Minister Park Listening answers

Listening Full Test 2 - Section 2

Welcome to Green Vale Agricultural Park. As you know, we have only been open a week so you are amongst our first visitors. We have lots of fascinating indoor and outdoor exhibits on our huge complex, spreading hundreds of hectares. Our remit isto give educational opportunities to the wider public as well as to offer research sites for a wide variety of agriculturists and other scientists [Q11].

Lets start by seeing what there is to do. As you can see here on our giant wall plan, we are now situated in the Reception blockhere. As you walk out of the main door into the park there is a path you can follow. If you follow this route you will immediately come into the Rare Breeds section, where we keep a wide variety of animals which I shall be telling you a little more about later. Next to thismoving eastis the large grazing area for the rare breeds. Then further eastin the largest section of our Park is theForest[Q12]Area. South of the grazing area and in fact just next to the Reception block is our Experimental Crop Area. In the middle of the Parkthis circular area is our lakeThese two small rectangular shapes here are theFish Farms [Q13]where we rear fish for sale. To the east of those is the marsh, is ourMarket Garden[Q14]area, growing vegetables and flowers.

All these areas can be visited by the general public for almost all the yearalthough please take note of the large signs at the entrance to each area which tellwhich tell you when certain areas are being used for particular controlled experiments and are thereforetemporarily out of bounds[Q15]to the public.

You can see for yourself what a huge area the park covers and a key question is always, how can we move around? Well you have a choice of means all environmentally friendly cars are banned in the park. We havebicycles [Q16]which you can hire behind the Reception blockherethe healthy ones of you can goon foot[Q16]and finally theres ourelectric tram [Q16], powered from solar cells. You find more information about this at the front entrance.

A good place to start on your tour is the Rare Breeds section. We keepgoats [Q17], sheep andhens [Q17]and other kinds of poultry. We are also thinking of bringing in cows and horse but we do not, as yet, have facilities for these bigger animals. The animals are fed in public twice a day and a short lecture given on their feeding habits and nutritional needs. These are very popular with the public but of course we mustnt lose sight of the main purpose of having this section, not as such to preserve rare animals butto maintain the delivery of breeds [Q18]to broaden the gene pool for agricultural development. Green Vale changes with the seasons with different events happening at different times of the year. May will be perhaps our most spectacular month with the arrival of the Canada geese and when our fruit trees will be in full blossom, but there are interesting events on all year round .for example John Havers,our expert fly fisherman, is currently giving displays[Q19]on the lake. Each of the sections has its own seasonal calendarplease consult the summary board at the main entrance. And the final section, as we return to the Reception blocks, is the orchard.

Do take time to browse round our shopthere is a wide selection ofbooks on wildlife [Q20], some of them written by local authors, and the history of farming, including organic farming, something which the park will be diversifying into the coming months.

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11.B. research and education.
12.[the] Forest
13.Fish Farm[s]
14.Market Garden
15.C. a short time every year
16.A. by tram, walking or bicycle
17.C. goats and hens
18.B. to keep a variety of breeds
19. C. a demonstration of fishing
20. A. animals
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