PAU listening test june 2019 Moby Duck

Test your listening skills with the Moby Duck ocean pollution case!

Click on the audio.First, you are going to listen to some new words. Make sure you know what they mean.Then, pause the audio and read the questions below.Continue listening to the audio and answer the questions. Below you have the introduction to the interview. You can listen to the interview twice.Word help:to end up: resultardeck: coberta / cubiertatostack: apilarto maneuver: maniobrar, operarIntroduction:Presenter: This is Fresh Air, our weekly program devoted to the environment. What happens when 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys are accidentally dumped into the ocean? Where do the ocean currents take them, and what environmental impact do the ducks and other ocean junk have on the seas? That’s what our guest, the journalist Donovan Hahn, investigated in his book Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them. Where were the lost toy ducks first found? Alaska. Canada China. Oregon. How long did it take the first rubber ducks to surface on a beach after their container was lost at sea? Only three months. About a year and a half. four years. almost six years. How many containers with rubber ducks and other toys were lost at sea? 12. 407. Hundreds and hundreds. Over 28,000. Which of the following best describes the cargo ships discussed in the conversation? They regularly go through the Panama Canal. They mainly navigate between North America and South America. They carry hundreds of containers above and below deck. They almost always drop some containers in the sea. Which of the following statements is TRUE? Large ships are better able to navigate in storms than smaller ships. The ship lost the toys in the Graveyard of the Pacific. The weather in the North Pacific is so good that few wrecks occur. Sailing ships in the 19thcentury did not cross the Pacific. What do we know for certain about the accident that resulted in the loss of rubber ducks at sea? It occurred at night. It occurred during the day. It occurred because of an error by the ship’s captain. It occurred when there were high waves. We can deduce from the conversation that the toys were originally packed in plastic bags. packed in cardboardboxes. not individually packed. made out of cardboard. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an important source of plastics in the oceans? Waste from coastal cities. Fishing boats. Garbage dumps. Cruise ships.