Questions 21-26
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
Write your answers in boxes 21-26
on your answer sheet.
21. What direction do Maya and Liam choose for the paper?
22. Why does Liam prefer that direction?
23. What limitation of digital museum access does Liam stress?
24. What does Maya value about seeing objects in a gallery?
25. What future role does Liam think may expand?
26. What does Maya think will remain central to museums?
(A) is incorrect. Historical development is only an early possibility.
(B) is correct. They choose a comparative approach, looking at how publicly funded museums are organised in different countries.
(C) is incorrect. Maya's local social-change angle is not the final choice.
Associated Text:
I'd rather we took a comparative approach and looked at how publicly funded museums are run in different countries, say, the UK, France and Japan.
(A) is incorrect. The approach does not narrow the time period, and C is not his reason.
(B) is correct. Liam says their tutor told them comparison papers tend to score better, so he thinks this approach may receive stronger assessment.
(C) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: It avoids using social history.
Associated Text:
The contrasts are huge and our tutor said comparison papers tend to score better.
(A) is incorrect. Searching collections and limiting access to famous objects are not mentioned.
(B) is correct. Liam says free online images and scans often fail to show colour, texture and detail properly.
(C) is incorrect. Searching collections and limiting access to famous objects are not mentioned.
Associated Text:
the digitalised images and scans that are available online for free are hardly ever shown at very high resolution, and many of them just don't come over properly on a small phone screen
(A) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: being able to read labels beside them.
(B) is correct. Maya says the gallery experience lets people move around the object and see its scale, which a screen cannot replicate.
(C) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: comparing expert interpretations.
Associated Text:
the experience of being in a gallery, moving around the object, seeing the scale of it, is what people pay for. You can't replicate that on a screen.
(A) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: stricter conservation work.
(B) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: paid guided tours for visitors.
(C) is correct. Liam expects museums to become more common venues for community activities such as school clubs and weekend workshops.
Associated Text:
Some have already become centres where community activities take place, like school clubs meeting there or weekend workshops. I think that'll become even more common.
(A) is correct. Maya says museums will continue looking after, researching and displaying collections.
(B) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: working like community libraries.
(C) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: seeking private financial support.
Associated Text:
they will continue to do exactly what they've always done, looking after collections, researching them, putting them on display. That core mission isn't going away.
Questions 27-30
Complete the short answers below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
The correct answer is local council because Maya suggests asking whether the museum has its own trust or is controlled directly by the local council.
Associated Text:
whether the museum has its own trust or if it's controlled directly by the local council.
The correct answer is safeguarding courses because Liam gives safeguarding courses as an example of the new training requirements for staff and volunteers.
Associated Text:
there are quite specific requirements now about safeguarding courses, handling protocols, that kind of thing.
The correct answer is benches because Maya mentions benches in front of bigger paintings as part of visitor comfort in the building.
Associated Text:
things like benches in front of the bigger paintings, climate control, the temperature in the long corridors.
The correct answer is private gallery because Maya says she wants to find out the differences between a public museum and a private gallery.
Associated Text:
I quite fancy finding out what the differences are between a public museum and a private gallery, for example.
