Here is our latest Timed Listening Part 3 Type Practice Test for Cambridge Profeciency

The presenter says that almost every British paper has its star interviewer (this probably means both ’person who interviews stars’ and interviewer who is a star’, and that the bylines (the line at the beginning or end of an article saying who the writer is) are big and the space (amount of space ;n the paper given to interviews by such people) generous In other words, he is saying that the names of these interviewers are clearly seen and emphasized in papers and their articles are long ones treated as important in papers.

She says that she starts by comparing things that interviewees have previously said, for example by pointing out that they said one thing in an interview in 1996 and something different in an interview in 1998. The use of ’whereas’ indicates that the two things the interviewee said were not consistent with each other. The informal phrase blah, blah, blah is used instead of quoting something considered uninteresting that someone said and means ’etc.,. etc.. etc...’

She says that she sends them other interviews she has written before she interviews them so that they can see what they’re in for (the unpleasant experience they are going to have), what they can expect. She then expects them to play the game (to do what is fair in terms of what ail those involved expect). Her point is that if they agree to be interviewed by her after they have seen the sort of things she writes, she thinks they should know what to expect when she interviews them and behave accordingly.

She says that a great many interviewees mistake intimacy (close personal contact) for real friendship and that there is reciprocal (given and received in return) warmth (friendliness), which can be very embarrassing. She says that when she is doing an ordinary human interest story (one concerning something that has happened to an ordinary person rather than a celebrity), her sympathy will stop the moment the interview is over, which makes her feel guilty because the people she has interviewed don't realize that. Her point is that people she interviews think that she really becomes a friend of theirs whereas in fact she only likes them during the time when she is interviewing them and forgets all about them afterwards, and she feels embarrassed and guilty about this.

He says that he tends to protect people from themselves (prevent them from doing harm to themselves) because sometimes they don’t realize what they say, how things might hurt their children. He therefore implies that he might change or leave out things people say because they sometimes don’t know what they are saying or the effect that what they are saying will have, and don’t realize that things they say might upset their children.