Question 1

Listen to two friends, Aiden and Burak, discussing cashless payments. Which topics are mentioned?

Question 2

Listen to the conversation again. Complete the sentences with two or three words. (if your answer isn't exactly like the correct one, but pretty similar, it's fine)

1 I was talking to a friend of mine in Sweden _________

Accepted Answer

the other day

Question 3

Complete the sentences with two or three words.

2 Everyone he knows there has__________stopped using cash altogether.

Accepted Answer

sort of

Question 4

Complete the sentences with two or three words.

3 Maybe they carry___________card reader around.

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a kind of

Question 5

Complete the sentences with two or three words.

4 Actually, it all left me__________feeling I was going to use cash more!

Accepted Answer

with an odd

Question 6

Complete the sentences with two or three words.

5 They don't have to pay people to count the cash and store it and move it around - like security guards ____________

Accepted Answer

and stuff

Question 7

Complete the sentences with two or three words.

6 Not like a real physical pain_________

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or anything like that

Question 8

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

1 I was talking to a friend of mine in Sweden the other day.

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b the day before yesterday

Answer

a sometime recently

Question 9

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

2 Everyone he knows there has pretty much stopped using cash altogether.

Accepted Answer

<P>b almost</P>

Answer

a completely

Question 10

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

some sort of

Maybe they carry some sort of card reader around.

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a a special kind of

Answer

b it's not important what kind of

Question 11

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

Actually, it all left me kind of feeling I was going to use cash more!

Accepted Answer

a feeling more like this than anything else

Answer

b feeling exactly like this

Question 12

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

They don't have to pay people to count the cash and store it and move it around - like security guards and stuff.

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a and other people who do similar jobs

Answer

b and other similar activities

Question 13

Choose the best definition of your answers to the previous exercise:

Not like a real physical pain or anything.

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a and nothing similar to this

Answer

b it's similar, but not exactly like this

Question 14

Listen to ten sentences and write them down.

(write all of them here, then look at the answer explanation)

Accepted Answer

freetext://1 They had some kind of problem with the bank.
2 We charge two point five percent on each transaction.
3 I couldn’t even afford a coffee or anything.
4 That’s a ten-pound note. The five-pound notes are a sort of blue-ish colour.
5 Students leaving English universities owe an average of 44 thousand pounds.
6 I earn five hundred and something a week.
7 I was just sort of wondering.
8 The top rate of tax is 40 percent.
9 I think he’s about forty-ish.
10 It cost me a hundred pounds or so.

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