202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-09-Ex2.1

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　　Narrator:        Part Two.     Listening Exercise 2.1 .       Listen to the following sentences,  pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard:
a.       Cardiff has been the official capital of Wales  since only   1955.
b.        This city of 270,000  people is prosperous,  with a large university and an extraordinary   castle.
c.       Wales has  some extremely beautiful scenery,   but also  some of the most depressing coal-mining towns.
d.       More than 50% of the pits closed during the 1930s, and the last large coal mine in Wales closed in 1994.
e.       Nuclear power stations  now supply much of the energy that was  once derived¹ solely² from coal.
f.       The major industry in Wales these days is  tourism,   which accounts  for over 10% of jobs in the region.
g.       Cardiff was once the world's busiest coal port,  producing one third of the world's  coal.
h.        The city was heavily bombed during the Second World War,  because of its  strategic importance.
i.       Fortunately,  since the  '60s, much of the industrial damage to the Welsh environment has been reversed.
j .       The  Cardiff Bay Project,  a   30 minute walk from the city centre,  has  rejuvenated³ the old dock area,  andnearby   mud flats have been turned into  a freshwater lake.