Practice Test 1 — Paper 4 Listening

1 Tapescripts 198 Practice test 1 Paper 4 ListeningThis is the Certificate of Proficiency in English Listening m going to give you the instructions for this test. I llintroduce each part of the test and give you time to lo kat the the start of each piece you ll hear this sound:TONEYou ll hear each piece , while you re Listening , write your answers on thequestion Paper . You ll have five minutes at the end of the testto copy your answers onto the separate answer will now be a pause. Please ask any questions now,because you must not speak during the 5 secondsPart 1 Now open your question Paper and look at Part 5 secondsYou will hear four different extracts. For questions 1-8,choose the answer (A, B or C) which fits best according towhat you hear.

2 There are two questions for each OnePAUSE 15 secondsTONEMan:Growing up in Surrey, I remember outings to localbeauty spots being a big feature of our summer. More oftenthan not we would go up high somewhere and look outover the countryside. One of my most abiding memories istrying to identify landmarks from Reigate Hill. As a child, Iloved being up high and I suppose it was also fascinatingto me because I loved maps, and up there it was likelooking at a huge full-scale map, spread out before me. So it was no surprise to me to hear that The CountrysideAgency has just given 70,000 to the Surrey Hills Area ofOutstanding Natural Beauty in order to make certainareas more accessible to the public. The agency has aprogramme which they call the Inspiring Views schemeand the money is to be split between five sites, one ofwhich is Reigate Hill.

3 I don t know .. it s kind of satisfyingfor me to think that that same fascination I had as a childcan now be enjoyed by new generations of 5 secondsTONEREPEAT Extract OnePAUSE 2 secondsExtract TwoPAUSE 15 secondsTONEW oman (to herself):What pleasure can they possiblyget from it?Man:What s that?Woman:Sorry. I was just reading that vandals haveattacked the primary school again. That s the third timethis month it says (resigned):Modern times, love. That s what we vecome to expect, isn t it. I don t know why you re so :Yes but look; (reading from newspaper) graffition the walls, several broken windows .. and a fire in themusic room that caused hundreds of pounds worth ofdamage. I mean, that s serious! What if someone wastrapped in the building when they started the fire?

4 Whatif they themselves were trapped? You d have thoughtthey would .. don t they ..Man (slightly sarcastic):What? Think about their actions?Think about the consequences? That s just it, isn t it? Whydo you think they call it mindless violence? Think? Theythink, all right. They think about how not to get that, they re not capable of much else, I m :Well I m not so pessimistic as you. There mustbe some way to get through to them. They re of them don t know any better. They don t knowthat there are alternatives and, well, they could be :You d have to catch them first. I know what I d liketo say to 5 secondsTONEREPEAT Extract TwoPAUSE 2 secondsExtract ThreePAUSE 15 secondsTONEMan: The rise of the popular singer is pretty muchintertwined with the history of the first half of the twentiethcentury.

5 In the beginning, singers were very much indemand, on one condition they had to sing loud, simplybecause the recording equipment at that time wasextremely primitive and not at all electricity in the twenties came much betterrecording techniques but a change in fashion. Musiciansdominated and vocalists were no longer required. Dancebands were all the rage and any singing that had to bedone was given to one of the band members. SingersTapescripts 199had to play an instrument. Bandleaders were notprepared to pay good money for someone if all theycould do was sing!But towards the end of that decade, things began tochange again with the advent of radio.

6 In 1927, GeneAustin s My Blue Heaven became the first million-selling vocal record. The public was keen to be sweet-talked by a succession of men with smooth voices. TheBig Band era of the forties briefly stole the limelight but,apart from that, the singer was never again out of a 5 secondsTONEREPEAT Extract ThreePAUSE 2 secondsExtract FourPAUSE 15 secondsTONEP resenter:Well, the country has certainly taken abattering over the last fortnight and I hope you are gettingback to normal after the recent floods and the traffic chaosthey brought with them. But, there s a chink of light at theend of the tunnel, or at least there is through the tinywindow of Studio One. Spring weather on the way?

7 Timeto remove a layer or two? Maybe you re thinking ofbraving the elements and doing a spot of gardening. Wellhere to tell us what s in store is Francis Dunne. What haveyou got for us today Francis good news on the horizon?Francis:There is indeed, although it depends to someextent on just where your horizon lies. For those of youlucky enough to live in the North, you re going to get aforetaste of spring in the next day or two. Clear blue skiesare forecast, with reasonable temperatures I don t thinkwe ll hit the twenty mark, but in some areas it will be quiteclose. Higher ground, of course, will see slightly lowertemperatures around fifteen with the prospect of a bitof mist or fog in the morning and evening, and possiblysome drizzle overnight.

8 For the rest of us, though, I mafraid it s business as usual with a fresh wave of gales onthe way which will see us through till Tuesday. Long-term, though, things will improve. You could be sowingthose seeds by the end of the 5 secondsTONEREPEAT Extract FourPAUSE 2 secondsThat s the end of Part turn to Part 5 secondsPart 2 You will hear a police officer talking about the job ofCommunity Ward Officer. For questions 9-17, completethe sentences with a word or short now have forty-five seconds in which to look at 45 secondsTONEI nterviewer:I m here today in Northampton to find out alittle bit about life on the beat. That s Police ConstableNigel Godfrey s beat, to be precise.

9 PC Godfrey has beenin the force for six years and for the past year he hasbeen a Community Ward Officer. Let me start by askingyou what that means I m not too familiar with the Godfrey:Well, it s our official title now, but the roleshould be familiar. In the area where I work, I am simplya known face someone who the public can turn to ifthey have something troubling them. While I m on duty,I m available to anyone in the area who wants toapproach me about police matters. Interviewer:And in the meantime, I suppose it gets quiteboring does it? In between people coming up to you?PC Godfrey:No! There s more to it than that. I work withvarious community groups, liaising with the organisers ofthose groups, going on school visits, talking to peopleabout safety matters, crime prevention, that sort of of the job is that I should provide a friendly andapproachable side of the police force whereas all toooften people see the police as distant.

10 Off-putting ..hostile even. I m here to show that that s not the case and,hopefully, to facilitate communications between the publicand the police. By organising meetings with members ofthe community, I give them a contact that they know theycan trust. We believe that this helps to lower the crime , boring? No. Don t forget that I get called to crimes aswell I still do all of that, so I still have a huge variety ofthings to deal with .. and no two days are the :And what would you say is the best thingabout your job, compared to, say, other jobs you ve doneas a police Godfrey:Well obviously I get satisfaction out of it,otherwise I wouldn t be in the police, but the one thingabout this job is that you see the whole story.