Listening audioscript

1. WHAT REASONS DOES THE STUDENT GIVE FOR NOT ATTENDING THE
INTERNSHIP FAIR? 
2. WHY DOES THE ADVISOR THINK THE STUDENT SHOULD ATTEND THE 
INTERNSHIP FAIR?
 
LISTENING EXERCISE 2
 
PASSAGE ONE 
 
Page 158
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Questions 1 through 5. 
Listen to a conversation between an office worker and 
a student. 
(Student) 
Hi, I need to get a parking permit. 
(Man) 
Well, you’ve come to the right place. Let me ask you a few questions. 
First, are you a student? 
(Student) 
Yes, I am. 

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(Man) 
And have you ever purchased a student parking sticker before? 
(Student) 
No, I haven’t. This is the first time. 
(Man) 
OK, and do you have your student I.D. with you? 
(Student) 
Uh-huh, I do. 
(Man) 
And how are you going to pay for it, with cash, check, credit, or debit 
card? 
(Student) 
By check. 
(Man) 
That’s fine. Alright … all you need to do is fill out this form and write your 
check, give me the form and the check, and then show me your student 
I.D. 
(Student) 
OK, but I have a question. You said that this is a sticker, right? It’s not 
like a pass that you can take with you? Because sometimes my 
roommate wants to go home to visit her parents who live a half-day’s 
drive from here, and she borrows my car because it gets better gas 
mileage than hers. So I end up having to use hers. 
(Man) 
Oh, I see. So you want to know if you can use the same sticker for the 
other car when you have to use it. 
(Student) 
Exactly. But if it’s a sticker, then… 
(Man) 
Well, it’s not removable. 
(Student) 
So then, is there any way I can get two stickers with the same number or 
get a second one discounted? 
(Man) 
I’m sorry, there isn’t any way to do that. Someone came in a few months 
ago with kind of the same problem, and I asked my supervisor if there 
was any procedure for dealing with it. Unfortunately, she said that the 
school doesn’t have a good way to keep it from being abused. You know, 
people getting their friends cheap stickers and all that. 
(Student) 
But it’s not like that with me.  
(Man) 
I totally understand, and I’m really sorry that we can’t help you. 
(Student) 
So, I guess I have to buy a second parking sticker for my roommate’s car 
even if I only use it a few times. 
(Man) 
If you plan to use it a few times a semester, you should probably just 
park it in the visitor lot. You have to pay every time you use it, but it 
would still work out to be less than buying a second parking sticker. 
(Student) 
Yeah, that might be the best option. Or my roommate can just drive her 
car on her trips and find a way to pay for all the gas it uses. 
(Man) 
I suppose you’ll have to figure out what’s cheapest. 
(Student) 
Alright…um…so do I have to bring my car over here so you can put the 
sticker on it? 
(Man) 
No, that’s not necessary. I’ll give you the sticker, and you can put it on 
your car. Just be sure to put it in the right place. 
(Student) 
Where do I need to put it? 
(Man) 
On the front window of the car, on the right-hand side … no, sorry …it 
should be on the left-hand side. 
(Student) 
Front window, left side. OK, I’ve got it. 
(Man) 
Now, do you know about the various parking areas on campus? 
(Student) 
Well, I know about the visitors’ parking lot now and how that’s pay when 
you park. And I’ve noticed that the other parking areas on campus are 
marked with different colors, but I wasn’t sure what they meant. 
(Man) 
It’s really easy. There are two different colors. The blue parking areas are 
for faculty and staff, and the yellow parking areas are for students. 

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(Student) 
So that means I can park in the yellow parking areas and not the blue 
ones. 
(Man) 
That’s exactly right. Now, let me get that sticker for you.