B1 Listening Exercises

Stonehenge

Watch a video about Stonehenge.

For questions 3 to 9, choose the correct word.​

Multiple Choice

Why was Stonehenge built here?

• Because it's a strategic point.

• We don't know.

• Because there are rivers near the place.

Multiple Choice

How many people visit Stonehenge?

• Six thousand every day of the year.

• One million every summer.

• Six thousand every summer day.

Multiple Choice

Stonehenge was built .....

• 5,000 years ago

• 2,500 BC

• 2,500 years ago

Multiple Choice

What do we know about the people who built it?

• The place where they lived.

• Nothing.

• We know a little about their rituals.

Multiple Choice

What do we know about the stones?

• They all come for Wales.

• The small rocks come from far away.

• They all come from 25-30 Km away.

Multiple Choice

How did they carry the stones?

• Probably using animals.

• Probably a lot of men were needed.

• Using advanced technology for that time.

Multiple Choice

Which of these theories does he mention about why it was build?

• Astronomical calendar.

• Ritual sacrifices.

• Religious.

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Multiple Choice

Why was it built here? There are no _____ anywhere near it. Who built it? And why? There are many theories including, of course, that people from another planet were responsible.

• ponds

• waters

• rivers

• lakes

Multiple Choice

On an average _____ day, we get about six thousand people. And throughout the year, we could be looking at upwards of a million people visiting the site.

• spring

• winter

• autuam

• summer

Multiple Choice

When was it built? It was built two thousand five hundred BC (2,500 __). So that's four and a half thousand years ago (4,500 years ago).

• BC

• AC

• EC

• DC

Multiple Choice

Who built it? We don't know much about the people who built the _____. We know they they lived in a site called Darrington Walls, a couple of kilometres away to the Northeast. And we know this because we found evidence of huts in site.

• monument

• statues

• stones

• land

Multiple Choice

The stones themselves, the large stones are sarsen stone, a form of sedimentary rock; and it comes roughly _____ to the North, from a place called the Marlborough Downs. The small stones are blue stone, and they come from Wales, about 200 miles away. That would be about 260-280 kilometres. From South Wales. So they come from a long way away.

• 20 to 25 kilometres

• 30 to 35 kilometres

• 25 to 30 kilometres

• 15 to 20 kilometres

Multiple Choice

We don't know for sure who brought them or how they were brought. We know that they probably used rudimentary sledges, perhaps, to pull the stones. Greased planks along the floor to pull them. We know that it probably would have taken about a _____ men to pull an average sarsen stone. So there would have been a lot of manpower involved in their building of this place.

• fifty

• hundred

• thousand

• million

Multiple Choice

_____ it was built is still a mystery, it will probably always be a mystery. And we know for sure that it was built upon the Solstice alignment. So the alignment with the longest day in summer and the shortest day in winter. Soit could be an astronomical calendar. We also think it could possibly be a monument to the ancestors and basically that's all we really know for certain

• Why

• When

• How

• So

500-year-old paintings from Raphael found

Watch a video about some paintings that have been found.

For questions 20 to 26, decide if the statements are true to false'​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Multiple Choice

Raphael painted in three different rooms at the Vatican.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The paintings are in a room that was used by popes in the Renaissance.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The paintings represent a man and a woman.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Raphael used the traditional fresco technique for these paintings.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

These were probably the last paintings Raphael did before he died.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The existence of the two paintings was documented in a history book.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The restoration of the paintings will not finish until 2020.

• true

• false

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Multiple Choice

Raphael, who painted these famous frescos in _____ rooms at the Vatican, began work on another room before his death. The room was used for lavish banquets by Renaissance popes.

• two

• three

• four

• five

Multiple Choice

_____ paintings by the master Raphael depicting the female figures Justice and Friendship. Raphael planned to paint the whole wall in oil, instead of the traditional fresco technique, but died before he could finish.

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

Multiple Choice

It’s an amazing feeling, knowing these were probably the last things he painted. A first clue to the existence of these paintings was found in this book, from the 15^th century, written by the historian Vasari. Restoring the Raphaels in the whole room will take them until at least the year _____.

• 2020

• 2021

• 2022

• 2023