# PTE Listening MCM #4: Academic Profile of a...

Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #4 - Level 2 - Feeds Listening

> Listen to the recording and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

Which of the following statements about Professor Albrow is correct?

- He was born in the year of 1963.
- He began his career at University College Cardiff.
- He became the first full-time sociologist at the London School of Economics.
- He was Head of Department at Reading University.
- He has been a guest speaker at different universities in a variety of locations.
- He is a British sociologist, editor, and writer.
- He is noted for his work on terrorism.

## Answer

- He has been a guest speaker at different universities in a variety of locations.
- He is a British sociologist, editor, and writer.

## Explanation

The correct statements accurately reflect the subject's professional identity and his history of international academic engagement.

What to watch: You hear he is "a British sociologist," an editor of journals, and the author of The Global Age. He held "visiting or guest positions" in Munich, London, New York, Beijing and Bonn. Head of department was at Cardiff, not Reading.

## Hints

- Focus on the speaker's description of the subject's professional titles and his global academic presence.
- Be cautious of specific dates or university names that might be mentioned in passing but do not align with the subject's actual history.

## Transcript

Professor Martin Albrow is a British sociologist noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was born in 1937 and was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University and subsequently worked at University College, Cardiff, where he was head of the department. He has also held visiting or guest positions at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the London School of Economics, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the University of Bonn. Professor Albrow was president of the British Sociological Association from 1985 to 1987 and the editor-in-chief of its journal Sociology from 1981 to 1984. Additionally, he was the founding editor of the International Sociological Association's journal, International Sociology. He wrote The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity, awarded the 1997 European Amalfi Prize, which argued against the view that globalization was an inevitable one-way process and that a new age had supplanted both the modern and post-modern ages.

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