Excise Ten

 You will hear a conversation between a man and a woman.
 For each question 23-30, mark one letter A, B or C for the correct answer.
 You will hear the conversation twice.
23 The man airing his views is
A a publisher..
B an author.
C an editor.
24 Authors apparently think that publishers are, amongst other things,
A warm-hearted.
B inbred.
C incompetent.
25 Publishers apparently think that authors are, amongst other things,
A unprofessional.
B complacent.
C important.
26 The man considers the relationship between authors and publishers to be
A long - suffering.
B fickle.
C hostile.
27 The fact that most publishers move their lips while they read means that
A they reject books out of hand.
B it takes months to read a book.
C it takes months to explain why they reject a book.
28 A certain editor the man knows commissioned him to
A produce a synopsis of a novel.
B review a recently published book.
C write a very short story.
29 The man was annoyed because the editor
A said that 20,000 words were too many.
B said he had not had time to read the novel.
C subsequently refused to publish the book.
30 Fortunately another publisher
A took only four days to decide to publish the book.
B passed the book on to a colleague who did publish it.
C decided he liked the book enough to publish it.

That's the end of Tape Two Side Two.

Supplementary Exercise One

1. Spot dictation:
23.
I started it because I was hungry really. There was ________ to _____________________________. And I ______________________. I set up the business with a partner.

24.
However the first three years were ________. We ______________________________________________. We just didn't have ____________________ of what we wanted, and frankly we were _________________.

25.
Having said that, the fast food chains do some things _____________. And I'd like us to _________________________ of how they operate. What I mean is we should _______________________________, not waste __________ or ______________.

26.
No, I am not. ___________________. I find this _________________ gives me__________________. I ____________ how you can get things done if __________________________. I am sorry for my secretary, who _____________________________, but for me it's the only way.

27.
And we focus there not on details but on major issues. This means I