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Unit 1 Listening in Passage 1 Voice-over Hi, I'm Nick Carter, and this is SUR, your university radio station. This
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morning we went around campus to ask freshers -now half-way through their first year -the question, \of the answers we got.
It's cool. It's everything I hoped it would be. I'm very ambitious, I want
to be a journalist and I want to get to the top of the profession. I've started writing for the university newspaper so I've got my foot on the ladder already.
I'm working hard and the teaching is as good as I expected. And I've
made some good friends. But I'm very homesick. I'm Nigerian and my family's so far away. I went home at Christmas for a month -that really helped, but man, I miss my family so much.
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I've got a brilliant social life, just brilliant, and I've made lots of friends. For the first few months I just didn't do, really enough work. But I talked about it with my parents and I'm working harder now and getting good grades.
Actually, I've been quite lonely to be honest. I'm a bit shy ... everyone
else seemed to find it so easy to make friends straight away. But things have been better recently - yeah, they have. I've joined a couple of clubs and like, it really helps to get to know people when you have shared
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interests. So, yeah - I'm feeling a lot happier now.
Speaker 5 Uni's great, I love it. My only problem -and it's quite a big problem – is
money. My parents are both unemployed so, you know, they can't help me financially. My grant just isn't - it's just not enough for me to live on, so I've taken a part-time job as a waitress — a lot of people I know, like a lot, have had to do the same. I don't want to have huge debts at the end.
Speaker 6 I love my subject. History, and I'm, I'm getting fantastic teaching here.
I want to be a university lecturer and that means I have to get a first. I have a good social life but work definitely comes first for me.
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Oxford and Cambridge - two universities so similar that they are often spoken of together as \come top in any ranking of the world's best universities.
The two universities began within a century of each other. Oxford University, now 900 years old, was founded towards the end of the 11th century. In 1209 there was a dispute between the university and the townspeople of Oxford. As a result, some of the Oxford teachers left and founded a university in the town of Cambridge, some 84 miles away. Ever since then, the two institutions have been very competitive.
Unlike most modem universities, both Oxford and Cambridge consist of a large number of colleges. Oxford has 39 and Cambridge 31. Many of these colleges have old and very beautiful architecture, and large numbers of tourists visit them.
In all UK universities, you need good grades in the national exams taken at 18. But to get into Oxford and Cambridge, it's not enough to get A grades in your exams. You
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also have to go for a long interview. In these interviews, students need to show that they are creative and capable of original thinking.
Through the centuries, both universities have made huge contributions to British cultural life. They have produced great writers, world leaders and politicians. Cambridge, in particular, has produced scientists whose discoveries and inventions have changed our lives.
Among the great university institutions is the world's most famous debating society, the Oxford Union, where undergraduates get a chance to practise speaking in public. Cambridge's comedy club Footlights has produced many first-class comedians, while some of the UK's most famous actors and actresses began their careers at The Oxford University Dramatic Society, known as OUDS. Then there's the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, which takes place every year in March or April, and is watched on television all over the UK.
So with all this excellence in so many fields, it's not surprising that the ambition of clever students all over the world is to attend either one of these great universities.
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Listening in
Passage 1 Presenter We're fortunate to have as our guest today Dr Jenna Hudson, who has
just written a book about how colours affect us in our surroundings, especially in the world ofadvertising. It's called Market Colours. Dr Hudson, which are the most common colours in advertising and marketing?
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Dr Hudson Well, of course, it depends what image the marketing team wish to
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project with their products. So for example, we often think of blue as a cold colour, but it also makes you feel peaceful, quiet, and it doesn't suggest strong emotions. So it's a favourite for banks and insurance companies, who wish to suggest the image that they are trustworthy. And for selling products, it's often used to suggest something is pure and fresh.
What about red?
You can sell almost anything with red. It's a hot colour, which suggests a
feeling of energy and even passion. It grabs your attention, and can make people buy almost anything. You often see red on magazine covers. But if you use it too much, it looks cheap and may make people tired. And orange has a similar effect to red, it's upbeat and happy, it suggests pleasant feelings and images. Most people react well to orange, and it's especially popular in advertising and on packaging for baked food.
What about yellow, for instance?
Yellow is the colour of sunshine and it's a positive, happy colour, so it's
used a lot in advertising. But it's also often used for warning signs, direction signs, and so on, where you have to read the message quickly and at a distance.
What about less popular colours for advertising?
Surprisingly, green isn't used much in advertising except for garden
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