summary. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Rep.: Hello?
Person: Hello? Who is this?
Rep.: Hello. I’m a 1 of the Tallyho Survey Company, and I’d like to ask you a few questions regarding exercise.
Person: Oh, that’s an interesting subject.
Rep.: Yes, we think so, too.
Person: But I’m afraid I’m a bit busy at the moment.
Rep.: Don’t worry. This will only take about four 2 at the most. It’s 10:25 now, so it will all be over by 10:30.
Person: Well … alright, if it’s that 3 .
Rep.: It will be. So, one of the first things I need to know is where you are — that is, which 4 or area of the city? The last client was in Blackburn, for example.
Person: Blackburn. That’s close to me. I’m in Box Hill.
Rep.: Another eastern suburb then. I have a friend in Box Hill, too. Interesting place. Now, I need your 5 age for this survey. Are you younger than 20, between 20 and 29, 30 and 39, and so on?
Person: I’ll turn 40 in a few months, so that 6 me in the 40 to 49 age group.
Rep.: Well, that’s in a few months, so right now you’re in the 30 to 39.
Person: Oh, right. So put that then.
Rep.: Okay. Now, I need to know your 7 . The last caller was a housewife, for example; the one before that a teacher.
Person: I used to be a teacher, too, teaching 8 .
Rep.: And now?
Person: Now you can just put ‘domestic duties’. Actually, I hope to begin a new job soon, as a 9 , but that won’t be for some time yet. I have to wait for my husband’s restaurant to open.
Rep.: Cook? That sounds interesting, but it’s ‘domestic duties’ for now. Okay, that just leaves some information about your family. This is not 10 at all, so if you don’t
want to answer, that’s fine.
Person: What sort of information, exactly?
Rep.: Oh, it’s very broad. Married, with children; single mother, that sort of thing. The last customer said she was a 11 mother.
Person: I’m married, and not a mother. Put ‘married, no children’.
Rep.: I’m married with children, myself. But I’ll put in your details, and that finishes the 12 , and just l eaves the actual survey itself, if you’re ready to proceed.
Rep.: Alright, let’s begin the survey now, about your exercise 13 .
Person: I’m afraid I don’t exercise much at all.
Rep.: Well, the main question is in what form you take your exercise, however little that may be — for example, in just cleaning. Do you clean the house?
Person: My husband does the cleaning, actually, but I walk to the 14 and shops very often, up to four times a week.
Rep.: I’ll put that then, unless there’s something else.
Person: Nothing else, really. But I diet. I’m very strict about what I eat. Oh, and I do yoga, although that’s not very 15 —more a form of relaxation, and to 16  my muscles.
Rep.: They’re both important, of course, but what about sport? Do you undertake any sporting 17 ? This could be very infrequent. In the past, for example.
Person: My husband plays basketball at the local school, and I sometimes watch. When he was younger he was in a basketball team, but I never 18 .
Rep.: Have you done anything at all?
Person: I used to hike in a 19 national park.
Rep.: Well that’s a definite physical activity, so I’ll put that—but not basketball. Alright, that just leaves future exercise 20 . Do you plan, or expect to do, at some stage, any form of exercise?
Person: I once 21 of doing modern dance, but that’s never going to happen. 22 , I’m thinking about going swimming, at the local 23 centre, although my husband thinks we should just jog. I can’t see myself doing that, though—too tiring.
Rep.: I can understand. I used to jog, too, and it really makes you 24 . I’d say swimming’s a much better option.
Person: But I’ll be starting this job as a cook in my husband’s restaurant. I imagine I’ll be very tired doing all those late shifts. But if I have any energy left over, I might go to the aquatic centre to 25 some stress.