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Test 4 answer key with extra explanations Listening Part 1 Questions 1–7
1 The correct answer is B: In the recording, you hear a man asking a woman for directions to
the city-centre. At first, the woman suggests going by taxi, pointing out that this is the best way
‘if you have luggage’. But the man explains that he only has a small bag, and asks instead if
there’s a bus. So A is not correct. The woman explains that the bus has ‘quite a long route’ and
instead suggests taking the underground, explaining that this ‘will be faster.’ So C is not correct.
When he says: ‘That sounds perfect. I’ll do that’ the man is referring to the underground train, so B is correct.
2 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear a girl telling a friend about her recent
holiday. The man says that he’s heard about ‘a problem with mice’ in some hostels, but the
woman says ‘Really?’ to show that she’s surprised to hear this because it wasn’t the problem
she experienced. When she says ‘The thing was’, she’s going to tell him about the problem she
had, and she goes on to talk about ‘being bitten’ by mosquitos every night. So A is correct. The
woman also mentions the noise made by monkeys on the hostel roof, but says: ‘I didn’t mind
that at all.’ So, C is not correct.
3 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear two people in a restaurant. They’re
deciding what to order for lunch. They talk about some of the things on the menu including
salmon, pizza and curry. The man says: ‘I’ll have what I always have.’ When he says this he’s
referring to his first idea: ‘I think I’ll have salmon’ to which the woman replies: ‘You never try
anything different’, so we know that this is his regular choice and that A is correct. Although
they talk about the pizza, the man doesn’t decide to order one, so C is not correct. The woman
suggests the curry, but the man says ‘I’ve heard it’s very spicy’ and he doesn’t choose it, so B is not correct.
4 The correct answer is C: In the recording, you hear a woman telling a friend about a new
sport she’s decided to take up. She mentions that there are courses on offer at the sports centre
‘near the golf course’, but golf isn’t the sport she’d like to try because she says ‘I did consider
golf,’ but then explains that it is too expensive. So B is not correct. When she says: ‘I wouldn’t
mind giving badminton a go’, she’s telling us that she would like to try badminton, and so C is
correct. She talks about tennis, but says ‘You need to be strong to play’ it – and doesn’t say
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5 The correct answer is C: In the recording, you hear a man telling a friend about a book he’s
reading. The man explains that the book is written by his favourite author, who often writes
about ‘flying planes around the world.’ But this book is about a different subject, so B is not
correct. When the man says: ‘This one’s set at sea’, he’s referring to the book he’s reading, so
C is correct. He then talks about a book the writer is ‘working on at the moment’ which is about
astronauts. But this book isn’t finished yet, so he can’t read it, which means A is not correct.
6 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear a man leaving a phone message. He’s
replying to a message that a friend has left for him about plans for the weekend. He mentions
his friend’s idea that they go to the beach, but says that the weather forecast says there might
be ‘a storm coming.’ So C is not correct. He says that he ‘wondered’ about going to the cinema,
but that there’s ‘nothing very exciting on this weekend.’ So, B is not correct. When he says ‘it’s
definitely worth seeing’, he’s referring to the new art exhibition at the museum, and this is what
he is suggesting, so A is correct.
7 The correct answer is B: In the recording, you hear an announcement in a shop that sells
smartphones. We hear three prices. The price of £499, is the price of last year’s model, so not
the latest smartphone, and so A is not correct. The other two prices £599 and £699 both refer
to the latest smartphone, which is described as ‘the most up-to-date now available’. The price
£599 is an ‘offer that is only on for a few days’, so this is the price of the phone today, and so
Bis correct. £699 is the usual price of the smartphone and we’re told: ‘If you wait till Monday,
it’llbe back to its usual price of £699.’ So C is not correct
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8 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear a brother and sister talking about buying
a gift for their cousin’s birthday. The woman mentions that their cousin would like a microwave
oven, and that she’s seen one online. The man suggests going to the department store, but the
woman disagrees with this suggestion, saying: ‘it weighs so much, can you imagine us trying
to take it on the bus?’ So they decide to buy it online. So A is correct. We don’t know if the
microwave oven they have chosen is available in the shop, so B is not correct. We also don’t
know how easy the shop is to get to. So C is not correct.
9 The correct answer is C: In the recording, you hear two colleagues talking about their holiday
travel plans. They talk about different places, such as Greece and Ireland, and from the word
‘again’ we understand that the woman has been to Ireland before. But the man isn’t suggesting
she go anywhere else, so A is not correct. The woman says that she is going away for ‘a
fortnight, not just a week’, so her holiday is longer. But she has already decided this and it isn’t
what the man suggests, and so B is not correct. When the man says: ‘Wouldn’t it be better if you
flew’, he’s making a suggestion about how the woman travels to Ireland, so C is correct.
10 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear a man telling a friend about a fitness
training session. We hear that the man has had a cold recently, but that ‘it’s over now’ so this isn’t
the reason he cannot attend today’s session. So B is not correct. He talks about an operation on
his foot, but this is probably going to happen on Friday – so in the future, C is not correct because
he hasn’t ‘just had’ an operation. He talks about his doctor and says that: ‘my doctor told me
to take things easy’ – probably in preparation for his operation, so this is why he isn’t going to training and so A is correct.
11 The correct answer is C: In the recording, you hear two friends talking about a play they’ve
just seen. The woman begins by saying that she thought the second half was ‘less interesting’
than the first half, so A is not correct because she doesn’t think the play ‘improved’ after the
interval. She also says that she thought the costumes ‘were brilliant’, but she doesn’t say any
more about them and there’s no suggestion that they were ‘strange’ and so B is not correct.
When she talks about the ‘performances’ she’s referring to the actors, and she says that she
‘expected them to be a lot better.’ So C is correct because she found the acting ‘disappointing’
– in other words she thought it would be better.
12 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear two friends talking about a film and its
soundtrack. The woman is listening to the soundtrack of the film because she likes it. We know
that she has the film because she suggests watching it with the man, but we don’t know whether
she’s watched it yet herself. So C is not correct because she doesn’t compare the music to the
film. Although she says that the film: ‘is aimed at kids’ when she says: ‘the music is definitely
popular with a much wider range of people’, she’s referring to the soundtrack. So A is correct
because the soundtrack is ‘enjoyable for all ages’.
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13 The correct answer is A: In the recording, you hear two friends talking about the news.
They talk about the importance of following the news, and how they both: ‘check what’s
happening in the world every morning.’ But the man prefers ‘reading a newspaper’, whereas the
woman likes to look ‘online’, so they don’t have the same opinion about how to read the news,
and so B is not correct. The woman mentions: ‘stuff about celebrities and sports stars’ and
says that she isn’t interested in it. When the man says: ‘I must admit I enjoy reading about their
lives’, he’s referring to the famous people, so C is not correct. A is correct because when the
woman says: ‘I make sure I do it every morning’, she’s referring to checking the news, and the
man says ‘So do I’ to show that he does the same thing.
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Test 4 Answer Key - Listening Section with Detailed Explanations - Studocu Part 3 Questions 14–19
14 The correct answer is five or 5: Question 14 asks how long the countryside walk will take.
Two walks are mentioned by the guide; one which takes four hours and another which takes five
hours. When he says: ‘We’ll be taking the longer one’, he’s referring to the walks and telling the
group that the walk will take five hours. So five hours is correct.
15 The correct answer is bikes or bicycles: Question 15 asks what walkers in the group need
to be careful of during the walk. He mentions the paths, but says that these are good, and also
that there are some steps. He also says that the weather is good. So paths, steps and weather
are not correct. When he says: ‘Please look out for bikes though’, he’s warning the walkers to
be careful of bikes, so bikes or bicycles are correct. He also mentions cars, but only to say that
these shouldn’t be a problem.
16 The correct answer is lake: Question 16 is asking where the walking group will stop to have
their lunch. The guide mentions a café, but says that it ‘is closed for repairs’. In fact he tells the
walkers to bring lunch with them, so we know that they aren’t going to be buying it in a café.
When the guide says: ‘a great place to eat by a lake’ he’s telling them about the lunch stop, so
lake is correct. He also mentions a break by a waterfall, but this is for photos, it isn’t the lunch break.
17 The correct answer is butterflies: Question 17 is asking about the wildlife that the walkers
are likely to see. He mentions that the forest is famous for frogs, but says that: ‘they stay hidden
during the daytime’ so the walkers are unlikely to see them. He says, however, that there are:
‘lots of butterflies at this time of year’. This is what the walkers are likely to see and so butterflies is correct.
18 The correct answer is castle: Question 18 asks what people can visit at the end of the walk.
The guide says that there is no souvenir shop. He says, however, that: ‘There’s a castle.’ So castle is correct.
19 The correct answer is bus (service): Question 19 asks how the people on the walk will
get back to the place where the walk started once they have finished it. The guide mentions
a railway station, but explains that: ‘it is many years since a train went through there,’ He also
mentions the difficulty of getting a taxi. He says there is a bus service, however, so bus is correct.
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20 The correct answer is A: In the recording, the interviewer’s first question to Laura is how she
became interested in poetry. Laura says that she thinks ‘more time’ should be spent on poetry in
school – that students ‘would enjoy it’. But she doesn’t say that her own interest in poetry started
in school, so B not correct. When she says: ‘I used to spend hours looking at them’, she’s referring
to ‘lots of poetry books’ that her Dad owned at home. We understand that this is how she got
interested in poetry, so A is correct. Although Laura mentions her father, and the fact that he was
interested in poetry, she doesn’t say that she ‘learned about it’ from him. So Cis not correct.
21 The correct answer is C: In the recording, the interviewer’s second question to Laura is about
her decision to become a professional poet. Laura explains how she did a course and showed
her poems to the teacher, but it was a journalism course, not a poetry course, so Bis not correct.
Laura’s teacher was famous, but she was a well-known reporter, not a poet, so A is not correct.
When Laura says: ‘That’s when I knew I wanted to do it’, she’s referring to becoming a professional
poet, and ‘that’ is referring to when she ‘came first’ in the poetry competition. So C is correct.
22 The correct answer is B: In the recording, the interviewer’s third question to Laura is what
her latest book of poems is about. Laura talks about poems she’s written on subjects like
architecture in the past, but these poems were in previous books, not in her new book. So A is
not correct. Laura explains that she ‘started out’ with the idea of writing about the environment
in her new book, but that this isn’t what she wrote about ‘in the end’, so C is not correct. When
she says: ‘I focus on connections with people I’m close to’, she’s talking about ‘in this new one’
– in other words, her new book. So B is correct.
23 The correct answer is A: In the recording, the interviewer’s next question to Laura is if she
ever reads poetry written a long time ago.’ Laura talks about how different these poems are to
‘modern ones’, but doesn’t say which she prefers, so C is not correct. She also talks about how
the language in the old poems is different to modern English, but she doesn’t say that she finds
them hard to understand, so B is not correct. When Laura talks about the ‘skill’ needed to write
these old poems, and how ‘carefully’ they are put together, she’s saying that she thinks they are
‘well written’. So A is correct.
24 The correct answer is B: In the recording, the interviewer’s next question to Laura is about
teaching poetry and the course she’s teaching. Laura says that she’s enjoying the teaching, but
she: ‘isn’t sure how much the students are learning’. So A is not correct because she’s not sure
that she’s ‘doing it well’. Laura mentions her colleagues, saying that the other teachers: ‘are
happy to share their ideas’. When she says ‘Thankfully’ she’s telling us that she’s grateful for
their help, and so B is correct. Laura says that she knew there would be lots of ‘preparation’, so
she’s not surprised by the amount of work in the job, and C is not correct.
25 The correct answer is C: In his final question, the interviewer asks Laura what her plans for
the future are. Laura talks about a poetry festival, but she’s going to read her poems there, not
organise the festival, so A is not correct. When she talks about ‘my previous work’ she’s referring
to poems that she wrote in the past, and she mentions turning some of these into songs. So C
is correct because this will involve adding music to them. Laura isn’t going to take a break from
poetry because: ‘new poems come into her head’ all the time. So B is not correct.
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